The southern prison was not well-off.

Although there were thousands of prisoners in the heyday of this place, many of the old houses in the year of Yongxuan were completely abandoned and demolished because of disrepair, and the more than 1,000 houses that were used back then were only a few hundred now, and the two people lived together in a narrow room, even if there were some small movements, others could also detect them clearly, so the prisoners had something in their hearts, and they were the most painful when they tossed and turned at night, and the slightest carelessness would wake up their roommates.

That night, I couldn't sleep all the time. Because he is old, he is cautious in his words and deeds on weekdays, but today because he couldn't hold back his breath in his heart, he not only picked many prisoners from the Frank Hall in public to follow him to see Zhang Mao, but also when Hu Liang said more and more, he couldn't help but move his hand when he had never flicked a finger of a person. If it weren't for Zhang Mao's drinking, he would have thought with his toes now, and the angry prisoners didn't know what would make a big deal out of it.

He caused such a big disaster, Zhang Mao resisted it in front of the three officials, but he didn't hand over anyone, and even when he let them disperse in the end, he didn't mention how to deal with this matter, and he didn't even call him to the rope hall to admonish him. But the more this happened, the more he felt panicked in his heart, and he thought that he finally sat up unconsciously at once.

This movement was not small, he only heard a muttering from his roommate next to him, and hurriedly covered his bed, and when he found that it was not alarming, he waited for a while before quietly getting out of bed, approving a piece of clothing and pulling his shoes down to the ground. It's easy to dress yourself up. He went to the small desk and cleaned up, took the Wenhan bag sewn by his mother into his arms, took nothing else, carefully opened the door and slipped out.

At this moment, it was the second half of the night, the waning moon in the sky exuded a misty brilliance, and the sound of beating was extremely far away. He had never done such a sneaky thing, and he was sweating profusely in a few moments. It's easy to get to the gate. He looked at the locked door for a long time, and finally walked a stone's throw west along the high wall, and sure enough, he found a half-man's hole hidden behind the bushes.

Guozijian only has two days off a month, and in the past, those who didn't care about the sacrificial wine were there, and the children of Guijie could still sneak out, but since Zhang Mao took office, there is only one place to enter and exit except for the gate. Chi Xing still heard his roommate inadvertently mention it and wrote it down, but he didn't expect that it would be useful tonight. When he saw the hole in the weeds, he hesitated for a moment and crawled out, and when he finally reached the outside, he collapsed there, and did not get up for a long time, but looked at the high wall and was stunned.

Long. He knelt down on his knees. Kowtowed three times before he said in a deep voice: "Da Sicheng, I was originally just a talent in Yanping Mansion, and I worked hard to get a student in the exam, if it weren't for the fact that I thought I had a solid foundation, I wouldn't have had a chance to go to prison, and I wouldn't worship under your door." Today's disaster is my fault, I can't let you take the blame for me, an insignificant prisoner, when the time comes, I'll go to Ying Tianfu to take the lead! ”

After saying this, he finally climbed up with his hands on the ground. But he was leaning against the wall with his eyes half-squinted. Knowing that walking on the road late at night would definitely be regarded as a night offence, and knowing that his roommate had never slept until dawn and would not wake up, he waited patiently there. But the more he waited like this, the more cranky he became, thinking about his mother and wife who had been looking forward to his hometown, and thinking about the great master who had high hopes for him. Thinking about the punishment of beating the official in public, I thought that I was already stupid in the end, and I didn't notice the movement around me. It wasn't until he heard a startle that he suddenly came back to his senses. "Chi Wanli, why are you here?" ”

Chi Xing saw four or five heads coming out of a puff of smoke. And there seemed to be movement in the room, and he only felt stupid for a while. Old for half a day. He stammered and asked, "You, what are you ......?"

"You can't just slap that disrespectful dog officer and try to run away, right?"

This speculation that lowered his voice was so angry that he immediately said angrily: "A manly man dares to be a man, and Chi someone still has this responsibility, how can it not affect Da Sicheng!" When it is dawn, I will go to Yingtianfu to admit this matter, and never let those people have a chance to play on the topic! ”

"Okay, it's really responsible!"

"I should have called you if I knew I should have called you, but fortunately we came out in time, otherwise wouldn't it have put you in the tiger's mouth?"

"What's the head, you even have the guts, it's better to follow us!"

At this moment, there were already fifteen or sixteen people who came out of the hole in the wall, some of them gave a thumbs up and cheered when they heard Chi Xing's words, and some of them whispered for Chi Xing to do it with them. After a while, a young prisoner led by a young prisoner raised his hand, and then whispered to Chi Xing: "This is not the place to talk, there is a teahouse at the intersection of the fourth archway and Chengxian Street, I discussed it with someone, let's go over there first, and save the Beicheng Soldiers and Horses from seeing us when they patrol the city." Brother Wanli, don't be busy going to the head, instead of sending it to people for toss in vain, let's do a big thing together! ”

Chi Xing looked at the people in front of him who followed him to see Zhang Mao as soon as he raised his arms before, hesitated again and again, and finally nodded and agreed. More than a dozen people quietly came out of the fourth archway. When they arrived at the teahouse around the corner, the young inmate at the head patted the door, and immediately someone in it moved away quickly, and let them in without asking. After the late entry at the end, I was stunned by the situation of the people who filled the seven or eight tables in front of me.

