At the end of the day, the moon was missing horns and was obscured by layers of clouds, revealing only a glimmer of light.

In the northern suburbs of Lin'an, enter the city from Genshan Gate, bypass the imperial wine storehouse, connect the Meijia Bridge and the Wansui Bridge, and the opposite side of the forage field of the Holy Guard, which is where the Dali Temple of Daliang is located.

Dali Temple is in charge of the Great Liang Military Prison, the power is prominent, and the tall archway takes advantage of the night, which is particularly terrifying. On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the eleventh year of Xingguo, General Zong Peng, a famous general of the Northern Expedition, was imprisoned and was poisoned here. All of a sudden, ominous rumors spread throughout Lin'an.

Two watchmen walked on the empty street, one held a gong, one held a bang, carried a long lantern, knocked while walking, and walked to the front of Dali Temple, just one slow and two fast, three times in a row.

"Boom! - Knock! Boom! Boom! - Knock! Boom! Boom! - Knock! Boom! The sound of three clear beatings spread to the prison behind the yamen of Dali Temple, Li Yue listened to the sound and calculated in his heart, it should be the third watch day now. Four days ago, Li Yue didn't want to bite the old general Wenbin, and after scolding He Shou in the public court and being knocked unconscious and carried back, he was put in a cell alone, and the two brothers didn't know where they were held.

After being beaten unconscious and awakened by the cane, Li Gao shouted the names of Wang Teng and Du Sanjin, but there was no response. He came to this unknown world and possessed this man named Li Yue, and he inherited all his memories, Jin Ou was broken, his family and country were ruined, his loyalty was discouraged, and he was traitorous to the Manchu Dynasty, and Li Yue's heart naturally rose with anger. He was originally a hot-blooded person, but after coming to this world, he was even more careless and fulfilled his heart's wishes. Li Yue did not regret what he did in court, but he couldn't worry about the two brothers, Wang Teng and Du Sanjin.

Wang Tengyuan was a farmer in Huangge Village around Lin'an, and was a descendant of the "Sanhuai Wang Family". Wang Dan, the ancestor of the Wang family, was once the prime minister of Daliang and won a virtuous name. Later, the descendants of the Wang family multiplied, but most of them relied on Enyin as officials, and the whole family lived together. Enyin is getting thinner and thinner with age, the officials are getting smaller and smaller, and the descendants of the Wang family are only willing to study, and are unwilling to do the work of doing business.

Some men in the clan are unwilling to sit in the troubled city, regardless of the ancestral rules of the clan, they come out to make a living, Wang Teng's father is one of them, the clan share of the money secretly saved, to the east of Lin'an City Huangge Village bought 15 acres of land, took over his wife and children to become a farmer, the family is in the village is still in the middle of the upper.

Wang Teng has helped his father with farming since he was a child, and he has a lot of strength. After the old man Wang's family situation stabilized, he also had the idea of letting his son study, and sent Wang Teng to a private school in a first-class household in the village to study. The leader of the recruitment of the Guardian Saint Army saw Wang Teng's figure, tall and strong, and he liked it tightly, so he immediately recruited him, and he followed Li Yue after joining the army.

Du Sanjin used to be a box army. The Great Liang military system, with the Holy Protector Army as the first-class combat force, soldiers, equipment, and supplies are all given priority to supply the Holy Protector Army. The Xiang army is a local miscellaneous soldier, and it is rarely prepared for war in peacetime, so it does more miscellaneous work.

Du Sanjin was thin and small, his family was poor, and he failed to protect the holy army. The recruitment standard of the Xiang Army was low, so he joined the Xiang Army as a miscellaneous soldier for the dredging of the Lin'an River, and he had a consistent monthly income, which was enough to support himself and his mother. Because of his shrewdness and quick mind, he was quickly promoted to the Chengju in the dredging team.

One day, he rescued a woman who had fallen into the water while patrolling the river, and later learned that this woman was actually the concubine of Zhao Suiqian, the governor of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China. Lord Zhao loved this concubine very much, and through this work, Du Sanjin was able to be promoted to the Holy Protector Army, and the monthly money was also increased to two yuan and thirty catties of grain every month. Du Sanjin and the old lady have a small amount of food, and he takes the uneaten grain to the market to sell, and can exchange it for four yuan back, excluding expenses, he can save five or six yuan a month, and his life is gradually becoming more prosperous. Recently, he fell in love with Xiao Leek, a servant girl in the Liang family's carriage and horse shop, and often went to buy some ginger silk plums, lychee paste and the like to make Xiao Leek happy.

"I don't know what happened to these two brothers." Li Yue thought to himself, of course, I don't care about myself, after coming to this world, except for Xiao Ning'er, I am the closest to my brother, and I hope that I won't affect them because of my affairs.

Li Yue was thinking about it, the door of the cell was suddenly opened, and the two prisoners came in with lanterns, and looked at Li Yue with pity, reflecting Li Yue's pale face next to the messy thatch, and the sudden light frightened the shriveled rats in the cell and burrowed back into the rat hole. The younger prisoner said, "Master He interrogated the prisoner Li Yue", and said that together with the old prisoner, Li Yue was put in a yoke.

Li Yue asked the prisoner: "It's the third watch, and it's the middle of the night, how do you go to the court?" ”

The old prisoner kicked Li Yue's waist and said, "If you are told to go, you will go, this thief and soldier, there is as much nonsense as a bird."

The young prisoner on the side couldn't bear it, and said: "Daddy Huang doesn't know, this person is a good man who taught the Beiyou Mission a lesson the day before yesterday, and he has greatly increased my face, and now he has fallen here, and he should be treated preferentially." ”

When the old prisoner heard this, he said: "My old Huang has been in this Dali Temple prison for thirty-eight years, I haven't seen anything dirty and smelly, no matter how steel the man arrives here, he has to nest into a ball of yellow mud, General Zong Peng is such a good man, and in the end he was tortured without a human form, and the torture tools can't go up.

The young prisoner whispered to Li Yue: "There are many people in the court, and those officials dare not use means. This midnight interrogation is what He Shou used to deal with heroes, and our line of work is called 'midnight rooster crowing', and the means are very tight! When the hero can't stand it, he casually confesses, and the green mountains left behind are not afraid of no firewood. ”

Li Yue smiled secretly in his heart: "People's hearts are unpredictable, this young prisoner doesn't know whether it is true or hidden in honey, so he listens to it." Li Yue hurriedly asked, "What about the two people who came in with me?" ”

The young prisoner replied: "Those two are just a small team, and they didn't ask anything after being tortured for a long time, and the thin one can't stand the punishment, and his legs are broken, and now they are locked up in other places."

Li Yue felt a pain in his heart, it seemed that the two brothers had used torture. Du Sanjin's leg was also broken. However, the prisoner's words mean that both of them are safe, so there is nothing to worry about.

As they spoke, the three of them walked from the dungeon to the surface, bypassing the crooked cloister to a low house.