Chapter Ninety-Four: The White Duck
Before Lin Xixue walked down the stone steps, a dark and damp smell of mold hit her, and she couldn't help but hold her breath.
I don't know if it's because there is not enough oil or oxygen, the oil lamp in the prison is almost extinguished, and the dim light makes it difficult to see.
The prisoners on death row leaned numbly against the stone walls, not seeming to be interested in who was coming, after all, no one would come except the jailers.
But Lin Xixue saw the appearance of these "death row prisoners".
Except for the innermost room, where a middle-aged man with a scarred face was closed, the rest of the cells were all closed up by teenagers and girls.
The youngest looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old, and the oldest was seventeen or eighteen.
Lin Xixue looked at these teenagers and girls with yellow faces, thin muscles, withered hair, and obvious malnutrition, and only felt that they had to work hard to even kill chickens, how could they be some kind of vicious murderers?
Lin Xixue frowned, walked to a cell, and asked the young man, "What crime have you committed?" ”
The young man just glanced at her coldly, without any intention of continuing to communicate, and continued to sleep with Erlang's legs crossed, as if he was completely unaware that he was about to be beheaded.
Lin Xixue had even more doubts in her heart, and said nonsense: "I have to follow the imperial history and tour this place, if you tell the truth, I may be able to help you avenge your grievances." ”
It's not that Lin Xixue is nosy, she has to get to the bottom of it, it's just that the materials she handed over to the City God's Temple must be genuine.
If these teenagers and girls are just wronged, but they are not really vicious people, then their facial features are obviously useless, and it is just a waste of time to induce the emotions of a fake murderer by themselves.
When the time comes, Miao Zhu sees that the materials are not right, and he will stop picking and drying, and he will directly delay Xu Zhiyi's treatment.
"Kill." The boy coped with some impatience.
"Heh", Lin Xixue sneered and asked, "Who did you kill, what grievances did you have with this person, and what murder weapon did you use?" ”
"What kind of shit do I care about you, in short, you don't meddle here and are nosy, I have food and drink here, and my life is very moisturized, and I still need you to make noise?"
The young man scolded Lin Xixue, then turned over, faced the wall and fell asleep again.
Lin Xixue couldn't notice the strangeness in it, the prisoners on death row were clearly going to be beheaded after the autumn, but this young man was not afraid.
Could it be that someone lied to this young man and made him think that he would leave alive?
"I'll tell you the truth, all the prisoners in this prison are going to be beheaded after the autumn, and there is no chance of going out at all, if someone deceives you with this, you can tell the truth."
Although Lin Xixue's words came out, the young man was still calm and unhurried, and he did not look nervous at all.
Could it be that I was mistaken? In the troubled times, this young man has not received a good education, let alone the slightest sense of the rule of law, and it may really be possible to do this kind of thing when he is emotional.
The logic advanced to this point, and somehow, she suddenly thought of Chu Liang again in the peaceful and prosperous world, didn't there be such a thing as Chu Liang?
The moment the name Chu Liang appeared in her mind, the scenery around her began to flicker again, and the wooden prison in front of her suddenly turned into a stainless steel railing.
Chu Liang was sitting in the cell, handcuffed, with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth, although he didn't say a word, but the mockery was fully revealed, and he made it clear that he had an expression of "what can you do to me".
She only felt an uncontrollable anger welling up in her heart, the cage of reason was broken in an instant, she reached into the void, and held the light tightly to break the night.
The scholar's face, which was originally a little weak, was also full of ferocity at the moment.
Calm down, calm down, Chu Liang is a fictitious character created by Tianzun, the purpose is to lure himself to lose his mind, how can he still take it seriously?
She closed her eyes and let out a few heavy breaths, her hand holding the scabbard relaxed slightly.
That's right, Chu Liang was made up by Tianzun. The premise of Chu Liang's existence is that his mother is dead, but his mother can't be dead, and his mother is alive and well, so Chu Liang must be a fiction made up by Tianzun.
That's the case, it must be like this, Chu Liang doesn't exist at all!
Her mind gradually stabilized, the mosaic around her gradually disappeared, the harsh sound of electricity in her ears gradually faded into nothingness, and the stainless steel railing turned back into a wooden fence.
She retracted her hand into her sleeve robe and clenched it, and after completely adjusting her mentality, she went to ask the rest of the teenagers and girls, and the answers she got were all very similar.
Lin Xixue immediately determined that there was definitely something strange about this matter.
It's not that these teenagers and girls can't commit crimes, it's just that the age distribution of the murderers on death row is completely unreasonable, and all of them are vague about the crimes they have committed, which is strange if it is okay.
Since these teenagers and girls are unwilling to tell the truth, then ask someone who can tell the truth, such as the Yunzhou Mansion in this city.
Anyway, now that he is wearing a mask of three feelings, no one can recognize him, and he directly holds a knife to force him to tell the truth, which is simple and rude.
Even if these teenagers and girls are not real murderers, then according to the words of the government officials, if they find the real mastermind, they are finally murderers, and they can still obtain materials when the time comes.
Just do it, Lin Xixue immediately decided to leave the death row and go to the government to ask for clarification.
But just as she was about to leave, the scarface man in the innermost cell stopped her: "Shoulder to shoulder, which line did you take?" ”
"What?" Lin Xixue turned around and asked puzzled.
Seeing her answer like this, the scar-faced man was also stunned, and asked suspiciously: "Isn't it a brother on the road?" ”
"It's not." Only then did Lin Xixue understand that what he said was a bandit's black talk.
The predecessor was separated from his family because of banditry and fell into a stone cave, Lin Xixue naturally couldn't have any good feelings for this kind of person, and he had to leave without waiting for the scar-faced man to say anything.
"Brother and slow, since you are not a person on the road, why did you sneak into this death row and pretend to be a messenger to help this gang of white ducks avenge their grievances?" Scarface quickly stopped her.
"White Duck? What does this mean? ”
"Brother, didn't you stand out for this group of white ducks? So what are you doing in this dungeon? ”
“......”
Lin Xixue was speechless for a while, unable to find any suitable reason, but after thinking about it, why did she explain her purpose to a bandit.
"It has nothing to do with you, you can tell me what a white duck is."
"The white duck is the one who kills his life and takes the blame."
"Confessing to the crime? They themselves know that they will die? ”
"There are also some who have been tricked, but in fact, most of them know that they are going to lose their heads, and a head for a family for several years of food and clothing, for many parents, this is a good deal."
"Why don't these white ducks cry out for injustice?" Lin Xixue didn't understand why she didn't cry out if she was sold by her parents.
The Scarface man shook his head with a smile, and said, "These white duck parents have cooperated with the real murderer to make an iron case, what's the use of shouting injustice." ”
Lin Xixue frowned, she originally thought that the auxiliary materials for sneaking into the Heavenly Prison to obtain the Seven Emotions Mask should be as simple as probing for things, but she didn't expect it to be so troublesome.
However, even if these white ducks are innocent, this scarface man is not innocent, and he can take one piece.
She asked, "What about you, what did you do to get in?" ”
The Scarface man slammed his fist against the wall and sighed: "Don't mention it, I don't know which brother on the road robbed Yan Yu's private house a while ago." ”
"It may be that I usually do too much to rob the rich and help the poor, but this dog official actually thinks that I did it without investigating it clearly. Mobilize a few people to capture me, and in a few days I will be escorted to Beijing. ”
Hearing "Yan Yu's private house was stolen", Lin Xixue only felt that a key word flashed in her mind.
Her face twitched a few times imperceptibly, and she said embarrassedly: "You are right about Yan Yu, where is his private house......