Chapter XXIX: Lynching
"Liang catches the head, the charge of raising the price of rice, a discerning person can see that it is unwarranted! The younger brother didn't come to Xingshi to ask for guilt, he just wanted to make big things small, and small things into nothing! Xiao Bowen faced a middle-aged soap li, and stretched out his hand to push a hundred taels of silver tickets.
The middle-aged soap li's eyes flashed, but he pushed the silver ticket back: "Brother Xiao, it's not that my brother doesn't want to help you with this, I really can't help!" β
"But didn't you send the official who came to arrest my brother today?
"I sent it, but I'm just doing what I want!"
"Could this be an order from Jing Zhaoyin?" Xiao Bowen was slightly surprised.
"Our Jingzhao Yin adults don't have time to pay attention to such trivial matters!" The middle-aged soap Li shook his head with a smile, and said, "Brother, have you ever heard of the person 'Huahua Tai Sui'?" β
"I've never heard of it!" As soon as Xiao Bowen heard this name, he felt unsure.
"This person's surname is Jiang Minglian, 'Huahua Tai Sui' is just a nickname given to him in the market, his father is a wealthy slave of Jingzhao Yin Qianlun Qian's family, known as 'Iron Arm Yama' Jiang Tong. This time, I sent someone to arrest your brother, in fact, Ye Fenglai found Jiang Lian, and then instructed me to do something. The middle-aged soap Li's words were very straightforward.
Xiao Bowen was surprised: "You are a dignified Jingzhao Mansion headcatcher, and you actually obey the orders of a son of the Jingzhao Yin family?" β
"Huh! Everyone says that the prime minister's door is a seven-grade official, although our Lord Jing Zhaoyin is a fourth-grade official, but their Qian family is a first-grade family, and his family's hao slave is outside, and he can almost be on an equal footing with the seven-rank county commander who was born in a poor family! I'm just a little head catcher, do you think I dare to disobey others? β
"Thisβ" Xiao Bowen frowned slightly. "Then you really can't solve my brother's matter?"
"I really can't do this, but I can introduce you to 'Huahua Tai Sui', he only took the silver from Ye Feng to do things, as long as you are willing to pay the starting price, I believe he will not refuse!"
"Okay, then please Liang Zhutou do me a favor!"
"Well said! So this one hundred taels of silver tickets? β
"Oh, this was originally used to honor Liang Zhutou, how can I be embarrassed to take it back?" Huahua Tai Sui' Then I naturally have another explanation! β
"Hey, that's a good idea! Oh, if everyone is as generous as Brother Xiao, how can there be anything in the world that can't be done? The middle-aged soap Li smiled with a smile.
Jingzhao Mansion Prison.
"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!" Several jailers carried rice pails and shouted all the way down the corridor of the cell, banging on the cell door with rice spoons.
Xiao Ruixue looked at the dirty dishes and chopsticks in front of her, as well as a few yellowed vegetable leaves floating on the thin white porridge, her eyebrows locked slightly, and suddenly she stared at a few black spots in the bowl and said, "There are dead flies here!" β
The jailer sneered: "Is it strange that there are flies on such a hot day?" The right is for you! β
"It's so disgusting, who wants to eat it?"
"Don't eat hungry! Next! The jailer came to Gao Wuji and scooped him a bowl through the prison bar, Gao Wuji picked out a few flies, drank the bowl of gruel, and shouted: "Not enough to be full, three more bowls!" β
"No, get out!"
Xiao Ruixue didn't bother to pay attention to Gao Wuji and the jailer talking there, and only sat back on the ground, but her stomach growled uncontrollably.
Li Worm had just finished picking out a few flies in his bowl and was about to start eating, when suddenly he glanced at Xiao Ruixue's dejected appearance, and his heart couldn't help but move: "Young Master Xiao usually eats and eats fine clothes, but he is often frightened by this fly!" This time we fell together, it was a good opportunity for me to get close to him, and when I was released from prison, he might be able to treat me as a good friend like Mowgli, well, then I could rely on him to carry one or two! β
"Young Master Xiao, I don't have flies in this bowl, why don't I exchange them with you!" A warm voice sounded in her ears, Xiao Ruixue turned her head to look, and met Li Qi'er's friendly gaze.
