23. Chapter 23
When his hands and feet were chained, and he was pushed into the cell by the jailer with "Don't mess with Lao Tzu" written on his face, Gu Chaoge's heart was confused.
"Just a little bit of silver, if you want to talk about the official, I'm afraid it's a joke," Wei Taishou pinched her money bag and shook it, hearing the pleasant sound of the silver coins colliding inside, his eyes narrowed slightly, "However, maybe it's always useful to stay." He was obviously talking to himself, and after he finished speaking, he laughed to himself, walked down the hall and walked around Gu Chaoge, his uncomfortable gaze sticking to Gu Chaoge for a long time: "Send a woman over, is it true that the real 'gift' is you?" He bent down and wanted to touch Gu Chaoge's chin with his hand, it was difficult to hide the disgusting feeling, Gu Chaoge did not hesitate, opened his mouth, and two sharp little tiger teeth flashed in the light of the day.
"Ahhh Wei Taishou's scream was so terrible that he changed his tune: "Little bite/person dares to bite my hand, come on, come on!" Drag her out and cut ...... Oh no, no, put her in a cell and wait for her to fall! ”
The bright red and bleeding tooth marks on his hands almost made Wei Taishou lose his mind, but fortunately, he finally remembered that this unknown woman was probably related to the Red Turban Army.
As for whether to hand her over to Zhang Suiming or stay to curry favor with the Red Turban Army, it depends on the future battle situation.
Gu Chaoge didn't know that it was Wei Taishou's overly open brain hole that saved her life, and she was imprisoned in her heart, thinking that after the squinting Taishou was attacked by her, she actually locked herself up and didn't kill her, which is too inconsistent with the code of conduct of the Taishou in today's world to kill innocents as they want!
Don't...... Did he want to lock her up and torture her for a few days so that she could enjoy herself?
Thinking like this, Gu Chaoge's cold hair stood on end, and blurted out: "Let me out!" ”
"What a noise!" Before anyone saw it, a whip was thrown on the ground, and the sound was crisp: "If you quarrel again, Lao Tzu will abolish you!" He meowed, the people who guarded the mansion in the whole Taitai either followed Zhang Yantou's army to eat and drink spicy, or arrested people to curry favor with the Wei family, just our brothers, who guarded people who didn't have a little oil and water here! Why don't you kill them all, what do you want this cell for? Gu Chaoge stuck on the cold and slippery wall tiles, listened to the jailers outside scolding, dropped the bowl, and threw the whip from cell to cell in anger, only hearing the whip, but no one responded, it sounded like there were no prisoners in the cell.
It's strange that the huge cell is ......
"Ah, don't hit me, don't hit me, my lord spares my life!" An old man's voice sounded, he seemed to be very scared, and kept saying good things to the jailer, the jailer was tired of listening to it, so he told him to shut up, wandered to Gu Chaoge's cell, and flicked the whip: "Little girl, be honest!" If it weren't for the adult's instructions, Lao Tzu would have ripped you off...... Meow, it's been a long time since I've opened meat! ”
Gu Chaoge shrank in the far corner of the cell, where the jailer's whip could not hit, buried his head, and kept silent. The slippery feeling on the walls came from the moss, the straw was not dry and bloodstained under the feet, and there was a dirty gong bucket not far away, and the whole cell was filled with a fishy smell.
The jailer didn't know how long he had been scolding, and finally left, without a sound, through the very narrow and small air intake at the top of the cell, Gu Chaoge saw that the sky was gradually darkening.
"It's eaten, it's eaten!" The jailer poured something as slimy as pig food into the bowl, and the smell was not good, but even then the jailer still cursed and cursed, saying that the prisoners were all bastards who were full of food and did not work, and that they should be slaughtered by the Taishou.
It's just like this pig food, and you can only catch it with your hands, and if you eat it slowly, you will be scolded by the jailer. Gu Chaoge was so disgusted that he couldn't eat it anymore after only half of it, and when the jailer took back the bowl, his mouth was not clean and he cursed for a while.
