Imperial Prison, Torture Chamber.

In the gloomy room, the walls were covered with all kinds of terrible torture instruments, and the smell of blood that could not be washed away lingered faintly around.

What is quite strange is that a man in prison uniform is sitting on the Taishi chair with a golden sword.

Two jailers with knives, one old and one young, stood in front of him.

"Doing this well for this prince is indispensable for the benefit of his father and son."

Zhu Gaoxu said blandly, casually untied the goldfish bag around his waist and threw it over.

The old jailer's stubble was already white, he took the goldfish bag, weighed it lightly in his palm, and immediately smiled.

And the young jailer beside him with a meaty face almost popped out his greedy eyes.

"Daddy."

The old jailer glared at his son, took the goldfish bag into his arms, and assured Zhu Gaoxu with a smile on his face.

"Your Highness, rest assured, the little guy has been in charge of this business since the Hongwu Dynasty, and there will be no mistakes."

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the young jailer and impatiently ordered, "Your son is a reckless ...... Be careful and don't mess up. ”

In normal times, Zhu Gaoxu would not be so verbose, but he would not have looked at such a jailer.

But after all, this time is different from the past, Zhu Gaoxu is in the edict prison, and he can use others, and the key is that Jiang Xinghuo is also involved, so he has a few more sentences.

Yes, as the date of the death penalty approached, Zhu Gaoxu planned to rescue Jiang Xinghuo.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't watch Jiang Xinghuo die, even if Jiang Xinghuo was already looking forward to that day.

Let's not say that Zhu Gaoxu is a person who attaches great importance to feelings...... Well, in other words, not so rational people.

Jiang Xinghuo, as the only teacher he admitted, is an existence that Zhu Gaoxu respects very much, and is also a teacher and friend.

Even from the perspective of interests, Jiang Xinghuo, who has a terrifying planning ability, will be the most powerful mastermind for Zhu Gaoxu to make up for his shortcomings and compete for the position of prince.

Zhu Gaoxu knows very well what his weaknesses are.

Compared with his eldest brother Zhu Gaochi, the people he has befriended are all generals in the army, and he can fight the world, but he can't rule the world.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo must not die!

But Jiang Xinghuo committed the great crime of Zhu Lian of the Ten Clans, and the death penalty was personally written by Emperor Yongle, Zhu Gaoxu pondered that he went to intercede with his father with a shy face, and his father didn't know Jiang Xinghuo, and he didn't know how valuable he was, so he would definitely not open the net.

This is also easy to understand, Fang Xiaoru has a wide range of disciples, and there are hundreds of people in the Tenth Clan, why should he pardon a Jiang Xinghuo alone?

So Zhu Gaoxu chose a low-cost and quick-acting method - risking death.

At the end of the current troubled times, don't say that it is a nameless corpse that died in the wild, even in the city of Nanjing, there will always be beggars and swordsmen whose causes of death are unknown.

All in all, for Zhu Gaoxu, who has hands and eyes in the sky, there is no shortage of suitable corpses for impostor, and the rest is to get rid of the jailers.

Generally speaking, if someone suddenly dies in prison within three days before the death penalty, it will definitely attract the attention of the department.

And the further time passes, the lower the probability of being easy to show your feet.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu did not plan to wait, and planned to do it tonight.

Sent the jailer who specialized in this kind of personal deed, Zhu Gaoxu personally carried the food box to Jiang Xinghuo's cell, and the guards only ignored it, and even took the initiative to take off the key on his waist and help him open the iron door of the cell.

Zhu Gaoxu saw Jiang Xinghuo lying on the straw pile, his eyes looking directly at the roof of the cell, as if he was pondering something.

"What is Mr. Jiang thinking?"

"I'm thinking about what life really means."

Of course, life is meaningful, but isn't there any point in striving to be the emperor? Zhu Gaoxu said in his belly.

