Chapter 40: Escape
"Miss Cheng didn't drink tea?"
After a while, the sturdy and stout female eunuch came over with a huge rattan basket full of charcoal, added some charcoal to the fire, looked at the teapot that did not move at all, and couldn't help but say.
It's just that the female prisoner's face is full of flesh, and she seems to say a word casually, as if she is ruthless.
Cheng Yuguan looked at the female prisoner, "Take it away, I'm not thirsty." ”
The female eunuch smiled, "What about entering the prison room and still treating yourself as the eldest lady?" If it weren't for the magistrate who didn't let people enter your prison door, believe it or not, I could pour you the whole pot of tea. ”
The guards of the prison cell are all arrogant characters, how many rich and famous people, when they enter the prison cell, they are tortured by the guards, they seem to have this habit, they want to see the high people prostrate in the dust, and the appearance of upright people kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.
Cheng Yuguan knows. There was no reason to talk to such a guard, but he did not leave, but took a few steps closer to the railing, poured out a cup of tea through the railing, and took it in his hand to study it carefully.
The female eunuch's eyes followed Cheng Yuguan's movements, but Cheng Yuguan splashed water on the stove.
"You!"
The female eunuch was angry, and the flesh on her face seemed to be shaking.
"It's so big."
Cheng Yuguan said coolly, looking at the empty teacup in his hand, "What's famous in this teapot?" When will the magistrate come to see me? If you don't, I'll start tossing, be careful that I make you can't sleep well all night. ”
The female prisoner tried to calm down her anger and pointed at Cheng Yuguan, "Do you still think you are the daughter of the family?" If you make a fuss, someone will come to coax you? I'm telling you, you're just tossing to the sky here, and no one will pay attention. I advise you to save some effort and drink the tea obediently, this is the medicine that makes people sleep peacefully, drink it and sleep in the cell for one night, Ming'er will let you go home, it is not poison, you can rest assured. ”
The prison guard didn't hide it, he said it directly.
As he spoke, he poured a whole handful of charcoal into the furnace in front of Cheng Yuguan.
"Miss Cheng doesn't drink tea, don't roast it first for a while."
When Cheng Yuguan heard this, he smashed the teapot into the stove, "Don't think about it." ”
The female eunuch laughed fiercely, and took out a larger porcelain pot from behind her, "I've prepared it for you, how much you pour, how many we have." ”
Next, as if the two of them were doing something else, Cheng Yuguan poured water, and the prison prison filled it again. Cheng Yuguan, who was tossing straight, had a sore arm and began to rub his wrist, and the prison guard also stopped panting, "Stinky girl, you have the ability to continue, there is still a big tank of water here, it's just a little dirty." Who told you to toast without eating and drinking? After a while, I'll pour you this stinky water on you. ”
As she spoke, the eunuch added more charcoal to the great blazing fire.
Mars jumped up, with a trace of white smoke, this is the water that Cheng Yuguan poured into the furnace, but unfortunately the stove is too big, and the water in the teapot can't be extinguished at all.
Looking at Cheng Yuguan's eyes and looking at the white smoke, she finally stopped tossing, the female eunuch sneered, didn't say anything more, and kept throwing charcoal into the iron furnace fire of the thickness around the two of them.
While throwing charcoal, she smiled at Cheng Yuguan, gritting her teeth, as if she was not throwing charcoal, but the meat on Cheng Yuguan's body.
In this world, only people who are equal in strength and have to get cheap and well-behaved will take great pains to hurt people with tricks, and at other times, most people don't have that patience.
It's like Yu Zhixian, he didn't use conspiracy, he used all yang conspiracy. He relied on the convenience of his identity to ask Cheng Yuguan to do what he thought.
Yu Zhengming is still a smart person, he didn't come forward in person, he just hid in the shadows, this is not a conspiracy.
What's more, it's like Inspector Zhao and the female eunuch in front of them, when they are at a disadvantage, groveling and begging for mercy, as if they have no backbone at all.
Now that he feels that he has the upper hand, he humiliates others unscrupulously and does everything he can.
Cheng Yuguan believes that if she didn't have a little effort on her body, she would be imprisoned last night and be held responsible. Tonight, she will be pressed down by the female prisoner in front of her, forced to pour those so-called tea into her throat.
Just like now, the female eunuch felt that Cheng Yuguan was a delicate lady, she had tossed enough, and she was bored, so she began to get proud, while renewing the charcoal in front of Cheng Yuguan, she chatted with Cheng Yuguan as if chatting.
