In the haze, I seemed to hear a chaotic noise, waking me up from my sleep, I opened my eyes in a daze, and before I could look around, I suddenly found two cold palms viciously pulling my shoulders and pulling me off the haystack! I fell to the ground with a bone, and in front of me was the shell of the pomegranate fruit that I had eaten with Gu Linger last night, and my eyes moved little by little, but not far away, there were rows of shoe uppers.

I raised my head, and at this moment, two tall and mighty men suddenly walked to the left and right, twisted my arms behind me without saying anything, and restrained me tightly. I hurriedly shouted, "What are you going to do? Who are you?! ”

"Who are we? Don't you know who we are? Since you don't even know who we are, why did you come to our Da'an Town in the middle of the night to steal things? Moreover, he also killed our people in Da'an Town! ”

In front of me, a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a beard on his face, walked up to me with a hideous face, stretched out his finger and pointed at my nose and shouted: "I am Wang Zhongdao, the mayor of Da'an Town, you kid stole the pomegranate fruit of our Da'an Town, it's just a few fruits, but you ...... You actually killed Cui Dingshun, the owner of the fruit tree, are you still a human being? You're a murderer! ”

"And a big dog of the Cui family is also dead!"

"It must have been killed by this kid, he killed him with red eyes, and he can't spare him!"

"Just beat it to death with a stick!"

“…………”

As soon as Mayor Wang's words were finished, the townspeople immediately accused me of gossiping. I hurriedly shook my head, at the moment I was completely confused by what was in front of me, what the hell was going on? That's right! Where's Gu Linger's girl? Why hasn't she come back since dawn? This wild girl, I said why can't I wait for her, did she suck me? Deliberately ran halfway through? Frowning, I hurriedly retorted: "Fellow villagers, please calm your anger first, I, it's true that I ate your pomegranate fruit in Da'an Town, but I really didn't kill anyone!" I slept on this haystack last night, and I have a friend, but I don't know where to go, you wait for me to look for ......."

"Want to run?!"

I don't know who is behind me, and he slapped the back of my head with a palm, I only felt a sudden drowsiness in my head, and my mind that had just been awake for a long time was blank in an instant, and then it was pitch black in front of me, and I didn't know anything......

I don't know when I regained my consciousness, in my mind, constantly recalling what happened in the past two days, I met a strange Gu Ling'er on the hill next to the deserted village, but out of retribution, I carried her to this Da'an Town, and then she ...... After stealing the pomegranate fruit on the hillside on the east side of Da'an Town, we ate the stolen fruit on the haystack in front of a land temple, and then Gu Linger said that she was going to pick a flower and asked me to wait for her, and I waited and fell asleep.

When I woke up, I was identified as a person who stole chickens and dogs, and was falsely accused of killing someone! The angry, hideous faces of the townsfolk seemed to be getting closer and closer to me, and suddenly, I sat up with a scream. When I opened my eyes and looked around, I saw that it was a small room that was extremely dim, and there was a sour smell wafting in it, and there was a small window high up, and the window was so small that it seemed to fit only a person's head.

Looking to the other side, I saw that there was a cage-like structure all around, and after hesitating for a while, I suddenly jumped up in horror and shouted, "What is this, what is this place?" Who locked me up in here? I didn't kill anyone! I didn't kill anyone! Why are you locking me up in this?! ”

Now I realize that the mayor of Da'an must have ordered me to be locked up in it, and they think I killed someone, so what should I do if they get up and kill me in it? Although the whole country has been liberated now, it has only just been liberated, the law has not really been popularized, and petty officials everywhere still have the power of the emperor of the soil, especially in more remote places, and it is easier to kill an individual than to trample an ant to death.

The more I think about it, the more scared I become, and the more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes!

I hurriedly slammed the iron cage-like cell and shouted, "Let me out!" Let me out! I didn't kill anyone! You've caught the wrong person! ”

But after shouting for most of the day, there seemed to be no movement at all at the door outside. My heart seems to have fallen into the ice cellar in an instant, and I know that if it is the demons and monsters who imprisoned me, I would still fight hard, but now that I am imprisoned by the common people, how can I break free? Do you want to fight with them? Of course not, the Maoshan Dao method I practiced can only be used to deal with demons and monsters, and it must not be used to deal with ordinary people, and at this moment, I really don't have any idea at all.

Am I dead end?

