Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Little Bit of Self-Esteem
Several days passed, and Xie Jiang began to have some intersections with the people here.
The old monk on the opposite side was actually only in his twenties, he had no name, and he followed the master since he was a child, and the master gave him a name called Wumen Huikai. Wumen Huikai said that he came in by himself and came in to find his master, but he hadn't found it yet, and Xie Jiang didn't understand.
The 'calf' next door only said one word after Xie Jiang came in for so many days, and it was after the three of them were beaten, Xie Jiang asked him what his name was, and he replied with two words: "Ouyang", and he never spoke again, even if he was locked up and beaten, he didn't make a sound. What a weirdo.
Chen Kangshi has been in a state of mind for several days since the bad news at home. The Zheng brothers and Niu Guan'er never looked for him again, and Xie Jiang was really afraid that he would die like this. However, on the first seven days of his father's life, he found a monk who had no door to open the scriptures and chanted the scriptures, thinking that he couldn't personally give the funeral to his dead father. After that, it was better, and I began to chant with the monk.
On the second day after the three of them were tortured, Xie Jiang asked Second Master Li and Niu Guan'er to tell Brother Xiao Wu about this person, and asked them to send a letter to Brother Xiao Wu, hoping that Brother Xiao Wu could send some money over. However, after waiting for two days, news came from Linjiang Tower: Brother Xiaowu has not seen anyone for a long time, and Linjiang Building is unattended and is about to close. Xie Jiang had to be beaten severely. He asked Niu Guan'er to look for Lu He again, but after hearing that Lu He was a beggar, Niu Guan'er never looked at him again. Since then, Xie Jiang, Ouyang and Wumen Huikai have been called a muffled trio, and they have been beaten.
However, the longer the time, the more panicked Xie Jiang became. Beatings, injuries, and insults from various torture instruments were already secondary, and Xie Jiang found a more serious problem, one that he had not realized before.
When he first arrived at the prison, Xie Jiang thought: I didn't do anything wrong, how could I be punished for no reason, or the death penalty, this is impossible, if you have injustice, you can definitely be rehabilitated, God is watching. However, as time passed, Xie Jiang's heart became heavier and heavier day by day, was he really going to die? Now the question he was concerned about was how to suffer less sins and how to avoid dying.
Yes, what if you are wronged? You have already been convicted, waiting to be tortured, and there is no hope.
Since there was no news from Brother Xiao Wu and Lu He, Xie Jiang felt hopeless. Even the few coins of silver hidden in his broken boat were told to Niu Guan'er, which was Xie Jiang's savings for six years, but it didn't help. This is a dead button, and you can only wait for death.
Xie Jiang became more and more panicked.
Every day is the coercion and temptation of the Zheng brothers, the cynicism of Niu Guan'er and his own crankiness. There are still many things that I haven't done myself, and many things that I haven't tried, and those glorious and rich, those heroes and beauties, aren't they too unjust to die so early......
There is also a place, and there is a person, Mr. Huangfu, or he can save himself.
However, Xie Jiang didn't want Niu Guan'er to go to Mr. Huangfu, because he really didn't want to trouble his old man because of his own matter. Xie Jiang felt that this was the little bit of self-esteem he wanted to maintain the most, and if Mr. Huangfu said it, Xie Jiang felt that it would be better to die.
That night, after the new rain, the moon outside the window was very round and bright.
Xie Jiang looked up at the moon and sat down, this time, the world, and everything seemed to be quiet. Xie Jiang's heart was calm and peaceful, and he was extremely comfortable.
The silence was broken by the sound of hurried footsteps, and the flickering torches and masked men.
It's not a yacha, yacha doesn't need to be masked, someone broke into the Xicheng prison at night.
The inside of the prison was lit up by torches. A masked man with a prison key opened the lock on their cell and shouted, "Those who don't want to wait for the dead to come out and wait in the torture chamber." ”
Of course, Xie Jiang didn't want to wait for death, this was tantamount to hope. He watched Ouyang and Wumen Huikai next door walk in front, and followed himself, Chen Kangshi hesitated for a long time, and then followed.
After a while, a dozen people were gathered.
"Blindfold you, and I'll take you out. ”
"Wait, where are you taking us?" someone asked.
"Hmph, no matter where you go, it's better than waiting for death here!"
Then, they were blindfolded and had a rope stuffed in their hands.
"Follow the rope. ”
After pulling and pulling for a while, Xie Jiang felt that the air was fresh, wasn't he already out of prison?
"Go up, go up. ”
Hearing someone shouting in front of him, it was Xie Jiang's turn to find out that he was going to get on an ox cart. More than a dozen people crowded into an ox cart, and the piles of people lay on it, and it was covered with a layer of straw. It's a bit crowded, but no one says a word.
"It's not going to take us out and kill them all!" Lying on the ox cart, someone spoke.
"How could it be, do I need to get you out to kill you!"
"Don't make any noise, it's so heavy!"
Someone is pressed down on the lower floor.
"Don't speak, you're going to die when you find out," a deep voice startled everyone.
Fortunately, Xie Jiang felt that the people pressing on him were not very heavy, but he was a little curious, why did these people get so many death row prisoners out?
The ox cart turned several bays and paused two or three times, bumping along the way, but it still stopped.
"It's here, let's all come down!"
The crowd scrambled to crawl down. Oh, it's finally seeing the light of day again.
Xie Jiang took off the blindfolded cloth, only to find that this was another martial arts arena, with a platform in front of it, and a large brazier on the platform, two masked men were sitting there checking the roster, and there were two masked guards next to them. There are also several masked people around the arena, holding swords and weapons in their hands, could it be to prevent us from escaping?
A masked man threw a bunch of keys and dropped the phrase: "Shackle keys." ”
More than a dozen ox carts arrived one after another, transporting more than 100 prisoners, and this scene was a little terrifying. More than a hundred death row inmates were unshackled, and they really didn't know what they would do. Is it going to rebel? Xie Jiang thought about it, it was really possible, this world was like this. The prisoners, the peasants who had nothing to eat, and the army fueled by ambition had always been the vanguard of the rebellion.
After the people arrived, the people on the stage spoke. "Ho-ho-ho, what do you think of the air outside?" a woman's voice, the masked man in the martial arts arena was still a woman, "you damned prisoners, ho-ho, do you feel like being human again?"
After a pause, everyone looked left and right, and then all eyes were on the masked woman.
"What did you want to do with us out?" the prisoner asked.
"What do you think I want to do with you?"
"Let us go?"
"Ho-ho-ho, yes, I just wanted to let you go. ”
“......”
"However, you only need to play one game, pass the game, and you can live. ”
What game?