"You, follow me." A cell boss came out of the house and shouted at the fish.

A fish silently followed him, passing by a section of the city wall that was being built. There were about 1,000 prisoners in this battalion, working hard under the merciless whipping of the jailers. Guards armed with knives formed groups of three or five, patrolling around every corner.

When the prisoner saw that a new person had entered, he stopped what he was doing, sneaked away from the watchful eye of the jailer, gloated and laughed sarcastically at Youyu, and made all kinds of shameless provocative actions.

Those who don't have the courage to cut corners will stare at the fish and whisper to each other. "Come and see, here's a fresh one!"

"I'm still worried that I don't have someone to entertain, this is wonderful."

"I'm afraid it won't be your turn yet, haha."

"No, his body belongs to you, and the food belongs to me."

"When the work stops at night, shall we play with him?"

……

There are fish with expressionless faces, turning a blind eye, even knowing that they have fallen into a dark abyss.

The cell boss took Youyu to a dilapidated black room and pointed to a pile of hay in the corner: "You will sleep there from now on, and you will be ready to go to work later." With that, a whip hit the pillar, and with a crisp "snap", the dust on the beam fell down, choking fish and coughing.

The cell boss looked around, but saw no one, and suddenly rushed forward to rudely search for the clothes of the fish.

Youyu is not surprised when he sees it: "No." ”

The search was fruitless, and the cell boss pushed away Youyu in disgust: "From Luzhou, there is not a single valuable thing on you?" ”

"Valuable ones are still being searched by you?" Youyu sat aside without fear, and was searched seven or eight times along the way.

The cell boss shook the small leather whip in his hand, and his tone was threatening: "No, I can't save you if you are in trouble in the future, so I can do it myself." After saying that, the cell boss left in a huff.

There was a fish lying on the haystack, sneering mockingly, even if there was one person who was willing to save himself, he would not have fallen into such a field of no one and no ghosts today. "Save me, by you?"

However, the cell boss didn't take a few steps and turned back, and urged in retaliation: "What are you still doing in a daze, go quickly!" ”

The head of the cell drove the fish to the corner of the city, pointed to the huge rocks that formed a hill, and said, "Today's task is to carry these stones to the city wall. ”

A fish looked at the boulders, a stone is the size of half a person, and they can all be carried on the city wall and still have sound limbs?

Horizontal and vertical are going to die, there are fish lying on the boulder to rest without interest, no matter how painful the pain has been eaten, there will be no big deal, if you die, it will be a relief.

Chen Pu watched from afar and watched the fish, undecided. Such a world-weary person would not be able to do anything even if he was arched to the sky, he could not make a hasty decision, he had to wait and see for some more time, otherwise he would not be able to afford the crime of arson.

"Official, don't hit me!"

As the ground trembled slightly, an old voice came from beside him, and some fish turned his head in annoyance, deaf to him.

The jailer whipped the old man and scolded angrily: "Hurry up, you have delayed the project so slowly, can you afford to blame it?" ”

"Don't, the old body can't afford to be beaten at an old age!"

The old man's voice was crying, pitifully begging for mercy, accompanied by the sound of whipping, an old man's sad face and old tearful eyes swept through the fish's mind. Thinking that the old man's body was covered with bruises, a sour feeling suddenly came from his chest.

Youyu couldn't help but open his eyes and said to himself: "Okay, you won." ”

Youyu stood up and walked over to the jailer, grabbed the jailer's whip wrist, and stopped, "Let him go." ”

The jailer pushed Youyu away and said, "Let him go? I haven't even had time to teach you a lesson! ”

"You killed him, and you delayed the project even more."

"Yes, yes." The old man kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Youyu: "He's no longer useful, and he can't do it so fast if you urge him." It's better to do this, my work with the old man is not calculated by time, but by quantity, before tomorrow morning, we will finish the work, okay? ”

The jailer thought for a moment, and thought it was feasible, so he said, "That's good, but you have to increase the amount, you two lift the boulder up, and then erect the stakes over there, and finish it before the start of work tomorrow." ”

"Okay."

After the jailer finished speaking, he walked away, and the old man thanked Youyu gratefully. When a fish lifted up the old man, he saw that it was the high priest!

"It turned out to be you."

Yu Minuo raised his head and was taken aback: "Little fish! ”

There is a confidant in the sea, and the end of the world is like a neighbor. Yu Minuo was overjoyed when she saw that it was an old man: "I didn't expect to see you in this kind of place, we are fated!" ”

"There's nothing to be thankful about this kind of fate." There was not much interest in the fish, so they turned around and continued to lie down.

Seeing Youyu's cold appearance, Yu Minuo lay beside him and urged him to get up uneasily: "Why are you lying down again, if you don't work, you will be cramped and skinned tomorrow." ”

Youyu closed his eyes and moved away from Yu Minuo: "If there is anything else on me that can be picked up, just pick it up." ”

Yu Minuo heard the meaning of Youyu's words, her trouser pocket couldn't help but tighten, and she said: "But I still have to pick it up, if you don't help me, I'll have an accident!" ”

Youyu rolled his eyes and turned his head to look at Yu Mi's old face with the vicissitudes of life, helpless. As an ordinary person with unbroken human nature, Youyu couldn't stand the innocence and pity of the old man and the child, so he couldn't bear to get up and start to do it, not forgetting to criticize Yu Minuo: "You should be at home for a long time when you are old, what did you do to steal chickens and dogs and be locked up here?" ”

Yu Minuo defended: "Once there is no home in troubled times, I didn't steal chickens and dogs. ”

"Then how did you get in?"

"It's not because of you."

A fish glanced at the old man in disgust, playing with porcelain? "I can help you do the work, but don't think about me, what does it have to do with me that you are locked up."

Yu Minuo spread out his sleeves: "Why does it have nothing to do with you, I have said good things about you before and after, and the officials of Dayan heard it and locked me here." ”

This reason is not far-fetched. Youyu sarcastically said: "Oh, you still miss me." ”

Yu Minuo followed behind Youyu: "I'm not the only one who misses you, many people are thinking about you." ”

Youyu sneered: "What are you thinking of me?" ”

Yu Minuo approached Youyu at this time and lowered her voice, for fear that others would hear it. "I want you to go back and be king."

Youyu carried the bricks by himself, and said disdainfully: "Be the king? Save it. ”

"You have to find a way to get out, how do you know how many people support you if you don't go out."

"But I don't love so many people."

Yu Minuo saw that there was a fish that was going to die, so he held down the hands of the fish moving bricks, and encouraged: "Ziyu, don't give up on yourself, your brain is turning, and the future is bright." ”

"I call it Youyu, not Ziyu."

"No, no, 'Zi' is an honorific title for a person, you only have a name without words, I will call you Ziyu, once Emperor Gaozu respected Zhang Liang very much, and never called him by his name and called him 'Zifang'. I also respect you, old body. ”

"Wow," Youyu nodded indifferently, "Then why don't you just call me 'Zi/Gong'." ”

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