Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Prison
Amidst the sound of clanging weapons, white light shone, and long swords flew up.One fell into the crowd, and all the servants were in a mess, one fell on the mat, and the other went straight into the beam above the head.In an instant, the long swords in the hands of Bu Yuan, Wu Kan, Feng Tan, and Shen Cheng were all strangled by Di Yun in the "sword-removing style".
Wan Zhenshan slapped both palms, and said with a smile: "Very good, very good! Junior brother Qi, it's hard for you to master the 'Liancheng swordsmanship'! Congratulations, congratulations!" His voice was full of desolation.
Qi Changfa was stunned, and asked, "What's the 'Liancheng swordsmanship'?"
Wan Zhenshan said: "Brother Di's moves are not the 'Liancheng swordsmanship'? Kuner, Qier, Guier, everyone, come back. You brother Di learned the 'Liancheng swordsmanship' from Uncle Qi. How do you do it?" His opponent?" Then he sneered at Qi Changfa: "Junior brother, you pretend to be so smart, you are really wise and foolish! 'Iron Lock Hengjiang' is truly remarkable."
Di Yun repeatedly used the "shoulder stabbing style", "slapping style", and "sword removal style" three-way sword move, and defeated the eight disciples of Wanmen in a short time. He was proud of himself, but the victory came so easily. , my heart was confused, and I couldn't help being at a loss, looking at the master, the junior sister, and the uncle, not knowing what to say.
Qi Changfa approached him, took the long sword in his hand, suddenly the tip of the sword shook, pointed at his throat, and shouted: "Who did you learn these sword moves from?"
Di Yun was taken aback, he didn't dare to lie to his master about anything, but the old beggar made it clear that if he leaked the story of passing on the sword, the old beggar would definitely die, so he made a solemn oath, never Confiding a single word, he said: "Master...Master, it's the disciple...the disciple thought it up by himself."
Qi Changfa shouted: "You came up with such an ingenious sword move yourself? You...you dare to talk nonsense to me! If you don't tell the truth, I will kill you with one sword." With his wrist forward slightly, the tip of the sword pierced His throat was cut open, and blood oozed from the tip of the sword.
Qi Fang ran over, hugged her father's arm, and shouted: "Father! Martial brother is always with us, who can teach him martial arts? Aren't you the old man who taught him these sword moves?"
Wan Zhenshan sneered and said, "Junior Brother Qi, why do you have to put on airs again? Ling Ai has made it clear. You don't have to use the brilliant method of 'Iron Locking Hengjiang' on your senior brother. Come on, come on! Old brother congratulates you three times." !" As he spoke, he poured two full glasses of wine, raised his neck and drank a glass first, and said: "As a brother, do it first! You have to give me this face."
Qi Changfa snorted, threw his sword to the ground, turned back and took the wine glass, drank three glasses in a row, turned his head to the side in thought, his face full of doubts, and murmured: "Strange, strange!"
Wan Zhenshan said: "Junior Brother Qi, I have something I want to talk to you about. Let's talk in the study." Qi Changfa nodded.Wan Zhenshan took him by the hand, and the two senior brothers walked towards the study side by side.
The eight disciples of Wanmen looked at each other in blank dismay.Some had pale faces, while others cursed.
Shen Cheng said: "I'm going to urinate! Give this boy Di Yun such a blow, it scares me so much that I piss and pee." Lu Kun said with a serious face, "Eighth Junior Brother, isn't it enough for you to lose your ugliness?"
Shen Cheng stuck out his tongue and hurriedly left the table.He walked out of the hall door, went to the toilet, tiptoed to the door of the study, and listened carefully.
I could only hear the master's voice saying: "Junior Brother Qi, the mystery that has been unsolved for twenty years has only been revealed today."
Hearing Qi Changfa's voice say: "Little brother doesn't understand what it means to reveal the truth."
"Then do I need to say more? How did Master, the old man, die?"
"Master lost a book on martial arts, and he couldn't find it after looking for it. He was depressed and passed away. It's not like you don't know, why ask me?"
"Yes. What's the name of this martial arts book?"
"How do I know? What are you asking me for?"
"But I heard the master said, it's called."
"I don't know anything about what can and cannot be achieved through practice."
"Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as what?"
"It's not as good as the one who enjoys it!"
"Hey, ha ha, ha ha!"
"What's so funny?"
"You are full of poems and books, but you pretend to be rude. We have been studying in the same discipline for more than ten years, and who doesn't know who's background? You don't know the word 'Liancheng Jue', how can you recite, "Mencius"? "
"You're here to judge me, aren't you?"
"Bring it!"
"Bring what?"
"You know it yourself, why are you pretending to be garlic?"
"I, Qi Changfa, have never been afraid of you."
Shen Cheng heard the louder and louder the master and the uncle were arguing, he became frightened, hurried back to the living room, walked up to Lu Kun and said in a low voice: "Eldest brother, the master and the uncle are arguing, I'm afraid there will be a fight!"
Lu Kun was stunned, stood up and said, "Let's take a look!" Zhou Qi, Wan Gui, Sun Jun and others hurried to follow.
Qi Fang tugged at Di Yun's sleeve, saying: "Let's go too!" Di Yun nodded, and just two steps away, Qi Fang stuffed a long sword into his hand.When Di Yun turned his head, he saw Qi Fang holding two long swords in his left hand.Di Yun asked: "Two?" Qi Fang said: "Father didn't bring a weapon!"
The eight disciples of Wanmen all stood outside the study door with heavy faces.Di Yun and Qi Fang stood a little further away.The ten people held their breaths and listened to the quarrel between the two in the study.
"Junior Brother Qi, Master, the old man's life was obviously caused by you." That was Wan Zhenshan's voice.
"Fart, fart your mother, Brother Wan, you can speak more clearly, why did I kill Master?" Qi Changfa was furious, his voice changed greatly and became very hoarse.
"Master's copy, didn't your brother Qi steal it?"
"I know what connects people and ghosts? Brother Wan, you want to falsely accuse me of being Qi, but it's not so easy."
"Isn't the sword move that your disciple used just now not the Liancheng sword technique? Why is it so light and ingenious?"
"My disciple was born smart, he figured it out by himself, and I don't even know it. What is the Liancheng swordsmanship? You asked Bu Yuan to invite me, saying that you have practiced the Liancheng swordsmanship. You said this No words? Let’s call Bu Yuan to testify!”
Everyone outside the door looked at Bu Yuan together, and saw that his expression was extremely ugly, obviously Qi Changfa's words were true.Di Yun and Qi Fang looked at each other and nodded, thinking: "I heard Bu Yuan's words too, it's impossible to deny it."
Wan Zhenshan laughed and said: "Of course I said that. If I didn't say that, how could I have deceived you. Qi Changfa, let me ask you, you said that you have never heard the name 'Liancheng Swordsmanship', Why did you rush here as soon as Bu Yuan said that I have mastered the Liancheng swordsmanship? Do you still want to blame me?"
"Aha, the surname Wan, did you trick me into coming to Jingzhou?"
"That's right, hand over the sword formula, and kowtow on the master's grave to apologize."
"Why should I give it to you?"
"Hmph, I'm Eldest Brother."
There was silence in the room for a while, only Qi Changfa's hoarse voice said: "Okay, I'll leave it to you."
When everyone outside the door heard the five words "Okay, I'll leave it to you", they couldn't help but tremble all over.Di Yun and Qi Fang wished there was a hole in the ground they could drill into.Lu Kun and the other eight people looked at Di Qi with disdain.Qi Fang was annoyed and extremely humiliated at the same time, she really didn't expect her father to do such a shameless thing.
Suddenly, Wan Zhenshan's long and miserable cry came from the room, it was extremely shrill.
Wan Gui screamed: "Father!" He kicked open the door with his flying legs and rushed in.Wan Zhenshan was seen lying on the ground with a gleaming dagger stuck in his chest, and blood was all around him.
The window was wide open and was still shaking, but Qi Changfa was nowhere to be seen.
Wan Gui cried: "Father, father!" and rushed to Wan Zhenshan's side.
Qi Fang also called out in a low voice: "Father, father!" trembling, she held Di Yun's hand.
Lu Kun shouted: "Hurry up, chase the murderer!" Zhou Qi, Sun Jun and other juniors jumped out of the window one after another, shouting: "Catch the murderer, catch the murderer!"
