Chapter 183: Friendship with Fellow Comrades
After a while, the servant Xianzhong walked in, bowed down and said, "Master, everything is arranged......
Zhenshiqi nodded, drank the last glass of wine, got up and followed Xianzhong out.
Out of the restaurant, he got into a carriage, which drove towards the downtown and then disappeared into the downtown area.
When it reappeared, the carriage had already reached a boxy alley. The alley is surrounded by high walls, and when you look up, you can only see a blue sky.
Juzhong helped Juan Shi to get off the horse, and Ju Shi Shi sorted out his clothes.
When I raised my eyes, I saw a boxy gate in front of me, and there was a tiger head relief above the lintel, and the whole gate looked like a tiger with a bloody mouth and sharp fangs.
At the gate, next to each of the two stone statues stood two tall black-armored halberd guards, who did not smile, did not look at stones, and were affectionate and stern.
They did not go up, nor did they come up to greet them. He just stood next to the carriage and waited, and even he, the prime minister of Zuo, had to let go of his official authority when he arrived at this place.
He didn't have to wait long, the heavy stone gate slowly rose with a rumbling sound, and behind the stone gate, stood a burly general with a fierce face.
But this fierce face, when he saw the trial of the food, immediately piled up a smile like a spring breeze.
To be honest, he felt that the way he laughed was very, very ugly.
"Prime Minister, the last general has been waiting for a long time......"
"Then lead the way!!"
"Prime Minister, please."
Entering the gate, there is a stone staircase leading to the bottom, and on both sides of the stone staircase, there is an ironclad guard standing every hundred steps.
It can be seen that this place is heavily guarded, and in addition, in the place where you can't see, there are hidden traps, and usually not even a fly can fly in.
This is Chang'an Prison, but it has a more famous name - the Tiger's Den Dungeon.
He followed the burly general through door after door, and finally stopped at an iron prison door.
There were four guards guarding the prison door, and when they saw the judge coming, they immediately saluted.
"Open the door!!" Judging the way of eating.
The general answered, took a large key from his waist, and opened the large lock on the cell door. Then, together with two guards, the iron door creaked open.
The lights in the aisle cast in, reflecting a huge figure.
The man's long hair was scattered and his face was obscured, and his hands and feet were chained. He was lying on a straw mat, snoring, already asleep, and the snoring was so loud and thunderous in this small cell.
Judging by his stretched figure, he was taller and stronger than the general beside him.
Jujiji frowned at his snoring, and one of the guards, in order to curry favor with Juji, stepped forward and kicked the man, "Get up and ......"
Before the words fell, the man suddenly opened his eyes, as if a tiger had woken up from his sleep, and the murderous aura exploded instantly.
I saw that the man suddenly made a move, shouted loudly, and lifted the guard with one hand, directly to the ceiling of the cell.
The other three guards immediately drew their swords and surrounded him, shouting at him and ordering him to let him go. Unmoved, the man continued to push his guard against the ceiling.
There was a tremendous force in the guard's chest, as if a boulder was pressing down on him. He felt pain, almost suffocated, but he couldn't make a sound.
I saw that his face gradually turned purple, and the other three guards saw this and rushed forward together.
I saw that the man threw the guards in his hand at the three guards like throwing sandbags, knocking them down in an instant.
He applauded and smiled with satisfaction.
"Stand down!!"
The three guards stood up and helped the wounded guard out of the cell.
Shen Zhong walked up to the prisoner with the food box, only to see that he had no fear, opened the food box, and put the food and wine on the table one by one.
The prisoner looked at him in confusion and asked in an impure accent, "What do you mean by that?" ”
"I appreciate your skills and want to accept you as my doorman." Then, as long as you do one thing for me, I can be free again. ”
The prisoner smiled disdainfully and said, "It's up to you?" Who are you? ”
The general beside him immediately said: "He is the prime minister of the dynasty!" ”
The prisoner was stunned for a moment, then sat down, hung his head and thought for a moment, and then asked, "Is this wine drinkable?" ”
Judging by the Eater, he smiled, "Of course." ”
……
The prisoner's name was Submu Nata, a Hunn.
Charged with being a traitor, Hanoi County dispatched 1,000 troops to capture the man who had killed the officer and fled into the mountains. He was then sent to Chang'an and locked up in the Tiger's Den dungeon.
In order to get the details of the Huns out of his mouth, but this person was tortured, but he still did not reveal any information. Later, it was confirmed that this person was not a spy sent by the Huns at all.
Catching the wrong person is, of course, an extremely humiliating thing, so these will be wrong and he will be locked up. In order to convince people that this man was the best worker, they kept him in the most heavily guarded cell.
Speaking of the life experience of Submunata, he is actually a poor person.
He was a slave who had endured the oppression of his slave owners and the bullying of others. Later, because of his trouble, he was sold to the Han Dynasty and bought by a wealthy merchant in Hanoi.
This wealthy businessman's surname is Gao, and he is known as Master Gao. Master Gao saw that the tower was tall and mighty, and his strength was as great as an ox, so he asked him to make a nursing home in the Gao family.
