Theoretically speaking, the edict is the prison of the Son of Heaven, and the main force in the edict prison are all officials who have committed crimes.

For these relatively high-level prisoners, of course, the standard of treatment is higher, and the stipulation is that each prisoner has one liter of rice per day, and in case of cold and freezing seasons, he will also be given a jacket and cotton pants.

But this is theoretically, there is a way for people not to break the law, and it is not a person to break the law. The salary of the Ming Dynasty was too meager, and those who were officials and officials tried their best to make money.

Everywhere the prison cells are allocated by the official warehouse, but the officials and the prison guards will never give the prisoners the good rice in the official warehouse.

They are all sold well, and then buy the cheapest old moldy rice, the rice grains are yellow and black, and there are all kinds of insect eggs, and the diarrhea in the stomach is light, and it is food poisoning.

Those who can eat all the moldy rice are considered conscientious, but when they encounter those who have no conscience, they are mixed with half of the broken millet and rotten bran.

And in prisons of the highest standard, such as the Imperial Prison, this meal is also quite unbearable, and through the cracks in the untied cover, you can see that there are many small black dots mixed in the rice inside.

Rice with worms, in fact, is quite good, at least not to the extent of the most unconscionable.

The thick doors of the Hell were opened.

Hundreds of brocade guards and hundreds of households lit torches, step by step down the stone steps of this dark prison, Xia Yuan sat at the door with a calm face, but saw that the stone path inside was deep, like a demon who chose people to devour, waiting for people to enter with a bloody mouth, only the oil lamp on the wall was dim.

Immediately, those lights were also covered by a brocade guard who walked in, turned a stone path, turned to another stone path, and went all the way down, this is the real meaning of the edict.

Four stone walls, full of stones, and stone slabs on top.

This is already more than a foot underground, and there is no sunlight at all, and the climate in Jingshi is extremely dry, but it is dark and damp here. There was even a thick layer of moss growing on the stone walls on all sides.

In such a place, if a person is locked up in it, he will not be punished, and as the days go by, he will be weak and sick.

In addition to the smell of blood and rancidity, hundreds of brocade guards scattered when they entered the prison, interrogating the two rows of cells one by one.

"Stomp Pedal Pedal

There was the sound of stomping on the ground throughout the prison, the sound of pairs of spike boots stepping on the stone ground, followed by the sound of inaudible and deep questions.

Zhao Fugui was awakened by these voices and opened his bloodshot eyes.

It was a cell in the depths of the Imperial Prison, there was no light in the prison, the floor was covered with rotten straw, and he looked hard with his eyes open, and there was a double shadow in his eyes, as if there were countless shadows of fire flickering far away.

For more than two months, they have been locked up in this most horrific prison, no one has cared about them since the day they came in, no one has interrogated them, and Zhao Fugui doesn't even know what crime he has committed.

The sound was getting closer

"Bang!"

Two brocade guards with torches kicked the door with their feet, "Is there anyone in there who can gasp, there is a gasping sound!" ”

Zhao Fugui subconsciously shrank back, but he ran into his wife, and touched the wife who had already rotted.

The housemother of the Zhao family, Zhao Lin's stroke was imprisoned in the No. 1 Prison of the Ming Dynasty before it was healed, and finally she didn't survive and died a month ago.

Even his daughter, Zhao Yueru, didn't know whether she was dead or alive at this time.

Opening his dry throat, Zhao Fugui first ho-ho twice, and then hoarsely said, "Yes"

"Let me ask you, your surname is Zhao, your name is Zhao Fugui, and your family of three is locked up here?"

"Yes"

Hearing this, the two brocade guards glanced at each other and shouted behind them: "Come here, people have found it, bring the key and open the door of this cell!" ”

The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded, and the flickering firelight in the distance came from far and near, which were hundreds of brocade guards, reflected by the firelight, everyone's face was dim, and it was flickering with the firelight.

Soon someone took out the key and opened the lock of the door, and the door was opened.

No one shackled them, no one went in, only one brocade guard knocked on the fence with his scabbard, "If you can move, you can come out by yourself!" ”

Zhao Fugui supported his weak body and wanted to stand up, but he fell to the ground again, and immediately crawled forward like a dog, "Yes, but the villain's daughter is afraid that she can't move, so I ask a few adults to do well."

One of the hundred households said: "A few people went in to carry him, and then carried his daughter out, and what wife he had, he also carried it out." ”

A group of brocade guards look at me, I look at you, no one wants to move, seeing this, the hundred households shouted: "They are all stunned, I have mistaken the matter of that adult, beware of you and lock you up for a few days!" ”

Hearing this, only a dozen brocade guards immediately went in, two people picked up Zhao Fugui, and the rest of them were carrying torches, and then one of them spat and scolded: "It's really damn bad luck, it's all maggots!" ”

"This one looks like it's just dead. Still a little angry. ”

"Bang bang." The hundred households knocked on the fence with their scabbards, "Don't care if the fuck is angry or not, carry them all out." ”

Hearing this, several of the lowest-ranking lieutenants in brocade had to reluctantly take out the handkerchiefs from their arms, tie them to their faces to cover their mouths and noses, and take out gloves from the leather bags around their waists, put them on their hands, and then began to carry the mother and daughter.

Gloves, handkerchief. Based on these two things alone, it can be seen that these brocade guards stationed in the Imperial Prison often do this kind of thing to carry corpses.

In the deep prison, Zhao Fugui was held by two brocade guards and limped away, "Two adults, I don't know, I don't know if I can tell me, what are you taking the villain to do?" ”

"There's an adult up there, maybe I'm here to save you out."

The answer of the Jinyi guard next to him was not very certain, they were just the captain of the Jinyi, they were just ordered to do things, where would the dispatch from above tell them.

But this sentence made Zhao Fugui feel hopeful, but then this hope was dimmed again, the adults above, where did he know any adults above.

After passing through the slowly ascending stone paths, I finally saw the light, and it was the light that had seen the light of day again.

After two months in the dark edict prison that did not see the light of day, seeing such a light, Zhao Fugui only felt dazzling, and his eyes hurt, but he tried to open his eyes wide, almost greedily to see the light.

People yearn for light, no matter what happens for a while, even if you can take a more look at this light, it is good.

Getting closer and closer to the light, Zhao Fugui's bloodshot eyes turned, and he saw a Taishi chair at the exit, and next to him stood a few tall Jinyi Wei Baihu, bending down to say something to the person sitting on the chair, with a somewhat cautious demeanor.

The person sitting on the chair was wearing a big red over-the-shoulder unicorn suit, a very gorgeous brocade robe, and a large unicorn embroidered on his chest, like a dragon, and there were also many unicorn patterns everywhere, as well as a lot of cloud sea patterns.

Seeing such a robe, Zhao Fugui's heart trembled, and he hurriedly moved his gaze down humbly, but he couldn't help but glance up.

It was a very young, handsome face.

The face is somewhat familiar.

He couldn't take his eyes off it.

When it got closer, that face coincided with a face in his memory, Zhao Fugui squirmed his shriveled lips a few times, "Thank you for saving your life"

(End of chapter)