Chapter Eighty-Seven: One Lives (Part I)
Liu Xiaolu, a prisoner in Chengdu Prefecture, is a newcomer who has not had much time to go in, and does some miscellaneous work in the prison, but he can still count money and rice a year to support his family.
There is still a bit of oil and water in the prison, that is, the families of the prisoners visit and deliver food.
This time, there was not much time, and Zhang Lao Liu, the prison class, ran over happily and said with a smile: "Today is good, there is a large piece of meat, come, you take the cake - come, eat, eat!"
As he spoke, he shook off the mulberry paper, and saw a large piece of fatty pig's head meat, and the two of them were overjoyed, and then got some rice wine, cut the meat and put it on the table.
At that time, I felt happy, and in the middle of the night, the prison guard Liu Xiaolu felt a faint pain in his stomach, so he had to get up in a hurry, holding his stomach and staggering straight to the thatched house.
After a long squat, Liu Xiaolu felt relaxed in his stomach, lifted his pants and got up, at this moment, a cool breeze hit, and he was cold, and he heard a "pop" sound in the distance.
Liu Xiaolu couldn't help but look at that side.
The light in the corridor was very dim, only one person was holding a lantern, and the lights inside were faintly shining, Liu Xiaolu squinted and saw that this person was followed by three people.
After taking a closer look, he was relieved to know that it was Deputy Warden Cao.
Liu Xiaolu wanted to go up at this time, but at this time he pulled his stomach and did not continue.
At this time, a flash of lightning swept through the air, and the raindrops fell cracklingly, Liu Xiaolu was taken aback, but the person in the middle was Song Han, who was the focus of monitoring.
At this time, how did he go to prison, and he was surprised, but he saw that the next two were all small classes in prison.
The men went away in the rain one after the other.
At that moment, the lightning flashed again, illuminating the surroundings brightly, and a deafening explosion broke out, shaking the earth on the thatched house, and falling to a neck, and then falling into darkness again.
The pouring rain poured down, and for some reason, Liu Xiaolu suddenly felt that he was panicked, and let out a sigh of relief, so he turned back to the prison cell.
Liu Xiaolu turned back to the familiar prison cell, and at this time, under the dim light, Zhang Lao Liu and several prison guards were still scolding and playing mahjong cards.
Everything is very normal, at this time, Zhang Lao Liu, the prison class, raised his head, saw that Liu Xiaolu's anger was wrong, raised his body and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you, you have eaten too much and have diarrhea?"
Zhang Laoliu and Liu Xiaolu are a little relative: "Sixth uncle, I'm nothing, I had diarrhea just now......"
"Pull it, just pull it, I know that you kid can't get used to eating oil and water, haha. Zhang Lao Liu of the prison squad put his mind at ease and started playing mahjong with his subordinates again.
Liu Xiaolu looked in a trance, looked at it for a while, waited for a few games of mahjong to finish, and finally couldn't help it, and pulled Zhang Laoliu: "Sixth uncle, come here, I have something to tell you." ”
"What's the fuss? Shangmao pit is scared?" Zhang Lao Liu said unhappily, but he knew that most of the people in the prison were unjustly killed, and there were a lot of dirty things, maybe it was this distant relative who came, and he was frightened, so he got up and came over, and did not forget to shout: "Wait a minute, I will come to fight later." ”
When he arrived, Zhang Lao Liu said: "What's the matter? I have encountered something dirty? I have been in prison for so many years, and I have never seen anything? Don't be afraid, tell me what I encountered?"
"Sixth uncle, I saw Deputy Warden Cao just now......"
"Xiaolu, you are confused, what is the matter? In the second half of the night today, Deputy Warden Cao came on an errand, and when I saw him, I wanted to salute, understand?" Zhang Lao Liu, the prison class, scolded and was about to go back to play mahjong.
"Sixth uncle, they took people out - it's Song Han!"
At this time, a lightning bolt fell outside, and I saw Zhang Lao Liu, the prison class, trembling all over, his oily face was full of terror, his eyes looked straight at Liu Xiaolu, and after a while, he said in a trembling voice: "Is this true? Don't you dream!"
"No, Uncle Six, I saw it with my own eyes. ”
A gust of wind blew, with rain and fog, Zhang Lao Liu of the prison squad trembled, and suddenly, he kicked at the pier, and the mahjong fell all over the ground, and he shouted: "Hurry, hurry, go and see, something is wrong." ”
Zhang Lao Liu of the prison class is an old prison class, and he knows that he is powerful, this kind of person, not to mention Deputy Warden Cao, is the chief warden, and there is no reason to take it away in the middle of the night.
If Song Han escapes, more than 100 prison guards in this prison will lose their heads.
However, at this time, the alarm cannot be issued, and it must be checked, and if it is wrong, it is also a big crime to scratch in the middle of the night.
At that moment, the group was in a hurry and headed towards their destination.
When I arrived at a single courtyard, I opened the door, there was an old man inside, and everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhang Lao Liu, the prison class, said with a smile: "Nonsense, isn't it here?"
As he spoke, he shone it with a lantern, and the whole person suddenly froze there.
"Sixth uncle, sixth uncle?" Liu Xiaolu pulled.
At this time, Zhang Lao Liu, the prison class, turned his head and looked at Liu Xiaolu in a daze, with a ghostly fire in his eyes, and spit out a sentence from between his teeth: "We have suffered a monstrous disaster and are about to be beheaded!"
