The ancient prison is really a bit eerie and terrifying, although Wang Yueying has been to the Yuan H County Ya several times, but it is indeed the first time to enter the dim and damp Yuan H County prison. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoShe, a modern person in the 21st century, only occasionally has a chance to glimpse ancient prisons full of prisoners and torture instruments in TV dramas and movies. And now the real scene unfolded in front of her, and it was far more terrifying than she could have imagined. Rows of unnamed knives, neatly arranged in different sizes, and various wooden or bamboo flails, have been carefully wiped by the jailers here, and they look particularly clean, but this cleanliness is chilling in Wang Yueying's eyes. The carefully polished flails are hung on a wall made of green bricks, just like the abundance of goods in a store. In ancient times, there were three types of equipment used to restrain prisoners' freedom of movement: shackles, shackles, and shackles. Because they are all made of wood, they are collectively referred to as "Miki". It is a torture instrument used on the hand. From the oracle bone inscriptions, gold scripts and related ancient pictorial texts, the character "Xing" is the oldest hieroglyph of handcuffs and torture instruments, but at that time the handcuffs were made of wood and were called "拲". The word "Xing" and the word "拲" are the same kind of torture instruments, which are wooden torture instruments in the hands of ancient prisoners. It is a judicial product of the slavery era, and it is called the beginning of the first revolution in handicrafts and wood products in the early stage of human beings, showing the wisdom of the ancients.

"Zhou Li. Qiu Guan. The Prisoner contains: "The thief is in charge. Whoever is imprisoned shall be shackled by sin, shackled by sin, shackled by sin, shackled by sin, shackled by king's kindred, and shackled by knights." This is a torture instrument specially worn on the hands of prisoners. Zheng Si Nongyun: The one who pulls the one has one wood in both hands. Historically, this kind of arch torture instrument has been called a pot hand, and there are also called flail hands, why the ancients called this kind of torture instrument a common force, because the prisoner's hands were put into a piece of wood, that is, two hands and a wood, so the top of the word "拲" is a common word, and the following is a hand word, and the word "拲" in Chinese characters, homonym. It restricts the prisoner's hands so that they cannot be pretentious, facilitates the use of legal personnel, can be detained at any time, and can be released anytime and anywhere, which is very flexible. If the prisoner wears a torture instrument on his hand to make it easy to identify, if the prisoner wears it, the prisoner's charge and name can be written on the prisoner's hand, marking the identity of a prisoner.

Directly in front of the wall is a clearing. A long whip curled up on a large wooden bench, the shape of the wooden den is somewhat peculiar, at a glance it is not something that ordinary people can withstand. The thick iron chain was wrapped around a wooden stake more than one person high, and the dark red mark on the chain was not left by some unlucky ghost. In front of the stake is a brazier, like a lantern, and the charcoal in the pot is required to keep burning forever, so that the soldering iron in the charcoal fire can be burned red in case of emergency.

Xing Zhutou, who led Wang Yueying into the county prison, turned around from time to time to comfort her and told her not to be afraid, but she didn't say a word, just nodding her head every time. Looking at Xing Zhutou with a serious expression in front of her, Wang Yueying unconsciously doubted in her heart whether the catchers in the public gate had two faces on weekdays, one good face for ordinary people and one evil face for the people in prison.

"Right here." Xing Zhutou, who was leading the way in front, stopped, pointed to the person in a wooden fence and said, "This is Zhao Han." ”

"Zhao Han, someone has come to see you." As if he had been beaten with a stick, Zhao Han woke up in fear and looked at the visitors outside the wooden fence.

