Xu Liang got out of the carriage and was still looking at this silent courtyard, but seeing that the house was deep, it was rare to see people moving around, which seemed empty and cold, Xu Changqing pointed around and said proudly: "Lord Xu, this is our Beizhen Fusi." How's that, magnificent, right? ”

Xu Liang nodded again and again.

Xu Changqing said apologetically: "Now that we are in Beijing, we are going to entrust Lord Xu to stay in prison for a while. ”

Xu Liang didn't dare to do so.

Xu Changqing instructed the two captains: "You two, bring Lord Xu over, and arrange it." ”

The lieutenant grinned, "Qianhu rest assured. Lord Xu, please come with the little ones. ”

Xu Liang followed the two Jinyi Guard captains towards the backyard of Fusi in Beizhen, and stopped in front of an ordinary small building, a captain stepped forward and slammed the ring of the closed door, and a person who looked like a prison guard poked his head out, saw the Jinyi Guard captain and Xu Liang behind him, and said: "There is nothing going on in the court these days, why do you want to enter again?" He pointed at Xu Liang and said, "Captain, where did this unlucky guy come from?" ”

The captain of the Jinyi guard scolded with a smile: "You little prison guard is quite wide!" Hurry up, lead the way. ”

The jailer was not annoyed when he was scolded, and he smiled and led the three of them into the door. Xu Liang was shocked to realize that this outside looks like a very ordinary small building, there are four guards with knives behind the door inside, inside is a straight passage, quite dim, every other section on the wall lit oil lamps, the four of them walked fifty steps away, the passage suddenly turned right, then walked more than a dozen steps, and turned left, and then the passage extended diagonally downward, the green brick paved down steps due to many years of no sunlight, damp with water stains, feet creaked on it.

After walking down dozens of steps, he was greeted by a pitch-black iron door. A small cubicle next to the iron gate was brightly lit, and several guards were chatting around the table where they were sitting.

When the captain of the Jinyi guard saw the cell head who was sitting, he smiled and said: "I said Chang Ah Si, you kid is in charge of this place and falls easily, drinking wine and eating meat every day, but brother and I have to fight knives outside." ”

The cell head, Chang Ah Si, looked like a sharp-beaked monkey with a lewd appearance, he stretched out his hand and wiped the two short beards on his lips, and grinned: "I want to go outside and follow a few thousand households, but unfortunately the adults can't look down on it." I had no choice but to guard this gloomy edict. Hey, where is this official committing a crime? ”

The captain was obviously quite familiar with the head of the cell, so he walked to the table with a smile and grabbed a handful of melon seeds and put them in his pocket, and said to the head of the cell: "This is Lord Xu Liangxu, the magistrate of Zhenyuan County, Shaanxi, who has committed some trivial things and is temporarily locked up here. You guys need to take care of it. ”

Chang Jiaotou's face was slightly shocked, he squinted his eyes and glanced at Xu Liang, bowed his head slightly, and asked, "Then go to No. 80." ”

When the captain heard this, he shook his head and said: "You cell boss is also stingy, and there are not empty rooms inside, and the condition of the font size is too poor, at least you have to change to the ground size." ”

Chang Cell Boss was not happy, rolled his eyes and said: "Captain, a small magistrate of a place, it's good to have someone to live here." ”

"This Lord Xu is specially taken care of by Xu Qianhu." The lieutenant reminded faintly.

When the head of Chang Cell heard this, he stopped talking, took two prison guards, took Xu Liang into custody, opened the iron door and entered the Imperial Prison. The scene inside is not the same as the outside, first there is a row of small brick rooms, all locked with iron doors, each small room is separated by a brick wall in front of it, and the door is marked with a white lacquered sky.

Then there is another iron door, into the iron door, it is still a row of small rooms, and the outside of the Tianzi room is not much different, but it is smaller, and the font size on the door has also been replaced with the word ground. The head of Chang Cell picked room 36, opened the door and said to Xu Liang: "Yours is this room, go in by yourself." ”

Xu Liang heard the conversation between the head of the cell and the captain of the Jinyi guard from beginning to end, and knew that the head of the cell in front of him could not be offended, so he smiled and said: "There is the head of the cell to take care of him." If he can go out one day, he will be thanked with generous gifts. ”

Chang Cell's head took a sip when he heard this, pouted and smiled: "You official can think about it, we don't expect to thank you or not, you still pray that you can get out alive." With that, the head of the cell locked the iron door, grabbed a large lock key and put it on his middle finger, and shook it loudly as he walked.

Xu Liang Chaoguan checked his own cell No. 36 carefully, and fortunately, the situation was much better than imagined. At least there was a bed, a small table, and a quilt on the bed, which, though not very clean, was much more decent than those pure straw covers. There was silence in the cell, with the occasional cough or two coming from the next cell, but nothing else could be heard.

Xu Liang sat on the edge of the bed, flattened the cotton patch, made himself sit more comfortably, and brightened the oil lamp on the table a lot. His thoughts returned to the scene in Pingyang Prefecture.

