Chapter 68 Disguised prison visit

The prison where Zhou Biao and Lei Zuo were held was located behind a small slope.The environment there is remote and heavily guarded.The three community members got off their donkeys when they came to the edge of the slope.Wu Yingji handed a small bag of silver to Zhou Shun, and gave some instructions in a low voice.When Zhou Shun was walking towards the prison, he gestured to Huang and Fang to wait, walked directly to a big bald tree, put his hands on his hips, and looked around. At this time, it was almost noon.The autumn sunlight, covered by a thin layer of mist, draws many fuzzy and messy shadows on the ground through the intertwined dead branches above the head.It was so quiet all around, so quiet that it made one's heart tense.Since the beginning of May, there has been no rain, so that August has not yet passed, and the weeds on the slopes seem to have entered the deep winter, and the whole area has withered.Now, the gray-brown withered stalks trembled against the dry wind blowing from Xuanwu Lake, looking like the sparse hairs on the back of a sick cow.

"Brother Ciwei, since Zhou Jiesheng's appeal to the trespasser was a remark made by Xu Ze Shangsheng, then he must explain the reason to the court and explain it clearly!" Fang Yizhi followed, thinking suggested. Wu Yingji snorted: "Split it clearly? It's not easy to say! Even brother has not been allowed to explain such unsubstantiated matters, let alone Zhou Jiesheng?" "Then, is it true that Zhong Yu can't be saved?" "Whether it can be saved or not, we have to wait and see!" Wu Yingji said annoyedly.After a pause, he squinted his eyes again, and looked at Fang Yizhi coldly: "Night Chang has many dreams, it's fine to see Zhou Zhongyu later, and when you can't see him, brother don't bother!"

After speaking, seeing Fang Yizhi bowed his head silently, he turned his back, tore off a dry branch, cracked it in his hand, and stopped talking. After a while, Zhou Shun came back, followed by a thin man who looked like a jailer.The man obviously knew Wu Yingji, because his slender eyes, hanging upside down under the eight-character eyebrows, shone from afar, and he rushed over three steps at a time, and knelt down in front of Wu Yingji all at once. "My benefactor, I haven't seen you for a long time, so that I can teach the villain to miss you! The villain pays his respects to benefactor!" As he said, he kowtowed respectfully.

"Well, how's it going?" After the jailer stood up and bowed to Fang and Huang, Wu Yingji asked straight to the point. The jailer responded, turned his head, looked around, then came closer, and said in a low voice: "Grandfather wants to see these two friends. Yesterday Zhang Tuantou personally came to pass word to the villain. It's not a villain." Long story short, it's all because the superiors have explained that these two people are important criminals of the imperial court. They are ordered not to be locked up together and not to mix with other criminals. Outsiders are not allowed to visit. The villain receives the benefactor and great virtue, that is to give up Life is also difficult to repay. But the other brothers in the prison are afraid of being responsible, so they are embarrassed..."

"I must meet these two people today!" Wu Yingji interrupted him, and said firmly, "You can do something for me, whatever you need, just take it!" As he spoke, he reached out his hand and took out a bag of silver taels from the food basket. , throwing it away. The jailer waved his hands "oh, oh", caught the money, and immediately sent it back with both hands: "Benefactor, don't misunderstand the meaning of the villain. No matter how ignorant the villain is, he dare not ask for the money of the benefactor! Although the brothers in the prison are in a difficult situation, because the villain is not good at face, they are willing after all. But there is one thing to worry about: fearing that there will be too many people going in, and they will be caught by the inspectors, the three gentlemen have to go in one, and they have to change their clothes I also know that I have blasphemed my benefactor a lot, but I am forced to go here. I pray for forgiveness from my benefactor, and I am accommodating!"

