(Seven thousand five hundred words update, made up for yesterday's two thousand words in arrears, hehe, by the way, I sent the brothers five hundred words that didn't cost money.) Am I kind? I'm tired and go to sleep. ）

In a few moments, the mountain stone cracked, but it turned out to be a big iron door camouflaged, inside is a square circle of no more than a zhang of the room, lit with a blazing torch, the light is bright, there are four black-clothed people guarding inside, at a glance you know that they are all capable of fighting, their hands are tightly held on the hilt, their bodies are tight, a face of vigilance, look like that, can break out at any time!

Seeing that it was Lian Zining and Li Tie, their tense bodies relaxed slightly, and they hurriedly saluted, Lian Zining was very satisfied, nodded and praised: "You guys did a good job!" ”

He said to Li Tiedao: "You can cure it!" ”

Li Tie hurriedly humbled himself.

The four of them got out of the way, behind them, but there was a door, about three feet wide and five feet high, after opening, there was a deep road inside, all the way down, made of bluestone, very long, very narrow, Lian Zining's body, in the middle of the bend even had to bend over, on the stone walls on both sides, there were oil lamps every other distance, emitting a dim light, but it was very dim, that is, it could only illuminate the road.

With the faint light, Lian Zining found that this road was at least more than 100 meters long.

Li Tie said apologetically: "My lord, you have condescended to ......"

Lian Zining waved his hand and walked down the Yongdao first.

After walking fifty steps, it was suddenly enlightened.

Here, it turned out to be an underground prison.

The four sides are made of large bluestone, and the underground is also, which looks like it is strong and abnormal, with a national highway in the middle that is one zhang wide, and prison cells on both sides, and there are many black-clothed men guarding them. Because it was the place where important prisoners were kept, it was not very large, and the aisle was three or four zhang long at the end, and the cells on both sides did not add up to ten rooms. There are torches here too. It is also dim and dim, giving people an eerie feeling. And inside, it is already more than ten meters deep underground, and it is even more cold. Even Zining could even feel a biting chill, and from time to time there were one or two drops of water dripping down from the top of his head, and when he breathed out, it was a white mist.

Lian Zining looked sideways at Li Tie, Li Tie knew what he meant, and hurriedly said: "My lord, please rest assured, it is really important to detain Fang Shounian here, and it is really important to cover this person." Your lord, thou shalt command him not to abuse him, and that he has been given a stove and a quilt, and that he shall be well fed every day. ”

Lian Zining nodded, and the MI6 Baihu, who was in charge of guarding the East Prison, personally led the way in front and walked inside, and Lian Zining soon saw the innermost room. On top of the bed, there seemed to be a person lying on his side.

When I got closer, I knew that what Li Tie said was true. This cell is not small, one foot five feet long, one foot wide, the ground is covered with neat bluestone slabs, and against the wall, there is a bed, the bedding on it is brand new, and there is a person lying with his back to Lian Zining, with his long hair spread out, and his face is invisible.

Although it is a prison cell. But it was clean, it didn't even smell bad, and in the corner of the cell was an empty toilet, and in the other diagonal corner was a small table. There were also two plates of vegetables and a pot of wine on it, which should have been leftovers. Lian Zining looked at it, and there was a small half plate of braised beef and fried soybeans, as well as a small half pot of wine. What's more, in the middle of the cell, there was a large stove, which burned brightly, and smoked it warm as spring, and it was dry, without the cold, damp feeling of other places.

Li Tiedao: "In this cell, let's arrange for three people to wait, the toilet has to be emptied three times a day, three meals a day in the morning, noon and evening plus supper, we have to see meat, at least a pot of wine every day, the quilt has been changed once, and three buckets of hot water are brought into it every day, this man is cute and clean." It's hard to serve! ”…,

Lian Zining couldn't help but be able to make Li Tie say the words "not good to serve", which also shows that Fang Shounian's temper is so big, and he can be so rampant when he becomes a prisoner, which also shows his character, and it also verifies Lian Zining's previous guess - this person must have something to rely on, which is also the purpose of Lian Zining's here.

Lian Zining and Li Tie were talking outside like this, but Fang Shounian, who was lying inside, was still motionless, as if he was dead. Lian Zining was not angry, he looked Fang Shounian up and down a few times, and suddenly said lightly: "Fang Shounian, it seems that you have a good life here, you don't have to worry about Jinyiwei, you don't have to think about those flies and dogs, and you don't have to think about how to calculate the official, it's very comfortable!" ”

As Lian Zining spoke, Fang Shounian's body moved slightly, but he still ignored him, still pretending to be dead.

