Chapter 10 [Secret Passage Digging]
Leave in the spring and autumn.
It's the autumn solstice again.
The prison remained the same as before, time seemed to be frozen, the only thing that had changed was that some prisoners left and some prisoners came in.
Some faces become familiar, others disappear from the past.
The guards are still the same guards, but sometimes there are some jerky young faces, and Andy's reputation is growing, and even the guards of other prisons are famous.
So much so that in the small library, there are guards intertwined, waiting for Andy's guidance, which is unimaginable in other places.
Even the prison warden Norton is relying more and more on him.
Correspondingly, with the embodiment of his own value, then naturally has a more or less influence on the surroundings, and it has become a very simple thing to bring some daily care.
The prison guards in the prison are all smiling at Andy, and many of them directly benefit him, even if they don't get any benefits from it, they are also reciprocating with a pleasant smile, and they are sure that they will find each other at any time.
This has become especially obvious in this kind of Shawshank prison, where corruption is normal and interests are in charge.
During the day, he did some errands for some prison guards, or did some black accounts for Norton, and at night, the hole hidden behind the pictorial in the dark night was little by little.
Always steadfast.
Unconsciously, in the blink of an eye, a year has passed.
"Funk, this way, this way!"
"Get a cigarette!"
"What's the good stuff!"
……
On the sports field, there are figures of subtle conversations, and there are some new customers over there.
All of them wore gray-green prison uniforms, scattered in various locations of the site, forming different circles.
Andy, as usual, walked in an idle step, as if he were visiting a garden, and walked through the crowd.
There was no dust falling from the trouser legs.
Half a year ago, the hole had been dug through, but it was not enough to get through.
The hammer in his hand was still the same as before, and the rest of the work was to expand the size of the hole over and over again until it was enough for people to pass.
It's another torturous time.
Compared to before, this progress is already amazing.
The passage has been dug through, so it is obvious that there is no need to hide the broken mud and sand in the sleeves of the clothes, and to take a leisurely walk on the sports field in the morning when the wind is blowing, and then quietly drop it on the ground.
Except for some slightly larger stones, in order not to smash on the pipe below and cause movement, other sparse sand and gravel can be directly sprinkled in the space of the mezzanine.
Or, the same thunderstorms.
With a leisurely step, Andy Shi walked over, walked towards Chen Ze without any abnormality, and then leaned against the wall quietly.
"Enough passages."
Andy's figure was low, the corners of his mouth were upturned, and he smiled mysteriously, as if he was suppressing something.
"That's enough, then go ahead...... No, you say...... Enough? ”
Before Chen Ze could react, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and then the whole person was taken aback.
Andy nodded definitively, a mysterious smile still on his lips.
And Chen Ze was confirmed, and even his body trembled, and he felt that his heart was beating extremely fast at this moment, and even seemed to jump out.
A feeling of euphoria, like a huge wave of the sea, rushed into his mind from all directions, making him want to look up to the sky and laugh three times.
But his inherent sanity made him suppress the act of laughing.
It's just that he still has an irrepressible smile on his cheeks.
It's been a year and a half!
Since the system was sent here, he has spent a year and a half in this cell, with no freedom and no security.
And now, finally able to get out!
I'm so hard!
"I asked Gles, if there are no exceptions, then we can go out the night after tomorrow!"
"Who is Gleth?"
Chen Ze kicked the gravel in front of his feet and patiently asked questions.
"A new prisoner, who used to work at the weather station, shot his boss and came in, and he said that there will be a thunderstorm the day after tomorrow, and maybe it will last all day until the next morning."
"I climbed in at the other end of the passage to see, and the end was indeed an old-fashioned porcelain pipe, but there would be a loud sound when it was smashed open, and there would be thunder when the time came, which was a good cover!"
Andy spoke quietly of his plans, his eyes looking over the wall where guards lingered in front of him, his eyes looking at the clear and transparent sky.
There was a light in his eyes.
That kind of light should be the yearning for freedom.
Chen Ze's eyes also looked at the blue sky, and he didn't say a word for a long time.
"Now there is a question, I can get out, but how do you get out!"
Retracting his gaze, the yearning expression disappeared, and Andy looked at Chen Ze beside him again, with an inquiring meaning in his eyes.
In fact, he had a struggle in his heart before he said his plan and the passage had been opened.
Because although the other party said that he had a way, for what he saw, he was able to get out, and the chances of the other party going out were very small.
Without him, the other party has one more wall and one more fence than him.
Now this fence, the wall, seems to be a piece of heaven and earth.
Who can guarantee that the other party will drag him into the water because of jealousy when he can't escape, and they can't go together.
In this kind of place, human nature cannot stand the test.
It was only in the end that he decided to say something, but also to ask the questions clearly.
"Smash that wall!"
Chen Ze grinned, his voice firm, "When the time comes, I'll smash that place!" When you smash the drain and climb out. ”
Andy shook his head, his voice low, "That's not enough, you said my little hammer, you know, it's too small!" ”
"If it's a 14-pound octagonal hammer, didn't you say before that the fragile place can be smashed through in just four or five strokes!"
Andy was stunned for a moment, why did he say the data so accurately, and then said, "The problem is, you don't!"
Chen Ze smiled, "I have!" ”
Andy's eyes were slightly stunned, and he didn't know where the sledgehammer came from in the other party, and his tone became cautious: "There is only one chance."
"Just because it's only once, I don't take it lightly! Don't worry, I'll take that wall down! ”
Chen Ze was full of strong confidence, who let him have an octagonal hammer item stuck in his equipment column, waiting quietly.
The octagonal hammer of the fourteenth list asked if the wall was afraid.
By the night after tomorrow, he will be transformed into a decorator, and this card that usually seems useless will also play an unimaginable role.
Andy saw a powerful confident glow in Chen Ze's eyes, and after making sure that the other party was not joking, he became silent.
He still didn't understand how the other party was sure that there was a sledgehammer, was it almost magical? Andy recalls what he once saw in the laundry warehouse.