Volume B Wood no Immortal Life Chapter 23 The Great Prison Rises
The world is not the world of the royal family, but the world ruled by scholars and the royal family.
This is the common idea of the young Tai students, who take Li Ying, the lieutenant of Si Li, as a model for the corporal of the world, and bitterly criticize some bureaucrats who are unkind to the officials, and even some bold Tai students point the finger at the eunuchs in the palace, saying that they are the evil side and allow the party to turn the people upside down.
In fact, this world is really the world of Emperor Liu Zhi alone, and not even the eunuchs raised by the emperor can take a bite. The students were imprisoned one after another, and even affected the lieutenant Li Ying, who they relied on.
When Zhang Jiao and the others walked out of the bamboo forest, they ran into a group of prisoners who were escorted to Luoyang. After some inquiry, I found out that it was some officials and the clansmen of the Tai students.
"My old friend wouldn't do anything stupid." When Yu Ji heard the news from a caravan, he was so shocked that he almost didn't get the beard off his chin.
"Who? Brother. Zhang Jiao had never seen Yu Ji lose his temper so much, and he was even a little panicked when he looked at him.
"A friend of mine when I was young, a native of Pingyuan County, was named Xiangkai, and he was upright and strong. I once gave him a volume of the Taiping Sutra, hoping that he would not get involved in this mess. Yu Ji looked very worried, it seemed that this old friend had a very important place in his heart.
"I have read the "Taiping Sutra" written by my senior brother, and the heavenly kingdom of Huang Taiyi is too perfect, and even I hope to live in the heavenly kingdom of Huang Taiyi. Your old friend won't take the kingdom of heaven seriously, will he? Zhang Jiao was surprised.
"Of course that's false, when I was young, I fantasized about a perfect Datong society, so I wrote the life of the Taiping society into the Taiping Sutra. But my old friend was too naïve, and always thought that he could really build such a peaceful and prosperous world. Yu Ji sighed leisurely, looking at the birds flying in the sky, as if he was nostalgic for a fading faith.
"These students are too young to think that they can change the turbidity world with a few articles. But my old friend ......" Yu Ji said this, his eyes were a little blurred, he turned his head to look at Zhang Jiao, and asked hoarsely: "Do it knowing that you can't do it, are you wise?" ”
"If you don't do it, how can you know that you can't do it?" Zhang Jiaotou is very iron, quite a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.
Yu Ji pursed his lips tightly and said nothing, old tears were horizontal, cloudy tears dripped onto his beard, and he pointed to the escort team in the distance.
The men wore heavy chains around their necks, and their faces were dull and gray-faced, and they were reprimanded by some of the jailers.
Zhang Jiao's body was shocked when he saw this scene, and he couldn't speak.
"Let's hope nothing happens." Yu Ji sighed, and said to Zhang Jiao and the others: "If you want to go home, go home first, I will go to Luoyang, and I will go to Julu to find you in a few days." ”
"Senior brother, be careful." Zhang Jiao shouted at Yu Ji, who left in a hurry after speaking.
Walking in the world with Zhang Jiao's Taoism is enough to protect himself, so Yu Ji is not too worried.
After leaving his hometown for two months, Zhang Jiao also missed his family, so he quickly went to Julu with his two younger brothers.
The three of them had only walked a hundred miles, and along the way, they saw more than a dozen teams escorting prisoners, all of whom were members of the clan of some Tai students, or officials and their clansmen who had suppressed eunuch henchmen.
"Ah Bao Ah Liang, let's save this team!" After Zhang Jiao and the others walked for a while, they found an escort team again, but this time Zhang Jiao couldn't bear it anymore, because he saw an acquaintance - the former Julu County Guard.
The county guard was now being held in a prisoner's car, ragged and disheveled. A terrible wound stretched from his neck to his waist and abdomen, and a richly dressed young man outside the prison car was whipping him with a whip.
"You little dog official, you dare to bully me and others, wait until you get to the Marquis of Gaoxiang, see if you are still so hard-boned!" The fair-skinned young man looked hideous, and spat on the county guard.
"You...... You eunuch... Goods, morning and evening... Come to a sticky end! The county guard coughed up a large ball of blood, his gray beard became bloody, and his fingers trembled and pointed at the young man.
When the eunuch heard this, he was so angry that he was about to raise his hand and whip again, when suddenly a strong wind rose in the wasteland, dark clouds covered the sky, yellow dust rose all over the sky, and thunder surged in the sky, which frightened the eunuch into shock.
"Hahaha, you eunuch! Retribution, haha... You see, heaven does not allow you to wait for this kind of pickled goods for the wicked! The county guard looked excited, coughed up blood, his messy and mottled white hair was blown up by the wind, his bloody hands were wearing chains and shook the cage vigorously, ignoring the blood flowing from the wounds on his body, and scolded the eunuch with a hideous face.
"Old dog, shut up ......" The eunuch was just about to whip, and a thunderbolt slashed down and killed him.
At the same time, the rest of the escort soldiers were all controlled by Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang's spell, fainted on the ground and vomited blood, unconscious.
"Marden-sama is all right!" Zhang Jiao smashed the cage with one palm, and hurriedly held the dying county guard.
"Little... Immortals! The Julu County Guard looked at Zhang Jiao and felt in a trance, as if nothing had happened between heaven and earth, only the eunuch died on the side, his clothes were intact, but his body had become a charred corpse.