Lian Zining smiled slightly, his temper today was exceptionally good, and he still didn't get angry.

He said softly: "Fang Shounian, in fact, I came here this time to tell you something. ”

Fang Shounian's body trembled again, and he still pretended to be dead.

Lian Zining knocked on the fence, only to find that this fence was actually made of stainless steel, the thickness of an arm's arm, and the gap in the middle was less than a fist wide.

Fingers knocked on it, cold and muffled, Lian Zining said, "I'll go in." ”

Li Tie was stunned for a moment, didn't say anything, just asked the jailer to come over the key, opened it himself, a joke flashed in his eyes, and said with a slight smile: "Be careful, my lord, when I am angry, blood will be splashed!" ”

This is said to be ruthless enough, readers, the thing that has always been the most proud of is the seed of reading in their own family affairs, and the most despised is the puppet who doesn't even know a big word, that is, the old boy who is seventy or eighty, and he is also unwilling to leave the bones of the reader.

Fang Shounian is a literati after all, and being scolded as a puppet is roughly the same as the later generations who scolded 'Mud Horse Le Gobi', and even the degree of insult is even worse, especially when Fang Shounian is so depressed at the moment.

Fang Shounian's ears moved, and his body couldn't help but tremble violently, but he still couldn't help but not get up, which can also be seen that Fang Shounian's scheming city is also quite deep.

Lian Zining hooked the corners of his mouth, patted Li Tie's shoulder, and walked into the cell.

He walked in and walked around, and Fang Shounian was still pretending to be dead.

Lian Zining fortunately stood still, he walked to the small square table where Fang Shounian was eating, and sat down on the maza. After thinking about it, he moved the table in front of the stove again, stretched his legs under the table, and felt the warmth from the stove. That's the satisfied nod.

Lian Zining said to Li Tie outside: "Li Tie, tell someone, prepare some wine and food, I don't have much appetite when I get up in the morning, but I'm hungry at this time." What I love to eat, you know. ”

Li Tie responded with a smile: "My lord, mark it and do it!" ”

He turned his head and hurriedly said a few words to the cell boss. The cell boss nodded and walked away quickly.

After a while, the cell leader came back with a big red food box, entered Fang Shounian's cell, squatted the food box on the ground, opened the lid of the box, and suddenly the aroma was overflowing. The cell boss hunched his waist and brought out the food inside one by one. Fish-flavored eggplant, braised pork with potatoes, chicken stewed with mushrooms. There's also a big bowl of porridge with preserved eggs and lean pork and a plate of fried golden pancakes. The cell boss smiled: "Fish-flavored eggplant, potato braised pork, chicken stewed mushrooms, all of which are loved by your old people, and adults use them slowly." ”

Lian Zining smiled and praised: "You did a good job." ”…,

The cell boss was praised by him like this, as if he was happy, and the smile on his face was very bright, so he quickly said a few words of modesty and retreated.

Lian Zining picked up a pancake. This cake was freshly baked, and it was still a little hot in his hand, Lian Zining blew a few bites, took a few large pieces of braised pork from the bowl, put it on the surface of the pancake, and then clamped it like this. Put it to your mouth and take a bite.

Zi, the fragrant, crispy, salty of the pancakes, the fresh, sweet, and other flavors of the braised pork are mixed together, exploding on the taste buds, this braised pork is stewed very badly, melts in the mouth, and is extremely fragrant, Lian Zining chewed a few bites carefully, swallowed it, and took a breath of air very comfortably.

"It tastes superb!" Lian Zining praised: "Li Tie, who made this meal?" ”

Li Tiedao: "We are in the room to make it, and we eat it there under the standard of Pingsuli, and the chef is in a white robe, and he fled here to find relatives, and he was originally the chef of a restaurant, and this skill is not said." My lord, this is our MI6 treasure, you can't rob it! ”

Lian Zining laughed: "I originally wanted to snatch love with a horizontal knife, and let him go to the house to make braised pork for me to eat, but Ma Elephant is still short of such a person under his hands." Since you said so, then forget it, in this way, go back and reward him with ten taels of silver! ”

Li Tie responded with a smile.

Lian Zining ate and drank, and soon ate half full, and if there was no one around, he didn't even take Fang Shounian in his eyes, and finally angered Fang Shounian, he suddenly sat up, turned around, opened his eyes, and stared at Lian Zining deadly.

Lian Zining raised his head when he heard the sound and looked at him as well.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Lian Zining and Fang Shounian have met, although the two can be said to have been friends for a long time.

