Madam, protect me!.

Chapter 98: Dao Heart Collapse
After the court meeting ended, Li Anning didn't even have time to change into his court robes and rushed back to the Ministry of Justice.

When I arrived at the Ministry of Justice prison, I saw Li Nuo lying comfortably on a soft couch covered with several layers of bedding.

A young and beautiful female prisoner stood by the bed, fanning herself vigorously with a fan in her hand.

In fact, Li Nuo didn't want to trouble others.

But after cleaning the cell, the girl found that Li Nuo had several mosquito bites on his body, and she offered to help him fan the mosquitoes.

Li Nuo solemnly told her that she was no longer a maid in the Li family, but she insisted on doing so.

Li Nuo couldn't persuade her, so he just let her do what she wanted.

He had long discovered that although this little girl looked weak, she was actually very stubborn and would stick to her own opinions.

This might be her way of alleviating the guilt she felt for hurting him indiscriminately last time.

Although Gu Yanran was sweating profusely from fanning herself, she was happy in her heart.

The young master didn't chase her away, which meant he didn't hold a grudge against her for what happened last time.

Just now when she came from the female prisoners' cell, she had heard that the young master was imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice because he had killed the son of a powerful and evil person.

While I admire the young master, I am also worried about him.

I wonder how the court will deal with him?
Li Nuo was lying on the soft bed, thinking about this question.

However, it was useless for him to think about it.

Even now, Li Nuo has no regrets.

At least, he can still lie here and enjoy the service of the former Li family maid.

Instead of becoming a cold corpse like Li Yuan.

"cough!"

Hearing a cough, Li Nuo sat up from the bed and saw a figure standing outside the cell.

The most eye-catching is a gorgeous phoenix crown, which is decorated with kingfisher phoenixes and hung with jeweled tassels. The various colored gems complement each other and shine brightly.

She was wearing a red palace dress embroidered with many beautiful patterns in gold thread, especially a phoenix on the hem of her skirt, which looked so lifelike that it seemed as if it was about to fly out of her body.

Li Nuo didn't know this noble girl.

Until he caught a glimpse of her bulging chest wrapped in her palace dress.

Oh.

Li Anning.

She changed her clothes and Li Nuo almost didn't recognize her.

It's not his fault. She usually wears the uniform of the Ministry of Justice, wears a simple ponytail, and has a big "Bu" character on her chest. She looks very abstinent, and Li Nuo is used to it.

Suddenly, she changed into gorgeous clothes, looked noble, elegant and dignified and appeared in front of him. Anyone would be stunned.

Li Anning glanced at the official from the Ministry of Justice beside him and said, "Open the door."

At the signal from the official from the Ministry of Justice, two jailers opened the cell door. Li Anning walked in and said to Li Nuo, "Let's go."

Li Nuo asked: "Where to?"

Li Anning rolled his eyes at him and said, "Of course I'm going home. What, are you addicted to living in the prison of the Ministry of Justice?"

This roll of her eyes is very spiritual.

The familiar Princess is back.

A moment later, Li Nuo walked out of the Ministry of Justice prison and learned from Li An Ning what had just happened in the hall.

He looked up at the sky above his head and couldn't help feeling emotional.

If someone commits a crime, he cannot punish him through legal means.

But you can kill him.

This world is really fucking magical.

Li An Ning said with some relief: "I thought that if I told everyone that you solved the Sifang Pavilion case, my brother would find an excuse to protect you. I didn't expect that in the end, it was still your father's golden medal that saved you from death..."

Li Nuo had nothing to say about this.

In fact, he didn't want to show his face in that case.

He hadn't done anything yet, but someone had already arranged eight warriors of the fourth realm just to take his life.

Eight people at the level of controlling objects are enough to kill a grandmaster. They really think highly of him.

Just because he is Li Xuanjing's son, some people want to tear him into pieces and try to kill him again and again.

In order to set up bait, they even massacred six innocent people.

If the mastermind behind the envoy case holds a grudge against him because of this, wouldn't that mean there would be another powerful enemy hiding in the dark?

However, he couldn't blame Li Anning, after all, she meant well.

Moreover, the situation was urgent and there was no other solution at the time.

