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Chapter 31 (5) Prison Temple

In the case of Chengyao cup, Baoyu was connected, and copied jade was hooked up.Miaoyu's matter is on the slow watch for now.Just talking about Baoyu, he was falsely accused of having an ambiguous relationship with a nun in the family temple, and he committed the crime of "raping his mother and maidservant" in the past year and forcing this girl to throw herself into a well. reported by his parents. Not to mention, Jia Amnesty and Jia Huan colluded to sue Baoyu for writing General Xihua's poems, using words to insult the imperial court. He even said: "... The emperor panicked and hated falling,

At this time, both civil and military officials bowed their heads. What is the civil and military establishment of the court, Not as good as Lin Siniang, her boudoir? I breathed a sigh of relief for my fourth wife, The meaning of the song is still hesitant! " He also quoted a lot of what Baoyu Su often said, to burn all the books in the world, except for the sentence "Ming Mingde", the Five Classics and the Four Books are all fabricated by later generations to deceive others, saying that those who open courses in the imperial court, learn stereotyped art, and take exams for fame , are all "lu beetles".Adding branches and leaves to make up some wild words of "no father, no king".So Baoyu's crime became deviant; unfaithful and unfilial.

When Baoyu was interrogated, this fool didn't know the severity, he recognized them one by one, saying that there were all of them.Although the government knew that this was a child's matter, they had been accused and confessed that there was nothing to do, so they had to convict him according to the law, and immediately locked him up and took him to prison, where he was imprisoned and waited to be reported for punishment. Baoyu was exposed to the light of age - at that time, eighteen years old (now seventeen years old) was considered an adult, and when he reached adulthood, he was dealt with according to the rules.He is still a child.Moreover, it has not been determined, and it is only a temporary nature of detention.This place of detention is in the outer compartment of the prison, in a row of small houses next to the prison temple.

If you compare it with the Ziyi Red Courtyard at home, it really has fallen from the nine heavens to the nine earths.There are no windows in the room, and it is dark during the day. Once you enter the small door, you will be greeted by a foul, stinky and damp smell.Baoyu's throat felt choked.There is nothing in the house, you have to sit on the ground and touch it with your hands, only some grass is spread.Baoyu felt dizzy for a while, feeling unable to support herself, she leaned against the corner of the wall. Next to him is a small temple-like house, which is dark and dark at first step in. It took a while to recognize an altar in front of it, and a small niche behind the alcove, in which a god is seated.On the right side is a soybean oil lamp, the fire is like a small green bean.Someone in charge of the prison came to burn incense three times a day.Under the extremely faint blue light, one can see that the god wears ancient clothes and crown, has five locks of long beard, kind eyebrows and kind eyes - people commonly call him the god of hell, this is him.He was originally famous for his justice in breaking prisons in ancient times, and his name was Gao Tao (yao).The prisoner is formally imprisoned and worships the prison god three days later.Bad people and evil people are irrelevant, only good people are good people, and those who have been wronged will cry like rain when they visit the prison god.

Before Baoyu was imprisoned into the house, the jailer led him in and stood there for a moment.At home Baoyu loved visiting temples the most. He said he liked looking at the beautiful and solemn statues and smelling the smell of cigarettes; but this was the first time he had entered such a temple.His heart was shaken so badly by the atmosphere here, it seemed like it was pounding wildly.He will never forget the taste of this situation afterwards.Baoyu was in a daze and leaned in the corner of the room.I don't know how long it has been. Strange to say, he didn't feel that he was suffering.He didn't think about what would happen to him, good or bad, how could he get out...What he thought of was many people, many people had suffered, and many people were suffering because of himself.

In a trance, someone came to visit him... pulled him to cry,... woke up, nothing. In his heart, he imitated a touching portrait, dignified and upright, kind and compassionate.Like the prison god he had glimpsed a few days ago, but not all.
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