Lian Zining didn't expect that Fang Shounian was such a polite and polite-looking scholar, although he was in prison at this time, but it should be thanks to the buckets of hot water every day, his body was very clean and tidy, his hair was very neat, and he was meticulously combed. With three long strands of beard hanging down to his chest on his chin, a thin countenance, and a fair complexion—perhaps he will be raised these days—at a glance, he was a man of fame and morale.

And what Fang Shounian didn't expect was that Lian Zining in front of him was so young!

Before he was sent here, Fang Shounian had a head of rumors about how young and promising Lian Zining was and how young and heroic he was, and after coming here, he was even more deeply touched, and the soldiers and soldiers here almost regarded Lian Zining as a god-like existence.

And when he really saw Lian Zining, he really understood the meaning of the four words "young and promising", in Lian Zining, all the words about youth and ambition were vividly interpreted.

This is a young force that should be feared by everyone! How old is he? has achieved this position, what is his end? In all dynasties, in addition to those favored courtiers, how many young people can rely on their strength to come to this point at this age?

Fang Shounian's eyes changed.

He is very smart, and Ping Suli is also very wise, knowing that if he said anything at this time to anger Lian Zining, he would purely seek death by himself, but when he saw Lian Zining's indifferent face and light expression, an evil fire rushed out of his heart.

He is unwilling, very unwilling!

He thinks he's done well enough, cautious enough. Meticulous enough, but how did it fail?

These days, I was held here for many more days without dying. Fang Shounian's heart also settled down, knowing that he would not die in a short time, so his mind also became alive, and because he pinned his hopes on him, he never gave up the possibility of going out. So I began to reflect, and after thinking about it, I realized that I was doing well in other areas. But it was defeated at one point - the general trend! …,

It's the general trend!

This general trend is a very complex definition, and the most important point is - power!

When this ridiculous conclusion was summed up, Fang Shounian just wanted to look up to the sky and laugh a few times, it was a mockery of himself, he laughed at his own inadequacy, and he actually fought with others on other people's land. What a dream!

This is exactly the case, from the fact that Fang Shounian put the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households opposite the Maqiao Town Garrison Thousand Households, it can be seen that his intentions are deep, but Fang Shounian's mistake is wrong. Choosing the wrong place, the wrong time, and the wrong opponent to start a war, on this land, Lian Zining is the absolute master, and the power he can mobilize is too strong, it can be said that as long as he has the heart and moves his fingers, he can check the bottom of Fang Shounian and others. And one thing that Fang Shounian and the others tried their best to do might not be worthy of Lian Zining's words.

The so-called mantis arm as a car. But that's it.

This is completely different from the form of Jinyiwei investigating and handling cases in the past, in the past, Jinyiwei wanted to investigate a person, afraid of their identity as the Son of Heaven guard, they could mobilize all their forces to support themselves, and on the contrary, their enemies. It's the limited power. This time, it was all reversed, in Lian Zining's land, they could only mobilize that little limited strength, and they had to sneak around, afraid of being discovered.

This situation is like that during the Hongwu period, after Jinyiwei was dismissed because of public anger, he secretly investigated the rebellion of King Qi in order to make a comeback.

Defeat is defeat here.

But Fang Shounian was not convinced, he knew that if he changed places and changed enemies, he would definitely be the one who won the victory!

But this is already the case, defeat is defeat.

These days, this anger of injustice has never dissipated, so that when he sees Lian Zining now, he can't help but want to say a few cruel words, so that Lian Zining is angry and corrupt, and he is open-minded!

This obsessive desire gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake.

He gritted his teeth so hard that his gums were oozing blood, and he finally swallowed the vicious words with difficulty. It's just that he has to vent his anger in his heart no matter what, and at this moment, the literati in his heart broke out like a blowout of his desperate temperament, he looked at Lian Zining fixedly, and looked at it for a long time, with a spicy and sarcastic expression in his eyes, as if he was looking at a dead man, and then he lay on the bed by himself.

This look has already explained something.

The anger in Lian Zining's chest immediately rose, he had never been a magnanimous person, even if he was magnanimous, he would not be his own enemy. However, he instantly suppressed his anger, for a subordinate prisoner, how to deal with it if he still wanted to? But now is not the time.

Lian Zining walked to the bed, suddenly reached out and pressed it on Fang Shounian's chest.

At this moment, he could feel Fang Shounian's whole body shake violently, and then his whole body stiffened.