Another bolt of lightning fell, shining brightly on the ground, and the next moment, the drums and gongs in the prison rang out.
At this time, in an alley hundreds of meters away from the prison, the group heard the drums and gongs of the prison behind, and only heard the deputy warden Cao shouting: "Don't look back, keep walking!"
The group was silent, following the planned route, walking in a muffled voice.
Song Han was in the middle, he was also walking, breathing in the fresh air, drenched in the rain crackling down, still barely believing that he had come out.
"Mr. Song, the place has arrived, come with me. "By this time it was three miles from the prison, and it was safe to do so, and we headed south into a narrow passage.
The facades of these alleys are not large, they are all built of old city bricks, and the yellow artemisia on the eaves is one foot long, which is very inconspicuous.
At this time, the rain continued to fall, and no one was interested in going out, so they came to a door and knocked on it.
The door opened, and when I got inside, I saw that it was an ordinary courtyard, and there were several people in it who answered it, and whispered, "Go to the wing!"
When I arrived at a side room, I saw a lantern shining, and inside was a study, and the small study had bookshelves, and at this time, Song Han realized that he had really been rescued.
It was greeted by a Taoist priest, who didn't say a word, and arrived at a bookshelf, twisted, only listened to the thin voice, and went out of a hole, and then said: "Song Ye go in quickly, it's raining heavily outside, and there is no trace of anything, but don't delay." ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to let Song Han go in first, and said, "Now that it's raining, you can change your clothes when you go down." ”
Song Han no longer hesitated, and went down, this cellar was gloomy, but when he really went down, he realized that it was very good inside, with about thirty square meters.
There were blankets on the floor, and there were clothes, tables, and candles, and they were lit at the moment, so hurry up and change their clothes.
The Taoist priest said, "Please bear with Mr. Song here, there is all the water and food in it, and there is a toilet, but please don't come out." ”
"The old man knows, thank you for the rescue. Arching his hand to the other party, Song Han said very gratefully: "I don't know what you call it?"
But the Taoist priest shook his hand again and again, and said, "Don't dare to say this, there are other people who save you, and when the matter passes, you will be able to see them." I'll be patient here for a while, I have other things to do, and I'll come back later. ”
As he spoke, he closed the entrance, and the figure vanished.
At this time, Song Han thanked Deputy Warden Cao again, but Deputy Warden Cao said that he didn't dare to do it again and again, and said: "I still have to take care of the boss in the future, my lord, your clothes are wet, change quickly, if rheumatism enters the body, it will be bad." ”
Song Han nodded, hurriedly changed his wet clothes, changed into dry clothes, and when he put them on, he felt a burst of vibration, and when he heard it, he knew that it was the sound of horses' hooves.
Although there was only the sound of ventilation holes, the sound of horses' hooves and commotion could still be heard, and the whole area was boiling with the prison as it was centered.
Song Han found a stool to sit on, where the oil lamp was faint, and there were all kinds of food and wine on the table.
Deputy Warden Cao smiled at first and said, "The reaction was very fast, but we couldn't be found." ”
Then he sighed, "It's a pity, some of the brothers in prison. ”
As he spoke, he picked up the wine jug and poured wine for Song Han.
"Please wait!" Song Han hurriedly waved his hand to stop and asked, "You haven't said yet, who let you save the old man." ”
Deputy Warden Cao paused for a moment, smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know the specifics, but I heard that it was your son-in-law, General Wang, who took the lead and contacted many people, and even the Taoist head of the Taoist Temple was alarmed. ”
Hearing that it was Wang Hongyi who commanded, Song Han smiled with a little relief, and said: "He really didn't disappoint the old man, hey, it's a pity that it's ......."
After saying this, he didn't say it, but Song Han remembered that there were more than seventy members of the Song family, but he also knew that it was good to be able to rescue himself.
Deputy Warden Cao also sighed: "It's a pity that some brothers in the prison are afraid that many of them will be implicated!"
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves thundered in the night sky.
Even in the rain, the prison was lit with torches, and five hundred soldiers blocked the prison to the ground, and in the square, it was already slashing.
Sixty or seventy corpses, scattered all over the square, sprayed with blood.
These were not prisoners, they were all prison guards, and there were generals who cut off their heads one by one and hung them up.
The wind blew, and I saw that in a piece of skull, the young head of the prison guard Liu Xiaolu was swaying, he was not dying, and the one on the right, the color was older, but it was the head of Zhang Lao Liu, the prison class.
At this time, the killing continued, and in the firelight, I saw a tall middle-aged man with a blue face.
This man was obviously in a high position, and at this time, he carried a horsewhip and whipped it indiscriminately at a group of kneeling people: "You bastards, told you to guard the prison and lay in ambush, and now that the people have run away, what do I want you to do?"
The horsewhip hit these people heavily, these people were obviously the guards and subordinates near the prison, and they didn't dare to move at this time, and endured the whipping.
Because they were just being whipped, and on the field, the killing of the jailer system continued.
"Spare me, sir!" Then it was the turn of the warden, who wailed and was dragged up, but the executioner walked a little slower, waiting for orders.
"Pull it down, cut it off!" the middle-aged man roared.
Hearing this, the executioner did not hesitate any longer, pressed his head hard, raised his knife and beheaded, only to hear a "poof", the head of the prison warden, rolled down, and on the ground in the rain, there were several wails.
Blood mixed with rain flowed all over the ground.
(To be continued)