After the trial of Dou's shopkeeper, Li Yanzhi ordered someone to escort him to the county government prison and take care of him. and ordered the servants not to embarrass him, and still took care of him every day with good wine and food. In this way, it can be regarded as a kind of reward for Li Yanzhi's cooperative attitude towards him. And what exactly is going to deal with this person, but he still hasn't made a clear and sure decision, so he has the right to put him in custody, and allows Li Yanzhi to think carefully for a while.

He personally sorted out the case file with Lieutenant Chu. When the county lieutenant Chu was sorting out the confessions of everyone, he kept sighing. This incident was also a big surprise to him. Originally, as soon as he entered the hall, he saw Li Yanzhi interrogating the shopkeeper Dou, and he was also a little timid in his heart, for fear that Li Yanzhi would not know the severity and make a good mistake, and turn back to those big families in the county to make trouble, but it was definitely a thunder that they couldn't bear. However, when he heard the confession of the shopkeeper and learned what they had done, County Lieutenant Chu also hated it.

After the case file was sorted out, Li Yanzhi asked the county lieutenant Chu to temporarily be on duty for half a day on his behalf. He couldn't bear the sleepiness and decided to go to the back hall to rest. Yesterday's raid on Dou's house, he didn't sleep all night, and recently handled the affairs of the county government, sleeping late has almost become commonplace, and Li Yanzhi really can't support it.

When he woke up, Li Yanzhi went out of the house to take a look, and it was late at night. He has been in this world for more than two years now, but he still doesn't know how to watch the time at night, so he can only rely on a little poor experience in his previous life to preliminarily determine that this is the time of ugliness to the end of time. Thinking that he would have to send an order to the army tomorrow to kill a criminal officer, how to deal with the shopkeeper Dou, he still didn't have the slightest clue, and he felt a headache when he thought about it, so he went back to the house, lay down and continued to sleep.

Early the next morning, when the rooster crowed twice, Li Yanzhi had already woken up. Then he changed his clothes and went out of the house, and went to the wing where one of his subordinates lived. opened the door gently, but saw that everyone was still asleep, only Cui Yang got up and dressed, and when he saw Li Yanzhi coming in, he was about to salute, but was stopped by Li Yanzhi waving his hand. Li Yanzhi leaned into Cui Yang's ear and whispered, "After getting dressed later, I will come out and go to the prison with me." ”

Cui Yang didn't know what Li Yanzhi was going to do in the prison, but it was inconvenient to ask, so he just agreed, and then quickly dressed up, fastened his belt, and went out to go to the county government prison with Li Yanzhi. When the two arrived at the prison gate, the guards saw that Li Yanzhi had come in person, so they hurriedly opened the cell door for the two. Li Yanzhi and Cui Yang rushed in, but saw a jailer on duty in the prison, so Li Yanzhi hurriedly asked: "Where are the prisoners in the army who were sent before?" ”

The jailer got up and saluted, and when he heard that Li Yanzhi was going to visit the prisoners in the army, he was busy leading the way. Li Yanzhi and Cui Yang followed. The three of them walked past the wardeners and jailers' wards, went down two more stairs, and then went inside, to find a dark, damp, low cell. Li Yanzhi walked into it and bowed his body. He looked as if his head was about to hit the low ceiling of the cell.

Li Yanzhi looked at the two rows of cells separated by wooden pillars in the corridor, and many of the prisoners in it were sitting at the door of the cells, staring at them with blank eyes, but more of them were sitting half-dead on the hay in the corner of the cell, not looking at the people they walked in, as if their appearance had nothing to do with the prisoners themselves.

Li Yanzhi looked at this dark and cramped dungeon, each cell only had a small window no more than a foot square at the top of the wall, and the most comfortable thing for the prisoners in the prison was the short half quarter of an hour when the sun shone into the window. Once they saw the sunlight projecting through the small window, these prisoners, whether they were young Xiao Langjun or an old man who was over half a hundred years old, would move their bodies happily and enjoy the short-term warmth of the sun.

The cells where the three convicts and the battalion Chinese officers who were locked in the innermost and shackled did not even have a small window. They just looked through the wooden pillars of their respective cells at the prisoners in the other cells greedily enjoying the sunshine, with a look of envy.

When they saw Li Yanzhi enter the prison, and finally walked to the cell of several of them and stopped, the four of them looked incredulous, and at first looked at Li Yanzhi blankly through the wooden pillar, and stood still for a few breaths, but it was Zheng Siku who reacted first, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Li Yanzhi in the prison, and said, "Sinner Zheng Tong, I have seen Li Sima." I didn't expect Li Sima to come to this filthy place in person......"