I didn't think that Iron Head would use such a way to rescue himself. In fact, the moment the iron head flashed into the carriage to take him to escape, Xu Liang was almost moved. However, thinking that the Liang army that he had built up with great painstaking efforts and this hard-won official identity would be wiped out with this escape, and from then on he would become no different from the thieves wandering in the northwest, Xu Liang was deeply unwilling. Just when the two were arguing, they suddenly heard the warning of the guards guarding outside, and saw that Tietou was about to be discovered by Xu Changqing, a thousand households of Jinyi Wei, who was approaching quickly, Xu Liang immediately made a decision, let his subordinates overturn the carriage and fall into the river, and Tietou took advantage of the chaos to slip away from the bottom of the water.

Although he did not escape this time, Xu Liang did not find nothing. Thinking of the address left by Tietou before leaving, Xu Liang thought about finding an opportunity to contact the outside.

Chang Cell Head is the target of Xu Liang's eyes.

Three days later, the cell boss patrolled the cell. Xu Liang called Chang Cell Boss through the iron gate, and complained with a bitter face: "I said Chang Cell Boss, your food here is also a little worse, right?" Tianqing cabbage and radish, I can't see a little meat, Xu has eaten it for three days, there is no oil and water in his stomach, and he is panicked! ”

Chang Cell Boss was angry, took out his ring ruler and lit the iron door, and sneered: "You little sesame official is quite particular!" What do you think this place is? This is the edict! You still think it's your home?! I sue you, it's good for you kid to eat three meals a day, ordinary offenders, when you come to Lao Tzu, you will nibble on a black steamed bun and drink a bowl of porridge a day! ”

Xu Liang was stunned, and when he saw that the cell boss was leaving, he hurriedly grabbed Chang Cell's head through the iron bar, and smiled with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to leave, let's have a discussion?" ”

"What discussion?" Chang Cell Boss has been in this prison for most of his life, and the bribes of the prisoners have been accepted smoothly, and when he saw Xu Liang's look, he guessed that there was a play, stopped and asked.

"Hehe," Xu Liang smiled, looking at the other two guards who were accompanying Chang Cell, hesitating.

Chang Jiaotou waved his hand and said: "These two people are Chang's brothers, if you have something to say, it doesn't hurt to talk about it." ”

When Xu Liang heard this, he said, "Then I'll just say it." Chang Cell, as well as these two bad masters, your food is indeed too bad, Xu is also a county magistrate, and he is used to eating fine grains. Hehe, that, can you be accommodating and give Xu some good food, preferably some meat, like chicken, duck, pig's head meat, and dog meat. If you can come whole, Xu will give money, and give a double price! ”

Hearing this, Chang Cell exchanged glances with the other two prison guards, and then smiled. Chang Prison Boss said with an embarrassed face: "It turns out that this is the case, if you want to say that our edict and prison rules are strict, and our family will definitely not give him convenience for ordinary prisoners, but what you Xu Liang said is also the person Xu Qianhu specially explained to take care of, so let's make an exception." ”

"Thank you so much, thank you so much!" Xu Liang arched his hand and smiled.

"Eh, Lord Xu, don't be in a hurry to thank you." Chang Jiao said, "There is a way to see that those who have a share, but there are three of us here, how can you divide it if you give a double share and our brother goes out?" ”

"That's easy to say!" When Xu Liang saw Chang Cell Boss say this, he understood what he meant, and said happily: "That's it, Xu Mou will pay three parts!" ”

"Haha, Lord Xu is really a happy person, deal!" Chang Prison laughed, stretched out a palm in front of Xu Liang, raised it, and looked at Xu Liang.

"What?" Xu Liang was inexplicable.

"Dig for it! How can I buy something if I don't have money? "Chang Cell Boss is not satisfied.

"Hehe," Xu Liang embarrassedly pointed to the set of clothes on his body that had not been changed for a few days, and sneered: "Chang Cell-tou said that he was joking, you look at Xu Mou's current appearance, can you still turn out the money all over your body?" ”

Chang Cell's face changed suddenly. A jailer stepped forward and scolded, "Damn, you're a poor sour fool, aren't you? As he spoke, he raised his fist to beat Xu Liang.

Xu Liang hurriedly said: "Don't do it, don't do it, listen to Xu's words." ”

"Say!" Chang Cell's face was gloomy and he snorted coldly.

"Xu can't get money here." Xu Liang explained with a smiling face, "However, my family outside has money." I told the three of you that as long as you get me food, you can go to my family in the capital to ask for money. ”

When the head of Chang Cell heard this, his face softened, and he asked, "Then where is your family now?" ”

"There is a car and horse shop called Tongtianxia near Fahua Temple in the outer city of the capital, and the person in charge of the affairs inside is called Yan Qi, known as the Seventh Master, he is Xu's hometown relative, and the three of them will find him, and he will definitely pay as agreed." Xu Liang said confidently.