Fang Shounian was shocked in his heart, and there was only one thought in his mind: "This Lian Zining won't be a good man, right?" ”

An even more terrifying thought was brewing: "Could it be that he has taken a fancy to me?" ”

Fang Shounian wants to cry without tears, there are so many handsome little brothers in your Wu Yi army, I am an old man, why do you fall in love with me?

Lian Zining felt his stiffness, smiled slightly, and said in his heart, this is just the beginning.

Lian Zi looked at him quietly, and suddenly said: "Fang Shounian, on that day, I broke through the Jinyi Guard Yamen, and there were your remnants, and I escaped!" ”…,

This faint sentence seemed to be unremarkable, but in Fang Shounian's ears, it was like a thunderbolt sounding in his head, almost knocking him out. At this moment, his whole person seemed to be so weak that he was dizzy, and there was an emotion called disillusionment rising in his heart.

"It's over! It was discovered! Fang Zhong must have been caught by them, otherwise how could this Lian Zining be so sure? Yes, he's here to see me today. It must be to tease me. Is he going to show off? ”

Thinking of this stubble, Fang Shounian's heart suddenly felt like ashes, but suddenly a trace of awakening flashed in his mind—no! If they really caught Fang Zhong, they wouldn't have caught it at this moment. If you want to catch it, you have to catch it a long time ago, the longer it lasts, the farther Fang Zhong runs, how can you be caught?

"Yes! Lian Zining is deceiving me! They didn't necessarily catch Fang Zhong! Fang Shounian was still suspicious in his heart, and he wasn't sure if Lian Zining and Lian Zining were deceiving him. He suddenly remembered that there was a way to test the tortured person in the brocade guard—if a person has been tortured for a long time and has been insisting that he doesn't know something, then he may really not know about it. But you have to be tempting, revealing some of the information you already have, and then see how he reacts.

So he immediately calmed down and kept his body unchanged, as if he hadn't heard.

But at this time, Lian Zining said: "It's a pity that the two people who were caught were too hard-mouthed and couldn't ask anything." ”

As soon as these words came out. Fang Shounian immediately confirmed that Lian Zining was untrustworthy, Rao was extremely vigilant, and he couldn't stand Lian Zining's pinching, which was really good. directly hit the softest part of his psychological defense, so that Fang Shounian was greatly moved, and it was also reflected in his body, such a slight reaction was also captured by Lian Zining.

"Okay, what I want, I already know."

The smile on Lian Zining's face was like a cunning fox, and it was a fox who had just stolen a hen, he took his hand away from Fang Shounian's chest, and patted the back of Fang Shounian's head with great relief and insult. Said leisurely: "Fang Shounian, at this point, you should also know, I don't know at all if anyone escaped after your Jinyi Wei Thousand Households were wiped out, and how many people escaped." ”

"But now. Your reaction told me. ”

Fang Shounian didn't pretend to be dead, he suddenly sat up, staring at Lian Zining deadly, the anger in his eyes could almost burn.

Lian Zining was even more leisurely, slowly walked to the table, sat down, drank a mouthful of preserved egg and lean porridge, and smacked his mouth: "Salty!" ”

Then it was the other party who kept the year and said: "When I destroyed your Jinyi Guard's stronghold, although I couldn't find out who ran away and who was missing, I always felt that something was wrong in my heart." You live in seclusion in the brocade guard, except for a few cronies, no one else can see you, and you don't even know who is around you, and this time to kill you, there are a lot of small fish and shrimp caught below, but the real core, all of them are dead, except for you - and I found that many of them committed suicide, especially a few of your cronies' guards! ”

"This is too abnormal, the more powerful the person, the stronger the desire to survive, the less likely he will commit suicide easily, and your cronies and guards, I looked at the corpses, at least they are all good at practicing martial arts for more than ten years, how can such people easily commit suicide? Unless that's the case! Lian Zining stared at Fang Shounian with blazing eyes: "That is, they know something that they shouldn't know, and they must die!" What should you not know? ”

Lian Zining asked and replied to himself: "There is only one explanation, that is, someone escaped, and you were afraid that they would leak the secret, so let them all commit suicide!" ”…,

"It's true that all the people on the roster that were searched from your brocade guards are here, either dead or captured alive, and it seems that none of them have slipped through the net, but I know best that the roster is nothing." Lian Zining chuckled: "On the roster that my Wu Yijun handed to the military department and showed to the emperor, there are only ten guards, one guard and five thousand households and 5,600 people, but in fact? Let me tell you, our Wu Yijun now has more than 200,000 manpower! ”

"So I'm sure somebody must have run away. But it's not sure how many people there are. ”