Xiao Ruixue showed a faint smile and said in her heart: "I just saw that you finished picking out flies, but you told me that there were no flies?" That's it, this is also your kindness, I didn't eat any bad food when the army cut off food in the previous world, what is this mere count? So she said "thank you" and was about to take Li Worm'er's bowl, but found that Li Worm'er was staring at her, and her eyes were a little distracted.
"What's wrong with you, Li Worm?"
"No, nothing!" Li Worm suddenly made a swing before he regained his senses, but he was extremely embarrassed in his heart: "Why am I attracted to a man?" I'm sick! Uh, but then again, Young Master Xiao's eyes are really beautiful, big and round, not to mention, they are still smart! Phew, what was I thinking, I'm really sick! β
"Give!" Li Worm handed the bowl in her hand to Xiao Ruixue, but her eyes no longer dared to look at her, for fear that she would fall into the terrible whirlpool again.
Xiao Ruixue didn't doubt it, she took Li Worm'er's bowl and chewed it in small bites. When Xiao Ruixue was very young, she always had a big grin when she ate, and after Zhu Yan's repeated stick training, she had to learn to chew and swallow slowly, and imperceptibly understood the lady's demeanor in her heart. However, the gruel in the bowl seemed to have been boiled in white water overnight, and the taste was really flattering, Xiao Ruixue almost swallowed hard, and unconsciously her eyebrows were gently twisted, and because of the chaotic environment in the cell, she had no intention of taking care of her appearance, and she didn't notice a few strands of green silk scattered on her forehead.
At this time, although Xiao Ruixue was dressed as a man, the whole person looked a little pitiful, and Li Worm looked at her from the side, looking a little confused.
"Bang!" Several people in the prison were startled by the sudden muffled noise, Gao Wuji hurriedly supported Li Worm'er and said, "Worm'er, what's wrong with you, why can't you hit your head against the wall?" β
Li Worm secretly glanced at Xiao Ruixue, touched the big bag in front of her forehead, and said with a tangled expression: "I want to be quiet!" β
Liu Kai, who had been silent, asked: "Li Worm, who is Jingjing's little lady, why do you miss her so much?" β
"Ah, I want to die!"
The conversation turned to the matter of several jailers delivering food to the prisoners, and at this time, they had already passed by the cell where Xiao Ruixue and the others were located, and walked to the deepest part of the entire prison. The deepest cell looked a little different, it was not enclosed by a wooden bar, but made entirely of stone bricks, and the whole cell had only an iron door, and a small window under the iron door was reserved for food.
A few jailers, you push me, I push you, and finally forced one of them to knock on the door, and the jailer who was pushed out trembled his hands slightly, and knocked on the iron door: "Quan Meng, we are here to bring you food!" β
There was a noise inside the iron door, and then a deep male voice came: "Let it in!" β
"Quan - Quan Meng, blame us for not knowing Taishan, we used lynching against you before, so today we prepared good wine and food to apologize! Uh, can we have a word first? I'll bring you the wine and food, you must not break my wrist like you did with Liu San'er! β
The man in the cell sneered: "If it's really good wine and good food, the Sprinkle family will definitely not do anything to you!" β
"Alright, I'll bring in the food!" The jailer cautiously brought in a plate of wine and food through the small window, but as soon as the plate hit the ground, a large hand grabbed his wrist. The jailer screamed in shock, and hurriedly pulled his hand out, shouting: "Master Quan's life, Master Quan's life!" Suddenly, the strength of his wrist loosened, and he sat down on the ground with his butt and turned upside down.
