A person who was taken into prison and put on such a high posture, I really have to admire his fearless spirit, dare to swagger in the famous Jinyi Wei Prison, and ask for a clean reading of the presidential suite, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there is probably only Xiao Fan Such a pioneer has such courage.

Yang Deli's face twitched very badly, and he had a precursor of stroke.

After expediency for a long time, Yang Deli finally thought very rationally, even if the lord in front of him was imprisoned, it didn't seem so easy to offend, first of all, he and his immediate boss Cao Yi had a lifelong friendship, life and death brothers, and secondly, behind this lord stood a royal highness, who was also a lifelong friendship, life and death brothers...... Yang Deli found that even if Xiao Fan became a prisoner, he still couldn't afford to provoke this master, not only couldn't he provoke him, but he also had to be offered up like an ancestor, because theoretically speaking, as long as Xiao Fan's head was not cut off in the court, he would always have a chance to turn the tables, maybe one day people would swagger out of the edict prison again.

This is the difference between a person who gains power and a person who loses power.

A person who has lost power, even if you are the prime minister, once you are suspected by the emperor, even if you have not been imprisoned, others will look at you like a dead person.

A powerful person, even if he is in prison, as long as he has a strong background and deep power, even if he is locked up in a prison cell, he is still an uncle, because no one can estimate that this person will regain power and power one day.

Xiao Fan undoubtedly belongs to the latter.

For such an uncle, what can Yang Deli do with him?

With almost no hesitation, Yang Deli quickly made a very wise choice.

Uncle is uncle, no matter where he is, he is the uncle, since he is the uncle, then treat him as an uncle, not only to please his boss and the future Emperor Ming, but also to leave a way out for himself in front of Xiao Fan.

At that moment, Yang Deli no longer hesitated, and after sending away the two brocade forbidden soldiers who escorted Xiao Fan, he immediately respectfully invited Xiao Fan into the clean cell, and personally brought desks, books, wine, and sauce elbows for the cell, and also diligently changed the cell with a clean snow-white bedding, in a short period of time, the dark and damp cell was completely new, and it was decorated like a cave room from the inside out, which really made Xiao Fan, who was a prisoner, feel a little flattered.

"This ...... Yang Baihu, you don't have to be so troublesome, you are already a prisoner now, you can't afford to be so respectful......" Xiao Fan said slightly shyly.

Yang Deli was so busy that the corners of his forehead were sweating, and he turned his head sideways to flattering and smiled: "Lord Xiao is the boss of his subordinates, he is the boss for life, and he is the blessing of his subordinates to serve Lord Xiao......

“…… Maybe I'll be escorted to the court tomorrow. Xiao Fan's expression was gloomy.

Yang Deli patted his chest excitedly, and said tragically: "If the adult goes to the court, then the subordinates ......."

Xiao Fan blinked: "You also died for me?" ”

Yang Deli was stunned, and immediately changed the topic very wisely: "...... My lord, this cell is temporarily arranged like this, and my lord will be wronged for a few days, and maybe in a few days there will be a decree, and my lord will be reinstated...... Are you satisfied? ”

"Well, yes, I'm satisfied."

Being in prison can enjoy being like this, Xiao Fan really can't find fault.

In addition to not being free, such conditions can be regarded as recuperation, if there are red sleeves to add fragrance, it is simply in heaven...... "My lord, do you want your subordinates to find you a few kiln sisters?" Accompany you to play the piano and play music every day, warm the bed, and talk to relieve boredom...... "Yang Deli stepped forward at the right time, and the more he said, the more the silver on his face became more and more prosperous.

Xiao Fan said with surprise on his face: "Is it really possible?" ”

Yang Deli smiled proudly: "Of course you can, in this edict, the subordinates have the final say." ”

Xiao Fan thought about it, and finally shook his head with great difficulty, then patted Yang Deli on the shoulder, and said seriously: "Forget it, since I am already a prisoner, I should keep a low profile, otherwise it will not be good to spread the word...... You'd better do your job. ”

Yang Deli admired: "Adults are not close to women, they are high-spirited and bright, and their subordinates are very impressed......"

"Can you let me out and let me go to the Qinglou to have fun?"

Yang Deli: "............"

"Forget it, when I didn't say it."

Yang Deli is a good subordinate who knows how to read his face, and after settling Xiao Fan, he immediately sent someone to report Xiao Fan's imprisonment to Cao Yi.

As soon as the person who reported the news came out of the prison gate, he met Cao Yi who came in a hurry after hearing the news.

