Although it was late at night, the entrance of the Jinyi Guard's prison cell was still full of sentry posts.

I saw the guards in brocade clothes guarding the prison standing in armor and holding swords, as if facing the enemy, they did not dare to relax slightly.

The prison guard didn't dare to breathe, so he had to order the soldiers to remove the door bar of the death row, personally unlock the lock, and lead Xia Mu into the death row corridor.

The corridor was dim and dark, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

Xia Mu had no choice but to follow the prison coder, and after walking about a dozen zhang away, he saw that there were single cells on both sides of the corridor, one after another, except for the heavy wooden fence on the side of the corridor, the remaining three walls were made of one-foot-square stones.

Two or three zhang away, there is a wind lantern hanging on the road. The fire is dim, the shadows are building, and when you stand on the road, you feel like you're stepping into hell.

This was the first time Xia Mu had come to this kind of place in his life, and he was a little surprised at first glance, but when he smelled the disgusting musty smell and bloody smell in the cell, he suddenly felt nauseous, shuddered, and had goosebumps.

At this time, the prison was imprisoned either by the heinous sinners or by the officials of the court who had committed serious crimes. But no matter who it is, once they enter the Jinyi Guard's Prison, they are already waiting for death, and they are desperate in their hearts.

At this moment, the criminals heard their footsteps, and saw a small commotion in the dead silence of the cell.

Those death row inmates who were confined to a single room of torture equipment all raised their heads to see this Xia Mu and his gang walking by, and they didn't know what happened suddenly in the middle of the night.

Xia Mu had just walked through three or four rooms with the prison ritual, when he suddenly heard a hoarse scolding:

"I've been your grandmother for eight lifetimes, look at it, this mouse is more than a foot long, and it can eat people, and you don't care, aren't you Jinyiwei capable, you can't even manage a mouse, a bunch of dogs and bears, dogs and grandchildren!"

Xia Mu couldn't help but stop when he heard this person so profligate, and looked towards the cell where the scolding came from, only to see a prisoner scolding there, while the other who had been severely punished, lying on the narrow clay kang covered in blood, chained so that he couldn't move, and he couldn't live because he had more air in and less air out. And a fat, black-haired rat was lying on the back of his leg and gnawing on the carrion.

It's just that the rat is very bold, and when he sees people coming, he doesn't run away, but only stares at Lu Yingying's pair of bean eyes, and vigilantly looks at the figure outside the wooden fence. And the thighs that it gnawed on soon revealed white bones, and there was blood and water, which was miserable and terrifying.

"People are already like this, look at the death, roll up a mat and let people drag it to the mass grave and bury it, don't pile it up in a cell, the air is not good, and it will attract rats!" Xia Mu frowned, his eyes were full of sympathy, and he just sighed and continued walking.

The prison guard was used to this kind of thing, so he couldn't help laughing twice, and replied indifferently: "I don't know, this is a prisoner waiting for the autumn decision, and he will go the day after tomorrow, so he is not worthy of his sympathy." ”

"Let it be," Xia Mu nodded, then moved his steps and walked.

The prison warden led him all the way to the innermost point, and saw an iron gate, guarded by two brocade guards, and the prison warden made a gesture, and one of the brocade guards took out the key to open the iron door.

It's just that it's much cleaner on the inside, not as dirty and smelly as it is on the outside.

"This place is so much better!" Xia Mu's eyes were also slightly surprised.

The prison warden smiled when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "My lord, I don't know, these are all places where the imperial court officials are held, and some of those people may be able to get out safely in a few days, and we naturally don't dare to slack off here, and the specifications are better than those prisoners." ”

Xia Mu smiled when he heard this: "You monkeys, you will also watch people put down dishes." ”

"Ye said he was laughing!"

Xia Mu continued to walk in two or three feet away, and saw a small door again, afraid that he had arrived at the place.

The prison guard nodded, pointed to the cell inside and said, "Master, this is where Hu Zongxian is held!" ”

Xia Mu nodded, asked the outside of the prison to wait, and took Xu Wei into this small door, only to find that this was a stone secret room with no windows on all sides.

It was originally a place where Qin prisoners were imprisoned, and Hu Zongxian was imprisoned here.

When Xia Mu came in, Hu Zongxian was curled up on the earthen kang, sleeping in a daze with his back to the small door.

The warden put down his stool and bowed out.

Only Xia Mu and Xu Wei were left in the house.

Xia Mu saw that Hu Zongxian was still lying down, so he coughed.

