In the Dongchang Imperial Prison, it is still dark. In the deepest cell, it was still empty and unfurnished, except for one more person.

"How many days has it been?" Lying silently on his official uniform, he asked the original residents here weakly.

"The third day you came in." Hai Rui sat on the grass pile and replied softly, "I can hear the bell of the drum tower here, and I have heard it five times since I came in." ”

"I'm going to starve people to death." Shen Mo didn't even have the strength to smile bitterly, touched his flat stomach and said, "This taste of starvation is really difficult." ”

"......" Hai Rui nodded, he had been locked in earlier than Shen Mo, and he had long since lost his strength.

In the first two days, the two chatted to relieve their boredom, but later, they were dizzy from hunger, how could they have the strength to speak, so they blindly endured, and they didn't know if they would be able to survive one day.

Shen Mo sat at first, and then simply lay down, in this dark and desperate dungeon, he really realized what it means to be 'accompanied by a king like a tiger', but he did not feel timid, let alone think of giving up, but more and more convinced that he was not wrong - if he did not put the imperial power of doing whatever he wanted into a cage, no matter what he did, he would be a castle on the sand and a castle in the sky, and he was doomed to failure.

And he found the most practical goal - if I can get out, the first thing I have to do is to abolish the East Factory, close the edict prison, and get rid of the Jinyi Wei, and first give the emperor minions to the emperor, otherwise the risk of becoming an official is too great. I'm afraid that he is not the only one who thinks like this among the residents in the prison, but the difference is that everyone else is just venting their lust, but he decided to do it.

Of course, the first thing is to be able to get out, and the first thing is to avoid starvation.

Thinking of this, he raised his last remaining strength, got up from the ground, took off a thick-soled official boot, and banged on the cell door vigorously, making a 'clang' sound, and shouted: "Dead! Dead man! The voice swirled through the dungeon, terrible.

This toss really alarmed the prison car, and after a while, the sound of spleen footsteps sounded, and then a lantern lit up, and an ugly face appeared at the prison door, and asked rudely: "Straight mother thief, which dead ghost has been reincarnated?!" ”

"Not yet." Shen Mo propped his hands on his knees, and said to the jailer weakly: "If you don't give food again, you will really die." ”

"Niangqiu......" The jailer scolded vaguely and said, "One meal in five days in prison, wait." ”

"Be accommodating", Shen Mo stared at the jailer's eyes tightly: "Shall we take the money to buy it?" ”

Sure enough, a fine light flashed in the jailer's eyes, but it disappeared immediately, and he glared at him viciously and said, "You are Qin criminals, and you don't have this treatment." "This is, who is eligible to go to prison, which one is not a prisoner?

"No matter how much it is, I'll give ten times as much!" Shen Mo stretched out his fist and said.

"But it's five taels of silver for a meal." The jailer obviously didn't know Taishan, and he didn't know how much money Shen Daguan was facing, so he was ruthless to say such a 'sky-high price'.

"I'll give you a hundred taels and bring us food." said silently: "But I don't have any money on me, you just have to go to the chessboard alley." ”

The jailer was about to go crazy with joy, and the hundred taels were so well earned that he couldn't believe it: "It's not me, is it?" ”

"I'm a second-class member, will I joke with my reputation?" Shen Mo said: "That's it, if you still don't believe it, I'll write a note, and you take it to my house to ask for it, how about it?" ”

"That's fine." The jailer felt that this was all right, and said, "Then write it." ”

"I can't write it." Shen Mo shook his head and said: "I don't have any strength in my body, I can barely write with a pen, and my family doesn't recognize my words." He forgave the jailer for not knowing a single word, so he reassured him.

Sure enough, the jailer pondered for a long time, and then said, 'Isn't it just a meal?' Forgive him for not daring to scorn me,' so he said, "You wait." ”

At last there was a faint candle light in the cell, which Shen Mo had bought for twenty taels of silver.

By candlelight, he could see the 'delicacies' he bought for a hundred taels - some dark and indiscernible gruel, served in a dirty broken crockpot, nothing more, not even a little pickles, it was really the most expensive meal in the world.

