Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 233: Brief Historical Facts
Lu Zheng looked at the person who spoke and smiled, "It's okay, these people can't hurt me."

Some men in black breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. If something happened to Lu Zheng, it would be difficult for them to go back and explain.

The guard asked again, "Mr. Lu, can you tell me what happened here?"

As he spoke, the guard took out a token and gently threw it to Lu Zheng to identify himself.

Lu Zheng took the token, looked at it, and returned it.

Then, Lu Zheng took out the Taishi Jian and unfolded it.

I saw some words appear on one of the jade slips.

Lu Zheng had previously studied the Taishi Jian and discovered that this document also had the function of recording events.

He looked at the Taishi Jian and read slowly, "On the ninth day of the eighth month of the year, the remaining men of Hongzhou, along with the Chen and Zhao families... assassins in the city, and the Wu Kingdom's death squads, joined forces to assassinate Lu Zheng. Lu Zheng fought back and killed them all."

Lu Zheng took another closer look and said, "I don't know exactly which families these are. Please report this to Lord Su and ask him to investigate carefully. Don't mistakenly identify families with the same surname... Also, if they were able to team up with the Wu Kingdom's assassins to assassinate the An Kingdom scholar, there might be more to the story. We must investigate thoroughly."

Everyone was shocked and suspicious when they saw this. It's not good to accuse someone of such a crime just by muttering something on a bamboo scroll, right?

A man in black suddenly spoke up, "Mr. Lu, how could you accuse these families of such a serious crime right out of the blue? Who knows if you killed people out of anger?"

Lu Zheng turned his head slightly and said calmly, "Do you have any objections?"

"Just stand up and say something fair." said the man in black.

Lu Zheng held the Taishi Jian and said leisurely, "This is a historical record of literary artifacts. Everything recorded in it is historical fact!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. There are historical books and historical records in the world that can become the history of literary artifacts. The content in them must be true, and even saints cannot change them.

"How is this possible? How could you have something like this?" Some people couldn't believe it.

How could an ordinary scholar have such a literary instrument?

Moreover, the historical facts recorded in it are things that have just happened.

Lu Zheng said calmly, "This tablet is a literary artifact made by me, the Wen Palace. How could it be fake if it was made by the Wen Palace? Since you don't want to believe it, how about you come with me to the Wen Temple to verify its authenticity?"

After this was said, no one dared to say anything more even if they had doubts.

How could someone with something to hide dare to go to the Confucian Temple?
Lu Zheng handed the Imperial History Book to Su Ming's personal guards, "Please show this to Lord Su."

Seeing this, the guards came up to Lu Zheng and respectfully took the Taishi Jian with both hands. "I will return this to Master Lu as soon as possible."

After saying that, the guard flew away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Soon, there was a noise on the street and guards came quickly.

Seeing this, some men in black retreated.

In just a few breaths, only two men in black remained here.

Both of them revealed their identities and were Su Ming's subordinates.

Lu Zheng thought that Su Ming really cared about his safety and actually sent several people secretly.

One person said, "We will stay here to prevent those villains from offending Master Lu again... Those who left before were not all ours."

Lu Zheng sat down on a step and said, "I understand. I'll trouble you for a quarter of an hour or two so I can catch my breath."

After saying that, Lu Zheng put away his weapon, swallowed the pill, and began to regulate his breathing to recover.

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

Yun Xiao walked in from outside and was surprised to see the scene in the yard.

"Hiss, judging from the situation, you did this alone?"

Yun Xiao had long anticipated that Lu Zheng would encounter a disaster, but he did not expect it to come so soon, and that he would have to deal with it alone.

He glanced at the charred marks and asked, "Did you just use thunder magic?"

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "The thunder technique that the Taoist priest sold me was just a minor spell. How could it be so powerful? Someone must have used a spiritual talisman... But thanks to the Taoist priest's thunder technique, I learned a little bit and became somewhat immune. That thunder didn't kill me."

Yun Xiao observed carefully and said, "You are not dead. I am afraid it is not because of my thunder magic. You are not injured at all. You must have a good treasure."

Upon hearing this, Lu Zheng smiled but said nothing.

Yun Xiao smiled and said, "I have an even better thunder technique. Do you want to learn it? You're fine even after being struck by lightning. You're a real talent! I'll sell it to you at a low price. It's a genuine high-level thunder technique!"

Lu Zheng couldn't help but ask: "How much?"

"Twenty thousand spirit stones," Yun Xiao gestured. "Don't think it's too expensive. This is a secret that can't be passed down!"

Lu Zheng smiled softly and said, "Since it's a secret that can't be passed on, why did you pass it on to me?"

Yun Xiao sat aside and said slowly: "Our relationship is not considered a side story! The main thing is that ordinary people can't learn it, and I won't sell it to others."

"Let's talk about it later." Lu Zheng said, "I've been busy lately and don't have time to learn any advanced thunder techniques."

High-level thunder magic sounds difficult to learn. He has too many things to do now and has no time to be distracted.