After speaking, he opened a bundle that he brought with him, which turned out to be a set of jailer's clothes and pants, with a red and black hat outside. The three friends couldn't help looking at each other when they saw what he said sincerely.Undoubtedly, before this, Wu Yingji had estimated that the trip would not be smooth, so he specially used his friends from various religions and nine streams to open up the joints.Didn't expect it to be so far.Although it is unclear how Ma Shiying plans to deal with Zhou and Lei in the end, it is not difficult to understand that the matter will not be easily settled just by this heavily guarded posture.So Huang Zongxi became nervous first, and rushed to say:

"Since that's the case, please wait here with the two brothers, and come when I go." As he said that, he was about to pick up the clothes and pants on the ground, but Wu Yingji stretched out his hand and stopped him. "Ah Qi," he turned his head and said to the jailer, "If it's inconvenient for three of us to go in together, then we can go in three times instead, can we?" "This..." Ah Qi blinked her eyes and looked embarrassed, "If the benefactor arrived an hour earlier, this kind of flexibility would have worked. It's just that today's matter, the brothers inside are watching that the officer is not in prison. Under the promise of the relationship. I'm afraid I will come back now, if I bump into..."

"Okay, that's all!" Wu Yingji waved his hand decisively.However, he did not let Huang Zongxi go to get the clothes and pants on the ground, but made a gesture to Fang Yizhi: "Mizhi, you go!" "Ah, brother, brother?" Fang Yizhi was obviously surprised. "Why let him go? I should go! Let me go!" Huang Zongxi, who was also surprised, couldn't help but stand up and argue. Wu Yingji didn't answer, just waved to Fang Yizhi: "Mizhi, hurry up! Don't you want to see Zhou Zhongyu? Go!" "This..." Fang Yizhi looked at the jailer's clothes and pants on the ground, and at Huang Zongxi who was at a loss, still hesitating.

Wu Yingji became angry: "What are you waiting for? Are you going or not? Tell me, are you going?" He urged loudly. "Okay, then I'll go!" After agreeing so resolutely, Fang Yizhi ignored Huang Zongxi, Guan Zi quickly took off his straight jacket, put on his black clothes, and followed Ah Qi towards the prison in a hurry Go, and disappear behind the slope in a blink of an eye. It was only at this time that Huang Zongxi came to his senses and became furious because of Wu Yingji's outrageous and unreasonable arrangements. "You, what the hell are you doing?" He gritted his teeth and asked, only because of the last bit of rational restraint, he didn't shout loudly in this kind of place, "Why don't you let me go? Let him go! He What is it? Ah? What is he! A coward who was scared by the old thief Ma and hid in Tianjie Temple, who dared not move and did nothing! Why should he go in first? Tell me, why!"

Wu Yingji didn't say a word, just looked at him coldly, turned and walked away. Huang Zongxi couldn't help being stunned as if he had been slapped in the face.But immediately, the burning anger erupted even more violently.He rushed two steps forward, intending to grab the opponent's shirt and ask him to understand, but in an instant, he changed his mind again. "Okay, okay! If that's the case, then you guys can fiddle with it yourself! I don't care about anything, let's break up!" After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the donkey. "Stop!" After walking four or five steps, Wu Yingji's cold voice suddenly came from behind, and then he heard the other side walking towards him.Huang Zongxi hesitated for a moment, then stopped angrily.

"Okay, now I'll tell you." When the two faced each other again, Wu Yingji stared at him sullenly, and said, "Do you know that Fang Mizhi came here at great risk—because he He wrote a "Case of Loyalty and Rebellion", which listed in detail what he had seen and heard when he was catching the thief. Sun Fan, the royal censor who patrolled the city, found it in the workshop, saying that he wrote fake books privately to disturb right and wrong, so he was asked to be arrested and interrogated. Mizhi received a report from Chen Wozi today, and planned to flee immediately, but because he learned that Zhou Zhongyu was arrested and his life and death were uncertain, he decided to come with him at the risk of death, as a trick. Tell me, should he go first? See?" Huang Zongxi opened his eyes wide and listened in surprise, his heart couldn't help tightening up again.He never expected that the matter of rescuing Zhou Biao and Lei Zuo had no clue yet, and suddenly, Fang Yizhi's tricks were revealed again!What's more, he didn't expect that even in this situation, Fang Yizhi insisted on coming to visit Zhou Biao and the others.For a while, he felt that he should say a few words of concern, but finally gave up this intention, only bit his lips tightly, and drooped his head.