Suddenly some soldiers shouted with their swords at war.

It turned out to be Jin'an, who was surrounded by a circle. He moved his steps and stood on a high ground atop the ruins of ruins.

Jin An calmly replied: "I don't like to be overlooked."

"This position is just right now."

Standing on the high ground of the ruins, Jin An happened to be eye level with the captain riding on the horse.

This was the first official meeting between Jin An and the captain who controlled the military power of the city.

"Be bold!"

"presumptuous!"

The cavalry guards guarding the captain thought they had hit a thorn, shouted loudly, and were about to step forward to subdue Jin An.

The captain raised his hand and stopped his brothers who were about to attack Jin'an's opponents.

"You are no match for him. This young Taoist priest really wants to escape. No one in the room can keep him."

After the captain finished speaking, he laughed and looked at Jin An: "Haha, you are an interesting little Taoist priest. You are different from the old-fashioned Taoist priests that I meet in daily life. They are not serious about words and smiles. They only know how to meditate every day.

, let’s do this, in order to show my feelings, I will reward you with a ‘prison sentence’.”

"Come here, take the two Taoist priests from Wu Zang Taoist Temple and the two Jiang family members and put them all in jail. Take the old man's body with you as well."

The young man Zongren opened his mouth to speak, wanting to reveal his identity as the eighth young lady of the Jiang family. He also wanted to say something to delay the Jiang family's rescue, but before he could speak, General Duwei's eyes were killing and decisive, without emotion.

Looking at him: "What, you want to disobey me?"

"Or do you want to reveal your Jiang family identity and make me throw a tantrum?"

The captain general was talking and laughing with Jin An just now.

He turned around and turned into a ruthless god of murder in the army.

Zong Ren was so frightened that he didn't dare to look directly into the eyes of the captain, so he answered bravely: "No, I don't dare. I just want to remind the captain that there is something evil going on in the Jia family..."

"The Water Goddess Jia Zhidie hasn't been eliminated yet, and I'm worried that the officers and soldiers in the army will suffer a hidden loss, so I want to give the captain a warning..."

Even though Zong Ren lowered his head, he could still feel the stinging pain on his back.

The captain's eyes were like blades, staring at him all the time.

After about a few breaths, Zong Ren felt the thorns on his body disappear, and the captain moved his eyes away from him, no longer paying attention to him.

Zong Ren secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It was only then that the Duwei said calmly: "Water Goddess? I've long wanted to see what this Dragon King looks like."

"I wonder if the Dragon King will take the initiative to show up tonight after I captured one of the Dragon King's Water Goddess. It just saves me having to go down to the Yinyi River to find him."

Zong Ren's body trembled slightly when he heard this.

Looking uneasy.

…

…

Fucheng Prison.

The air is filled with various rotten smells, including the smell of dampness and mold, the sour smell of rotten vegetable leaves and rotten straw mats, and the rotten smell of dead mice.

There is also the turbidity and odor caused by the lack of air circulation all year round.

The dim torches with limited illumination added a sense of darkness to the long corridor of the underground prison.

Jin An always wanted to complain.

Couldn't the ancients have built their prisons into a glorious and upright place?

There is sunshine in the human heart.

Only then can I yearn for the sunshine more.

If you let criminals live in a dark and depressing environment all day long, they will think about negative emotions all day long, and they will suffer from mental illness even if they are not ill. This will increase the probability of committing a second crime after serving their sentence.

This is a disadvantage because there is no concept of mental illness in this era.

At this time, Jin An was locked in the same cell as the old Taoist priest.

"Lao Dao, are you not nervous at all?"

In the cell, the old Taoist priest who was digging at haystacks to catch cockroaches looked up at Jin An: "Why are you nervous?"

While Jin An meditated calmly and regained his strength as quickly as possible, he looked at the old Taoist priest and said: "I am now charged with murder, and you, old Taoist, are considered half an accessory. Even if you don't have your head cut off at the food market, you will be exiled to the frontier.

.”

"I heard that the border areas are in need of water and food. Apart from the long stretches of yellow sand, there are only dried corpses under the desert."

"Ha, finally caught one."

The old Taoist priest did not answer Jin An's words immediately, but took off his shoes, then took off his sock bag, and threw the cockroach into the sock bag. Only then did the old Taoist answer Jin An's question.

