.The Dongchang Zhao Prison is still dark. The deepest cell is still as empty as a hanging chime, without any decorations, but there is only one more person.
"What day has it been?" Sinu lying on his official uniform, asking the original residents here weakly.
"The third day you came in." Hai Rui sat on the pile of weeds and replied softly: "You can hear the bells of the drum tower here. I have heard it five times since I came in."
"I want to starve people to death." Chen Si didn't even have the strength to smile bitterly, and he touched his flat belly and said, "The feeling of starvation is really hard to bear."
"..." Hai Rui nodded. He had lost his strength before he was silent.
At first two days, the two chatted to relieve boredom. Later, they were so hungry that they were dizzy and had no strength to speak. They just endured it hard, and they couldn't hold on one day.
Silence was still sitting at first, but then he simply lay down. In this dark and desperate dungeon, he truly realized what it means to be "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger". However, he was not timid, nor did he think about giving up. Instead, he believed that he was not wrong - if he did not put the imperial power of doing whatever he wanted into a cage, no matter what he did, he would be a castle on the sand and a castle in the air, and would be destined to fail.
And he found the most practical goal - if he could go out, the first thing I had to do was to abolish the Dongchang, close the Zhao Prison, and remove the Jinyiwei, and remove the emperor's minions first, otherwise the risk of becoming an official was too great. I'm afraid that among the residents in Zhao Prison, he was not a person with such thoughts, but the difference was that others were just venting their imaginations, but he decided to really do this.
Of course, the first thing is to be able to go out, and the first thing is to avoid starving to death.
Thinking of this, he raised his remaining strength, got up from the ground, took off a thick-soled official boot, knocked on the prison door hard, making a "bang bang" sound, and shouted: "It's dead! It's dead!" The sound circling in the dungeon, shrill and creepy.
This tossing really alarmed the prison car. Soon after, a lantern sounded, and an ugly face appeared in the prison door. He asked rudely: "Zhi Niang, which dead ghost has been reincarnated?!"
"I haven't gone yet." Chen Si put his hands on his knees and said to the prison guard weakly: "If you don't give me food, you will be dead."
"Mom-basket..." The jailer cursed vaguely and said, "I will wait every meal in prison every five days."
"Get a little more comfortable", silently stared at the prison guard's eyes: "Can we buy it with the money?"
Sure enough, a light flashed in the prison guard's eyes, but it disappeared immediately. He glared at him viciously and said, "You are criminals, you don't have this treatment." This is nonsense. Who is qualified to go to the imperial prison? Who is not criminals?
"No matter how many I originally did, I would give ten times more!" Chen Si stretched out his fist and said.
"But five taels of silver are a meal." The prison guard obviously had no idea about Mount Tai. He didn't know how much it cost to make a favor with his official Shen. He was cruel and cruel to say such a "sky-high price".
"I'll give us one hundred taels and bring us our meal." Silently said: "But I don't have money, just go to Qipan Hutong."
The prison guard was about to be crazy about the fun. The hundred taels were too hard to believe it and said, "Isn't it a lie to me?"
"I, a second-rank official, would I make a joke about my credibility?" said silently: "Well, if you don't believe it, I will write a document and take it to my house to ask for it. How about it?"
"This is OK." The prison guard felt that this was fine and said, "Then write it."
"I can't write it." Chen Si shook his head and said, "I don't have any strength in my body. I can barely write it, and my family doesn't recognize my words." He understood that the prison guard couldn't recognize a lot of words, so he felt relieved to deceive him.
Sure enough, the prison guard thought for a long time and thought to himself: 'Isn't it just a meal? I don't know how to deceive me,' and then replied: "You wait."
A faint candlelight finally lit up in the cell, which was bought by Silence for twenty taels of silver.
With the candlelight, I could see the "delicious food" he bought for 100 taels - some porridge with no ingredient ingredients, which was served in a dirty broken clay pot. That's all, and I didn't even give it to pickles. It was the most expensive meal in the world.
