What happened outside, the people inside were not clear.

It's in the Huaizhou prison.

Some languishing but still unyielding Poor Road stood in a corner of the cell, frowning.

There were no walls on three sides, separated by wooden pillars, and it was crowded with prisoners on all sides. The straw laid on the ground had turned black, and there was a foul smell from it, and he couldn't imagine what was down there, but he just stood farther away.

"Hey, brother, what crime did you commit in coming in?" An unkempt man leaned over with a pile of straw and asked.

Exhaustion frowned.

The man saw his disgust, still leaned over, and said with a smile: "Don't dislike it first, my pile of grass is quite clean." At night, it's cold, tsk, I'm afraid that when you fall asleep, you will involuntarily burrow into the foul-smelling black grass. ”

"I won't." The grass the man held did not have a foul smell, but it didn't smell good.

The man smiled: "I can see a lot of you young men, they are all stubborn." It's like putting a bowl of glutinous rice in front of you, when you are not hungry, you will abandon it like a shoe, and when you are hungry and unbearable, you will still hold the bowl and say that it is really delicious. ”

"I won't." The end of the road is still this sentence.

"Gotta get it, but I can't beat you." The man laughed, "Anyway, why did you come in?" ”

"Beat up the food officer." The end of the road.

When the man heard this, he gasped and said, "Tsk, brother, you really... Terrible! Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers! ”

"It's nothing, I know some of the rules, and I didn't beat him, at most he was sentenced to a few days in prison." The end of the road.

"Statutes? Haha, how could you believe those! Now this law is nothing but a trick of the powerful nobles and a shackle of the common people. The powerful have violated the law, and there are many ways to escape, and ordinary people may have to take their lives even if they get the money. The man scoffed.

"If that's the case, then I'm not going to sit still." Exhausted said indifferently.

"Oh? Brother, you don't want to escape, do you? ”

"I'm not running away, I'm just rebelling against injustice."

The man looked at him carefully and asked, "You're pretty skilled, aren't you?" Is it intended to respond violently? ”

Poor Tu glanced at him and nodded.

"Brother, I'm afraid you don't know..."

Before the man finished speaking, he saw several jailers coming from a distance, and hurriedly shut up and turned his back to the poor road, for fear that the jailers would be seen.

Several jailers went directly to the cell where Poor Journey was located and shouted, "Prisoner Poor Journey, come out." ”

After the jailers took Poor Rou away, several prisoners surrounded the man who had just spoken to Poor Journey.

"Big brother, do you think he can come back this time?"

"I don't know, if there is a sound of fighting on the other side of the torture room, it is estimated that there is more luck than luck."

"Then shall we take advantage of the chaos-"

"No, it's too risky. We have another way. ”

"But is that news reliable? How do I think that pawn is a fool of us. ”

"It should be reliable, and I asked other pawns about it. There are still not many cultivators in Huaizhou City, let alone some of them. ”

Desperately follows the jailer to a room full of torture instruments. The blood on the iron hook had not yet congealed, the red-hot soldering iron in the brazier was glistening, and the fishy smell of the hot room mixed with some kind of burnt flesh had not yet dissipated.

After a while, the wooden door creaked open, and two men in official uniforms walked in. They are all known from all walks of life, one is a prefect with a serious face, and the other is a grain official with an excited face.

"Why haven't you tied it yet?" The grain officer looked impatient, and his eyes kept glancing at the barbed irons.

The prefect nodded, and the jailers followed the poor path to the iron frame, which had planned to shake them away with his strength, but found that he had no energy in his body.

Desperately kicked the right jailer down, and at the same time grabbed the left jailer's hand, preparing to remove his arm, leaving him temporarily unable to exert force. However, he overestimated his speed and physical strength, and underestimated the strength of the jailer, and a huge force came from the jailer's hand, and he hurriedly let go, and at this moment the jailer who fell to the ground had already risen.

