Chapter 3 The body is like an untied boat

"Fuck you, that thief ......"

"Can I be blamed for this? Lao Tzu ......"

"Fuck, don't talk about it......"

In a trance, Yan Ning felt that there was a lot of noise around him, he slowly opened his sleepy eyes, and saw a group of officials surrounding the cell next door where Wei Chenfeng was being held, arguing non-stop.

An official almost punched the wall, and said hatefully: "Damn, in just a while, that thief actually killed Lao Xia and escaped." ”

The officials quarreled and said: "Who can be blamed for this, it's not that we are greedy for wine, leaving Lao Xia alone to guard at night, if this stubble happens, none of us can escape." ”

As soon as these words came out, all the officials sighed and screamed, and when the officials were annoyed, the master led a big man dressed in a biao suit to walk quickly, and the master came, and scolded the officials angrily, and said: "Waste, you are really a group of waste, a group of waste, you can't even look at a living person, what's the use of raising you?" ”

The officials knew that they were derelict in their duties, and they bowed their heads and didn't dare to speak, so the master picked up the folding fan, knocked the officials on the head, and scolded: "You guys don't usually show off your might, why, now everyone is more fucking obedient than a rabbit, and there is still a lie on the ground, what's going on?" ”

An official lowered his head and said: "Master Hui, tonight should have been Lao Xia's night, the thief was very treacherous and fierce, but Lao Xia was old, and he accidentally fell into the thief's way and was killed by him." ”

Seeing that the jailer was killed, the master was taken aback, shouted angrily, and just wanted to speak, but at this moment, the big man standing behind the master suddenly spoke, only to hear the person's low voice, and said: "Master Liu, I handed over the person to you Fengcheng for safekeeping, only one day, this person is gone, hum, Master Liu, how do you let me explain to Governor Chen?" ”

When the master heard the big man mention the prefect of Chen, he was extremely scared, this thief was lost in Fengcheng, if he was blamed, not to mention his master, even the county commander couldn't please him, the master was also a shrewd person, he rolled his eyes, and said: "Master Li, that thief is cunning and ruthless, killed my Fengcheng jailer, that thief has committed a capital crime, I will immediately send someone to chase him, the thief is locked in iron shackles, and he must not go far." ”

The big man snorted and said, "It's so good, I'm afraid that person has already gone away, if he really can't chase him back, Master Liu, you and I can't afford this crime." ”

Master Liu was so frightened that he screamed, "You waste, why don't you go find someone for me?" ”

The officials almost got scolded, and hurriedly picked up the guy and went out to find the thief.

But it was noisy here, on the other side of the cell, Yan Ning had woken up just now, he didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he woke up again, he found that his whole body was weak and weak, he tried to pull the wound hard, but it was not as painful as before.

Hearing the noise next door, he listened to the wall with his ear, and heard the conversation of the group of people in Fang Cai clearly, and he exclaimed in his heart: "Brother Wei is really powerful, he is trapped with his hands and feet, and he can escape from this prison, but he and the jailer have no grievances and no enmity, and they should not hurt his life." ”

At this time, there was another noise outside the prison door, and the county magistrate rushed over with a few officials, and the county magistrate saw the big man, and hurriedly said: "Lord Li, I have sent someone to post a notice in the whole city, forgive the thief for his great ability, and he can't escape from Fengcheng." ”

The big man in the big suit smiled coldly and said: "Gou County Order, I only let you here for a day, and this person will be gone, hehe, if someone can't find it back, not only my head will not be protected, but your head will not be saved for long." ”

The county commander of Gou was so anxious that he shouted, the master stepped forward and said a few words to the county commander, and the county commander hurriedly took out a piece of gold from his official robe, he stuffed the gold into the big man's hand, and said with a smile: "Lord Li, this thief is ruthless, kill my Fengcheng jailer, this jailer is not doing well, let go of the thief, Lord Li can know it." ”

The big man accepted the gold, seemed to have changed his personality, changed his previous arrogance, and said: "Lord Gou was conscientious, and personally led the officials to fight with the thief, but the jailer did not do well, and was deceived by the thief and escaped. ”

The dog official waved his hand and pretended to say: "Don't dare to be, this is the duty of this official."

