Chapter 547: Inside the Heavenly Prison, the Monarch and Ministers are in tears!

  Penal Department, Heavenly Prison.

  Li Shimin looked east and west, and didn't know what he was looking for.

  The death row inmates also have nothing to love at this time, they don't care about any movement outside, they all look up at the dark ceiling with dull eyes.

  Syllable!

  "It's time to eat!"

  The jailer held the food box and handed it all the way, saying,

  "Wait a little bit! Don't wait for Lao Tzu to serve you one by one! ”

  "Hurry up!"

  Whoa, whoa.

  There was a sound of chains mopping the floor inside the cell.

  At this moment, only eating can arouse the interest of death row inmates...... After all, killing the head is killing the head, and this meal still has to be eaten.

  You can't be a starving ghost when you die, how burying is that?

  Li Shimin frowned and looked at the eldest grandson Wuji beside him.

  "The jailer! Come here. ”

  The eldest grandson Wuji naturally understood it and shouted,

  "Bring me the food in your hand too, I have something to ask you!"

  The jailer was stunned...... Where is the sound in this prison?

  When he looked up again, he was almost frightened!

  The person in front of him was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe...... That's clear, it's clear......

  O Emperor!

  "Ginseng! See Your Majesty, See Your Majesty! ”

  The jailer panicked, knocked over the food box in his hand, and hurriedly knelt down and said,

  "Long live my emperor, long live!"

  This movement provoked all the condemned prisoners to look over, and when they saw Li Shimin's bright dragon robe, it was like seeing a savior!

  "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am wronged, Your Majesty!"

  "Your Majesty spares your life! If I die, they ...... What are they going to do? ”

  "Your Majesty, I am really wronged, I have a great grievance!"

  “……”

  For a while, shouting injustices and begging for mercy came and went, and Li Shimin frowned when he heard it.

  "You, come with me!"

  Li Er drank and ordered,

  "Bring the food box! I want to see what this condemned prisoner eats! ”

  With that, he turned and walked away quickly.

  "Yes, yes, yes!"

  How dare the jailer not? Ma Yu packed up the food box and kept up with the pace.

  ……

  In the aisle, it was finally a little quieter.

  "Lao Tzu Lao Tzu...... In front of whom do you shout Lao Tzu? ”

  The eldest grandson Wuji took the lunch box and said unhappily,

  "If it weren't for Your Majesty's kindness, your head would have been cut off!"

  Jailer: "!! ”

  "Yes, yes, it's small nonsense, the small one should be slapped, the slap should be slapped!"

  Syllable!

  Syllable!

  As he spoke, he had already slapped himself with two big mouths.

  There's no way, just the way I looked in front of His Majesty just now, if I don't pump my two big mouths, I won't have peace in my heart!

  "Alright, alright."

  Li Shimin waved his hand and said,

  "Don't be so rude in the future, you are an official of the court after all! Represents the image of the imperial court! ”

  "The food box opens."

  The jailer nodded again and again, and thanked him for opening the food box.

  Inside the food box, there is steaming corn, black and not slippery, and there is still grit faintly visible.

  A few leaves were laid on it, and nothing else.

  "That's it? Gone? ”

  Li Shimin frowned.

  He grabbed a handful of corn and put it in his mouth.

  Click!

  His precious 'dragon teeth' were suddenly knocked by the pebbles in the corn.

  "Phew!"

  Li Er chewed hard, swallowed part of it with difficulty, and the rest was chewed into a ball and spit out.

  "This is what is served to the prisoners? It's too rough, isn't it? ”

  He was displeased,

  "Just a few leaves, and half of the corn with grit?"

  "Three meals a day, can you eat enough?"

  When the jailer heard this, his expression was shocked.

  "Back to Your Majesty's words...... It's not three, it's two. ”

  He responded.

  Li Shimin: "??? ”

  "With this kind of thing, you can only eat two meals a day? Isn't that starving to death? ”

  Li Er asked.

  The jailer's heart trembled, and he lowered his head and did not dare to speak.

  "Your Majesty is angry, this is actually normal."

  Fang Xuanling Dao,

  "Condemned prisoners...... They are all extremely vicious people, what are they doing so well to eat? Besides...... They live and wait to die. ”

  "It's already good to have this meal to eat, after all, this is the imperial court allocating funds for them to eat."

  "In other words, they can be regarded as eating the emperor's grain."

  Li Shimin: "......"

  This sounds a little awkward.

  "Yes, yes."

  The jailer answered,

  "Ordinary prisoners, with their family supplies, will naturally eat better."

