"You're talking about the Five Odd People. Bei Yiyi said.

I was surprised, "How do you know?"

"What's so strange about this? Children in Taiping Prefecture who can read and write know it, haven't you seen "Five Strange Records"?"

I was confused: "What is "Five Strange Records"?"

"A comic book that mentions this prophecy from your master, which also says that a man with special skills went down the mountain to find four other companions and wanted to save the world. ”

I was dizzy! Master Dare to Love has fooled me with the stories in the comic strip for so many years, no wonder he told me that "books are useful", it turned out that he was afraid of goofs.

I hurriedly asked him, "Do you have this book?" ”

"I'm not a three-year-old anymore, so how can I have a comic book on me. However, there should be one in the study of the Governor's Mansion. ”

Sure enough, we found a dilapidated copy of "Five Wonders" in the study, and when I opened it, I couldn't believe my eyes: the paintings in it were surprisingly consistent with reality! The story begins with the fame of a legendary swordsman, how the emperor met a peerless beauty and how he couldn't ask for it, when it comes to the beautiful man competition, about the birth of a strange boy and being fostered, and then to the first love of the Tang beauty group and the failure, and then to the appearance of the thunderbolt and the girl under the locust tree on the shore of Jinchan Lake...... It's as if my life for more than ten years has been relived in this comic book.

But it's not exactly the same, most of the characters' names are different from reality, or have been hidden, such as me, who was called "Qitong" at first, and was called "Killer" after comprehending the stunt. And many important fragments are also missing, such as the truth of the death of the emperor is not mentioned at all, what happened in the cave of the old locust tree that I am very curious about is also mentioned in the book, and the question I asked Xue Qingyun is not answered in the book, and when I draw the night of the beautiful man competition, there are only blurry and irregular black and white squares on the paper.

Bei Yiyi explained that if he didn't deal with it like this, everyone wouldn't be able to see the comic book.

"Hey, why is it gone?" I turned to the last page, and the picture showed the "Killer" and the little girl going down the mountain together, and the story ended.

Bei Yi pouted one by one: "Yes, I only saw it here, I always thought there was a sequel, but I waited for many years and didn't see it, and then I heard that the author was missing." ”

I turned back to the title page, and the three small words below were faintly recognizable: Slow Scholar.

"This guy is a super slow man," Bei Yiyi introduced, "It took ten years to draw this volume, and even if he doesn't disappear, I'm afraid the sequel will have to wait for more than ten years." ”

I asked, "How old were you when you read this comic book?"

Bei Yiyi said: "More than ten years ago. ”

"He can see the future!" I was pleasantly surprised, "and it's pretty much the same as what I experienced before I went down the mountain." "It seems that I have found another clue to a strange person, but he is missing, how to find it?

"No matter where he goes, he must not be in Taiping Prefecture anyway," Bei Yiyi said, "but I know that there is someone who may be able to help you." ”

I hurriedly asked, "Who?"

"The elder brother of the slow scholar lives in a village thirty miles to the south. ”

"Then let's go!"

"What's the hurry? I haven't finished my meal, and I still have some personal matters to do. ”

I wasn't anxious either, but there was a vast journey in front of me, and there was a period of unchased behind me, and I finally found a strange person, and I didn't want to go with us, and now I found a new clue, and it was really difficult to sit calm and miss the opportunity.

Bei Yi bit off a piece of meat from the leg of mutton one by one and chewed slowly: "What's the hurry, you see the four seasons change, the sun and the moon take turns, the wind and rain fall, the grass grows and the flowers bloom, but who has been in a hurry? ”

The girl smiled: "I can't see that you are dressed so roughly, and you speak quite Zen." ”

"Hehe, this is all said by the slow scholar. ”

"Then I can't wait to get to know him," said the girl, "what else do you have to do?"

