Chapter 37: Muddy the Water to Catch the Fish
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(The college entrance examination is over, I hope that all college entrance examination students can get an excellent score and be admitted to an ideal university, and you can have fun the rest of the time!) It's time to support Xiaoyun, haha! )
Li Zixiao followed Zhang Ergouzi into the county government prison, which was dark and damp, because of disrepair, there was a lot of stagnant water in the prison, and as soon as he came in, he smelled a foul smell.
And in the cells in the prison, it is not those vicious bandits and bullies who are imprisoned, but all the poor people who are thin and weak, and whose faces are hungry.
These people are huddled in dark and damp cells, their eyes empty and unobtrusive, like walking corpses, waiting for death.
The food here is not talented at all, it is stinky water to drink, it is to eat rancid food, and it is not bad to even have time to eat rancid food.
In the prison, people are starved to death every day, and when they die, they will be dragged out by the jailers and buried in a pit at will.
"How don't these people look like wicked people! Why are so many people imprisoned in the prison? Li Zixiao saw that the scene in the prison was completely different from what he imagined, so he asked Zhang Ergouzi.
"Big boss, don't you know what kind of wicked people are there in the prison, they are all ordinary peasants, but they were framed indiscriminately, and they were arrested on a charge.
Basically, they were all people who had offended people who couldn't be offended, and they were bribed by the county government and county order to arrest them, and these people had no money to ransom themselves out, so they had to wait in prison for death. ”
Of course, Zhang Ergouzi knew the inside story, and explained to Wang Zirui, and even showed sympathy and pity for these poor people in his tone.
Even after Li Zixiao heard this, there was a wave of anger in his heart, the county lord of this county is really not a thing, this is simply disregarding people's lives! It's all about the money.
Wang Zirui estimated that Master Qian dared to accept bribes from them so boldly, and the people in the prison let them take Dong Zhuang away, and it was estimated that the county master already knew, and he acquiesced in Master Qian doing the same.
At this time, there are not many officials in the Ming Dynasty who can really do things for the people, and county lords like Yongcheng County are simply everywhere in the Ming Dynasty.
"These officials should all be pulled out and slaughtered and fed to the dogs, this is simply a matter of disregard for human life, it is really a beast."
"That's it, the big boss, why don't you take us into the county government and slaughter the **** county order."
At this time, even the two subordinates who followed behind Li Zixiao saw the poor people who were being detained in the prison and Zhang Ergouzi's words, and they were angry and said to Li Zixiao.
After all, these people are also from the same background as those poor peasants in prison, and they have been persecuted and oppressed earlier, and now they feel a little empathy when they see these people.
These people have now followed Li Zixiao to do bandits for this period of time, killed people, and saw blood, and they are no longer the masters who were obedient and oppressed and dared not speak out.
Now they know that if they want to survive in this world, only the steel knife in their hands is the most credible.
"Okay, don't talk about it, let's rescue Dong Que first, we can't take care of these things for the time being, but one day, I will personally take you into the county government of this county, and when the time comes, I will catch the **** county order and let you slaughter it yourself!"
Li Zixiao directly interrupted the radical remarks of the two subordinates behind him, at this time he could distinguish the priorities, glanced at the poor guys in the prison again, sighed slightly, and followed Zhang Ergouzi to continue walking into the prison.
In the innermost cell at the end of the prison, Li Zixiao saw Dong Xiang, who was wearing a prison uniform at this time, covered with scars and blood, all of which were whipped by someone.
Dong was lying on a broken straw mat in a dark prison with his head, and the blood from the wounds on his body had already coagulated, and it looked like he had been tortured before.
Seeing this scene, the anger in Li Zixiao's heart came out, his eyes flashed with cold light, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, which meant that Li Zixiao was on the verge of going berserk at this time.
"Open the cell." Li Zixiao said in a low voice.
Zhang Ergouzi was also sensitively aware of Li Zixiao's anger, and without saying a word, he directly used the big prison key that the little mouse gave him just now, opened the lock of the cell, pushed open the door and walked in.
"Dong Zhuang!"
Li Zixiao walked up to Dong Zhuang, leaned over, and shouted in a low voice, while placing his hand slightly on Dong's neck artery to check if he still had a pulse.
"It's okay, I'm not dead, I still have a breath." Li Zixiao felt Dong Xiang's gossamer-like pulse, his face was happy, and he said.
"Come, carry him, let's go." Then, Li Zixiao waved his hand and commanded a subordinate.
When a man heard Li Zixiao's words, he walked over and took the initiative to squat down and pick up Dong's body, and then quickly left the cell.
"Please, do well, get us out! Help us! ”
Many people in the cell saw Li Zixiao and them escaping with a prisoner on their backs, and immediately shouted loudly around the fence of the cell.
"Wait." Suddenly, Li Zixiao shouted to Zhang Ergouzi.
"What's wrong? The big boss, we have to get out of the prison quickly, we only have time for half a stick of incense! Zhang Ergouzi said a little anxiously.
"Half a stick of incense is enough, now you two go and open all the cells in the prison for me, release all the prisoners, since you want to mess up, then make a mess thoroughly, muddy the water, let's fish in troubled waters!"
"Yes, big boss."
When several subordinates heard Li Zixiao's order, their eyes lit up one by one, and they answered loudly, and then ran to the doors of the cells, cut the chains with a knife, and released all the prisoners one by one.
"Eun Gong, thank you!"
Those were released; The prisoners in the cell all knelt at Li Zixiao's feet, crying bitterly and thanking them.
"Alright, now that you're all free, while the jailers haven't returned, run for your lives, that's all I can do."
Li Zixiao waved his hand at these 'prisoners' who were released, and then witnessed the hundreds of prisoners escaping from the prison one after another.
Li Zixiao suddenly ordered people to release these prisoners, not only because most of these people were poor people who had been unjustly imprisoned.
In fact, Li Zixiao is not sure that these people are all poor people who have been unjustly imprisoned, and perhaps there are several really vicious bandits among them.
But one thing he understood, releasing these prisoners at this time would only do good to his actions tonight.
Waiting for them to start their moves, these released prisoners will greatly attract the attention of the authorities, provide cover for their actions, and increase their chances of success tonight.
"Let's go, let's rush out too, go and join the big pillars, and let's make a big fuss in this county tonight." Li Zixiao waved his hand and led his subordinates to follow these prisoners to escape from the prison.
When Li Zixiao and the others rushed out of the prison, they saw a corpse lying on the ground, which was the little mouse waiting for them at the door of the prison before.
At this time, the little mouse was already dead, lying on the ground and turned into a cold corpse, his eyes were still wide open, full of unwillingness, his clothes were torn, and there were no wounds on his body.
Obviously, they were beaten to death by punches and kicks by the group of prisoners who rushed out of the prison, and these prisoners hated the jailers so much that they seized this opportunity, and they were not desperately entertaining the little mice, and finally they were beaten to death.
"Let's go, let's do what we originally planned."
In the end, Li Zixiao glanced at the corpse of the little mouse on the ground, said expressionlessly, and led people to evacuate quickly.