Chapter Twenty-Three: Righteous Knot on Death Row

Although the light of the candle was faint, it suddenly returned from the darkness to the light, and the two of them were still a little uncomfortable. Xiao Yikou closed his eyes and slowly opened them, and only then did he get used to it slightly. And Ye Bucai still closed his eyes at this time, no wonder he hasn't seen the light for a long time, and he has become dependent on the darkness and repelled the light, but this is temporary, and over time, the eyes will eventually adapt to the light, because the eyes are born for the light.

Ye Bucai continued to close his eyes and slowly adapt. Xiao Yikou opened his eyes at this time, and saw a thick rope falling from the small window on the roof, and a person slipped down the rope, and in an instant there was a person standing in front of him, holding a big jar in his hand, it was Li Liu, the president of the Big Knife Society. Xiao Yikou was pleasantly surprised: "Brother Li, how could it be you?" ”

Li Liu's head said: "We have agreed to drink for three days and three nights, you will be executed tomorrow by the thousand-faced Buddha Liu Zhengyi in front of Wang Zhongling, if I don't come again, our appointment will be invalid, and I can't find you to drink together, I brought all the wine, and we will get drunk together."

Li Liu put down the wine jar, tore open the lid on the wine jar, and a rich aroma of wine came to his nose. Although Xiao Yikou rarely drinks alcohol, he can't help but want to drink two glasses under the smell of wine. And Ye Bucai opened his eyes slightly at this time and said, "It seems that such a good wine also has my share."

Li Liu asked, "Who is this brother?" ”

Xiao Yikou introduced: "This Ye Bucai brother, he returned to China from studying in the East, and he has been on death row for ten years."

Ye Bucai said: "Traitors are harmed, traitors are harmed."

Li Liuhao was angry and said: "They are all fallen people at the end of the world, why do you have to become acquainted when you meet, okay, you have dishes and chopsticks here, good dishes, throw aside the wine in your prison, drink the good wine first, and then talk about it."

Each person poured a bowl, Li Liu said: "We meet today in the iron prison, the so-called encounter is not as good as a chance encounter, we come to the Three Kingdoms Liu Guan Zhang Taoyuan three knots, we happen to be three brothers in the past, we will take care of each other in the future, blessed and enjoy the same hardship, how?" ”

Li Liu waited anxiously for Xiao Yikou's reply, but before Xiao Yikou could speak, Ye Bucai replied impatiently: "I don't understand your set of rivers and lakes, but Li Daxia is so bold, if I don't agree, I won't be a person, I'll wait for the day I go out to follow Li Daxia to the rivers and lakes."

Li Liu looked at Xiao Yikou's face, Xiao Yikou didn't think much about it at this time, three knots in death row? Although the venue environment is not very happy, Brother Li still understands that if you walk the rivers and lakes alone, there will be crises everywhere, and there will always be risks. But if he is about to be executed, what good is this prayer? It's just to make the two brothers sad, but if you don't agree, you will have a good intention for the two brothers? How is this good?

Li Liu looked at Xiao Yikou, and Ye Bucai also looked at Xiao Yikou at this time. Xiao Yikou picked up the wine bowl and said, "Big brother, we will worship as much as you say."

After Xiao Yikou said this, Li Liu and Ye Bucai's faces instantly bloomed with happy smiles. Li Liu and Ye Bucai helped Xiao Yikou to stand up, each of them picked up the wine glass with both hands, and then knelt down together towards the north.

Li Liu, Ye Bucai, and Xiao Yikou said at the same time: "Today, Li Liu, Ye Bucai, and Xiao Yikou are here to become friends of life and death.

After taking the poisonous oath, the trio spilled the wine in their bowls on the ground as a sign of their respect for the gods. The three of them kowtowed to the north, and after three consecutive rings, the three stood up. Li Liu said: "I am a long age, I am the eldest brother, Ye Bucai's second brother, Xiao Yikou's third brother, how about it?" ”

Xiao Yikou and Ye Bucai nodded and said okay.

Seeing that the two nodded in agreement, Li Liu lifted the wine jar and began to pour wine into the bowl. The aroma of wine is raging and invades the nostrils. Li Liu put down the wine jar, the three of them picked up the wine glasses and clinked glasses, Li Liu said: "Second brother and third brother, good brother."

Xiao Yikou said: "Big brother, second brother, good brother."

