There are many unreasonable truths (3)

Shen Fengyuan didn't get more information from Xu Changan's mouth, because Xu Changan obviously didn't want to reveal more, and if he asked again, it would inevitably be guessed that he was attentive. Vertices

He only knows one thing now, knowing Xu Changan's purpose.

His purpose was very simple, that is, to go to the prison in Nanfeng City and bring Guo Anlin's body out.

Shen Fengyuan is not in a hurry, knowing the purpose, he can make a trick, what he has to do now is to try his best to help Xu Changan and let Xu Changan lower his guard.

Xu Changan did not live in Taishou Mansion.

As far as Xu Changan knows, this Guo Anlin and Shen Fengyuan have a good relationship, but after Guo Anlin's identity was exposed, this Liu Chenglang took the opportunity to seize the power of the Taishou Mansion. Every once in a while, people will be sent to greet them, clearly as greetings, but in fact to investigate.

Shen Fengyuan was almost controlled by Liu Chenglang.

Xu Changan also felt that Shen Fengyuan was a little inconvenient, and he didn't want to trouble this Taishou Lord, but Shen Fengyuan was full of enthusiasm and insisted on doing something for Xu Changan.

In the end, after the two consulted, it was decided that Shen Fengyuan would find an opportunity to take Xu Changan to step on the spot and familiarize himself with the bad environment of Nanfeng Prison. The so-called bad environment is, of course, not only the external environment, but also the internal environment of the prison. Including, where are the open and dark sentinels, what time do the patrol personnel change shifts, etc. These things need to be seen by Xu Changan in person to have a bottom in his heart.

After the two of them determined the time, there was a hunchbacked handyman in the Taishou Mansion, he carried an empty burden out of the Taishou Mansion, and then walked through the streets and alleys, and when he was sure that there was no one, he removed his disguise, wore sackcloth clothes, and returned to the inn with a flat burden.

When he returned to the inn, the first thing he had to do was change accommodation.

After Xu Changan changed his residence, he no longer planned to stay in the hotel.

He now regrets a little, his lack of experience, and he has often slept in the open since he was a child, which is not very common for him, but when he entered the city, he stayed directly in the hotel, but exposed his whereabouts.

He planned to go out by day and by night, and make a bed from heaven to the earth. Wait until the appointed time is up, and then go to Shen Taishou.

When he first came out of the Taishou Mansion, Shen Fengyuan gave his daughter away, and then gave his old housekeeper a look, and the old housekeeper understood, so he immediately arranged for someone to follow Xu Changan.

Unfortunately, they didn't succeed. Even when the old butler sent someone to the previous inn, he just pounced.

Shen Fengyuan was a little helpless, he underestimated this sent spy a little.

But he wasn't worried, and with bait, he could always catch fish.

......

Two days later, Lord Taishou inspected the prison.

The prison is located in the southernmost part of Nanfeng City, and Liu Chenglang is against the enemy to the north.

Shen Fengyuan was a little nervous, he wasn't sure if the spy would appear, but he knew that Liu Chenglang would definitely take a look at this spy in the dark today, and do his best to cooperate with him.

Shen Lang's kid was frightened by Xu Changan and hid at home for several days, but when he went to prison today, his daughter Shen Qiong had to go together, originally her daughter's family was not interested in these things, but I don't know why it was abnormal today.

Taishou's travel, although it is not a mighty one, but when he walks on the street, it also causes a lot of commotion.

Shen Fengyuan wanted to put on a kind appearance, but everyone was afraid of him, like a jackal.

His face changed, and in his plan, he did not allow any mistakes, let alone allow himself to make mistakes and let the hooked fish escape.

When the Taishou lord wearing the official uniform of the Holy Dynasty left the mansion, he saw the people who were immediately hiding, and then realized that he had almost made a big mistake.

He immediately called the old butler who had followed him for many years, bowed his head and said a few words, and then waited at the door, and never went out on the street.

When the old housekeeper came back and looked at his master from a distance, the Taishou master stepped into the sedan chair.

On this trip, although there were no people who welcomed them, there were not a few people who came to thank the two sedan chairs in the distance.

