Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

The moment Lu Chen finished speaking, Fu Yan's face changed slightly.

"Governor Lu can't!"

She walked up to Lu Chen and said in a concentrated voice: "The last time Governor Lu killed and wounded King Yu, the reason why His Majesty did not convict him was because King Yu openly disobeyed the order of the sword of the extreme way, which is equivalent to disobeying His Majesty, and he deserves death." Dao, Governor Lu, you can kill him, but now, King Yu has not disobeyed the holy will, and the royal family has the right to life and death. Anyone who offends the royal family with titles, as long as they are not cultivators, the royal family has The right to dispose of it at will, this is the ancestral system!"

Having said that, she inexplicably clenched her fists, and then added:

"Even if it turns out that the royal family is self-willed and depraved, abusing imperial power to kill people for no reason, and killing innocent people indiscriminately, this matter can only be dealt with by the Tianzong Mansion. If you forcefully kill with the sword of the extreme way, it is not against the holy will King Yu is abusing the authority bestowed by His Majesty, and is likely to be regarded as a arrogant and domineering courtier!"

click...

Lu Chen clenched the extreme sword in his hand, and said calmly:

"You mean, I want to watch the more than 600 innocent people in Qu'er Village who have done nothing wrong and just want to live a stable life because of the grievances between me and King Yu, and I will remain indifferent ?"

"It's impossible."

Fu Yu said helplessly: "Imperial power is supreme. Although King Yu's actions are cruel and inhumane, they did not violate the laws of the Great Xia, let alone treason. As long as he is still a first-rank prince, he has the right to life and kill the people." , In this world, only cultivators have always been entitled to justice, and it is the same in today's world."

"if it is like this."

Lu Chen stepped forward slowly, and calmly said a shocking sentence:

"Then this official will set off this damn world."

Hearing this, Fu Yu's face darkened immediately.

Why is this person so stubborn...

Could it be that he couldn't tolerate a trace of turbidity in his eyes?

"Governor Lu."

Fu Ye's eyes were full of solemnity.

"I want to remind you that if you insist on going your own way and attack King Yu's mansion recklessly, or even kill King Yu with the sword of extreme dao, no matter what the result is, your official career in Daxia will be cut off, and it is very likely that you will fall into deep trouble. Prison, you will never turn over!"

"This is most likely the purpose of King Yu. He knew Governor Lu that you love the people like a son and value people's livelihood, so he deliberately slaughtered Qu'er Village and Gou'er Village, two villages related to you, just to completely anger you. , make you lose your mind and do stupid things in a fit of rage, and you will never be able to recover..."

"so what?"

Facing the evil consequences that Fu Yu said, Lu Chen didn't show any fear on his face, let alone waver.

"Fame is like floating clouds to me, and wealth is like dust to me, what is there to regret?"

He walked to the door of the house and said indifferently:

"Anyone who dares to treat the people as worthless and tramples on them at will, I dare to treat them as pigs and dogs and slaughter livestock? Why not?!"

"As an official of the imperial court, if I can't uphold justice for the people, how can I be worthy of the support of the people, how can I be worthy of the trust of your Majesty? How can I be worthy of the Great Xia Dynasty that gave birth to me and raised me? How can I stand in this world?"

"So what about the success of the ancestors? Could it be that the success of the ancestors can destroy the foundation of my court and defeat the fate of my Great Xia country?!"

Hearing this, all the Xuanji guards were all moved.

Lu Chen suddenly turned his head, glanced at the two corpses in the farmhouse, and then interrupted coldly when Fu Yu opened his mouth to speak:

"I have made up my mind, please don't say too much, no matter what the consequences of this matter are, I will bear it all by myself."

As he said that, he looked around at the Xuanji guards, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't want to go, I will never force you, and I will not blame you, after all, it is human nature, I will go as soon as I want Yes, even if there is only one official, we must seek justice for all those who died in vain."

"Death without regret!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for everyone to respond, he turned around resolutely and walked towards the imperial horse specially given by the empress.

Looking at Lu Chen's determined back, Fu Yi sighed lightly, then raised her footsteps and chased after Lu Chen without hesitation.

Neither she nor Lu Chen gave orders to Xuanjiwei, apparently to let other people take care of themselves.

However, at the moment when the two left, apart from the officials from Ping County, Fang Yu and the others followed Fu Ye's footsteps almost at the same time, and followed Lu Chen very naturally.

After everyone left, two figures, a man and a woman, slowly walked out of a house.

They stood in the torrential rain, letting the cold rain wash over their bodies, just quietly watching the backs of everyone leaving.

I was speechless for a long time.

"Two."

An official with a Chinese face stepped forward and said calmly: "Master Fang has returned to Yuzhou City with the Governor-General. The official rewards that Mr. Fang mentioned will not be distributed until the Lord returns. Please go back now."

"OK, all right."

The young scribe nodded, and then said to the woman in red beside him, "Let's go, Hongyu, it's time to go back."

The woman named Hongyu didn't respond immediately, but looked at the officer, and asked softly: "This officer, dare to ask, is the man holding the golden sword just now the new governor of the two states?"

"That's right, it's him."

The official said impatiently: "Okay, if there is nothing else, you two should go back quickly. I won't accompany you when I still have business to do."

After speaking, he turned around directly and walked into a farmhouse with a look of disgust.

Hongyu turned her head again, looking at the direction where Lu Chen and the others left.

"In this world, there is such a great husband with such a heart..."

While whispering, her bright eyes gradually lost focus.

"Lu Chen... um..."

After a few breaths, she suddenly said to her companion at the side: "Brother Fan, let's go to Yuzhou City to have a look."

at the same time.

In a certain village in Ping County.

In an ordinary farmhouse.

"Grandpa, I'm hungry..."

A child in the corner bit his finger and looked pitifully at a haggard old man not far away.

"well……"

The old man sighed softly, stretched out his withered old hand and stroked the child's head twice.

"Hold it, baby, there's not much food at home, and we have to stay till the spring plowing... Don't be as greedy as you were a few days ago."

The child looked puzzled.

"Grandfather, since our family has nothing to eat, why should we throw away the food that the kind official gave us..."

Hearing this, a look of heartache flashed across the old man's face, but he still said without hesitation:

"That's not food, that's a curse!"

"If you don't throw it away quickly, it will definitely bring disaster to both of us. You must not keep it!"

He sighed faintly, and then said: "I know you are very hungry, and grandpa is the same, but no matter what, our father and I will not starve to death. Going up to the mountains to gather food in spring, and if gluttony is the cause of that disaster, our father and I will not be able to see the sun tomorrow, the people of Qu'er Village and Gou'er Village are our role models..."

The child nodded half-understood, but the saliva at the corner of his mouth could not be stopped.

He doesn't understand the adult world.

He only knew that the big man who came here on a special trip a few days ago, who looked very clean and would talk to them with a very comfortable smile, made him half full on rare occasions.

And the food that big man gave was really delicious, he still remembers the taste of that snow-white rice.

So that big guy should be a good person.

But Grandpa couldn't possibly harm him.

For a while, his hungry mind was full of entanglements.

And this scene, since the news about Gou'er Village and Qu'er Village, began to be repeated in various villages.

Unless the family really didn't have any surplus food and the village was already in deep despair, the villagers would not dare to receive the condolence food that Lu Chen ordered.

All of a sudden, the rapidly consumed food in the granaries in Yuzhou suddenly stagnated, and even replenished the warehouses in reverse, so that the empty warehouses under the partitions were covered by abundant grain.

The food in Yuzhou will never be wasted.