These words caused Ji Ling Tian's madam, Jiang shi, to faint on the spot. A soldier went forward to check her breathing and said: "She's dead!"
Ji Ling Tian only felt a fishy sweetness surge up from his chest. Unable to hold it in, he opened his mouth and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Jiang shi's corpse was taken away and thrown to the side. Ji Ling Tian knelt on the ground and repeatedly kowtowed to Xuan Tianming: "I beg His Ninth Highness to spare my life. I beg His Ninth Highness to spare my life!"
Xuan Tianming shook his head: "Being a traitor to Eighth Brother and impersonating Princess Ji An, Ji Ling Tian, this is a crime worthy of the extermination of the entire clan. Do not panic. Huang Quan, walk slowly on the road. Your Ji family's children will be sent over very quickly. "
Ji Ling Tian coughed up another mouthful of blood! At this moment, he really wanted to be like his madam and be scared to death, but for some reason, he was able to live up to expectations. He coughed up two mouthfuls of blood in a row, yet he did not die. In fact, he did not even faint. He suddenly thought that perhaps this was a punishment from the heavens, allowing him to clearly face his own death and face the monstrous crime that he had committed.
In the end, he was still unwilling. Even if he died, he wanted to drag someone down with him, right? This sort of thing could not be shouldered by his Ji family alone. Wasn't there someone else that got involved? He opened his eyes and pointed at Feng Jin Yuan "Him! There's also him! He is also the main culprit. Why did His Ninth Highness not kill him as well? "
Xuan Tianming did not speak. Instead, it was Feng Jin Yuan who met Ji Ling Tian's gaze and said: "There's no need to compare yourself to me. Although I am the real Princess Ji An's father, that daughter of mine has never said a single good word for me. Based on my understanding of her, she definitely will not be lenient on this matter. Lord Ji, you should leave first. I will definitely go down to accompany you. It's just a matter of dying sooner or later. You won't lose out. "
Ji Ling Tian was speechless. Feng Jin Yuan was Feng Yu Heng's father. Speaking of, he was also the father-in-law of the Ninth Prince. Since he had already said it, what could he do? His Ji family couldn't be compared to the Feng family. Thus, he lowered his head and admitted defeat.
Xuan Tianming did not delay and raised his hand. Immediately, soldiers came forward to bring Ji Ling Tian and the already scared out of their wits to Yao Shi's coffin. They then kicked the back of their knees to make them kneel. Following this, two people raised their swords and came forward. Without another word, they chopped down on the two's necks.
Feng Jin Yuan watched helplessly as Ji Ling Tian's head fell to the ground. The official's head even rolled a couple times to his feet. He kicked, as if he was kicking his own future. Thinking about it, it wouldn't be long before his fate would be the same, right? The Ninth Prince had never been soft-hearted when it came to killing people.
He retracted his thoughts and no longer thought about those meaningless things. That was how people were. Once you feared death, you would think of all sorts of ways to fight for a chance to live. And once you became indifferent to death, whether you lived or not did not have too much of a meaning. With the resolve to die, he took care of Yao Shi's funeral. He watched as Yao Shi was buried. He watched as the soldiers filled in the dirt and set up a tombstone. He then went forward and scattered the remaining paper money next to the grave. He then knelt and kowtowed three times, completing the entire ceremony.
Xuan Tianming also bowed three times in front of the grave. Staring at the tombstone for a while, he did not say anything else. Turning around, he led his subordinates and left. He did not pay any attention to Feng Jin Yuan.
Only after the people at the grave had all left, with the soldiers dragging away the corpses, and the master Yin Yang from Sha Ping City receiving the reward from Xuan Tianming left, did Feng Jin Yuan recover from his daze. Only then did he notice that he was the only person left in front of Yao Shi's grave.
This was a perfect opportunity to escape, but Feng Jin Yuan knew that he definitely would not be able to escape. Xuan Tianming was such a cautious person. The reason that he was able to leave him alone was because he had already considered all possibilities, including his escape. Presently, this area was Xuan Tianming's territory. Feng Jin Yuan knew that regardless of where he ran, he would be caught very quickly. As for him, he no longer had any thoughts of escaping. In the past, he had only thought of preserving his life. Now, he no longer had any extravagant hopes of "living."
Instead, he was very thankful that Xuan Tianming had given him this opportunity, allowing him to be alone with Yao shi for a while. He did not know what he should say to Yao shi. The things that he should have done and the things that he should not have done, he had already done them. Even if he said ten thousand apologies, it would not be enough to make up for the harm that he had done to the mother and children over the years. Feng Jin Yuan just missed Zirui a little. That child was so cute and looked so good. He was also imperial tutor Ye Rong's personal disciple. He should have held him in his hands and doted on him; however, he had been hurt again and again. He had even lost a finger.
Feng Jin Yuan raised his hand and suddenly slapped himself across the face. Kneeling in front of Yao shi's grave, he began to cry bitterly …
He sat in front of Yao shi's grave for a full three days and three nights. During this time, he went to the small lake to the side to drink water a few times. He did not eat anything, nor did he sleep. His entire being was like a ghost. His eyes were sunken, and he looked a little scary.
On the fourth day, Feng Jin Yuan finally stood up. After swaying a few times, he finally stabilized himself. He then left Yao shi's grave step by step; however, he began to walk in the direction of Sha Ping City.
When Xuan Tianming saw Feng Jin Yuan again, he was in the commander's tent outside the South gate of Sha Ping City. Although he had prepared himself mentally, he never thought that this person would be able to cause him to be in such a state.
