The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

"Killing evil means doing good." Fang Yun said.

The county magistrate said: "You are talking nonsense! That Xiang Wenxuan just had ill intentions towards Yang Yuhuan and did not actually take action. What you did was murder!"

"By the time he takes action, it will be too late." Fang Yun said.

The county magistrate knocked on the gavel tree again and said, "Do you know the crime?"

"According to the laws of Jingguo, if I commit murder, I will naturally be aware of the crime."

"Then you are ashamed."

"With no shame."

"Bold!" the county magistrate shouted.

Fang Yun looked at the county magistrate calmly and said nothing.

"If everyone is as bold as you, where is the law!"

"At least there will be fewer bastards robbing wives and daughters."

"Come here, take me to jail, wait until the case is found out and try again!"

Fang Yun was handcuffed and shackled, and taken into a dark prison.

No one came to ask for several days in a row, but after the third day, Captain Pang of the prison suddenly came with good wine and food, loosened Fang Yun's handcuffs and leg shackles, and placed tables and chairs in Fang Yun's cell.

"Mr. Fang, I haven't taken good care of you these days. I hope Haihan will. However, I haven't done anything bad to you because of my humble position. I'm just doing my duty faithfully. Don't be offended." Pang Bantou asked with a smile.

Fang Yun smiled slightly and said, "I don't understand what Pang Bantou means."

Pantou Pang coughed slightly and said: "That child bride in your family has a very special identity. She turns out to be a member of the Yang family, a wealthy family in the capital. The head of the old family is a great scholar. It is said that the Xiang family has completely collapsed, and someone will pick you up soon. go out."

Fang Yun looked at Pang Bantou in disbelief. After a while, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "We can't make a conclusion until the last moment."

Two days later, the imperial document came down, and the Yang family scholar used his military service in the Holy Academy to reduce his crime and fined Fang Yun for three years of hard labor.

Three years later, Fang Yun and Yang Yuhuan went to the capital to get married.

Five years later, Fang Yun and his wife returned to Ji County with their two-year-old son, and Fang's Trading Company was established.

Another year, Fang Yun was visiting Ji County and found a crow standing in front of a stone cave in Jiling Mountain. Fang Yun found it strangely and entered the cave, where he found an ownerless treasure, including various cultural treasures and sacred objects. Worth ten million taels of silver.

In the year 216 of the New Calendar, Fang Yun was thirty years old and became a famous businessman in Jingguo.

In these years, Fang Yun has encountered many things. Even if he is not a scholar, he still reads every day, strictly demands himself according to the standards of a scholar, and has self-discipline and self-respect.

In the autumn of the 226th year of the New Calendar, Fang Yun was studying in the study.

"Father! Please save the child!" Fang Yun's son Fang Zhixue suddenly broke into the study, fell to his knees, hugged Fang Yun's legs and cried loudly.

"Why are you so panicked?" The mature Fang Yun looked down at his son, his expression not changing at all.

Fang Zhixue said with tears: "I... I accidentally burned down the Liu family's house in the east gate. All three of their family died inside. Now the county government is probably looking for me. I hope my father can save me!"

Fang Yun's eyelids were drooped, and veins appeared in the hand holding the scroll. After a while, he said: "Did you just come from your mother's place?"

Fang Zhixue lowered his head, nodded, and said, "My mother just shed tears and said she couldn't help me, so she asked me to come to you."

"Oh? Did you really get the fever by mistake?" Fang Yun sat on the Taishi chair and looked down at his son kneeling below.

"Yes, father! The Liu family slandered me. In anger, I wanted to set fire to scare them, but I accidentally burned them to death."

"Well, then you go to the county office and I will follow you." Fang Yun stood up and said.

"Ah? People from the county government are looking for me." Fang Zhixue said.

Fang Yun scolded: "How can a distinguished scholar be so timid? I have been friends with County Magistrate Ji for many years. I will intercede for you and get you off the hook!"

"Thank you, father! Thank you, father!" Fang Zhixue burst into tears.

The two arrived at the county government office in a carriage. Fang Yun walked in. Magistrate Ji quickly came out to greet him and said with a smile: "Brother Fang is here in great numbers. Don't be surprised if you miss him from afar."

Fang Yun clasped his fists at Magistrate Ji and said: "Quan Zizhixue has committed a heinous crime. Although I am not a scholar, I will not cover it up. Please magistrate Ji to try the case fairly. If my son kills three members of the Liu family, he must pay with his life." !”

"You lied to me!" Fang Zhixue turned around and ran away.

Fang Yun said calmly: "Please ask County Magistrate Ji to arrest the suspect and bring him to justice."

"I'm offended." After Magistrate Ji finished speaking, he stopped Fang Zhixue with his sharp words.

Fang Zhixue knelt down with a plop and shouted loudly: "Father! Father! Save me, save me! You just need to write a letter and ask the great-grandfather of the great Confucianism to come forward and commute my death penalty just like he did back then. Father, I am you ’s son.”

"I killed those who deserved to be killed back then, and I will never spare those who deserve to be killed today! I'm sorry to bother Magistrate Ji." Fang Yun handed over his hands to Magistrate Ji and left expressionlessly.

"Father, father..." Fang Zhixue shouted.

Fang Yun got into the car without looking back. After entering the car, he seemed to be blinded by the sand and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.

Three days later, the trial of the case was completed. Fang Yun's son Fang Zhixue failed to rob a good woman, forcing a family of three to death. County Magistrate Ji sentenced Fang Zhixue to death in accordance with the law.

Fang Yun personally went to the victim's parents' house to plead guilty, buried the family of three, and was responsible for raising the elderly of the two families. No one resisted.

In the 228th year of the New Calendar, Fang Yun opened a clan school, and all the children of the Fang family in Dayuan Prefecture could learn in the clan school.

