Ma Di stood outside the cell door with his arms folded, smiling and saying: "Let's be direct, do you want to die or live?"
Fei Yao asked carefully: "What if you want to die? What if you want to live?"
"If you want to die, it's easy. The car will be broken, the waist will be cut, the death will be slow, and you will die in the dark. You can choose one of them."
Fei Yao's face changed wildly: "What if you want to live?"
Ma Su said word for word: "Like Guo Huai, he abandoned Wei and joined Han."
Guo Huai defected to Shu Han?
Guo Huai, after the famous Guo family in Taiyuan, was also an important minister of the Wei state. How could he switch to Shuhan?
impossible.
Absolutely impossible!
Fei Yao's eyes widened, recalling the day when Jincheng was breached, as well as every detail of his long-term collaboration with Guo Huai, and he quickly realized that Guo Huai's surrender to Shu was probably not voluntary... No, it was definitely not voluntary.
Fei Yao immediately expressed his position: "General, I am willing to surrender!"
"Okay, very good!" Ma Di laughed: "Come here, open the cell door!"
The prison guard quickly pushed open the cell door, opened Fei Yao's shackles, and waited respectfully aside.
Are you going to let me go?
They will no longer judge whether I sincerely surrender to Shu?
Fei Yao was confused, rubbed his wrists and walked out, holding his hands with a look of shame on his face and saying: "Yao once ignored the general's ten-day time limit a few days ago. I didn't expect the general to be so open-minded and trustworthy. It's really shameful. But I don't know.
Where is General Guo Huai now?"
Ma Su raised his hand and pointed casually to the cell next door: "There."
Fei Yao quickly looked intently.
Then took a breath of cold air.
Hiss~
It’s really Guo Huai!
Fei Yao didn't expect that after living in the prison for three days, he didn't realize that Guo Huai actually lived next door.
Of course, this is not the point.
The point is how could Guo Huai be imprisoned? Didn't he surrender to Shu?
Wherever he looked, Guo Huai was lying upright on the straw in the cell, with disheveled hair and a dull look on his face, turning a deaf ear to the conversation between the two.
"Junhou, this...?"
"Ignore him and let's go."
The two of them walked out of the prison and established themselves in the city.
Ma Di looked sideways at Fei Yao: "Guo Huai surrendered a few days ago and rebelled again. He wanted to escape but was caught by the soldiers, so he was temporarily detained here."
"I, the general, love his talent very much and would like to put him at Ji Han's disposal. I hope that General Fei can help me."
Fei Yao quickly handed over his hand: "I am willing to do my best."
"Very good, you take the time to persuade him. If you can convince him that he is sincere, it will be a great achievement."
"Thank you General!"
…
In the cell.
After Ma Su and Fei Yao left, Guo Huai sat up, leaned against the corner and sighed.
At his age, he has already seen through the true meaning of life.
When he was young, his grand ambition of dressing up and raging on horseback, wielding a three-foot sword to pacify the world had dissipated. When he was in this prison, what he cared about most was no longer his family and country, but a happy family and the safety of his children and grandchildren.
As one of the few local officials in Wei's political circle and a close minister of Emperor Cao Rui, how could he defect to Shu?
On that day, tens of thousands of Shu soldiers came to the city, and Jincheng was captured instantly. No matter how outstanding his military talent was, it was impossible to stop Ma Su with only a thousand soldiers.
Given the option of surrender or death, he could only choose to surrender, keep himself useful, and then find a way to escape back to Wei.
But I didn't expect that after more than three months of secret planning, it fell short in the end.
God knows how shocked he was when he was blocked by Ma Di with a smile on his face as soon as he walked to the city gate in disguise!
Guo Huai still couldn't figure out how Ma Di could predict when he would flee?
Could this person be considered a god if he can pinch him?!
Now, lying in such a prison, no matter how strong his desire for Wei is, no matter how outstanding his military ability is, he cannot escape through the iron prison.
His end was predictable, either he was publicly executed as a warning to others, or he was imprisoned for life without ever seeing the light of day.
Guo Huai kept lying in a reclining position and thought for a long time. For a long time, the more he thought about it, the more desperate he became, and he felt that his head was gradually becoming chaotic. He simply supported the wall and stood up to think.
He really couldn't bear to be captured like this.
There must be a way to escape.
Before, Guo Huai saw that Fei Yao was also imprisoned, but he did not want to deal with the latter.
