Great Jin 659, July 8.

As a rooster crowed in the yard, Chen Xuan reflexively jumped off the bed, got dressed, came to the kitchen to wash, and then began to make noodles and prepare breakfast.

For breakfast, he was ready to eat steamed buns.

Soon the dough is kneaded and set aside for fermentation.

Chen Xuan began to make steamed bun fillings, including fragrant pork filling, shrimp filling, and leek pork filling.

An hour and a half later, the fragrant buns were out of the cage.

Chen Xuan picked up a bun and bit it, and the soup inside instantly flowed out, impacting his taste buds.

The skin is thin and the filling is abundant, the soup is delicious, and the taste is excellent.

In one breath, Chen Xuan ate more than a dozen.

At this time, a little yellow dog jumped over the threshold of the kitchen with difficulty, walked in with its tail wagging, and wandered around Chen Xuan's feet.

"Here you go."

Chen Xuan picked up a bun and put it in front of the little yellow dog.

Smelling the fragrant puffy meat bun, the little yellow dog pounced instantly.

After breakfast, feeding the chickens, and teasing the little yellow dog for a while, Chen Xuan went to the prison department.

There are four major urban districts in the county.

Among them, the county guard's mansion and the governor's mansion are all in Dongcheng, so the most powerful people live in Dongcheng, all of whom are some dignitaries, and Nancheng is backed by the Canglan River wharf, and the Chengfu of Hedao County is set up in Nancheng District, with the most merchants and the most prosperous.

More than ten miles away from Xicheng, there is a garrison camp.

The garrison was directly subordinate to the governor's office of the state capital.

If the county guard wants to mobilize the garrison, he also needs to apply to the governor's office for an order.

Of course, if the county guard of a place has a good relationship with the generals of the garrison, he can transfer the garrison first and apply for an order afterwards, and the relationship between the county guard of Yingchuan and the generals of the garrison should be average.

Otherwise, the bandit army would not have been allowed to wreak havoc and plunder several counties before they began to mobilize garrisons to suppress it.

Although each county has its own county army, this is used to guard the county town, and it is easy not to transfer out of the county, and the number of county troops will not exceed 10,000.

The Prison Department is in Beicheng.

It didn't take long for Chen Xuan to come outside the checkpoint of the Criminal Prison Department.

This is the most gloomy place in the entire county, where all kinds of criminals are held.

Around the prison department, within a radius of 100 meters, there are no other buildings, like an independent small city, the surrounding walls are a solemn black, with a height of more than ten meters.

The walls of the city are patrolled by jailers, and there are powerful armor-piercing crossbows.

Armor-piercing crossbows, which are powerful weapons that can shoot through heavy armor.

When an idler wants to rob the prison, he will be shot through if he doesn't wait to get in.

Even if the internal qi martial artist wears heavy armor, once he is locked by more than a dozen armor-piercing crossbows, there is only one way to die.

There is a checkpoint 100 meters away from the Prison Department, which is guarded by jailers.

"Who are you, the prison department is heavy, and the idle people are waiting to leave quickly."

Seeing Chen Xuan come to the checkpoint, the jailer stationed immediately spoke.

"My name is Chen Xuan, I am a painter in the Criminal Prison Department, and the chief of the thief Cao Si asked me to report today."

Chen Xuan opened his mouth to explain.

"New artist, wait a minute."

Hearing this, the jailer went to the break room next to the checkpoint.

After a while, the jailer walked out of the lounge, holding a file and an appointment in his hand, carefully looked at Chen Xuanhe's portrait on the appointment and compared it, and then nodded and said, "Come in with me!" ”

Chen Xuan followed the jailer and walked towards the prison department not far away.

After a while, the two of them arrived in front of the gate of the prison department, where there were two huge black stone lions with a height of seven or eight meters, and the gate was about as high as the wall, more than ten meters.

In front of the gate, there were more than a dozen jailers stationed.

"Lao Zhang, a newcomer?"

The jailer stationed at the gate saw Chen Xuan and asked.

"This is a new artist."

The jailer named Lao Zhang replied.

"New artist." The garrison jailer nodded and said, "Lao Yang is already in his sixties, his old eyes are dizzy, and his energy is not as good as before, so he really can't do it." ”

The garrison opened a small door to the bottom right of the gate and let the two in.

When you come to the inside of the Prison Department, you will see an empty square, and behind the square are a cluster of buildings.

"There are living quarters and canteens in the Prison Department, and the jailers here basically eat, drink, and Lazar are all in the Prison Department, and they can only go home once a month when they have four days off." The jailer surnamed Zhang said: "But you are a painter, the management will be looser, and it is okay if you don't live in the prison department, I will take you to see the prison master now." ”

Chen Xuan nodded.

The highest officer of the Criminal Prison Department is the head of the criminal prison, who is responsible not only for the custody of prisoners, but also for the lawsuits, criminal laws, etc., and the office is not in the Criminal Prison Department, but in the Thief Cao Division, and the chief officer who takes care of the prisoners is the prison warden.

The warden of the Criminal Prison Department belongs to the official of the Eighth Grade.

Soon, Chen Xuan met the warden of the Criminal Prison Department.

This is a middle-aged man who looks like an iron tower, with strong muscles supporting his official uniform, and his eyes are like copper bells.

"Chen Xuan, I've seen the prison chief."

Chen Xuan clenched his fists and bowed.

"Hmm." The warden glanced up at Chen Xuan, and then said to the jailer surnamed Zhang: "You take him to the treasury to get the waist card and clothing, and then take him to the painter's room in the prison to familiarize himself." ”

"Yes, sir."

The jailer surnamed Zhang responded and left with Chen Xuan.

"Change your clothes."

After receiving the waist card and clothing, the jailer surnamed Zhang reminded.

Immediately, Chen Xuan took off his outer clothes and put on the clothes of a painter in the Criminal Prison Department.

The clothes were no different from those of the jailers.

It's just that the word 'prison' is written in the white circle on the chest of the jailer's clothes, and the word 'painting' is written in the white circle on the chest of his clothes, which means that he is a painter in the prison department.

But after a while, the two of them came to the real prison gate.

Walking into the prison gate, the front and back of the door were completely two worlds, and a smell of dampness, decay, stench, blood, feces and urine poured up, and the pungent smell poured into Chen Xuan's nostrils.

"The smell of this prison is a little bigger."

Chen Xuan frowned slightly.

When you go back, do you want to get a perfume or air freshener or something?

He thought to himself.

"This is the artist's room."

After a while, the jailer surnamed Zhang took Chen Xuan to a simple house.

Inside, there was a man sleeping on a table.

"Xiao Jiang, don't sleep, there's a new person coming."

The jailer, surnamed Zhang, woke up the man who was sleeping on the table.

This is a boy who is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he looks younger than Chen Xuan.

"Chen Xuan, if you don't understand anything, just ask Xiao Jiang, his ancestors have been painters in the Criminal Prison Department for generations."

With that, the jailer surnamed Zhang turned around and left.

"Hello, my name is Jiang Ping."

Jiang Ping was woken up, and when he heard a newcomer coming, he immediately got up and introduced himself.

"My name is Chen Xuan, please advise me in the future."

Chen Xuan said decently.