Zheng Tong's actions reminded the few people who were standing. They reacted, and hurriedly immediately knelt down to Li Yanzhi outside the cell, and each kowtowed: "The sin general has seen Li Sima!" ”

Seeing everyone's appearance, Li Yanzhi also felt a lot of emotion for a while, and he turned his head to the jailer and ordered, "Open the prison door." Let me go in and have a few words with them. ”

The jailer looked a little hesitant and said, "This ...... They're all serious crimes...... Sima's move is inappropriate, right? ”

Li Yanzhi laughed twice when he heard this, and said lightly: "Are you afraid that I will let them go, or are you worried that they will be unwilling to harm me in this prison before they die?" ”

When the jailer heard this, he hurriedly bowed down and said, "How dare the villain ......"

Li Yanzhi said lightly: "The four of them were all caught by me personally. As soon as I arrived here, I found that there was no reason to open up to them in such shocking cases of embezzlement of ink. If you are afraid that they will harm me, then I can tell you with certainty that I joined the army two years ago, and after only a month in the camp, I went with the army to quell the rebellion of the Bald Hair Division. The enemy slain with his own hands is not a hundred, nor is there a number of a team. They are still in heavy shackles, how can they be my opponents? ”

Hearing this, the jailer's expression was a little unnatural, and he hurriedly admitted: "Yes, yes." Sima was right. The villain opened the prison door for Sima. With that, the jailer took out a bunch of keys from his waist, and then leaned into the lock at the door, and tried a few times, and finally opened the door.

Li Yanzhi waved his hand to retire from the prison guard, and then walked into the cell, looking at the few people kneeling or sitting in the cell, but there was a lot of emotion in his expression. He walked into the cell, randomly found a place on a piece of hay and sat on the ground, and then faced the four people, and said with emotion: "Li has been in the army for two years, and he personally killed at least one team of the enemy, but he personally ordered the arrest and execution of his comrades in the army, and the four of you are the first case." ”

Zheng Tong knelt on the ground at this time, thinking that he was about to go to the execution ground, and he couldn't cry for a long time. Wang Chuan, Yang Tao had already straightened up at this time, and looked at Li Yanzhi with remorse, only Chu Wei got up and sat on the ground, and said in a tone full of discouragement: "Sima came today, if it is just to tell me to wait for this matter, please ask Sima to go back." Although we committed the crime this time, but the days of joining the army, which one is not longer than Sima? ”

Li Yanzhi looked at Chu Wei, nodded lightly, and then said leisurely: "You are wrong." I'm here to ask you how many of you still wish. Now, although you have broken the law and been punished, after all, you are a fellow comrade. I promised you that this matter will only be pursued by you, and the disaster will not be caused to your family, and Li will do what he says. Now, if you still have any wishes, you may as well say bluntly, as long as it is reasonable, Li will be satisfied. ”

Hearing this, the four of them all raised their eyes and looked at each other for a while, but there was no sound for a while. Li Yanzhi looked at Cui Yang who was guarding the prison door, groped through his arms, and then handed out a money bag and said to Cui Yang: "Go to the city to buy some wine and food, and send it to the room when I come back, and I will have a meal with them." ”

When Cui Yang heard this, he looked at the four people in the cell with a little doubt, and then looked at Li Yanzhi, until Li Yanzhi urged, he turned around and walked towards the exit of the dungeon.

"As long as Sima Li keeps his promise, don't let me and other crimes harm my family, that's it. I don't have any other wishes. Chu Wei, who was sitting on the ground, looked dejected and spoke.

Li didn't dare to say anything else, but he could still do what he said. Chu Sima rest assured. Li Yanzhi said expressionlessly.

When Wang Chuan heard this, he hesitantly took out a thing from his arms, and then held it in front of Li Yanzhi with his shackled hands, and said, "I have been married to my inner man for ten years. The family has always been poor, but I'm sorry for my insiders. And now he has committed such an unpardonable sin. I only asked Li Sima to hand over this thing to her, and told her to take care of her children, and I would have nothing else to ask for......"

Li Yanzhi took the thing from the trembling hand, but saw that it was an ordinary, poorly carved jade pendant. There was some silence in my heart for a while. After pondering for a long time, he raised his head and said: "Everyone, rest assured, now that your children are all young, Li will support them by himself." Later, Li will try his best to open a school in the county to accommodate the children of military families to study, and your children will naturally be among them. ”

When the four of them heard this, their faces were different, but they were more or less surprised. When Wang Chuan, Yang Tao, and Zheng Tong heard this, after a short period of shock and surprise, they almost immediately bowed down. Chu Wei, who was originally sitting on the ground, was also surprised, looked at the three people on the side kowtowing one after another, sighed, and bowed down, and said: "Sima is so magnanimous, I am more and more ashamed when I think of the previous actions of the beasts......

Li Yanzhi got up and helped several people up one by one, but there was already a sound of footsteps in the corridor. Everyone looked up, but it was Cui Yang who was leading several servants from the room, either carrying food boxes or wine jars, towards their cell.

"Li didn't have the opportunity to drink a toast for you in this life, so he drank a send-off bar! Everyone, be a full ghost, if you are reincarnated again in the future, remember not to be evil in the next life, and not to be greedy......" Li Yanzhi sighed, opened the prison door, and the servants carrying wine and food were already rushing in......