After fighting for a while, he gradually stopped, and the young master said: "The kid is quite hard, I'm tired today, I'll clean you up another day." With that, he shook his hand and went out, and several other people followed suit, scolding viciously.

The door to the firewood room was locked, and the room was darkened, with only a foot-wide window pouring in some sunlight. Hypertherm only felt pain all over her body, and wanted to move, but she couldn't bear to be tied up her hands and feet, and she couldn't move at all. He exerted a bit of effort on his leg, only to feel a sharp pain, and the joint of his left leg slowly swollen. After a while, I only felt that my eyelids were swollen, my mind was groggy, and I didn't know when I fell asleep.

When I woke up, I felt that it was dark inside, and there was no light on the small window, and I knew that it was already dark. He had not eaten rice and water since he had eaten breakfast, and he was hungry and thirsty, and he did not know what this place was. At this time, I was thinking about my father, I didn't know how my father was worried, and I was looking forward to my father and Uncle Yang being able to sue the county government and clarify the facts. After thinking about it all night, although I was tired and tired, I couldn't sleep anymore.

It wasn't until the next morning that someone came to open the door. A hunched old man came in with a basket. The old man was silent, put down the basket, and took out some pickles from it for him to eat. Hypertherm's hands were tied and he couldn't eat, so the old man kindly fed it to his mouth.

Haibao ate some and asked, "Daddy, what is this place?"

The old man remained silent. Haibao said: "Daddy, I didn't commit any royal law, I want to see the county master to make it clear, can you tell me what kind of place this is?"

The old man remained silent.

Haibao said: "Daddy, I'm very thirsty, give me some water to drink!"

The old man took out a clay pot from the basket and poured him a bowl of water to drink. Haibao immediately felt a lot more comfortable after drinking it in one go, and asked for another bowl to drink, saying, "Thank you, Daddy." ”

The old man silently packed his things and went out.

Let's say that Haibao was fighting with people in the horse market, Yang Xiaoqing had already run to tell Yang Lao Liu and Old Man Zhang, and the two of them hurriedly followed Yang Xiaoqing over, but Haibao was no longer there. After inquiring about the people around them, a well-wisher told them that Haibao had been escorted to the county office, and the two immediately panicked. They are all honest people, where have they experienced this kind of thing, and hurriedly rushed to the county office, just hoping to see Haibao as soon as possible.

When I arrived at the gate of the county government, I was stopped by the official guarding the door, and I couldn't go in, and I waited for a long time, but I didn't see Haibao come out. Then he went to speak well to the officer, gave him some money, and inquired about him, but he only said that he had not been promoted to the court today, and that he had not seen a boy of twelve or thirteen years old being brought in, so he had to go home for the time being.

The next morning, he came to the county office again, and after waiting for a long time, no one paid attention to them, and he wanted to go in to inquire, but he was driven out and shouted loudly: "Zhang Haibao?

Not to mention how sad Old Man Zhang is. Here Haibao is in the firewood room, except for the old man who doesn't say anything twice a day to deliver food, no one has ever come, of course he has not been beaten again, the injuries on his body have improved a lot, but his left leg is still swollen, and the pain is terrible.

On the fifth day, behold, two men dressed in the garb of an errand covered his head with black cloth and carried him limping forward. With her head covered, Hypertherm felt that time had passed very long, and she began to faintly see the dim light in front of her, but she didn't know where she had passed. Then it was pitch black, and he smelled the slightest dampness in his nose, and he felt strange in his heart, but he did not make a sound, because as soon as he walked a little slower, or made a little noise, the two officials kicked him in the ass, like driving livestock. Hypertherm endured the pain and humiliation and stubbornly walked forward.

Finally, an official said, "It's here!" and pulled the rope tied to Hai Bao's body with his hand, meaning to stop him, and Hai Bao stood still. Then a pair of hands removed the black cloth from his head, and Hypertherm blinked vigorously to find that it was a stone-built confined space, completely devoid of sunlight. At the end of the space, a house is separated by thick iron bars, and on the stone bench at the door is a large porcelain bowl, which contains half a bowl of oil, and a wick the thickness of a thumb pokes out from the edge of the bowl, bubbling with a faint blue flame, and with the wind brought out by their movements, the flames flicker and jump, like an everlasting lamp in front of a dead man's coffin, in this dark world, it seems lonely and strange.