In the year 232 of the New Calendar, Fang's academies spread all over Jiangzhou and became the most affordable academies among all the academies in Jiangzhou. They even took care of all the expenses for outstanding students.

In the year 245 of the New Calendar, the head of the Yang family committed a major crime of treason, and the great scholar of the Yang family had passed away, and all the Yang family members became prisoners.

Fang Yun ignored suspicion and spent all his wealth running around to rescue the young, old, women and children of the Yang family.

In the spring of 248, the Yang family's political enemies, the Ai family, asked Fang Yun to sever his relationship with the Yang family. Fang Yunyan could draw a clear line with the head of the Yang family, but he would never sever his relationship with the Yang family.

The next year, Fang Yun was falsely accused of colluding with the head of the Yang family and was arrested and imprisoned. Because there were rumors that Fang Yun would be executed, Yang Yuhuan hanged himself to death.

In the 256th year of the New Calendar, when Fang Yun was seventy-one years old, the case of the great Confucian scholar of the Yang family was vindicated. It turned out to be a poisonous plot by a scholar who was against the family, and Fang Yun was released.

After being released from prison, Fang Yun operated secretly for ten years. At the age of eighty-one, he revealed the evidence of the Ai family's crimes, destroyed the Ai family, and avenged his beloved wife Yang Yuhuan and the hatred of seven years in prison.

The Fang family became famous and became one of the wealthy families in Jingguo. They had many children and grandchildren, so they made friends all over the world.

On his eighty-second birthday, Fang was lucky enough to receive twenty-year longevity fruit. Just as he was about to eat it in front of a house full of children and grandchildren, the concierge announced that someone was visiting, claiming to be an old friend of Jiling Mountain.

The old man Fang Yun immediately sat up and went out. He saw an old man in black with white beard and hair. This old man in black was tall and had clear eyes. There seemed to be a hint of hatred in his eyes.

The old man in black smiled slightly, covering up the hatred in his eyes, and said: "You have stolen my treasure from Jiling Mountain for many days, and you are willing to return it today."

Fang Yun was stunned, laughed loudly, and said: "You can take away the countless wealth of our Fang family, but you can't take away my Fang Yun's reputation, nor the thousands of students trained by Fang's Academy, let alone Hundreds of thousands of people in Jingguo have set up longevity tablets for me. This longevity fruit can also be yours." He threw the longevity fruit to the old man in black and returned to the bedroom with a smile.

That night, the eighty-two-year-old Fang Yun closed his eyes and passed away.

Fang Yun opened his eyes blankly and found himself standing on a piece of green grass, with blue sky and white clouds in the distance.

Fang Yun felt a slight pain in his head, and his heart was full of doubts. He had just entered the light gate of the Seventh Mountain, but it seemed like a lifetime had passed. His heart felt empty, as if he had lost something.

Fang Yun only felt wet and hot at the corners of his eyes. He stretched out his hand to wipe it, but there was nothing. Only then did he realize that he was just a mental thought and his body had not entered the mountain of books.

A strange voice suddenly sounded.

"Stupid scholar, stupid scholar, not even a scholar anymore, but his bones are still so hard! I will take your wife away from Xiang Wenxuan. If you don't move, you will regret it for the rest of your life. If you move, you should be ashamed. I never miss you." No. If you use the treasure as a trap to achieve your glory in life, and finally take away your wealth, you won’t give it up. It's greed. If you can't give up, it's love, but you actually gave up your son. It's unethical to protect him. If you don't protect him, you'll be heartbroken. You gave up your thoughts with a few tears. He still doesn't change his original intention when it comes to things like the Yang family. Such a hard-nosed scholar is disgusting! "

Listening to this voice, Fang Yun vaguely guessed a possibility, and all the doubts and inexplicable reluctance in his heart were put away with a smile.

"This matter is not over yet, I will still look for you! It's weird, I can clearly arouse people's deepest fear and reluctance, but why can't I make you give in? Weird! Weird! Weird!"

Fang Yun's eyes were shattered, and then he found that he was still standing on the seventh mountain.

"You can actually cross the Seventh Mountain?" Old Man Shushan appeared with curiosity in his eyes.

Fang Yun smiled and said, "Maybe it's luck. I don't know what was tested in Shushan. It's probably some fantasy."

"The seventh mountain is not an illusion, it is a mountain of books." The old man of Shushan looked melancholy.

"Oh?" Fang Yun said.

"Last time you entered Shushan, you have not forgotten the experience. Today is different. It doesn't matter if you say it." The old man in Shushan kicked the ground with his feet, and the ground cracked.

Fang Yun looked down and saw that there were books everywhere in the cracks, some old and new, some thin and some thick. A putrid smell emanated from the books, and some books even had traces of insect infestation.

Fang Yun frowned involuntarily, took a step back and said, "Is this true for all nine books mountains?"

"No, only the Seventh Mountain is." Old Man Shushan said.

Fang Yun said: "I just heard someone inside say that he will come to me again in the future. Can he really do it?"

Old Man Shushan smiled and said: "Every great scholar hates him to the core. Li Wenying went to the Holy Academy just to deal with him. You have to be careful in the future, I'm afraid he will find you when you become a great scholar. you."

"What is that?"

"Don't say it." Old Shushan shook his head.

Fang Yun stopped asking and looked towards the eighth mountain.

There is nothing between the Seventh Mountain and the Eighth Mountain. There is no rope bridge, no passage, only the strange wind that has turned into reality.

"How to get to the eighth mountain?" Fang Yun asked.

"You can walk when you can." Old Man Shushan disappeared.

Fang Yun walked to the edge of the seventh mountain, and after a little testing, he realized that without the literary courage of the second realm, it would be impossible to withstand the strange wind between the two mountains.