That night, the wind was cold and the stars were nowhere to be seen on the way home.
The spacious streets are sparsely populated, the night market is in decline, and it is difficult to fully recover from the trauma caused by the war in less than two years.
Zhang Wu tightened his collar, vented heat to his palms, turned his head with some concern and asked:
"Uncle Six, do you also want to join the tutoring department?"
"I have this idea."
Ma Liu longed for:
"You also know that in addition to listening to music from the railings, Uncle Six's only hobby is practicing martial arts."
"For your blessing, I first soaked the secret recipe for marrow washing and ate Qi Pill, and I already had the internal strength comparable to that of a first-class master."
"If you have stronger strength, your mind will also become higher. I always feel that you can't bury this martial arts."
Ma Liu walked side by side with the boy and sighed:
"I'm going to tell you, when I became a second-rate expert in the early years, I thought of quitting my position as a prisoner and going to see the real world, but I couldn't bear to give up this kind of iron job. It's easy to be conservative, but it's difficult to make changes.
So it delayed."
The appearance of the sanctuary department made Ma Liu's extinguished heart come alive again.
At the end of the world, either killing revenge until death, or committing a major case, being arrested and imprisoned.
Now that I have the opportunity to join the Pacification Department, I am directly above the world. For the Sixth Uncle, who has a dream of being a chivalrous and righteous person, it is an excellent opportunity to show his life ambitions.
If Zhang Wu wanted to persuade him, he forced himself to hold it back.
I have endless life and gain time to experience life and fulfill all kinds of dreams.
Ordinary people only have a hundred years of life, and they are racing against time every moment, imposing their own ideas on others, which is like moral kidnapping.
Besides, Liu Shukong has martial arts skills, but he is in the Heavenly Prison and has no place to use his skills. If he doesn't find a place for his strength, he will be afraid that he will not be able to rest in peace even if he dies.
"Everyone has aspirations."
Zhang Wu sighed in his heart, not ready to persuade him again.
However, as a friend who is better than a relative, I have the obligation to remind the other party.
"Uncle Six, this peacekeeping department is not as good as you think."
"Oh? How do you say it?"
Ma Liu asked in surprise.
Zhang Wu said:
"The tutoring department is directly responsible to His Majesty, which means that this department will become the sword in the hands of the emperor, and use it to monitor ministers and deal with disobedient ministers. The darkness is afraid that it is more bloody than the heavenly prison, even if you have the opportunity to go to the rivers and lakes.
People deal with each other is just a suppression, annihilation, and massacre all the families. Just like a high-ranking executioner, you can only perform tasks in a cold blood and have no chance to act bravely."
“…”
Ma Liu was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, and turned his head to look at the boy's increasingly determined face. It was unbelievable that the sixteen-year-old child had such insight.
"Be cautious, able to endure loneliness, listen to others' advice, and have great perseverance and wisdom. This child is in trouble in the future."
Uncle Six responded with amazement:
"Don't worry, I just have this idea and will not act recklessly. Anyone who recruits talents will have to last for several years. I will check the situation first."
"Well, it's better to be careful."
After Zhang Wu said that, the two of them also walked to the fork in the road, waved goodbye to Ma Liu, and the boy walked straight into his own alley.
Open the door and enter the yard.
Sanheyuan style, three tile houses.
The yard is not small, but it is overgrown with weeds and is no longer above the knee.
But what's strange is that the weeds within one meter of the courtyard wall have been cleaned up very clean, but the courtyard is not moving at all.
In the past two months, Zhang Wu has laid the wall into a trap.
There is a layer of empty soil above, and rusty iron thorns are placed below. Who dares not say hello to come in and keep his feet blooming and tetanus to death.
Even he buried many thin lines in the weeds, connecting a row of bells in the house, but someone stepped on the grass and would definitely make a noise.
When he came to the door of the main house, he saw that the soybean-sized piece of soil stuffed in the corner of the door had not been opened and crushed to pieces. Zhang Wucai pushed the door open and entered.
There are also thin threads behind the two doors and windows. When someone pushes the window in, the threads will be broken.
