Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Heavenly Prison (I)
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The prison is not the most gloomy and terrifying place in the world, but it is definitely the place where people feel the biggest gap in the world.
Everyone imprisoned in the heavenly prison, before stepping through the unpainted bronze and wood gate, who is not imposing and dignified, and for these people who have just left the rich and noble field of the world, and suddenly fell into the clouds and become prisoners, the heavenly prison is obviously not more gloomy than other prisons, it is tantamount to the most terrible place in the world.
Lao Huangtou is the guard of the prison, and his son Xiao Huang is also the guard of the prison. Although they have to patrol every day as usual, and they can't leave people on two shifts in the evening, in fact, their real job is just to sprinkle and sweep the courtyard.
Because there were no prisoners in the cell, not a single one.
This is the most special part of the prison, where only the royal family for serious crimes has been imprisoned. Although the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, in fact, everyone knows how high the royal family is, who dares to condemn them at will? In the vague memory of the old yellow head, he only remembered that more than ten years ago, there was once the most noble prince in the world imprisoned here. Since then, the cold brand has been so empty, sprinkled and cleaned once a day, clean and deserted.
On the other side of the open space outside the Hanzi courtyard is a long corridor known as the "Netherworld", and at the other end of the corridor leads to a large inner cell made of rock bricks, where all the officials who committed the crime were imprisoned.
Compared with the desertion of the cold name, the Netherworld Road can be regarded as lively, and from time to time there will be crying, sluggish, shouting, and indifferent...... In short, people with all kinds of expressions were pulled over by chains.
The old yellow head often stretched his neck to watch, and when his son came to take over, he sent a sentence of emotion: "They are all big men, ......" This emotion has been the same for many years, and it has basically not changed.
Of course, there are also people who have come out of the Netherworld. If the person who comes out is still wearing shackles and locks, and his face is withered, the old yellow head will bow down in his heart, chanting "reincarnation as soon as possible", if the person who comes out is relaxed and free, and there is an escort next to him, the old yellow head will bend down and say nothing.
In the boring life of a guard, watching the cold and warm life drama on the netherworld is also a good way to pass the time.
On this day, Lao Huangtou swept the courtyard of Hanzihao as usual, locked the door, stood in the open space outside, bowed his sleeve and looked blankly in the direction of the Netherworld, and from time to time touched a peanut from the oil bag in his sleeve to chew.
As soon as I chewed the fifth, the gate on the outer side of the Netherworld Road rattled, and I knew that someone was unlocking it. Old Yellow Man knew that this meant that a new prisoner had been brought here, and hurriedly stood in the shadows beside him.
The door opened, and the first to come were two familiar faces, cell leader Ah Wei and Ah Niu, who stood stout to either side and bowed down quickly.
The old yellow head shuddered for a moment, and quickly pasted it against the wall again
Because the person who came in later was really amazing, it was actually the number one boss of the entire prison, Lord An Rui'an, the Punishment Division. The eldest man was not wearing an official uniform today, he was dressed in a navy blue robe, raised his hand with a smile and made a guiding posture, and said, "Please, Mr. Su, please." β
The man who was called Mr. Su by Master An was a young man in a Confucian shirt, and he looked quite handsome, but he was a little thinner, and he didn't look like a big man. But for the respectful and polite attitude of the eldest master, this young man seemed to be at ease, and only smiled faintly, and his steps were still unhurried.
The group walked along the netherworld, apparently to visit the prison cell. The old yellow head was frowning his gray eyebrows and guessing the identity of the comer, when the young man suddenly stopped, and his eyes swept over at once, so frightened that the old yellow head staggered, thinking that the other party had discovered that he was snooping here.
"Over there...... It doesn't seem the same......" the young man asked, pointing in the direction of the old yellow head.
"That's the Hanzi room," An Rui replied cautiously, "Mr. Su should know that this is where the royal family is imprisoned." β
"Oh." The young man nodded expressionlessly and continued to walk forward. Behind them, suddenly a figure floated by, like a ghost, a moment before and after, the young man shouted something, the figure obediently stopped, and looked closely, but it was a normal and handsome young man. Master An and the two cell heads all looked curious and inconvenient to ask, and the group passed through the corridor and disappeared into the gate at the other end.