Shen Fengyuan occasionally looked outside through the curtains, obviously very satisfied with the old butler's arrangement.

The purpose of his trip was to first go to the open space located in the south of the city to persuade him, and then logically take people to prison.

Liu Chenglang has always had a headache about the lack of troops, and all of them are old and weak. At this time, Lu Jiangqiao gave him an opinion, to resist the prisoner and to make a meritorious service, but most of the people in this prison are what they call "Diao Min", and they happen to be pure people who cross the land, and most of their relatives and friends are living in the slums in the south of the city, so Shen Fengyuan and Liu Chenglang took this mission, and he first went to comfort him with some "kindness", and then selected a few family representatives to enter the prison to appease those Diao people.

Of course, he said this to Xu Changan, and in his relay, it was naturally to take Xu Changan into prison to release the messenger, and he also told the spy who claimed to be surnamed Li about today's arrangements in detail.

And he also added sweet vinegar and "Li Yishi" said that there were hundreds of guards to ensure order, and there were a lot more open and secret guards, and repeatedly told him to go today, just to investigate, rescue, and think about it in the long run.

Xu Changan didn't see his crampedness and uneasiness, in his opinion, all this was normal.

......

As soon as the morning dawned, Xu Changan climbed out of a haystack, not far in front of a small stream, he went to wash his face at will, and then took a hat from the door of a nearby house, wore a hat, lowered his head, bought some of the raw materials he needed, and through the disguise master who followed Jiang Ming to help find in those days, he simply learned some camouflage skills.

It's not very proficient, but it's sufficient.

I found a secluded place, and after a while, a swarthy and sturdy man came out with a swarthy pole with a red thread tied to it.

This is the agreement between Shen Fengyuan and him, only by tying a red line on the flat shoulder and marking it well, can Shen Fengyuan smoothly select him into prison.

After Xu Changan did this, there was a dark-looking man in the south of the city.

The slums are the most indispensable children, dressed in tattered clothes, who I don't know where they came from, with dirty hair, bare feet, and dark wrists and ankles.

Every day they keep their heads down, or follow someone, and if they find something shiny on the ground, a group of children will rush up to them, or they will follow someone with their eyes in the hope that something will fall on them.

It's their way of survival, and that's where their fun lies.

When Xu Changan, a man who had become dark, appeared in front of them, Xu Changan, who was dressed in coarse cloth, became a noble man in their eyes, and a group of children followed him from a distance and a little timidly.

Xu Changan took two steps, they also took two steps, Xu Changan stopped, they also stopped. Xu Changan seems to have a group of little tails.

At this time, the sun was high in the sky, and Shen Taishou's hoarse and passionate voice was heard in the distance.

Xu Changan didn't bother to listen to what he said, all he had to do was to walk forward with a flat pole tied with red silk thread when he was going to choose someone, and that's it.

But the group of children in front of me is really a little sad. Xu Changan himself didn't expect that his low-key dress as much as possible would attract the envy of the children, and he was also a little stunned, when will coarse cloth clothes become the unattainable dream of others?

In the distance, the sound of the axles rubbing could be heard.

The children's attention immediately turned over, and Xu Changan also looked over.

They were not far from Nanfeng Prison at this time, and they only needed to walk a few hundred meters to see the dark cell door, as if they were monsters that would eat people with their mouths wide open.

The ox cart, which creaked all over its body, drove slowly out of the huge mouth in a rare way.

The dilapidated oxcart seemed to have become the most attractive thing at the moment, and those children immediately gave up Xu Changan, a "nobleman", staring at the oxcart when they saw this.

Xu Changan was also a little surprised, looking at the ox cart from afar, it was covered with a layer of mats, and he couldn't see what was in it, but a faint stench reached Xu Changan's nostrils.

As the ox cart slowly approached the area, the children suddenly joined forces and threw a lot of sharp stones on the otherwise flat gravel road, like a barricade.

Xu Changan was wondering, thinking about these strange behaviors. The ox cart had already arrived, and on it was an old man with a gloomy face, with a nose like a hook, which made him a little more ruthless.

Although those children were afraid, they still conquered their fears.

