Prisons have not been a good place since ancient times. Dark, pitch black. Ma Yue's Huaili Prison is no exception, and this prison in Huaili just killed Cao Luan, who was guarded by Ren Yongchang, in May last year, and the limelight at this time was unparalleled. The jailers here are black-hearted and ruthless, and the prison tyrants here are strong in martial arts.

It's not a good place.

Wang Yuanshan didn't lie, and one of the jailers in Huaili Prison was really his friend, named Cheng Feng. Chengfeng is very strong and strong, Wang Yuanshan's wife and sister married him, and the two are brothers-in-law.

With Wang Yuanshan's advice, Ma Yue and Ma Yu were not bullied by the fierce jailers, and they also found a ventilated cell and locked them together. It's better, but there are dozens of cells in the prison, but only four of them have skylights open to let in some air. A house with a window is where the prison tyrant lives, and there are two empty rooms, Huaili Prison is not far from Luoyang, Chang'an, which is convenient for the imperial court to transport the court officials who have committed crimes here at any time, and the last room is Ma Yue and Ma playing.

During the day, the jailers patrolled back and forth, and the prisoners were all locked in the house for a very peaceful life, and Ma Yue and Ma Yu sat in the cell wearing new clothes bought for 110 cents and chatted quietly. The winter sun shines through the windows on the weeded ground, and the shedding animal skin blanket is thrown aside by Ma Yue, which is too tied to grass as well.

After noon, Ma Yue was happy to eat with a food bowl, but Ma Yue looked at the food in the bowl but couldn't eat it with a sad face. The Ma family is not a wealthy family, he has never eaten good food, but he feels that he has eaten a lot of unpalatable food, but when he saw the prison food in Huaili Prison, he knew what was really unpalatable.

There are no vegetables, and the rice is so dark that I don't know what it is, how can Ma Yue eat this kind of thing.

Ma Yu swallowed the rice in his mouth, and smiled when he saw Ma Yue holding the prison food.

"What is Saburo thinking?"

"I'm wondering whether Yong'an Taishou Cao Luan was beaten to death here or poisoned by this bowl of rice."

Ma played and put the bowl down, he didn't laugh, and said, "San Lang, do you think this can poison people?" Do you know how many people in Liangzhou are looking forward to recruiting soldiers from the Han Dynasty with the reputation of a good family in the six counties, otherwise they won't even be able to eat this meal? ”

Ma Yue was stunned: "There are still people who can't even eat this?" ”

"San Lang is still too pampered, this is not our house, just eat it."

"Brother Monkey is laughing, San Lang is still pampered?"

He will not feel that he is pampered, born in the era of peace, he has seen several deaths in his life, and all of them happened in the hospital, when he became a child here, he opened his eyes and saw the twelve-year-old eldest brother holding a pitchfork to stab people through, the twelve-year-old went up the mountain to chop wood and was almost bitten to death by a wild wolf, and on the way to the Western Regions with the caravan, he experienced several hardships and dangers and even was seriously injured and near death. Ma Play actually said that he was pampered.

Look at the life he lived, at the age of twelve, he had to go up the mountain to chop wood and go to the Western Regions with a caravan. Can this kind of life be called pampered?

Ma Yu didn't think so, he said: "San Lang thinks what you have experienced is the great suffering of life? I haven't been in prison yet, but I've been in the hinterland of Xianbei, and I didn't know your eldest brother and second brother that year, and I was with the Pang family brothers. After the bloody battle, we and the others were separated from the army, everyone was wounded and had no food, and the horses were killed by us. ”

"The horses ran out of food, and we didn't find a large army, and we ate half moon horse grass when there was no food. Saburo Do you know the taste of horse grass? It's pretty good, I still like to chew two sticks when I feed the horses. ”

"Compared to my horse monkey, San Lang is simply a nobleman. In the past, there was Brother Ma, Second Brother Ma, and later Brother Guan. Everyone treats you, even wicked people like Li Guangtou like you. Everyone, brothers, don't say it, but no one can bully you, and whoever bullies you will show their knives to clean him up. I didn't have such a good life as you, and the hungry mob rushed into the village and killed people when they saw them, and the eldest brother buried me in a big jar in the backyard where he put his wine. I was almost suffocated to death and didn't dare to go up, and when I came out, the village had been burned, and my father, mother, brother and sister-in-law were gone. ”

"I walked around Liangzhou, eating roadside flowers and plants or competing with wild dogs when I was hungry. By the way, roses are delicious, the leaves are full of moisture, they are more delicious when they bloom, and they can also bear fruit. But sometimes I will come across something that I can't eat, so don't eat more mushrooms or something, and once again, I picked it up under the tree and almost died on the side of the road. ”

"Look at the burns on my neck, I was afraid that everyone would look down on me, so I said that I was burned in the year of the accident at home. In fact, I was hungry at night, climbed over the wall and entered a big family's house to steal food, and was bitten by a big dog, and I burned it with a fire stick myself in order to stop the bleeding. What did I steal, you ask? I snatched a chicken leg from the kennel. ”

Ma Yue looked at the young man in front of him with a stubble and mustache on his chin, and it was difficult to connect the tragic image he told with the bohemian horse he knew. Ma Yue will not comfort people, and he will not be since he was a child. He just swallowed, picked up the black food bowl, tilted his head, and swallowed the bowl into his stomach.

The first time he ate something so hard to swallow, Ma Yue almost wanted to spit it out. Taking a few breaths, he said, "Brother Monkey, are your lives still so hard now?" ”

Ma Yu smiled lightly, his eyes narrowed into a line and said: "It's much better now, I have a robe to take care of me all these years, and I can exchange my head for some money every year." ”

"Brother Monkey, how did you come up with the idea of joining the army?"

"That year, I was wandering around in Jincheng and couldn't find anything to eat, and I met a recruiter who asked me, and I said, 'Don't care about food?' He said yes, and I joined the military. During the same period, the border army brought their own weapons, and even those merchants and criminals who filled the army also bought weapons in advance, and I went to the north alone empty-handed and wearing short clothes. I strangled a Xianbei man, stripped him of his leather armor and boots, cut off his head with his scimitar, and led his horse. When I came back, I had six heads, five knives, and three horses, and I exchanged three thousand dollars, which was the first time in my life that I had seen that much money, and then I went to the front every year. That's the big brother I met. ”

Ma Yue nodded, and a thought suddenly popped into his head and said to Ma Yu: "Brother Monkey, why don't you also live in Zhangshan Village, and when the spring thaws, we will build a house together, right next to Brother Guan's house." It's so lively for everyone to live together. ”

Ma joked: "I'll be alone, what house to build, who to live in." Besides, I can't be idle, I always like to run around, and I plan to leave Liangzhou in two years. ”

"Leaving Liangzhou? So where is Brother Monkey going? ”

Ma Yu touched Ma Yue's head and said, "I don't know, I plan to go to Northern Xinjiang twice again to save some money." When the time comes, go to Luoyang first, and then go south to Jingzhou to have a look. ”

"I heard that Jingzhou is rich, and no one will starve to death."

Ma Yue counted with his fingers, two years is neither long nor short, at that time he can be taller and stronger than now, so he raised his head and said to Ma Yu: "Then Brother Monkey, I will go with you then, I also want to go to Luoyang to see how prosperous the imperial capital is." ”