There is a place in the world where no one wants to spend three days in a place where the surrounding scenery is picturesque and the interior decoration is comparable to that of a seven-star hotel.

This place is the prison, a place where freedom and dignity have been lost.

The Zhenwu Palace outside the east gate of Chengdu, since it was announced by the new Zhengying-level Taoist Wang Hong to be renamed Tianpeng Palace, the daily stream of pilgrims has dispersed more than half.

Seeing such a decadent situation, Daoist Wang believed that it was the abbot of Zhenwu Palace and the Taoist priests who were decadent in Taoism and imperfect in Taoism, so they announced that the palace would be closed for three months, and they would be concentrated in Qingyang Palace to make up classes, and earnestly study and comprehend the vast supernatural powers and boundless magic power of Marshal Tianpeng. didn't know it well, and if he didn't pass the exam, he took off his robe and went to make a living. During this period, by the way, the statue of Emperor Zhenwu was destroyed and the majestic statue of Emperor Tianpeng and Fairy Chang'e was reshaped.

The temporary closure of Zhenwu Palace is additional good news for Wu Jishan, who is in charge of the Chengdu anti-rebellion work in Chengdu.

Because of the start of the rebellion, the prisons of the Chengdu prefecture and county officials were all filled within a few days, and the newly arrested prisoners were worried that there was no place to lock them.

As a result, the backyard of Zhenwu Palace and other places that do not need to be renovated for the time being are separated by several high walls, and have become temporary prisons for prisoners from Huayang and Chengdu counties.

On this day, a sharp bamboo whistle pierced the dull air above the backyard of Zhenwu Palace, and a hoarse voice shouted:

"Let go of the wind, the old rules, a stick of incense! Wash clothes,, pee, and empty the toilet! ”

The copper lock was clicked, and the crowd poured out.

Li Xiping numbly followed behind the people and slowly walked out of the prison door.

At the moment of stepping out of the threshold, Li Xiping's foot was knocked down by another straddle foot, and he almost fell into a.

Fortunately, he walked slowly, only stumbled a few steps under the eaves and did not fall.

Before Li Xiping could figure out whose foot was growing on his foot, a mouthful of yellow phlegm flew into the air again, swept past his face, and finally smashed into a soft mess on the prison wall.

"Black skin catches black skin, yellow dog bites yellow dog, this is the current world newspaper!" A voice shouted strangely in the crowd, causing bursts of laughter.

Ay!

Li Xiping sighed heavily, found a pillar base without pillars under the eaves, and sat down, enjoying the rare sunshine alone.

The sunshine seemed to know the warmth and coldness of human feelings, and immediately hugged him, filling his whole body, so that he finally felt a trace of warmth that he had not felt for a long time.

"Shop head!"

An old policeman appeared in the light with a baton, blocking a humanoid black shadow in front of Li Xiping.

"Old king, don't call me that. It's not good for your future! Li Xiping squinted his eyes and shook his head, "Now that I am your prisoner, according to the police regulations, when I see you, I should take the initiative to stand up and shout a report." ”

"Shop, this is the time to release the wind, there is no need to make rules!" The old policeman laughed and handed over a water hyacinth.

Li Xiping was really thirsty, so he took the water hyacinth and opened his mouth to drink.

"You are a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs! These goddamn pups, look how Lao Tzu cleans them up! The old policeman said hatefully with his baton.

Li Xiping did not answer. He stared at the familiar black and white baton and asked, "Old Wangtou, have you been promoted?" ”

"This ......"

The old king embarrassedly put the water and fire stick back under his armpit, and said with a sneer: "It's not your blessing...... I can't read a single word...... Just proxy...... Hehe, the agent shop! When you get back, it's still yours! ”

Li Xiping didn't care that Lao Wangtou snatched the position of the head of the police shop. What he cared about was the hatred that the old king had just revealed.

"Old king, don't be disciplined! Although our police are not the National Protector Army, they are also disciplined forces! If you violate discipline, you will be removed from your post and investigated! These people hate me, I know. It's not surprising, who let me lead you to capture them? Tell me, if I caught you, would you hate me? ”

"Okay, shop, you still think about them at this time!" The old policeman withdrew the water hyacinth and muttered discontentedly. At this time, the old king's head

finally made up his mind to secretly tell him the news he had just inquired about and told his past leader and today's criminal Li Xiping.