Di Yun saw the eight disciples of Wanmen go out to chase the master one after another, this sudden turn of events really scared him to the point of confusion, he didn't know what to do.Qi Fang yelled again: "Daddy!" She swayed twice, unable to stand still.Di Yun quickly stretched out his hands to support him, and when he lowered his head, he saw Wan Zhenshan's eyes were closed tightly, and his face looked horrifying, as if he was in great pain when he was about to die.
Di Yun didn't dare to look any more, and asked in a low voice: "Junior Sister, shall we go?" Qi Fang hadn't answered yet, but heard a voice behind him say: "You are the accomplices who murdered my master, you can't go!"
Di Yun and Qi Fang turned their heads, and saw the tip of a long sword pointed at Qi Fang's back, and the hilt was in Bu Yuan's hand.Di Yun was furious, and was about to retort, but when he got to the point of speaking, thinking of his master and his senior brother, what else could he say?Involuntarily lowered his head, without saying a word.
Bu Yuan said coldly: "You two, please go back to your own room. After we get Qi Changfa, we will send you to the official for punishment." Di Yun said: "This incident was all caused by me alone, and has nothing to do with my junior sister. If you want to kill or cut, you can find me alone." Bu Yuan pushed his vest violently, and shouted: "Let's go, this is not the time for you to be a hero." Di Yun only heard "Catch the murderer, catch the murderer!" Murderer!" The sound followed the sound of gongs, gongs, gongs on the street, and the sound of running and shouting, creating a mess, feeling unspeakably ashamed, gritted his teeth, and walked to his room.
Qi Fang cried: "Senior brother, then...what's the matter?" Di Yun choked up and said, "I...I don't know. I'll go and make amends with Master." Qi Fang cried: "Daddy, he... Where did he go?"
Di Yun was sitting in the room. At that time, it had been more than two hours since Wan Zhenshan was killed. He was sitting blankly at the table, looking at the half-inch burnt candle, his heart was in a state of confusion. At this time, everyone who chased Qi Changfa had returned. "The murderer has escaped from the city, and we can't catch him!" "Tomorrow, let's chase him to Hunan. We will catch the murderer no matter what and avenge Master!" Hmph! Even if we chase him to the ends of the earth, we must catch his corpse in ten thousand pieces." "Tomorrow, we will spread all kinds of posts in the rivers and lakes, and we must invite martial arts heroes to uphold justice and hunt down this despicable and shameless murderer together." "Yes, yes! Let's put The murderer's daughter and the puppy surnamed Di were slaughtered first to worship the heroic spirit of the master." "No! Let's wait until the county magistrate comes to examine the corpse tomorrow." The disciples of the Wanmen family discussed these things, and they had already stopped. Di Yun wanted to ask his junior sister to run away alone, but thought: "She is a young girl who is living in the rivers and lakes. Who will take care of her? Should I take her and run away together? No, no! This disaster is all caused by me. If I hadn't been brave enough to fight and cause trouble with all the senior brothers in the Wan family, how could Uncle Wan have suspected that my master had stolen the "Liancheng Sword" formula? My master is the most honest and good person, how could he steal some sword formula? The old beggar taught me these three moves of swordsmanship. But the master has killed someone, and if I say it at this time, others will never believe it. Even if I believe it, what's the use? It’s not good to be alone. Tomorrow I will speak out in public and defend Master. But... But Master Wan was clearly killed by Master, how can Master’s bad name be washed away? No, I must not escape, I will save it for Master to make up for the crime, Let them kill me!" Just as his thoughts were ebbing and flowing, he suddenly heard a light click on the roof outside. When he raised his head, he saw a black shadow jumping across the roof from west to east. He almost called out "Master", but his eyes were fixed Look, that man is tall and thin, definitely not the master.Then there was another figure jumping over, and this time it was more clear that the figure was holding a single knife. He thought to himself: "Are they looking for the master? Could it be that the master is still nearby and hasn't gone far?" Just as he was wondering, he suddenly heard a woman's exclamation from the east room. He was taken aback, grabbed the hilt of his sword, and jumped up. The first thing he thought of was: "Are they bullying Junior Sister?" Then he heard a woman's cry: "Help!" The voice didn't seem to be Qi Fang, but he cared too