The Glory After Rebirth [ɇÇ”Ÿä¹‹Å°Šè£] Chapter 16- 18

Chapter 16: The Crowd Were Burning with Rage

“Yeah, that’s it, so what?”

Maybe having been provoked by Ling Zhang’s calm reaction, Jia Yuanling said that even though he spoke difficultly with his bloody mouth.

“Now you admitted it.” Ling Zhang said, clenching his hands behind the back as he stared at Jia Yuanling fiercely.

Jia Yuanling laughed with his bloody mouth, which looked so disgusting. He sneered, “Do you think you can convict me according to these men’s words?”

“Why can’t I? Remember that you are kneeling on the court now,” Ling Zhang said coldly.

“Cough, hah, hah, hah…” Jia Yuanling spat out blood. He looked at Ling Zhang and jeered, “Do you believe Tao Feng can destroy our Jia Family? You must be dreaming!”

“Young master!” The butler of Jia Family shouted to stop Jian Yuanling before other people reacted. He was so scared after hearing that and came out in cold sweat.

“Why did you shout to me?” Jia Yuanling suddenly turned his head and cast a stern glance at the butler. He said angrily, “You, you useless thing, didn’t know to protect me when I was beaten. When my Godfather comes, he will strip your skin off.”

“Yuanling!” Even Mrs. Fang was shocked this time. To gloss over his words, she scolded Jia Yuanling hurriedly, “What nonsense are you talking about?”

Tang Feng sat in the front of court and his face turned so dark. He looked at Mrs. Fang, the coldness in his eyes made her blood freeze.

“Godfather? You dare to regard Zhang Chong as your Godfather,” Ling Zhang said to Jia Yuanling.

“Does it surprise you? I allow you to follow me because I pity you. Do you really think you are the exalted person in Tan Yang? You are just a lowly orphan. Do you believe your grandfather who is going to die can support you? Damn, your Ling Family should be clear about your own place. How dare you block Jia Family’s way? How dare you convict me? Stop daydreaming!” Jia Yuanling shouted crankily.

Everyone in the court was shocked by Jia Yuanling’s arrogant behaviour. People who watched outside were talking about that loudly again.

Ling Zhang seemed to be overwhelmed with indignation. But he wanted to laugh in his heart.

Because he got a glimpse of his Second Uncle and another middle-aged man with official uniform. They were in the crowd and would come over soon.

The timing was excellent. Before he came up with a plan to trap Jia Family, Jia Yuanling had offered an excellent excuse for them.

“It seems that I was right at the beginning. Jia Family has already despised the government and the law like this because Zhang Chong is Jia Yuanling’s Godfather. Jia Yuanling, as long as our Great Yue dynasty exists, no one can defy the law in the court unless he wants to rebel!”

The middle-aged man, who almost walked into the court, halted his step upon hearing Ling Zhang’s words. His face changed a little.

Jia Yuanling’s face also changed. He stared long at Ling Zhang.

“Since you said that we would get into terrible trouble after Commander Zhang came, I also want to see if Zhang Chong is so powerful and unruly that he controls everything. In front of Tan Yang’s people, everything is exposed openly. I wander whether Zhang Chong dares to destroy the truth, break the law and do whatever he wants to!”

“I guess he would kill us all or besiege Tan Yang with soldiers so that no one can leave! If he really does that, I won’t be scared. But I don’t need to do anything. Because government army will do justice for us!” Ling Zhang said aloud.

The whole yamen was silent. No one dared to make a noise.

“Right. I also want to see it.” Tao Feng broke the silence and said slowly.

“Yes. We also want to see it!”

“Does he dare to kill us all or what?”

“I always respect Prefecture Guards. But I never knew that Jia Family dared to be so arrogant because his son regarded its commander as Godfather. Is it still the Prefecture Guards that I respect?”

After the silence, it turned noisy. The crowd were yelling and burning with rage.

