The man who disguised himself as a dung picker was Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters.

Last night, he discussed with Zhou Kui, Lin Youkun, Yan Ling, Sun Chuanting, Shi Kefa and others for a whole day and night, and finally figured out such a plan.

Yan Ling first proposed that since Shi Kefa had infiltrated the Imperial Prison as a cleaner, then there must be a fixed cleaner in the Imperial Prison. Everyone thought about it, and the prisoners in the edict prison were not a hundred but dozens of them, at least someone had to clean up the stool every day, otherwise it would be piled up in a few days.

Zhou Kui immediately sent Yan Ling out to investigate, and it didn't take much effort to find out: the cleaning work of this edict was all covered by a leaning head named Zhao Si.

Originally, in this era, there were drainage systems such as nullahs in cities, but they only used rainwater and general sewage. As for the stool, because there is no habit of flushing, it does not go through the drainage system, but is pulled into a special manure pit or manure tank, as in the vast rural areas of the previous life.

The exclusive category of people collects this manure and transports it from the city to the countryside, where it is sold to farmers as fertilizer to earn a few hard-earned money.

Although this business stinks, it still attracts many poor people to do it because it basically has no capital and only needs to work hard.

But as soon as there are many people who do it, the competition becomes fierce, and sometimes there will even be a big fight between the foot tilters because of the competition for the dung source. Therefore, this industry, like other industries, has gradually formed its own rules.

One of the most important is to divide the area of the tilting foot, that is, each tilter can only collect manure within his own range, and if he exceeds the range, he will be punished. In several adjacent areas, there is a leaning foot similar to an underworld boss who is responsible for maintaining order, and this person is called leaning foothead.

This Zhao Si is the head of the north of the city. He began to tilt his feet at the age of ten, relying on his physical strength and ruthlessness in fights, and gradually established his authority in the crowd.

After more than ten years of hard work, he no longer has to work by himself. In the north of the city, all the tilted feet had to be given to Zhao Si every month with silver, and Zhao Si allocated the area for collecting dung to everyone according to the amount of silver.

Don't look at such a small tilted foot, just the case of silver, there are thousands of taels every year. With a good income, Zhao Si bought a house in Jingshi as early as possible, and married a wife and had children, and his small life was quite nourishing. Walking on the street on weekdays, when the poor people see it, they have to be called "Fourth Master Zhao".

But although Zhao Si doesn't have to collect the dung himself, he doesn't just rely on collecting money to get by. Some large dung producers, he still holds it firmly in his hands and does not let others get involved. Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi Edict Prison is one of them, because the source of dung is stable, Zhao Si instructed his subordinates to take turns to collect dung for him here.

He is quite good at handling things, and he has already pawned the edict up and down. The brocade guards on duty accepted his benefits, and gave him the green light, not only handling a waist card for him to pass, but also turning a blind eye to him, and sometimes bringing in one or two people who pretended to be leaning to visit the prison, but also pretended not to know.

Yan Ling found out all this clearly and immediately reported it to Zhu Youzhen. After Zhu Youzhen discussed with everyone, after repeated discussions, he finally formulated a bold plan: pretending to be dumped into the edict prison and rescue Yang Lian and others!

The general plan of this plan is as follows: Step 1, Zhou Kui will first come forward, go around the Imperial Prison, and find an excuse to lure out the high-ranking officials in the Imperial Prison. Without these cunning and vigilant villains, the rest of the matter would be much easier.

The second step, which is the most central step, is to send someone to pretend to be dumped and infiltrate the edict. and then Yang Lian and others were secretly replaced from prison by the method of "changing the tanuki for the prince".

First of all, Yan Ling effortlessly caught Zhao Si in a rented vacant room, and lured him to get his entry and exit card.

Then, the three dung carts that Zhao Si found from him were cleverly modified. The modified cart has an extra mezzanine at the bottom, which allows two people to lie side by side.

As for the "people" who wanted to replace the six gentlemen of Donglin, Yan Ling and Sun Chuanting went out of the city, and from the many corpses of the victims outside the city, they selected six corpses that had just died and were about the same height as the six people, imitating the methods of Jinyiwei, beating the corpses into flesh and blood, and then burning their faces with a soldering iron, making it impossible to distinguish their appearances at all.

As long as he can get into the edict, he will wait for the opportunity to exchange the six gentlemen with these six corpses. Then light a handful of flowers and burn the cell. By the time Jinyiwei extinguished the fire, the corpse had already been charred, and there was no means of DNA identification in this era, so it was impossible to detect that the corpse had been transferred. Anyway, Wei Zhongxian, Xu Xianchun and others were originally going to kill the six gentlemen, but seeing that the six had been burned to death, they might not be too deep.

And this person who disguised himself as a tilted foot is the most critical person in this plan, and the person who has to take the greatest risk. Once the horse's feet are exposed, not only can they not save people, but they also have to get in.

Originally, Yan Ling, Shi Kefa, and even Sun Chuanting rushed to take on this important task. But Zhu Youzhen thought about it again and again, and decided to go out in person.