Li Nuo clasped his fists to Princess An Ning and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Li Anning didn't say anything, and rolled her eyes at him as usual.

Li Nuo stood in the courtyard of the Ministry of Justice and took a deep breath.

This was Li Nuo's second time to the Ministry of Justice, but the feeling was completely different from the first time.

To be exact, he didn't feel anything the first time.

At that time, he had not yet entered the country.

But after entering the country and coming to the Ministry of Justice, the feeling was different.

Li Nuo could feel that many people in the Ministry of Justice exuded a friendly and familiar aura.

Looking at the detectives and bailiffs from the Ministry of Justice walking past him, Li Nuo roughly understood how Li An Ning felt about him.

Although they have not entered the country, they already have the aura of Legalism, which makes people feel very familiar.

Li Nuo stood in the courtyard of the Ministry of Justice.

The officials from the Ministry of Justice who passed by him all smiled and nodded to him.

Some detectives would even secretly give him a thumbs up.

Li An Ning looked at Li Nuo, a smile appeared on his lips, and he said: "How is it, our Ministry of Justice is not bad, right? You definitely can't go to Chang'an County Court to judge cases in the future. Do you want to come to our Ministry of Justice? Although you still can't judge cases, I will protect you. If you practice well with me, it will be no problem for you to advance to the second realm within three to five years..."

Li Nuo waved his hand and said, "No more repairs..."

Li Anning was stunned for a moment, and asked unsurely: "What are you not going to repair?"

Li Nuo said, "I won't practice Legalism anymore."

After studying Legalism for more than a month, he no longer had the ambition he had at the beginning.

Just now in the court, all the dignitaries tried their best to kill him.

The censors, perhaps out of kindness, sentenced him to three years in prison and exile 3,000 miles because they saw in him his fellow legalist.

I have to thank them.

Fortunately, there is a golden medal of immunity from death this time.

But there won’t be any next time.

Li Nuo didn't sleep well last night.

There were too many mosquitoes in the county government prison cell, and he was woken up many times by bites in the middle of the night. Later, he simply refused to sleep.

He wrapped himself in the quilt and thought for a long time.

As the son of the most treacherous villain in Da Xia, it was not easy for him to survive until now.

Assassinations happened every other day, and the killers became stronger and stronger, and the situations became more and more dangerous.

The life span that you have worked so hard to save is gone in an instant.

Two life-and-death crises in one day.

Maybe one day the goodbye I say to my wife before leaving home may be a farewell forever.

He was not one of those Legalist predecessors who were willing to die for their ideals.

He just wants to live well.

Hearing Li Nuo say this suddenly, Li An Ning was shocked and asked, "Why!"

Li Nuo sighed and said, "It's too difficult to be a law practitioner, and it's not easy..."

My father has too many enemies, and practitioners can certainly improve their cultivation and increase their ability to protect themselves.

But the path of cultivation is full of difficulties and is more dangerous than any other path.

After finally gathering evidence, we want to try a murderer who has committed numerous crimes, but we are unable to do so through legal means.

Redemption of sentence, official appointment, title, death-free gold medal...

They have so many ways to get away with a crime that the quickest way to deal with a murderer is to become a murderer yourself.

Li Nuo actually doesn't have any particularly lofty ideals. He died of overwork in his previous life, and now he has a chance to start over again. Why should he live so hard again?

It is enough to have a small home of your own, a beautiful wife, two lovely children, and live a comfortable life.

He didn't do anything, but countless people wanted him dead.

If you go against those big shots all day long, you will only make more and more enemies.

It's too difficult to become stronger on your own.

It’s not easy at all.

Rather than being self-reliant, he would rather cling to his wife's thighs.

My wife is so talented, so let her work hard on her cultivation.

Wait until she reaches the fifth or sixth level, and then I will stick to her every day.

She smells so good, and Li Nuo likes to stick to her.

If you want to live longer, you can also use gentle methods.

Being a small county magistrate or county lieutenant, trying small cases and dealing with daily disputes among the people every day, although his life span would increase a little slowly, it would still allow him to survive.

Li Anning was shocked when he saw Li Nuo’s decadent face. Could it be that his Taoism had collapsed?
When she first started practicing law, she faced this feeling of powerlessness and had moments of self-doubt.