"Shop, I'll tell you a message. Maybe someone else is saying nonsense, don't take it seriously! ”

"Say it, it's a big deal to cut off the skull!"

The head of the shop was mentally prepared to cut off the skull, and the old Wang Tou suddenly unloaded the heavy burden.

"Shop, I heard that Sheriff Liang arrested you, not because you offended him, nor because you violated discipline...... But...... It is the will of the prince himself, and you are arrested by name! In other words, your case is a royal case! ”

Imperial case?

Li Xiping buzzed in his head.

Even the old king knows the seriousness of the imperial case, doesn't he know?

The case is not of considerable seriousness, and it is impossible to stab the son; The case is not conclusive evidence, and it is impossible for the prince to personally speak to arrest him; Without the son's personal speech, no one could have let him out.

On the contrary, in order to prove the correctness of the son of the world's arrest of him, countless people will use various means to obtain evidence to prove his guilt! And the crime is so serious that not killing is not enough to outrage the people!

Did you really do something wrong?

At the moment of learning the truth, Li Xiping had no anger and frustration, only infinite confusion and loss.

……

The old king has already gone away. Li Xiping was still sitting in the sun in a daze, as if everything in the world had nothing to do with him, until a person came and woke him up heavily.

"Instead of sitting and sighing, it's better to fight!" The comer said loudly.

The person who came was a middle-aged scholar, thirty-two years old, surnamed Gu, with the name Jiang, the scientific name Jishen, the word Zhongqing, and a member of Kunshan County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhi.

The reason why Li Xiping remembers it so clearly is because this person was also captured by him himself, and it was also a record made by him.

However, there are many people who have made transcripts for Li Xiping. Gu Jiang left a deep impression on Li Xiping, not because he was born in Suzhou, but he traveled thousands of miles to Bazi in western Sichuan; It was not because of the raging Tatars outside the Guan, but he chose a word name called "Zhongqing".

Gu Jiang made a deep impression on Li Xiping, and telling the real reason might make Gu Jiang collapse.

Because of Gu Jiang's appearance - ugly, so ugly that he cried ghosts and gods; Because of Gu Jiang's demeanor - weird, weird with salt and taste!

I saw Gu Jiang's bronze eyes and mouth slitted, his forehead was wide and his chin was pointed, and his face was indescribably weird.

In addition, Gu Jiang often talks about time and occasion, and his behavior is very different from ordinary people, so he and Li Xiping were imprisoned before and after, and they have taken the lead in getting the nickname "Gu Wei (eccentric)".

However, although Gu Jiang looks unbearable and behaves strangely, he is an open-minded person. When others called him weird, he replied as if his real name was like that.

"Gu Wei, you are carrying a stinky toilet, and you don't go into the house to put it away, but you go to tear up Master Li first. You're ill-intentioned!

Be careful when Lord Li turns over, first hangs you for three days, and then shows the official mansion, removes your reputation, and then escorts you to the execution ground, with a thousand knives, not a single knife, and smearing salt while cutting the flesh......"

Someone behind him spoke in a weird way.

Li Xiping could hear that the person who said the strange thing was the owner of the Wenjia bookstore outside the East Gate, and the street was famous for the large intestine, because the meat on his belly was round and round, like a pig's large intestine with oil.

The reason why Wen was imprisoned was that the Wen family bookstore printed pamphlets satirizing Shizi and Miss Luo.

For example, the "Shudu Chaos Public Post" pasted all over the streets and alleys of Chengdu, Wenjia is the main printer. When Li Xiping led people to search, he fished out several large stacks of "Shu Capital Chaos Official Post" that had been printed from the thatched pit of the bookstore, as well as nine engravings used to print the Spring Palace map. It can be said that everyone has stolen goods, and there is an iron case.

"Master Li has been wronged, and sooner or later he will be released! Master Li, do you say? ”

Without waiting for Gu Wei's echo to fight back, another flattering voice had already sounded behind the two. Li Xiping could also hear that it was the white boss of the Baiji paper shop outside the Zhenjiang Bridge.

Boss Bai is a native of Qianwei County, and he worked as an apprentice as a domestic helper in Chengdu when he was a teenager, and later accumulated

Saved money to open this paper shop outside the city.