Sitting down on the grass, I sighed deeply and muttered, "What can I do? What's this, what's this? I'm sleeping on the haystack in a good way, and you guys have indiscriminately arrested me and locked me up here, who am I provoking whom?! Why don't you come in and listen to me alone? Why don't you come in and listen to me explain it alone?! ”

No matter how much I yelled or screamed, it was as if no one heard me outside, and all that responded to me was the endless darkness of space and the breath of dead silence.

"Oh, you don't have to sleep well if you sleep well, have you finished yelling this stinky boy?"

In a dark corner behind me, an old and lazy voice suddenly came, and when I heard this voice, I was startled at first, and then turned back to look. This voice seems very familiar just now, as if I have heard it somewhere...... When I stepped forward little by little, just when I saw the old man's face clearly, the old man suddenly blew his beard and kicked me with a glare: "Stinky boy! What to watch? Haven't you seen enough last time? I'm not that pretty girl, old man, what's so nice? ”

"Old name Hanako? You, you're actually called Hanako?! ”

I was both surprised and delighted to look at the old man in front of me, this old man is called Hanako, I remember the last time I was separated from Master in Maoxi Town, he hid in the corner behind me and slept a lot, and said crazy that I was going to be unlucky. It's really a narrow road, I never thought that he would come to this Da'an town out of nowhere, and he gave me a face-to-face again. What's more, when we met in this kind of place, I couldn't help but stare at the old Hanako more curiously and asked, "The old Hanako, you, why are you here?" What is this place? ”

The old Hanako didn't pay attention to me, but glared at me angrily, and then took out a huge wine gourd from behind him, and under my stunned gaze, he opened the stopper, picked up the wine gourd and poured a few sips of wine, the smell of wine instantly drove away the sour smell in this cell, and when I smelled, my mouth watered. After a few sips of wine, the old man asked Hanako to put on the stopper again, and suddenly put the wine gourd behind him with a smile, turned his head to me and said with a smile: "Stinky boy, we are really fated!" It's only been a few days since I said goodbye last time, but I didn't expect to meet in such a place now, what? Don't you know what this place is? ”

I was stunned and hurriedly shook my head: "I don't know, then do you know?" ”

"Of course the old man knows......"

The old man smiled proudly, stretched out his hand and stroked his white beard, and then said lightly: "This is the most stringent place in Da'an Town, here...... In the old society, the prison called the town office, only those who committed a major crime could be locked up here, and there were only two ways to get in, one was to mention the county seat or even the provincial capital for sentencing, and the sentence for a capital crime or something should be executed, and there was another way...... Suffer on the spot, you kid may not know that there was a kind of lynching in ancient times, these local petty officials are often done, it doesn't matter if the prisoner is on top, then the local government can get rid of the prisoner in private. Privately...... Beat the prisoners all the way, and in the end they will either die or end up crippled, either missing arms or legs, and some are blind and deaf, which is more uncomfortable than death, and it is very miserable......"

"Huh? Are you sure?! ”

I asked in horror, but after thinking about it again, I retorted in disbelief: "You don't bluff me, if it's so serious, then you are also locked up here, why are you still so leisurely?" I'm afraid I'm scared to pee my pants! Also, I didn't kill anyone and set fires, so why did they kill me? No matter where you are, there should always be a place to reason, right? ”

"Silly boy, you're really stupid to say you're stupid, do you know who you killed? You killed Cui Dingshun, the brother-in-law of Wang Zhongdao, the mayor of Da'an Town, and it is said that you even killed his dog, you kid is really ruthless. Cui Dingshun is quite honest, and his family is well-off, he has planted a lot of fruit trees on the eastern slopes, and his annual income is a lot, plus the mayor is his relative, if you kill him, will the mayor spare you? I guess now the mayor is already asking if you have anything to do with the above, if it is found out that you are a little Taoist, without relatives and no reason, even if you secretly kill you, no one knows! ”

Speaking of which, the old Hanako smiled with interest, and said: "Now the people in the whole town think that you killed Cui Dingshun, that is, you were killed, and the people of the whole town will take the cylinder, as the saying goes, the law does not blame the public, they say that they killed a thief by mistake, and the top knows that they will not blame it, and you kid, but you are really wronged......"

I shuddered, damn it, is there still a royal law here? Immediately, I turned my head and shouted loudly to the old man Hanako: "I'll tell you again, I didn't kill that Cui Dingshun, I haven't seen what other people look like, where can I kill him?" Besides, why should I kill him if I have no grievances with him?! ”