Chapter 35: True and False Dreams (2)
When Wang Zhi heard this, he suddenly felt furious in his heart, and hurriedly said: "The little one is in a trance now...... It's really hard to tell the difference between illusion and reality...... What Master Jin said, the little one couldn't understand......"
Jin Shutian frowned, nodded, turned around and said, "County master, since Wang Zhutou is not sober-minded, it is better to send him back to prison first, so that he can wait and see if he can remember something." ”
Mrs. Zheng and Master Meng were both stunned, and they hurriedly got up together, nodding in response: "Yes, yes, according to Master Jin's wishes." Saying that, Mrs. Zheng gave an order to the left and right officials, saying: "Take the murderer down, and serve the big punishment, see if he recruits or not!" ”
This was a big surprise to Wang Zhi, and when he thought of all kinds of torture in those cells, his legs were so frightened that his legs were weak, and before he could reply, his eyes were dark, and his head was covered with a black cloth, and he was dragged down.
When he opened his eyes again, he was bound in a black prison.
By this time, the sky was already dark, and a warm ray of sunlight was shining through the holes of the cold cell. On the wooden table in front of him, there were all kinds of torture instruments such as hammers, bamboo grates, clamping sticks, poles, prison sticks, and bamboo sticks.
Two grim-faced servants were whispering.
Wang Zhi could not be clearer about these methods of torture to extract confessions. In addition to beating with sticks and whipping with sticks, there are also all kinds of heinous means such as hanging hair, smoking eyes, soldering irons, piercing fingers with bamboo sticks, burning toes with oiled paper, and so on, all of which make prisoners' skin and flesh open, and they are either dead or mutilated.
In an instant, Wang Zhi was already frightened, and he trembled and said, "Brothers, how did my Wang treat you in the past? ”
When the two servants heard this, they shook their heads one after another, and only one of them said: "Chief, you should say it, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin." The little ones are doing what they are told, and you can make it difficult for us......"
The king listened to it directly, and recalled the disasters that had happened one after another in the past few days, when his wife had fornicated with others, intending to murder her husband, and died in front of the ancient temple, and he encountered a goblin, and was recognized as a murderer. Right now, there are eighteen kinds of torture waiting for you.
Heaven is unpredictable, the world is unpredictable, who knew that his end was so tragic! Didn't that fairy girl in red promise to protect my life?
He couldn't help but sigh with grief and indignation, and said with tears in his eyes: "Brothers, can you have a happy ...... when you think about the past meeting?"
These two conscripts, you look at me, I look at you, stepped forward and whispered: "Chief, your life is valuable, the master has told me a thousand times, don't hurt your life." The grandfather also said that as long as you tell the truth, not only will you be released immediately, the official will be reinstated, and Master Jin will also have a lot of money. ”
Wang Zhi's heart was shocked, and his eyes moved to the cell where Shi Cai was being held, thinking: "It seems that what they really want is that scroll!" At this moment, he was terrified and suddenly felt a glimmer of life, and then thought: "If I hand over that scroll, will they still kill people?" But if I don't say it, I can save my life for the time being! We have to find a way to mediate with them! ”
His eyes slowly swept around, and suddenly he saw a string of cell keys on the wooden table.
He closed his eyes and exhaled three times in a row, and said sincerely: "Brothers, you also know that I have a good drink on weekdays, can you go to the street and sell me a pot of high-quality daughter Honglai?" I'll take a few sips, suppress my shock, and then I'll talk to you slowly. If I go out, I'll pay back ten times the price of the wine! ”
The two conscripts thought for a moment and said, "It's fine." With that, one of the conscripts walked out of the cell.
The other servant fell to the side, and because of the interrogation of Wang Zhi in the middle of the night, he was so sleepy that he fell asleep unconsciously.
Wang Zhi secretly lucked his breath and remained silent, and even if he tried his best, he wanted to break free from the rope in his hand. After struggling like this for a long time, he was already drenched in a big ring, and his wrists were strangled with blood by the rope, but he still couldn't break free.
While struggling, Wang Zhi kept looking towards the door of the cell, and his heart was as anxious as ten thousand ants devouring his heart. Suddenly, all I could hear was a "squeak" from the cell. He was startled, and when he looked down, he saw a mouse the size of a cat popping out from his feet, with a pointed face and round eyes, and two mustaches, looking up at him.
When Wang Zhi was at stake, how could he care about a mouse, just glanced at it, and continued to struggle.
Suddenly, I saw the mouse leap up and jump on Wang Zhi's shoulder. This time, Wang Zhi was startled and almost shouted. He hurriedly shook his whole body, but he didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of waking up the sleeping servant, and scolded secretly in his heart, it was really unlucky that even a mouse bullied! When I break free of the ropes, I will strangle you rat spirit with one hand!
At this moment, the mouse suddenly straightened up, smiled at him, and actually said a human word: "I counted your eight characters, you have a difficulty, but you can't die." ”
Wang Zhi was startled for a moment, only to say that he was hallucinating, he blinked, and when he looked again, he saw the mouse crawling towards his arm, and then gnawing at the rope.
After a while, Wang Zhi struggled harder, and immediately broke free of the rope. He was overjoyed and surprised, looked at the mouse, couldn't help but be grateful, and cried out: "Are you a rat fairy?" ”
His shout woke up the officer. He raised his eyes and looked, first stunned, then panicked, and was about to shout loudly, only to see Wang Zhi leap forward, strangled his neck with one hand, and covered his mouth with the other.
I only heard Wang Zhi whisper in his ear: "Offended brother, you can sleep well!" As soon as the words fell, the official suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck, and he fell unconscious.
Wang Zhi hurriedly picked up the cell key on the table, flew into the cell again, smeared on the ground and searched around, and said to himself anxiously: "Where? Where did the scroll fall? ”
I saw that the rat also jumped into the cell, looked around, and said, "Here it is." ”
Surprised and surprised, Wang Zhi crawled to the mouse, stretched out his hand to touch it, and immediately touched the scroll. He hurriedly put the scroll into his arms, and kowtowed to the mouse three times in a row, saying, "The mouse immortal, the grace of saving life, is unforgettable!" Dare to ask where the Daxian family lives, and in the future, Wang will repay him with a generous gift! ”
The mouse smiled and said, "Run!" Say something out of the cell. ”
When the king heard this, his spirits were greatly lifted, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed to the prison door, opened the prison door, and looked out, and saw that no one was looking around, so he immediately performed light skills, jumped up the wall, and ran away.
Running all the way, he looked back again, and the mouse had long since disappeared, and thought: "Could it be that the mouse fairy was entrusted by the fox fairy to save my life?" At the moment, you must not go home again, and you should escape to the back mountains as safest as possible. ”