Poor was tied to an iron frame, and he didn't know what was going on.

After a moment of consternation, Poor Turf calmed down. Chao asked the prefect, "Your Excellency, are you just allowing the grain official to use lynching?" ”

The prefect did not answer, his face could not bear to pass for a moment, and turned around to leave.

"If Miss Yu Rou knew that you were lynching, she would definitely be investigated!" Desperate shouted.

The prefect frowned and asked, "You mean you also called someone to go to Miss's?" ”

The grain officer shouted, "Don't believe him, the young lady doesn't know about it." ”

The prefect hesitated, because the concubine he sent did say that Yu Rou said that he wanted to ensure that the young man was alive and that he did not lack arms or legs.

He originally thought it was just his little concubine's soft-hearted nonsense, but even if it was true, it was estimated that Yu Rou said it casually and didn't take it to heart.

He has been a prefect for so many years, and he has watched Yu Rou grow up, and her mind is very clear, and she generally won't pursue this kind of trivial matter, because it will not affect her image.

However, if this young man also sent someone else to ask to see Yu Rou. Then what the concubine said may be true, Yu Rou really doesn't want this young man to die or lack arms and legs, because that might spread some bad reputation for her.

It's just a possibility, you must know that it's not easy to see Yu Rou, this person sent by the poor boy may not have seen Yu Rou at all, in that case, Yu Rou definitely doesn't care much about this case.

Seeing that the prefect's face was unpredictable, the grain officer was afraid that something would change, so he hurriedly said: "What are you afraid of!" If something happens, I'll take it all in. I can't help it, this idiot who has caused me to lose face in public. ”

As he spoke, the grain officer picked up a steel whip covered with sharp and thin iron thorns, and whipped it towards the end of the road.

Suddenly, Poor Road only felt that the skin on his chest was being pumped open, and the piercing pain was something that Poor Road had never experienced.

Miss Yu Rou said that he couldn't break his arms and legs. Whether it's true or not, we have to be afraid. If you don't want to hear it, just think about the hat on your head, whether it is good to be angry for a while, or whether the hat is important. After a warning, the prefect walked out.

Xiaohua hurriedly circled around the prison, and the spell failed, even if she wanted to talk to her divine consciousness through the contract and the poor way.

In the large prison cell.

He was whipped all over his body, but he kept silent.

The commissariat gave the whip to the jailer and told them to continue pumping.

At this time, Poor Road felt much easier.

It's the jailer who is a little lighter!

"Get me a glass of water." The grain officer panted.

Another jailer hurried out. After a while, bring a bowl of water.

The grain officer took a sip and spit it out.

"What a strange smell of this water!"

"My lord, this is the water from the other day. The old man who delivered the water seemed to be in poor health, and he didn't come to change the water during this time. Those of us who got it also ate rancid. ”

"Bad luck, I'll go back first, come back tomorrow, remember to prepare some salt for me. Let's see if he can hold back tomorrow. ”

"My lord, I'll send you."

After a while, the jailer returned.

The two of them put the end of the road. The man who whipped the whip hurriedly said: "Brother, I just whipped you and acted according to orders!" Don't hold a grudge against us! ”

Another person also said: "We have no grudge against you, we are really in this position, there is no way." I deliberately mixed some rancid water into his bowl just now. ”

Qiantu smiled, accidentally pulled the wound at the corner of his mouth, endured the pain, and hugged his fists to them and said, "Thank you for the mercy of that brother's subordinates just now, and thank you for the bowl of rancid water that this brother sent." ”

In the cell, Poor was carried by two jailers to a fairly clean place. When the surrounding prisoners saw the jailer leave, they all gathered around.

The man who had spoken to him spread his fairly clean pile of grass on the ground, and then asked the rest of the people to carry him up.

"Tap, he's got wounds all over his back."

"Boss, he's still breathing."

"I know. Let him fall asleep. ”

"Boss, are you sleeping on the ground tonight?"