He wanted to laugh and ask Feng Jin Yuan why he did not run. Instead, he had caused himself to be in such a state. Whose sympathy was he trying to gain? But in the end, he was no longer the young Ninth Prince. The "recklessness" was still there, but the willfulness had lessened a little. In this sort of political situation, in these two or three years, he had thought even more about things. The whip in his hand was no longer as casual as it had been in the past. But this was not a softening of his heart, nor was it a sign of weakness. Instead, he had learned to weigh the pros and cons. He had learned to think about things from different angles. Whenever his Highness Prince Yu took action, he would definitely take a life.
It was just like how he currently faced Feng Jin Yuan. He no longer had the same desire to get revenge for Feng Yu Heng. He just felt that the world was impermanent. He actually saw the passing of spring and the arrival of autumn from this person. Flowers wilted and flowers bloomed.
He asked Feng Jin Yuan: "You won't say anything to save your life?"
Feng Jin Yuan thought for a bit and really did think of something, thus he said: "Back when Qian Zhou's eldest princess Kang Yi married me, I was blinded by power and did not think too much about it. But after I lost the position of prime minister, I analyzed everything from beginning to end. After some investigation, I finally understood. It turned out that you all wanted to find a map of Qian Zhou. You all believed that the map was in my hands, and even Qian Zhou's imperial family believed that it was in my hands. That's why they sent Kang Yi over. Using marriage as an excuse, they wanted to get close to me. In reality, they were searching the entire Feng manor for something from Qian Zhou … right? "
He took the initiative to bring this up. Xuan Tianming did not hide it, nodding and saying: "That's right." Following which, he laughed coldly and said, "However, I am not included in this group of 'all of you'. I know that you don't have that thing. "
Feng Jin Yuan was stunned: "Why is your Highness so certain?"
Xuan Tianming curled the corners of his lips into a sly smile: "Because I understand you too well. Based on your personality, if you really had such an important thing, you would have used it as a bargaining chip long ago. No matter what, you would not have fallen to your current state."
Feng Jin Yuan smiled bitterly and thought to himself that it was His Ninth Highness, who everyone thought was the most willful, that was able to see things clearly. Indeed, if he really did have that thing, the Feng family would not have fallen to its current state. At the very least, he would have brought it out to give the Feng family a chance at survival.
"That's right! I indeed don't have it. Your Highness did not kill me that day in the cemetery. Now, give me a straightforward answer! "Feng Jin Yuan knelt, and an aura of death began to spread from his body. There was not a single trace of life left.
Xuan Tianming looked at him, and the purple lotus on his brow bloomed even brighter. Feng Jin Yuan knelt on the ground and waited for a long time. In the end, however, the words he received were: "I will not kill you. As for whether you live or die, leave it to Heng Heng to decide!" After saying this, he stood up and left, leaving Feng Jin Yuan kneeling alone in the commander's tent. He did not recover for a long time.
Feng Jin Yuan had survived; however, he was living completely different from before. He did not know what had gone wrong, but he had begun to change. He did not live in the military camp for nothing. Every day, he would go to Sha Ping City to help the soldiers fetch water. He would then carry one load at a time. He had never done this sort of work before. In the beginning, he would always carry one bucket and spill half of it, but this person's ability to understand was quite good. After a few times, he had grasped the trick of carrying a load. The water that he carried back would not spill as much as before.
Aside from this, he also took the initiative to chat with the soldiers. He taught some of the younger soldiers how to read and write. Many of the soldiers learned how to write their own names under his guidance.
The soldiers that came out to fight were all boorish people. They relied on their strong bodies to earn a bit of salary to help their families. The majority of them had never gone to school, and they were even less literate. In the beginning, there were some that snorted disdainfully at Feng Jin Yuan and had some prejudices against him. But slowly, they saw that some of the younger soldiers knew how to write their own names, and their hearts began to itch. They no longer rejected Feng Jin Yuan and took the initiative to look for him to learn how to write their own names.
Feng Jin Yuan did not refuse anyone that came, happily teaching them. He even helped some soldiers write their wills. These soldiers all understood that every time they went into battle, it could be their last. No matter how overwhelming the victory was, there would still be casualties. They feared that they would not be able to return the next time they went into battle. Now that they had a "teacher" like Feng Jin Yuan, they simply wrote their wills.
The soldiers agreed with each other that the wills would be kept close to their bodies. Regardless of who died, as long as their brothers had the ability, they would take the wills from their bodies and keep it for themselves. In the future, they would find an opportunity to send it to their family. Either way, it was better than leaving nothing behind.
Through the matter of the wills, Feng Jin Yuan gained a better understanding of life. To him, matters of life and death had become even more open-minded. He felt that if he had the chance, he should also write a will, but after thinking about it, he did not know who he could leave his will to. There were not many people left in the Feng family. It could be said that everyone that was close to him in the past had all died. If his will was sent to Fen Dai, based on that child's personality, would she not just roll it up into a ball and throw it away?
Feng Jin Yuan smiled bitterly and warned the burly soldiers over and over again: "No matter what time it is, you must treat your family well. You must not be biased. You must treat all of your children fairly." He even told everyone about his own experiences, telling them that they absolutely must not be like him.
He Gan told Xuan Tianming about Feng Jin Yuan's recent actions. At first, Xuan Tianming felt that it was fresh, but as he listened, he began to sigh endlessly …
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