Chapter 1296
A Huge Uproar [12-Day Leave Requested for Spring Cleaning]
Chapter 1296 A Huge Uproar [Taking a Day or Two Off for Spring Cleaning]
Lu Qian's face turned pale, and the other students were also startled, turning around to see Qi the Angel and Guan the Clerk.
"King Ye, Imperial Envoy of Qi." Commander Wei greeted them with clasped hands.
Lu Qian, Zheng Qianjia, Yang Zeru and others also hurriedly bowed.
"Hmm." Clerk Guan nodded, not glancing at Lu Qian, and led Qi Shitian into the house.
"Your Highness Prince Ye!" Lu Qian called out to him, knelt down with a thud, and pleaded, "Please, Your Highness Prince Ye, take us in. Our classmate Lu's fate is unknown; we must go in and be with him."
The clerk stopped and ordered Commander Wei, "Since the students in front of the road want to kneel, then take them aside and make them kneel."
He then said to Lu Qian, "You are treating me this way because of what you just said. This constitutes spreading rumors without evidence that we sent the Imperial Guards to kill students. To put it more seriously, you are falsely accusing a member of the royal family, which is punishable by death."
These words silenced all questions that might have been raised.
They dared not cause any more trouble in front of the road, crawled to the side on their knees, and knelt down obediently.
"Ha!" Qi Tianshi let out a heavy, cold laugh, full of sarcasm, which made Lu Qian so angry that he almost shed tears.
One day, he will become a powerful minister and have that dead eunuch surnamed Qi executed by slow slicing!
???
Instead of fantasizing about this, you should think about how to avoid being killed by Angel Qi.
The door creaked open.
The apprentices of Physician Qiu carried out basins of bloody water, poured them out, and then went to get hot water that was being heated in the corridor.
Zheng Qianjia and the others glanced into the room and saw only busy figures, but they couldn't see Lu Fenxu, who was blocked by the crowd.
Bang! After Qi Tianshi and Guan Shuli went inside, the door was closed again.
……
At the stroke of dawn, Mei Baihu and his men came to pick up Zheng Qianming, Yang Zeru, Gao Zhenzhi, Yuan Qiang and other students, to take them to the Juma Formation camp.
However, because Lu Fenxu's fate was unknown, the students lingered until the results of Lu Fenxu's case were released before leaving.
Not long after, Lu Fenxu's results came out.
It's terrible news.
"Waaaaah, classmate Lu, classmate Lu... Uncle, classmate Lu is gone, gone! He was even younger than me!" Wen Xiangnan was stunned for a long time after hearing the news. When he saw Mr. Wen Tao at the gate of the courtyard, he could no longer hold back and burst into tears.
"What did you say? Lu Fenxu of the Lu family is gone?!" Magistrate Kang, Prefect Zheng, Lord Yan, and Prefect Fei all rushed into the courtyard.
There was disbelief, but more than that, it was: Oh no!
The rioting crowd at the city gate had not yet dispersed when a student died. The mastermind behind this was probably trying to use this opportunity to incite scholars and aristocratic families to cause a great disturbance.
"Waaah, the body was inside the house... we couldn't save him." Wen Xiangnan cried uncontrollably, unable to accept the death of the aristocratic scholar.
What about him?
Will he also be suddenly killed?
too frightening.
"Uncle, I want to go home. You can come to my house if you want," Wen Xiangnan pleaded with Wen Tao.
"Alright, alright, after the Prince of Ye, the Imperial Envoy of Qi, and Elder Qiong finish their funeral arrangements for the Lu family's nephew, Uncle will take you home." Wen Tao reassured Wen Xiangnan, though he disagreed in his heart.
The safest place in the city right now is Wuyuan. Do you really want to live somewhere else? Are you out of your mind? I'd even like to move my whole family to Wuyuan!
And you're a grown man, and you're already devastated just because a classmate died?
If the capital city cannot be defended, wouldn't you go crazy when the enemy massacres the city?! "Nephew of the Lu family!" Inside the house, Magistrate Kang looked at Lu Fenxu, who was lying on the bed with a pale face, covered with a blood-stained quilt, and had already stopped breathing, and his eyes reddened.
This is a younger member of his father-in-law's clan.
When they learned that he could come to study under Master Qiong, the Lu family felt very proud, saying that a member of the Lu family's collateral branch would probably be able to provide assistance.
This was a great joy for all the collateral branches of their family.
Little did anyone know, this child would die on his way to study abroad.