"If you want to behead Lacaishikou, it's only because you, little brother, beheaded before me, the old man. You, little brother, are not in a hurry. Why should I, the old man, be in a hurry?"

"Anyway, I've lived half a decade longer than you, my little brother. I've seen flowers, plants, soy, rice, oil, salt, and delicacies in my life. I've earned decades more than you, my little brother. I won't lose anything in this life."

.”

The old Taoist priest said leisurely and contentedly, but he was very open-minded.

He put his shoes on again.

He was still holding his white sock bag in his hand.

The smoke made Jin An move his buttocks and sit at the door of the cell where the air was the best, breathing heavily.

"Speaking of beheading, I remember a folk legend..."

Jin An was indeed as the old Taoist priest said, with a calm expression on his face. After he killed someone and was imprisoned by the government, he still had time to tell stories to the old Taoist priest.

"This folk story tells that in the past, a prisoner made a big mistake and was taken to Caishikou to be beheaded. He didn't want to die, so someone told him that when he was beheaded at Caishikou, he felt a pain in the skin of his neck.

At that moment, the person immediately rolled to the side. As long as he was fast enough, he could be faster than the knife in the executioner's hand, and he could escape the disaster and deceive God once. Then he ran forward without looking back, and kept running out of the city to find someone.

Taking the name of a foreigner who died, concealing his name, and living the rest of his life for him, so that he can avoid death. This is called deceiving the world and stealing the name, concealing the truth."

"Because the person's life span has not yet expired, the person who died brutally still has a life span in the book of life and death in the hands of the judge."

"Sure enough, on the day of interrogation, the prisoner survived after faithfully complying with the instructions. He hid in the countryside where no one knew him and kept his name anonymous. He pretended to be someone else's name and longevity. Not only did he marry a wife, but he also gave birth to a pair of children."

"Tell me, old man, if we are really taken to Caishikou to be beheaded, which one of us will be faster than the knife in the executioner's hand?"

The old Taoist priest who had put on his cloth shoes again at this time, after hearing Jin An's story, was not moved at all: "Little brother, have you ever heard of 'The Queen of Autumn asks to behead' and 'The Queen of Autumn settles accounts'?"

"When the government pronounces your crime, it will stamp the imperial seal on your numerous charges. This seal is like a tattoo on a prisoner's forehead, which cannot be erased for a lifetime. Autumn is the four seasons of the year.

The most murderous season, after autumn, the days are getting shorter and shorter, and people’s shadows are getting shorter and shorter. As the saying goes, the name of a person is the shadow of a tree. When your shadow is not short enough to cover the shadow you are using.

When a person is ungrateful, it is easiest to stir up murderous intentions in the world and settle accounts later in life."

Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest in surprise.

It turns out that there are such allusions to the Queen of Autumn asking for beheading and the Queen of Autumn settling accounts.

"But I don't think we two will die," the old Taoist said confidently.

"The Jia family is now deadlocked with the Jiang family. No matter how we say it, we are standing up for the Jia family this time to offend the Jiang family. The Jia family will try their best to keep us out, whether it is for public or private reasons."

"It depends on whether the Jia family and the Jiang family are strong at mediating."

"So in order to increase our chances of saving our lives, before I was taken away by the officers and soldiers, I quietly asked the Jia family to go to He Mansion to find the eldest lady. When the eldest lady heard that little brother, you were imprisoned in the prison of Fucheng, the eldest lady would definitely take action to save the little boy.

Brother you."

"The Jiang family is very knowledgeable. Facing the He family, one of the three major herbal medicine merchants in Fucheng, and the Jia family jointly putting pressure on them, the Jiang family has to weigh the gains and losses of a life-and-death situation. Besides, this time the Jiang family itself is also at fault.

In a place where they are colluding with evil heretics from all religions, this matter can be big or small. At the most, it can cause your head to fall off. At most, it is just a small crime of being deceived without knowing it, and you will be punished insignificantly."

"Besides, the Xue family also has an old friend of ours, Li Huanwei. Li Huanwei is also the bodyguard commander of the Xue family. Li Huanwei should be able to speak a few words in the Xue family... Ha, you have thrown yourself into a trap again.

Only."

The old Taoist priest caught two more cockroaches this time, beaming with joy, and quickly put them into his sock bag. Now he had caught three cockroaches in total.

"So, little brother, you are not in a hurry. Why should I be in a hurry?"

The old Taoist priest blinked at Jin An.
Chapter completed!