Chapter 44: The Umbrella of Sunny Days (Thanks to Hunan Cuisine Master for the monthly pass)
"The commander of the Si Jian Qianqi, the commander of the commander of the Si Jian, brought people to win people's hearts every day. Now there are more and more people waiting on East Street, and some are even reluctant to leave at night." The young commander reported in embarrassment.
"If they want to wait, let them wait. As long as Lord Yin continues to suppress the case, we have nothing to worry about." Situ Nanyi said relaxedly in the lobby in the five cities.
"Yes, that humble position continues to guard."
The young commander left after hearing this.
In the prison of the Criminal Prison, in the dim cell, it was not clear whether it was day or night. Xian Yu lay on a pile of dry straw, boredly holding the stone grains and drawing another vertical on the earthen wall, and asked, "Brother, how many days have passed, I can't count it, one vertical, two vertical, three vertical, four vertical, five vertical... Why has this case been gone for many days but there is no movement at all? ... No one tells us to ask questions or go to court?"
"Want to come to court?"
A passing prisoner stood outside the cell and sneered, "Do you three know what's going on outside?"
Xian Yu said curiously, "What's wrong? Shouldn't it be that Ruo Ao Yuejiao, who killed countless people, had already been beheaded?"
"Bah, you dare to curse our defeated brother Ruoao Si, you are looking for death!" The prison chief immediately cursed in fear when he heard this, "Even if you brother and sister die in this prison, Master Ruoao's Duke will not be a problem. Humph! You really want to thank Master Ruoao. If it weren't for his blessing, you three would have been dragged out to behead him and would have been sacked."
Xian Yu sneered, "If we weren't for him, we wouldn't have fallen to this place today and trapped in this prison, otherwise I would have gone out long ago."
"Yu'er, don't talk nonsense!"
Xian Gao frowned.
"I'm talking nonsense, brother, just breaking the cell, sooner or later they will invite me out." Xian Yu smiled relaxedly, her eyes fell on the head and several jailers outside the cell, and looked up and down.
Qing'er snorted from the side, "If we were really capable, we wouldn't have been locked here for so long and would have run away long ago."
"I did it on purpose?"
Xian Yu's face turned red and she immediately pouted.
"If you don't have the ability, just say it. If you have the ability, get us out now. I don't want to die here." Qing'er said.
"The time has not come, please wait!"
"Okay, okay, you three Zheng people think that the prison of Chu is your family. Come when you want to come, leave whenever you want, and let them go whenever you want. Let's hunger them three times, and see if they still talk nonsense!" The prison head laughed and showed that he was heroic in his territory, and it depends on whether he would agree. The prison guards following him should be immediately.
When Xian Yu heard that she was going hungry, she couldn't help but say, "You will regret it!"
"I regret it when I see it. I regret it! I will say another word, I will be hungry for you for two days! I will be hungry for you for three days!" The prison head said condescendingly.
"Okay, the strong dragon will not defeat the local snakes. If you can't fight them, you'd better be quiet and don't continue to suffer for us." Qing'er said leisurely leaning against the corner of the wall.
In the dark prison, there were only a few clearly panicked oil lamps on the corridor, which seemed to be about to be extinguished at any time. Xian Yu said with a grievance, "Brother, carry me on my back. I haven't looked at the sky outside for several days. I don't know if it's dawn now."
Xian Gao squatted down silently, "Come up!"
Qing'er snorted softly when she saw this, "I've been pretending to be pitiful since I was a child!"
Xian Yu glared back at her happily, then climbed up Xian Gao's wide shoulders. Xian Gao listened to her happy voice, slowly stood up and walked towards the iron window, and asked loudly, "Yu'er, do you see the sky outside?"
"I saw it, brother, it's dawn, but it seems to be raining."
His eyes followed a rain cloud floating from the north, a thin layer gently cages above the city of Yingdu. The sky that had just lighted up in the morning gradually darkened again, Xian Yu wanted to see more of the streets outside but could not see anything.
Only bustling voices came from outside the high wall of the Zhengzhou Division, "What a sunny day, why is it going to rain?"
The people on the East Street had just come out of their homes. When they saw the weather, they looked for places to shelter from the rain, or were preparing to go home and wait until the rain stopped before coming. Even the five cities of the military commanders were left with only a few soldiers guarding the streets, and the rest of the commanders had already dispersed.
The whole street gradually became empty, and Lao Wan advised Aunt Liu, "Aunt, you haven't been back for several days. Now it's going to rain, so let's go back first."
"No, I'll find a place to hide. You can go back first, Lao Wan."
Aunt Liu said, "Anyway, I am a blind woman, and I can't see anything at home and outside. I will sit back again. I heard the officials and the others say something and they are leaving. I guess they can withdraw today."
"Then I'll go back and get an umbrella first, you can wait for me here."
Lao Wan told her with concern.
Aunt Liu nodded, and soon it started drizzling. Aunt Liu groped at the base of the wall and wanted to find a place to shelter from the rain. Suddenly, the rain above her head disappeared.
She looked around blankly and said, "Lao Wan, have you come back with an umbrella? Why is it so fast?"
"Why don't you talk?"
"Is it you?"
Aunt Liu chuckled at the air to himself, "It's the rain that has stopped, the sun is coming out again, it's still hot. This is the weather like this. It's sunny and rainy when it's raining... It really made Lao Wan go for nothing."
"I don't know when my Liu'er can be found back. He has loved to follow Lao Wan's butt since he was a child, but after following him, he was washed away after a lot of floods, and Lao Wan was left." When he thought of Liu'er, Aunt Liu couldn't help but rub her eyes with her worn cotton sleeves.
"I don't know where Liu'er was captured, whether he is still in Chu State, whether he is living well, whether he is hungry or frozen... If he is forced to buy it as a slave, I don't know if he will be beaten by someone..."
"In the past three or four years, he must have wanted to come back, but he can't escape... He must have thought of the dwelling I made. He loved eating the most when he was a child!..."
"But I can't see him anymore, Liu'er, don't know if he has grown taller or stronger?"
Aunt Liu sat alone on the corner of East Street, with raindrops as thin as feathers falling gently around her, but did not touch a corner of her body.
Her world seems to be a world of its own.
Only she and the only son she wanted to find.
Above her head was a small sunny day outside the rainy day. The sky was covered by a blue umbrella, and there was no drop of rain falling.
Chapter completed!