"Don't speak, I'll heal you first." Zhang Jiao opened the chains, reached out to probe the pulse of the county guard, and was taken aback, his pulse was weak and weak, his breath was weak, and there were several fractures on his body, and he was in danger of dying at any time.
Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang also saved the rest of the people and began to treat some of the more seriously injured.
"Little... Immortals... I don't have much to do, I'm too badly injured, save... I can't save it, you promise me......" With blood on his wrist, the county guard grabbed Zhang Jiao's arm and tried to speak.
"You say..."Zhang Jiao first used the bone transformation technique to connect the bones for him, and the Qi of heaven and earth poured into his wounds, but found that his soul fire was swaying, and the life essence was passing, and he felt powerless for a while, and then used the spiritual eye technique to probe his body, and found that several heart veins were broken, probably because he saw that the eunuch could not die well, and the spirit was agitated in the center of the cage.
"Help...... I take care of... Clansman. Pro... Before you go, watch the eunuch be taken by the little fairy... Punishment, old man... No regrets. As he spoke, blood kept pouring out of his mouth, but he looked at Zhang Jiao with a relieved smile on his face, and his pupils gradually dilated.
Dozens of family members behind the "old man......" looked at the old man who was slowly put down by Zhang Jiao, all of them were in tears, mourning, and even a young man walked tremblingly.
Zhang Jiao took care of the old man's appearance very seriously, and took off all his ragged clothes, revealing bloody scars all over his body.
Zhang Jiao's expression was solemn, and he turned into a bowl of talisman water and gently wiped it on the old man's body, so that all those wounds healed. Then he took out a set of clothes and gently put them on for the old man, moving gently, as if he was afraid of waking up a sleeping old man.
"Why is this happening?" Zhang Jiao put down the old man's corpse and asked the young man kneeling on the old man's body in a low voice, feeling very uncomfortable, a respectable old man was tortured to death by a eunuch like this.
"That Deng Wentao is the eunuch in the palace Gao Xianghou Zhang Lan's person, his brother Deng Baixiang took advantage of his power and bought a Julu county guard, the day before my father's abdication, that Deng Baixiang's son robbed the people's daughter, killed people on the street, my father is the law, beheaded him......" The young man looked sad, his eyes were lost, and he said here Take a deep breath, and then continue to speak slowly.
"So... So Deng Baixiang and Deng Wentao framed my father for recruiting Xiang Yong with the intention of rebellion, because my father was a subordinate of Lord Li Ying, and he was falsely accused of being a member of the party... Can... Poor my father was an honest official all his life, but he was ... Falsely accused of being a party member... Murdered by an adulterer...", the young man could not stop crying at this point.
Zhang Jiao patted him on the back, turned the prisoner car into a coffin, gently picked up the old man's body, and put it in.
"Little immortal, let's go...... We are all prisoners of the imperial court, don't bother you..."The young man saluted gratefully to the three Zhang Jiao brothers, and then said.
"I've promised him that I'll settle you down, don't worry." Zhang Jiao looked at the old man lying quietly, and said to the young man without looking back, his voice was very firm.
"Although the world is big, there is no place for us to live, the little immortals are kind, but there is no need to burden our family for unknown people such as us." The young man looked unbearable.
"Needless to say, I will send you to Jingzhou, where there are some of my old people, who were also homeless, and I will definitely settle you."
During the exchange, Zhang Jiao learned that the county shou was originally a member of the Wei family, a large family in Huiji County, Jiangnan, named Wei Fan, and this young man was the youngest son of Lord Wei, named Wei Zisheng, and his two elder brothers had been beaten to death by the eunuch named Deng Wentao in Julu.
Zhang Jiao and the three of them first turned some runes into water to heal everyone's injuries, and then buried the old man on the spot and built a simple tomb. The rescued family members all worshipped, and Wei Zisheng even took a sharp stone, cut off Deng Wentao's scorched head, and put it in front of his father's grave.
As for the soldiers who had passed out, Zhang Jiao tied them up and threw them into a nearby village.
"Big brother, why don't you kill those people, they must be innocent in normal times, they are used to bullying people, you see that the family members of the county guard are also tortured and covered with scars." Zhang Bao's face was flushed, he saw such a tragedy when he first set foot in the world, and his heart was very uneasy, and he was upset that a righteous official suffered such injustice.
"Yes, big brother, many people have injuries on their bodies that they whipped." Zhang Liang, who has always been gentle and simple, also had red eyes, looked at the lonely tomb in the wilderness, and said with resentment.
"I hope they can remember this lesson for a long time......," Zhang Jiao said leisurely, and he couldn't bear to kill again.
Zhang Jiao took out a few runes to hide the traces of the tomb, and left Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to wait for more than a dozen family members of the county guard in the same place, and went to the nearby city to buy a few carriages.
Zhang Jiao placed everyone on the carriage, and placed the magic talisman and the concealment talisman on the body, and began to march in the direction of Jingzhou.
Zhang Jiao opened his eyes and looked back at the faint soul fire floating towards the east, feeling infinite sorrow in his heart.
"This damn world!" Zhang Jiao remembered the kingdom of heaven built by his senior brother in the "Taiping Sutra", and saw the endless unjust cases living in the land of the Han Dynasty, he only felt extremely angry, leaving two lines of tears floating in the air.
"Do we and other sentient beings only deserve to die unjustly...?"