The old yellow head hurriedly slipped back to the courtyard gate within his garrison, exhaled, sat down, and continued to twist his eyebrows to guess who the person would be. This is his pleasure, he will not give up no matter how frightened he is, and he never cares about the result of his guess, and there is no way to verify whether it is right or wrong.
This young man who made the old yellow head bored a day and had something to do is, of course, Mei Changsu.
Because King Yu personally came forward to arrange it, how dare An Rui slack off. Although the other party was just a white-clothed scholar with no official position and no position, he still carefully accompanied him in person, and did not dare to despise his identity.
The cells of the prison are all single rooms, built of grout, and are unusually strong. Like all prisons, there are only small high windows, poor air circulation, and a cold, musty smell wafts through it. Mei Changsu paused slightly when he entered the corridor of the inner cell, raised his hand and supported his forehead, as if he was not used to the dim light inside. Feiliu walked over and was next to him, looking very obedient.
"Mr. Su, please be careful of your step," An Rui reminded him when he walked to the corner, "Xie Yu's cell is still one floor below." β
Mei Changsu held Feiliu's arm, stepped down more than a dozen steps made of rough stone, reached the ground floor, walked through two or three rooms, and came to the outside of a cell that was relatively inward.
An Rui raised his hand and motioned for his subordinates to open the cell door. The cell was about six feet square, dark and dark. Only a faint ray of sunlight penetrated through the small sloping window at the top, and there were countless floating dust particles in the light, which made people feel the stuffiness and dirtiness of the place after looking at it.
"Mr. Su, please take care of yourself, I'll wait for you above." An Rui finished whispering and retreated with the two cell bosses. Mei Changsu stood outside the door for a moment and slowly walked into the prison door.
Probably having heard the conversation outside, Xie Yu stood up from the pile of straw piled up in the corner, shuffled his shackles, and squinted at the visitor.
"Master Xie, don't come to harm?" Mei Changsu said hello coldly.
Xie Yu looked at this idle young man, and his heart was mixed. In fact, since he knew that he was Jiang Zuo Meilang, who had the name of a Qilin genius, he had obviously been trying to prevent him, and he had tried all kinds of methods, and he was doubly careful with his every move. But in the end, he was still forced into a desperate situation and fell into this clammy and cold cell. If all this is because of his bad luck, it will happen to be exposed, if it is actually concocted by this Jiang Zuomeilang, then thinking about it in the quiet night, it is inevitable that he will be a little creepy, and his heart will be shocked, and he can't figure out how he did it.
"What? I haven't seen him for half a month, so Hou Ye Xie doesn't recognize Su? Mei Changsu stabbed him again.
Xie Yu held back the anger churning in his chest and snorted, "Of course I do." When Mr. Su first arrived in Beijing, didn't he live in my house as a guest? β
"That's right," Mei Changsu said calmly, "I remember the first time I saw Marquis Xie at that time, you were still as rich as jade, your posture was chic, and the majesty of the pillars of the court was simply undaring to look up." β
"It turns out that Mr. Su came today just to step down and sarcastically say a few words to me. This style ...... It's not high enough. Xie Yu looked at him with heavy eyes, "I have been wronged today, because my fate is not good, Mr. has chased him here, don't you think it's a villain's face?" β
Mei Changsu sneered: "It turns out that Hou Ye Xie still knows that there is the word 'villain' in the world. You are not in trouble, how can you be wronged? You and I both know in our hearts that all the piles and piles controlled by Zhuo Dingfeng are untrue, and you have the cheekiness to deny it, just to save your life. It's a pity that the evidence is like a mountain, Huangquan Road is near, you are struggling in vain, how can you save your life, at most you can save Xiajiang. β
Xie Yu's eyes moved slightly, and a sneer appeared on his lips.
As expected, Xia Jiang was mentioned so quickly. If it weren't for Xia Jiang, this Jiang Zuo Meilang would probably not have come to this filthy place.