Cao Yi led a few brocade-clothed captains, ignoring the subordinates who saluted him along the way, and strode into the gate of the edict.

His expression was grim, he bit his cheeks tightly, and his eyes radiated a fierce light, as if he was holding back anxiety and resentment.

As soon as he entered the Imperial Prison, there was a foul smell in his nose, Cao Yi frowned, and walked in without saying a word.

Walking along the dim and damp walkway, ignoring the rats, cockroaches and various unknown reptiles scurrying around under his feet, Cao Yi frowned all the way, and walked along the wall road to the end, just in time to meet the oncoming Yang Deli.

"My subordinates have seen Cao Qianhu." Yang Deli hurriedly saluted.

"Where is Xiao Fan?" Cao Yi asked coldly, and then pursed his mouth tightly, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out.

Yang Deli listened to Cao Yi's unkind tone, his heart sank, and he hurriedly said: "My subordinates arranged Lord Xiao in the cleanest cell, this ...... His Majesty had an order, and his subordinates had to be edicted, but after Lord Xiao was imprisoned, his subordinates did not dare to let him suffer half of the grievances. ”

Cao Yi's face finally eased a little when he heard this, he glanced at Yang Deli approvingly, and said lightly: "You did a good job, take me there." ”

When Yang Deli heard Cao Yi's praise at first glance, he was suddenly overjoyed, and secretly glad that he didn't show a mean and sour face in front of Xiao Fan, otherwise he would say that Xiao Fan would clean him up after he was reinstated, and his own top boss alone would not let him go.

At that moment, Yang Deli didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly bowed down and led Cao Yi all the way to the cell where Xiao Fan was held.

Cao Yi's face sank like water, and when he saw Yang Deli bending down to open the lock of the cell, he couldn't help frowning and said, "Why did you lock the cell door?" My brother Xiao is also a man with a head and a face in the court, are you still afraid that he will not be able to escape? ”

Yang Deli shuddered when he heard this, and hurriedly responded: "Lord Qianhu forgives his sins, it is the negligence of his subordinates, and he will not dare next time." ”

The iron lock clanged a few times, the cell door opened, Cao Yi strode in, and saw Xiao Fanzheng sitting lazily on a mink Taishi chair flipping through the book, his feet were still high on the big desk in front of the chair, trembling, shaking, reaching out from time to time to take the wine jug on the table, sucking a sip, and then twisting the sauce elbow wrapped in oil paper, cut thinly, tilting his head and sending it into his mouth to chew a few times,—— this looks like being in prison, he is on vacation at all, and his demeanor is so leisurely.

Cao Yi was stunned by the scene in front of him, and then looked around the cell curiously, and for a while he couldn't tell whether this was a prisoner, a prison with death and no life, or Xiao Fan's own warm and elegant study.

Yang Deli smiled flatteringly when he saw the opportunity, and said, "Lord Qianhu, can your subordinates be satisfied with such an arrangement?" ”

Cao Yi sighed and muttered, "How satisfied are you...... You've been too nice to him, haven't you? Damn, this guy just came in to enjoy the blessings, and I was so anxious that my mouth was bubbling with fire, and I hurried all the way over, for fear that he would eat the punishment of our edict......"

Xiao Fan put down the book and said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, Brother Cao, your mentality is not right, I'm unlucky now, no matter how well this place is arranged, am I still a prisoner?" ”

Cao Yi said angrily: "I really want to change with you, you help me to be this busy Jinyi Wei Qianhu who doesn't touch the ground, I came here to be a prisoner under the steps......"

Xiao Fan said with a smile: "Then I don't do it, maybe I will be escorted to the vegetable market to be beheaded, there are not many people alive, I have to be kind to myself, and I have to enjoy what I should enjoy......"

Cao Yi sighed heavily and said: "This person really can't be compared with people, Lao Tzu is a thousand households, busy all day long, you have to fart to see if you are free, you are good, the official is bigger than me, you don't do anything, even if you are locked in a prison cell, you are as leisurely as the second master, are you born to enjoy a happy life?" ”

Xiao Fan smiled bitterly: "When you say that, I really can't figure out whether my fate is good or hard......"

Cao Yi snorted coldly and said, "You may have had a good life before, but now you may not be ......"

Xiao Fan was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

Cao Yi showed a gloating smile: "Just now, a eunuch came to the Yamen of the Zhenfu Division, passed on His Majesty's will, ordered you to be punished with a hundred lashes, executed in prison, ordered Jinyi Wei not to show favoritism, and sent a eunuch to supervise the punishment." ”

Xiao Fan suddenly shuddered, and said with a trembling lips: "A hundred lashes? ”

"Yes, no more, no less, a hundred. That is, I will pick up your shirt and hang you, and then whip you a hundred times......" Cao Yi said seriously.