It turned out to be a dungeon.

Another man who looked like an official came up and took a key to open the door to the dungeon. The iron chains of the bolted door were opened in circles, and with a long, screeching sound of rusty iron objects rubbing against each other, the door opened.

"Let's go in, little four-six!" said the official who opened the door lazily.

Haibao, looking back, there were no other prisoners, he was wondering in his heart, he was kicked in the ass, and one of the officials who had escorted him before shouted: "Say you, go in quickly!"

Only then did Haibao know that the "Little Four Six" was called himself, and said: "I have a name, my name is Zhang Haibao!"

The official who opened the door said, "What are the names of those who come here?" ”

Hypertherm was about to argue, and got another kick in the ass. "Stop talking nonsense!" The two officials who had escorted him pushed Hypertherm into the dungeon at once, and then quickly closed the door as if he was about to be bitten by a dog, and then the official who opened the door wrapped the chain around the door again and locked it.

"Stay here honestly!" said an official.

"Let me out! Why are you keeping me here?" Hypertherm cried out as he grabbed the dungeon's bars in both hands.

"I said you are content, you offended my young master, it's not bad if I didn't let you do this!" said the other official as he made a gesture with his hand to wipe his neck. After saying that, the two officials who escorted him left without looking back.

"Let me out! Let me out!" Hypertherm shook the heavy iron bar in vain.

"I said you save your energy! Maybe one day my young master will let you out when he is happy, but ah, it is very likely that he will forget you since then, so you should be prepared to live here for the rest of your life!"

Haibao sat on the ground in a dejected state, and after a long time, he turned around and suddenly found that there was another person in the dungeon, who seemed to be about forty years old, ragged, unkempt hair, and unusually emaciated. The man was napping, probably sensing that Haibao was looking at him, and looked up and then lowered his head to nap. At this time, Haibao knew that people's hearts were sinister, the world was upside down, and he was in prison, and he didn't know when he would be able to get out, and he didn't know how sad his parents were at home, and his heart was desolate, so he ignored him, and sat on the grass pile in the corner thinking about his heart and sulking.

When it was time to eat, the jailer brought the food. Wherever Haibao had the heart to eat, he didn't even look at it, and still sat there. The man finished eating in a daze, and asked Haibao, "Little Maotou, do you want to eat?"

Haibao didn't look back and said, "Don't eat!"

The man smiled: "If you don't eat it, I'll eat it for you!" After speaking, there was another uproar, and after a while, he ate Haibao's share at all. After eating, he wiped his mouth and patted Haibao on the shoulder and said, "Little Maotou, you are kind, if you don't eat in the future, you will leave it to me!"

Haibao ignored him, thinking about it, feeling uncomfortable, and crying alone. After two days like this, the man ate no Hypertherm's food at all each time.

On this day, Haibao suddenly felt extremely hungry, and when the jailer brought the food, he picked it up to eat, and just brought it to his mouth, remembering the scene of eating with his parents, he felt sad again, and tears rolled down to the nest like beads with broken threads. The man looked at it and grinned and said, "Men don't flick when they have tears, you little hairy head, what kind of bitterness and hatred are there, like a girl's family, crying makes people weird!"

Haibao hadn't spoken to anyone for many days, and when he said this, there was some concern in his words, so he held back his tears and said, "I'm just sad, thank you Uncle for your concern." After speaking, he bowed his head and ate the nest head.

The man laughed again: "It's a pity, it's a pity, if you eat, I won't have so much food to eat in the future!"

Haibao was surprised: "Don't you often have enough to eat?"

The man smiled and said, "You see that they give so little, and I have a lot of food, where can I eat enough? If you don't want to eat in the future, give it to me!"

Haibao was silent, bowed his head to eat, and suddenly felt a wave of nausea in his stomach, his chest was tight, his eyes were dark, and he fainted to the ground.