The old capital is silent in the middle of the night,

Except for the starlight and the torches of the officials, the buildings on both sides of the street are all dark.

In the distance, there was the sound of a watchman telling the time, and occasionally one or two wild dogs and tanuki would make some noise in the street, but there was no sound at all

The night in early spring was still cold and oozing bones, Lan Ziyi was escorted out wearing only pajamas, and at this time, the cold wind was gusting, and Lan Ziyi was shivering.

The Tao brothers were shivering when they saw Lan Ziyi, not to mention worrying, but everyone was tied up, and there was nothing to do at this time.

Tao Zhutu's mouth was still oozing blood, and he said to the leader who was riding on the horse:

"You dog looks at people and low things, what should you do if you take my young master out like this on such a cold day, what should I do if I have a problem with freezing? Bring your clothes! ”

The head catcher didn't reply, and said:

"Cold? It's cold and you're in the old capital, wouldn't it be nice to stay at home? Didn't you have a long memory just now? Would you like to teach you the rules again? ”

When the peach chased the rabbit heard the anger, he was angry in his heart, and he wanted to continue to scold,

However, Lan Ziyi turned his head and gave a look, signaling Tao Zhutu not to be reckless, after all, the current situation is like this, and it is useless to be stubborn with this group of people.

Lan Ziyi endured the cold and said to the head catcher:

"Take me to see Taishou, and it will be clear when you see it."

The head catcher snorted coldly again and said:

"Taishou-sama, you can see it if you want? If you think you're something, you'll have to fill the prison if you count the details of what you caught tonight. I'll take your paperwork first, and I'll talk about the rest later. ”

The officials took Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers to prison,

Today's prison door in the middle of the night can almost be described as full of people and traffic.

Bands of servants took men back to the prison from all sides, and a group of soldiers escorted men and women and peasants to the gates of the prison.

A group of people gathered around the door of the cell and were sent to the cell separately, and many of them shouted for injustice, but the reply they received was a severe beating.

Lan Ziyi was also ready to push into the crowd, and after some confusion, he was untied from the ropes and shackled, pushed and shoved and sent to the cell.

The cell was dark and damp, and the room that could only hold a few people was stuffed alive with more than a dozen people, men and women huddled together.

Although it was uncomfortable for people to huddle together, and the musty smell in the cell was disgusting, it was finally warm.

Lan Ziyi lay on the wooden fence of the cell, looking around for the Tao brothers, and soon saw that the three of them were locked up in other cells.

At the same time, Lan Ziyi probably had an understanding of the layout of this cell, one after another small cells surrounded by a large open space, and the open space and the small cells around formed a large cell, with various torture instruments and lit braziers on the open space, it seems that this is a place for torture.

"It's not good, it's bad luck."

A person next to Lan Ziyi was also lying on the railing,

This person is one or two years older than Lan Ziyi, not tall, slightly thin, his face seems to have pockmarks, potholes, a slightly fat nose, small eyes, and always squinted when he speaks, but he always looks like a good person.

Lan Ziyi saw that this person was also wearing pajamas like him, so he asked:

"This brother, may I ask you were also arrested from the inn?"

The man turned his face to look at Lan Ziyi and said:

"yes. Alas, it was really a tiger falling into Pingyang and being bullied by dogs. ”

Lan Ziyi heard this person sigh and asked:

"Listening to the meaning of Brother Tai's words, is the family of official eunuchs?"

The man shook his head and said:

"I am the hereditary commander of Beizhen, Yuyang Zhou Buhui is also, I was about to rush to the capital to receive the title these days, passing by the old capital, I didn't expect to suffer this kind of crime."

Lan Ziyi was pleasantly surprised when he heard it, but he didn't expect to meet the border general in prison. Lan Ziyi remembered that the Yuyang Zhou family, like the Lan family, was the founding martial artist and guarded the north. Before Lan Qianzhen's debut, the Zhou family was commanding the Northern Army, and after Lan Qianzhen led the troops to fight, the Zhang family gradually declined.