These words were all listened to by Yan Ning on the side, and he said in his heart: "What a dog official, not only corrupt and pervert the law, but now he also bribes and shirks responsibility, these people are a nest of snakes and rats, and they are simply not worthy of being officials." Pity the old jailer, and still take the blame for them until he dies, it's really a cold death. I just don't know where Brother Wei fled at this moment. ”

The dog officer ordered a few more men to carry out the body of the dead jailer, and they all went away.

Yan Ning saw that the dog officials were gone, and as soon as she wanted to get up, she found that she was weak, and she hadn't eaten for three days. He wanted to ask the jailers to give him some food, but when he thought of the torture these people had tortured him for the past few days, he was so angry that he would rather be hungry than call someone.

He had not eaten for many days, and his body was weak, so he had to lie on the ground so that he could feel better. Lying down, he suddenly thought of the mantra that Wei Chenfeng taught him yesterday, and he found that after reciting that mantra last night, although he was tortured by the severe cold and scorching true qi, the follow-up dantian warm current made him feel pleasing to his eyes.

He sat up cross-legged and recited yesterday's mantra, and after a while, a breath of qi emerged from the dantian, and it was divided into two strands of cold and extremely hot qi, which were respectively converging to the nine acupuncture points of the Shaoyin Heart Sutra of the left and right hands, and the two qi rushed from the Jiquan acupoint to the Shaochong acupoint, without stagnation, and the cold qi on the left carried a cold wind, which made Yan Ning's left body tremble; The extremely hot qi on the right carried a wave of heat that swept through Yan Ning's right half of his body. The cold and hot air surprisingly took the middle of Yan Ning's nose bridge as the dividing line, and did not interfere with each other, but the cold and heat only rolled up on Yan Ning's body for a moment, and then dissipated, as the cold and heat dissipated, a warm current was born in the dantian again, and the warm current was not as fierce as the cold and hot air, but only slowly started from the dantian and slowly merged into the limbs.

The warm current passed through the wound, bringing a tingling sensation that made Yan Ning moan. Yan Ning kept reciting the mantra like this, shuttling back and forth in the cold and heat torture and warm current, and I don't know how long it took, the sound of footsteps came from outside the cell again.

I saw that the county commander and the big man in the biaofu led a group of officials to come, the group of officials were dejected, and lived up to their previous majesty, and the county commander of Gou spit and scolded angrily: "That thief's hands and feet are tied by the iron and iron cables, can he still fly?" Catch turtles in urns, catch turtles in urns, you wastes can't even catch a turtle, it's really annoying to me. ”

After scolding, the master followed and scolded, and the officials had to bear it.

Seeing the noise of the crowd, the big man in the big suit yelled violently and said: "Gou County Order, Master Liu, that thief has great powers, and now he doesn't know where he is, Xu has already fled from the city, you are so noisy, it will be useless, the thief is a murderer, if it weren't for the adult's extrajudicial mercy and sentenced him to exile, that person would have been beheaded in Qingzhou, and now the thief has escaped, if you can't find someone to deal with, presumably the two of you also know my Daxia law, and I lost the murderer on the way to escort it, which is a capital crime. That person was lost in Fengcheng Prison, and you two can't escape it. ”

When the county magistrate and Master Liu heard this, they were so frightened that they were frightened, and said in a trembling voice: "Master Li, how is this good?" ”

The man in uniform snorted coldly and said, "If I knew what to do, so many of us wouldn't be in this prison." ”

The county commander and the master sighed, and the officials also bowed their heads and were silent, and the big man said: "It's the end of the year, and I have to escort the thief to Yuzhou before the Mid-Autumn Festival next year. ”

