Chapter 3: Flames
Chu Xi's mood calmed down a little, but he saw Yun Qian looking at him in a daze, and the flush that had just receded appeared again. His slender eyebrows like willow leaves were slightly raised, and he said angrily: "I'm just like a woman, and I want you to take care of it!" Am I not anxious for you? It's good for you to eat in front of others and vent your anger in front of me! I'll just ask you if you'll come with me,"
"I'm not leaving." Yun Qian said firmly.
"Hmph, if you don't go, I'll go. I'm really nosy," Chu Xi said, flicking his sleeves, turning around and leaving.
Yun Qian also felt very bitter in his chest, and secretly glanced at Chu Xi's figure and lowered his head.
After a while, he didn't hear the sound of the iron door of the cell opening and closing, and his heart moved, and he looked up with a little expectation.
Chu Xi didn't leave, but stood there a little confused. When he found Yun Qian's gaze, he stomped his foot lightly in embarrassment, and said softly: "Xiao Qian, I know that you are bored in your heart, and it is difficult to get rid of it. It's just a senior brother, it's not right. Be obedient, and now let me go. If you delay any longer and miss the opportunity, you won't be able to leave when you want to. ”
Yun Qian shook his head and sighed slightly: "Senior brother, Yun Qian is grateful to you from the bottom of my heart. I have no relatives and no reason in this world, and although the other senior brothers in the academy treat me very well on weekdays, they also know that they are only from an adopted son, and they can't frolic with them like the eldest brother. I'm not very good at getting along with people, I don't have any friends, only senior brother, you treat me sincerely. Every time I am troubled, it is your brother who is defending me. My qualifications are mediocre, my poetry and songs are not as good as Senior Brother Hua, my art of war and martial arts are not as good as my brother, and even my strategy and mathematics are far from Senior Brother Zhou. Sir didn't have any high hopes for me, but you always tried to teach me..."
"Xiao Qian, you..." Chu Xi's eyes were a little shining.
"Senior brother, don't interrupt, listen to me," Chu Xi paused and continued, "Senior brother sacrificed his life to save today, I am very grateful. But I can't go. If I leave, my father and brother will be implicated. I know very well that they designed me to take the blame, but after all, I grew up in the Yun family. The Yun family is in me, and the grace is rebuilt. I don't want to send anyone to the fence anymore. Since the Yun family needs it, I am willing to pay for it with my life. If you don't owe anything to others, you can be more casual in the next life. The same should be true for the husband to kill himself! “
Chu Xi raised his hand violently and couldn't bear to beat it, and scolded angrily: "You are in such a state of mind, you think you are sacrificing yourself for benevolence, but it's all just some cowardly words!" I, Chu Xi, am also alone in this world, without relatives and no reason. This person is warm and cold, but I'm afraid that I know three points more than you, the little young master who grew up in the Yun family. People in this world will do some things for others, but the most important thing is to live for themselves. No one in this world will be kind to you for no reason, and those who are kind to you naturally want you to reciprocate. This friendship between people is just a transaction. Debt is a debt, how can there be a reason to pay for it with life. I think that I am a student of the Academy, what I learn is to work vertically and horizontally, to seek in the temple, and to plan in the battlefield. But you stick to those rotten Confucian doctrines. What a killing, it's just bullshit! “
Chu Xi said a lot in indignation, felt a little out of place, glared at Yun Qian and stopped talking.
Yun Qian sneered slightly: "Senior brother, you said that people use each other and have no true feelings, so what are you saving today?" ”
Chu Xi turned around and said coldly after hearing this: "I naturally have a plan to save you." I'm going to use you to do something for me. Don't you like to repay kindness, how can you repay me when you die? ”
"What do you want me to do for you?"
"I'll tell you when you get out alive first. If you are bent on death, I don't bother to talk to a dead person in vain" Chu Xi knocked lightly on the wooden table, and said in a deep voice, "This matter is related to my net worth, I think you are a reliable person, so I took the trouble to come to save you, I hope you don't misunderstand." Don't worry that those shameless people will be implicated if you go out, now that the confession has been signed, the scum of the Courtyard who came in with you have already been picked up. Now that you have fled, you are still the one who is wanted. “
Chu Xi looked at Yun Qian, who was in deep thought, and sighed lightly: "I'm really going to leave this time, if you want to figure it out, come with me." ”
Chu Xi took one last look at Yun Qian, and no longer lingered, and gently opened the iron door.
Yun Qian shook his head fiercely, got up and followed behind Chu Xi, and said firmly: "Yun Qian is fortunate to be valued by his senior brother, and Yun Qian cannot repay all the kindness of his senior brother." Yun Qian swears here, no matter what the senior brother entrusts, Yun Qian will gamble his life to do it for the senior brother! ”
A faint smile appeared on the corner of Chu Xi's mouth, but he whispered in annoyance: "What a fool, what kind of life is not life, you have a few lives that can be used by me." ”
Yun Qian was a little speechless, and silently followed Chu Xi out. In the corridor outside the cell, the jailers were lying on the ground softly, and Yun Qian looked curiously at thousands of times, and there was a faint blood mark on the throat of those people, who were actually killed by someone who cut their throats with a sword. Yun Qian looked at it and was secretly frightened.