Hu Zongxian moved, turned his face, rubbed his eyes, and when he saw that it was Xu Wei, he quickly turned over and sat up.

"Wenqing? Is it really Wenqing? Hu Zongxian's shout was really full of mixed feelings. Xu Wei's face was also embarrassed, and he hurriedly asked, "Dong Weng, they didn't embarrass you, right?" ”

"That's it when I enter the edict of Jinyiwei!" Hu Zongxian smiled indifferently, in the end, he was still a soldier, and he came over from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and he had never seen anything.

Saying that, Hu Zongxian looked at Xia Mu who was sitting on the bench, and saw that this person was very young, so he couldn't help but be surprised, and asked, "......Who is this little brother?"

Xu Wei slapped his forehead, hurriedly said that he was confused, and introduced Hu Zongxian: "Dong Weng, this is the envoy of Beizhen Fusi, the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, and the first-class Ning Yuan Bo Xia Mu, Lord Xia!" ”

Hu Zongxian listened to the title of this belt, and secretly exclaimed, and heard that this person was the culprit who let him enter the edict, and he was also surprised. I couldn't help but say: "Lord Rong Zheng won such an honor at a young age, but the height is not cold, adults should also be careful, I, Hu, am a lesson from the past!" ”

"Lord Hu is also joking, the adult has been a brother with Xu Hai for seven years, but he abandoned his brother, led Xu Hai and Wang Zhi to fight, and finally Wang Zhi was killed, Xu Hai was forced to jump into the sea to commit suicide, the adult came all the way, he came over with blood, and rolled through the swords, guns, swords, and halberds, why are you afraid today!" Xia Mu smiled coldly when he heard this, and secretly sneered.

"Hahaha!" Hu Zongxian stroked his beard and laughed loudly, "Lord Xia has such a powerful tongue. ”

"My lord is now in prison, and I have explained the aftermath earlier, so I can help with it." Xia Mu said and was about to turn around and walk out.

But he didn't want to take two steps, but he heard Hu Zongxian shouting: "Lord Xia underestimated me Hu Zongxian? ”

Xia Mu turned his head and sneered: "My lord is also a hero of the anti-Japanese war, but he is in the same stream as Zhao Wenhua and embezzles the salary of the southeast army, which is also ironclad evidence!" ”

"Hmph, you don't have back pain when you speak!" Hu Zongxian smiled coldly, "The situation in the southeast is complicated, how can you know how deep the water is inside?" The general brothers under my hands, what do they eat and drink, and the military salaries issued by the imperial court have been exploited layer by layer since the capital, and how much is in my hands? I, Hu Zongxian, am not talking big, my group of soldiers, thanks to my embezzled military salaries, can survive, and can protect the comfort of several provinces in the southeast, otherwise the big tomorrow will collapse, and those officials and masters may not care about the lives of the people! ”

Xia Mu frowned when he heard this, just stood there, and sighed for a while: "Hu Meilin, you have said these big truths, I don't understand them, but in life, there is something to be done, and there is something to be done!" Hai Rui would rather let his daughter starve to death than eat relief food, adults are not as good as Hai Gangfeng! ”

"Hai Rui's hard bones, I naturally can't compare, but Daming itself is a puddle of mixed up, black stinky water, even if I am a scoop of clear water, I can't exchange it for the clear water of Daming, if there is the Yongle Emperor like the Yongle Emperor in the saint today, why should I be bullied by the Northern Yuan Dynasty, why worry about letting a Dongyi projectile island country be bullied for more than ten years?"

Xia Mu was shocked, and his teeth clenched: "Hu Meilin, is there no hot-blooded man in China?" I, Xia Guangzhong, will really tell you today, I am fighting hard to break my bones, and I want to make the muddy waters of the Ming Dynasty clear, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can't protect the children and grandchildren of China, and my Xia Mu iron bones can hold up a Qiankun and guard my Chinese Yongxing! ”

Hu Zongxian trembled when he heard this, looking at the tall figure under the lamplight, he didn't have the heart to fight back, and just sighed in vain for a while: "Back then, I also bumped into it with the same blood as you with the blood of loyalty to the country, but in the end, there was nothing left except for the blood flow of the head, you go and try, if you can do it in ten years, please come to my Hu Zongxian's grave, burn a piece of paper, and let me regret it for the rest of my life!" ”

Xia Mu didn't look back and walked out of the cell.