Everyone didn't know what to do for a while, then Master Liu was pacing in that cell, and suddenly saw a person locked up in a cell, he sneered, and said: "Master Li, just now you said that you were going to escort the thief to Yuzhou for exile, can anyone in Yuzhou know the thief's appearance?" ”

The big man said: "Of course no one knows, the thief is from Qingzhou, but he is exiled, and no one knows if he wants to come to Yuzhou." ”

The master shouted heavily, and said, "That's right, Master Li, since no one knows the appearance of the thief, why don't we find another person and escort him to Yuzhou for exile, isn't this errand completed." ”

The big man in the big suit thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "To put it lightly, how to find that person?" ”

Master Liu pointed to the person in the cell in front of him and said, "That person is far away in the sky, close in front of him, and it is the person in front of him." ”

When the man in the big suit saw a person lying in the cell, he was overjoyed and asked, "Does this person have a background?" ”

Nagou County Commander said on the side: "This person offended our ruffian Chen Si a few days ago, who knew that Chen Si had a good brother-in-law, I couldn't afford to offend, so I had to punish this person, this person did not admit his guilt, I ordered someone to detain him here, Lord Li rest assured, we have checked this person, there are no relatives in the family, but he is a poor scholar." ”

If the man in the big suit got a treasure, the Gou County order made the door open, only to see the scholar in the cell leaning against the wall and meditating with his eyes closed, that person was Yan Ning.

Yan Ning saw this group of people go out to arrest Wei Chenfeng in the morning, and there was nothing to do, so she kept meditating and practicing, and suddenly felt that someone kicked her and kicked her to the ground.

As soon as Yan Ning opened his eyes, he saw that the dog officer was surrounding him with a group of people, and he didn't know what to do, he wanted to get up, but he found that he couldn't move, as if he was paralyzed.

An official saw him collapse to the ground, only when he was cowardly and timid, he shouted: "The county master is here, you kid still don't get up and bow down?" ”

Yan Ning wanted to open her mouth to speak, but found that she couldn't even squeeze out her voice. When the official saw that his eyes were open but his body was not moving, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to probe his snort, only to find that he was not dead, and kicked him again, shouting, "What are you doing pretending to be dead?" This kick hit Yan Ning, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, startling everyone.

What Yan Ning didn't know was that when he was practicing, he was kicked horizontally, which is the taboo of people who practice martial arts. Fortunately, Yan Ning's skills were shallow and he didn't have much internal strength, so he didn't die on the spot, but just collapsed slightly.

Yan Ning spit out the blood, and found that his body was able to move, but he was still weak, he saw the dog official looking at him condescendingly, thinking of the torture he had suffered in the past few days, he didn't want to be stared at like this, he held on to the wall with both hands, stood up, and said sadly: "You dog officials, you want to force me to confess again, and I, Yan Ning, would rather die than you wish." ”

The Gou County Commander sneered and said: "What a man who would rather die than obey, boy, if I didn't have a good heart and read that you were a scholar, I would have let people beat you to death by relying on you to contradict the master." ”

Yan Ning snorted, spat on Nagou County's face, and said angrily: "Why do I need your mercy, you people are corrupt and pervert the law, torture good people, and want to bend into a trick, even if you beat me to death, I will not admit my guilt." “

The Gou County Order was spat on the two by Yan Ning, and he said angrily: "You poor and sour, you don't know each other, come here, give me a hard beating." ”

The officials rushed up and punched and kicked Yan Ning, causing him to have a blue nose and swollen face, and he screamed in pain. After seeing that Yan Ning was silent, the Gou County Commander ordered everyone to retreat, stepped forward in person, and kicked Yan Ning in the lower abdomen, which made Yan Ning's stomach turn over and she wanted to vomit.