"It's okay, just sleep a few more days and we'll be able to go out. But if he can't stop this blood, I'm afraid it won't be able to survive tonight. ”

"Alas, these officials are lawless."

"If our escort mission is successfully completed this time, after I come back, I plan to move my family to Mizhou."

"I'll go too, I don't have any family anyway, I'll go wherever you go, big brother, and Mizhou is really a good place."

"Me too, I also go to Mizhou."

A group of people responded one after another, and they were confused, as if they heard them talk about the lost state.

"Big brother, there seems to be something going on in front of you."

"Indeed, could it be that someone has come to rob the prison?"

"It can't be from your village, big brother, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Saying this, the man couldn't help but be a little worried, and his eyes looked straight at the entrance. After a while, the door was pushed open. A man in black rushed over first, and the man stared at him for a moment, making sure that it was not from the stockade, and then he was relieved.

Two jailers ran over in a panic.

One of them pointed to the cell where he was and said, "Here he is." ”

Seeing that the jailer pointed to him, the man in the prison hurriedly let the brothers disperse, revealing the end of the unconscious behind.

The jailer opened the cell door, and the man in black rushed in, took out a small box, took out a pill as white as jade, and put it in the mouth of the poor road.

In a coma, he felt something in his mouth, and it melted in his mouth, an extremely bitter taste, dissolving in his mouth and then flowing into his throat. Then the whole body began to have fine pain and itching, and he only felt that it was more unbearable than being pumped, and if he didn't scratch it, he would be itched to death. But the limbs were suppressed by something, and they couldn't use their strength.

After an unbearable itching pain, Poor Road woke up.

A beautiful face is looking at herself with concern.

"Are you alright?" Yu Rou said with concern.

Poor Tu looked at Yu Rou, who had been longing for a long time, and had mixed feelings in her heart, she came, but her miserable appearance was seen, especially her face, which was blurred by the flesh and blood, and it must be extremely ugly.

Trying to cover his face, he grabbed him with one hand. Puzzled, he looked at the man he had talked to.

"That little brother gave you an elixir just now, and your flesh has just grown, so you can't scratch it."

He peeled off his clothes and looked at his chest, and the scars were gone!

"Yikes! What are you doing! Yu Rou was unprepared for a while, but she actually looked through the chest of the poor road Chiguo, and couldn't help blushing.

Poor Tu was busy tidying up her clothes and thanked her: "Thank you Miss Yu Rou for your help this time, Poor Tu will remember it." ”

Yu Rou looked at him with an ignorant look, it seemed that he didn't expect that it was the people from Wanhualou who saved him. If so, I will accept this love first.

"It is my duty to ask for the lives of the people. You are called Poor, right, I heard that you injured the grain officer in order to seek justice for the people, right? Yu Rou asked.

Poor Tu felt that Yu Rou's question seemed to ask him to answer yes. But he felt that he still had to tell the truth: "There is indeed a reason to seek justice for the people, but the first time I pinched him, it was impulsive." ”

Yu Rou's face froze, and then her face changed and she laughed a few times: "That's also reasonable, you don't have to blame yourself, think about how he treated you later." ”

Qi Tu was about to say something, but Yu Rou hurriedly interrupted him when he saw this: "I have already ordered Li Yang to arrest the grain officer." You'll have to talk later. Otherwise, I won't be able to help you. ”

Poor Tu had to nod.

Several people came to the yamen lobby.

The grain officer had already taken off his black gauze hat and knelt in front of the hall. Yu Rou and Rou Tu sat on one side respectively. The prefect slapped the wood and drank: "Bold Zhou Lin, corrupt the law, lynching, what crime should he be." ”

"I've been wronged." The grain officer shouted, turning his head to the judo, "Miss, you said you want..."