A group of children crossed Xu Chang'an and stopped in front of the ox cart holding hands, and the old man of the yin owl didn't seem to see it, but the old cow saw someone in front of him and stopped.

Xu Changan stood to the side, watching this scene.

The old man leaned on the ox cart, opened his slightly closed eyes, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"It's you dolls again, you can't touch anything here, go away. ”

As he spoke, he struck the ox with his whip, and the old cow tried to take a step, but the children still held hands and firmly blocked the way.

The old man shook his head, snorted coldly, and raised his whip again.

The whip was not directed at the oxen, but at the children who stood in the way, almost the age of the horn. The whip did not fall on those children, Xu Changan grabbed the whip tightly.

The old man pumped hard, wanting to pull the whip back, but Xu Changan was as steady as a rock.

Seeing this, the group of children immediately scattered and rushed towards the car, and the old man immediately panicked, let go of the long whip, and tightly protected his back.

But how can the old man protect a whole car alone?

Those mats were quickly opened, and Xu Changan looked at it, and sighed in his heart, only then did he realize that things were not so simple.

When the old man saw this, his eyes immediately turned red, and he saw that there were six or seven corpses in the car, all of which were turned over, and those corpses were all wearing shabby clothes, and the parts that could not be covered by the clothes were covered with terrible scars, and even after several of them became corpses, their eyes were wide open, and there were a lot of white insects on their faces and noses.

After a while, the children turned over all the corpses, and even some of the parts that had been broken before were rudely ripped off by the children.

The group of children seemed to have searched for something they were satisfied with, and then walked away satisfied, and some of them were tugging and tugging, as if they were fighting for something.

The old man glanced at Xu Chang'an, sat on the ox cart decadently, sighed, and then turned his head silently and cleaned up the corpses.

He took out a sackcloth and carefully wiped the corpses.

Xu Changan took a step forward, and then retreated, he didn't know what he could do, and he looked cramped and uneasy.

When he was a child, he was wrong, and he was not afraid of Uncle Shi beating him, but if Uncle Shi didn't say anything and was bored by himself, then he knew that something was wrong.

As at this time, if this old man scolded him, or even raised a whip to beat him, he would not fight back, but this old man just slowly cleaned up the mess by himself, making Xu Changan's face hurt hotly.

Eventually, he stepped forward and mustered up his courage, only to hear the old man's hoarse voice.

"You don't have to blame yourself, forget it!"

Xu Changan looked at the old man puzzled.

"Most of these children, their parents have been arrested in this prison in recent years, and they have been subjected to inhuman torture in it, and their original children have become these street children. ”

"It's ridiculous to say, prison is not for the big evildoers, but for some people who want to pursue a good life, I am old, I only have a skin left, and I always hope to do something for them. ”

The old man said leisurely, at this time, Shen Fengyuan in the distance was preaching impassionedly, and the powerful voice came.

Xu Changan turned his head and glanced at the crowd around him in surprise, and then looked at the ox cart in front of him.

The swarthy boy felt that the sunlight was a little dazzling, and he lowered his head and said nothing.

The old man glanced at him and said slowly: "If you really want to make up for something, then get on the ox cart and accompany me, an old man who is half into the earth, to give them a ride!"

Xu Changan glanced at Shen Fengyuan, who was standing on the high platform in the distance and was heavily guarded around him, and jumped into the ox cart without looking back.

"Phew, let's go, dust to dust, dust to dust!" the old man shouted leisurely, and the old cow took a step.

Xu Changan got into the car, and although there were seven or eight corpses piled up behind him, his heart was much more down-to-earth than before.

"Young man, you're not a local, are you?"

The old man said slowly.

Xu Changan was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

The hook-nosed old man immediately smiled: "I look like this, I look scary, especially my nose, I was a little thin when I was young, but those girls always don't want to see me, and they say, whoever follows me will definitely not have a good life, and he will definitely beat people every day." Xu Changan didn't know what to do, and he didn't know why the old man suddenly talked about himself.

The old man put down the whip, let the old cow move forward slowly, looked at Xu Changan, pointed to himself and said: "They will judge people by their appearance, and the hook nose is dark in their hearts, but I know what kind of person I am and what kind of things I should do." Slowly, I will also look at people, although not as good as some scholars, but I also know that you are a good person. ”

Xu Changan suddenly looked at the old man in surprise.