The master stared at Yan Ning, pointed to the big man beside him, and said: "That poor scholar, my master reads that you are a scholar, and has forgiven you for the sins committed by the county government before, and now you just need to obediently follow this official to go, and my master will not care about your sins." ”

Yan Ning snorted fiercely and said, "I'm innocent, why do you dog officials forgive me for my innocence." Seeing that the big man in Biao clothes stared at him with a pair of eyes, he felt a pang in his heart, and said secretly: "This person must be the official who escorted Brother Wei, and seeing that the official uniform he wore should be in the eighth grade, then Brother Wei didn't know what he had done, so he let such an official escort." ”

The big man in uniform stepped forward and lifted Yan Ning's whole person with one hand, and his strength was so great that the rest of the officials exclaimed again and again. The big man in the big suit pinched Yan Ning's face, and suddenly slapped it over, this slap was so powerful that it made Yan Ning dizzy, and the big man in the big suit said coldly: "Fuck you, you poor scholar is so disobedient, Lao Tzu, the person I am most unaccustomed to in my life is people like you, oil and salt don't enter, hum, it's a pity, you kid fell into my hands, you are good-looking." ”

Yan Ning was still unconvinced, and said angrily: "I can't imagine that you officials are all the same goods, embarrassed and traitorous, and brutalized civilians, where is the law of my Great Xia, where is the law of the king?" ”

Seeing that he was not convinced, the big man in Biaofu raised him and greeted him a few more times, and then casually put Yan Ning on the ground, and sneered: "Wang Fa? Hmph, Lao Tzu's fist is the king's law, Gou County's order, lock this person with iron shackles and chains for me, and I will take this person away tomorrow. ”

The county commander hurriedly instructed the officials on the left and right, and brought a pair of iron flails and iron cables from the depths of the cell, which had not been used for many years and was covered with rust. The officials firmly fastened the iron flail and iron rope to Yan Ning, and said with a cruel smile: "Boy, you just accept your fate, in the next life, cast a good tire." ”

Yan Ning wanted to resist, but he was slapped twice, and he was beaten so weak that he could only watch this group of evil ghosts torture himself with torture tools, he felt sad in his heart, and sighed: "Turning white and thinking black, and falling up and thinking down, how can there be justice in the world?" ”

When the dog officials saw this, they went to drink all day.

When the group of people dispersed, only Yan Ning was left in this cell and was paralyzed on the ground, he was bound by the iron flail and iron rope at this time, and he was unable to move, so he just lay on the ground in a daze, smelling the rotten and foul smell in this cell, and wanted to vomit, he had not eaten for a few days, and this vomit also vomited out the stomach water. He saw the snowflakes falling one by one outside the iron window, compared to a few days ago, the snow was falling, and he heard that the dog official said that today was the New Year's Day, thinking that the year was about to pass, and he was now in prison, trapped in this dark cell, he was sad for a while, and sighed: "It is useless to be a scholar, I have read the books of sages for more than ten years, and what I have learned is not to seek justice for all sentient beings?" I didn't expect to end up with such a fate now, it's really fateful. ”

On the second day, the big man in the biao suit came early with a group of officials, the big man in the biao suit walked in front, and the officials escorted Yan Ning to the horse farm.

The big man ordered someone to tie Yan Ning with a long rope, he straddled the horse and carried it back, holding the horse rope with one hand and the long rope with the other, and walked straight out of the city under the gaze of the officials.

When he didn't walk long, the big man in the big suit found that Yan Ning was walking behind, drowsy, and he shouted on horseback: "Poor sour boy, go fast for Lao Tzu, no matter how slow it is, be careful that Lao Tzu picks your skin." ”

Yan Ning didn't seem to hear it, his steps were heavy, and he walked slowly, the big man in uniform was angry, picked up the whip on horseback and whipped it, and the whip hit Yan Ning in the face, causing Yan Ning to snort and suddenly fall to the ground.