Chu Xi glanced at Yun Qian, as if he had guessed what he was thinking, and said expressionlessly: "If you want to escape from prison, naturally someone will die." As I said earlier, no one cares about your life or death except yourself, so you don't have to care too much about other people's lives or deaths. Hurry up and change into one of the jailer's clothes and sneak out. I'll be behind you and you'll be there. ”
Yun Qian looked at Chu Xi's beautiful face, and just wanted to ask Chu Xi why he didn't change into a jailer's clothes, he felt that this was a very idiotic question. With Chu Xi's spotless face, I am afraid that no matter how I change my clothes, I will be able to wear it.
Although Yun Qian was a little dissatisfied with Chu Xi's ruthless behavior, since those jailers were all dead, no matter how much entanglement there was, it was useless. He then changed into the jailer's clothes, loosened the headband a little, and barely covered half of his face with his hair. The dungeon is dimly lit, so it's safe.
Chu Xi followed behind Yun Qian, walking all the way up, the cramped path of the prison twisted and turned, but fortunately, there was no fork in the road. From time to time, Yun Qian would see the corpses of several jailers, all of whom had their throats cut with a sword, clean and neat. I was afraid that Chu Xi had killed all the prison guards in this felon, Yun Qian thought so, and soon came to the intersection where the felons handed over before.
There was a jailer walking in front of him, the one who had been kicked over by Yun Che earlier. Yun Qian was shocked, and quickly lowered his head. Which jailer was so ignorant of interest, so he walked straight to Yun Qian and accosted: "Oh, Brother Li, why did you come here?" ”
Yun Qian hid his face in the shadows, and said in a rough voice: "Ahem, I've had a cold these days. I was very unwell today, so I applied to leave my job early and go back to rest. ”
"Ah, that's worth it. I know a doctor in the north of the city, who specializes in wind and cold, which can be described as a wonderful rejuvenation! I'm fine, so why don't I take you there? "Anyway, when you come up, you have to pull Yun Qian's sleeve.
Yun Qian hurriedly took a few steps back to try to avoid it. The jailer was not interested, and he was close to thousands of sets: "Brother Li, Brother Li, you see that your hair can't be tied up and comes out of your hat, and the prison elder will punish you when he sees it." He reached out and pulled back the hair from Yun's shallow forehead. Yun Qian couldn't dodge this sudden attack.
Chu Xi saw that something was wrong, and the sword light in his hand shone slightly, rushing out from behind Yun Qian. Yun Qian hurriedly blocked with his body.
The jailer was startled, then looked at it again and said dumbfounded, "Cloud... Yun Gongzi..."When the jailer came back to his senses for a while, he turned to the side and ran, shouting: "Escape from prison!" Jailbreak! Yun Gongzi has escaped from prison! ”
"The kindness of a woman!" Chu Xi scolded Yun Qian angrily, and before getting up, he pierced the jailer through the heart from behind. The jailer did not stiffen when he died, but used his last strength to pull down a chain by the wall.
With a "boom", the thousand-pound iron gate was lowered, and the entire cell shook. When the dust settled, Yun Qian and Chu Xi's way forward had been blocked. The iron gate fell, and it was almost impossible to open it from the inside.
But listening to the noisy footsteps on the other side of the iron gate for a while, the tea cup seemed to be full of many jailers.
Chu Xi's eyes were red, and he slapped this Yun Qian with his hand and reproached: "Look at the good things you have done!" Now we are turtles in an urn. ”
Yun Qian felt guilty in his heart, and he didn't refute it. Seeing Chu Xi's angry appearance, he was a little Chu Chu, but he thought in his heart that Senior Brother was really a woman in his last life, and he was a fairy-like woman.
After a while, Chu Xi stopped making trouble, and stood on the side with his face sinking like water, and no longer paid attention to Yun Qian. Yun Qian sniffed in embarrassment, and said solemnly: "Senior brother, don't worry, you can hide it for a while." When the floodgates are opened, they will come to capture me, and I will lead them to chase me, and you will rush out in the chaos..."
Before Yun Qian's words were finished, he noticed a cold light on Chu Xi's face. Rao is Yun Qian is calm, and his heart is cold.
"I'll say that again. Since I came to get you out, I naturally won't leave you behind. Chu Xi lowered his head slightly and said faintly.
Yun Qian's heart was moved, and he knew the senior brother's personality best. At the moment, I secretly decided in my heart that I must not let Chu Xi hurt here.
While speaking, there was another commotion on the other side of the door, but I heard a few people whispering something, as if "Lord Yun is here".
The steady footsteps gradually approached, and Yun Qian's heart was infinitely sour. A loud and majestic voice came: "Yun Qian, since you know that you are guilty of a lot of sins and confess your sins and obey the law, why do you want to do such an escape from prison. My Yun family dares to act boldly, and today I will kill my relatives in righteousness! Come on, pour tung oil. “
There was a rumbling sound from the other end of the door, and the viscous liquid slowly flowed down the crack in the wall towards Yun Qian and Chu Xi. Yun Qian's mind was blank at this time, but Chu Xi was already furious. If it weren't for the unbreakable iron gate, I am afraid that Lord Yun on the opposite side would have already been cut into countless pieces by Chu Xi's sword shadow.
On the other end, Lord Yun's forehead was undulating, his eyes were deep, and he only heard him slowly open his mouth and order: "Light the fire." “
The flames eroded along the tung oil towards Chu Xi and Yun Qian. The dungeon was built underground, and the dome was covered with hay to protect it from water. Under the tongue of fire, the somewhat damp hay crackled instantly, and a large amount of smoke filled the air.
"Let's go!" Chu Xi dragged Yun Qian, who was in a daze, and turned back to the depths of the dungeon.