Xiao Fan's face immediately turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "It's really poisonous!" A hundred strokes can't whip people to death? Brother Cao, why don't you kill me with one knife and give me a good time. ”

Cao Yi said solemnly: "That's not good, Your Majesty's will is to whip you, I didn't say to kill you." ”

Xiao Fan said with a bitter face: "Brother Cao, do I look like I am underpumping?" ”

"It's a little ......"

After speaking, Cao Yi tilted his head and shouted outward: "Yang Deli, you come in!" ”

Yang Deli hurriedly walked in, hugged his fists and said, "What do you command?" ”

Cao Yi slowly pulled out a dark leather whip with a shiny oil and thin barbs from behind him, handed it to Yang Deli and said, "Prepare for whipping!" ”

Xiao Fan's legs were weak, so frightened that he almost collapsed on the ground, the punishment of the Ming Dynasty was cruel, a hundred whips didn't sound much, in fact, only twenty or thirty whips were enough to beat people's skin and flesh, and countless people were whipped to death under the whipping.

Staring at the dark leather whip in fear, Xiao Fan even changed his tone: "Brother Cao...... You're not going to be playing for real, are you? ”

Cao Yi said with a straight face: "Of course it's true, a hundred whips, not a single one, otherwise how can I give a message to Your Majesty?" ”

"You're going to smoke my ......"

"At most, I will cripple you, and it will be so easy to die somewhere......"

Yang Deli cautiously glanced at Cao Yi's serious face, and saw that his expression was extremely cold, not like he was joking, he couldn't help muttering in his heart, aren't Cao Qianhu and Lord Xiao brothers in life and death? Why are you so ruthless to your brothers in life and death?

Everything was ready, Cao Yi turned his head sideways and looked at Xiao Fan with a smile, and said, "Do you have anything else to explain before being tortured?" ”

"Yes!"

"Then you say, I'll listen." Cao Yi said with a smile.

"The whip tastes too heavy."

"And what do you want?"

Xiao Fan straightened his chest and said with a solemn expression: "...... Can it be changed to wax drops? ”

Cao Yi: "............"

…………………… It turns out that the brothers of life and death are indeed brothers of life and death, Yang Deli shook the leather whip skillfully, and then his wrist shook, and the leather whip suddenly stretched out in mid-air, and hit a loud whip.

At this time, Cao Yi clapped his hands, and outside the cell door, two cronies and lieutenants who often followed Cao Yi's side walked in, and the two of them held a piece of cooked cowhide together, and then they hung the cooked cowhide with two iron hooks, and finally bowed their hands to Cao Yi, and the two retreated.

Cao Yi pouted at the cooked cowhide and said to Yang Deli: "Whip at that cowhide, a hundred, count it yourself, don't look back and whip it a few times, Lao Tzu can't pay a difference to Your Majesty." ”

Yang Deli's face was bitter: "...... Be. ”

Xiao Fanxi said: "I knew that Brother Cao would not be so cruel to me......"

So, in the narrow prison cell, there was a muffled sound of whips slapping on cowhides, crackling, crisp, no different from the sound of whipping on people.

Yang Deli sweated and violently committed violence against the cowhide, but Cao Yi and Xiao Fan sat leisurely at the newly arranged large desk in the prison, chatting lazily while drinking wine and eating meat.

"Brother Cao, didn't you say that there are eunuchs who supervise punishment? What about people? ”

Cao Yi pursed his lips: "Supervise a bird punishment!" Lao Tzu threw a hundred taels of silver at the eunuch, and then dragged him to drink two jars of wine in the yamen, and when he was so drunk that he couldn't walk, I asked him to come to the prison to supervise your punishment, and the guy said softly that he was not coming, and when he finished smoking, he would have to say to him, and he would go back to his majesty. ”

Xiao Fan's heart was filled with emotion.

Adversity sees the truth, brotherly righteousness is not just a matter of saying a few words, and at critical moments, it depends on performance, Cao Yi is undoubtedly a very qualified good brother.

"Brother Cao......" Xiao Fanxing's eyes were slightly filled with tears.

Cao Yi chewed heavily on the elbow of the sauce in one hand, waved his hand nonchalantly, and said, "Don't say any thanks, big grace and other, listen to the ...... of hypocrisy."