  "But most of the condemned prisoners have no family members to provide for them, so they can only be fed by the criminal department, so that they can ensure that they will not starve to death, and they can live until they are beheaded."

  "If starvation is also a punishment, simply starve them to death will save ...... cost."

  Li Shimin frowned.

  "Nonsense!"

  Li Er scolded,

  "The court has the law of the court! If a condemned prisoner wants to die, he must do so according to the law! ”

  "Before they are beheaded, they must be kept alive! This is also in line with the way of the saints! ”

  The jailer looked startled, knowing that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly bowed down, not daring to say more.

  "There are only two meals of this kind of food...... After many years, people will starve to death. ”

  Li Shimin's eyes were deep, and he sighed lightly,

  "Do condemned prisoners allow their families to provide food and rice?"

  "That'...... Hou Junji, his food, is also this? ”

  The eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling glanced at each other and winked at each other!

  Really.

  His Majesty's mind is not on the death row prisoner, he feels sorry for the death row prisoner, but in fact, he feels sorry for Hou Junji!

  "Back to the emperor, Hou Junji has someone to supply, and his food is better."

  The jailer replied honestly,

  "It's similar to the food of ordinary people, and the ministry said that anyone who goes to the prison is here to suffer, not to enjoy happiness."

  "So...... No matter how much he supplied, Hou Junji couldn't eat those, at most it was better than ordinary prisoners, and this was already the best food in the prison. ”

  Li Shimin frowned.

  "You Li Shangshu are quite fair and strict."

  He snorted coldly,

  "But if I want to say, if there is a family member who is willing to provide for it better, you should let him eat better, so what's the matter?"

  "The restriction of personal liberty is already a great, painful punishment in this small and dark prison!"

  "It's nothing to satisfy your appetite properly!"

  "Xuan Ling, auxiliary, don't you say?"

  Eldest grandson Wuji: "......"

  Fang Xuanling: "......"

  "I'm asking you!" Li Shimin looked displeased.

  These two usually love to talk to each other, why don't they take care of themselves today?

  "Uh...... His Majesty said it should, then it should. ”

  Fang Xuanling replied.

  The eldest grandson Wuji laughed and quipped:

  "The minister thinks that it is okay to improve the treatment of the prison, which is also good for the minister."

  "Huh?" Li Shimin was surprised, "How do you say this?" ”

  The eldest grandson Wuji smiled and said:

  "It's a good thing that the conditions in this prison are better, if one day, the minister commits something and falls into the prison, it won't be so hard."

  Li Shimin: "......"

  "Just kidding, don't blame Your Majesty."

  Seeing that Li Shimin's face was not good, the eldest grandson Wuji hurriedly restrained his smile and gave up his hand again and again.

  "Humph! Isn't it funny? ”

  Li Shimin snorted coldly,

  "My minister, I don't want to come to this place!"

  "This is not the place where the heroes should be!"

  "What Your Majesty said is very true." Both nodded yes.

  Li Shimin looked at the two of them like this, and somehow, he felt inexplicably unhappy in his heart.

  "Who's ...... that"

  He turned to look at the jailer and said,

  "Which cell is Hou Junji locked in? I want to see him, take me to see him. ”

  "Yes." The jailer did not dare to slack off, took the key to the cell, and led the way for the emperor in front.

  Under his guidance, Li Shimin turned around and finally stopped at the end of a passage.

  In the upper left cell, a man lies on his side, motionless as a corpse.

  "Hou ...... Uh......"

  The jailer shouted, he wanted to call him by his first name, but he felt that the emperor behind him would be unhappy, and he didn't know what to call him for a while.

  But the people inside had already heard it.

  "Leave it there, I'll eat it later."

  The hoarse voice came, and Li Shimin's heart tightened when he heard it, and his eyes had completely fallen on Hou Junji's body!

  "I'm not here to deliver food."

  The jailer replied,

  "Yes...... Your Majesty has come to see you! ”

  Whew!

  Hou Junji in the cell stiffened, and then turned his head suddenly!

  When he saw Li Shimin's face, his eyes instantly turned red!

  "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! ”

  "Sin Minister, Marquis Junji...... Knock on Your Majesty!! ”

  Bang bang!

  Hou Junji climbed down from the plank, dragged his shackles and fell to his knees, kowtowing to Li Shimin!

  When the head is raised, the old tears are already horizontal!

  Li Shimin: "!! ”

  Emotional him, where can he stand this, his heart is also sour.

  "Open it, open it, hurry up and open the cell door for me!"

  Li Er drank and ordered,

  "Quick!"

