Chapter 49 Interrogation
Duan Ling took the reward money from the medicine and went to the market to buy some wine and vegetables, cut some braised meat, and when he returned to the yard, Wu Du said, "Why did he come back at this time?"
"I heard that I have heard of the story." Duan Ling replied, putting the wine and food all the same, and handing over the remaining money to Wu Du.
Wu Du looked at Duan Ling with a very complicated gaze.
"I must be very happy to get the reward." Wu Du said, "There are wine to drink and meat to eat."
Duan Ling could hear Wu Du was angry, but it seemed that it was not because of his late return. Besides, he didn't delay for long. It took only half an hour to write an article. He couldn't understand Wu Du's thoughts. When he was about to explain, there was a loud noise coming towards him. The whole table was kicked outside by Wu Du. Duan Ling was startled and his eyes showed a look of fear.
"I have learned this martial arts." Wu Du's tone was cold, "Like a dog, I give the young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion a spring medicine, and get two rewards to get some wine and food. I am so happy that I don't know what to do."
Duan Ling understood, but didn't know how to comfort Wu Du. He saw Wu Du slowly get up, walk down the corridor, and sighed deeply.
Duan Ling carefully packed up the delicious food, picked up the broken porcelain, set up the table table, and still arranged the dishes in order, saying, "Let's have a meal."
The two of them started eating the dirty dishes. After Duan Ling went to wash the dishes. As if nothing had happened, Wu Du slept with his clothes.
The next day, Duan Ling thought it was time to come, so Wu was alone in the yard in the morning, so Duan Ling followed him and gestured.
"I won't accept disciples." Wu Du said casually, his side face was cold, he turned around and stepped forward, and pushed out with a move. Duan Ling watched his movements intently, followed by step, and then he set off.
Wu Du suddenly stopped and raised his foot to kick him with a bent knee. Duan Ling fell apart suddenly. Wu Du stretched out his foot to trip him again. Duan Ling rushed forward and staggered up and then stood up. Wu Du tripped again, Duan Ling rushed again, four or five times in a row, and Wu Du couldn't help but feel funny.
"You are practicing like a gyroscope now." Wu Du laughed.
Duan Ling also found it funny and was covered in dust. Wu Du said, "You are not a material for practicing martial arts, save money."
After Wu Du walked away, Duan Ling re-fighted Wu Du's practice of the game based on his memory, and was mocked again. Wu Du squatted on the threshold and kept mocking him. After a moment, a maid came over and said that the prime minister had invited him and took the servant over.
Wu Du's face changed slightly. I remembered that Duan Ling had told him a few days ago that he did not doubt Mu Kuangda's incident.
"If the Prime Minister asks me about my origin..." Duan Ling felt upset and said to Wu Du.
Wu Du knew it was wrong, so he took in a servant inexplicably in the Prime Minister's Mansion. This matter was not big or small. If he didn't explain it clearly, Mu Kuangda would just let him stay for his own sake, but he would have to take him to exile or sell him. Wu Du had no choice.
"What the Prime Minister asks you later, and he doesn't say anything." Wu Du said to Duan Ling, "I'll answer for you."
Duan Ling nodded, followed Wu Ban and entered the inner garden of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Someone came up to pick them up and led them into the main courtyard.
I saw Mu Kuangda sitting behind the desk, standing with a nervous Mu Qing standing beside him, behind him was the masked Chang Liujun, and an old man, probably Mr.
Wu Du narrowed his eyes slightly, while Mu Kuangda drank tea on his own, and there were papers written by Duan Ling and copied by Mu Qing in front of him.
"What's your name?" Mu Kuangda asked Duan Ling.
Duan Ling did not say anything, Wu Du frowned and said to Duan Ling: "The Prime Minister asked you, are you deaf?"
Duan Ling thought to himself that you told me not to say anything, but I forgot when I left Duan corridor.
"Wang Shan." Duan Ling replied, not daring to look at Mu Kuangda. Mu Kuangda just glanced at him and remembered it, saying, "I met you that day. I gave you medicine to crickets. I have lived for so many years and I have prescribed them twice. I don't know that crickets also have medicine to take. Wu Du, how can you study these things all day long?"