"I heard that Miss Cheng has made a lot of money in Tongcheng over the years, and she has built several bridges alone. If you want me to say, Miss Cheng is in trouble today, but she is too high-profile and can't be a person. You said that our yamen, one hundred and ten people up and down, patrolling day and night for the stability and prosperity of Tongcheng, on errands, have no merit and hard work, right? Miss Cheng, you don't have anything to say about us? Don't worry, as long as you drink tea obediently, although I dare not let you out, I will never come to harass you in the middle of the night! ”
The fat shoulders of the female eunuch came over through the fire, and she looked mysterious as you know and I know.
When Cheng Yuguan heard this, he looked at the female eunuch and then at the tea.
"What's in here? Why does the magistrate have to let me drink it? ”
The female eunuch waved her hand, "Hey, didn't I tell you just now, I drank the medicine that makes people sleep?" You guessed it a long time ago, right? Otherwise, you can't keep such a big stove and roast, and you won't drink a sip when your mouth is dry. ”
When Cheng Yuguan heard this, he took it out of his arms, and there were only a few gold and silver barley. She raised her hand and threw it to the female prisoner, "Take it and play with it!" ”
"Hey!"
The female eunuch happily agreed, and Hengrou squeezed out even more kindness, looking at Cheng Yuguan, "The eldest lady is atmospheric, I don't know if there is anything else?" ”
Cheng Yuguan pulled the pearl from his belt, and the female eunuch's eyes were about to come down, but she didn't know who reminded her, she just didn't get close to Cheng Yuguan, only her eyes glowed through the fire.
"That's a good thing..."
Although the female prison was in this place where she did not see the light of day all day, when she returned home, she was also a woman and loved jewelry.
The one in Cheng Yuguan's hand, which looked ordinary on the belt, was the size of a little thumb knuckle in his hand, this was one of the boxes of beads that her third cousin gave her on her birthday last year.
Cheng Yuguan shook the beads, and the eyes of the female eunuch also shook, and her mouth opened unconsciously, looking obsessed.
"Who else has come in this prison today but me? Did the magistrate come? Or someone else here. ”
"You're the only one here!" The female eunuch quickly replied, "However, Lord Zhixian asked me to open the door after you drank tea, who should be let in, but the lord didn't say specifically..."
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the women's prison, which was empty in the mouth of the women's prison, heard a man's cough.
The female prisoner trembled and came to her senses in an instant.
"Miss, don't play tricks, this is a women's prison, except for female prisoners, it's a guard. However, this women's prison is newly completed, and there is only one prisoner, Miss Cheng. ”
The female prisoner was reminded by the coughing sound just now, closed her mouth tightly, and didn't say anything about asking for anything on Cheng Yuguan's body.
Cheng Yuguan handed over the beads in his hand.
"Take it, this is Hepu's beads, which are worth a lot of money, you have been doing this errand for a lifetime, I'm afraid you won't be able to buy this one."
Cheng Yuguan's words were arrogant, but the female eunuch didn't care at all, and carefully stretched out her hand and asked Cheng Yuguan to throw the beads into her palm.
Cheng Yuguan let go of her hand at will, and the female eunuch hurriedly stretched out her two hands to hold the beads together, and after receiving them, she held them in her hands, looking at the beads with fascinated eyes, not to mention adding charcoal fire, she just sat down on the spot and admired the wonderful jewels.
"It's beautiful, these beads. If it is worn out as a hairpin, it won't make people look straight? Hey! ”
The female prisoner smiled happily, and the laughter spread far and wide through the empty prison.
Gradually, at Cheng Yuguan's cell, the female prisoner stopped talking, and Cheng Yuguan seemed to be tired and rested against the corner. Between the two, there was only the sound of a charcoal fire crackling.
The silence lasted for a long time.
The more people who have been in the dark for a long time, the more anxious they become, and they no longer care about anything, and come out of the darkness.
The sound of light footsteps was obvious in the prison cell, one step at a time, two steps and three steps, he came to the door of Cheng Yuguan's cell, bowed his body and leaned inside, but saw that Cheng Yuguan seemed to have fallen asleep in the corner of the deep cell.
After the charcoal fire was fully burned, some of it was darkened, only some dust embers, the faint light made it impossible to see clearly, and the man's eyes with alcohol only felt that he could see hazy, as if a figure was lying in a straw pile, with his back to the person, motionless.
The man was delighted, but he felt that she couldn't stand it because of the charcoal fire, and after sending the women's prison away, she drank tea and fell asleep with peace of mind.
The man pulled out his sleeve cage and took out a key. Carefully opened the door of the cell, crept in, and locked the door with his backhand.
"Didn't it fall into my hands?"
The man said proudly and softly, his voice was tinged with a fluttering sense of wine, and the whole person pounced on the figure.
The fat touch made people feel wrong, and before the man could move, he was slapped on the back of the head by a figure hidden in the dark with a knife, and fainted neatly.