"It's just that the number of people who run away will definitely not be very large, otherwise with your character, you will definitely run away yourself, or you are not afraid of death, but you will also send these people with good skills as cover, after all, it is good to run out one more. So I speculate that there are no more than three people who can throw it, but this is not possible! One or two, the gap is big, the way to deal with it, the manpower required, is completely different, so. You have to be tempted. I am very happy with this result. ”

Lian Zining smiled slightly: "Actually, you covered it up well, it's very good, when I said the first sentence just now, you reacted." Surprised, I really haven't tried anything, but in the second sentence, you're exposed. No matter how much you try to hide it, it is impossible to do it without a flaw, and your heartbeat has slowed down greatly for a moment just now. This shows that you have become very relaxed! Why is it relaxing? Because you know that I am lying, and what is wrong with my words? That's the number, two people! This shows that it can't be two people, then there is only one! ”

Lian Zining's smile was full of confidence: "One person, that's easy to do!" ”

Fang Shounian's complexion was already fair, and under the anger just now, his face was flushed, and at this moment. But it was as ugly as a dead man's face, as if he had lost too much blood! He never imagined that he had enough restraint. Not a word, not even an expression was seen, but it still made this damn guy test himself.

Damn it!

This Lian Zining is so treacherous!

But he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, after all, it had been several days since the Jinyi Guard was exterminated, and at this time, Lian Zining had only come to test himself, didn't it mean that he was not sure before? If you are not sure, you will not do it, so with the buffer of these few days, you can't say that Fang Zhong will be able to escape back!

Lian Zining seemed to see what was in his heart. smiled slightly: "Fang Shounian, maybe you will think, with these few days, will the person who escaped be able to return to the capital division and tell Jiang Bin the news?" Tell you! ”

The corners of Lian Zining's mouth hooked, and his face was full of coldness. Categorically: "Dream! ”

"It's a shame that you're still a figure known as a wise man in the brocade guard. You don't want to think about it! The land of the Songhua River, leading to the capital, there is only one road to the Songhua River, so the person you sent out must have followed this road all the way to the south, and I have already ordered the government along the way to strictly guard against it. In this case, how many days will it take, won't you be able to catch up? Even if he can't catch up, but under such strong pressure from me, according to you, once he has a chance to get help, can he not use it? And as far as I know, out of the land of the Songhua River to the south, after the land of the general of Jianzhou, in the territory of the governor of Liaodong, there is the guard of Jinyiwei! As long as you wait for the rabbit, don't you get it? Come to think of it, the one who escapes will fall into the net. ”

Fang Shounian's expression was already blank, but his already reddened eyes and slightly trembling fingers revealed his true mood at this time. …,

It was an anger that had been filled to the extreme, mixed with utter despair and fear!

He has always regarded himself very highly, but he never thought that one day he would meet such a person, with such a deep scheming and such insidious means, in front of him, he was like a transparent person, and he was seen thoroughly and cleanly. And this person didn't start by such small means, and his upright ability is even more powerful!

The two fell silent.

After a while, the fear gradually dissipated, and Fang Shounian was left with a huge sense of failure and despair in his heart. He knew that he was finished, as Lian Zining said, in that case, Fang Zhong would 100% fall into the net according to Lian Zining's assumption, and he would never see the light of day again!

He finally spoke for the first time, and his voice was hoarse and harsh like the friction of rusty iron pieces: "Doing things like this, aren't you afraid of exterminating the Nine Clans?" ”

Lian Zining smiled brightly: "No one in this world can destroy my nine clans, my life, I can't help it!" This big tomorrow is not something that those people in the capital can dominate! ”

"Alright, that's enough for now! It's time to go back. Lian Zining finally glanced at Fang Shounian and said, "You are so self-conscious, it is best to survive it." ”

"Hold on? What do you mean? Fang Shounian quickly understood what it meant.

"Uncle has enough time, since he is a prisoner, he should look like a prisoner!" What kind of big tail wolf?

Lian Zining sneered, turned around and walked out of the prison door, strode away without looking back, and said as he walked: "Someone came, removed his stove, replaced the bed with a stack of wheat straw, and the bedding should be old and broken, and it was changed to one meal a day, just two steamed buns and a bowl of hot water, whether they like to eat or not, the toilet is poured once every five days, and the hot water has stopped!" ”

"Gotcha, you!"

The cell boss's excited voice came, and he had long seen that Fang Shounian, the uncle, was not pleasing to the eye.

Fang Shounian's heart was even more cold. (To be continued)