"Lord Yan and Magistrate Zheng, you may request coroners from the two yamen to examine the body. They may only check whether the person is dead or not, and must not be disrespectful to Lu Xuezi's corpse." Clerk Guan emphasized, "This is the king's decree. The child has already suffered greatly; he should not suffer the pain of having his body dissected."
"Yes." Lord Yan and Prefect Zheng accepted the order and went to summon the coroners from the Provincial Administration Commission and the Prefectural Government.
After a whole morning of work, it's confirmed...
"Student Lu Fenxu died from a severe neck injury. An examination revealed that Lu Fenxu committed suicide by dagger, as evidenced by a self-written suicide note. The suicide note may be circulated among all parties, but it must not be destroyed; otherwise, he will be prosecuted for murder!"
After Lord Yan informed everyone of the consequences, he asked the imperial guards to hold the will and give it to the people present to read.
The wife of Magistrate Kang was a woman from the Lu family, and Lu Fenxu's aunt from the same clan. She was Lu Fenxu's only relative here, so she was the first to visit him.
"This? That damned beast from the Eastern Desert has caused so much harm to the people of Wei! Waaah!" Lady Kang covered her mouth and wept bitterly.
The reason for cursing Dongmo is simply because the suicide note stated that Lu Fenxu committed suicide out of fear of the enemy's brutality and the fear that he would be attacked and dismembered alive after leaving the city.
Please forgive his cowardice, grandparents, parents, younger siblings, teachers, and classmates. He was so terrified that he couldn't bear the suffocating fear, which is why he left a note and committed suicide.
"My death has nothing to do with anyone, especially not with the Imperial Guards. It was all my fault for being too cowardly and not daring to face the cruel reality."
The second half of that sentence is the absolute truth.
Lu Fenxu was indeed afraid to face reality, so he chose to commit suicide. But the reality was not the enemy, but the fact that he did not want to do evil anymore, but dared not expose the Ming family, fearing that the truth about the student killing the students would be found out, and also fearing that his family would be retaliated against by the Ming family and wiped out because of him.
The consequences were too great; he couldn't bear them any longer and had no choice but to die.
He regretted taking the shortcut.
If he hadn't accepted the support of the Ming family back then, he wouldn't have seen the true face of the Ming family, and he wouldn't have had to help the aristocratic alliance set up a scheme to harm people.
Unfortunately, there's no going back.
……
News of Lu Fenxu's death at Wuyuan spread quickly.
"Hahaha, great joy, great joy!" Master Zheng laughed uncontrollably and immediately ordered, "Men, spread the word far and wide that Lu Fenxu did not commit suicide, but was killed by the Prince of Ye's imperial guards or the Wei army. The reason is that the case of the students killing other students involves the Qin family and Jiang Dalang. The students were originally private soldiers raised by the Qin family for the Prince of Ye, but the private soldiers committed evil deeds, and the master family could no longer cover it up, so they wanted to kill the surviving students to silence them!"
This?
The retainers and advisors frowned and questioned, "Fourth Master, this argument is very untenable and may backfire."
It's not just untenable; it's practically a forced attempt to link the Qin family, the Jiang family, and the Prince of Ye to them.
Master Zheng said, “Why do you care whether they can stand firm or not? What is our purpose? It is to muddy the waters, create chaos in the capital city, and kill off the Qin family, the Jiang family, the Prince of Ye, and General Liang’s faction, eliminating this bunch of dissidents.”
"There's no need for evidence to establish the frame-up. Things are already so chaotic now, and they'll only get more chaotic in the future. No one will be able to find out the truth, so let's throw mud at them until the Prince of Ye, General Liang's faction, and the Qin family are all exhausted from dealing with it."
As for whether this commotion will lead to the enemy occupying the Northeast region, will it cause trouble?
LOL, the enemy is afraid of this?
Moreover, the powerful clans and wealthy families don't care about such a harsh and cold place as the Northeast. If they lose it, so be it. As long as we disrupt Emperor Wuxing's power and prevent him from having the time or ability to deal with the powerful clans and wealthy families' influence in Jianghuai and Jiangnan, that will suffice.
This is the art of checks and balances. The emperor loved to play this game, and so did the powerful and wealthy families.
Knock knock, a knocking sound came from the door, and someone said, "Fourth Master, it's time for you to take your medicine and apply it."
A thorough house cleaning doesn't just happen at the end of the year; it happens to everyone, after every bout of the humid season! I'm begging the great god of the humid season to have mercy T_T. When I was little, I was excited because of the condensation on the walls during the humid season; I thought it was magical and interesting. My friends and I would visit each other's houses to see who could have the most condensation. But now, haha, the weather forecast says it's going to be a mix of warm and cold weather. How many more humid seasons will this happen? T—T