This is not because he comes from the Guo family, a wealthy family in Taiyuan, and Fei Yao is just a reckless general. They are of different classes and do not work with each other. It is because he is well aware of Fei Yao's nature, which is very unprincipled and he will act according to the wind.
As he expected, Ma Su only said a few threatening words, and Fei Yao was frightened to death and surrendered without moral integrity.
There is really nothing to say to such a person.
Guo Huai supported the wall and slowly straightened his body. Suddenly, his vision went dark and he almost couldn't stand. He shook his head and felt that it was extremely heavy and weighed more than a thousand pounds.
He had to hold on to the wall and slowly lay back down. The heavy feeling on his head suddenly became slightly lighter, but he began to cough violently again.
"Maybe he caught the wind chill in this cold prison."
Guo Huai thought mockingly,
A man who was imprisoned and was about to be executed caught wind and cold. This was truly a blessing and misfortunes never come singly.
When a prisoner dies in his cell, no jailer is innocent.
In such a cold winter, there was only a bundle of straw in the entire cell, and not even a ragged linen quilt.
Damn prisoner treatment.
Too bad!
Thinking randomly, Guo Huai curled up tightly into a ball and covered his body with straw, but he still felt bitingly cold.
Soon, it was night.
Guo Huai felt that his head was just a little heavy at first, but he was getting more and more uncomfortable. His whole body was cold, and he was shivering constantly. His heart was freezing, but his body surface temperature was constantly rising, and it felt hot to the touch.
When the prison guards came to inspect the prison, they saw him with a red face and a hunched waist, wrapped in straw and sifting chaff.
This abnormality immediately attracted the attention of the prison guard. Out of caution, he did not rush to open the cell door. Instead, he took a long stick and poked Guo Huai through the prison bars and shouted.
"Hey, are you dead?"
Guo Huai barely suppressed the strong discomfort in his body, raised his upper body, waved his hand feebly at the prison guard, then lay down heavily on the straw bed, coughing violently.
The prison guard was horrified when he saw this and hurriedly reported it to the warden.
Because Ma Su told them that this person was of great use to Shu Han and needed to be treated well.
So, they gave Guo Huai twice as much straw.
You know, the other prisoners in this cell only have a handful of straw.
Unexpectedly, after giving this guy so much straw, he still got frozen.
Prison guards have seen this situation too many times.
Just got cold.
This disease has a high mortality rate and is also contagious.
Therefore, even though he had the key in his hand, he did not dare to go in and check it himself, but chose to report it to his superiors.
Hearing that Guo Huai was suddenly seriously ill, the prison warden dared not neglect him. He hurriedly got up from the warm bed and rushed to the cell.
Guo Huai is a prisoner whom Ma Su values and no one can afford him if something happens to him.
Along with him, there was also a temporarily summoned military medical worker.
Soon, another jailer arrived with a food box and a bucket of water and handed them in.
Guo Huai struggled to get up, drank a bowl of gruel first, and then washed his face with cold water. Feeling that his head was refreshed, he picked up another bowl of gruel and drank it.
I felt much better immediately.
The warden observed for a while outside the railings and felt that Guo Huai was not pretending to be ill, so he asked someone to open the cell door and let the medical staff go in to treat Guo Huai.
The medical worker checked Guo Huai's pulse and checked his complexion. Suddenly his expression changed drastically and he quickly exited the cell.
Seeing the abnormal look on the doctor's face, the warden immediately felt his heart sink: "Sir, his illness..."
"It's not a cold, it's a plague, it's contagious!" The medical worker quickly washed his hands and said with lingering fear: "This person can't be kept, let's deal with him quickly."
As if to verify what the doctor said, Guo Huai coughed even more violently.
I vomited out the gruel I just drank a while ago. The gruel was mixed with unknown liquid, and it was spit out everywhere, like white flowers.
"Don't get close to those white porridges, and don't get close to this person. I've seen this disease before, and it can be transmitted through breathing."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone panicked.
Everyone knows how terrible the plague is!
From the reign of Emperor Ling (172) to the present, in the past sixty years, plagues that have affected a large area of one state or even several states have occurred five times, each lasting for months or even years; only a few counties have been affected.
Large-scale plagues occurred no less than a hundred times.
Countless people died from the plague.
Therefore, when I heard that Guo Huai had the plague, the long legs in the prison trembled.
