Chapter 353: Chapter 302: Good Deeds Are Rewarded
Du Chengfeng’s well-intentioned release failed as expected.
The local nobles didn’t even want to see him; they didn’t care for his so-called gifts— or perhaps, they didn’t need to accept such gifts, as they could just let him die in prison and keep all of his belongings.
After confirming that the giant had no intention of resisting, the guards became even more arrogant, as if they had really conquered the giant.
But it was only as if; they tried to torture the giant, yet even after wearing out the tools in the interrogation room, the giant was unharmed.
So they could only imprison the giant. Nevertheless, being able to lock him up already signified their victory, and once everyone agreed on how to handle the spoils, they would take the giant to be beheaded.
In front of the cell door, Du Chengfeng could easily tear it open, but he just stared at the sturdy bars, lost in thought.
"Did I really get it wrong?"
With nothing to do in prison, Du Chengfeng began to ponder life.
He had clearly released as much goodwill as possible, yet he was still imprisoned. Could it be that the people in this world just couldn’t feel his kindness?
"It doesn’t make sense, everything was fine before..."
Du Chengfeng started to scratch his head.
Things were indeed fine before, whether when he first arrived at Yang Family Fortress or while trekking and battling on the road. Perhaps he did kill some people, but he always restrained his urge to act and tried his best to maintain his kindness.
After all, that’s what he learned.
To be a polite and good person, that’s what he was taught since childhood— that if you are kind to others, others will also be kind to you. This was repeated countless times— although, practically, this idea might not be entirely correct, but there was no choice, he had been educated to be such a person.
Without strength, he would strive for a sense of security, and once he had strength and ensured his own safety, he would immediately return to this kind state. That’s also why he’s always said that he’s a pacifist, because he truly is that kind of person.
"Maybe it’s just because I used to encounter good people."
With a sigh, Du Chengfeng could only understand it this way.
If when he first came to this world, he had met some vicious lunatic, he might have indeed grown to become a bloodstained person who no longer trusts others, but when he first came to this world, what he met was the kind-hearted old carpenter Li. With such a kind-hearted elder brother there, it was also difficult for him to commit any evil.
If thought this way, it’s understandable why Desert City treated him like this.
This place was already filled with bandits and chaos, even the guards guarding the city were vicious-looking, naturally, the people here would be influenced as well... As the saying goes, near vermilion one becomes red, near ink one becomes black. People here inherently don’t trust kindness, so how could anyone appreciate his good nature?
Du Chengfeng didn’t expect that there actually were people who appreciated his goodness.
And these kinds of people weren’t few.
Although people in Desert City were quite fearful of the giant who came to deliver food, even reluctant to open their doors for him, after hearing that he was captured, quite a few actually felt some sympathy— mainly because they couldn’t quite understand why this giant was captured when it seemed he hadn’t done anything wrong.
Willing to bring them food as a gift, surely this was a good person. Actually, even if they didn’t accept this food, the people in Desert City had no objection to the giant’s desire to stay, especially after knowing he was captured, they were even more sure of one thing.
Which was, the giant was very law-abiding.
The city guards and those guards’ abilities were known by the locals; despite their usual swagger with swords and knives, when it really came to confrontation, they couldn’t even handle the bandits outside— but everyone heard that the band of bandits, reputed as Desert God, was taken down by this giant alone, and those foodstuffs were the reward from the city guards to the giant.
Even though the guards concealed the news, the locals weren’t blind; they had their own channels of information especially when intentionally trying to understand.
Yet this giant, capable of fighting proficiently, was captured by a group of incompetent city guards. The giant, who could overpower dozens of them alone, still got captured by these incompetents— this sufficiently showed the giant’s integrity, his willingness to adhere to the law, to solve matters kindly, even choosing to comply when he could have fought back against the guards and escaped.
"Such a good big guy, what’s the harm in letting him stay?"
Facing the guards’ interrogation, the elderly woman continued to speak.
"Having such a person as a neighbor makes for a calmer sleep at night, at least no reckless bandits would sneak over in the middle of the night... so what’s all this about? How did you manage to catch a good person?"
"I..."
The leading guard was at a loss and couldn’t think of how to respond to this reasoning for a while.
"We, we suspect he’s an enemy spy, a scout sent by the bandits."
After hesitating for a while, the guards came up with a plausible reason, but clearly, this reason didn’t hold much water— a bandit scout taking down the largest bandit group outside instead, was this reasoning testing everyone’s intelligence?
"Release him!"
Perhaps feeling humiliated, a local resident shouted first.
Soon followed the second, the third.
"Release him! Release him!"
"On what grounds are you capturing a good person!"
"Release him! Release him! Release him!"
Facing the increasingly loud chants, encountering the growing crowd, these few guards quickly felt sweaty, hastily fleeing back.
But this, was merely just the beginning.
Wu Zhao over there also noticed this change, but he was still busy with his own matters, being that quite a few already chose to comply, teaching some basic combat knowledge was inevitable— one must let these people grasp some military power, otherwise they’d end up like Du Chengfeng getting taken by the local conservatives; he wouldn’t make such a blunder.
But just as Wu Zhao began teaching again, he found that quite a few people were absent from today’s lesson.
"What’s going on? Weren’t they supposed to come?"
Wu Zhao was angry; he saw this as a sign of non-compliance, something that must be refrained from.
Right then, some other trained old farmers expressed the reasons.
"They were called away by their families, supposedly for doing something."
"For what kind of things? Is it more important than our training?"
Wu Zhao frowned. He detested situations of non-compliance.
"Speak! What exactly did they go to do."
"Seems like their families asked for their help."
Another old farmer added.
"I remember it being that they were going to rescue a good person?"
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