"What did I say?" Yu Rou glanced at the grain official coldly, and then smiled again, "It's not that I'm going to do anything to you this time, but that you were greedy for a lot of food, and you used lynching to almost kill this young man, and now you're being arraigned again." ”

The grain officer's mind turned sharply, and he knelt and crawled to the foot of the poor road, and said with a handful of snot and tears: "This son, Bodhisattva, uncle, you are good, let me go this time." The lower officials are not people, not people. As he spoke, he slapped himself hard in the face.

Seeing him crying and pleading with tears, he was really soft-hearted at first. But thinking of how he whipped himself with a whip at the beginning, that merciless ferocious appearance, and that disgusting face that became more and more pleasant the more he smoked. Poor Tu felt that he couldn't let him go, this was a cancer and couldn't be forgiven.

"I can't forgive him." Destitute and cold.

When the grain officer heard this, he cried even more fiercely, "Uncle, let go of the little one." I'll give you as much money as you want, and you can whip me for a few days. ”

Seeing that he was stalking, and Yu Rouhe's prefect did not stop him, it seemed that they hoped that they could also turn big things into small things, but they were unwilling, so he shook off the grain official and said, "People like you, being an official will harm more people, and they must be severely punished." ”

The prefect looked at Yu Rou, Yu Rou looked at the young man, and then at the grain official, thinking of the power behind the young man, Yu Rou decided to throw away the chess piece of the grain official, so he said: "Grain officer, you have made a lot of mistakes over the years, and this time you almost lost your life, it seems that you are not suitable to be a grain official, but you have done your best for the court over the years, and you can be treated lightly." After speaking, he looked at the prefect again, "What do you think, Lord Prefect?" ”

"Xia Guan thinks so." The prefect smiled.

The grain officer slumped to the ground, he knew it was all over.

On this day, the poor road is drying millet in the courtyard with Xiaohua and the poor mother.

Xiaohua suddenly said indignantly: "Those shameless women are always peeking at the door. Why don't we close the door! ”

"Silly boy, what door is closed in the blue sky and daylight." The poor mother smiled and looked outside the courtyard, there were some women walking by in twos and threes, and she smiled towards the poor road, "This child eats your dry vinegar, those are all women who have already married women." ”

Poor Tu also looked outside, and it was true that there were many women, but it seemed that there were a lot of them today.

"Humph! Those women were clearly coming for Brother Tu. Poor lady, don't you notice that although they all seem to walk through the courtyard gate without squinting, they will actually take advantage of your inattention to sneak a look, I have seen it several times! Poor Xiaohua snorted.

When the poor mother heard this, she also began to look carefully, and found that it was indeed as Xiaohua said. The poor mother looked at Poor Tu and said: "I heard what kind of elixir Tu'er ate last time, and the whole person seems more energetic and handsome, no wonder it has attracted so many women." ”

Poor Tu smiled: "Really? Xiaohua go and get a mirror for my brother, I have to see how good-looking I am, it seems that peach blossoms will be indispensable in the future. ”

Xiaohua stomped her feet and stood up, and said angrily: "Don't take it, I'm going to close the door." They are all married, and they are still revolving around my brother, each of them has seen it several times, walking around over and over again, scratching their heads and posing, they must be trying to seduce Brother Tu! ”

"Wait." Poor mother's way.

Xiaohua turned around and looked at the poor mother with a drooping face.

The poor mother walked over, touched her head and soothed, "I think there should be something wrong with them." ”

As soon as the woman at the head came in, she knelt down in front of the poor road.

The poor mother hurriedly helped her up and asked, "What is this?" Hurry up, didn't you say that there is something to find a way? ”

After some gratitude, the woman looked at the women behind her, all of whom bowed their heads. Alas, it was already great courage for them to come with them, so why force them to speak. The woman thought, and looked up at the end of the road. When Fang Cai walked back and forth at the courtyard gate, he only glanced at him occasionally, and because the young man kept his head down to do things, he didn't see his face. Now this look makes women really excited.

