Chapter Twenty-Three: The Father and Son of the Prisoners
Because the prisoner refused to admit that he had committed treason to the enemy, the imperial court sent him back to Zhengwei for General Shi to try the case.
The prisoner got out of the prisoner cart, wearing heavy shackles, and staggered into the Shi Mansion under the strange gaze of the Shi family's relatives and many servants.
He lowered his head, covered his face with his hair and face, and did not look at the complicated eyes of the crowd.
Don't let your already hurt heart add to the humiliation.
General Shi stood in the courtyard and watched the disgusted prisoner come over and kneel at his feet.
He kicked over and kicked the slut: "Don't admit that you are a traitor! Okay, lock him up in the prison cell of Shifu and torture me well until he admits it!"
The soldier lifted the prisoner on the ground and dragged him to his cell, where he continued to extract confessions and fell unconscious again and again, but to no avail.
I had no choice but to throw him into the cell.
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I don't know how long it took, but the unconscious man gradually woke up.
What caught his eye was the mottled gray walls, and the cobwebs on the walls were one web from one to the other. There was a lot of dust on the ground, and thin straw was scattered in the corners.
As the consciousness became clear, the pain became more and more intense, and it was extremely uncomfortable from head to toe.
Shi Yue: "Oh...... Water, water ......"
No one responded to him, and he closed his eyes in exhaustion.
It was so quiet that a slight exhalation startled him.
He turned his head to look and saw a baby lying beside him.
The baby slept heavily and made a slight snoring sound.
Shi Yue stared at the child in a daze for a long time.
A burst of pain arose, and it was all because of him, because he had a hard time arguing, was wronged, and was beaten badly.
So tragic, so helpless!
A vicious thought arose, and he struggled to his feet, reached out and grabbed the baby's delicate neck, and pinched it hard.
Kill him!
"Giggles", the baby was woken up, looked at the person in front of him, did not have the slightest fear, but smiled at him crisply.
This villain who was about to commit murder to him might as well be like this, and he was stunned for a moment.
The child giggled, looked at Shi Yue with clear eyes, and stretched out his little hand to tease the iron shackles around his neck.
"Giggles", the sound is as light and crisp as a silver bell, and people are like angels.
The criminal Shi Yue's hand trembled, and he unconsciously let go.
He fell to the ground in agony, how could he be so cruel!
How can you bear to hurt such a weak and childish person!
The child laughs all the time,
Laughing so that his eyes narrowed into a slit, and his face flushed,
Lovely laughter "quacked" through the room.
Shi Yue didn't know that this was the first time this baby had laughed out loud since he was born.
The first cheerful laughter gave the suffering and kind man in front of him......
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"Ahh
When the prisoner opened his eyes, he saw the child next to him crying profusely.
He got up and picked up the baby, swaying and coaxing softly, the shackles on his wrists swaying gently.
But the baby was so hungry that she cried more and more.
The father coaxed clumsily, but there was nothing he could do.
But the door was opened with a "clang", and the jailer shouted at the prisoner.
"Come out!"
Shi Yue looked at the child, and then at the vicious jailer, so he had no choice but to put the crying child on the ground, stood up with difficulty, and staggered out the door.
Once in the torture chamber, the jailer unshackled him.
"Take your clothes off!" The jailer said coldly.
Shi Yue was used to this kind of torture, he pursed his lips tightly, and took off his clothes tremblingly.
"Pick your own!" The jailer looked at him with disdain.
The words are not high, but they are painful.
He looked around at the instruments of torture, he had tasted all the punishments, and each one was painful.
He stood there without saying a word or moving.
The jailer got impatient, dragged him violently to a torture rack and tied him up, and began to extract confessions again.
But no matter how punishable he was, the prisoner still refused to admit that he was a traitor.
From outside, the baby's cry was heard louder than the other.
The punishment did not make the tortured person submit, but the crisp cry made the tortured person's heart like a knife.
Tears rolled down his face.
Shi Yue: "Oh, master, please put me down! The child cried a lot. Let me go and coax the child, and you will punish me again!"
The jailer looked at the prisoner's face and saw that he was already in tears.
The cold heart was faintly twitching.
The man in front of him has suffered so much that he has never been weak, but at this moment, he burst into tears because of the baby's crying!
No matter how cold the heart is, it can't bear it at this time.
The jailers looked at each other, but they couldn't bear it, and finally let the man go.
The man thanked him for his kindness, picked up his shirt from the ground, trembled, and staggered away to his cell.
Do your best to take care of this poor baby.
But there was no milk, and the baby was so hungry that he cried more and more miserably, and his voice was hoarse.
He closed his eyes and searched around with his mouth open.
Shi Yue had no choice but to lift up his ragged clothes and expose his chest.
The baby instinctively found his shriveled nipple and bit down hard, grinning the man's teeth in pain.
But the deception lasted only a while, and the baby began to cry again.
Shi Yue walked to the door and begged the jailer outside: "Master, please, let the nurse come and give him some milk!"
At this time, a man walked over.
It's the second son, Shi Jing.
