Chapter 174: Twists and turns
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The prisoners in the prison had been cut off for many days, and they were all salivating, but the fat man had shown his ability before, and although they were greedy, they did not dare to rob it.
Nanfeng untied the bag of snacks and was about to get up with it.
"What are you doing?" the fat man stopped Nanfeng, the guy had meat in his mouth and his speech was slurred.
"Give them a little bit. Nanfeng whispered.
The fat man was not very happy, but he was not good at refusing Nanfeng's face, "They are not good people, don't expect them to take your favor." ā
Nanfeng smiled, took a snack and distributed it to everyone, there were many prisoners, all of them were divided, and one person only got a little.
Since ancient times, going to prison has been a chore, there is no place where the prison window is bright and clean, and the prison in Gong County is also very filthy, twenty or thirty people use a toilet, and the smell can be imagined. In order to prevent prisoners from escaping, the windows of the cells are small, the lighting and ventilation are poor, and the cells are dark and damp.
The two had begged in their early years, and lived in a broken temple, but the environment of the broken temple was much better than here, and at night, the two did not even have a place to lie down, so they could only sit on the grass and sit against the wall.
It was already uncomfortable, and the other prisoners were not quiet, some of them cried after being wronged, some of them hummed after being tortured, and even rats came to join in the fun, and if there was no food in the prison, they went to gnaw on the toilet.
In the middle of the night, there are people who get up from time to time to relieve their hands, crackling, draining and pulling, this night is really hard.
The next day, the cell boss came to deliver food, which saved trouble, and one person had a nest head, but he took special care of the two, and one gave them to the two.
"It's okay, you taste it. "The fat man handed the nest head to the south wind.
Nanfeng waved his hand and didn't answer the nest.
"It's not as bad as you think. The fat man deliberately chewed heavily, bit the sand with a clatter, and covered his mouth with his teeth.
Nanfeng frowned and tilted his head, never thinking that the fat man didn't vomit, and swallowed the mouthful.
"Even eat sand, are you a chicken?" the south wind teased.
"It's nice to have something to eat. The fat man went to bite the head of the nest again.
Nanfeng took the leftover braised pork from yesterday and handed it to the fat man, who shook his head, "Keep it for you to eat." ā
Nanfeng suffered a night in prison, originally there was still a little resentment in his heart, seeing the fat man say this, those resentments disappeared instantly, not to say far away, only to say that it was near, he had forcibly done it before, resulting in a coma for more than three months, during which he was no different from a dead man, and the fat man was stunned for three months. Now that the fat man is in prison, can't he accompany the fat man to stay in prison for half a year?
The fat man ate two nest heads, the prisoner wanted to take one, and there was one left, and the fat man pinched it into small pieces and fed a daring mouse.
The scene of the fat man feeding the mice reminded Nanfeng of Big Eyes, who liked to feed the mice when he lived in the broken temple.
"I don't know what's wrong with the big eyes?" the fat man thought of going with Nanfeng.
"Jiren has his own nature. Nanfeng comforted the fat man and comforted himself at the same time, both of them were worried about big eyes, but they were worried in vain, since they were separated five years ago, there has been no news of big eyes, and I don't know if Huang Qishan has found big eyes.
The diet in prison is the same as outside, two meals a day, dry rice in the morning, and porridge in the afternoon.
At night, the south wind stayed up all night, and the environment was so bad that I couldn't sleep.
On the third night after being imprisoned, the two arresters came to visit the prison, carried food boxes, and took them out of their detention and drank and talked with them from a secluded cell.
Although the two did not mention the matter of gold, Nanfeng knew that the two had already taken the gold back, and the purpose of the two visiting the prison was two, which can be regarded as one, because the two purposes are connected to each other, and first asked the two how they would thank the person who worked if they were acquitted.
The fat man looked at Nanfeng, Nanfeng thought about it, and stretched out his right index finger, "This is all our belongings." ā
Nanfeng had promised before that if he could save his life, he would give the two of them two thousand taels of gold, and stretch out a finger, which naturally means ten thousand taels.
10,000 taels of gold is a lot of money, and the entire county government's treasury is probably not 10,000 taels, but the two do not doubt that Nanfeng will not be able to take out this 10,000 taels, because the county government has already obtained the account books of Yu County, and they know that there are more than 100,000 taels of silver in Yu County, but they don't know that the money was taken by the fat man to block the mouths of the families of the fallen soldiers.
Nanfeng's reply was still satisfactory to the two, and then the two asked for some details, and taught the two how to deal with it when they passed the hall, simply put, they didn't admit it when they were killed, so they pushed it on the head of the bandit, and the bandit was hidden in the broken temple with a bronze bell, and they led the troops over to suppress the bandits.
In addition to these, he also specially told not to involve others, and at this time, Hu Xianling was running outside, trying to save them.
Nanfeng and the fat man responded one by one, even if they didn't say anything about the arrest, they were not ready to say Hu Xianling's accomplice, and after entering the prison, it was a rule that black and white would abide by not being able to implicate the accomplices. Not to mention the death, the accomplices can still fish for people outside.
The four of them conspired for an hour, and the arrest was about to leave, and the two of them were not sent to the prison, so they lived in the cell where they were drinking, and without the trouble of the prisoners in the same house, Nanfeng finally fell asleep.