A team of soldiers rode their horses quickly and finally arrived at the door of yamen. They heard those words as soon as they closed there. The leader’s face was clouded suddenly.

Chapter 17: Commander of the Prefecture Guards-Zhang Chong

“My commander, how could this be?”

Having raised his hand to stop the subordinate’s words, Zhang Chong walked into the yamen with a long face.

“Here come the prefecture guards!” Someone with sharp eyes shouted.

People who had been yelling angrily all calmed down, and turned around to look at Zhang Chong with their eyes full of hatred and suspicion.

The guard beside Zhang Chong couldn’t help pressing the weapon he carried with his hand, and got uptight all over.

Zhang Chong also noticed even the middle-aged man in official uniform who was standing beside Ling Zhaowen looked at him with inquiry and hesitation.

Even the magistrate who had been bribed by him showed such a look, Zhang Chong thus soon realized the situation had changed dramatically. All of these people had come for him.

As for the man who had contributed to such a consequence……

Zhang Chong spotted Ling Zhang who was standing in the courtroom. He glanced at Ling Zhang with his eyes revealing sharp light.

His ugly face and the scar stretching from his frontal angle to the corner of his mouth made him look ferocious.

Ling Zhang, the guy who was lukewarm to the extent of being flabby?

No, he didn’t have such an easy manner.

Fixing his eyes on Ling Zhang tightly, Zhang Chong led his soldiers straight into the courtroom, and the atmosphere there got tenser.

Ling Zhang stood there steadily, not a bit intimidated by Zhang’s look.

“Commander Zhang, we juniors have been waiting for you to come.”

“Really? Why?”

The air Zhang Chong presented made a lot of people present change their complexions. Those who had been filled with indignation just now didn’t dare to breathe at the moment.

However, Ling Zhang still stood there firmly. With the status of being a scholar, Ling didn’t give a salute even when he met Tao Feng, let alone Zhang Chong who was the commander of the Prefecture Guards, and the official rank of whom was even one level inferior to Tao’s.

Looking at Zhang Chong calmly, Ling said word by word slowly, “Jia Yuanling fornicated with a concubine of his father. After the adultery, he framed me up, but thanks to the fact that he was exposed on the spot, this junior was not put in the wrong. I was so angry that I decided to sue Jia. With the eyewitness and physical evidence all available, and he himself admitted as well, Jia claimed that he wouldn’t be convicted even we took him to court, because you would not only make sure that he is safe but also make all of us suffer. Commander Zhang, may I ask whether it is true or not?”

After Ling Zhang finished his words, all people present turned their eyes on Zhang Chong.

Kneeling on the ground of the court, Fang’s eyelids twitched, and she hurried to explain, “No, No, No, that’s not what my son meant…….”

“My Godfather! Here you are at last. Save me! These men tried to convict me!”

Jia Yuanling shouted to interrupt his mother. And he now took Zhang as a life-saving straw. He staggered over, and grabbed Zhang’s leg.

Zhang Chong’s face looked as black as the bottom of a pot. Looking at Jia Yuanling, Zhang verged on lifting his foot to kick Jia away directly.

Such an idiot!

He hurried over in vain as the idiot went so far as to ask for his own death!

But Zhang Chong was far more restrained than these members of Jia’s family. He spoke to his soldiers calmly, “Somebody, come and pull Jia Yuanling away!”

“Yes, Sir!” Two soldiers pulled Jia Yuanling away quickly, which led Jia to look at Zhang in disbelief, “My Godfather?!”

“I’m just too disappointed! I took you as my godson because I saw you were always honest and strict with yourself, but I didn’t imagine you would do such an immoral thing. You have the courage to frame others, but don’t have the courage to bear the consequence, do you? Are you daydreaming that I will get you off? Don’t kid yourself! I, Zhang Chong, is an honest man. I hate people like you the most in my life!”

“No, godfather! You can’t just leave me away! Haven’t you said that you are the emperor in Tang Yang……”

“Shut up!”