"It's really extravagant...... Shen Mo shook his head and sighed as he scooped a bowl of porridge and sent it to Hai Rui.

Hai Rui didn't answer: "I'm not hungry, you can eat by yourself." In fact, he knew that he was silent, otherwise the other party would be locked up here, and how would he spend a sky-high price to buy a can of porridge?

"You're welcome?" Shen Mo laughed softly: "Maybe tomorrow will be over, you don't want to be accused and unable to argue." ”

As soon as he said this, Hai Rui no longer refused, stretched out his hand and took it: "I can't afford to pay it back." ”

Shen Mo also scooped a bowl for himself, and said with a faint smile: "Drink it, I didn't ask you for money."

Hai Rui nodded, and drank the porridge in the bowl face to face with him. Although they were both extremely hungry, the two of them still ate gently, without losing the demeanor of a scholar, which made the jailer who was watching behind his back secretly surprised.

But sometimes I was unlucky, and I couldn't be elegant, so I only heard a 'quack', and my teeth were broken by the porridge, and I didn't know whether it was a stone or sand, and I froze there uncomfortably with my mouth open. Hai Rui hurriedly put down the bowl in his hand, grabbed a handful of straw from the ground and threw it to his mouth, and said with concern: "Spit it out slowly." ”

According to Hai Rui's instructions, Shen Mo spit out the porridge with sand and stones, and while rubbing his cheeks, he forced a smile: "Today I learned that life is difficult." ”

Seeing that he was fine, Hai Rui picked up his rice bowl and whispered: "Many people are afraid that they won't even have to eat this." With that, he took a big bite and ate it.

Shen Mo continued to eat, only more carefully so as not to be crumbled into his mouth by the sand and rocks again.

After a while, a pot of porridge saw the bottom, and Shen Mo seemed to be unsatisfied, so he took out the porridge hanging on the wall of the jar with a wooden spoon and carefully put it into the bowl. ”

Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "I'm also full, so I'll leave it for supper." ”

At this time, the jailer came again and asked, "Is it finished?" ”

"It's useless to give it to you in the middle of the night." He said silently: "Come and get it early tomorrow morning." ”

"You're not trying to fool me, are you?" The jailer glared.

"Not tomorrow morning, let it fall." Silent and settled, no one dared to come in, looking like you and me.

"If you don't have it tomorrow morning, you can wait and see!" The jailer hatefully threatened and left angrily.

Early the next morning, the jailer, who had not slept well all night, came again, and this time with good luck, without saying a word, handed out the paper he had given him the previous day.

When the jailer saw it, he recognized it, 'Pay a hundred and twenty taels of silver when you meet.' Seeing that there was no word for violating the ban, he put it in his arms and said, "If it is done, we will discuss everything, if not, you two will starve to death." When it was time for him to take his shift, the jailer stopped chattering, and hurried out of the dungeon with the note in his hand.

went up to the ground, it was a routine body search to prevent internal and external collusion, and the crumpled note was naturally pinched out, and the thousands of households who searched the body looked at it in reverse, and said with a smile: "Rich?" Why don't you have such good luck as the brethren? ”

The jailer felt a pain in his flesh and said, "That's the old rule. ”

"That's pretty much it." Qianhu threw the note to him and said: "Drink at night, old place, I'll treat you ......"

"Well, all right." The jailer laughed bitterly, and half of the silver in his hand was lost for this meal, so that he couldn't help but be happy, and went straight home to sleep.

When he woke up, he thought that he still had sixty taels, which he couldn't usually earn in a month, so when he thought about it, his heart was also much happier, so he came to the Shen Mansion in the chessboard alley and handed the note to Menzi.

Menzi saw that it was the handwriting of an adult, how dare he slack off, while letting him drink tea in the gatehouse, while hurriedly sending the words to the lady in the backyard.