The man in the cell laughed: "Your dog is really cowardly!" And relax, the accounts of the Sprinkle family and you will naturally be settled together when you are released from prison, as long as you have good wine and good food to entertain the Sprinkle family, the Sprinkle family will never embarrass you again! βγ
"Thank you, Master Quan!" The jailer then left the cell with the rest of his colleagues, and when he passed through the cell of Xiao Ruixue and several people, the cell head was still stroking his shoulders and comforting him: "Ergou, don't be afraid, although that Quan Meng is the leader of the bandits in Hongze Lake, and he is used to murderers on weekdays, but he will be escorted to the noon gate to ask for beheading the day after tomorrow, why should he retaliate against us?" As long as we don't provoke him anymore, tomorrow will be all right! β
The jailer named Ergou's face was still a little pale, and he whispered, "Cell leader, can we poison him tonight and kill him?" β
"It's not going to work! He is the leader of the bandits personally escorted to the capital by the second son of the Lu Dadu Governor's family, and the imperial court has scheduled to publicly behead him the day after tomorrow, if we kill him privately before this, we will be responsible! β
"Okay, then we'll give him another day as a grandson! But the cell boss, if you don't let me do the job of bringing him food tomorrow, it's the turn of the others! β
"Okay, let the three tigers go tomorrow!"
"Hey, cell boss, why is it my turn?"
"Okay, then let's go back and draw lots and catch who's who!"
In the dead of night, Xiao Ruixue lay quietly on the hay in the corner of the cell, covering her ears tightly with her hands, her expression was crying without tears. The snoring in the cell came and went, among which Li Worm'er's snoring was high and low, and the tone was frustrated; Gao Wuji's snoring is like bursts of thunder, which makes people deafening; Liu Kai is even more amazing, he is like an old phlegm stuck in his throat, his voice is broken, Xiao Ruixue feels uncomfortable for him when he listens, and he is really afraid that he will suffocate himself to death if he is not careful.
"What a?" Xiao Ruixue whispered to herself, so she didn't do anything, just sat up, leaned against the wall and was silently in a daze. After some time, she heard a slight sound of footsteps in the distance, and she became secretly alert, and then she heard some deliberately muffled conversations coming from far and near, and with her excellent ear, these conversations were very clear in the empty prison.
"Cell boss, since you want to lynch, why do you have to wait until the middle of the night so secretly, so that my brothers can't even sleep well, and just drag people to the torture room and deal with them?"
"You know what, you don't look at what kind of people are in that cell! That tall boy alone can withstand five or six of us, and the black and thin man is a practitioner at first glance, and he is by no means so easy to mess with! We are now going to take their lives, and we are coming in the light, do you think we will be able to get them? β
"This is also true, worthy of being a cell boss, thinking about things more thoroughly than us! But what if something wakes them up later, and they rise up to resist? β
"I think so much more than you! I've already brought the smoke with me, so they won't wake up before their heads hit the ground! β
"Haha, the cell head is high!"
"By the way, there's one thing I want to explain! That kid with fine skin and tender flesh can't be killed, and the boss explained that he would brand the word 'traitor' on his chest, and then break one of his legs, and then let someone from his family take it back! β
"The cell boss is talking about the boy and the girl? I secretly glanced at him when I delivered the meal today, he was really handsome! Cell boss, the three tigers have a reluctant request, can you let him play tricks on me before the execution? Anyway, if you want to burn him, you have to break one of his legs, and if there are a few more wounds on his body, no one will be held accountable! β
"I can't see it, you kid is actually so manly? Brothers, you have to stay away from him in the future! β
"Cell boss, I'm really not a good man! Don't you see, that kid looks like a woman, besides, how can ordinary women be as white as he is? That is, the environment is simple, otherwise, I will change him into a red belly pocket, smear him with rouge, and finally slowly rub him! β
"Sanhu, your kid is very lively, hearing you say this, I'm also a little interested! Okay, I'll kill the other three people later, just do as you say, I happen to have a red belly pocket, or I secretly came from my old friend yesterday! The cell leader's laughter also became a little obscene, and suddenly he booed, and lowered his voice even more: "When you get to the place, don't talk yet, so as not to startle the snake!" Hey, let me do my best! With that, he took out a thin tube out of nowhere, and lay down at the door of the cell, ready to blow into it.
Suddenly, a black shadow flashed in front of him, a cold hand grabbed his neck fiercely, and a slightly soft but cold pleasant male voice came from in front of him who couldn't see clearly: "You dare to blow it?" Watch your neck move! β