It is absolutely right to be careful if you want to live for a long time.
In the winter, the house was so cold that it was so cold that it was coming in. It was even cooler than the temperature outside.
I sighed that I don’t know how many people will be frozen to death this winter. The boy lit fire and started to burn the kang. After the bed was hot, he fell asleep.
...
In the blink of an eye, spring is blooming and midsummer is approaching. It will be almost two years since Zhang Wu came to this world.
As the saying goes, the officials who are in the jail are kept in prison. The prisoners are replaced one after another, and only the prisoners remain motionless.
However, the changes in the official supervision department have been very big.
Liu Zhengjun took a look and felt that even if Liu Qing, the Minister of Personnel, was guilty, he was still a thin camel bigger than a horse.
But during this year, a large number of prisoners came to the official supervisor, all of whom were from Liu Qing, from the second to the eighth rank. Uncle Jun was so scared that he did not dare to come to the official supervisor anymore.
This is obviously because there are court leaders who are chasing them and want to uproot Liu Qing's power.
If you try to please him in prison, is it that you are his people?
The court boss will not pay attention to a small prison chief, but the officials who depend on him will not show mercy to Lao Liu's subordinates.
Perhaps it was because of guilt or in order to clear the relationship and make up for one's own mistakes, officials and supervisors have undergone unprecedented changes.
The food level was reduced, Lord Shangshu ate rice, and the rest were all rough bran.
All the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are also cancelled, and the prison door is locked, which is no different from ordinary prisoners.
Even if the fourth-rank Langguan wanted to buy wine for ten times the price, no one dared to sell him.
As for the matter, money can no longer solve the problem. Liu Zhengjun is afraid of being implicated, and the jailers are also afraid that this little money will affect their iron rice bowl.
So, the good thing that brought food to the official supervisor and showed his face in front of the boss was rushing to do before, but now it has become a chore.
You are always complacent in front of you, but now you see that the situation is wrong, you will take advantage of the situation and replace the food with thick bran. How can the big guys not hold a grudge against you?
The chef was unwilling to give it away, so he simply died of his father and went back to his hometown in the south to attend the funeral.
The jailers were unwilling to send him off. In the two days after the chef left, they directly hungry the officials and supervisors.
I only delivered one meal the day before yesterday and yesterday, but the jailers gave it together, so no one should run away.
Liu Zhengjun appeared this morning and forced Si Zhu to find someone to deliver food. He could not starve the big shots to death.
Prison Si forced the prison head again.
Since the heavy-duty prison chief gave Lao Liu a thousand taels of silver and successfully took office, he has almost never been to the prison and has just eaten his salary.
In the end, Uncle Six fought against everything alone.
Of course, he could also force the jailer below to deliver food.
But Ma Liu is cruel to prisoners, but he cares for his colleagues very much. He looks cold on the surface, and he helps the most when something happens to his family.
Unfortunately, people's hearts are not old.
It was noon, and no one of the jailers who came to the kitchen to have dinner early on weekdays was afraid of falling into Ma Liu.
"Uncle Six, I'll go with you to send it."
Zhang Wu really couldn't stand it and grabbed the large wooden barrel containing thick bran from behind.
"You kid, you are confused!"
Ma Liu carried the bucket and turned around and glared at the young man:
"Uncle offended these people, at most he could go to the tutelage department. With the strength of my first-class master, he could at least get a hundred households, and betray the imperial power, and then report. What should they do to me if they dare?"
Zhang Wu shook his head and refused, saying firmly:
"It's your business that you have a way out, but you treat me like a parent-child. How dare Zhang Wu forget his righteousness when he sees profit?"
Ma Liu's eyes were hot.
The boy said calmly:
"At worst, we can go to the Fushu Department together. With my identity as a disciple of the Heavenly King of Protecting the Country, we still have magical skills, so we won't be too bad."
"well……"
At this moment, Ma Liu was filled with emotion, and his heart that had been silent for many years was ups and downs.
Finally, I could only pat the boy's increasingly broad shoulders hard, and sighed:
"It is the luckiest thing for my uncle to meet you and watch you grow up."