Gu Chaoge only sat in the corner and listened, and when the jailer finished scolding and leaving, she raised her head and turned her head to look out of the narrow window, the dark blue night sky.
This kind of place, staying for a long time, will really make people lose their minds, and forget even the most basic dignity.
As she was thinking this, a soft voice suddenly sounded in her ears.
"Hey, hey, next door, next door, next door?"
This voice was the old man before, Gu Chaoge looked left and right, looking for the source of this voice.
"Here, here!" A small straw stretched out from a gap in the wall tiles with difficulty, Gu Chaoge's eyes widened: "This, there is a crack here!" ”
"Shhh I've been finding this crack for a long time, but there's no one next door, and it's useless to find it, but now it's okay, someone has moved in, and you can talk to the old man, hehe. ”
The straw retracted again, leaving an empty slit, this gap was indeed very small, Gu Chaoge could hear the person on the other side talking, but he couldn't see the person on the other side.
However, this crack had to be plugged up when I was leaving, so why didn't the cell separate the female prisoners and the male prisoners! Gu Chaoge was not happy for the person next door at all: "Just this one seam, there is nothing else?" ”
"No," the old man replied quickly, as if he didn't expect to go that way, "this crack was finally discovered by my old Wu's precise eyes." Alas, it is lucky that someone spoke before he died! ”
"Before death? Are you a death row inmate? ”
"Of course not, if Lao Tzu hadn't coveted the Wei family's bounty and waded through troubled waters, he wouldn't have been imprisoned! Little girl, you see, there are only two of us in this prison, don't you think it's strange? It's not that Yangzhou has good security, it's that every once in a while, the arrested prisoners will be dragged out and all beheaded! ”
"Beheaded? But, but doesn't the murderer need the emperor's imperial approval, escorted by the queen of autumn, and beheaded in a unified manner? ”
"Autumn Queen? Hahaha, little girl, shouldn't you be a young lady from a big family, the emperor is a P these years, and the surname Wei nodded after Zhang Suiming, he has long been a thief, and he still listens to the little emperor in the imperial capital? I heard that the man surnamed Wei didn't want to waste the money of raising prisoners, so he killed all the people, and found a butcher to cut the meat and sell it as pork! ”
The old man babbled and whispered, his voice low, as if he had said something terrible. Gu Chaoge's eyes widened when he heard this: "No, it's impossible!" "The difference between pork and human flesh is not clear to others, and she has the most right to speak.
"Hmph, how is it impossible, these days, people have been blinded by lard, and they can do anything." The old man looked indignant
Gu Chaoge became curious about the "cellmate" next door: "Then, that old man, why were you arrested?" ”
"Don't call me Mr. , I don't have much knowledge, I can't afford the title of Mr., my surname is Wu, line five, just call me Mr. Wu."
"Oh, that old ...... Well, Uncle Wu, listening to your tone, the reason why you were arrested is related to the Wei family? ”
"Yo, the little girl is quite polite, it's really a young lady from a big family, hurry up and deliver a message to the jailer, and ask your family to redeem it for you. This place is starting to stay fresh, and after a long time, it will be full of all kinds of lice and bed bugs, and it will kill you. ”
"I'm not a young lady from a big family, and I don't have a family, and my master has died a long time ago." Gu Chaoge touched the treasure notes hidden close to his body and said seriously.
"Huh? The old man is out of sight? Still an orphan, tsk, this world is also weird. Nacheng, my old Wu will tell you about the evil in the eldest lady of the Wei family. ”
The Wei family, a large family that has been an official for generations, heard that someone in the ancestors had achieved the position of the head of the prime minister, and later retired to Yangzhou and took root in Yangzhou. The Wei family officials and businessmen are all stained, powerful and powerful, in the territory of Yangzhou, it has become the head of the rich family, when Zhang Suiming seized Yangzhou, it was the Wei family that called on all the people of Yangzhou to resist together, and took the lead in donating money and food. However, when the city was broken, the Wei family was also the first to surrender to Zhang Yantou.