Although Lan Ziyi felt that his father might be suspected of replacing the Zhou family, but now that he was in prison, he still had a feeling of meeting his old acquaintance in a foreign country, so he said:

"Brother Buhui turned out to be behind the gate, I am Lan Ziyi, the son of Lan Qianzhen, this time I was also ordered to enter Beijing, I only arrived in the old capital this evening, and I was arrested not long after I lived here."

Zhou Buhui looked Lan Ziyi up and down when he heard this, his eyes were complicated, and there seemed to be envy, jealousy, rejection and some other feelings. But soon this Zhang Longfei put down his emotional pressure and said with a smile:

"Brother Ziyi, I really don't know whether to say fate or bad luck when we meet in this kind of place."

Before he finished speaking, a heart-rending scream came from the other side of the wall, and then one after another screams came and went.

With a bang, the door of the large cell was opened, and a group of fleshy jailers entered,

As the jailers entered, they cursed and said:

"******, I slept soundly in the middle of the night, and I ended up pulling people up from the bed, which was really unlucky."

"Don't complain, it's too much to start interrogating prisoners overnight, it's too late on our side, you didn't hear that the next door has already done it."

Lan Ziyi gasped after hearing this, and then looked back at the people in this small cell, that is, there were people dressed as travelers, and farmers dressed as farmers, and most importantly, there were several women, and then look at the other small cells, there were also many women.

Lan Ziyi said to Zhou Buhui:

"According to my Taisho law, men and women should be kept in separate rooms, and they should all be stuffed into one room......"

Before he finished speaking, a jailer shouted at the crowd at the top of his voice:

"You who are fluent in foreign countries have heard it to me clearly, thanks to your wisdom, I have seen through your tricks. So now those who know each other should quickly admit their crimes, and don't waste our brother's time. Is there any admitted? ”

Lan Ziyi thought to himself: "I'm not guilty, what do you want me to confess?" Miles to foreign countries? Nono meticulously? It's a fantasy. ”

The people who were arrested behind Lan Ziyi heard this, and they all threw themselves on the railing and shouted

"Wronged, sir, wronged! We were wronged!"

The jailer who spoke heard someone cry out for injustice, and with an expression on his face that seemed to be the satisfaction of a long-awaited desire, he spoke quietly;

"Wronged? Good, good, good. You won't feel wronged later. ”

As he spoke, he gestured to the person next to him, and several jailers opened a small cell next to Lan Ziyi and dragged out a young peasant girl from inside.

When a middle-aged peasant in the prison saw the girl being arrested, he shouted:

"Oh, sir, you let my daughter go!"

The leader heard someone confessing his relatives and gestured again, and all the peasants who had just shouted were taken out of their cells.

The jailer looked at the farmer who had been brought out and tortured together, and said:

"Confession?"

The farmer bowed his head and was silent,

Seeing that no one spoke, the smile on the jailer's face became more satisfied, and he turned to look at the girl next to him, stretched out his hand to rub oil on the girl's face, and gave an order to the jailer next to him:

"Come, donkey~"

Hearing this, the farmer next to him boiled again,

"Sir! Stop! My girl is still a big girl with yellow flowers, and she has not committed adultery with anyone, how can you send a wooden donkey? ”

The jailer's head sneered and said:

"You said that the yellow flower girl is the yellow flower girl? You gang of anti-thieves who are in touch with foreign countries, you dare to rob military rations in broad daylight, and those traitors must be child's play, so how can you have any credibility at all. ”

The farmer next to him almost cried and said:

"Master, we didn't grab food!"

The head of the jailer was even more pleased when he heard this, and said:

"Didn't rob it? Get on the wooden donkey! ”

As he spoke, he and a few jailers next to him reached out and stripped the girl of her clothes, and the girl was so frightened that she couldn't possess her body and shouted for help

"Father, mother! Help me! ”

When the farmer saw this, he fell to his knees, and cried and pleaded:

"Master, master! You can spare my daughter! Please! ”

Several jailers carried the **** girl to the wooden donkey, although the girl couldn't figure out what was going to happen, but it was definitely not a good thing, and she struggled while calling for help.