much, before he could tell if Qi Fang was in danger, he jumped out of the window, just stood on the eaves, and heard the woman screaming: "Help! Help!" He ran to follow the sound, only to see the light from the upstairs in the east, and a window was still shaking.He went to the window and looked in, only to see a woman lying on the bed with her hands and feet tied, two men stretched out their hands to touch her cheeks, while the other wanted to untie her clothes.Di Yun didn't know who this woman was, but seeing her pale with fright, she was rolling and struggling on the bed, calling for help. Although he himself was in trouble, but seeing this scene, he couldn't ignore it, immediately he rushed in through the window with his sword and led someone, stabbing the back of the man on the left with his sword.The man on the right raised a chair, and the man on the left had already drawn out his single knife and slashed over.Seeing that the faces of these two people were covered with black cloth, only a pair of eyes were exposed, Di Yun shouted: "Bold villain, save your life!" The two men kept silent, and each used single-handed combat.One man shouted: "Brother Lu, blah blah!" The other said: "For Wan Zhenshan's luck, he will take revenge next time!" He raised both knives and slashed at Di Yun's head. Seeing the ferocious approach, Di Yun dodged to avoid it.A man quickly kicked over the table, the candlestick fell down, and the room was pitch black.There was only a whooping sound, and the two jumped out of the window, followed by a series of ping-pong sounds, and a few tiles were thrown towards them.Di Yun couldn't see clearly in the dark, and he wasn't good at this kind of light-handedness, so he didn't dare to chase him out. He thought to himself: "One of the thieves is surnamed Lu, most likely he is from Lu Tong's group, and they are here for revenge. They don't know that Uncle Wan is dead." Suddenly I heard the woman on the bed shout: "Oh, it hurts to death. I have a small knife in my chest. Pull it out quickly." Di Yun was startled, and said: "The thief stabbed you?" The woman moaned: "Stabbed! Stabbed!" Di Yun said: "I'll light the candle for you to see." The woman said: "Come here, come quickly, come here quickly!" Hearing her panic, Di Yun took a step closer and said, "What?" Suddenly, the woman opened her arms, hugged him by the waist, and shouted: "Help, help!" Di Yun was even more shocked than Shicai. Seeing that her hands and feet were bound, why would he hug him?He hurriedly stretched out his hands to push, trying to break away from her embrace, but unexpectedly, the woman hugged his waist desperately, and couldn't push her away for a while. All of a sudden, the eyes lit up, and two torches were put into the window, illuminating the room as bright as day, and several people asked at the same time: "What's the matter? What is the matter?" The woman shouted: "Flower picker, flower picker! Help, help, help!" Di Yun was anxious, and shouted: "You...you...why don't you know what's good?" He stretched out his hand and pushed her body.The woman was hugging his waist, but now she resisted with all her strength, shouting: "Don't touch me, don't touch me!" Di Yun was about to run away, when he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and a long sword was already resting on his neck.He was about to make a decision, when a white light flashed suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his right palm, and with a clang, the long sword in his hand fell to the floor.He looked down and was so frightened that he almost fainted. He saw that the five fingers of his right hand had been cut off, and blood was gushing out like a spring. When he squinted in panic, he saw Wu Kan holding a bloody long sword. , stand aside. He just said: "You!" He kicked Wu Kan with his right foot, suddenly he was punched hard in the back of the heart, staggered and fell on the woman.The woman called again: "Help, flower picker!" Lu Kun's voice was heard saying: "Tie up this little thief!" Although Di Yun was a country boy who had never seen the world, he knew at this moment that he had fallen into the insidious trap set up by others.He jumped up, turned around, and was about to pounce on Lu Kun, when he suddenly saw a pale face, it was Qi Fang. Di Yun was stunned, only to see that the expression on Qi Fang's face was sad, contemptuous, and angry.He shouted: "Junior Sister!" Qi Fang's face flushed suddenly, and she said, "Why...why are you like this?" Di Yun was full of grievances, how could he speak at this moment? Qi Fang cried out with an "ah", and said, "I...I'd better die." Seeing that all five fingers on Di Yun's right hand were cut off, she felt a pain in her heart again, gritted her teeth, and tore herself apart. He