Zhu Pingan, do you know the offence?”
Wang Xueyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice in the public hall, after listening to Zhao Dajing’s indignation and grievance, directly asked Zhu Pingan for the crime in a stern voice.
The officials listening in the public hall also turned their gazes towards Zhu Pingan, Zhao Dajing’s scars, stories and indignation had infected them, and they were somewhat inclined to sympathise with Zhao Dajing at this moment, and their gazes towards Zhu Pingan carried a strong sense of scrutiny.
Zhao Dajing was also staring at Zhu Pingan with a sad and angry face, he was being pulled back, everyone was worried that he would impulsively kill himself to prove his innocence, on the face of Zhao Dajing, he looked sad and angry, but in his heart, he was in a state of euphoria.
Your hair is not even fully grown, and you are still young to fight with me. Now let’s see how you can turn around!
Looked at Zhu Pingan was questioned, Zhao Dajing heart, not to mention how happy, this time after the plea, where he is surely more valued in the Yan Court, from the clan inventory and then selected a few cars of gifts, think not long before their position will be able to rise again, the glory of the ancestors will be reproduced in their own body.
A time
The realisation of all the people focused on Zhu Pingan, who became the focus of the public court.
This was a charge of falsely accusing a general.
Moreover, this general was not just any general, but a tiger general who had fought for the Ming for more than ten years and had been injured countless times!
Originally, everyone thought that Zhu Pingan might be in a state of anxiety, unable to do anything about it.
However, just as all the people turned their eyes towards Zhu Pingan to see how he was going to deal with the predicament, they were surprised to find that Zhu Pingan showed absolutely no signs of fretting, and could even be said to be as relaxed as if it wasn’t his business.
relaxed and at ease
Just like watching a play.
It was completely out of everyone’s expectation.
And
it was more than that.
“Wonderful!”
“Splendid!”
“Truly wonderful!”
Zhu Pingan hooked up the corners of his lips and laughed pleasantly, clapping his hands and walking over to Zhao Dajing, saying wonderful while applauding.
Err.
Crap.
What kind of situation is this?
Why is this surname Zhu not acting according to common sense.
The crowd was already surprised enough, but now they were even more surprised by Zhu Pingan’s applauding behaviour, and many of them were confused.
Zhao Dajing was also confused, looking at the mocking Zhu Pingan, he could not wait to slap him to death.
“Zhu Pingan, what are you doing, what do you take the public hall for! This official is asking you, do you know the offence?!”Wang Xueyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice in the public hall, slapped the shocking wood once again and questioned with anger.
“Know the offence? What offence do I have? I still ask Your Honour to make it clear.”
Zhu Pingan shrugged his shoulders and looked at Wang Xueyi with an innocent face.
“You?”Wang Xueyi huffed.
The other presiding judge in the public hall, Zhang Gu, the right minister of the Ministry of War who had just been replaced, took over Wang Xueyi’s words and continued, “Zhao Dajing is a rare tiger general of my Ming, a brave general, a loyal and courageous general who has been in the battlefield for a long time, why are you falsely accusing Zhao Dajing of killing a good man and taking advantage of his merits?”
“Hahaha ……”
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but laugh as he listened, as if he had heard the world’s funniest joke, and in the end, he was bending over with laughter.
“That’s enough Zhu Pingan!”Zhang Gu slapped the shocking wood with force.
“Hahaha ……It took all of Zhu Pingan’s strength to gradually stop laughing, but his face was still holding back the laughter.
“Zhu Pingan, don’t think that just because you have a meritocracy, you can do whatever you want above the public court.”Zhang Gu pointed at Zhu Pingan and shouted.
“I just heard a joke and couldn’t hold it back for a while, so please forgive me, my lords.”Zhu Pingan bowed his hands and saluted to the main judge’s seat and the spectator’s seat one by one.
“A joke? Are this official’s words just jokes in your ears?”Zhang Gu looked at Zhu Pingan with an expressionless face and asked through clenched teeth.
“Just now, Your Excellency said that Zhao Dajing is a rare member of my Daming’s tiger generals, a courageous general, a loyal and brave general who has been in the battlefield for a long time …….Hahahahaha, I didn’t hold back again, sorry sorry sorry ……”Zhu Pingan said, couldn’t help but laugh again, this time the reaction was faster, the first time to stop the smile, a face of sincerity to the public hall Zhang Gu apologised.
“What’s so funny about that!”Zhang Gu whisked his sleeve.
“Lord Zhang please hold your horses, let’s listen to how Zhu Pingan explains himself.”The Da Lisi Wang Guan next to Zhang Gu persuaded Zhang Gu, signalling to listen to Zhu Pingan’s explanation first.
“Good, this official will see how you explain.”Zhang Gu grunted and resumed his seat back at the main trial seat.
“Many thanks, my lord.”Zhu Pingan bowed long.
“Wonderful, truly wonderful, what Lord Zhao just said was truly wonderful.”
