Chapter 166: The small people in the market are not numb
The cell boss is not a serious official position, but there are also personal principles, although this errand is cheap, but the oil and water on weekdays are also very fat, and the people are short and eat people's soft mouths, and the things that should be done still have to be done.
The people who lived in the Chen family in this prison may not recognize Chen Mu, but the cell boss will never forget that this young man once came to visit the prison.
He has no other skills, but these eyes are very vicious.
Since he drank the wine of the second young man of the Chen family, he had to take care of the matter, so after the dismissal, the cell boss did not go home immediately, but went to the Chen family's house.
This is the first time he has come to the Chen family's new house, and he heard that the old house was burned down, and when he saw this big house at this time, the cell boss was a little amazed.
The knocker was still new, so it could be seen that not many people came to visit, and the cell boss hesitated, not through the front door, but around the back door.
After knocking for a while, someone finally answered the door, but it was a familiar person who opened the door.
This man was also in prison earlier, and if he remembered correctly, he should have been surnamed Du, but the cell boss suddenly felt very uneasy, and turned around to leave.
The man grabbed him by the collar and dragged him in without saying a word.
After entering the door, the cell boss found that there were many people gathered inside, and several of them were familiar faces, and their feelings had just been released from the prison, and they all gathered in Chen's house.
"This shop is going to break......" thought the cell boss.
If you tell these people that when they are escorted, Chen Mu will pass by the ancestral tomb, I am afraid that these people will set up an ambush in advance and want to rob Chen Mu!
And judging from the eyes and posture of these people, gathering here must be plotting this matter, and if I say this, I am afraid that I will take the blame!
"Chen Shao's sip of wine is really not good for ......" The cell boss thought, but Du Xingwu and the others couldn't sit still.
"What the hell are you going to do, say it!"
The cell boss looked at it, and there were really all kinds of characters in this room, and he even vaguely saw a few women, secretly looking at the tearoom.
Several student brothers wearing a combination of Chinese and Western new clothes are also eyeing each other, and they don't seem to be afraid at all.
"I ...... I...... It was cold in the prison, Chen Shao asked me to come back and get a few clothes...... "The cell boss couldn't make up his mind for a while, but he was thinking in his heart whether he was seen by acquaintances on the road when he came.
Du Xingwu didn't believe it, and was about to question, but Lu Shengwu, who was dressed in a dark robe, walked out of the house.
His face was very flat, his eyes were slightly narrowed, and he didn't show any murderous aura, but he just walked in front of the cell boss.
The errand of the cell head is also handed down from his ancestors, and in his generation, it is already the third generation, and the cell head can be described as any kind of ruthless character, but for some reason, when he saw this old Taoist, his heart was beating wildly, and his hands and feet were weak, as if he had been hungry for three days and three nights.
"Tell me, what did that kid ask you to do?" Lu Sheng didn't know that it was impossible for Chen Mu to sit still, and it was impossible for this cell boss to really come back to get clothes.
The cell boss didn't dare to look at Lu Shengwu's eyes, but lowered his head, his hands and feet trembled a little, as if he couldn't hide any secrets.
"Yes, Heavenly Master, Chen Shao told me that the county master has already promised him, and on the day of escort, he will pass by the ancestral grave of the Chen family and let Chen Shao kowtow a few times on the prisoner car, so let me come back and ask the old mother of the family to sweep the tomb early and burn some paper money......"
When Du Xingwu and the others heard this, they were suddenly ecstatic in their hearts, they looked at each other, and their faces suddenly couldn't hide their joy.
When the cell boss saw this, his heart was even more bitter, these people were afraid that they were really going to rob people!
Lu Shengwu gently pinched the cell leader's shoulder, opened his eyes, and said to him, "You are here to pick up clothes, yes or no?" ”
"No...... Oh oh oh, yes, yes, I'm here to get clothes for Chen Shao......" I don't know why, as soon as this old Tao spoke, the cell boss felt like he was lost.
Lu Shengwu didn't say anything more, and said to Du Xingwu: "Get him a few autumn clothes." ”
Du Xingwu was not ambiguous, walked to Chen Mu's room, took a few clean autumn clothes, walked out, and handed them to the cell boss.
Lu Sheng said to Lin Wen: "The old way has never brought yellow and white things, so Young Master Lin will reward you with a few errand money." ”
Lin Wen was not verbose, and immediately took a silver coin and stuffed it into the hand of the cell leader.
Where did the cell boss dare to ask for it, but Lu Shengwu said in his ear: "If you accept it, you will be a friend." ”
The cell boss didn't say anything more, but even if he took the silver bill, hugged his clothes, and went out of the back door, he couldn't open his legs, and sat down tremblingly.
Others can't understand that when he faces the old Taoist, it is like worshipping God in a broken temple, and the god statue suddenly comes to life, that kind of pressure, like an invisible hand, directly grabbing your three souls and seven souls, and you can't think at all!
