Chapter 85 The Bazaar

Feigning a morose expression, I spoke somberly to the young man, "You're a student of law in university?" He nodded quietly. "You are one of the many who claims to be immensely learned in law yet you perverted the laws of our country! Lawyers these days travel to the West to study law and return only to wave the word of law like pitchforks in the faces of those they find offending! We are a government of men, not law! Western traditions have always been portrayed in a more realistic basis, while our Chinese traditions are more romantic! You favor Western traditions over our Chinese traditions, do you mean to demean our 2000-year old institutions of law? Take this case as an example: your uncle was part of an evil cult. He had lured us into a trap and had us three drugged before he tried to burn us to death! But we escaped, yet your uncle, leading a mob of almost twenty armed henchmen chased after us, surrounded us and tried to butcher us! But now, look! After losing his life in his attempt to murder us, you, his family, intend to avenge him and force an inquiry to charge us for excessive self-defense! Where lies your sense of justice! This evil cult has been responsible for the kidnapping of children! Fear abounds the entire city because of their devilry, yet, here you are, clamoring about 'upholding the pride of law scholars'! So the good citizens of China are all in thrall to the 'pride of law scholars' now, eh? What happened to upholding justice and order? What you are doing is trying to defend the rights of villains and evil men!"