There are not only a dozen of them, but there are thirty or forty people together!

"Hey, Brother Wanli, you're here too!"

"Sure enough, it's worthy of Brother Chi, I had the guts to slap that disrespectful guy before, of course I have the courage to come out now!"

Chi Xing's heart was in a mess, and it wasn't until he sat down under the greeting of someone that the young prisoner who had just come in with him walked to the front, stretched out his hand and pressed it, and then arched his hand again: "Everyone, today we broke the prison rules and slipped out at night for a big event!" Tomorrow morning, after the Nanjing Gongyuan is repaired, the officials of the Nanjing Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other officials will go to watch together. I got the news that those people who were scared away by us this afternoon are ready to attack Da Sicheng in public! Guozijian has been in decline for so many years, and it is easy to expect Da Sicheng to be such a good teacher, which is our blessing, and we must not let them practice it. That's why I invited these many people in one fell swoop, let's give those shameless guys a hard slap tomorrow in the Gongyuan! ”

"Good!"

"We are all classmates of the Frank Hall, those children of Guijie Enyin, who are imprisoned by their ancestors' merits, and rely on the pleading of their fathers and ancestors. This time, if you go out and make a fuss, you may have no future, but you can be a man with a breath in your heart! We don't understand those officialdoms, we only know that Da Si Cheng, the son of the country, can't say goodbye to wine, and the priest dies for his confidant, since Da Si Cheng has pulled us up from all over the country and given us the opportunity to go one step further, we have to do our best to keep him! ”

Although the morale of the Ming people is a little extreme, it also means that at the really critical moment, someone dares to come forward, and at this moment it is aroused in the heart, and the room is full of responses one after another. Chi Xing also felt that his heart was hot, and his earlier determination to take responsibility for Zhang Mao had completely transformed into an impulse to make a big fuss. ..., since he has already been released, then what else is he afraid of!

The Nanjing Gongyuan on the Gongyuan Street on the bank of the Qinhuai River, every three years, will gather the elite of the entire Nanzhili, so it can be regarded as the face of Jiangnan Wenzhi. Even so, it is not so easy to squeeze out money to overhaul a tribute courtyard, this time from more than a year ago the end of the township trial autumn to start the overhaul, has been successively delayed until now it is completely completed, not only many of the disrepair of the house was demolished and rebuilt, even the next Confucian Temple and Ying Tianfu School are also rebuilt.

On this day, from the various Shangshu in Nanjing to the lower officials and the officials of the science and Taoism, etc., they were present as a whole, not only because of the view of the renovated Gongyuan Confucian Temple, etc., but also because the emperor actually sent Pingbei Bo Xu Xun to Nanjing to preside over the inauguration ceremony of the new Gongyuan, many people were very angry, and planned to make a small ceremony in advance, and when Xu Xun arrived, they could excuse themselves not to come. But in the hearts of more connected people, this is a rare opportunity. For this, Hu Liang even deliberately kept the slap mark on his face in the middle of the incident, and it was not until almost everyone was there that he got off the carriage and covered half of his face with a folding fan.

The person who presided over today's affairs was the head of the four gentlemen of the Southern Capital, Zhang Fuhua, the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department. Although in terms of official position, it should be presided over by Lin Han, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, but Lin Han has come from the Qianke field successively, and Zhang Fuhua, who has been a Jinshi in the eighth year of Tianshun, is naturally the first. However, he succinctly said a few words of praise and sanctification, and was about to propose that everyone go to the tribute courtyard together, when suddenly a discordant voice came from the side.

"Today's tour of the Gongyuan is all the famous and upright ministers of Nanzhili, in front of so many people, Lord Zhang may give an explanation to the lower officials?" In front of everyone's eyes, Hu Liang took off the folding fan that had been half-covering his right cheek before, and then said word by word, "Master Zhang prides himself on rigorous teaching, but when you and I were talking yesterday, there was a Guozi prison supervisor who hurt people, what is your explanation?" ”

Zhang Mao glanced around at everyone, and saw that Zhang Shihua, who had always had a good relationship with him, was full of surprise, and Lin Han was also surprised, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was about to muster up his energy to answer, when he heard a clear voice from behind him.

"I beat you, what are you doing with Da Sicheng! Do you wait for the three of you to find you at the gate of the Guozi Prison and say hurtful words again? ”

With this voice, everyone turned back in amazement, and saw thirty or forty prisoners dressed in the same national eunuch robes rushing over at once, the leader one in his early twenties, and the other thirty-seven or eighteen, actually surrounded everyone. (To be continued.) )