In the cell, the oil lamp on the wall flickered, making their shadows grow longer.
Looking at Xiao Chen, Cao Zheng's throat surged several times, but he finally held back what he wanted to say.
"Originally, I wanted to tell you something, but now it seems that saying it has the same effect as not saying it, so I won't say it anymore." Cao Zheng said lightly.
"Yeah." Xiao Chen nodded, "Some things are better left unsaid. However, I do have some things to say to you."
"What words?"
"There is a small mountain village called Yangcun, which was temporarily used as a foothold by those who detained the prince. In the village, all men, women, old and children were killed. This is why I killed those martial arts practitioners on the spot without asking the reason.
The reason. Go back and tell your old man with strong martial arts skills to restrain his men and stop doing things that harm the people. I have prepared three hundred firearms. As long as he appears again in the capital, I will definitely beat him up.
It’s a hornet’s nest.”
Xiao Chen said calmly.
"You want to let me go?" Cao Zheng shook his head, unable to believe his own judgment.
Just now, you had to go to Baoding City to buy that colorless and odorless poison. Why did you let yourself go in the blink of an eye?
"If I don't let you go, how can I send a message to him? Tell him that I don't want to confront him and ask him to stop and leave." Xiao Chen said seriously.
"I can only pass on the message, I can't influence his decision."
"Well, you can just pass on the message."
The iron door of the cell slowly opened, and Cao Zheng was just about to walk out when Xiao Chen's voice came from behind: "Wait a moment."
"Why, do you regret letting me go?" Cao Zheng said with a faint smile.
"Look at your clothes and the wounds on your face. Even if you leave the gate of Dongchang Prison, how far can you go? Dongchang let you go. How can you avoid Jin Yiwei's eyes like this? Can you survive?
The interrogation of other forbidden troops?" Xiao Chen looked at Du Shaoqin, who was a little surprised at the door, "Bring me some clean cloth and bring a basin of warm water."
Although I don't understand why Xiao Chen did this, everyone in Dongchang unconditionally obeys Xiao Chen's words.
"Okay, I'll get ready right away." Du Shaoqin nodded, put the bloody whip in his hand away from his waist, and left in a hurry.
Liu Rufeng stood up from the corner: "You want to let him go?"
"Um."
"I'll go to the Criminal Department to borrow a corpse." Liu Rufeng also left in a hurry.
Cao Zheng, who was standing at the door of the cell, couldn't help but be stunned: "Are these your cronies?"
"Dongchang has no cronies, only brothers." Xiao Chen said calmly.
After watching Cao Zheng change his clothes and clean the wounds on his face, Xiao Chen sent him outside the gate of the East Factory.
Looking at the figure disappearing on the street, he didn't speak for a long time.
"We have gone far, and we should be able to leave safely. Liu Qianhu hasn't come back yet. Why don't you go to my room for a bowl of soju?" Du Shaoqin said in a low voice behind him.
"I won't drink today. I'll go to Liao Xianghe's cell and ask someone to unlock the door."
After hesitating for a moment, Du Shaoqin said: "Okay."
After the prince came back from Baoding Mansion this time, Du Shaoqin faintly felt that Xiao Chen seemed to have some changes that were different from usual, and there seemed to be a worry hanging over his heart.
The moment he opened the door of the cell, Liao Xianghe stood quietly beside his little bed. The empty sleeves pinned to his waist could no longer be found.
A kind of momentum.
With a warm smile, he looked like the uncle next door, waiting for the children who came home late.
"Are you waiting for me?" Xiao Chen asked quietly while standing at the door.
"I'm waiting for you every day." Liao Xianghe's answer was quite meaningful.
"I left in a hurry today and I didn't bring a wine bottle with me."
"It doesn't matter, I have it here." As he said that, Liao Xianghe bent down and pulled out a very old-looking wine jar from under the bed. "The people in the prison took good care of me. They knew that I loved drinking, so they specially gave me a jar.
Give me the aged soju."
Looking at the intact mud seal on the wine jar, Xiao Chen said lightly: "Why haven't you opened it yet?"
