Ordinary garrison mansions do not have prisons, but Zhangjiakou garrison mansion has a dungeon, which is built in a garden of the back office. The entrance is in a rockery, which makes it very secretive.
As the name suggests, the dungeon is built underground, with no sunlight inside. The dungeon is not big, with only five or six cells. The dim light emitted by several oil lamps in the corridor is just enough for people to see the prisoners inside.
"At the stall, my subordinate caught a mouse." A prisoner suddenly said to the person in another cell with an expression of joy, and his tone was obviously a little weak.
He held the back of a mouse's neck in his hand and stretched out the fence to show it to the stall owner. The mouse was not big, and a lot of the hair on its body was sticky, making it look dirty. It was curled up and struggling "squeaking".
"Give it to Wang Peng and let him eat. Keep your strength and wait for the opportunity to rush out." Gu Baichuan, the stall owner, was also overjoyed when he saw this and said to his subordinate.
This time, the boat really capsized in the gutter. About ten people, including the experienced Dongchang officers, were all overturned by others. Fortunately, one Li Laosi escaped, otherwise the whole army would have been completely wiped out.
The person who arrested them has already revealed his identity, and he is still a member of the government. It is obvious that there is collusion between government and businessmen. If he did not join the gang, he would probably be killed and silenced.
After Gu Baichuan finished speaking, no one answered. After a while, Wang Peng's voice came from the cell next door: "At the stall, this rat is so dirty and is still moving around, how can we eat it?"
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These Dongchang servants all came from good families and had no worries about food and drink. They were treated as superiors wherever they went on missions, and were treated to good food and wine. They did not receive any special training like later generations of wild survival. Therefore, Wang
When Peng Ze saw this dirty rat, he felt nauseous even though he was hungry. He was silent for a while before answering Gu Baichuan.
"If you hadn't been the best at this place, you wouldn't have been allowed to eat. The tasks given to us by the Marquis and the expectations placed on us must be completed." Gu Baichuan was already very hungry and had enough energy to speak.
"Isn't there still Li Laosi? I haven't seen him yet. It seems that he hasn't been caught." Wang Peng still didn't want to eat and said with hope.
"Yes, we have been hungry for several days. The fourth child has not come in yet. He is afraid that he has escaped. He will probably bring someone to rescue us soon." A personal entourage of Zhong Jinwei also said to Mr. Li the same as Wang Peng.
Si holds a hope.
At this moment, the heavy dungeon door was slowly opened, and light shone into the dungeon.
When the man who pinched the rat saw it, he quickly hid in the cell, pinched the rat's neck hard, and hid it in a remote place.
Immediately afterwards, a man was dragged into the dungeon by two jailers.
Another person also walked in, walking around the cells with official steps, followed by several guards.
"Have you figured it out? As long as you join us, you can make a fortune together. Don't trouble us for no reason." When the man walked to the cell where Gu Baichuan was, he stopped and said.
He waited for a while, but when there was no response, he said: "Come on, throw this person into this cell and let them see, so as not to continue daydreaming."
"Yes, guard." The two jailers agreed, opened the cell door and threw the unconscious man in.
Gu Baichuan vaguely knew something was wrong, so he quickly dragged the shackles over and took a look. Sure enough, it was Li Laosi who had not been caught by them before. It seemed that he had been tortured by them.
"For the sake of being an official in the same dynasty, I will give you one more day to think about it. If you don't agree, you can report to the Palace of the King of Hell." Zhangjiakou guard Zhao Zhensong said a conspiratorial word, turned around and left the dungeon, and ignored him.
them.
His guards and jailers followed him out, and the dungeon door was closed.
Gu Baichuan thought to himself that if you knew that we were ordered by Lord Marquis to come here specifically for you, and that we were not the kind of people who take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune by blackmailing them, I'm afraid you wouldn't have allowed people like him to live for so long.
After Gu Baichuan finished thinking, he helped Li Laosi up, shook him slightly and shouted: "Lao Si, Lao Si, wake up." [
Li Laosi was still in a coma and did not respond.
The people in the other cells heard Gu Baichuan's voice and realized that the person who was dragged in was Li Laosi. Their expectation that Li Laosi would come back with troops to rescue them was suddenly shattered. In addition to being frustrated, they also cared about Li Laosi.
Seeing the situation, they all approached the fence and looked at Li Laosi.
In the same cell as Gu Baichuan was a personal attendant of Zhongxing Hou named Wang Zhiyi. Seeing that Gu Baichuan could not wake up Li Lao Si, he suggested: "Splash Lao Si's face with water and he should be able to wake him up."