"What a luxury..." Chen Si shook his head and sighed, scooped a bowl of porridge and delivered it to Hai Rui.
Hai Rui refused to say, "I'm not hungry, you can eat it yourself." In fact, he knew that he was imprisoned and silent. Otherwise, why would the other party be locked up here? How could he buy a can of porridge at a sky-high price?
"Why are you polite?" Chen Si chuckled softly: "Maybe it will be handed over tomorrow. You don't expect to be accused of it at that time, so you can't argue."
After asking him to say this, Hai Rui no longer refused and reached out to take it and said, "I can't afford it."
Chen Si also scooped a bowl for himself, and smiled faintly: "Drink it, I didn't ask for your money."
Hai Rui nodded and drank the porridge in the bowl face to face with him. Although they were very hungry, the two of them were still gentle in eating and did not lose the demeanor of scholars, which made the prison guards who were watching behind their backs secretly amaze.
But sometimes, I was not lucky and I couldn't be gentle. I heard a 'crack' sound, and the silent one was silenced by a stone or sand in the porridge, and my teeth were broken, and I froze in pain. Hai Rui quickly put down the bowl in his hand, grabbed a handful of straw from the ground and sent it to his mouth, and said with concern: "Slowly spit it out."
Following Hai Rui's instructions, he quietly spit out the porridge with sand and stones. While rubbing his cheeks, he forced a smile: "I only realized the difficulty of life today."
Seeing that he was fine, Hai Rui picked up his job and whispered: "Many people are afraid that they can't even eat this." After that, he started to eat in big mouthfuls.
Silence continued to eat, just be more careful so as not to get the sand and stones to the mouth.
After a while, a can of porridge was seen, and the silence seemed to be still unsatisfied. He wiped out the porridge hanging on the wall of the can with a wooden spoon and carefully put it into the bowl. Seeing this, Hai Rui said, "Eat my bowl, I'm really full."
Chen Si shook his head and smiled, "I'm full too, so I'll leave it for midnight snacks."
At this time, the prison guard came over and asked, "Have you written it?"
"It's useless to give it to you in the middle of the night." Silently said: "Come and get it tomorrow morning."
"You are not trying to fool me, are you?" the jailer glared.
"No tomorrow morning, let the trip go." I was silent and no one dared to come in, looking like you were doing what I did to me.
"If there is no tomorrow morning, just wait and see!" The jailer threatened hatefully and left angrily.
Early the next morning, the prison guard came again without sleeping all night. This time, he was lucky. Without saying a word, he handed out the paper he gave yesterday.
When the prison guard saw that he knew that 'you should pay 120000000 yuan when meeting.' The signature was 'Silent in the Imperial Prison'. Seeing that there was no word for breaking the ban, he put it in his arms and said, "If it works, we will discuss everything. If it doesn't work, you two will wait to starve to death." Just as he was about to hand over the shift, the prison guard stopped silence, took the proof and hurriedly left the dungeon.
Going to the ground, it was a routine body search to prevent collusion between inside and outside. The wrinkled letter was naturally pinched out. Qiangu, who was searching, looked at the front and back, and said with a smile: "You are rich? Brothers, why don't you have the good luck?"
The jailer felt ache and said, "It's the old rules."
"This is almost the same." Qianhu then threw the quotation to him and said, "Drink tonight, I'll treat you to the old place..."
"Oh, okay." The jailer smiled in pain. The money he received was reduced by half of the amount of money he received for this meal, which made him lose his mind and went home to sleep.
When he woke up, he thought that he had 60 taels at least, which was something he could not earn in a month. After thinking about it, he felt much more relieved. He went to Chen Mansion in Qipan Hutong and handed the note to the door.
When the gatezi saw that it was an adult's handwriting, he dared not neglect it. While asking him to drink tea in the gatehouse, he quickly delivered the characters to the wife in the backyard.