The big man in the big suit only thought that he was pretending to be dead, ignored him, snapped, urged the horse to gallop, the horse's feet were extremely fast, dragging the big man in the big suit on his back, and pulling Yan Ning, flying between the mountain roads and running. The big man in the big suit urged the horse to run for a while, and when he saw that no one behind him made a sound, he was busy and said that it was not good, this kid was not out of breath.

He dismounted and probed, and saw that Yan Ning still had a snort, but he had already fainted, he scolded, picked up a pot of water from the horse, and poured it on Yan Ning's head.

Yan Ning woke up in a daze, and when he saw the big man in uniform looking at him viciously, he was scared in his heart, but his mouth was thirsty and he couldn't speak.

The big man in the big suit scolded: "Damn, how could Lao Tzu be a poor scholar like you, with no two taels of meat all over your body, so thin as a girl, you have only walked two miles of fucking road, you slut can't do it, fuck you." ”

What the well-dressed man didn't know was that Yan Ning had not eaten for a few days since she was taken into prison that day, and she only drank a few sips of water, all of which were the water that fell from the snowflakes floating outside the prison. He was already hungry, but he couldn't speak at this time, so he had to point his finger at his stomach, and the big man in the big suit spit on Yan Ning's face, and scolded: "Fuck your bitch, you haven't eaten enough, Lao Tzu's things are not enough, and you still remember Lao Tzu's things." Although the big man in the big suit scolded in his mouth, he took out a bag of dry food from the horse, and handed the kettle to Yan Ning, Yan Ning picked up the kettle and drank it all, and swallowed the dry food in three or two, he was really hungry.

Yan Ning handed the kettle to the big man in uniform and said, "Thank you." ”

The big man in the big suit had an incredible expression, and said strangely: "I humiliated you like this, why do you come to thank me?" ”

Yan Ning shook his head and said, "I only thank you for your food, and it has nothing to do with your humiliation and scolding me." ”

The big man in the big suit snorted and scolded: "Don't come and get close to Lao Tzu." Then he carried Yan Ning on his back, and the two of them hit the road again.

The two hurried slowly, walked for more than a month, and arrived at Maling Mountain, saw a tea stall on the pipeline, the big man in the big clothes locked Yan Ning and the horse under the tree on the side, found a vacant seat, and shouted for the store to serve tea, the store responded, but the action was slow, and after waiting for a long time, it was brought a bowl of tea, and there were a few pieces of tea floating in the tea bowl, which was very shabby, and the big man in the big clothes said angrily: "Wu Na shop, grandpa, why is my tea so little?" ”

Seeing that the big man in Biaofu was wearing an official uniform, the shopkeeper didn't dare to offend, so he hurriedly apologized and said: "This official, I hope you will forgive your sins, it's not that the villain deliberately gave the official you less tea, it's really the villain who has something unspeakable." ”

The big man in the big suit sighed and said, "What's so hard to say? Tell me about it? ”

The shopkeeper bowed down and said: "Official, I see that you are from other places, I don't know if you come here, this is Maling Mountain, here is sparsely populated, the closest city from here is the Shen Ji in front, there is a large family in the Shen Ji, hands and eyes are all over the sky, controlling the tea within a radius of 100 miles, the Shen family used to be fine, although there is money, but it is also a good business, how much money is a tael of tea, how much silver is given; But who knows that since last year, the Shen family has changed, I was a small business, the terrain is remote, all the tea is planted by themselves, last summer, the Shen family came to the door, forcibly took away most of my tea, but gave half of the money in previous years, this is tantamount to a robbery, hey! ”

The big man in the big suit only sneered after hearing this, and said: "It turned out to be this bit of, I don't want to know, Lao Tzu has drunk your tea now, it doesn't taste much, hurry up and brew a bowl of strong tea for Lao Tzu, otherwise you will look good." ”