Because there is a group of bandits in the vicinity of Gaojiazhuang, they often want to fight the idea of the Gao family.
There is also a young lady in the Gao family, who was born ugly and blind, but she is still the pearl in the eyes of Master Gao.
Because she is not good-looking, no one wants to approach her. The exception is Submunata, who does not speak Chinese, and he becomes friends with Miss Gao.
Miss Gao taught him to learn Chinese characters, and seeing his progress in learning, he also felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart, and the smile on his face increased.
The old man of the Gao family knew that it was difficult for his daughter to marry, and now he saw that Submu Nata could get along with his daughter very happily, and that Subu Mu Nata was loyal and courageous, so he intended to summon him into the family, so he renamed him Gao Zhuoguang.
Gao Zhuoguang is grateful to the Gao family for their kindness to him, and he also likes Miss Gao very much, but he thinks that he is from a humble background and is not worthy of Miss Gao.
So he rejected Master Gao, and only wanted to be a cow and a horse for the Gao family for the rest of his life, and accompany Miss Gao.
Miss Gao was sad, but she did not force it.
One day, the bandits came up with a plan, they sent people to the county to falsely accuse Gao Zhuoguang of being a Hun spy, and then the county sent troops to arrest him.
Gao Zhuoguang was taken away, and that night, Gaojiazhuang was sacked by bandits, and both Master Gao and Miss Gao were killed by thieves.
Later, the people who escaped came to report to the official, and the matter was talked about by two jailers, and Gao Zhuoguang happened to hear it.
Gao Zhuoguang was furious in his heart, and tricked the jailer into his cell that night by faking his illness, and then he took the opportunity to escape from hijacking. In the process of escaping, he was rounded up by officers and soldiers, and killed more than a dozen people when he resisted.
The county order had no choice but to report to the county guard, and the county guard sent troops into the mountains to search, and later Gao Zhuoguang killed fifteen soldiers before he was captured because he was outnumbered.
There are three reasons why he was found.
The first Empress Dowager Lu said that Emperor Hui could not be suspicious, so Gao Zhuoguang went to assassinate Liu Heng, and he could blame the Huns for the planting; The second is a high level of scorching light martial arts, and he is a good assassin; Third, Gao Zhuoguang was born as a slave and was loyal to his master.
Judging that he promised to find the bandits who ransacked Gaojiazhuang for him, Gao Zhuoguang was grateful to him, as long as he could take revenge, he was willing to die.
In this way, the Tiger's Den dungeon found a death row prisoner who pretended to be Gao Zhuoguang and died in prison, and was hastily buried.
And the real Gao Zhuoguang has been brought to the mansion by the judge, and after some dressing, he has now become a mighty doorman.
He showed him a portrait of Liu Heng, and gave him a sword, a horse, and a lot of money, and asked him to chase Liu Heng under the stars.
At the same time, Shen Shiqi also asked Shen Zhong to contact his informants in various states and counties, provide Liu Heng's whereabouts at any time, and then inform Gao Zhuoguang. Liu Heng and his party are twenty or thirty people, it should be obvious.
said that after Liu Heng left Chang'an, he rushed to Daidi in the starry night, but because he was sick and tired, he finally fell ill this time.
Dou Yifang had to let Song Chang and the others put down their steps and treat Liu Heng first, so the trip was delayed for three days.
In order to prevent the Empress Dowager Lu from sending people to chase her, she had a fever and asked Song Chang and others to go to the royal family's costumes, and they should dress up as traveling merchants, and try to avoid important counties and towns on the way.
This trip took three or four more days, but fortunately, the journey went smoothly, and half a month later, they had entered the territory of Daidi.
Finally, he was able to breathe a sigh of relief, and after entering the territory of Daidi, Song Chang sent someone to the nearest county to ask for help.
Liu Heng and Dou Yifang didn't have to rush away, and the group continued to walk in a roundabout way.
That night, as they could not find a lodging, they encamped in the plains, by the woods.
The campfire was lit up, the smell of rice permeated the sky, and the night sky was full of stars and the evening breeze was cool.
Dou Yifang and Liu Heng had just finished dinner, and the two left the camp hand in hand to go for a walk.
Being able to return to Daidi, Liu Heng's mood is also much better, thinking of this trip to Chang'an, it is really thrilling, and this is mostly due to Dou Yifang's credit. So, he stopped and turned to look at Dou Yifang.
Dou Yifang was inexplicably looked at by him, "What's wrong?" ”
Liu Heng smiled slightly, "It's nothing, I just think you look good." ”
Dou Yifang bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Why did you suddenly talk about this?" ”
Liu Heng stretched out his fingers, hooked Dou Yifang's face, looked at her autumn-like bright eyes, and said affectionately: "This time, thanks to you, ......" As he spoke, he kissed her on the lips.
The two kissed deeply, and Liu Heng pulled Dou Yifang into the woods. Dou Yifang knew what he meant, and his face was flushed with shame, and it was red to the root of his ears.
Liu Heng pressed her against a tree trunk, she pushed Liu Heng's chest with both hands, and whispered no.