  Whoa!

  Under his urging, the jailer dared to be a little lazy, and opened the cell door with the key and invited Li Shimin in.

  "Your Majesty, be careful, he is a death row prisoner after all......"

  The jailer reminded him in a whisper, and looked at Hou Junji with a little vigilance.

  It's been locked up for two years, Hou Junji will inevitably have resentment, if he makes a move to hurt His Majesty, how can he get it?

  "! Watch out for what! ”

  Li Shimin scolded,

  "Junji won't hurt me!"

  As he spoke, he walked quickly in front of Hou Junji, gently helped him up, and saw his face.

  "Junji...... You, you're suffering! ”

  Li Er looked at Hou Junji's cloak and haggard face, and his eyes were a little moist.

  He really can't see this!

  When you can't see it, you can be ruthless.

  Now that he sees it, he thinks of all the things in the past, and he has an impulse to release Hou Junji!

  "This is the ...... that sinners deserve"

  Hou Junji wiped his tears and said ashamedly,

  "It was the criminal who failed His Majesty...... The criminal minister knew that His Majesty had been trying to protect the criminal minister, otherwise the criminal minister would have died two years ago. ”

  "Sinner, thank you for your grace!"

  Poof!

  As soon as he was helped up, he knelt down for Li Shimin again.

  The affection of this monarch and minister, even if the eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling saw it, they were a little moved.

  Could it be that this Hou Junji has been in prison for the past two years, and he has really been reformed?

  didn't complain at all, and took all the blame on himself...... Is this really him?

  It's like a different person!

  Fang Xuanling stared at Hou Junji, wanting to use those experienced eyes to see some artificiality, but after looking at it for a while, he couldn't see anything wrong.

  It seems that it is really a true expression......

  "Oh, what are you doing here? Get up. ”

  Li Shimin said with some distress,

  "With this heavy shackles, what else are you kneeling in? It's hard for you! ”

  "Junji, you...... What's wrong with your thighs? Why such a big scar? ”

  Hou Junji got up slowly, stroked his thighs gently, lowered his head and said:

  "It's a prison sore, it's very common."

  "If you live in prison for a long time, you will get sores like this...... Not only the sinful, but also everyone else. ”

  "In autumn and winter, it's itchy, and in summer and long summer, it's broken and rotten......"

  Li Shimin frowned.

  "Why do you have this prison sore?"

  He turned his head to look at the jailer and shouted,

  "Tell me clearly!"

  The jailer looked a little embarrassed, and said hesitantly:

  "The prison is dark and damp, and if you don't see the sun for a long time, it will naturally breed sickness and pain......"

  "The sores in this prison mainly occur when it is hot and humid, and I don't know what I want, but most of the prisoners have it, and only a small number of them don't have ......."

  Li Shimin's face darkened suddenly.

  "That small part should be next to the aisle, in a cool and ventilated area!"

  He said angrily,

  "And here, I have only been here for a while, and I feel extremely stuffy, and it has been going on for many years, how can I get it?"

  "It's bound to be sick!"

  "Since you have this kind of disease, why don't you find Langzhong for them? Do you just watch them suffer? ”

  Jailer: "......"

  This......

  How can you find a prisoner in Langzhong!

  If you really have to have good food and drink to serve, and Lang Zhong to take care of you, is it still a prison?

  That's almost like a vacation!

  "Back to ...... Back to Your Majesty, the Criminal Department is not equipped with Langzhong, so, so ......"

  The jailer looked embarrassed and speechless.

  He felt that he was unlucky today.

  Why is it my turn to deliver food to the prisoners today? ran into this emperor who was obviously unhappy......

  "You don't have to say it!"

  Li Shimin waved his hand and said,

  "Auxiliary, you hurry up and arrange to find a Tai Doctor to come over, the most dedicated Tai Doctor for the treatment of sores!"

  "Tell him to come and show Junji, hurry up!"

  "Yes." The eldest grandson, Wuji, quickly responded and walked out of the cell.

  "Your Majesty...... How can a criminal minister be able to get such a heavy favor from His Majesty! ”

  Hou Junji shed tears and wept,

  "This little injury of the criminal minister is not in the way at all...... It's a blessing to be able to save your life! ”

  Where could Li Shimin stand this, and hurriedly said:

  "No, no, it's me who has treated you badly, it's me who has been negligent!"

  "Don't think too much, first cure the sores on your body, I have a lot to say...... I want to talk to you! ”

  "Come, come, sit down......"

  He turned his head to look at the jailer and shouted:

  "Fetch the wine!"

  (End of chapter)