"No, Brother Cao, don't eat up your elbows, leave me some ......" Xiao Fan looked at Cao Yi with tears in his eyes...... Elbows in the hand.

Cao Yi stopped chewing, his face dark: "............"

........................ "What's going on outside?" Xiao Fan returned to his senses, and his expression was a little worried.

Cao Yi put down his elbow and sighed deeply: "...... At the moment before you entered the edict just now, His Majesty was still angry and ordered to kill you, but fortunately, the imperial grandson hurriedly entered the palace when he heard the news, knelt down and begged His Majesty to cry, which persuaded His Majesty to withdraw his life. ”

"The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty heard that you were sent to prison, and their reactions were different, according to the report of the secret agents who were placed in the palaces of our Jinyi Guard, after His Majesty put you in prison, the news soon spread out of the palace, and the court was shocked, and many ministers gathered in tandem, most of them said that they wanted to ask Your Majesty for their lives to kill you, and a few of them who still had a conscience just begged to demote you or exile, as for the military department Shangshu Ru Yu, Hanlin Bachelor Xie Jin and others, they closed the door and thanked the guests, looking very uneasy......

Xiao Fan sneered: "The one who wants to kill me is nothing more than Huang Zicheng, Huang Guan's gang of Qingliu ministers, they claim to be loyal ministers, of course they can't see a minister like me alive." ”

Cao Yi looked at Xiao Fan and sighed: "Brother, you have stabbed the hornet's nest this time, haven't you always been comfortable in the officialdom and court?" Why did it get so serious this time, I almost lost my head......"

Xiao Fan sighed heavily, and with a bitter expression, he told him and the thrush and the three county lords of Jiangdu about the troubles.

Then Xiao Fan looked up at Cao Yi and said with a wry smile: "Brother Cao, my courage is not big, it can be said that I am very small, I am a person who is very afraid of death, but His Majesty wants me to take a break from the thrush, imagine it, the thrush and I have come through the ups and downs together, if I divorce her because of my greed for wealth, am I still human?" If I divorce the thrush in order to marry the county lord, not to mention that I will push the thrush to a desperate situation, I am afraid that even you will look down on me in the future, such a despicable life, I might as well die! ”

Cao Yi gave him a thumbs up and said sincerely: "Brother, you are a man, a kind of man!" Cao admires! It is Cao's luck to be able to make friends with you! ”

Xiao Fan said with a bitter face: "Don't praise me, in fact, I'm still scared to death now, maybe Your Majesty will feel very angry when you think about it, and you will still order me to be killed, how long my head can stay on my neck really depends on my luck......"

Cao Yi turned his head to look at Yang Deli, who was struggling to whip the cowhide, and whispered in Xiao Fan's ear: "Brother, don't worry, if there is really that day, Cao will fight for this old life, and he will also save you from the law field!" In the future, our brothers will die in the world, and they will be at ease, and whoever loves this bird official should fuck off! ”

Xiao Fan raised his head when he heard this, and looked at Cao Yi gratefully.

Cao Yi's furry beard smiled at him, then smacked his mouth, frowned, and said, "Huh? No, it is said that your cessation of thrushes is your own family affair, even if Your Majesty locks you up in anger, he will not want to kill you, right? That's a bit of a stretch......"

Xiao Fan said with a pale face: "What's that...... At that time, I was a little uncool, and I picked up His Majesty's dragon underwear again......"

Cao Yi's eyes widened, and then his face was full of admiration: "............"

…………………… At this time, Yang Deli, who was struggling to whip the cowhide on the side, turned his head panting, and said with a bitter face: "Two adults, can your subordinates make an immature suggestion?" ”

"Say."

“…… Even if it's a play, can we make it a little more realistic? How can a prisoner not scream twice when he is whipped? ”

Cao Yi touched his chin and pondered, "That's right...... It should indeed be called twice, hey, brother, call twice to listen, be sad, don't let people find out that we are cheating. ”

As a result, in the gloomy prison, there was a sudden earth-shattering scream.

"Ahh Ahh I owe you to you as a brother! Ahh

Not far from the outside of the cell, the captains in brocade clothes who stood with their backs to the cell door were terrified when they heard this, but they didn't dare to look back because of Cao Yi's order, so the captains gathered side by side without a trace into a pile of discussions.

"What happened to Lord Xiao in Lord Cao? Why did Lord Xiao scream so badly? ”

"Didn't Your Majesty order Lord Xiao to be whipped?"

"That's not what it's called, it sounds like a popping chrysanthemum, it's really fucking crazy......"

(To be continued)