Early the next morning, one of the catchers came sneakily and told them that they would have to pass the hall later, and Master Zhou would be present when they passed the hall, so that the two of them could rest assured.
This Master Zhou Nanfeng knows, he once sent someone to the government office to make a point when he was doing mischief in Yuxian County, and the gift was given to this Master Zhou.
When he was about to leave, Nanfeng stopped him and asked him to find two stretchers and carry him and the fat man through the hall, only saying that he had injured their legs and feet when they were arrested, and they couldn't walk.
Although he was puzzled, he also responded.
"Your shelf is big enough, and you have to find someone to carry it when you pass through the hall. The fat man laughed.
"Do you want to lie down or kneel?" asked Nanfeng rhetorically.
When the fat man heard this, he suddenly realized, "Oh, it's still thoughtful, I only kneel to the Buddha, not to the dog official." ā
The stretcher was hard to find, so the cell boss removed the two doors of the chamber and ordered the jailer to carry the two to the hall.
Someone took care of it, and passing through the hall was going through the motions, and the most beneficial thing for the two of them was that so many soldiers had died, but the county was very calm, and the families of the victims did not file a complaint. The most unfavorable thing for the two is that the two ran away after the incident, and the fat man also said that he was a Buddhist layman, and he left this time to be invited by the monks of Foguang Temple to participate in the puja.
The person sitting in the hall was Gong Jun's assassin history, this person didn't seem to have slept enough last night, or it may be that Master Zhou deliberately had fun with him, so that he couldn't go to bed early, and when he sat in the hall, he yawned for a long time, and when the interrogation was over, he tilted his head and asked Master Zhou, "Master, what do you think?"
"The young man's heart is strong, and he can't see the bandits harming people, so he is in a hurry, but his intentions are good, and he is also for the sake of the people, so he will resume his ministry. Master Zhou said.
"Cheng, Cheng. Thorn Shi yawned again, and halfway through the yawn, he suddenly remembered something, "No, this matter has been reported." ā
"Another statement may be added to explain it separately. Master Zhou said with a smile.
Thorn Shi is not a fool, seeing Master Zhou say this, knowing that he may have taken the benefits of the two, he raised his hand and pointed at Master Zhou, and the two of them tacitly agreed.
Shocked Tang Mu patted, "Yuxian County ordered Ji Zhonglin to suppress the bandits, but the casualties were too serious, the merits were offset, no reward or punishment, and the official was reinstated when the imperial court reply was issued." ā
The two hurriedly thanked them, and then shot again, "Quit." ā
After leaving the court, the two were carried back to the prison, and the hall was over, but it still had to be closed, because the case had been reported and had to wait for the court's reply.
In this way, the two of them were comfortable, and the cell boss vacated his room for the two to live in, and the two catchers came to drink and socialize with the two every day.
The fat man was worried about how to fulfill his promise after he released it, and at this time they couldn't take out 10,000 taels of gold, but he also had a trick, so he thought of owing it first, and went back to cutting wood and quarrying to pay it back slowly.
Nanfeng is too lazy to break with him, even if he is released, Yuxian will not be able to go back, what Tianmu Lao Dao did before shows that his whereabouts have been exposed, if he returns to Yuxian, not to mention that Momen will come to entangle, Taiqingzong will not spare him. You have to run, but you have to try to get what you need before you run.
After making up his mind, Nanfeng took advantage of the drinking time to inquire about the catcher, and learned that the bronze bell and copper tripod in the broken temple had been transported back to the palace, but the bronze bell was crooked to the ground when it was carried, and there was a large amount of cinnabar under the copper bell, and there was a large rectangular pit in the middle, which should have placed a coffin before.
And those bronze tripods are not connected to the stone statues, the mouths of the tripods are open, and the inside is empty.
For this situation, Nanfeng was not surprised, the wolf demon must have accomplices, and after the incident, his accomplices may have come over and take away Han Xin's corpse and soul, but fortunately, what he needed was not the corpse and soul, but the words on the bronze bell.
So he proposed to go and see the bronze bell, and he quickly agreed, but said that he would go to the treasury tomorrow first, and set an hour with the treasurer to bring the two of them over.
After the catch was about to leave, the fat man asked suspiciously, "Why do you always think about that broken bell?"
"I need the words on the bell. Nanfeng said casually, the words on the bronze bell and the text on the tortoise shell are very similar to the strokes and structure, the reason why they are similar rather than the same, is because the text on the tortoise shell and the text on the copper bell are the same font but not the same content, the text on the bronze bell is very likely to be from the same source as the tortoiseshell heavenly book, and it may even be another part of the tortoiseshell heavenly book.
The next morning, while the two were resting in their room, there was a sharp knock on the door.
"Open the door, open the door!" someone shouted outside the door.
The cell boss opened the door, "Who are you?"
"Zhu Zhenyang, the left commander of the Imperial Forest Army, this is the gold medal of the Royal Forest. Someone answered outside the door.
"Oh, oh, what is the general's business?" The cell leader's momentum immediately weakened by three points, this Imperial Forest Army is the emperor's guard, and he doesn't do official business, only does the emperor's errand.
"Ordered to take custody of a prisoner in the Yuxian Chaozhong case......"