As soon as he knew that something was wrong with Shen Mo, Ruohan left Rou Niang to take care of the children and returned to the capital alone. She understands very well that if the head of the family is in prison, there will be no leader in the house, although several gentlemen are all talented, but without her as the housemother, there will definitely be chaos. So even if she doesn't have any ideas, she has to sit in the house.

After reading the words, Ruohan ordered someone to send them to the front yard and asked the three gentlemen to decide.

After Wang Yin got the note, he looked at it and handed it to Yu Yin, who took it and put the note on the table with the note facing up. Get up and take out a small porcelain bottle from behind the bookshelf, pick out some purple powder from the porcelain bottle, mix it with water in a small dish, and then stick it with a small cotton swab and evenly coat it on the back of the paper.

After doing all this, the three of them stared at the paper with bated breath, only to see a pale blue question mark appear as if they were magical.

Obviously, the adults need someone to answer his questions. Coincidentally, they had just learned the cause of the disaster and were about to try to send the news in—according to the great treasurer of Sunrise, the name of the book was called, and there were a lot of satirical episodes in it, and the three of them looked for it, right...... For example, in the seventy-eighth episode, the bhikshu king overindulged in lust and collapsed, and the prescription given by the abbot of the evil path was to use 1,111 children's heart and liver as a medicine guide, 'after taking it, there will be a thousand years of immortality', in the name of immortality, the reality of indulgence, it is difficult not to make people think of the king of heaven in this dynasty - Emperor Jiajing!

Let's talk about another place called Che Chi Kingdom, where the emperor admired Taoism, became superstitious and became immortals, and also made a few evil Taoist priests such as tigers, deer, sheep, etc., and fought with a few monks, and finally was cleaned up by the monkey, and all of them died without a place to be buried. This kind of example is not the same in the book, it can be said that the emperors and kings that appear in the book, there are ten ** faint kings, and there are always Taoist priests around him - and they are evil Taoist priests, blind people can also see it, and the prototype still lies in: poisonous Jing pampered Taoist priests.

If these still have collateral implications, there is a more explicit plot - in the novel, the king of Chechi Kingdom arrested monks everywhere to serve as Taoist priests because the monks prayed for rain unsuccessfully, resulting in more than 2,000 monks "six or seven hundred who died, seven or eight hundred who committed suicide", and the remaining five hundred were also immortal. When it came to destroy France, the king vowed to kill 10,000 monks just because a monk had slandered him, and when the master and apprentice arrived, there were still four left...... These episodes are all precisely directed to Emperor Jiajing. Because this Taoist emperor, while worshipping Taoism, also vigorously attacked Buddhism, not only in the palace forbidden city to remove the Buddha hall, but also issued an edict to order monks to return to the laity, prohibit the cultivation of monasteries, and privately shave as monks. These plots are too explicit, and it is no wonder that Emperor Jiajing was so angry that the two Buddhas ascended to heaven and the three Buddhas went out of the body, so he wanted to ask the author.

But no one dares to sign this kind of book, so the author's name cannot be found on the title page, but there is the silent name of the recommender - this is a commercial method, but at the moment it has become evidence of his 'slander and conspiracy', and it is not surprising that the relationship between him and Hai Jui will inevitably make the emperor think about him, and lock him up with Hai Jui.

It's puzzling why adults would recommend publishing such a book. How could those booksellers have the audacity to allow such a book to be published? Of course, now is not the time to think about it, and we have to try to let adults know about it. Fortunately, they have been plotting this matter for a long time, and now the people from Dongchang have come to ask for it, which saves a lot of trouble.

So Shen Mingchen went out and invited the jailer to drink in the flower hall, but the jailer couldn't get rid of it, so he had to follow him into Rui

Shen Mingchen was already funny, and he deliberately enveloped him, and the jailer only said that he wanted to ask himself to take care of the proprietor on his behalf, so he was not wary, and the two sides quickly called each other brothers. After three rounds of drinking, when his face was red and his ears were hot, Shen Mingchen took out a silver ticket of two hundred taels and said: "This is my brother's hard-earned money, and it is more than a piece of the Han family's heart." ”

The jailer was already hurting for the income, but now seeing that the other party gave an extra eighty taels, how could he not be happy, so he happily put the silver ticket into his arms, patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, brother, I will cover me in the future, and your adults will not give in inside." ”

Shen Mingchen sneered in his heart, a little jailer was so angry, and he was not afraid of the wind flashing his tongue, but he still said with gratitude on his face: "With the words of the elder brother, the brother will rest assured, please take care of my family in the future, and the Han family will not treat the brother badly." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." The jailer said yes.