The jailer stood still and asked the farmer who was kneeling on the ground

"Have you robbed the rations?"

The farmer knelt on the ground and said:

"Master, I didn't grab food. My family's land is still far from the main road, and it is impossible to grab food. ”

Hearing this, the jailer waved his hand, and several officials lifted the girl up and pressed her on the wooden donkey.

Suddenly the girl let out a scream.

When the farmer saw this, he hurriedly said:

"Stop, stop. Master, I robbed the grain, I robbed the grain, you are going to torture me, let my girl go! ”

When the jailer heard this, he raised his hand to signal a stop, and then asked the farmer:

"Okay, just admit it. Then tell me who the conspirators are. ”

The farmer thought that he could save his daughter by admitting it, but when the jailer asked him these questions, he was speechless for a while, not knowing what to answer.

The jailer was silent again, and laughed viciously:

"Don't say yes, do you? Punish me! ”

As he spoke, the jailer activated the mechanism, and the girl was tied behind her back and put her hands on the wooden donkey, and as the mechanism started, her eyes rolled white, her muscles tensed, and she was sweating profusely, and a pool of blood began to appear on the ground, and at the same time, the girl's screams resounded in the sky, and the timid people in the prison were already so frightened that they peed their pants.

When the farmer saw the miserable situation over there, he cried and scolded:

"You brutes, do this kind of thing, my family didn't rob the grain, you are here to frame me, and you want to torture my daughter."

The jailer's head sneered and said:

"I just confessed to robbing, and I will say that I didn't rob it, I obviously want to shield my accomplices, come on, and go to punishment!"

As he spoke, a few jailers next to him pushed the farmer down on the tiger chair and sat up straight, filled the bricks under his feet one by one, and asked as he added:

"Say, Who are the accomplices? Who are the accomplices? ”

The jailer's head did not seem satisfied with the screams of the two men, and looked around in a drunken daze, and said:

"It's too slow to ask, and I won't be able to ask anything next year. Give me a job! ”

With this order, the jailers took people from the cells, and one of them, who appeared to be a passing merchant, knelt down and said:

"I admit it, I admit it, I'm in a foreign country, I say everything."

When the jailer heard this, he walked over and asked:

"So you're just doing it? Then tell me who you have the upper hand, who the lower limit is, what is the code, what contact is used, where is the stronghold, how to arrange this time to launch the rebels to grab food, and how many times will you rob it in the future? Give me all the real recruits one by one! ”

The jailer asked so many questions, and the person who was arrested obviously just wanted to escape the pain of flesh and skin, but he didn't expect so much, and he couldn't speak for a while.

The head of the jailer sneered and said:

"Knowing that you have done everything to delay time, and there is no half of the truth in your mouth, you are willing to say it yourself without punishment? No way! ”

The merchant was visibly frightened, and had become incontinent, but this did not stop the jailer from escorting him to a chair, under which were a pair of red-hot iron shoes.

The torture continued, Lan Ziyi was shocked and frightened, he had never seen such a scene, he had never heard such a miserable voice, he wanted to open his mouth to save the girl, he wanted to tell the group of jailers his identity, he wanted to prevent these things from happening, but for some reason, he just couldn't make a sound, Lan Ziyi felt like he was in a dream, but it was just a nightmare, and things looked so unreal.

Every time the jailers arrest someone, they deliberately avoid Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers, as well as Zhang Longfei next to Lan Ziyi, and a few times when they are about to be caught, the jailers will whisper a few words to each other, which seems to help them with the paperwork they carry.

Just when the jailers were beating hard and screaming in the prison, the door of the cell was opened, and an old man wearing an official uniform was escorted into the prison by the officials next to him.

When the jailers saw this, they all temporarily stopped the torture in their hands,

The old man was already rickety, and he seemed to be quite old, with a handkerchief in one hand covering his nose, and his eyes were drowsy, and he only shed a little energy as he swept over the half-dead girl who was tortured by the wooden donkey.

The old man stood in the middle of the prison and asked in a groggy voice:

"Which one is Lan Ziyi Lan Weihou?"