But he didn't dare to say this in front of Jiang Xinghuo, you must know that his current identity is still the defeated general of the Southern Army "Gao Yu", not Zhu Gaoxu, the second prince of Emperor Yongle.

Otherwise, if he changed his real identity, Jiang Xinghuo would not tell him some words, and Zhu Gaoxu could not guarantee it.

"Let's eat first."

Zhu Gaoxu took out the food box, the dishes inside were still steaming, obviously just ready to be delivered.

Chicken breast with bamboo shoots, sake lees, fish with frozen ginger vinegar, sorrel, boiled pork, salted duck, boiled vegetables, rice and gravy, and a dessert platter such as Langya halva.

In the end, Zhu Gaoxu found another jar of sealed wine, and there were still some traces of soil on the jar.

With a "poof", Zhu Gaoxu pulled out the mud that sealed the wine bottle.

Jiang Xinghuo twitched his nose hard, came to his senses, and rolled over.

"What wine? It tastes so good. ”

Zhu Gaoxu poured a bowl and handed it to Jiang Xinghuo.

"When I was a baby, I stole it from my grandfather and hurriedly dug a pit and buried it. At that time, my father came to look for me, and I felt that the matter was exposed, so I sat on the ground and didn't dare to move my buttocks, but my father thought that I had pulled my pants on the ground and beat me hard. ”

Jiang Xinghuo drank two sips of wine, it was fragrant in his throat, and he didn't feel anything in his stomach, and it became spicy after a while.

"Your father...... It seems to be a stick education. ”

"Lao Qiu Ba, he licked blood from the knife when he was young, and his temper is naturally not good."

Chatting about these things, Zhu Gaoxu didn't care, but asked: "What about Mr. Jiang, how did Mr. Jiang's father treat you when he was a child?" ”

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it, took a bite of food and replied, "It's good, both parents are complete, so I miss it very much...... It's just that I haven't been back for too long now, and the appearance in my memory is a little blurry, and I even need to think about it before I can remember who my parents are, what I have done, and who I am. ”

pinched a piece of Langya halva, Jiang Xinghuo put it in his mouth and chewed for a while, it was very crispy and non-sticky, crunchy.

"When I was a kid, I loved seaweed peanuts, well, you must have never seen peanuts, a big bean, and this texture, crunch. Once I was chewing and playing at the same time, I suddenly felt something wrong in my mouth, and spit out a tooth-like fragment, thinking that the tooth had fallen out, which frightened me, and later found out that it was dental calculus, well, it is tartar. ”

Zhu Gaoxu listened while eating with his head bored, and finally commented: "Mr. Jiang was timid when he was a child, and I took my third brother to fight with those noble cubs, and I was not afraid of being killed with eight teeth. ”

Jiang Xinghuo lazily leaned on the side of the bed made of straw, tilting his head and pouring wine.

Eating and drinking like this, Jiang Xinghuo also began to say some sighs that Zhu Gaoxu couldn't understand.

"In fact, I sometimes think that if a person disappears, it may be similar to the fluttering wings of a cicada or the falling leaves of a tree to the world, silent and insignificant, and may only live in the memory of the person concerned."

“…… I am like a traveler across the ocean, the sea is vast, and the lonely boat passes through one scenery after another, which is still a little fresh at first, and then helpless. ”

"It's not that I'm cold about life, it's not that I'm sad, I'm just losing patience, I don't even have the patience to get up, I just want to lie down."

"I've been too far from shore in my life, and I don't know if I'll be able to return to my hometown, so that occasionally I lose control of my emotions and cry out hoarsely for help in front of the sea, which is like saying goodbye to ......"

The two of them each spoke their own words and talked for a long time.

Zhu Gaoxu also drank too much, watching the drunk Jiang Xinghuo being dragged out by the old jailer, and a corpse was dragged in.

Then passing by the young jailer, Zhu Gaoxu staggered back to his cell and fell asleep.