"It's hard to take it apart if you lose a hand." Liao Xianghe said, raising the wine jar and handing it to Xiao Chen.
Without saying anything, Xiao Chen took the wine jar with both hands and knocked it lightly with his right hand, causing the old mud seal to shatter to the ground.
He raised his head, raised the wine jar high, and poured the slightly yellowish old soju into his mouth.
The soju that was accidentally poured out of his mouth flowed down his chin and wet the front of his clothes.
Liao Xianghe just looked at it without stopping him.
At this moment, it might be a good thing for Xiao Chen to use alcohol to anesthetize him.
When most of the jar of soju was poured into his stomach, Xiao Chen held the opening of the jar with his left hand and suddenly let it go.
Perhaps it was the anesthesia of alcohol, or maybe he put down the wine jar too hard, so he staggered back two steps.
Liao Xianghe's heart tightened and he wanted to reach out to help him, but in the end he didn't make a move and still stood there quietly.
"Is he in the capital?" Xiao Chen's eyes were red, like a beast that had been trapped for a long time, staring at Liao Xianghe in front of him.
He walked forward, bent slightly, and used his only remaining arm to slowly take the wine jar from Xiao Chen's hand: "You know clearly, why bother asking me?"
"Why, why, why did he do this? Why did he go against the court, against Dongchang, and against me?" Xiao Chen murmured to himself as he shook his head vigorously, his eyes filled with tears.
Liao Xianghe felt troubled in his heart.
Originally, he wanted to tell Xiao Chen the whole story, but he always felt that the time was not mature enough.
I don’t know what went wrong in my senior brother’s actions, but Xiao Chen guessed his identity in advance.
How could he accept his enemies when he was dedicated to serving the imperial court? The leader of the secret force that attempted to rebel was actually his master!
Moreover, this force attacks Dongchang everywhere and creates crises for Dongchang. This time, it almost made Dongchang and the Ministry of Punishment unable to recover.
You gave me powerful skills, why do you have to target me and suppress me everywhere? Why, why?
"Maybe he didn't mean what he said, maybe he did it for you." Liao Xianghe said softly.
"Do you know that since I was sensible, I have to rely on my own hands to beg for food? I envy those children who have parents, I envy them to play all day and have delicious meals waiting for them at home. When I go out to beg for food
, when the vicious dog in the village bared its snow-white teeth and rushed towards me, how I wished that like other people, my parents would rush out and fight away the vicious dog for me? Even so, I still have to go out and go to others.
At the door of my house, I watched eagerly as the children with their parents were being fed bite by bite. I also had to go to the smelly garbage dump to find a vegetable leaf that could satisfy my hunger."
"I was like a savage, running around every day to fill my stomach without any choice. If there were not two children from the same village who had the same experience as me to take care of me, I would have fallen into the smelly ditch on the roadside and turned into a human being.
A pile of bones.”
Xiao Chen's face was completely wet with tears.
"Yes, I know all this." Liao Xianghe nodded gently.
"With the appearance of Master, I seem to have found a home when I am lonely. Although practicing is very hard, every time I hold the fragrant hot rice, I feel that I am the happiest person in the world. I have regarded Master as my
My parents are the only people I can trust and rely on in this world."
At this point, Xiao Chen couldn't help but let go of his voice and burst into tears.
He leaned against the wall of the cell and slowly slipped down. He hugged his knees with both hands and buried his head between his knees while his back rose and fell sharply.
Liao Xianghe shook his head, his eyes a little wet.
Outside, Xiao Chen is the all-powerful purple-clad captain, responsible for major and important cases that no one in the entire Ming Dynasty can handle.
Who had ever cared that he was just a young man in his early twenties, a helpless orphan with no relatives.
"Remember, everything your master did was for you!" Liao Xianghe finally couldn't help but wanted to tell the truth.
"For me, to torture me? He knew that I was working for the imperial court, but he still wanted to go against the imperial court at every turn. Is he kidnapping the prince just to make the emperor angry at Dongchang and put me in jail for interrogation? What on earth did he want to do? He
Why do this?"
Xiao Chen gradually stopped crying, but his voice gradually became lower and lower, as if he had despaired of the whole world!