As soon as he knew something was wrong in the silence, Ruohan left Rou Niang to take care of the children and returned to the capital alone to take charge. She knew very well that if the head of the family was imprisoned, the mansion would inevitably be without a leader. Although the gentlemen were all talented, they would definitely be in chaos without her as the mistress. So even if they didn't take any ideas, she had to take charge in the mansion.
After seeing the words, Ruohan ordered someone to send them to the front yard and asked the three gentlemen to decide.
After Wang Yin got the note, he looked at it and handed it over to Yu Yin. Yu Yin took it and put the note on the table. He got up and took out a small porcelain bottle from the bookshelf. He picked out some purple powder from the porcelain bottle, mixed it evenly with clean water in the small plate, then glued it with a small cotton swab, and evenly applied it to the back of the paper.
After doing all this, the three of them stared at the paper with their breath, and saw a light blue question mark appearing like magic.
Obviously, the adults need someone to answer his doubts. It is coincidental that they just learned the cause of the adults' disaster and were about to try to send the news in. According to the instructions of the shopkeeper Rishenglong, the name of the book is "Journey to the West", which contains a lot of satirical plots. The three of them came to see it. It was not... For example, in the 78th chapter, the king of monks indulged in lust and his body collapsed. The prescription given by the father-in-law of the evil path was to use 1,111 children as medicine, "After taking it, you will have the merit of immortality," and in the name of immortality, it is difficult not to remind me of the king of the dynasty, the emperor of Jiajing, who is the heavenly king of this dynasty!
Let’s talk about another place called Chechi Kingdom. The emperor in that place advocates Taoism and is superstitious about becoming immortals. He also created a few evil Taoist priests such as tigers, deer, and sheep. He fought with several monks. In the end, he was cleaned up by the monks and died without a place to bury him. Such examples are different in the book. It can be said that the emperors, kings and others appear in the book are probably foolish monarchs, and there are always Taoist priests around him-and they are evil Taoist priests, and they can be seen by blind people. The prototype is still: Du Jing favors Taoist priests.
If these are meaningful, there are even more explicit plots - in the novel, the king of Chechi Kingdom caught monks everywhere for serving Taoist priests because the monk failed to pray for rain, resulting in more than 2,000 monks "six or seven hundred died, and seven or eight hundred committed suicide." The remaining five hundred were still alive. When it came to the destruction of France, the king vowed to kill 10,000 monks just because a monk slandered him, and four were enough... These plots were precisely directed to Emperor Jiajing. While admiring Taoism, the Emperor of Taoism also cracked down on Buddhism. Not only did he withdraw the Buddhist temple in the forbidden city of the palace, but he also issued an order to return to secular life, forbidden to repair temples, and privately ordained monks. These plots are too explicit, and it is no wonder that Emperor Jiajing was so angry that the two Buddhas ascended to heaven and the three Buddhas left their bodies, and asked the author to ask.
But no one dared to sign this kind of book, so the author's name cannot be found on the title page, but there is a silent name for the recommender - this is a commercial method, but now it has become evidence of his "defamation of the present and indiscretion". If it comes to his relationship with Hai Rui, it will inevitably make the emperor think a lot, and it is not surprising that he locked him up and was with Hai Rui as his companion.
What is puzzling is why adults recommend publishing such books? How could those booksellers be brave enough to allow such books to be published? Of course, it is not the time to think about this, so they have to try to let adults know about this. Fortunately, they have been planning to crack down on this matter, and now people from the Dongchang come to ask for it, which saves a lot of trouble.
So Shen Mingchen went out and asked the prisoner to drink in the flower hall. The prisoner could not refuse and had to follow him into Rui.
Shen Mingchen was already funny and deliberately attracted him. The prison guard only said that he wanted to ask himself to take care of the boss, so he was not wary. Both sides quickly called him brothers and brothers. After three rounds of wine, and when his face turned red and ears were hot, Shen Mingchen took out a silver note of 200 taels and said, "This is my brother's hard money, which is considered to be the Han family's heart."