Bamboo paper in Qiongzhou, calligraphy and painting paper in Jiajiang, straw paper in Xinjin, Shu paper in Chengdu, and Baiji paper shops are all sold. When the police shop first opened, Li Xiping was also a frequent customer of the Baiji paper shop.

Later, Bai Ji Paper Shop acted as an agent for the kraft paper produced in Yazhou, and the business ushered in the second spring, which also laid the foundation for Boss Bai to be imprisoned.

The Tax Department has been eyeing Boss Bai for a long time. Taking advantage of his good business, he came to check the tax at this time. Of course, Boss Bai didn't want to pay taxes, so he argued that the business was very poor. The tax department then took out the voucher of his purchase in Yazhou and asked him where the goods were sold.

Boss Bai didn't understand the severity of the market at this time, so he strongly argued that the goods were rained on the road and thrown on the side of the road. So the person from the tax department smiled, took out a few small boxy pieces of paper from his arms, and said that this thing left the mark on your shop, you will not deny it.

Only then did Boss Bai panic: it turned out that those pieces of paper were fake tax stamps that he tore out! In accordance with the rules promulgated by the Department of Taxation, a fake tax invoice will be issued, and a penalty of 10 will be imposed according to the false one; Once the amount exceeds fifty taels of silver, the head will be cut off and the property will be punished!

Boss Bai entered the police shop, and in the first trial, the fake tax stamps were exchanged by him with ten catties of banknotes from the second bastard outside the east gate.

Banknotes!

So Boss Bai's case escalated instantly. Cases of tax evasion, false invoices, counterfeit banknotes, and cases of reversal. Because the second bastard not only printed fake tax stamps, but also printed yellow and white cards, and sold three white cards to Lu Yi, a spy at the imperial court!

The order from above is poor. Boss Bai's development in Yazhou Paper Mill was launched, and the downline of buying paper and printing reactionary leaflets were arrested. As an important witness and accomplice in several major cases, he also went to this Zhenwu Palace and was with Li Xiping, the party to the imperial case.

Boss Bai didn't help himself speak, and suddenly made Wen Wen's large intestine extremely unhappy:

"Oh, it's been this time, and I'm still worried about your broken paper shop! I'll tell you the truth, Lao Bai, you want to blame me for the trouble! As long as the first hall is promoted, Lao Tzu will insist that you sell paper to me, just to print the post! ”

"Hey...... Ay...... Why don't you tell the truth? When you came to buy paper, you clearly said that it was printing books and printing Shu test textbooks! Why is it that blood is spurting at this time? ”

Boss Bai was so anxious that his feet jumped, but he couldn't think of a way to prove his innocence for a while.

"What Lao Tzu is telling now is the truth, what's the matter? Do you want to fight? Smelling the large intestine, he straightened his fat belly and arched the close-fitting white boss.

"You! You! Lao Tzu fought with you today! ”

Honest people also have times when they are in a hurry. Boss Bai lifted the hem of the robe and inserted it into the belt, and was about to step forward to fight with Wen's large intestine.

Smelling the large intestine and looking at Boss Bai's shriveled and short figure, he laughed, and made a good call, and also came to concoct it in the same way, posing as a horn-topping cow.

Seeing that the two were about to be killed together, the lively one had already booked a position, but a sharp bamboo whistle made everyone scatter.

"It's itchy, isn't it? Do you want the long water and fire stick to help you scratch? ”

The old policeman rushed over, wielding his feared yin-yang stick in his hand.

"Old king!" Li Xiping softly stopped the old Wang Tou who was about to exert his power and asked, "Is it time to release the wind?" ”

"A stick of incense, how can it be so fast? It's still half a cut away! ”

"Good! Good! Li Xiping nodded repeatedly, and turned his face to Gu Wei, who was carrying the toilet and looking forward to himself, "Mr. Gu, what do you mean by what you just said?" Li is in trouble, please ask Mr. Gu for advice! ”

"Those who don't want to know me are the ones who capture me!"

Gu Wei laughed and threw the wet empty toilet on the ground, pouted his ass and pushed Li Xiping's body up, and sat on the half-pillar base unceremoniously:

"Whoever wants to ask me must be a prophet!"

"Lao Wang, I will be the head of the shop again, borrow a stool from you, and invite this gentleman to sit!" Li Xiping said.

"Okay! You wait! ”

The old king looked at Li Xiping's serious face, and hurriedly moved the stool.

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