Gu Baichuan raised his head and glanced at him, then lowered his head and continued to look at Li Laosi while speaking: "I need you to tell me if there is water."
Wang Zhiyi immediately remembered that he had been starved by those gangsters for several days. He had already finished drinking the little water he had been provided, and there was nothing left at all. He couldn't help but touch his forehead and said a little embarrassedly: "I forgot."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly clapped his palms, causing the shackles in his hands to make a "clang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang" sound, and then he said loudly: "There is a way, who has to pee? I'll pour urine on the fourth child's face, I guess.
It can also wake him up."
The people in the cell were very talkative when they heard it.
At this time, I don’t know whether it was Wang Zhiyi’s words that forced Li Laosi to wake up or his movements that woke up Li Laosi. Regardless of the reason, Li Laosi woke up. As a result, he saved himself from having to pee.
Opportunity to wash your face.
When Gu Baichuan saw Li Laosi open his eyes, he was overjoyed and asked quickly: "Lao Si, what's going on with you? How come you were captured too?"
When Li Laosi saw clearly that the person supporting him was Gu Baichuan, the leader of the Dongchang Stall, they struggled to remember. But the injuries on his body from torture made him stronger again, so he had no choice but to lie in Gu Baichuan's arms and said:
"Damn it, all the officials here are in the same group. I was betrayed by the grain doctor of the Xuan Mansion."
"Oh, you escaped to Xuanfu alone?" Gu Baichuan asked upon hearing this.
"No, I have a friend from Zhangjiakou who helped me escape to Xuanfu." Li Laosi did not hide anything from Gu Baichuan and explained Wei San's situation.
Gu Baichuan's heart moved, and he quickly asked: "What about Wei San, where is he now?"
The prisoners in various cells listened intently to the conversation between the two of them, and a glimmer of hope rose from the bottom of their hearts.
"I don't know. Those people also forced me to ask about Wei San's situation, but I didn't say a word. But later, those people seemed to have heard something and stopped interrogating me. Then I fell into a coma and ended up here.
." Li Laosi recalled the situation at that time and reported it to Gu Baichuan.
When everyone listened to Li Laosi's words, their hearts sank again. It seemed that this group of people knew Wei San's whereabouts or had captured Wei San, so they stopped questioning Li Laosi.
Gu Baichuan motioned to Wang Zhiyi to help Li Laosi, while he himself stepped aside and began to digest the news that Li Laosi had brought.
It seems that Zhangjiakou is really run over by them, and only extraordinary measures can annihilate them in one fell swoop.
As soon as strangers like themselves arrived in Zhangjiakou, they were stared at by local snakes like them, and they knew everything about them without realizing it. Therefore, they did not need to force confessions about how many companions they had.
Li Laosi was unlucky because Wei San, whom they didn't know, appeared and was tortured to extract a confession. Based on what is known so far, Wei San, an ordinary citizen, probably would not be able to escape from their clutches.
Gu Baichuan recalled that before Zhongxing Hou gave his body to the tiger, he had told him to eradicate this cancer in the Ming Dynasty. But now they all fell into the hands of the other party. Not only might their lives be in danger, but if anyone on Zhongxing Hou's side could not survive at all,
, this cancer may continue to grow on Daming’s body and poison Daming.
If he died silently here, it would be better to follow Marquis Zhongxing and die vigorously on the battlefield. Gu Baichuan secretly regretted it, gave a high-five and said loudly: "We must not wait to die, we must save ourselves."
Everyone in the dungeon was attracted by Gu Baichuan's words and looked at him one after another.
"Wang Peng." Gu Baichuan called.
"My subordinate is here." Wang Peng promised.
"We must save ourselves. At the moment, we can only hope that you will give the other party an unexpected thunder blow. If you can save everyone, save everyone. If you can't, then escape by yourself. You must report what happened here. If something happens to Marquis Zhongxing,
, just report it to the factory owner and state that it is the task assigned by Marquis Zhongxing."
When Wang Peng heard that he still wanted to eat the rat himself, his stomach couldn't help but growl. He said with a crying face: "Stop, can I pretend to surrender and then escape?"
"Why are you so confused? After working in Dongchang for so many years, don't you know that there are many ways to test whether you are really surrendering or fake?" After Gu Baichuan's words, his tone became a little harsh.
Wang Peng saw that there was no way out and the stakes were very high, so he had no choice but to accept his fate and said without hesitation: "I obey!"