Chapter 65: Brother, We'll Meet Again
Due to the small size of the Ella Town Prison, the structure inside is quite simple. A T-shaped intersection is about two meters wide and about 30 meters from side to length. On either side of it sat thirty-four cells of various sizes.
The cells were surrounded on three sides by solid stone walls. The cell rests on one side of the corridor of the T-shaped intersection and is a fence made of several iron-wood pillars. The doors of all cells were locked with two thick iron chains. It was a mess inside, like the makeshift prison in Smoky Sands, with a straw-paved floor. The straw was full of fleas, cockroaches, and all kinds of reptiles. The walls were covered with dirt that no one had cleaned.
At this time, on the walls on both sides of the T-shaped corridor, at the junction of the cell fences, there are candles lit every seven or eight meters, and the brightness is acceptable. Fan Xiaoqi took advantage of these bright lights, and while being escorted forward by two soldiers, he also took a curious look inside these cells. But what he saw was a hideous, ill-intentioned, sinister, vicious, hateful, desperate, fearful, dazed and gloomy face from the dark depths of the cell.
Seeing these dark and gloomy faces, the kind of joy and refreshment that had just sprung up in Fan Xiaoqi's heart disappeared in an instant.
So he hung his head again, looked straight ahead at the road, and did not dare to look into the cell again.
Soon Fan Xiaoqi was pushed by two soldiers with arms to the end of a T-shaped intersection. A jailer who followed him quickly took out the key and opened a sturdy iron door at the end of the road.
A faint candlelight peeked inside. Fan Xiaoqi's eyes widened curiously and looked inside. He saw a man sitting in a small room about ten square meters with a sturdy door, and a dilapidated bed covered with straw. A tall man who was not wearing a prison uniform, but a dirty, luxurious suit, half of his face obscured by the messy hair in front of him.
The man, like the other prisoners, was sitting on the shabby bed with his head hanging and his body bowed in handcuffs and anklets. When he opened the door, he didn't move, as if he didn't know anything.
Next to his bed was a low, old wooden table. On top was a saucer with leftovers and a porcelain spoon, and next to the saucer was a candle that was not very bright. When the iron door opened, the flow of air caused the candle, which was not very bright, to be blown on and off by the wind, reducing the brightness of the room by another level.
After the soldiers opened the iron door of the small cell, they pushed Fan Xiaoqi inside, then closed the iron door and locked it firmly with the key.
Without the light in the corridor, the light in the room seemed much darker, and coupled with the dull and dirty air in this small house, Fan Xiaoqi immediately felt a huge sense of depression, and his face suddenly became a lot more gloomy.
Seeing that there was one more person in the room, the prisoner who was sitting on the bed bowed down and languishing finally raised his head slowly, and glanced at Fan Xiaoqi, who was frowning and looking gloomy, standing in the middle of the small cell. And Fan Xiaoqi also took this opportunity to take a fixed look at the face of this mysterious prisoner.
The moment the two of them made eye contact and looked at each other, Fan Xiaoqi was almost frightened, and retreated back to the corner of the wall.
That person turned out to be ...... Jiang Rong!
Oh my God! How could it be...... Me, what should I do now?
Fan Xiaoqi was already frightened at this time, the six gods had no master, his mind was a mess, and he even shivered a little. And Jiang Rong, who was sitting on the bed, looked at his strange reaction with a blank face. After a moment, he began to frown and think about it.
"Oh, brother, I feel like we're so familiar. Have we met somewhere?" Jiang Rong stared at Fan Xiaoqi's face, frowned and asked with a puzzled expression.
"Really? I, I, I think you recognized the wrong person. Fan Xiaoqi hung his head, didn't dare to raise his head, and said in a trembling voice in an obscene voice.
"Eh, I'll think about it again......" Jiang Rong thought hard as she touched the back of her head while looking up at the ceiling and frowning. After a while, he looked at Fan Xiaoqi with a look of surprise and said excitedly: "I remember, you are the one, the little brother who drank with me last time, isn't it?"
"I, I'm ......" Fan Xiaoqi continued to hang his head, nervously a little overwhelmed, and he didn't know what to say.
"Haha, yes, what's the shame?" Jiang Rong patted her thigh and said with a happy smile. But after a moment, he seemed to remember something, and said with a shallow look of shame, "Oh...... You must be hating me for what happened last time, right? Last time two guys insisted that you killed someone, and the shopkeeper said the same. However, I didn't say you killed someone, I just said I didn't know anything. Kindness...... I'm really drunk, I don't remember anything. Hehe......" Jiang Rong pursed her mouth after speaking, and smiled embarrassedly.
Fan Xiaoqi still hung his head, standing in the corner, obscenely silent. But the degree of his obscenity is much stronger than when he just got up.
Jiang Rong paused for a moment, looked curious, and asked tentatively in a low voice: "You, did you really kill someone?" ”
Looks like he won't recognize me for a while. It must have been my dusty face that bewitched him. It's the same, who would have thought that such a dirty and smelly boy like me could transform into a beautiful girl?
In that case, I just, I don't have anything to worry about for the time being. But I still have to pay attention, try to keep my distance from him, let him look at my face a few times, and talk to him less. That's right.
Thinking of this, Fan Xiaoqi finally raised his head and asked Jiang Rong unhurriedly: "I said I didn't, do you believe it?"
"Hehe, I believe it, I guessed that you wouldn't kill anyone. Jiang Rong smiled and said.
"Oh, brother, do you believe me so much?" Fan Xiaoqi pretended to widen his eyes and said with a happy expression.
"Of course. Hehe......" Jiang Rong nodded and smiled, and then beckoned to Fan Xiaoqi and said, "Come on, come on, sit here, sit here." The two of us can be regarded as confidants in trouble. Today, I'm going to tell you a good story about what I didn't tell you last time. ”
Oh, grandma, and tell me...... Okay, now that they all live in the same house, let's accommodate him and have a good relationship with him.
So, Fan Xiaoqi smiled happily, pretended to be happy and walked to Jiang Rong's side, and went to bed side by side with him.