The prison guard was already hurting to cut the income in half. Now that he saw that the other party gave him an extra eighty taels, how could he not be happy? He happily put the silver note in his arms and patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, if I am covered in the future, your adult will not bend."
Shen Mingchen sneered in his heart. A small prison guard was not afraid of the wind flashing his tongue, but he still said with gratitude: "If you have your brother's words, brother will feel at ease. Please take care of my elders in the future. The Han family will not treat my brother badly."
"It's easy to say." The prison guard agreed.
"Come on, drink and drink." Shen Mingchen said diligently.
The jailer drank a glass of wine, and saw that it was getting late, and he was still unsatisfied and said, "I can't drink it anymore, we have to go back to work as a servant."
Shen Mingchen couldn't help but send him to the door, took a food box from the servant, and said to him: "My adults never get tired of eating, so they must not be used to the food there. Please hand over a box of dishes to him."
"This..." The prison guard said in a difficult situation: "Our place is very ordinary prison, so you are not allowed to bring things from outside..." Before he finished speaking, he had another silver note in his hand. When he saw that it was another hundred taels, he swallowed it directly and said, "I will be reluctant to do it."
"Please." Shen Mingchen clasped his fists and watched him leave.
The jailer carried the food box and went to the ticket number first, exchanged the tickets, and then returned to the imperial prison. The Qianhu was indeed in the class. When he saw him, he laughed. The jailer secretly presented his part. Qianhu's smile became even brighter and said, "Let's go, drink."
"If you don't go, you have to be a job." The jailer said: "The wind has been tight these days, so how dare you skip work casually."
"That's right, I'll send you down." Qianhu was eager to save this money, so he opened the door of the dungeon and turned around to see that he was holding a food box in his hand: "What?"
"It was their family who asked me to take it to him." The prison guard thought to himself that he could not escape and whispered: "I ordered the bill." As he said that, he handed over another forty taels, which happened to be a good deal for Qianhu.
For the sake of money, Qianhu did not pursue his violation, but the food box must be checked clearly. If there is any entrainment, the responsibility will be great. But he carefully checked inside and out and confirmed that it was an ordinary food box, without any mechanism, and the same was true for chopsticks and dishes. Then he stopped and said, "No, as an example," and whispered: "Don't let people see it."
The jailer quickly got off the dungeon with his food box, and did not say hello to his colleagues, and sent it to Chen Si directly. For the sake of money, his attitude improved this time. He gently put down his things and said kindly, saying that he would give instructions if he needed anything.
"It turns out that money can help the gods!" When the prison guard walked away, Hai Rui said to silent half mockingly and half sighing.
Silent but his face remained calm and said, "I only know that if I want light, I will have candles, and if I want food, I will have food. This is all the credit for money." As he said that, he put out the dishes and bowls in the food box, and saw that the fish inside were chopped into several pieces, and the meatballs were broken... Anyone who could hide things did not escape the misfortune of being dismembered, which shows the perversion of Dongchang.
But for the two hungry eyes that were starving a day ago, they only had to fill their stomachs, no matter what shape it was, and handed a pair of chopsticks to Hai Rui and said, "Come on, eat, you will have the strength after eating..."
"Stop talking, I'll just eat it." Hai Rui took the chopsticks and swallowed it with Chen Silence.
It was a coincidence that he was stuck as he ate yesterday, and Chen Mo followed suit, and brought the ball of thatch to his mouth and whispered: "Slowly spit it out."
Hai Rui shook his head and said that he didn't have the ability. Chen Si didn't say hello to him. He slapped his back with a palm, and a white ball spurted out of Hai Rui's mouth and was falling on the ball of grass. He looked at it silently and shook his head and said, "You can be stuck even if you eat fish balls. You are really eating voraciously."
Chapter completed!