Of course, the crowd refused to let him put his life at risk, and tried their best to dissuade him. Zhu Youzhen said: "You adults don't have to worry, I have a reason to go." First of all, Mr. Shi can't go, you have already mixed in once, you are considered a familiar face, and your identity will be exposed if you go again. Besides, Mr. Sun can't go, you go out of the city every day to help the victims these days, and I'm afraid that the people of Jinyiwei have already targeted you.

"And I went in person, and there were three major benefits. First, I rarely show my head, and I have rarely seen my brocade guards, and if I change my outfit, no one will think that I am the king of faith; Second, I am young, and it is easy for people in prison to let their guard down. Third, after entering the edict, I must not only adapt to the situation, but also make a decision on the spot, and I have to go in person to make a decision on the spot. ”

In fact, Zhu Youzhen has another unspeakable reason. He has long known that in history, Yang Lian and others died in prison. Doing this by yourself now is tantamount to challenging history, challenging fate, and challenging death!

Once a few people are successfully rescued, it proves that history can be changed! This is of great significance to Zhu Youzhen!

And if Yang Lian can't be saved, it means that history cannot be changed, and Zhu Youzhen will not be able to avoid the end of hanging the coal mountain. Rather than endure more than ten years of great pain and end up with such a miserable ending, it is better to have a good time now!

"Then what about Yan Ling!" Zhou Kui persuaded bitterly.

"No, Yan Daxia has a more important task, which is step three, to get out of prison!" Zhu Youjian's eyes were blazing and said, "If we succeed in it and come out smoothly, it will naturally be easy to say." But in case things don't go well, that's when Yan Daxia needs to appear. He must pretend to break into the edict and rob the prison to save people, and attract all the brocade guards guarding the edict to pass, so that I can have a chance to escape while the chaos is in chaos! ”

Everyone had another heated discussion, but Zhou Kui and Lin Youkun still felt that the risk was too great and insisted on dissuading them. In the end, Zhu Youzhen had to bring out the prince's style, and shouted: "I have made up my mind!" If the two of you are timid and afraid, you can go to the east factory to report the king and ask for credit! ”

Zhou Kui and Lin Youkun were so frightened that they knelt down together and said, "Don't dare to be humble!" ”

Everyone has decided to make separate preparations. Before dawn that day, Zhu Youzhen sneaked out of the Xinwang Mansion and joined up with several Tengxiang right guards under Lin Youkun. These guards were carefully selected by Lin Youkun, not only strong in martial arts, but also his friends in life and death, absolutely reliable.

Zhu Youzhen and the others put on dirty and smelly rags, and painted their faces black with the bottom of the pot, and they looked like they were leaning their feet dealing with feces and urine all day long.

They hid the bodies in three carts, nailed them to death with wooden planks, and covered them with a thick layer of dung. As soon as he was pushed out of the hidden yard, the passers-by all covered their noses and ran away, even Zhu Youzhen himself couldn't stand it, so he had to constantly warn himself in his heart: "If it is fragrant, it should be fragrant!" Don't show it! ”

When they saw Zhou Kui and Xu Xianchun gradually moving away, Zhu Youzhen and his party, who had been ambushed nearby, immediately took action, pushed three carts, and slowly came to the gate of the Imperial Prison.

Jinyi Wei Qianhu saw that the person who came was not familiar, and shouted: "What person!" ”

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly stepped forward, took out the waist card that had been prepared, and said with a flattering smile: "This big man, the little one is named Zhao Gou'er, and the little one's father is called Zhao Si, the one who often comes to our yamen to collect dung, you always remember!" My father was sick last night, and he couldn't get out of bed today, so he instructed the little one: 'Hurry up and go to Fusi Prison in Beizhen for me to collect dung, don't delay the big things of the old man!' 'Isn't that just the little one!' ”

"You rabbit cub, but you have the same tone as your thief father!" When Jinyi Wei Qianhu saw the waist card, he immediately put his mind at ease, but deliberately scolded loudly, "Originally, I said that I would come every day, but it's been three days, so I came this time!" You go in and see what your father is doing, and the dung is confiscated and the prisoner's prison food is taken away! What does the prison stink into, so much so that I give the servant a good lecture! ”

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly smiled and handed over ten taels of silver, pretending to look like a thief with eyebrows and rat eyes, and whispered: "Big master, it's not easy for the little ones to do!" Life has not been easy these years, and my father is also thinking about taking up more space and collecting more dung. In the past few days, the people have gone elsewhere to grab dung, and you have to wait a little more here! When my father recovers, he will naturally come in person, and then I will pay more tribute to your old man! ”

Jinyi Wei Qianhu took the silver, swept it in his hand, put it in his arms, and scolded with a smile: "Fuck, you guys are greedy enough, eat what is in the bowl, and you have to occupy the pot!" No, your bowl and pot are full of dung, hahahaha! Why don't you get in there and eat enough! ”

When he laughed, the guards around him burst into laughter.

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly waved his subordinates and pushed the three carts through the gate of the Imperial Prison. He secretly gritted his teeth and scolded in his heart: "Your ancestors only ate dung!" One day, my brother has the final say, I have to stuff your dog stuff into the dung tank, and it won't be over if I don't kill you! ”