put a piece of the placket on the cloth shirt, and approached him to bandage his wound.At this time, her face turned white again. Di Yun was so painful that he wanted to faint a few times, but he couldn't help himself, he only bit his lip until it bleeds, and he couldn't say a word. Lu Kun said: "Little wife, this bastard dares to be rude to you, we will kill him to vent your anger." It turned out that this woman was Wan Zhenshan's concubine.She covered her face with her hands, sobbed, and said, "He...he said a lot of nonsense. He said that your master is dead and told me to follow him. He said that Miss Qi's father killed someone and wanted to It hurt him. He... He also said that he had obtained a lot of gold, silver and jewels and made a fortune, and told me to go away with him immediately, so that I could eat forever..." Di Yun's mind was in chaos, and he just murmured: "Fake...fake..." Zhou Qi said loudly: "Go, go! Go and search this little thief's house!" Everyone pushed and pulled Di Yun to his room.Qi Fang followed behind in a daze. But Wan Gui said: "Everyone, don't make things difficult for Senior Brother Di. You can't wrong a good man if you don't understand the matter!" Zhou Qi said angrily, "What else don't you understand? This kid is a good man!" Wan Gui said: " I don't think he is a person who does evil." Zhou Qi said: "Didn't you hear it with your own ears? Didn't you see it with your own eyes?" Wan Gui said: "I think he drank a few more glasses, but he was sexually disordered after drinking. .” All these things happened one after another, Qi Fang had already lost her mind, hearing Wan Gui's defense for Di Yun, she was secretly grateful, and said in a low voice: "Senior Brother Wan, my senior brother... is indeed not that kind of person." Wan Gui said: "That's right, I said he was just drunk, and he would definitely not steal money." While speaking, everyone pushed Di Yun to his room.Shen Cheng's eyes turned around in the room, he lowered his body, and stretched out his hand to pull out a heavy package under the bed, but he heard clanging and metal bumping noises.Di Yun was even more stunned. He saw Shen Cheng unwrapping the package, and his eyes were full of squashed gold and silverware, wine pots and wine glasses, and so on. They were all things from the banquet in Wanfu. Qi Fang let out an exclamation, and stretched out her hand to support the table. Wan Gui comforted: "Junior Sister Qi, don't panic, let's think of a way slowly." Feng Tan lifted the quilt and found two more packages.Shen Cheng and Feng Tan unwrapped it separately, one bag contained silver ingots and ingots, and the other bag contained women's jewelry, pearl necklaces, gold bracelets and gold rings. At this moment, Qi Fang has no more doubts, she is full of resentment, and wished she could kill herself immediately with a horizontal sword.She grew up with Di Yun since she was a child, and she had already considered him as her future husband in her heart. She never expected that this lover whom she had always loved dearly would go away with other women when she was in trouble.Could it be that this enchanting woman really fascinated him?Or is he afraid of being implicated by his father and wants to escape alone? Lu Kun yelled and cursed: "Stinky thief, the stolen goods are all here, do you still want to deny it?" He slapped Di Yun twice hard with his bow left and right.Di Yun's arms were grabbed by Sun Jun and Wu Kan respectively, unable to block, his cheeks on both sides swelled up immediately.Lu Kun dismissed the sex and punched him in the chest. Qi Fang shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight, you have something to say." Zhou Qi said: "Kill this little thief to death, and then report to the officials!" He also punched him.Di Yun opened his mouth and spat out a big mouthful of blood.Feng Tan raised his sword and stepped forward, saying: "Cut off his left arm, let's see if he can do more bad things?" Sun Jun raised Di Yun's left arm, and Feng Tan raised his sword to cut it off.Qi Fang screamed "Ah".Wan Gui said: "Everyone look at me, don't make things difficult for him, we will send him off immediately." Seeing Feng Tan slowly withdrawing his sword, two lines of tears rolled down his cheeks, Qi Fang glanced at Wan Gui, her eyes were full of gratitude. "Five, ten, fifteen, twenty..." The guard counted, and hit Di Yun's hind leg with all his strength.Di Yun's body was held down by two other guards, and the bamboo board fell down again and again.These blows were nothing compared to the pain in his heart, not even the pain in his right palm. He just thought in his heart: "Even Sister Fang thinks I'm a thief, even she thinks I'm a thief." "Twenty-five...thirty...thirty-five...forty..." The board was