After the long bow, Zhu Pingan got up and once again paced in front of Zhao Dajing, a pleasant expression reappearing on his face as he once again applauded.
“What do you mean, Zhu Pingan?”Zhao Dajing glared fiercely at Zhu Pingan.
“I’m clapping for Zhao Dajing.”Zhu Pingan said and clapped again, “What Ta-Jen Zhao just said was really wonderful, a battlefield coward and deserter, a clever tongue, but he managed to mould himself into a brave tiger general, wonderful, really wonderful.”
Ah?
What?
Zhu Pingan actually satirised Zhao Dajing as a battlefield coward? A deserter?
I didn’t hear it wrong, how could it be, the scars on Zhao Dajing’s back could not have been faked, with so many hideous scars on his back, how could he be a coward and a deserter!
The crowd was very sceptical of Zhu Pingan’s words, feeling that Zhu Pingan was only saying this on purpose in order to discredit Zhao Dajing.
“Do you think that the scars on your back are all the merits of your Zhao Dajing? A proof of your bravery?”Zhu Pingan stood in front of Zhao Dajing and asked with a smile.
Isn’t it!
The crowd was stunned, puzzled by Zhu Pingan’s words.
“Wrong, very wrong, the scars on your back not only prove your martial valour, on the contrary, these scars instead prove that you, Zhao Dajing, are a pathetic coward and deserter!”
Zhu Pingan’s words were like a thunderbolt from the bottom of the earth, shocking everyone present, especially Zhu Pingan’s later aggravated tone of coward and deserter, which made the ears of everyone present buzzing.
Coward
Deserter
How was that possible?
“I didn’t see it, Scholar Lang’s ability to turn black and white upside down and call a stag a horse is top notch, I admire it. In terms of verbal skills, Zhao Mou a martial artist naturally can’t compare to you who dances for a living, I, Zhao Mou, won’t play with verbal skills either, I, Zhao Mou, will only do it, will only use flesh and blood to fight for a future on the sands.”Zhao Dajing cross-eyed Zhu Pingan, then turned to the main trial seat and knelt down on one knee, “Zhu Pingan has repeatedly turned black and white upside down and humiliated me, I still ask you all to please make a decision.”
Wang Xueyi and the others in the public hall naturally made the judgement for Zhao Dajing, moreover, in their opinion, Zhu Pingan was just looking for nothing to do and making a fuss, so they asked Zhu Pingan to give an explanation to the crowd.
“As ordered.”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand and then looked at Zhao Dajing, “Do it right? You have a point, it should indeed be done.”
Thus, Zhu Pingan requested from the presiding judge’s seat to temporarily borrow two good bodied brocade guards for a while, this request sounded absurd, the presiding judge Wang Xueyi and the others naturally did not agree to it, however, after Zhu Pingan repeatedly assured him that the matter was related to this case and there was absolutely no child’s play, brocade guards’ co-instructor Tuo Hai nodded his head and agreed to do so.
Then, Zhu Pingan borrowed two wooden swords used by the Ministry of Justice for training, two linen cloths, and a basin of red ink.
Zhu Pingan wrapped the wooden swords with the cloths and then soaked them in the red ink and gave them to two Jin Yi Guards respectively, causing the two of them to attack each other with the wooden swords and do life and death combat until he shouted to stop.
“Ridiculous!”
“Simply child’s play!”
Wang Xueyi and the others saw this and criticised it bitterly.
The other onlooker officials also felt that Zhu Pingan’s act was simply too ridiculous.
However
Soon they changed colour.
Only to see the two brocade guards attacking each other under Zhu Pingan’s command, the wooden sword wrapped in linen didn’t attack the other person for a bit, it would leave a red mark on the other person’s body, and before a while, there were seven or eight marks on the two people’s bodies.
Luckily it was a wooden sword, otherwise both of them would have become pieces of meat.
“Stop.”
Zhu Pingan shouted, the two brocade guards who were attacking each other stopped, looking at the sword marks on the two brocade guards, Zhu Pingan nodded with satisfaction.
“Lords, please look.”
Zhu Pingan drew the attention of all the officials over, pointing at the sword marks on the body of the brocade guards and continued, “As you should have seen, the two men attacked each other face-to-face, and the wounds left behind were all on this side of their chests, with none of the wounds being on their backs. And such wounds are what brave generals leave behind on the battlefield.”
“If you want the back to leave scars, unless it is ……”Zhu Pingan said as he came to one of the brocade guards and took the wooden sword from him, then said to him, “You turn around and run ……”
The brocade guard turned around and just ran a step, Zhu Pingan held the wooden sword and left a red sword mark on his back.
It was exceptionally piercing.
“So, unless it’s running away.”Zhu Pingan continued.
After speaking, Zhu Pingan reappeared in front of Zhao Dajing, looked straight into his eyes, and said word by word:
“The scars on the back are a warrior’s shame!”