Cheng Yuguan walked out of the shadows, turned over the key on the man's body, and quickly dodged away, before leaving, of course, he would not forget to pour some dirty tea on the man, and then lock the cell door again.
walked out of the women's prison room with such a swagger, and along the way, Cheng Yuguan did not meet anyone, even outside the prison room, there was no one on duty.
I think it was because Yu Zhixian was afraid of many people, so he only arranged for the fat female prisoner to be on duty at night, but Cheng Yuguan found a loophole and escaped.
When he came to the empty courtyard of the prison cell, Cheng Yuguan looked around and found a large water tank at the courtyard wall, which seemed to be used for fire water storage.
Cheng Yuguan searched everywhere for bricks, stones and wooden blocks, put them on the water tank, stepped over the courtyard wall, and then disappeared into the official office.
The sky was bright, just after the hour, and the officials who were still in the bed in the past were gathered by Zhao Inspector, shouting mighty, and waiting for the county magistrate to ascend and sit down.
The corners of Yu Zhengming's mouth were tightly closed, and his short beard was very neatly cared for, still with that majestic appearance.
"Take Cheng Yu to close the hall."
Yu Zhengming patted the shocked wood, looking businesslike.
Inspector Zhao took a step forward and promised, and couldn't wait to take a group of officials to the cell to pick up people.
The county government is not a big place, from the lobby to the side door, to the deepest part of the west courtyard, there is a row of women's cells.
At this time, the sky was gray, and the cell was even darker and opaque, but Inspector Zhao took people to the door of the cell where Cheng Yuguan was held.
I saw that the huge iron furnace fire had been completely extinguished, and a burst of gray ashes was lifted by the wind brought out by the actions of the comers.
"Open the door, lift someone!"
The servant carried a small lantern and came to the straw pile.
At this time, two black shadows overlapped in the straw pile, and there was an empty teapot on the side, poured aside.
The official squatted down and shouted, "Young Master Liu? Wake up, it's dawn! ”
After a night of alcohol evaporation, Liu Zeming's whole body was filled with the smell of smoky wine.
The official pinched his nose and pushed him, and when he saw that the person didn't wake up, he lost patience, and the two worked together to lift Liu Gongzi, but saw the figure he suppressed was revealed, and the huge body made the two of them instantly realize that something was wrong.
"Inspection, it's broken! It's the female prison, that Cheng Yuguan ran away! ”
"What? Ran away? ”
Zhao Xunjian's eyes were about to fall off in shock.
He saw Liu Zeming enter Cheng Yuguan's cell last night, although it was far away, he would never be mistaken, Cheng Yuguan was in the cell at that time.
Zhao inspected three steps and walked into the prison cell in two steps, still muttering in disbelief, "Impossible, I told her a thousand times to not let her close the door for Cheng Yu, nor let her enter the prison cell, how could she be in the prison cell at this time?" ”
However, when I got closer, under the light of the small lantern, who else could it be that was not the female prisoner's oily face?
"Get up!"
Zhao Patrol was ruthless, and kicked over, and the female prison woke up instantly.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? On fire? ”
After seeing Inspector Zhao's ghostly face, the female prisoner subconsciously stuffed the beads she had held in her hand all night into her cuffs, wiped the oil on her face, and smiled and prepared to get up to see Inspector Zhao.
"Useless thing, let you guard the prison door, what about you? What about people? ”
Only then did the female prison react to her own situation.
"Impossible!"
The female prison screamed.
"I strictly followed the instructions of the inspection last night, never approached Cheng Yuguan, and did not go into the cell to search her, how could she have a chance to drag me into the water? I came to add charcoal to her last night and coaxed her to drink water, but then the water was poured into the stove by her, and I went to pick her up again, tossing back and forth for a long time, and it took a lot of effort to make people quiet. And then..."
The female prison is stuck.
"And then what?"
Inspector Zhao almost sprayed spit on the female prisoner's face, but the female prisoner didn't care about wiping it.
At this time, the female eunuch's drowsy head still had a trace of clarity, she didn't say anything about the valuable Hepu pearls, and only took out the gold and silver barley that Cheng Yuguan gave her to show her innocence.
"She threw me the pieces of silver, and then she sat down tired, and then she was silent, and I stood by her through the door, and then, and then I fell asleep suddenly!"
How did this female eunuch know that Cheng Yuguan poured water into the fire, she added charcoal in front of the fire, and inadvertently inhaled how much drugged water vapor, if it weren't for her height and thick flesh, she would have been hit for a while.
But now, no matter how the female prisoner thinks about it, it seems that her sleepiness suddenly came up and she suddenly fell asleep.
"You! You're a thing that doesn't have enough to do and more to lose! Follow me to the county! ”
Inspector Zhao pulled the female prison and was about to go to the magistrate.
Yu Zhixian has always been gloomy, and he doesn't dare to face it alone at this time.