Wu Du didn't speak, and the room was quiet. Mu Kuangda took the son's paper and said to Duan Ling: "Wang Shan, is this article the knife you caught for the young master?"
"He taught me to write..." Mu Qing explained.
"Shut up!" Mu Kuangda said angrily, and Mu Qing was so scared that he dared not speak.
Wu Du looked at Duan Ling strangely, and Duan Ling replied, "I've continued some for the young master."
Mu Kuangda said: "Sir, I will give you a question, and you will write it now, and write it aside."
Duan Ling secretly glanced at Mu Qing, but Mu Qing looked apologetic and nodded to him to show encouragement. Duan Ling lowered his head and sat down aside. The gentleman first picked up the pen and wrote two lines. When he asked the question, he handed the pen to Duan Ling. Duan Ling took it, pondered a little, and finished the writing.
"Sit down." Mu Kuangda then said to Wu Du.
Wu Du sat down beside him, but his eyes were always staring at Duan Ling, his eyes were extremely complicated.
"I don't know where you bought the servant." Mu Kuangda said to Wu Du.
Duan Ling's hand was shaking a little. Wu Du looked at Duan Ling for a long time, but Mu Kuangda was drinking tea on his own. Duan Ling finally couldn't help it and glanced at Wu Du with a plea in his eyes.
Maybe it was because he stood outside the Taixue that day, his anticipated eyes and the light of the sunset touched Wu Du, maybe it was because his eyes turned around that moment, which made Wu Du feel sympathy again.
Wu Du finally couldn't bear it and made up a few lies for Duan Ling, explaining: "His father is a drug dealer, and he is my old friend. He lived in Xunbei when he was a child. His mother died early. After Xunbei City broke, he and his father were doing business outside the border. Later, his father died and had nowhere to go. He came to join me. Thinking of his old friend's feelings, he allowed him to live in a remote courtyard. He was about to make a living in the mansion, but now it seems that I am meddling in other people's business."
After Wu Du said that, he looked at Mu Kuangda again. Mu Kuangda didn't even look at Wu Du. He asked Duan Ling: "Have you studied in a private school?"
Duan Ling didn't say anything, and Wu Du replied for him: "His father originally wanted him to study and get a fame and fortune. He said that he would have to delay several years in troubled times."
Mu Qing stretched his neck and peeked at the article written by Duan Ling. Mu Kuangda coughed, and Mu Qing's neck immediately shrank back like a turtle.
Mu Kuangda obviously said nothing about Wu Du. There was a lot of silence in the hall, and only the slight sound made by Duan Ling when he was writing, the brush dragged rice paper.
In this silence, Wu Du spoke first.
"But no one has come to deliver food for several days." Wu Du said, "Since the Prime Minister's Mansion does not raise idle people, he is thinking about saying goodbye to Mu Xiang these days."
Mu Kuangda almost sprayed a sip of tea. He was stunned for a moment, and then guessed what happened.
The Prime Minister still wants this face. He recruited a guest but did not give him three meals a day. If it was reported, he would be laughed to death. After a second thought, he knew that Chang Liujun deliberately humiliated Wu Du, and did not point it out. He ordered the servants, ""Give the order to go to the kitchen now. If it is shorter, it will be three meals a day in the remote courtyard. The family law will be beaten to death."
Wu Du's face was getting better. It was probably because Mu Kuangda was deliberately trying to punish him. When it was sunny and sunny, Duan Ling put the pen on the pen holder and a light sound. The gentleman took the article and bowed to Mu Kuangda.
Mu Kuangda just glanced at him and said to Duan Ling: "From tomorrow, come here to study with the young master during the day, and still go back to serve your adopted father in the afternoon."
After saying that, Mu Kuangda said to Wu Du again: "Killing someone is just a knife, raising someone, but it takes a lifetime. This is the merit in your destiny."
Chang Liujun took the conversation and said, "It's good to change careers and become a teacher."
Mu Qing laughed out loud, and in the quiet hall, the laughter was extremely abrupt.
