"Fang Gongzi go by himself. I'm here waiting for you to come out and send you back to Sanyuanfang. The coachman whispered.

Fang Zi'an nodded, exhaled, put the food box in the crook of his arm, bent his back, and slowly walked along the path full of fallen leaf branches to the top of the hillside. Soon we were on the top of the hill. The terrain suddenly opens up, and the trees have been cut down by hand, revealing the open ground and the towering mountain walls ahead. A large cavern door came into view, the massive beast-headed iron door tightly closed. The stone wall above is engraved with several blood-red characters 'Dali Temple Prison'.

There were several stone houses built to the left of the cave entrance, and a dozen horses were scattered across the left side of the house, and several jailers were swaying back and forth on the left side of the cave, like ghosts in the dim skylight.

Fang Zi'an walked over slowly, and was soon discovered by the jailers.

"Who? What for? Someone shouted.

"Oh, a few masters, the old man is here to visit the prison." Fang Zi'an gasped like a bellows.

"Go, go, what prison? The people who entered the prison of my Dali Temple were all extremely evil people, and they were not allowed to visit the prison. Get out of here now, or you're welcome. A jailer shouted.

"A few military masters are doing well, my master is locked up here, and I only send him a meal of wine and food. I also asked a few military masters to make it convenient. Fang Zi'an said.

A jailer frowned and said, "You old man, you said that you are not allowed to visit the prison, you are not allowed to visit the prison, why are you so verbose." If you want to send clothes and food in, you can leave it to us to do it for you, you can't go in, this is the rule of my prison, who dares to disobey it? ”

"Yes, yes, yes, give us the wine and rice, and we will definitely deliver it to you, hahaha." The rest of the jailers laughed.

Fang Zi'an said: "I won't work for you military masters, I heard that you don't deliver food here at all." When the wine and food are in your hands, they will eat for yourselves. I'm not at ease, old man. ”

"Hey, what are you talking about, you old thing? If you don't want to, then get out. In the verbosity, Lao Tzu beat you all over the ground looking for teeth. Several of the jailers were poked and cursed loudly.

The commotion outside alarmed a jailer in the nearby stone house, who poked his head out and shouted, "What are you all arguring about?" ”

Someone explained the reason loudly, the man thought for a moment, walked out of the stone house, looked at Fang Zi'an and said, "This old man, who are you going to visit?" ”

Fang Zi'an said: "Master Jun, Chief Zhou of Qixia Academy, I am an old servant who follows him, and my surname is Wang, so it's good for the military master to call me Lao Wang." ”

Several jailers around shouted: "It turned out that I was going to visit Zhou Junzheng, then don't think about it." If others are still likely to be visited, Zhou Junzheng will never allow people to go in and visit. Let's go, don't be verbose. ”

The prison officer waved his hand and said, "Old Wang, don't you know that Zhou Jun is committing a big crime?" How many people are afraid to avoid him, but you are only his servant, but you come to visit him, and you are not afraid of being implicated? ”

Fang Zi'an listened to his words, and faintly felt that the prison officer in front of him was a well-being person, but he was not sure.

"Master Jun, Zhou Shanchang committed a crime, and the court punished him. Old man, I just sent him a meal to express my gratitude. The old man has followed him for more than ten years, and he can't let others be unlucky, so I won't ignore it. It is also human nature to send him a meal to eat. Is it all involved? Isn't that too much for the imperial court? I only saw one person, delivered a meal, kowtowed to him and left. I won't live for a few years with this old bone, so I'm going back to my hometown to farm, and I'll have to see each other. ”

The prison officer nodded and said, "He is a man of affection and righteousness, and what he said is quite reasonable. That's it, brothers, look at this old man is also quite affectionate, our brothers admire the person who is affectionate and righteous the most, so it doesn't hurt to let him in and see him. An old man, what else can not happen? I'll send him in myself. ”

