Volume 1 The Order of a Thousand Gates, Chapter 9: Prison (3)

Xu Wenwen slowly opened his eyes, the surroundings in front of him were dark and damp, and he was still in this prison full of pain. He wondered why he hadn't been guillotined yet, and if he was dreaming again? The boundary between fact and fantasy made his mind vague and unpredictable, and he felt that his life had become worthless, even despicable.

"You're awake. Just when Xu Wenwen was still immersed in the memories of the dream, there was a middle-aged man sitting on the side of the cage, he was wearing a black shoulder suit, and his body looked very clean; Xu Wenwen wondered why there was one more person in the prison, and couldn't help but take a closer look, this person had a crown and sideburns, and his appearance was forty or fifty, and he looked old, and his face showed wrinkles, as if he had a sense of calmness and unhurried after the vicissitudes of life, why such an old man would be imprisoned in this heavy prison, which made Xu Wenwen puzzled.

"Who are you?" Xu Wenwen asked subconsciously, and he could see that this person was clean and neat, like a prisoner who had just been imprisoned.

The old man laughed, looked at Xu Wenwen with a grim look and said, "You personally killed Qian Jinxian, the richest man on Jiqing Road, and also tried to assassinate Sima Wei, the ambassador of the Qincha, all cause and effect are disasters caused by the love of children. This evil has put you in prison and suffered in this endless prison, and in three hours you will be beheaded by the beheading, do you know how many people in Jiqing Mansion want to see your head fall to the ground in order to appease the anger in their hearts?"

"I didn't kill anyone!" Xu Wenwen struggled with the restraint of the chains, but the chains were heavy, and he had to kneel on the ground weakly and shouted excitedly: "Everything...... Everything is that Sima Wei, it was he who borrowed my hand to kill Uncle Qian, and he blamed me, just to get the family business of Xiu'er and the Qian family!"

"If you say this now, will anyone believe it?" the old man asked Ling Ran as he looked at his unyielding eyes.

Xu Wenwen looked desperate, he was in prison at the moment, not to mention that he was about to be beheaded, his explanation was like a cover for his crime, no one would believe the truth in his mouth, even Xiu'er would think that he killed his father with his own hands, he became a sinner for the people of Jiqing Mansion, and became an enemy of Qian Xiu'er.

"Who the hell are you, why do you know so much about me?" Xu Wenwen felt more and more that the old man in front of him was not as simple as a prisoner.

"The old man can be said to be a duckweed in your life, whether you can catch it or not, it depends on how you treat it, they are coming, you flash away!" the old man said in the middle of the sentence, and he got up and looked out of the cell door with all his attention.

"What's coming!" Xu Wenwen was shocked, only to see the sound of weapons fighting outside, the jailers heard the sound and rushed over with knives and guns, and a burst of wailing sounded in this huge prison, and after a while, a group of armor soldiers with blades in their hands rushed outside, they came from a strong and menacing manner, but whenever they saw the jailer, they fought hard to kill, leaving no one alive.

"Who the hell are you, what have you done, are these people here to save you?" Xu Wenwen asked tremblingly, as a group of armor soldiers escorted the head jailer and forced him to take out the key to the cell door.

"Just like you, the old man also killed people. However, your own life must be in your own hands, not in the hands of others, boy, you must learn to see through everything in this world, in order to grasp the overall situation!" As he spoke, he calmly came to the prison door, and a soldier quickly opened the prison door, and the old man led Xu Wenwen out with a swagger.

Several armor soldiers stepped forward, clasped their fists at the old man, and said, "The subordinates are late, which frightened Mr. Feng." ”

This Mr. Feng nodded, counting it as a response, so he took Xu Wenwen to the head of the jailer, who was held to the neck with a knife by several armor soldiers, and his legs were weak with fright at the moment, and he no longer had the same vigor as before.

"All the righteous men spare their lives, they don't know that this old gentleman is a brother on the road, and they are still angry!" The jailer chief saw the clothes of the people who came, all dressed in red, with a piece of armband tied to their arms, obviously they were the rebels from the peasant uprising.

Mr. Feng looked at him playfully, and said with a soft smile: "You shouldn't have arrested the old man in this prison, boy, come!" As he spoke, he pulled out a big knife in the hand of a rebel and handed it to Xu Wenshu on the side.

"Kill him. Mr. Feng said lightly.

Xu Wenwen took the big knife without a master, at this moment he didn't know what everything was happening in front of him for, he looked at the other party timidly, his eyes were full of cowardice.

"I don't want to kill!" he replied in a choked voice.

Mr. Feng looked puzzled and asked, "You have already killed someone, why not kill again?"

Hearing this, a wave of anger suddenly burned in the depths of Xu Wenwen's heart, and for the first time, his face flashed with an indescribable murderous aura: "I didn't kill anyone, and I don't want to kill anyone." ”

"Who knows? If you don't kill him, he will kill you after all, have you forgotten all the pain you endured in this prison?" Mr. Feng said and grabbed Xu Wenwen's hand, slowly put the blade on the neck of the jailer, and slowly comforted him, saying, "As long as you wipe the tip of the knife against his neck, you can regain your freedom." Freedom, it can make your life bloom again, and it can make you take revenge! Don't you keep saying that you were wronged? Then kill him. ”

When Xu Wenwen heard the word revenge, the resentment in his heart became stronger and stronger, he closed his eyes, and his mind echoed fragments of the past, especially when he and Xiu'er painted and wrote lyrics together, playing hide and seek in the bamboo forest in the mountains, watching the evening by the river on the bank of the stream, and Qian Jinxian's kind and kind eyes, and finally only Sima Wei's face appeared in his mind, that full of sinister and vicious face; 。

Hearing the jailer's 'woo', the blade in Xu Wenwen's hand slashed his neck, and a stream of blood splashed on Xu Wenwen's face, he watched in horror as the jailer chief lay weakly in a pool of blood, an unprecedented pleasure made Xu Wenwen's heart more laid the road of revenge against Sima Wei.

"The children can be taught. Mr. Feng gently patted Xu Wenwen's shoulder, and then took back the big knife from his hand, but Xu Wenwen held on to it and refused to let go, he continued to comfort: "Don't be nervous, haven't you already experienced the feeling of killing, give me the knife." ”

Only then did Xu Wenwen let go, and Mr. Feng took the big knife and said to the volunteer army led by him: "Don't stay here for a long time, the official uniform will soon track our traces." After you and I went out, we parted ways, and I remember to thank General Zhu and the military advisor on behalf of the old man, and there will be a period later. ”

"The subordinates will definitely bring Mr.'s words, but Mr. is leaving, I don't know when he will return to the camp?"

"When the old man and General Zhu met, they agreed on three chapters of the law, and the old man was neither his subordinate nor his staff, but only discussed the plan. If there is an important military situation, the old man will definitely return to the camp, and now the old man wants to take this kid away, and we will leave quickly. ”

"In that case, Mr. take care all the way, and there will be a period later. With that, everyone ran towards the outside of the prison, and Xu Wenwen also left with them.