Even before Jia finished his words, he was suddenly kicked in the chest violently by Zhang Chong, and thrown away, spitting out a mouthful of blood!

“Ling!” Fang screamed.

Chapter 18: The Judgement

Zhang Chong kicked with great strength, and Jia Yuanling was kicked off into the air and knocked against the pillar in the court immediately!

The blood he spitted spilled everywhere. Jia Yuanling couldn’t believe Zhang Chong would treat him this way. He glared at Zhang tightly, and said, “My godfather.”

“My son! Oh, God, My son!” Fang almost fainted from crying.

Zhang Chong’s violent action quelled many people, whose hatred and suspicion were replaced by fear, and they got silent in a flash.

After kicking, Zhong Chong withdrew his foot. He got quite satisfied that he had dominated these people. He swept around with swift and fierce eyes, disdain in them when he noticed Ling Zhang and Ling Shaowen.

“Lord Tao, the unfilial guy should be punished for his mistakes. I can’t allow anything objectionable as this, but my action has exceeded my duties and meddled in your affairs, so Lord Tao, I beg your forgiveness.” Zhang Chong said with his face looked even more ferocious.

“Commander Zhang, you just overstated! Since there is no objection, I’ll enter a judgement over the case of Jiang Yuanling framing Ling Zhang, the Xiucai (one who passed the imperial examination at the county level),” said Tao Feng.

“My godfather……please save me……” Struggling to make a sound, Jia Yuanling intended to crawl over.

“Commander Zhang, please save my Ling! He just said wrong words, and I apologized for him. But please, please save him from ruin.” Fang turned around to make kowtows to Zhang Chong.

“Commander Zhang, you can’t be softhearted, can you?” Ling Zhaowen who was standing together with Ling Zhang said.

“Are you looking down upon me by saying so?” Zhang Chong’s face turned cold, looking even more fierce.

Not afraid of him, Ling Zhaowen wore the expression of waiting and seeing what would happen.

“I know people in Tanyang have some misunderstanding about me. You can rest assured that I, Zhang Chong, am by no means the kind of person who practices favoritism and fraud. Please don’t let a word or two from others shake your trust in Prefecture Guards.” Zhang turned around to speak to the people outside.

Then he turned back, and said to Tao Feng, “Lord Tao, you just make your own judgement, and I won’t say a word about it.”

“Well, you got my admiration,” said Tao Feng, who then declared Jia Yuanling and others guilty at once.

Jia Yuanling was sentenced to 20 years of exile for 3,000 Li away, and the other four received varying punishments respectively.

Jia Yuanling gasped heavily for breath, and his chest heaved violently out of wrath before he fainted.

Having witnessed the scene, Fang rolled her eyes, and got fainted too.

The servants of Jia’s family got so flustered, and didn’t know what to do totally.

Once the judgement was made, there would be no way to change it.

“You’re wise, my lord,” Ling Zhang said. “You’re just wise and upright, and it is fortunate for people in Tanyang to have you here.”

“Thank you, my lord, for upholding justice for us,” Ling Zhaowen said too.

“Wise, my lord!” someone outside shouted, and then many people echoed loudly.

Tao Feng’s reputation got very high for the moment, and those guests who followed him to testify looked at each other before they joined in speaking highly of Tao too.

Zhang Chong’s expression turned stern, and he and Tao Feng looked at each other in the courtroom.

When the court was dismissed, Zhang Chong turned to look at Ling Zhang suddenly.

The expression in his eyes was full of coldness and maliciousness, like a murderous wolf wanting to tear apart Ling Zhang.

Although it was fleeting, and the people next to him hardly noticed, Ling Zhang still made out the homicidal intent of Zhang Chong.

Ling Zhao looked at him calmly as it was inevitable to come into conflict with Zhang, and he had already got prepared psychologically for this.

Just a murderous gaze didn’t matter much, and what he wanted was Zhang Chong’s life.

He didn’t forget how dozens of people in Ling family had lost their lives before his rebirth.