The shopkeeper was so frightened that he didn't dare to say much, and Yan Ning on the side heard the two of them talking, and said to the man in the same clothes: "That shopkeeper is just an ordinary person, he really has something unspeakable, didn't you just listen to him, the Shen family is arrogant and domineering, bullying the good people, where do you ask him to find tea for you?" How do you threaten him? ”

The big man in the big suit was angry, swung his whip towards Yan Ning, and said angrily: "Stinky boy, when will it be your turn to take care of Lao Tzu's affairs?" ”

Yan Ning didn't dodge or dodge, she was hit on the shoulder by this whip, she snorted in pain, but still said: "I have to take care of the injustices in this world." ”

The big man in the big suit was about to make a mockery, but he heard a young man dressed as a noble son at the next table say: "If there is an injustice in the world, you have to take care of it, I don't know what to call Brother Tai?" The noble prince saw that he was dressed in a rope prison uniform, but he did not shy away from it, and asked his name.

Yan Ning saw that the noble boy was dressed extraordinarily, although he was a prisoner, he didn't dislike it, he didn't expect that there were such characters in this wilderness, and he was about to answer, only to hear the man in uniform say: "Don't you see the prison uniform on him, he is a prisoner in Lao Tzu's hands, what are you doing?" ”

The noble prince was not angry, but smiled lightly: "This official is wrong, virtuous and foolish, not noble, although he is now a prisoner in your hands, he is not sure that one day he will be able to leap into the dragon gate and soar into the sky." ”

The virtuous and foolish are in the heart, not the noble and the lowly. Hearing this sentence in Yan Ning's heart, he only felt that if he met a confidant, his heart was sour, and the man in uniform sneered: "Hmph, who are you?" Dare to teach Lao Tzu a lesson. Leaping Dragon? He is now a dead fish in Lao Tzu's hands, and he can't jump anywhere. ”

There was no one in the eyes of this biaofu man, but the noble son arched his hand and said: "This official, this brother, Xiaosheng's surname is Shen, a single name is a compound word, Xiaosheng has just lost his words, and he contradicted this official, today's tea money will be paid by Xiaosheng, I hope this official is not strange." ”

When the man in the big suit saw him bow his head and admit his mistake, he didn't want to make more trouble, so he didn't say more. The noble boy drank all the tea in the bowl and turned away.

The shopkeeper brought two bowls of tea after a while, and the man in the big suit asked, "I only ordered one bowl of tea, why did you serve two bowls, do you want to buy and sell by force?" ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly waved his hand, pointed at Yan Ning and said: "This official, the prince ordered two bowls of tea before leaving, and he explained to you and the ~ that master one bowl each, and the boy has already paid the difference." ”

After the big man found out, he motioned to the shopkeeper to retreat, and then drank the two bowls of tea, Yan Ning said angrily on the side: "Why did you drink all the two bowls of tea, didn't you listen to the shopkeeper?" There's a bowl that's mine. ”

The big man in the big suit said angrily: "Fuck you, you cheap seed, you dare to come to beg for tea, Lao Tzu, it's good for me to feed you these days, you still want to be on an equal footing with Lao Tzu, I think you are impatient." As he spoke, he whipped Yan Ning a few more times, and he screamed in pain again and again.

The two walked for a few more days, and this day came to Shenji, when Chinese New Year's Eve was approaching, and the city was full of lights, and the big man in the costume did not want to alarm the local county government and regenerate the incident, so he found an inn to rest, locked Yan Ning in the guest room, and drank alone.

Yan Ning stood in front of the window, seeing that the window was locked, he looked through the thin layer of sandpaper on the window, and vaguely saw a group of people outside the door, placing a boat made of red paper by the river. He thought of his parents died early, all these years, he was alone through this year, in previous years was just lonely, now left Xuzhou, the scene in front of him is very strange, looking at the boat in the river fluttering, thinking that he is also like the boat, floating in the sea of dust, I don't know where to go, he felt uncomfortable, sighed: "I have long been like a gray wood, my body is like a boat that is not tied, where is home." ”