With this ability to judge the situation and assess the situation, it is no wonder that no matter how the world changes, the Wei family will not fall.
The eldest lady of the Wei family, Wei Tong, I heard that she is a kind-hearted and knowledgeable beauty. In her early years, she often showed up to give alms to beggars, but later when the world was in chaos, the Wei family was afraid that she would be robbed and defiled by reckless thieves, so they no longer allowed her to go out.
Who knew that this year, the eldest lady of the Wei family, who had not been going out for a long time, suddenly became a hot topic in Yangzhou City again, because she suddenly fell into evil, and she seemed to be fine during the day, but at night she was talking nonsense like a ghost possessed by a ghost. No matter how many doctors I visited, it didn't work, but the symptoms did not decrease, but worsened, and when I gasped, the phlegm in my throat sounded like a see-saw. The eldest son of the Wei family, the husband and wife are in love, just such a baby girl, and she plans to recruit a son-in-law in the future. Now that her daughter is critically ill, she rushed to the doctor, asked Taoist priests everywhere to do it, and posted a reward to ask the doctor to treat their daughter.
Uncle Wu has no home and no mouth, he is an old vagabond, a few days ago I heard a passing vendor talk about this strange thing, he also went to Wei's house with an attitude of eating and drinking. After eating and drinking enough at Wei's house, in his conscience, he carefully showed Miss Wei on the bed, and then ......
"Alas, blame me for being old Wu's mouth, what are you doing telling the truth, causing the Wei family to be so angry that they report to the official, that surnamed Wei is too dog-legged, can he not arrest me in prison!"
Gu Chaoge was curious: "What did you say?" ”
"The old man told them that if there was no famous doctor to see Miss Wei, she would not live for a month! Once the heat is over, there is no good doctor, and you will die! ”
Gu Chaoge smiled: "If you say this, of course people want to arrest you, how can there be a doctor who comes to see a doctor who curses the patient to death, and says the day of death so clearly." ”
"I, I don't regret it! Then, then I won't do anything else, I'll watch this! I was kind and kind, let them not invite Taoist priests, and quickly find a famous and reliable doctor to save people, am I still wrong? "Uncle Wu is right.
Gu Chaoge blinked, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "...... you?" That's what kind of doctor? "I've only heard people say it before, but it's the first time I've seen it.
"How does the little girl speak, what is the 'that' doctor, what kind of doctor do you say my old Wu is?"
"It's the kind of person who specializes in judging life and death, and as soon as he takes the pulse, he knows whether the patient will die, when he will die, and when he will die, which is clear and accurate. However, it will not be cured. ”
Gu Chaoge covered his mouth and giggled: "I used to be curious about who would invite such an angry doctor to come to diagnose the disease, let alone give money, it's okay if you don't blow them out, but I didn't expect that this passerby really has it." ”
"The little girl knows a lot," Uncle Wu's tone was a little wilted, "I also want to treat people, but the medical book, it knows me, I don't know it." I have lived for most of my life, and I have never visited a reliable doctor, and I am not easy to eat by relying on this little bit of family heirlooms. ”
"It turned out to be a family heirloom, Uncle Wu, you are idle anyway, why don't you tell me, how do you judge life and death, can you really be accurate to the specific day and hour?" She was very curious, Rao was her, and she couldn't be so magically accurate. Seeing that the cellmate next door was a strange person, she even forgot about the fact that she was in prison for a while, and grabbed him and kept asking.
Uncle Wu snorted: "That's a family heirloom, how can the old man sue you for a little girl." ”
Gu Chaoge teased him: "You are dying, it doesn't matter if there is a family heirloom or not, it would be good if someone was willing to listen to it." ”
I'll go, this little girl looked very well-behaved before, and her mouth turned out to be so poisonous? Uncle Wu's face was full of depression, but fortunately she couldn't see it: "Don't talk about me, you're dying too, I'm suing you for this P?" ”
"Me? I have a way to get out. Gu Chaoge touched his head and pulled off a thin silver hairpin inserted in his bun.