Xu Wei just stood aside and listened, and when he saw Xia Mu walking out at this moment, he asked Hu Zongxian: "How sure is Dong Weng that this Xia Mu can lend a helping hand to Dong Weng?" ”

Hu Zongxian's eyes were shining, and he smiled without saying a word: "Tomorrow, you just go to his house to meet him, hand over the offering table and the white deer to him, and ask him to hand it to the emperor, if it really doesn't work, I still have one last life-saving charm!" ”

"Oh!" Xu Wei's eyes showed surprise, and he hurriedly asked, "Dong Weng is right......

Hu Zongxian sneered again and again: "You must know that our emperor trusts not Yan Song, not Xu Jie, not even his Xia Mu, but those Taoist priests!" Emperor Chongdao, it's not a joke, a few years ago in Maoshan I had a friendship with that Lan Daoxing, and then his nephew was arrested for murder, Yan Song and Li Mo did not give rescue, I spent 10,000 taels of silver to beg Zhao Wenhua to change the bag, and took the death row prisoner to replace the rescue, now Tao Zhongwen died, Lan Daoxing became the emperor's most trusted person, you just hand over the table and the white deer to him, I can naturally get out of the prison safely! ”

When Xu Wei heard that Hu Zongxian really had a life-saving talisman in his hand, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and pondered it carefully.

Xia Mu came out of Hu Zongxian's cell, summoned the prison guard to him, and asked, "Is there another general soldier of Yu Dawei Shanxi who was escorted from the southeast together?" ”

"Seems to be really?" The prison guard thought about it carefully, "It's a shame for adults to remember, otherwise I would have forgotten, that Yu Dawei came three or four days earlier than Hu Zongxian, but there are no relatives and friends in the capital, and once he is in prison, he doesn't even have anyone to inquire, and he is in prison all day." ”

Xia Mu nodded and said, "You take me to see him." ”

"Come on, my lord, please!" The prison warden did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly led the way, and turned around and walked towards the dirty and smelly cell outside.

Walking all the way, Xia Mu thought in his heart: This Hu Zongxian may not have his way, Li Mo wants to kill Hu Zongxian, take the opportunity to move to Yan Song, squeeze out Xu Jie, it is an ant stumbling elephant - I can't help myself, maybe I will have to make a big mistake in the end.

And this Yu Dawei is a real fierce man. Before Hu Zongxian came to the southeast, Yu Dayou fought alone.

If I'm not mistaken............ Yu Dayou, originally a native of Fujian, was born in the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, and his family was relatively poor. But his luck is not bad, his ancestors are hereditary hundred households, although he is not a big official, after all, he has something to eat. After his father's death, he inherited the title of a hundred households, and in the fourteenth year of Jiajing, he went one step further, and won the first place in the martial arts examination that year, becoming a thousand households, and was assigned to garrison Kinmen.

Although this Yu Dayou's early experience seems to be nothing special, this is only a superficial phenomenon, in fact, in Xia Mu's own opinion, this benevolent brother is an amazing peerless master.

Because those who are familiar with history know the Qi family army, and they all know that the Shaolin warrior monks went down the mountain to kill the Japanese, the original army of the Ming Dynasty did not work, it was all Chen Shell and rotten grain, and finally it was this Yu Dawei who personally went to the Shaolin Temple, and said a great truth: they are monks, eating fasting and chanting Buddha every day, but their family and country are gone, and their Buddha still has a spare mind to listen to their chatter.

In the end, one hundred and eighty-six temples in the south such as Songshan Shaolin, more than 50,000 Shaolin monks went down the mountain to kill the Japanese monks, and the Japanese were frightened, and when they saw the Shaolin monks, they were even more frightened, and they didn't understand why their Japanese knives couldn't beat these bald wooden sticks!

And all this is the credit of Yu Dawei. What's even more strange is that in addition to the art of war, his achievements in another type of work can be described as shocking, that is, martial arts.

He once worshipped the famous swordsman Li Liangqin in Hebei as his teacher and learned swordsmanship.

In addition, his talent is extremely high, coupled with hard work, his martial arts are very exquisite. Especially in swordsmanship, he is very good at the "Jingchu Long Sword", and it is said that the swordsmanship has reached the realm of transformation.

In the end, he actually combined the weakness of the Japanese slave sword technique and fused a set of sword techniques, which is the "Sword Sutra" of the martial arts monograph, and it is also the secret weapon of the Yu family's army to win a hundred battles.

For such a fierce man, if he can be included in the 12th regiment battalion, whether he goes north to kill me or south to attack the Japanese slaves, he can go smoothly, and he really can't get Qi Jiguang's idea again, with Qi Yu and the two, why worry about the exile and the Ming Dynasty can't be prosperous?