The cell boss did not go out of the alley, but waited until it was dark and there was no one on the street, and then sneaked back home.
He didn't tell anyone about it, as if it had never happened, and the autumn clothes were stuffed directly into the stove and burned clean.
On the second day, Chen Mu also didn't ask, but the cell boss avoided his eyes, and Chen Mu knew that things should have changed somewhat.
In the afternoon, the outside of the cell suddenly became lively, and the cell head seemed to be interrogating the prisoners, and Chen Mu also felt a little strange, so he got up to look.
After all, after he moved in, few prisoners could get close, and the prisoners in the next few prisons had already been transferred.
The cell boss interrogated today seems to be a thief, who has just been caught from outside, and has not yet arranged a prison warehouse, and there are still a few scribes on the side to remember something.
"Say, how did you open the lock!"
The thief was forty or fifty years old, and his body was dirty, but his hands were slender and white, and they were extremely well maintained.
The thief didn't say a word, took the hairpin from his head, walked to the prison number next to it, and opened the iron lock with a click.
"That's it...... That's how it was opened......"
The bookkeepers were also surprised, and took a few more locks for the thief, who could even open the lock with only a hairpin, and even pulled a few silk threads from his belt, twisted them into a rope, and poked the end of the rope into the keyhole with a toothpick, and pulled the rope like a saw, and even opened the lock!
"I didn't see it clearly, open it again, and the uncles will open their eyes and see it clearly!" The cell boss said this, and glanced at Chen Mu's side, intentionally or unintentionally.
Chen Mu suddenly understood something!
He stared intently at the movements of the thief, these locks are all locks in the prison, and the materials for unlocking them are also available everywhere!
Chen Mu didn't dare to say that he would never forget, but after all, he had studied and practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his brain was very easy to use, and the tricks of the thief looked amazing, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to figure out the principle for a while, but as long as he did it, he should be able to open these locks!
These are just secondary, the important thing is why the cell boss is here to interrogate this thief, the location is so mysterious, Chen Mu can't be seen outside, but Chen Mu can see all this clearly!
Even before the thief was taken away, he glanced back, Chen Mu even had some suspicions, this thief was caught at this time, it was extremely strange!
After everyone left, Chen Mu took off the hairpin on his head, and concocted it in the same way, and he could really open the lock of the prison door!
If earlier he couldn't be sure whether the cell boss had taken his information out, then this time, Chen Mu was absolutely sure!
He is not a person who sits idly by, and he also believes that the brothers outside will never abandon him easily, but he didn't expect that this day will come after all!
Seeing that the day of escort was coming, and the brothers also took action, Chen Mu's confidence was even stronger!
At night, the cell boss came back to watch the night, and he no longer approached Chen Mu, but in the dead of night, he made a round as usual.
When he arrived in front of Chen Mu's prison warehouse, he didn't deliberately stay, Chen Mu hid in the darkness and whispered.
"Thank you."
This sentence was like a dream, but the cell leader's body stiffened slightly, stopped for half a step, and then continued to walk forward.
The aisle was not spacious, he had walked for most of his life, and he had never been like this night, and it felt as if the whole aisle had no roof, and he could finally straighten his waist.
He was afraid of the old Taoist priest, but another reason that prompted him to do so was because he saw the common people gathered outside the yamen that day.
These ordinary people are all old cow-like characters, as long as they are given bark and grass roots, they can live, even if life is hard, no matter how much oppression, they are just buried in hard work, just to be able to live.
They will see beheading, they will eat human blood steamed buns to cure tuberculosis, they will be insensitive, and they will not care about themselves.
The cell boss is one of them, so he knows everything about them.
But on the day Chen Mu was arrested, they took to the streets and walked to the gate of the county government office, where they usually wanted to retreat, and sat or stood quietly.
They didn't scream, they didn't protest, they didn't move, they still had a numbness on their faces, and if they didn't look at the little flame in their eyes, it would be as if they were watching the excitement.
But the people of that day became very different because of the little flame in their eyes, as if they had changed their souls.
It was precisely because of this scene that the cell boss decided to let it go.
He knew that if the matter was revealed, he would most likely fall to the ground, and even affect his family, but that little flame also ignited in his eyes.
He was as numb as the people on the street, the same as he no longer believed that there was justice in this world.
But this Chen family and the second young man let them see a kind of selflessness.
He was not an official or a sergeant, but he defeated the foreigners' masters, blew up the foreigners' warships, and it is said that earlier he was still in the foreigners' territory, defeating the foreigners' barbarians!
In any case, the imperial court did not give Chen Jia'er Shao a commendation, but wanted to lock him up and send him to the foreigner to die, which was a matter of righteous indignation.
They are just a mustard in the market, they can't do too many things, they don't have much strength, and they don't have the courage to take the lead in making noise, but they always want to show a fact, and they can't make this second young master feel cold.
They need to let Er Shao know that he is walking in front of him without hesitation, and there are people who follow him and are duty-bound.