Although the boy was only fifteen or sixteen years old, his body was no different from that of an adult male, no! It should be said that he is taller than most adult men. What's more, that handsome and extraordinary face is full of gentleness and gentleness.

"Hey! You have something to say! Poor Xiaohua stood in front of the woman and said viciously.

Poor Tu picked up the little flower with one hand and apologized: "My sister is rude, I hope you will forgive me." ”

The woman couldn't help but feel ashamed in her heart, her husband's bones were not cold, and she secretly coveted a young man who was not yet the crown in her heart, which was really ashamed.

The woman lowered her head and said, "It's okay, we are here to receive food this time." ”

"Did you hear that the grain officer had been disposed of, so you came to ask about the grain that was deducted?" ”

The woman shook her head and said, "Alas, where is it for this, we didn't receive food at all." ”

Exhausted was surprised: "How come? ”

Even the poor mother looked at the woman with a puzzled expression. Poor Xiaohua is a person who stands aside and sulks.

"All of us in charge of the serpent disaster died that day. On the day of receiving the grain, we were not able to go to the woman's house, but it was even more difficult for the old and young in the family to go, so we borrowed an ox cart and rushed there. “

"And then?" The poor mother asked.

"When we arrived, we found that there were men in front of us, and it was difficult for us to squeeze inside, and then I asked a neighbor about it, and I found out that there was only a little food left."

"Indeed, later Miss Yu Rou came to help us make the decisions, although we didn't all have to come back, but it was already very good." Poor mother's way.

Listening to his mother talk about Yu Rou, he missed her a little again, since the last time he disposed of the grain officer, he hadn't seen Yu Rou for several days, and he didn't know what she was busy with, and he hadn't heard the news of her going to the city recently.

"We've heard a little bit of this in the rear, too." The woman said, "But later, when Miss Yu Rou began to read out the food of each family, many of the people below were whispering, so that we, the women standing at the end, could not hear clearly. I can only wait until they have all received it, and then I can collect it. ”

"Then, those who distributed the food said that we women can't receive the food, and we have to ask the head of the house to receive it, but our head of the house is gone!" A woman who had been keeping her head down suddenly raised her head and said.

"So you came to me in the hope that I would help you get back the food that was seized?" Exhausted asked.

The woman who took the lead knelt down directly and pleaded: "There is not much food stored at home, and we can't help it, but later I heard that you denounced the grain officer and brought him down, so we women who don't know anything thought of coming to beg you." “

Poor Tu hurriedly helped her up, and immediately heard Xiaohua scream, Poor Tu hurriedly let go of the woman and covered Xiaohua's mouth.

"Don't mess around!"

Xiaohua broke away from the poor hand and said angrily: "I'm angry, ignore you, you big villain!" After saying that, he jumped and flew out of the small courtyard, leaving a group of stunned women.

"Is your sister a cultivator?" The woman was surprised.

After thinking about the meaning of the word cultivator, he found that he didn't know it, so he asked, "What is a cultivator?" ”

The woman thought for a while and said, "I don't know very well, but I heard from the master that he was in other places in his early years, and he saw many people who could fly to the sky and the earth, and they seemed to be cultivators." ”

Poor Tu thought to himself, it turned out that in other places, there were still many people who could fly away, they called them cultivators, so why didn't they see many in Huaizhou?

The poor mother smiled: "Tu'er, you seem to have a little friendship with Miss Yu Rou, maybe you can ask her." ”

"That's it, later, I'll ask Miss Yu Rou, if she is willing to help, I think your matter should not be difficult to solve." Desperate said to the women.

"That couldn't be better, thank you so much." The woman's face was moved.

"You're welcome, you can go back and wait and see. However, I can't guarantee that Miss Yu Rou is 100% willing to help you. "Dead end.

"If even Miss Yu Rou can't help us, then we will have to find another way to make a living this winter. Then let's go back first. The woman sighed.

"Then I'll send you." Poor mother's way.

"Thank you, but no." Several people shook their heads and laughed.