After the warden finished speaking, he left in high spirits.

The prison guard with a gloomy face began to introduce himself: "I am the head of the Northern District Guardianship Section of the four major wards of Stanley Prison, and my name is Chen Guoxiong. You bastards are lucky to be assigned to my ring. Follow me. ”

The red boy whispered to Liang Kun: "Brother Kun, this bastard has been cut outside, so he is very cruel to us in distress, we all call him 'Crow' - hearing him call, it must be no good." ”

……

Following the crow to the North District, according to the number of empty beds in each prison barn, the crow casually assigned this group of "freshmen" to various "classes", and ordered: "Put your things away in three minutes, and then return to the playground to assemble." ”

Liangkun took a straw mat, pillow, quilt, basin, towel, cup, and toothbrush and walked into the prison assigned to him.

Several acquaintances were assigned to the same prison as Liangkun.

As soon as he entered the prison warehouse, Silly Qiang volunteered to worship the dock and report the number - of course, he reported the name of Liangkun.

As a result, as a large community in Hong Kong, Liang Kun received preferential treatment from the "head board" - the upper bunk of the upper and lower bunks at the entrance of the prison warehouse. This is a treasure of feng shui, you must know that the toilet in the prison is in the innermost, and there is no flush toilet.

Liangkun's lower bunk is stupid and strong.

As for Red Boy, Lawyer Chen and others, they were not so good, and were directly assigned to the bunk beds closest to the toilet.

……

Put your things away, go back to the playground, and squat down to listen to the crows.

After the crow finished speaking, he took a roll call, and the prisoners who had just ordered a drink were ordered, "The people who were ordered should go to the rattan room to beat the rattan." ”

"Rattan" means flogging. Flogging has existed in ancient China. The flogging in Hong Kong is derived from British customary law. In the early years, the British colonists used flogging to deal with criminals in India and other colonies, and later introduced them to Hong Kong under the pretext that "although Chinese prisoners are not afraid of death, they are most afraid of physical pain". In 1865, Hong Kong enacted legislation stipulating that prisoners in custody and those who used violence against others could be sentenced to public flogging in addition to ordinary sentences.

- By contrast, as early as 1721, Frederick I, Elector of Prussia, decreed that torture could only be decided after he had personally examined the case. In 1754, Frederick II (Frederick the Great) abolished torture altogether.

In 1734, Sweden became the first country to abolish torture in any form and for any purpose.

In 1738, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (later annexed to Italy) abolished torture.

In 1769~1776, torture was abolished in Australia.

In 1786, torture was abolished throughout Italy.

In 1794, torture was abolished in the Netherlands.

In 1801, torture was abolished in Russia, which had long been regarded as the "dirt of Europe".

In Hong Kong, the "rattan beating" was mainly aimed at the Chinese, and the British often abused it for this, and the process of punishment often attracted large crowds of onlookers, and some died from injuries caused by flogging. In 1877, the British authorities in Hong Kong abolished the public flogging sentence and continued to carry it out in prisons.

It was only in the 1950s that the British authorities in Hong Kong, under the pressure of the anti-colonial wave in the world, strengthened supervision to prevent the abuse of "rattan beating", stipulating that prisoners under the age of 14 could not be whipped more than 6 times, under the age of 16 should not be whipped more than 12 times, and under the age of 21 should not be whipped more than 18 times. At the same time, prison correctional officers are given the discretion to decide whether or not to carry out "rattan beating".

The prisoners who were called all had incredulous expressions on their faces.

In particular, there is a prisoner known to Liangkun, who is a journalist named Cheng An.

The profession of a journalist is particularly easy to make people pretentious, what an uncrowned king, the "fourth power".

Cheng An was the reporter who stood across the road and filmed the moment when Liangkun waved the knife, and also arranged a front-page headline for Liangkun, with ironclad evidence, so that Liangkun couldn't even find someone to top the bag.

Cheng An caused Liangkun to go to prison, and Ni Kun stuffed a bag of Miss Bai into Cheng An's house with his backhand, and reported Cheng An to the Narcotics Bureau (abbreviation: NB).

Niu 13 coaxed Cheng An to explain the matter clearly, at most it was a misunderstanding, but he wanted to use force with the people of the Drug Investigation Bureau.

The people in the Drug Investigation Department are not used to Cheng An, although there is not enough evidence to prosecute Cheng An for drug possession, they still send Cheng An in to be with Liangkun for the crime of "assaulting the police".

Cheng An's magazine is also a small magazine, and at first he also wanted to mobilize public opinion to protect Cheng An, but Ni Kun sent someone to throw a few cauliflower snakes into the magazine, and they also died down.

It was also a coincidence, Cheng An was sent in at the same time as Liangkun.

Therefore, seeing Cheng An calling for a drink, Liangkun didn't remind him.

……

Walk into the rattan room.

The prison guard ordered: "13259, the judge sentenced you to beat Rokuto." You weigh one hundred and thirty pounds (an imperial unit of weight, about one hundred and twenty pounds), and you weigh a quarter and a half of a centimeter. ”

The rattan room will select the rattan according to the weight of the person, and "quarter and two centi" means that the diameter of the rattan is one quarter and two centimeters of the city size, which is 1.4 centimeters.

Watching the prison guard take out a rattan of the right thickness from the potion bucket and measure whether the diameter of the rattan meets the standard with a caliper, Cheng An's heart was furious.

Before performing the "rattan beating", the medical officer glanced Cheng An up and down, which was considered a physical examination - the purpose of the physical examination was to check the number of rattan flogs that the prisoner's body could withstand at one time.

At the beginning of the execution, the prison guard ordered: "Take off your clothes and pants, go over." ”

Cheng An followed the order, took off his prison uniform, stood on his bare buttocks, stood on his feet, and lay on a rectangular wooden frame, allowing the prison guards to tie his hands to the wooden frame with belts.

The rattan was in the hands of the prison guards, first making a sound of breaking the air, and then hitting Cheng An's ass with a snap.

Cheng An immediately let out a miserable scream, much louder than the sound made when he "opened the cabinet", crying for his father and mother, crying and crying, and it was extremely miserable.

After the whipping, the prison guards rested for three minutes, also for fear that the prisoners would not be able to bear it.

The medical officer immediately came up to take Cheng An's pulse. After taking the pulse, the medical officer nodded to the prison guard, signaling that Cheng An could continue to be tortured.

Three minutes after the halftime, Cheng An ate another rattan, which hurt him so much that he struggled, but the dead belt made him have nowhere to escape.

It wasn't until the end of the beating that the prison guards untied the belts that bound Cheng An's hands, and Cheng An was already in so much pain that he couldn't climb off the execution rack by himself.

The medical officer said while applying medicine powder to Cheng An's buttocks: "Now I will apply medicine powder to you to stop the bleeding." Take care of yourself and don't let your pants stick to the wound. You can rest assured, all the rattan has been soaked in potion beforehand, and it will not make your wound infected, but it will leave marks on your body, and it will take a long time to slowly fade. From today, for at least ten days, you don't want to sit or lie down, you have to lie on your stomach. ”