Hu San was a repeat offender and was kept in a separate room in the north felon cell. In front of the cell is a fence lined with large logs the thickness of an arm. There was a toilet in the corner of the back wall, the lid was thrown aside, the toilet made a foul smell, there was a pile of straw on the ground, which was damp and moldy, and in the middle was a horizontal cage, like a large box, divided into two parts, Hu was sandwiched in the middle with three sides facing up, and his head, hands and feet stretched out from the holes in the wooden box, locked and bolted together with iron chains, and then connected to the wall.

Yang Qiuchi asked Da Banya: "Why is he locked like this?" So how do you urinate? ”

Da Banya smiled and said: "Uncle, according to the regulations, the felons of murder were supposed to only go to this cage at night, and after the brothers put him in the cage last night, they didn't bother to untie him during the day today." ”

"Oh? Why? ”

Da Banya leaned into Yang Qiuchi's ear: "The son of the Yin family gave us thirty taels of silver, and asked us to serve this guy well." So, hey hey black ...... He had to pull in his crotch if he wanted to urinate. After a pause, he said, "Master Yang, we didn't dare to move the thirty taels of silver, and after you came, you decided how to divide it."

When Yang Qiuchi heard this, he thought to himself that this silver came really quickly, so he asked, "How was it divided before?" ”

"Half of the prison is to be supervised, and the other half is divided equally among the brothers of the jailers."

"Half? That's a lot."

Da Banya hurriedly huffed his waist and said: "Then Yang Ye, you take seventy percent, and the rest of the brothers will divide it, what do you think?" ”

Yes? Yang Qiuchi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "You misunderstood, I mean that my half is too much, and you have so many talents to share half, isn't it too little?" ”

Da Panya breathed a sigh of relief: "My lord, you are in charge of this whole prison, our brothers can see this hard work, and the filial piety silver sent outside is not all for your old face." You only take half of it, and it's all about taking care of your brothers, and besides, it's a rule that has always been left behind. ”

"Well, since that's the case, let's go as usual."

"Okay, I'll go tell my brothers and bring you the money." Big Banya hummed a little song and left.

Yang Qiuchi held on to the fence of the cell and looked in. I saw that Hu San's eyes were closed, and a low moan of pain came out of his mouth. When I hit the stick on the board yesterday, the wounds left on the buttocks, thighs and both ankles have scabbed. Many flies crawled on it, flying from time to time, making buzzing sounds.

Yang Qiuchi shouted: "Hu San! ”

shouted several times in a row, but Hu San still didn't move.

The little black dog that had been following Yang Qiuchi stuck his head into the fence and barked for a while, Hu Sancai tried to open his eyes and looked at Yang Qiuchi, his chapped lips moved, but he couldn't speak.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Did you kill the two Bai sisters?" ”

Hu San's head shook a little, trying to make a nodding motion, but the thick iron chain tightly tied around his neck hindered his movements.

This kid nodded and admitted, probably thinking that he had confessed yesterday anyway, and if he retracted his confession, he would have to suffer again. It shouldn't be what he was talking about. Yang Qiuchi slowed down his tone: "You don't have to worry, I won't torture you, you tell the truth, what's going on?" ”

Hu San struggled to open his swollen eyes and looked at Yang Qiuchi with difficulty, not knowing what his intentions were.

At this time, Da Banya came back with a small bag in his hand, humming a small song, and bowed down the small bag and handed it to Yang Qiuchi: "Master Yang, you take it." ”

Yang Qiuchi took the small bag, pinched it, and then stuffed it into his arms. He instructed, "Go and get a chair, and I'll ask him about something." ”

"Okay, villain, go get it." Da Banya turned around to leave, but was stopped by Yang Qiuchi again: "Wait, you asked someone to take this Hu San's cage first, it's not easy to ask." ”

Big Banya hunched his waist and agreed. After a while, together with a few jailers, he came back with a Taishi chair, and brought a small coffee table, and put tea, snacks, pen, ink, paper and inkstone. A jailer opened the cell door, went in and opened Hu San's cage, and shouted, "Hey! Don't fucking get up and kneel down yet, our Yang Ye is going to ask you! ”

Hu San's hands and feet were clamped all night, and he was already stiff and unable to move, hearing this, he bent his hands up with difficulty, and tried to turn over and get up, but the chain locked on his body weighed dozens of pounds, plus the torture last night, and the cage overnight, he had already been tortured to the point of insincerity, and it took a long time to turn over.

Da Banya pouted to the other guards, the two guards nodded, walked into the cage, and the three of them helped Hu San up, the wounds on his thighs and buttocks had dried up, and the blood scabs were stuck with his pants.

The jailer kicked Hu San's ass hard: "Cry your mother's funeral!" Call Lao Tzu again to make you look good. ”

The kick hit the wound on Hu San's buttocks, causing him to scream in pain and fall to the ground, then trying to restrain his moans. The guards stepped forward and grabbed him by the hair and shoulders, dragged him up and knelt down.

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand: "Okay, you all go out, I'm going to ask him alone." ”

All the guards agreed in unison and locked the cell door, lest this felony rush out and hurt Yang Ye, and then withdrew from the cell with a huff.

Yang Qiuchi touched the head of the little black dog lying beside him, and asked Hu San: "Let me ask you again, the two Bai sisters, did you kill them?" You have to be honest, this is your last chance. ”

When Hu San heard this, he cried loudly, and kowtowed desperately: "Master! Master, I'm wronged! I really didn't kill either of them! Please, my lord, I am really wronged, your old man saved the villain's life, and in the next life, he will repay your old man's great kindness! The sound of prostrations and the rattling of chains around the necks rang out.

Yang Qiuchi waited for him to cry a little lower before asking, "Do you want to drink water?" ”

Hu San raised his head, looked at Yang Qiuchi in a daze, and when he heard the word drinking water, his chapped lips seemed to be about to burst into flames. I didn't dare to nod, for fear that it was deliberately teasing myself.

Yang Qiuchi picked up the teapot and handed it in from between the fences, Hu San hesitated, took it carefully, glanced at Yang Qiuchi again, tilted his neck, and drank the big pot of tea in one go. Choking on the drink too quickly, he put down the empty teapot and coughed violently.

After a while, he slowly calmed down, kowtowed to Yang Qiuchi a few times to express his gratitude, and then handed the teapot back to Yang Qiuchi.

Yang Qiuchi took the teapot, put it on the table, and asked slowly, "Okay, you tell the real story in detail." ”

Hu San drank the water, a little refreshed, and said slowly: "Yesterday at noon, I went to the street to run errands, and I went to find Widow Xie on the way, wanting to make love to her, but she happened to go out ......"

"Who are you, Widow Xie?"

Hu San hesitated for a moment, lowered his head and said, "She, she is my good friend, and it has been almost a year." ”

"Well, you go on."

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