Thinking of this, Qiu Niang looked at the people left and right, and then after a little calculation in her heart, she tripped and stumbled and almost fell to the ground. Thanks to the people next to her, she grabbed her arms left and right, so she didn't end up in an embarrassment. However, no matter how light Qiu Niang's body is, it is also a big living person of eighty or ninety pounds, she suddenly became unstable under her feet, and the force of her falling down made the people who supported her arms on both sides couldn't help but shake their bodies slightly.

Qiu Liang saw the opportunity, suddenly broke open his arms with force, and then used the bone-shrinking kung fu he learned from his subordinates, and in only two moments, he had already broken free his hands from the hemp rope. Then Qiu Niang ran and shook the remaining ropes on her body to the ground. Seeing that Qiu Niang has come to the root of this courtyard wall, as long as she jumps up, she can definitely climb over the wall with Qiu Niang's style. And when Qiu Niang came, she had already observed it clearly outside, and this courtyard turned out from this wall, which was the largest street in Zhangye County. From this street all the way to the north, with Qiu Niang's foot power, it only takes three to five minutes to reach the inn where Li Wenyuan and the others stayed before. So this can be said to be the only way for Qiu Niang to escape from here, and it is also the only life-saving straw.

Just when Qiu Niang carried her strength to her legs and was about to lift her qi and jump upward, suddenly a gunshot rang out from behind her. Qiu Niang suddenly felt that Fang Niang was still full of strength, and there was a warm current on the calf and stomach of her right leg, flowing down from top to bottom. The strength that I finally accumulated, but I couldn't continue it no matter what, and it seemed to be gradually lost along with the warm current.

It's too late, it's too soon. Not long after Qiu Niang felt this warm current flowing down from top to bottom, she felt a huge pain coming from her calf. The painful Qiu Niang could no longer stand steadily, and sat down on the ground again. Qiu Niang stretched out her hand and touched it on her calf, and then looked at it with the help of the cold and bright moonlight, only to see that her hands were full of blood. Looking closely, it turned out that the shin bone of his calf was shattered by the projectile inspired by the gunfire behind him, and it was already a bloody hole from back to front.

Qiu Niang raised her head and looked in the direction of the gunshot. I saw that it was no one else who shot it, it was the night owl commander. After the night owl commander shot Qiu Niang and stopped Qiu Niang's escape, he returned to his house without looking back, and an order came faintly on the road:

"You guys, forget it this time. If you let this little girl run away again, you all go home and get ready, and go and be poplars. ”

Qiu Niang clearly saw that the subordinates next to her couldn't help but shudder in unison after hearing the words of the night owl leader. His face was full of horror, as if he had heard something extremely terrifying.

In fact, the poplar wood mentioned by the night owl commander is a torturous method that the night owls of Zhangye County and Wuwei County came up with according to local conditions. Because these two places are vast deserts to the north, it is common to see poplar trees in the desert that still stand even in the sandy sea. Somehow, the night owls of these two county governments came up with a new way to torture people.

The so-called poplar tree is to be bound with hemp rope and brought to the desert by the person who is to be punished by this punishment. Then, using a shovel, dig a shallow pit in the sand that is more than half a person deep. Afterwards, two men carried wooden sticks and lifted the punished person upside down from his head and feet and sent him into a shallow pit. Finally, the person next to him shoveled the sand next to him back into the shallow pit. After filling in the shallow pit, the person who was buried in it still had a breath, so he brought a boulder from the side and pressed it within a circle around the person who was punished, so as to immobilize his body and prevent him from falling down while he struggled desperately.

After the body of the person being punished is fixed, the ropes that bind the legs and feet of the person being punished are removed, and the person is bought into the yellow sand with his head down. Even if you are lucky, you can ensure that the quicksand does not enter the nasal cavity in the first place. But what I breathe is also the scorching air in the sand, and in addition, a lot of blood flows to the head under the head, which makes people feel dizzy. The more dizzy and swollen the head, the more oxygenated blood the human heart has to pump. In this way, it becomes an endless cycle, under which the buried person loses his mind to think. At this time, the legs are suddenly free, and they will be kicked aimlessly outside until the last moment of life, and can no longer step on it, and finally can only hang down weakly, like a poplar tree standing in the sea of sand, and it is for this reason that this very cruel punishment is called planting poplar.

That's why those people before were so scared after hearing the words of the Night Stalker Commander. For at present, there is no more cruel punishment. After all, this era. hasn't invented such a way to die as Ling Chi yet.

Qiu Niang's calf was pierced with a blood hole at this time, and the shin bone of the calf was shattered by the projectile, although it was said that under the emergency treatment of those subordinates next to her, the blood had been temporarily stopped. However, if you don't receive medical treatment in the first place, even if the bone is connected in the future, it will cause irreparable sequelae. But obviously Qiu Niang doesn't have that treatment now, it's good to be able to save a life at this time, what else do you want?

So Qiu Niang, who had completely lost her ability to move, was supported by the people next to her, and was taken to the Tianzi cell in the dungeon. Then the people who accompanied him were thrown on the straw in the cell so casually. He retreated directly and locked the door from the outside.

Qiu Niang endured the pain in her calf, opened her eyes and looked around carefully. He found that there were no other cells within twenty paces of his cell. And even the pleading voices of the detainees in the other cells seem to be almost inaudible. In this cell, there was only a small oil lamp in the corridor outside, and it seemed that because no one had come to add oil for a long time, the flame on the wick was only the size of a soybean grain.