"Come, come, drink." Shen Mingchen toasted diligently.

The jailer drank a glass of wine, saw that it was not early, and said, "I can't drink it, we have to go back on an errand." ”

Shen Mingchen couldn't hold back, so he had to send him to the door, took a food box from the hands of his subordinates, and said to him: "My family is not tired of eating, and he must not be used to eating the food there, please ask my brother to transfer a box of dishes to him." ”

"This ......" the jailer was embarrassed: "We have an extraordinary prison there, and we are not allowed to bring anything from outside, ......", before the words fell, there was another silver ticket in his hand, and when he saw it, it was another hundred taels, and he swallowed directly if he refused: "I will make it difficult." ”

"Please." Shen Mingchen clenched his fists and watched him leave.

The jailer carried the food box, went to the ticket number first, redeemed the tickets, and then returned to the edict prison, the thousand households were really in the class, and they smiled when they saw him, and the jailer secretly offered his share, and the smile of the thousand households was even brighter, and said, "Let's go, drink wine." ”

"If you don't go, you have to be on an errand." The jailer said: "The wind has been tight these days, how dare you skip work casually." ”

"Nacheng, I'll send you down." Qianhu wanted to save this penny, so he opened the door of the dungeon, and when he turned around, he saw that he was still carrying a food box in his hand: "What is it?" ”

"They asked me to give it to him." The jailer said that he really couldn't hide, and whispered: "People have ordered tickets." As he spoke, he handed over another forty taels, which happened to make up a whole for thousands of households.

For the sake of money, Qianhu will not pursue his violations, but the food box must be checked clearly, in case there is any entrainment, the responsibility will be great. But he carefully checked inside and out, and confirmed that this was an ordinary food box, without any mechanism, and the same as chopsticks and dishes, so he stopped and said: "Don't take it as an example", and whispered: "Don't let people see it." ”

The jailer hurriedly carried the food box down the dungeon, and did not greet his colleagues, but sent it directly to Shen Mo, for the sake of money, this time his attitude was much better, put the things down gently, and said kindly, if there is any need, just command.

"Sure enough, money can be channeled!" When the jailer was far away, Hai Rui said to Shen silently, half-mockingly, half-sighing.

Silent but unchanged: "I only know that if I want light, I will have candles, and if I want food, I will have food, and this is all thanks to money." As he spoke, he put out the dishes and bowls in the food box, only to see that the fish inside had been cut into several pieces, and the balls were also broken...... But everything that can hide things has not escaped the doom of being dismembered, which shows the metamorphosis of Dongchang.

But for the two silent people who were hungry a day ago, as long as they filled their stomachs, no matter what shape it was, they handed a pair of chopsticks to Hai Rui and said, "Come, eat, you have to have the strength to eat......

"Don't say any more, I'll just eat." Hai Rui took the chopsticks and devoured them with Shen Mo.

Coincidentally, he was also like Shen Mo yesterday, eating and eating and suddenly stuck, Shen Mo did the same, took a ball of thatch to his mouth, and whispered: "Spit it out slowly." ”

Hai Rui shook his head, indicating that he didn't have that ability, and Shen Mo didn't greet him, and slapped him on the back, and a white ball squirted out of Hai Rui's mouth, and landed on the messy grass, Shen Mo looked at it, shook his head and said: "You can also be stuck by eating fish balls, you are really gobbling it up." ”

Hai Rui was not stupid, of course he knew that it couldn't be fish balls, but he still cooperated and said, "I'm very hungry......" After speaking, he continued to drink his soup.