At this time, the scorching sun was in the sky, and the old man took out a wine jug from his side, took a sip, and handed it to Xu Changan.

"A person who can help the child block the whip, and the person who sees the unevenness of the road will not be a bad person after all!" the old man smiled heartily, and then said leisurely: "What a stupid child!"

Xu Changan looked at this old man with a gloomy face, but he was very sunny, and he also took a sip of his inferior wine with a groove fragrance, and his heart was also a little happy.

Xu Changan, whose face was flushed, suddenly asked, "Is Shen Fengyuan good or bad?"

The old man immediately said, "Then what kind of person do you think is a good person?"

"If you don't do evil things, you don't do evil, you are a good person if you are above board, and you have a clear conscience. ”

The old man pursed his lips and said, "Say it lightly, with a clear conscience, how many people can do it?"

"The so-called good people are good people, that is, they do not damage the interests of the majority of people, then they are good people. ”

Xu Changan didn't understand it, this was different from what Uncle Zi Xiao taught him.

"The gentleman is three, the benevolent are not worried, the knower is not confused, and the brave are not afraid?" (from the Analects)" Xu Changan said these three sentences in a puzzled tone.

The old man touched his head and said, "Listen to your crepe words, it should be said by those old poor people, but the truth in the world is different from those things in books!"

Then he said earnestly: "Although I haven't read any books, I know that if you really do what you say, you will definitely be unhappy." ”

"The truth in the book is probably to inspire future generations to live bravely, You look at these people in the car, many of them are shouting to save the people from fire and water, shouting about the unfairness of Yuezhou, but what is their result?"

"I know they're good people, but I can't go with them, can I?" said the old man.

Then he chattered: "I'm not the same as being a corpse collector in this prison, helping them dispose of the corpses, and flattering them every day, because in this Yuedi, they are the 'majority', the ones who have the right to speak, I can only think that their reasoning is right, only in this way, I can take a sip of wine!" There seemed to be tears in the corners of the old man's eyes.

"There are no good people and bad people in the world, just live well, and there are only good and bad things in the world, only pros and cons!"

The old man sighed, and then with a wave of the whip, the old cow's buttocks ached, and the speed was a little faster.

Soon, they arrived at a mass grave, and Xu Changan and the old man carried the body down together.

The old man took a hoe from the ox cart and prepared to dig a pit, although it was a mass grave, but every time a new person came in, the old man would try his best to help him dig a pit and put a wordless wooden sign, no matter how great he was before, in the end it was just a wordless wooden card, the old man was illiterate, he couldn't write anything, and even what he gave himself was a wordless wooden card, but the wood was better.

He actually knew an old Confucian student, but that old poor sour, every day the gods chattered, he was afraid that the old poor sour would bully him, so he wrote on his wooden sign the bastard words "Lao Tzu is a piece of".

The old man took the corpses and carried them down one by one.

"Actually, those children are also trying to live, and the things on the dead are generally not touched by the jailers, so ah, there are always some good things that fall. There were a few children who didn't dare at first, but a few times they saw their companions rushing up, and when they squeezed in, they saw their familiar faces. Eventually, the kids became fierce, and I can't blame them, they're all trying to survive, don't you?"

Xu Changan nodded indifferently, what he saw and heard today completely subverted some self-righteous things in Xu Changan's heart.

"By the way, you just asked, whether Taishou is a good person or a bad person, it depends on you. If you think that the person in prison is a bad person, then he is a good person, and a good person will never make a good person suffer more. ”

"You don't have to stay with me either, I want to stay with them a little longer. The old man said, and didn't look at Xu Changan.

Xu Changan took a deep breath and turned to leave.

The old man looked at the back and shook his head slightly: "I really don't know where the stupid boy came from, this Yuezhou, all dead, only he will do that thing to help, I hope he won't be like that pedantic reader, right?" The old man shook his head, but he could see the scholar every day, When he entered and exited the cell, the piece of skin shook above his head like a wind chime.