"Hey, you really have so many spirit stones!" Yun Xiao said with wide eyes.

Lu Zhengdao: "Master, your focus is really different. I mean, I will bargain with you later."

Yun Xiao curled his lips and thought that Lu Zheng must have so many spirit stones.

But he didn't say anything more, and instead said, "You've made a big fuss about this."

Even if Lu Zheng has some historical facts, other families may not believe it.

They'd just think this was a warning to others, and if things went wrong, it would cause a huge mess. "I was just defending myself. I can't just stand there and let them kill me, right?" Lu Zheng said slowly.

"That's true." Yun Xiao nodded slightly. "Your strength is beyond my expectations. I was planning to sell you some healing elixirs."

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Why didn't you sell it to me before? Did you want to wait until I got hurt so you could raise the price?"

"That's right. It's better to help someone in need than to add icing on the cake!" Yun Xiao coughed dryly. "Didn't those who secretly protect you also not take action?"

Outside, there was a commotion; the guards were already arresting the Yu family.

Yun Xiao stood up slowly and said, "Let's go. I didn't do anything for you. I just came to see you... You two can testify that I will not go to your provincial government office."

As he spoke, Yun Xiao floated away.

Lu Zheng glanced sideways and found that a bottle of pills had appeared beside him.

……

Outside the provincial government office, there was a long queue of people coming to appeal for justice.

Even Su Ming did not expect that so many people with grievances would come.

He also asked someone to find out that these people came to the provincial government to report the case not because he, Su Ming, was going to try the case personally.

But the people believed that Lu Zheng would make the decision for them.

After all, everyone has witnessed what Lu Zheng has done.

Su Ming couldn't help but review these cases with indescribable complicated feelings.

After handling a case, someone hurriedly came with the Taishi Jian to report.

Su Ming looked at the contents on the bamboo slips, his expression stiffened. This was indeed a piece of historical records of cultural relics, and what was recorded in it was historical facts.

"Is this the literary artifact manifested by Lu Zhengwen Palace?" Su Ming asked in surprise.

The guard whispered, "That's what Master Lu said."

Su Ming took a look and murmured, "It has his aura. It's incredible. With this artifact, he can even go to the court to serve as an imperial censor..."

The literati who served as censors in the Anguo court did not necessarily have their own literary and historical documents.

Su Ming took another look at it and handed the Taishijian back to his guards. "Return it. Send someone to investigate thoroughly... I'm afraid these families are spies planted by the Wu State."

"Yes, sir." The guards quickly retreated.

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"Failed, what did you do?"

When Yang Heng heard the report, he couldn't believe it at all.

The visitor was trembling with fear and whispered all the information he had found out.

Yang Heng's face turned grim. "He was alone, and you sent out more than ten people, and all of them died? You..."

Yang Heng was speechless.

"He is not an ordinary scholar..." the visitor whispered.

Yang Heng glared and said, "Don't I know? Don't you know? Who doesn't know? Asking you to do something... you are such a bunch of losers! Even if people from the third and fourth realms join forces, they can't kill him. Do you want me to ask someone from the fifth realm? Can he be that powerful?"

Yang Heng felt a headache. Could it be that Lu Zheng still had the protection of a saint? Otherwise, how could he kill so many people?

However, no one except Lu Zheng knew the details of what happened at the scene.

"I've let you investigate for so long, and yet you still can't even fathom the other party's strength... Now, those families have been exposed!"

Yang Heng was furious. "You guys can't handle it. Now that things have gotten this far, I'm afraid those Hongzhou families won't dare to do anything. Haha, what's this? Are we trying to build momentum for him?"

Yang Heng laughed out of anger, feeling that Lu Zheng was his nemesis, always ruining his plans.

The man whispered, "Perhaps, we can add more fuel to the fire and let the Anguo people deal with him."

Yang Heng glanced at him and said calmly, "What do you want?"

The visitor said, "Even if we don't do this, the government will find out something. Of course, we did underestimate Lu Zheng... Since things have come to this, let's drag some of the Hongzhou families into this and make them bear the accusation of treason."

"We fanned the flames, helped him, and lifted him up to the top, only to have him fall harder."

Yang Heng remained silent.

After a while, Yang Heng asked, "Are you sure he can fall down?"

The visitor's expression froze slightly, and he sighed, "I can't see through it, but it's better than sitting and waiting to die. Those families have become abandoned pawns."

Yang Heng's mouth twitched and he was speechless.

After a long moment, Yang Heng said expressionlessly, "Well, go ahead and do it! Do your job well. This time, I'm not asking you to go out and kill people. If you can't do this well, you'll be of no use."

"There will definitely be no mistakes!" the visitor said hurriedly.

Yang Heng waved his hand, signaling the other party to go out.

After the others left, Yang Heng looked towards a place and said in a deep voice, "Go and prepare. I'm leaving Hongzhou."

A figure flashed and disappeared quickly.

Yang Heng was in a complicated mood. He didn't want to care about the affairs of Hongzhou anymore. If he stayed any longer, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape.

(End of this chapter)