All the jailers did not speak, and one of the jailers said: "Ma Tou, it was said above that the key prisoner who assassinated Qin Xiang must not see outsiders, so as not to collude with confessions." If the church knew about this, it would be terrible. ”

The prison officer frowned and said, "Will the upper authorities know?" Will you go snitching? ”

The jailer waved his hand and said, "No, no, I'm not that kind of person. ”

The jailer pointed to the others and said, "Will you tell the truth?" Or are you? You? You? ”

All the jailers waved their hands and said, "No, no, how can we tell the truth." ”

"Isn't that over, everyone doesn't go to snitch, how can the above know? Let this old man go to see the master he serves, and send a meal to show his heart, this is to accumulate virtue and do good. Brothers, those who do our business must accumulate more virtues. The prison officer said in a deep voice.

The jailers stopped talking, what happened to the boss? On weekdays, I don't see him say anything about accumulating virtue and doing good, and he is the most ruthless when he beats up criminals, but now he says these words, as if he has changed as a person. To put it lightly, this is a big case of assassinating Qin Xiang, if something goes wrong, everyone can't eat and walk around, who dares to slack off.

The prison officer turned to Fang Zi'an and said, "Uncle, you have also seen that if the brothers let you in to visit, you will be at risk." It's not easy for everyone, and you can't let my brothers take risks in vain, don't you say? ”

Seeing this, Fang Zi'an was sure that this person was the one who had arranged for him to visit the prison, and at this time he also knew what to do. So he reached into his arms, took out a few silver tickets, handed them over with both hands, and said: "The military masters take care of it, this is thirty taels of silver, not a tribute." The military lords took it to drink. I will only go in for a short while, take a look and leave, and never let the military masters be embarrassed. ”

The prison officer smiled: "I'm not extorting your money, you're acting as if we deliberately blackmailed you." ”

"No, no, no, the little old man is willing." Fang Zi'an said hurriedly.

The prison officer stretched out his hand and took the silver ticket into his arms, and said with a smile: "Lao Wang, you are very real, wait a while, I will take you in and have a look." ”

Fang Zi'an nodded again and again. The prison officer beckoned the jailers to the side, took out the silver tickets, and whispered, "See? I'm going to get oil and water for you. What the hell is the above rule? In such a big case, we just happened to make money. The people who are imprisoned are all officials, and they all have money at home, so if they want to visit the prison, let them see it, and it is only right that we take the opportunity to make a fortune. We listen to the above words in our ears, we have to listen to the words, we have to make money, and it is not in vain that everyone is working hard here every day. In these years, the bold are dying, the cowardly are starving, understand? ”

Only then did the jailers suddenly realize that Ma Tou'er did this for everyone to get oil and water. Sure enough, the oil and water were very sufficient, and thirty taels were squeezed out at once. A month's salary is only three taels of silver, and no one can get four taels of the thirty taels of silver in front of him, which is a windfall.

"The leader is wise, several of the criminals in this case are fat sheep, I'm afraid we're going to make a lot of money." Someone chuckled under his breath.

The prison officer shook the silver ticket and said, "It's good to understand, let Lao Tzu be smarter." Lao Tzu will make you rich. And you shall divide the thirty taels of silver. Lao Tzu doesn't want it this time, but he wants double copies next time. ”

The jailers were grateful. The prison officer waved his hand and said, "But there is one thing, ugly words are in the head." Lao Tzu will find a way to make you money, if any of you dare to tell the truth, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless. When the time comes, Lao Tzu will cut down his whole family. ”

All the jailers said solemnly: "Whoever dares to tell the truth, without the help of Ma Tou'er, the brothers will all go to his house, and the whole family will be slaughtered." ”

The prison officer nodded, "That's it." I went to take the old king in for a round, and when I saw him, I drove him out, and it was not a broken promise. Never let him do anything. Just pretend you're fine. ”

The jailers agreed again and again, and the jailer handed them thirty taels of silver bills and let them share the spoils by themselves, while he came back slowly, and said to the other son: "Lao Wang, let's go in." Count yourself lucky to have met me, a righteous man. ”

Fang Zi'an arched his hand again and again: "Thank you, thank you, Master Jun." ”

The prison officer beckoned, and Fang Zi'an followed him to the iron gate of the cave. Standing at the door, Fang knew that the cave was tall, and the two iron gates alone were as high as a few feet. After opening the door, the three jailers pushed open half of the door with all their might, and Fang Zi'an followed the prison officer inside.

