"Master, General Zhang wants to see you." A servant came over.
Cheng Dalei was chatting with Cui Baiyu and waved his hand: "Let him come in."
"General Zhang looks like..." The servant hesitated to speak.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Dalei frowned: "Don't you dare to see people?"
The servant had no choice but to withdraw from the announcement, and soon Zhang Fei's loud voice sounded outside.
"Where is the great master? Where is the great master?"
A stout man walked into the study. Seeing his appearance, Cheng Dalei was also startled. After a while, he actually laughed angrily at him.
Cui Baiyu and the other four girls hurriedly covered their eyes and turned their heads to the side.
I saw Zhang Fei with his upper body bare and a thorn stick on his back. After walking in, he knelt down and said in a loud voice: "This subordinate is guilty, please punish me."
Cheng Dalei sighed helplessly: "Come on, come on, get up and talk."
"If the master doesn't punish you, your subordinates won't dare to get up."
"Okay." Cheng Dalei said with a straight face: "If you play this trick in front of me, if you don't get up, I won't just punish you."
Zhang Fei then stood up and stood in front of Cheng Dalei like a black iron tower. Cheng Dalei really couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "That's how you came all the way here."
"OK."
"Who taught you to do this?"
"Yes..." Zhang Fei paused: "This subordinate knew his guilt and came here specifically to plead guilty to the boss."
"Come on." Cheng Dalei shouted: "Come on, tell me the truth, are you really a fool for treating me like a master?"
Although Zhang Feimeng is fierce, he does not lack brains. However, his character is really not suitable for playing tricks. The trick of asking for forgiveness is not something he came up with. It's not that he can't think of it, but he doesn't think about it.
Seeing Cheng Dalei's attack, Zhang Fei had to admit: "My eldest brother taught me to do it."
"Liu Bei, Liu Bei." Cheng Dalei tapped his hand on the table and sighed softly.
There are some sensible people under Cheng Dalei. Maybe Liu Bei pulled Zhang Fei and said a few words, you made a big mistake, the boss won't punish you, it's to give you face. But you can't be shameless, go and find it obediently
If the boss apologizes and keeps his posture low enough, then he can turn a big problem into a small one and make it a trivial matter.
Cheng Dalei glanced at Zhang Fei and said, "Take it off, it's so uncomfortable."
"Master, Sun Xiaomao deserves his punishment, but after all, we are brothers who fought together. Please let him go. Zhang Fei is willing to demote himself to three levels in exchange for his life."
Cheng Dalei rolled his eyes at him and understood in his heart that the fat apology was fake, but the plea for Sun Xiaomao was genuine.
"I can allow you to demote yourself to level three."
"Thank you, Master..." Zhang Fei's face was filled with joy, but Cheng Dalei told him to shut up with his next words.
"But can I get that girl's innocence in exchange?"
Cheng Dalei walked out of the desk, came to Zhang Fei, and took off the thorns from his body one by one. He saw that his back was tortured to a bloody pulp. He was really a tough man. With such wounds on his back, he could still talk and laugh freely.
Cheng Dalei waved and asked Xiaolu to get one of his robes and put it on Zhang Fei.
"Master, I..."
Cheng Dalei patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, why did you and I get together? To avoid some cowardice, so we just raised the flag of rebellion and refused to obey the king's law. Isn't it different today?
Yesterday, we were no longer a group of bandits in Qingniu Mountain. Today, my brothers have a share in the world no matter what. Even if the princes of that family point their noses at us and call us bandits, they will give us some credit in their hearts.
"
"To be able to get to where we are today, we must remember that my deceased brother also contributed a lot, and another part of the credit belongs to Brother Zhang. However, now that we are not bullied by others, it does not mean that we will just turn around and bully others.
That girl was innocent and suffered such misfortune. If you had a girl, what would you do?"
Zhang Fei remained silent.
Cui Baiyu frowned and glanced at Cheng Dalei. Everyone in the world said how heinous Cheng Dalei was, but they didn't expect him to say such a thing.
Cheng Dalei waved his hand and said: "Okay, go ahead, go ahead. Whether Third Brother listens to my words or not, they are all Cheng's words from the bottom of his heart. I know there are still many people coming to beg for mercy today. I
Wait here and I will talk to them one by one."
Zhang Fei left sadly, and Cheng Dalei sighed, feeling tired again. He sat back at the desk and drank the herbal tea in the cup.
Cui Baiyu felt that this scene seemed familiar, as if his father often sat alone, motionless for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.
Cui Baiyu paused and said boldly: "Actually, this matter doesn't require killing people. You can give the sufferer a sum of money. As long as the amount is large enough, they will not continue to make trouble, and they may even feel happy.
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Cheng Dalei raised his eyes and glared at her: "Then what's the difference between me and people like you?"
Cui Baiyu was stunned, suddenly feeling dumbfounded. Cheng Dalei actually stood on the moral high ground and despised himself, Hey, you are a bandit, what right do you have to despise us?
Cui Baiyu didn't speak, but suddenly remembered something. The Prime Minister's Mansion has great influence in Jingzhou, and there are inevitably some dandy boys in the Mansion. They take the girls on the street and take them home, and only give out a few taels of silver afterwards. This is considered a good thing.
Yes, it is not uncommon for some family members to be beaten to death with sticks if they disobey.
Growing up in this kind of environment, Cui Baiyu's view of good and evil was actually very vague. It was only at this moment that she felt: maybe these things were not right at all.
I still remember that spring was beautiful that year, and the roses were blooming outside the city of Chang'an. When I got angry, I would go outside the city to enjoy the flowers. It happened that there was an ignorant woman cutting pigweed here, and I only showed a little bit of the impatience that had disturbed my temper.
The servants then beat the woman up and left him clean. In fact, he didn't care what happened to the woman.
These may not be correct.
His clothes were soaked with sweat. Cui Baiyu had never thought about the principles of the world in this way. He only believed that a big fist was the principle. But this should not be the principle of heaven and earth.
Retaliation for retaliation. If you agree with this principle, then if you fall into Cheng Dalei's hands today, where does your hatred and anger come from?
At this time, noisy crying came from outside, interrupting Cui Baiyu's thoughts.
Cheng Dalei frowned: "What happened outside?"
The servant who was waiting came over and said, "Master, Sun Xiaomao's wife is here."
Cheng Dalei put his hand on his forehead and felt a little headache. Sun Xiaomao's father died in the war, leaving this old mother alone in the family.
"Master, do you want to stay away? This old man is not easy to mess with?"
Cheng Dalei took a deep breath: "What should you avoid? Go out and take a look."