Ye Bucai said: "Big brother, third brother, our glass of wine is gone, and from now on we will be as close as brothers, like brothers and sisters, and I will not be alone from now on." ”

With tears in their eyes, all three of them tilted their heads and drained the wine in their glasses. The three of them hugged each other, and they all shed tears of excitement. After the hug, the three of them continued to drink, completely forgetting that Xiao Yikou was going to be executed by Liu Zhengyi tomorrow. When the wine was hot, Xiao Yikou said: "Big brother and second brother, we are married to Jinlan today, my life will not belong to me tomorrow, no matter what, I thank the two brothers for letting me have a family again, with my brother, I die without regrets!" ”

Ye Bucai said sadly: "We have just formed a righteous relationship, but we want to be so separated, which is really uncomfortable."

Hearing the words of the two younger brothers, Li Liu picked up a bowl of wine and drained it, and then threw the bowl to the ground angrily, and the wine bowl made a clattering sound on the ground and shattered. Li Liu said: "Second brother and third brother, don't accept your fate too much, my life is up to me, as long as we find a way, there will be a way, and when we finish drinking this jar of wine, we will all run away along this rope together, how about it?" ”

Li Liu's words made Ye Bucai's heart moved, Ye Bucai had no one to care about his life or death in this death row, and he had forgotten the existence of this person for ten years. Once Ye Bucai escapes, no one will care, but what about the third brother Xiao Yikou?

Xiao Yikou was also thinking, it seems that it should be no problem to escape, but once he escapes, it will definitely shake the county town of Yanan and even the entire provincial capital, and the murderer who assassinated the police chief will definitely be pursued by more police if he escapes. Xiao Yikou said: "Big brother, this method should be fine, I think the eldest brother must have thought of a way when he came in, but the second brother will not cause any repercussions if he disappears like this, and once I escape, will I be pursued by the police in more places?" ”

Li Liu thought for a while and said, "Third brother, it doesn't matter, I'll go out and find someone who looks the same as you to come back as a stand-in, and let him go to the execution ground instead of you, how about it?" ”

Xiao Yikou shook his head and said, "The master said that one's own mistakes cannot be imposed on others. Besides, this is a matter of human life, and I must not do this, I would rather be shot myself."

Seeing that Xiao Yikou was instilled with such a life philosophy by Master Xinyi at a young age, Li Liu, who had been in the rivers and lakes for many years, couldn't help but feel admired. I thought to myself, since we have become brothers, brothers like brothers and sisters, blessed and shared with weal and bound, how can I watch you be put to death right under my nose?

Li Liu picked up the wine glass and said, "There are still many hours until tomorrow, the three of us will drink, and it will be worth it to die at least immediately."

Xiao Yikou said: "What the eldest brother said is that instead of being sad and waiting for death, it is better to enjoy a good wine." ”

Ye Bucai, who was originally a little depressed, was also infected by Li Liu and Xiao Yikou's optimistic attitude, and said: "What the third brother said makes sense, even if the three of us are together for a minute, it is worth it, not to mention that we have been together for several hours to drink."

A jar of wine was drunk into the stomach by the three of them bowl by bowl, Xiao Yikou was injured a lot on his body, and he was too strong to drink, and soon fell drunk in the grass.

Li Liu has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he is accompanied by wine every day, how can this little wine make him drunk? However, Ye Bucai's alcohol consumption was okay, and he was still a little sober in the end. Li Liu said: "The third brother didn't agree to use a stand-in just now, the third brother doesn't want to escape, we have to find a way to let the third brother escape this catastrophe?" ”

Ye Bucai said: "As long as the eldest brother is willing to handle it, this is very simple. ”

Li Liu listened to Ye Bucai's words and said with interest: "Second brother said to listen to it?" ”

Ye Bucai said: "Anyway, the third brother is already drunk, and when he wakes up, it will be noon or afternoon tomorrow, we will send him out at this time, and then the eldest brother is looking for a villain with the same figure and appearance outside to send here, and when the third brother wakes up and asks us, we say that we can't bear to let the third brother wait here alone to die, so we still escaped together, as long as we don't tell him that someone dies in his place, it's fine."

Li Liu said: "What the second brother said is as I wanted, okay, let's start to act now, let's pull the third brother out through this rope first." ”

Soon, Xiao Yikou was wrapped around the rope and tied tightly. Li Liu climbed up the roof skylight along the rope, and after getting out, he motioned to Ye Bucai in the house to slowly pull Xiao Yikou onto the roof. After Xiao Yikou was pulled out, the rope fell again, and Ye Bucai was also pulled up to the roof by Li Liu.

In the night, Li Liu carried Xiao Yikou on his back, Ye Bucai followed, and the three of them quietly left the death row in Yanan County.