With the facts of the case so clear, after being imprisoned for more than half a month, there was still no will to deal with it, Xie Yu knew very well that this was all because Xia Jiang was really fulfilling his promise and trying to find ways to lobby to save his life. And this kind of behavior will inevitably anger the king of Yu, so that the prince will also launch a corresponding counterattack. Mei Changsu appeared in this cell, thinking that it was to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle and find a breakthrough point to deal with Xia Jiang from himself.
So Xie Yu made full preparations, shrunk himself into the iron shell, and insisted on clenching his teeth and not reacting, no matter how he touched it.
"Master Xie," Mei Changsu took a step closer and leaned over slightly, "I know...... As soon as you see me, you can't help but wonder how the hell you fell under my hands, right? And you've probably not been able to come up with a reasonable reason until now, have you? You can't figure out which step you did wrong, which step you missed, and you don't know how things developed like this wave after wave, and suddenly one day you were thrown into the abyss, from a noble minister to a prison to die, right? β
Listening to these cold and piercing words, Xie Yu's face tightened, and his cheeks ached from too much force on the root of his teeth, but he still didn't say a word.
"Actually, you don't need to think so hard, I'm here today to tell you plainly. Master Xie, the reason why you lost ......" Mei Changsu's gaze scraped on the prisoner's face like an ice edge, and slowly spit out a few words, "It's because you are stupid." β
Xie Yu's eyebrows jumped suddenly.
"I'm not saying you're dumber than the average person, you're just dumber than me." Mei Changsu smiled leisurely, "It's because I'm smarter than you, so I can see through how you react, how you act, what you plan, and what you plan." And on the other hand, what I'm thinking, what I'm going to do, how I'm planning, you can't see through it at all. In this way, how can you not lose, how can you not lose? And even after losing and losing, I can't figure out how I lost, it's not stupid...... And what is it? β
Xie Yu's face turned pale, suppressed the rise and fall of his chest, and his snort became thicker.
Mei Changsu paced a few steps indoors, as if looking at this humble room, turned his head to look around, and finally stopped in front of Xie Yu, slowly squatted down, looked directly at him, and suddenly smiled: "Do you know who else is smarter than you besides me?" β
Xie Yu turned his head away and insisted on ignoring it.
"Xia Jiang." Mei Changsu didn't care, and still spit out the name lightly, "Xia Jiang is much smarter than you, so you will still repeat the mistake of losing under my hands and keep losing like this." β
Mei Changsu deliberately paused, looked at the green tendons beating on Xie Yu's neck, and continued in a flat but extremely demagogic tone: "Let me tell you how smart people will deal with you." In fact, as long as you figure it out, it's really simple. First of all, he came here to visit you, the fallen marquis, and told you that he would not sit idly by and make a deal with you. You don't reveal his secrets, he saves your life. This deal is certainly not fake. He will be very serious about trying to get you out of this prison alive. When you get out of prison and don't condemn him to death, his promise is fulfilled. He saved your life, and you will not confess any of his crimes. Then you will be condemned and exiled to a cold land. Maybe you think you can get through that hardship, but in fact you don't have the opportunity to endure it. Because at this time, your case has been closed, no one will interrogate you, no one will listen to you seriously, and no matter how many secrets you have biting Xia Jiang in your mouth, you will not have a chance to confide. It's a long way from the capital to the place of exile, and any place can be your ghost gate. And at that time, your death is just the death of an exile, no one cares and no one cares, even if someone cares afterwards, you are already dead, and you can easily die without having time to threaten anyone with the secrets you keep, and take everything clean with you to another world. And Xia Jiang ...... He's a smart man, but he's going to live a good life and never have to worry about anything again, isn't it? β
Beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down Xie Yu's forehead and dripped on his prison clothes that were so dirty that he couldn't see his true color, fainting into a black mess.
"Master Xie," Mei Changsu's voice was as cold and cruel as coming from hell, and every word pierced Xie Yu's heart, "You'd better raise your head now, look at me, and the two of us can have a good talk, how about it?" β