She said quickly, "Don't, a real man, how can you give up when you encounter setbacks? Isn't it just killing a criminal who deserved to die? Many legalists have done the same thing as you. If the law is unjust and the court is incompetent, what's wrong with enforcing justice on behalf of heaven..."

Li Nuo asked, "What happened to those Legalist predecessors?" Li An Ning was stunned: "Uh..."

There were Legalist predecessors who did this, but they were almost all persecuted to death by the powerful.

But Li Nuo is different!

Your father is Li Xuanjing, and your royal brother Prince Chun treats you as his own son. What are you afraid of?
No, no, we must persuade him to come back!
Li An Ning grabbed Li Nuo's arm and advised earnestly: "We can't afford to offend the powerful, but we can at least hide from them. How about this, you come to the Ministry of Justice to investigate cases with me, and I will give you more cases. Although your cultivation will increase a little slower, it is better than not cultivating at all. Don't give up..."

Li Nuo didn't say anything else.

When Li An Ning and I walked out of the Ministry of Justice, Butler Wu's carriage was already waiting outside.

Seeing Li Nuo coming out, he smiled and said, "Young Master, let's go to Prince Chun's Mansion first. His Royal Highness Prince Chun said that he would host a welcoming party for Young Master in the mansion to get rid of the bad luck..."

Upon hearing this, Li An Ning immediately jumped onto the carriage and said, "I'll go too. It happens that I haven't been to my brother's place for a long time. The chef at Prince Chun's mansion has pretty good cooking skills..."

The chefs in Prince Chun’s mansion are indeed good cooks, but she is more worried about Li Nuo.

One is for the Legalists themselves.

Second, it’s for yourself.

Because most of them end up in a miserable situation, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to take the initiative to amend the law.

If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before the Legalist family's inheritance is completely cut off.

After so much difficulty in producing a promising newcomer, if he were to be discouraged and stop practicing law, how lonely would her future life be?
For both public and private reasons, she planned to persuade him again.

Since Prince Chun invited Li Nuo, he had to go.

If it weren't for Prince Chun, he would still be in the Ministry of Justice prison.

It is indeed necessary to thank people in person.

Li Nuo was about to get on the carriage when he suddenly felt something in his heart and looked towards the Ministry of Justice.

There is a small stall there.

This stall consists of a wooden table and a tattered banner with the words "Divine Calculation" written on it.

An old man with a white beard and a girl of about sixteen or seventeen were sitting behind the table.

This strange combination of old and young aroused Li Nuo's curiosity.

Among the various schools of thought, there is indeed a school called the Yin-Yang School.

The descendants of the Yin-Yang School have always been few and extremely rare.

Ninety-nine point ninety percent of the fortune tellers you see on the streets are charlatans.

A true Yin-Yang master can, through divination, seek good fortune and avoid misfortune to a certain extent.

This allows them to make the best decision when faced with choices.

Sometimes, whether you take your left foot or your right foot first when you go out, different choices represent different fortunes for the day.

Whether it is a small battle or a big war, the result can be calculated in advance through divination.

Of course, the more complex the calculation, the more profound the skills required.

In addition, Yin-Yang masters have a very special ability.

In addition to calculating fortunes, they can also calculate and even change a person's lifespan.

This is a very weird ability.

A normal person who is in good health and has no illness or disaster, if told by a Yin-Yang master that he will die within three days, then he will definitely die within these three days for some reason.

If a passerby on the street is told by a Yin-Yang master that he will not live more than half a year, then he will definitely not live more than half a year.

As the cultivation level becomes more advanced, the predictions of the Yin-Yang School will become more and more accurate.

A powerful Yin-Yang master can even accurately predict the time of death of others.

It seems that everything is destined.

At first glance, this seems magical, but when you think about it carefully, it is extremely terrifying.

How can we predict human life span?
A person's ending has been written from the moment he is born, and no matter what he does, it will not affect this ending.

All the efforts he made to change his fate were also written in his fate.

Just thinking about this kind of fatalism will produce a kind of powerless despair.

Although fate is not absolutely unchangeable, there are very few people who can defy fate.

From ancient times to the present, people have been very afraid of the Yin-Yang School.

