Chapter 386: Anger!
# 386. Anger!
Rays of sunlight filtered through the bars into the dark and dreary prison, lighting up dust motes in the air.
Xu Qi’an stood there for a long time. Then, deciding he could not let Sir Zheng remain this way, he entered the cell and cut him down.
The corpse retained only a trace of warmth—he had been dead for some time.
Outside the cell, the High Court Deputy Justice wailed uncontrollably.
Xu Qi’an, however, did not feel particularly sorrowful. He merely thought that all in all, this was a form of release.
On the journey back to the capital from Chuzhou, he had watched as the scholar’s once-straight spine gradually bent, his figure growing ever more hunched.
He was exhausted. Burdened by the lives of 380,000 commoners, he dared not allow himself a moment’s rest. For as soon as he did, the suffocating tide of guilt would inevitably surge forth.
"Why did you do this to yourself? You were just a civil official without the strength to truss a chicken—you could accomplish nothing. Those 380,000 commoners never asked you to avenge them."