"Accompany me to the prison first. ”

To the south of the city was an endless wasteland, quiet and magnificent, and as far as the eye could see, there were no people, and we rode on the three fast horses that the girl had picked up from the stables, and as soon as we got out of the city gate, we turned to the east, and after walking for a short time, we were blocked by a group of low, slender hills. The hills crisscrossed the field like crocodile teeth, tearing the dark yellow earth into countless irregular pieces of a puzzle. We went around these puzzles and finally found the prison that Bei Yiyi wanted to rob - Wolong Prison.

I am no stranger to prisons, in the depths of the Jiuqu Mountains, there is a prison called "Return", where the four seasons are like spring, the scenery is pleasant, and the people who are locked up are all the members of the imperial court who are above the fourth grade and the people who have heads and faces in the rivers and lakes. The prisoners were neither bullied nor laboured, clothed and fed, drunk and dying, and received all kinds of physical and psychological special services according to their needs, except that they could not leave this place casually, and lived a life that was more comfortable than that of the gods. The convicted people in the world are eager to be imprisoned until they return to prison, but most of the people who are really imprisoned are greedy, because only those who have the same financial resources and connections as they are qualified. There are also some wealthy gentry or people in the rivers and lakes who have not committed crimes, in order to avoid personal grievances, they will also spend a lot of money to avoid the limelight here, and feel the beauty of life by the way. As far as I know, I've only seen this prison, so much so that I still can't tell the difference between a prison and a hot spring resort.

From a distance, a wall stretched for miles and several zhang on the bare ground, and the moss-covered wall was gloomy and indifferent, like a huge layer of ice, swallowing up all the heat and life nearby, leaving no grass growing within dozens of steps outside the wall, and even the shrubs in the distance were shivering. The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on this dark ice did not even show a ripple or shine. The rusty iron door was ajar, and there was a "clang" sound in the wind.

"Where sin is punished, greater sin is often produced. Bei Yiyi muttered to himself. According to him, this is the largest prison in Taiping Prefecture, and it houses all kinds of vicious depraved souls, including robbers who rob homes and houses, traffickers who abduct and sell women, and thugs who kill people without blinking...... The prison guards collectively refer to such guys as "beast criminals", which sounds like they are not easy to provoke, but the fact is that they gang up in prison to collect protection money and fight, which is almost no different from what they do outside the prison, and even has some innovations, such as extorting and blackmailing the jailer to seduce the jailer's wife, and so on; on the other hand, there are many "sheep criminals", such as the homeless man who steals dog food, the farmer who takes away the whip of the errand servant, stabs the little maid who is committing violence against him, and writes poems to mock the emperor dog loyalty, and so on. The jailers did not care about the reason for their imprisonment, but only the degree of danger, so most of them were afraid of the "beast criminals" and favored the "sheep criminals".

Under special care, the "sheep prisoners" undertook all the physical work inside and outside the prison, including mining, logging, farming, raising, maintenance, cleaning, washing the feet of the prison guards, emptying the toilet and riding horses, etc., which not only fully reflected their personal value, but also made the whole prison present a vibrant and orderly atmosphere. This is not discrimination, but a kind of love from the bottom of the heart, you know, after serving a prison sentence for so many years, if you are lazy and do nothing every day like a jailer and a "beast criminal", what a mediocre life it will be? How regretful will you feel when you look back on the past in the future? I don't have the confidence to write a memoir. However, now, the "sheep prisoners" have been given so many good opportunities to enrich themselves and hone their will, and through practice, they have learned countless valuable skills across agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, construction, service and other fields, understood many truths about being a person and being an inferior person, and their adaptability and survival ability have been significantly enhanced, and finally they have grown into versatile, omnipotent, and useful people in society. The head of the "Wolong Prison" wrote the above experience into his work report, and the following year he was promoted to the head of the prison department of the Criminal Department.

Not long after he was promoted, dozens of "sheep prisoners" launched a riot, occupied the "Wolong Prison", and tied up the newly appointed cell head and several jailers. Huang Dog Zhong immediately appointed his younger brother Huang Xiaogu as the rebellious marshal, mobilized more than 100,000 officers and soldiers from dozens of cities near and far, and surrounded the prison. The uninformed people thought that the emperor was going to fight to the death with the Zhixu Kingdom, and they were excited. >