"Ma'am? Madame, how did you get to prison? It's smelly and dirty here, don't get your shoes dirty. ”

He couldn't believe that he would see Wang Yueying in this gloomy and damp prison, and he endured the pain, dragged his broken leg to the wooden fence and sat down, his eyes full of tears. When a person is in the most desperate moment, if he can hear something to untie his heart knot and soothe his emotions, then this desperate person may come out of the trough and shadow of life. Looking at Zhao Han's pitiful appearance, Wang Yueying sighed that the destruction of people's spirits in prison was really terrible, which could make ordinary people who were imprisoned can't help but show the most fragile side of their hearts. Let him weep bitterly, and only hate himself for living in this world and sinning. Of course, if it is some habitual thief, it may be a different scene, screaming wildly, and even getting acquainted with the jailer.

Outside the county jail, the sky gradually darkened. There was also much less light coming in through the cell's only air window. The sun is about to set, and there is not much time left for Wang Yueying and Zhao Han to meet, Wang Yueying has to hurry up and let Zhao Han tell her the ins and outs of the whole thing one by one.

"Don't be sad, after all, the master and servant, I can help you, and I will definitely try my best to help you, so that you don't suffer in vain. But you have to tell me what happened. ”

"Thank you, Madame, for being willing to help me, I, Zhao Han, am grateful." With that, he respectfully kowtowed heavily on the floor of the cell. The sound echoed in the small cell, like the cry of a wandering spirit, which made Wang Yueying even more creepy.

"The little one doesn't hide it, madame. I am originally from Nanshan County, Nanzhou. In the early winter of this year, he was conscripted by the county to escort military rations to the front line in Huaizhou. Along the way, several of our migrant workers were beaten and scolded by the government officials, and I was always worried about my mother, so I knocked out the guards one night and ran out. I wanted to return to Nanshan the same way, but I was afraid that the government would arrest me, so I stayed in Yuanhe Town after passing through Chuzhou. Zhao Han said with a remorseful face, as if he was regretting that he shouldn't have knocked out the officials and escaped, and as if he regretted not going home earlier. All in all, in short, he regretted it.

"Then why did you come to my house?"

"I really didn't hide anything about coming to my wife's house, it was really Uncle Wang who introduced me. At that time, when the old man saw that I was pitiful, he took me in, and I told him that I had escaped from servitude. He advised me to save some silver first, so that when I returned to Nanshan County after the beginning of spring, I could use the silver to offset my forced labor. I thought to myself that this is the same reason, so I came to Madame's errand to seek errands. Unexpectedly, they were caught before they had saved enough money. ”

"I see."

The short time of the visit allowed Wang Yueying to hear the reason for the whole thing from Zhao Han's mouth, and she comforted Zhao Han with kind words, and then got up and walked out of the county jail with Xing Zhutou. Leaving the county prison is like a different world, and even the air you breathe feels so clean and clean. She paused for a moment at the door, then turned around to ask Xing Zhutou, who was still standing aside, and learned that what Zhao Han said was exactly the same as what Nanshan County said about catching fast. He also received an affirmative answer to the question of "conscription can be redeemed with silver". Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he took a piece of silver and said to Xing Zhutou: "Xing Zhutou, please find a doctor to show Zhao Han the injury, his leg seems to be a little seriously injured." ”

"I will naturally do what you ask for, what are you doing with the silver? Raw points. ”

"It costs money to ask the doctor to catch the medicine, and then ······ Besides, I hope you can help me deal with the jailers in the prison and don't abuse Zhao Han. ”

When Xing Zhutou heard this, he was a little startled, and then nodded again, stopped talking, and silently accepted the ingot and took his leave.

Seeing Xing Zhutou accept the silver, Wang Yueying breathed a sigh of relief for a while. Walking out of the Yuan H County Ya, she first instructed Wang Zicheng to hurry out of the city before the city gate was closed, and she and Caidie stayed in the town. Tonight, she decided to stay in Jinxiufang to prepare for Zhao Han's case tomorrow.

It was already completely dark, and walking on the stone road of Yuanhe Town, the shops along the street were hung with lanterns. The sparse candle flame in the world and the starlight in the sky echo each other, painting a mysterious night scene, as if trying to say something to the people on the earth.

At night, no matter how dark it is, there will be light; In life, there is no need to be afraid of temporary ups and downs and injustices.