It was dim inside, the light of the hanging wind lamp was pale and weak, extremely dim, Fang Zi'an had not yet adapted to the light inside, he heard a "boom", and the iron door behind him was vigorously closed, and all sounds from the outside world were isolated, leaving only the darkness in front of him.

Fang Zi'an's eyes quickly adapted to the dim light in the cave, and in front of him was a wide corridor, both sides were carved with axes and chisels and knives, and after walking a few steps, there was a small stone room on the left, and the walls inside were full of things like iron claws, iron chains, iron tongs, leather whips, and shackles, and a wide table in the middle, and several wooden pillars with iron chains hanging next to it. Fang Zi'an soon realized that this was a torture room.

"Sometimes the prisoners are not honest, so they come here to loosen their skins. Hahaha. Lao Wang, don't look at it, you will have nightmares when you watch it. Your family Zhou Shanchang didn't suffer this crime, don't worry. The prison officer laughed.

Fang Zi'an hurriedly said: "That's good, that's good, but it scares me to death." There was a smell of blood inside. ”

The prison officer laughed, "What is blood? It's common for people to die in this prison, haven't you heard what people say? The prison of Dali Temple is a three-story hell. And that's not even the first floor. Lao Wang, you'd better not look around, otherwise you'll have nightmares when you go home. I also took the risk to let you in today, and I couldn't help it. You'd better hurry up in a moment, but don't make it difficult for me. ”

Fang Zi'an hurriedly said: "Thank you Jun Ye, I don't know the military master's surname, I will thank you again in the future." ”

"My name is Ma Jin, a little prison officer. There is no need to thank you, it is all entrusted by friends. The jailer said.

Fang Zi'an nodded again and again. As he spoke, he came to the mouth of the stone staircase that slanted downward, and the passage below was dimly lit. The prison officer Ma Jin stopped and said: "Lao Wang, you go down by yourself, the lower layer is the first layer, Zhou Shanchang is locked in the third layer, you go down directly." Don't deal with the prisoners, or you'll be in trouble. I'll give you a quarter of an hour, and when the time comes, you must come out, or I won't be able to explain. ”

Fang Zi'an hurriedly said: "It must be." ”

Ma Jin said again: "I'll take a look at your food box when you open it." ”

Fang Zi'an said: "It's just wine and food." ”

Ma Jin frowned and said, "Open it, how can you not understand the rules." ”

Fang Zi'an hurriedly put the food box on the ground and called it layer by layer. Ma Jin looked at it carefully, and it was indeed just a few bowls of vegetables, a pot of wine and a bowl of rice.

"Eat food in every bowl, and drink a sip of wine." Ma Jindao.

Fang Zi'an was stunned for a moment, and immediately admired Ma Jin's finesse. He was afraid that the wine and food would be poisonous. Many of the prisoners who entered here begged for death, and if the prisoner helped the prisoner to commit suicide, or deliberately killed him, he would be unlucky, and even lose his head. Although someone entrusts him, he doesn't dare to take it lightly and be careful.

Fang Zi'an didn't say much, took a bite in each bowl, and took another sip of wine. Ma Jin watched Fang Zi'an wait quietly on the side, and after a while, Ma Jin smiled and said, "It's okay, you can go down." ”

Fang Zi'an packed up the food box, nodded to Ma Jin, held the lantern in one hand and the food box in the other, and walked down step by step.