This is a fear that comes from deep in the bones, far greater than the fear of other families.

It is recorded in books that a high-level Yin-Yang master can even deprive and transfer the lifespan of others.

But there are very few Yin-Yang masters who have reached a high level. For some unknown reason, once a Yin-Yang master breaks through to the seventh level, he or she will die in a very short time, and most of them die of madness.

It is generally believed that they were punished by God because they revealed too many secrets.

This resulted in even fewer people practicing Yin-Yang, and many descendants of Yin-Yang families gradually gave up this way.

Because what happened to him was so miraculous, Li Nuo was no longer considered an atheist.

But he still found it difficult to accept things like destiny.

After all, if his death was certain, what did the numbers in the Code mean?
What's the point of him running around every day, trying hard to prolong his life?
Not only Li Nuo was skeptical, but the white-bearded old man behind the fortune-telling stall was also skeptical.

How come after decades of practice, he's gotten better and better?

It was calculated the day before yesterday that the young man still has more than half a year to live.

It's only been two days and there are less than two months left?

How could there be such a strange fate!

He has been calculating his fortune for sixty years, and this is the first time he has encountered such a situation.

This caused his firm faith in the Tao to begin to become unstable.

After calming down, he decided to do another calculation.

Under the wooden table, his fingers trembled rapidly, and even afterimages appeared.

After a moment, the old man stopped what he was doing.

"Ha ha……"

There was a mocking look on his face.

This calculation adds three months to the previous one.

For the first time, he began to doubt the family tradition of Yin-Yang.

Feeling upset, the more he looked at the flag with the words "Divine Calculation" beside him, the more ironic he felt. He stood up, kicked it down, and said angrily, "Divine Calculation, calculate ...

In addition to anger, there was also a hint of fear in the depths of his eyes.

When Gao Jing, a Yin-Yang master, went mad and died, he began to doubt everything he had learned in his life.

However, his cultivation is far from this level...

at this time.

Ministry of Punishment.

In a government office, a middle-aged man stamped his official seal on a file and said coldly, "Hmph, what are the Seven Devils of Tianshan... Sooner or later, I will make you the Eight Ghosts of Tianshan!"

Outside the Ministry of Justice.

Li Nuo, who had just climbed onto the carriage, had a look of surprise on his face.

One hundred and fifty days.

This is his latest life span.

The number on the code has just increased by another hundred days.

Don't know why it was delayed for so long though.

But obviously, his killing of the fourth-level assassin brought him a hundred days of extra lifespan.

While Li Nuo was thinking, several detectives from the Ministry of Justice came with a bunch of portraits of sea detectives and pasted them on the wall outside the Ministry of Justice. They were the Seven Evils of Tianshan who tried to assassinate him.

Li Nuo seemed to understand something.

Could it be that the trial of a criminal of this level needs to be reviewed by the Ministry of Justice before it can take effect?

But no matter what, at least it means that he can get on the bus first and buy the ticket later.

If he had come to the Ministry of Justice at that time, perhaps Li Yuan would not have died.

Unfortunately, no if...

Li Nuo lifted the curtain and got into the carriage.

Li Anning had come in before him and sat on the same side with his wife.

The space in the carriage was already a bit small, so Li Nuo could only sit opposite them.

Normally, he and his wife actually sat face to face. Although their relationship was different from before, they had never been so close that they sat on the same side of the carriage.

But today's situation is a little special.

Because there was a third person in the carriage.

To outsiders, he and his wife are husband and wife and should sit on the same side.

Of course, it's just a seat, so there's no need to be so critical. The problem is...

There is no doubt that my lady and the princess are both first-class beauties.

Looking at each of them individually, we can only say that each of them has her own merits.

But when they sit side by side, the feeling given is not that one is fat and the other is thin, but that only Ning Dajia seems small.

Li Nuo could see that she was very unnatural.

Of course this is not my fault. Any normal woman would feel unnatural sitting side by side with Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Li Nuo couldn't bear to see his wife continue to suffer from Princess An Ning's torture, so he took the initiative to say, "Madam, please sit next to me."

As soon as Li Nuo finished speaking, Song Jiaren immediately changed her seat and sat with him.

Her expression didn't change, but she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)