Duan Ling's heart was hanging down, and it seemed like it was thousands of miles away from his final goal. But at present, although there was a little danger, everything seemed to be moving in the direction that was most beneficial to him.
"Take it back." Mu Kuangda said, "How are your medicine?"
Wu Du replied: "It's still working."
Duan Ling hurriedly got up and went out with Wu Du.
After Wu Du left, Mu Kuangda took another sip of tea and said, "Scholars can be killed but not humiliated. Changliujun, can you have a little mind? What's the point of being so pranked all day long?"
Chang Liujun had no choice but to bow.
"Go down." Mu Kuangda said to Mu Qing again: "You can finish this article within one month."
"If you dare to deal with it randomly, every day when I go to court, you will move a small stool, sit behind me and the Censor, and write your nonsense article."
Mu Qing nodded quickly and escaped another disaster.
Duan Ling thought that after he went back, Wu Du didn't know how to have an attack. He had expected this reaction, but he had no choice but to offend Wu Du, so he could walk. He thought of the past he had been walking along the way, and felt extremely guilty. He never lie before, but he told the first lie in his life when Lang Junxia took him to Beijing.
My name is Duan Ling, and my father's name is Duan Sheng...
In order to survive, he had to lie. Slowly, he began to understand what the lie meant. He began to weave more lies to deceive many people and protect himself. But no matter who he cheated, he felt more guilty than cheating on Wu Du.
Wu Du's face looked very ugly all the way and didn't say a word.
When he returned to the yard, Duan Ling turned around and was dragged to the yard by Wu Du and threw it into the yard. Duan Ling fell to the ground and staggered up, but Wu Du grabbed his throat with his big hand and pressed him in front of the pillar.
"I can't tell you're pretty scheming." Wu Du's eyes were full of resentment and said, "Do you just want to climb up?"
Duan Ling was strangled and tears came out of his eyes. He was indeed very sad and looked at Wu Du with guilt. Wu Du choked him like this, motionless. Gradually, his anger calmed down in front of Duan Ling's eyes and let go of his hand.
Duan Ling knelt on the ground, coughing and retching, Wu Du stood in front of him, his face gloomy, but no longer seemed to be in anger just now.
"I'm sorry." Duan Ling replied.
He did not take away the responsibility, so he could push it all to Mu Qing's head. For example, when he was delivering medicine, he asked him to help write articles, and promised to give him a reward... But to be honest, all this was thought out by himself, including how to explain it.
But he didn't want to deceive Wu Du, so he simply said, "You are right, I want to climb up."
"Serve your new master." Wu Du replied, then returned to the room and fell on the door.
Duan Ling sat in the corridor for a while, and Wu Du was obviously a little surprised. Duan Ling did not explain and said so lightly, "I want to climb up", which made him have no excuse to get angry.
After a while, Wu Du opened the door again and said to Duan Ling: "Isn't leaving yet?"
Duan Ling: "..."
Wu Du always gets angry, but the air comes and goes quickly, just like thunder and rain, very refreshing. The sound of the second door slam is not as good as the first time, but with the smell of being strong outside and dry inside.
"I'm used to being poor." Duan Ling sat in front of the porch with his knees in his arms, saying casually, "I'm used to wandering. I don't want to be rolled or betrayed. I want to decide my life."
In the room, Wu Du didn't speak.
Duan Ling said again: "I don't want others to decide when, when, how, and how to live. I'm scared, I want to live well."
Duan Ling turned around and looked into the room. After the door fell, there was a crack that rebounded.
"So I want to climb up." Duan Ling said, "I'm sorry, Wu Du."
Duan Ling approached the door and looked inward through the crack. Seeing Wu Du sitting in the dim room without saying anything, Duan Ling pushed open the door and the sunlight shone in and fell on Wu Du. Without saying a word, he turned around to fetch water to water the flowers and take care of the plants in the yard.
"You will determine the lives of many people in your life."
A long-lost word sounded in Wu Du's mind, and he had even forgotten the gentle voice for a long time.
"Everyone who dies under your hands, even if they have ten thousand reasons to die, as your sword stabs in, everything in your life will disappear. But what about you? You hold the power of life and death in your hands, have you ever thought about yourself?"
Chapter completed!