Chapter 57: Stability
"Chen Xuan, sit down, just ask any questions."
Seeing his peers coming, Jiang Ping seemed very happy.
In this big prison, he was the only young man, and there was not even a person who could speak, and he was about to go crazy when he came to sleep or sleep.
If he goes on like this, he doesn't know if he can stick to it, it's too boring.
"How many artists do we have in our gallery?"
After sitting down, Chen Xuan asked.
"Normally, it's three painters." Jiang Ping said: "You, I, Sun Lao, and Yang Lao, but Yang Lao is already high, and he has asked for leave for three days, and after you come, you should replace Yang Lao's position." ”
"What about working hours?"
Chen Xuan continued to ask.
"There are three of us painters, two on the last and one on the rest." Jiang Ping said: "Basically, there is nothing to do on weekdays, only when the new prisoners come, we will be allowed to paint portraits, and when we are fine, we can only stay in the painter's room, it is too boring, and from time to time we will hear the screams of the prisoners, even if we sleep unsafely." ”
"Chen Xuan, why did you come to the Criminal Prison Department as a painter?"
Jiang Ping asked.
"I'm from Qingshui County, and I'm helpless in the county, and I just want to live in peace."
Chen Xuandao.
The two chatted about their parents.
Jiang Ping's ancestors were all painters in the Criminal Prison Department for several generations.
After his grandfather died, Jiang Ping's father became a painter in the Criminal Prison Department, but once he was drunk, Jiang Ping's father broke his arm and could not continue to paint, so Jiang Ping took his father's place.
The other two painters in the painter's room, Yang Lao has never married a wife in his life, so there is no descendant to replace Yang Lao's position.
As for the other grandson, his son opened a painting boat in the city and had a good business.
The work of a painter is much more leisurely than Chen Xuan imagined.
Come to the artist's room until the sun goes down.
Except for chatting with Jiang Ping, there was nothing.
The screams and cries of the prisoners kept coming from the depths of the prison.
The Criminal Prison Department is not only responsible for the detention and guarding of prisoners, but also includes interrogation and execution.
Prisoners who are still in the stage of interrogation and sentence do not need to have a portrait left.
Only convicted prisoners need a portrait of a painter.
If the prisoner has not been sentenced, then the prisoner can use his connections and use various means to reduce or exempt himself from his sentence as much as possible, which is also the biggest source of income for the Criminal Prison Department.
In the Great Jin Dynasty, there is a law for atonement.
In addition to such serious crimes as rebellion, rebellion, persecution of nobles, and killing officials, princes and nobles, children of scholars, and offenders can pay money to reduce the sentence.
The Chinese military officials of the dynasty are all from the nobles and the noble clans, and these rulers naturally want to seek their own welfare, and in the later development they even developed into a rich person, who can also reduce their sentences after paying the money.
It is impossible for a prince to commit the same crime as the common people.
"It's time to get off work."
When the time came, Chen Xuan and Jiang Ping left the Criminal Prison Department.
The jailer needs to work the night shift and stay on duty in the prison, but the painter is much more relaxed, he doesn't need to be on duty, he commutes to and from work at the same time, and no one says anything even if he comes late.
When he first came to the county town, Chen Xuan was not in a hurry to refine the pill, the purple jade bone washing pill he had refined before was enough, and if he wanted to refine the harmless purple jade bone washing pill, he needed a white sunflower, which was not something that ordinary people could buy.
When he was in Qingshui County, he could only buy a small amount of hydrangeas through the logistics institute.
Because there are no hydrangeas for sale in general pharmacies, hydrangeas can only be obtained through some special channels.
Therefore, if Chen Xuan wanted to buy the white sunflower, he could only wait for He Yun, the hall master of the Tianhe Gang, and Wang Han, the pharmacist, to be transferred to the county seat, and with the help of the power of the Tianhe Gang, he could buy the white sunflower.
The Purple Jade Bone Cleansing Pill in his hand can probably support two months of cultivation, so there is no hurry for the time being.
In this way, it is very boring to go to work every day to paddle and sleep.
For this reason, Chen Xuan deliberately reversed his work and rest time, and when he returned from work, he simply practiced until the day, and when it was time to go to work, he went to sleep in the painter's room of the Criminal Prison Department.
In a blink of an eye.
Chen Xuan came to the county town and entered the prison department to become a painter for a month.
659 of the Great Jin Dynasty, August 8.
Yingchuan County, North City.
Halal Workshop, Chen House.
Giant Bear Gong: 8512/20000/Fourth Order.
Chen Xuan, who had just finished cultivating, opened the proficiency panel and looked at the cultivation progress of the Giant Bear Gong.
Taking the Purple Jade Bone Cleansing Pill every day to practice, the progress of the Giant Bear Gong cultivation has increased rapidly, and at this time, Chen Xuan has played the moves of the fourth layer of the Giant Bear Gong more than forty times, and he will not feel the pain in his bones.
At this rate, it would take another two months at most to cultivate the fourth layer of the Giant Bear Gong to perfection, and the cultivation of the Bone Quenching Realm would also reach its limit.
After this month of practice, Chen Xuan obviously felt that his bones had been greatly improved, becoming more tenacious, his backbone had become thicker, and Chen Xuan's body had become taller, with a height of 1.85 meters and a weight of 200 catties.
At the same time, Chen Xuan's strength has also been greatly improved, and he can grab a thousand catties of stone tripods with one hand.
"Calculate the time, the medicinal herbs should be transported over today."
Chen Xuan came to the second-story wooden building and sat by the window to pay attention to the movement in the courtyard opposite.
Five days ago, He Yun and Wang Han of the Tianhe Gang came to the county seat, and the first task given to them by Chen Xuan was to buy white hydrangeas, of course, mixed with some other medicinal herbs to confuse the public.
The address given by Chen Xuan is a mansion he rented under a false identity.
In the alley where he is now, in addition to the house where he lives now, there are three houses that he has rented, and the opposite courtyard is one of them.
He gave He Yun Wang Han five days to buy medicinal herbs.
"It's coming!"
It didn't take long for Chen Xuan to notice that a carriage had stopped in front of the opposite courtyard.
Immediately after, two figures stepped down from the carriage, it was He Yun and Wang Han.
When the two came to the courtyard, they took out the key to open the lock, and then moved boxes of medicinal herbs from the carriage and into the courtyard.
Seeing that the carriage was far away, Chen Xuan was not in a hurry to go to the mansion to get the medicinal herbs, and left the mansion with the identity of a disguised person to check if there were any suspicious people nearby.
Although he had already controlled He Yun Wang Han with poison, there was no guarantee that they would not betray 100%.
For a month, most of the residents of this alley, Chen Xuan, knew him, and after checking around, Chen Xuan did not find any suspicious people, but he still waited until the evening, in the dead of night, before he went to the house to get medicinal herbs.
With this batch of white hydrangeas refining the new Purple Jade Bone Cleansing Pill, it would probably be able to support him until the end of his Bone Quenching Realm cultivation.