When he saw the weeping father and son, so miserable, his heart was very painful, and he frowned.
Shi Jing: "Shi Yue, what's wrong?"
Shi Yue saw the savior, and hurriedly knelt down to his brother.
Shi Yue: "Master, please, please, please, let the nurse feed the child some milk! He is so hungry!"
Shi Jing frowned: "What do you call me!"
Shi Yue: "......"
Shi Jing: "You call me Lord!"
He looked at the wounded man kneeling at his feet, his own brother, and sighed deeply from the bottom of his heart.
Alas, this poor brother has been tormented by a tragic fate,
Completely degraded......
He picked up the baby and looked deeply at the brother kneeling at his feet. I couldn't say anything, I turned around and left here, leaving this one who made me feel distressed, but couldn't do anything about it,
Tragic, half-brother.
However, this was only one part of his tragic fate.
Outside, he was talking to the jailer.
Shi Jing: "How's the interrogation?"
Jailer: "All kinds of punishments have been used, and he won't recruit them if he is beaten like that!"
Jailer: "Screaming...... Sometimes I can't do it anymore and torture him!"
Jailer: "Alas, General, I'm afraid there is really a grievance here!"
Shi Jing: "......"
Jailer: "General, this man, no matter how he is punished, is so tenacious and unyielding. But as soon as the baby cried, the man collapsed. That tear couldn't stop flowing down his face. ”
"Alas!" , the cold jailer actually sighed.
And his eyes kept looking in the direction of the crying voice, and he didn't care how we were punished. ”
"It hurts so much, and I scream. ”
"Tears on my face, keep flowing, keep flowing. ”
The whole house heard the baby's crying, and watched him burst into tears. ”
A strange expression appeared on the jailer's face.
"Watching them father and son do this...... Alas, sometimes I can't bear it, and I will punish him again!"
Jailer: "It's not long to keep him and the baby here!"
The crowd was speechless and fell silent.
Shi Jing sighed heavily: "Alas......"
Shi Jing: "Pay attention when you use torture, but don't beat him to death, cripple him!"
Jailer: "Yes, yes, this one is for sure." ”
These words reached the ears of the prisoner, who was kneeling on the ground in the next cell.
A mist crept over his pathetic eyes.
In such a cold and cold world, fortunately there is such a half-brother who cares about himself silently.
Although the strength is meager, it is also a flame in the cold ice, slightly illuminating and warming this cruel and ruthless, ravaged and trampled on beyond measure,
Humble and broken heart......
After Shi Jing left, the jailer came to interrogate Shi Yue again.
Shi Yue got up from the ground, walked to the torture room tremblingly, and consciously took off his clothes and threw them on the ground.
The jailer looked at the prisoner and saw that there were no good wounds all over his body, and he didn't know where to start.
Jailer: "Alas, you should recruit it, so that you don't suffer any more flesh and skin, and we will have a good relationship." ”
The prisoner lowered his head and stood without speaking.
The jailer shook his head and hung him up for interrogation.
When the nurse brought the baby back, Shi Yue's punishment had already passed, and she was hung on the torture rack and fell unconscious.
The nurse sighed, put the baby at his feet, shook her head and prepared to leave.
At this time, the prisoner who was hanging woke up.
He looked at the baby at his feet, and saw that he was full of food, and slept so sweetly, and his little face was red, which was really pitiful.
This man who was hung high by a rope, beaten all over his body, and had no personal freedom,
pleaded with the nurse in front of him,
Pleading so bitterly.
Shi Yue: "Oh, master, please, I can come a few times a day and feed my child more milk!"
Shi Yue: "He was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, he cried so pitifully!"
Shi Yue: "Please, please!"
Shi Yue: "Whatever you ask me to do, I can do it for you!"
The nurse sighed: "What else can you do? You see that you are like this now, what can you do when you are hung here by a rope?!"
Her words were not heavy, but they were like a knife to the prisoner's heart, and the prisoner's heart was so painful that he could barely breathe.
Endless inferiority complex and pain, richly enveloped him,
Hanging over him,
And the heart.
Seeing him so pitiful, the nurse sighed, shook her head, and turned to walk out of the torture chamber.
Shi Yue's torture injuries were extremely painful.
He hung his head weakly, and gradually fell back asleep.
Father and son were like this, one hanging, covered in pain. One was on the ground, and they all fell asleep......
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I don't know how long later, the jailer came in, put the hanging father down, dragged him to the cell and threw him on the ground.
The father's body fell heavily to the ground, and the wound was extremely painful.
He moaned uncontrollably in pain.
The jailer brought the baby over and placed it beside him.
He tried hard to open his bruised eyes, but he couldn't do so, so he pulled his eyelids open with trembling hands.
He saw the baby sleeping beside him, breathing so evenly and peacefully.
It's so pretty.
He struggled to move his body and moved closer to the baby.
Gently put the scarred face on the baby's little face, and looked at him lovingly,
Look at this little kid without parents.
Gradually, gradually,
In the pain of the torture wounds, he fell into a deep sleep.
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