falling, the skin was swollen and cracked, blood stained the board and splashed on the ground around it. When Di Yun woke up in the prison cell, he was still groggy. He didn't know where he was or how long it had passed. Gradually, he felt the pain at the severed five fingers on his right hand, and he felt pain again. Pain in the back, legs, buttocks where the plank was whipped.He wanted to turn over so that the wound would not be pressed to the ground, but suddenly, there was an indescribably severe pain in the two shoulders, which made him faint again. After waking up again, he first heard his own hoarse moans, and then felt severe pain all over his body.But why does the shoulder hurt so badly?Why is this pain so unbearable?He only felt an indescribable fear, and for a long time, he didn't dare to lower his head to look. "Could it be that both of my shoulders have been chopped off?" After a while, he suddenly heard the sound of iron objects hitting lightly, and when he lowered his head, he saw two iron chains hanging down from his shoulders.He was horrified, and when he looked sideways, his whole body trembled with fright. This trembling made the pain in his shoulders even worse.It turned out that these two iron chains passed through the lute bone of his shoulder blades, and were locked together with the iron shackles on his hands and the iron chains on his ankles.Wearing the lute bone, he once heard his master say, that is the government's way to deal with the most vicious Jiangyang robbers, no matter how strong your martial arts are, if the lute bone is pierced by an iron chain, you will not be able to use it at all.In an instant, countless thoughts turned in my mind: "Why do you treat me like this? Do they really think I am a robber? I have been wronged like this, can't the official find out?" In the magistrate's hall, he had told the story intermittently, but Wan Zhenshan's concubine Taohong strongly testified that it was he who intended to rape and not someone else.The eight disciples of the Wan family and many family members testified that they saw him hugging Tao Hong, and saw the stolen goods being searched out from under his bed and under the quilt.The servants in the yamen also said that the ten thousand families in Jingzhou are so famous that no thief would dare to make a move. Di Yun remembered that the county magistrate had a handsome appearance and a very kind face.He wanted to know that the magistrate of the county listened to people's words for a while and wronged a good person, but he would find out in the end.However, the five fingers of his right hand were cut off, how can he use a sword again in the future? Filled with anger and grief, he stood up regardless of the pain, and shouted: "Wrong, wrong!" Suddenly his legs felt sore and he bent over and fell straight to the ground.He struggled and wanted to get up again, but just when he stood up straight, his legs and knees became weak, and he fell forward again.He crawled on the ground, still shouting: "Wrong, wrong!" Suddenly a voice from the corner of the room said coldly: "If someone wears a lute bone, all his kung fu is useless. Hehe, hehe! The cost is really not small!" Di Yun didn't care who was talking, let alone No matter what these words mean, I still shouted: "I am wronged, I am wronged!" A jailer came over and shouted: "What are you yelling for? Shut up!" Di Yun shouted: "I am wronged, I am wronged! I want to see the magistrate and ask him to redress his grievances." The jailer He shouted: "Can you shut up?" Di Yun shouted louder instead. The jailer grinned grimly, turned around and picked up a wooden bucket, and poured the wooden bucket down on him through the iron bars.Di Yun only felt a pungent stench, and it was too late to dodge, his whole body was drenched immediately, and the bucket was actually urine.The urine dripped on the broken wounds all over his body, and the pain became even more severe.His eyes darkened and he passed out. He had a high fever in a daze, and sometimes called out: "Master, Master!" Take a bite.
On the fourth day, the fever on my body finally subsided gradually.All the wounds were numb with pain, and it was not as intense and unbearable as it was a few days ago.He remembered his grievances, and opened his mouth to shout again: "Wrong!" But the voice that came out at this time was extremely weak, only a few intermittent groans. He sat for a while, staring blankly at the cell.It was a big stone house about two feet square. The walls were made of rough big stones, and the ground was also paved with big stones. There was a dung bucket in the corner of the wall, and the smell was full of stench. and musty. He turned his head slowly, only to see a pair of eyes staring fiercely at him in the corner of the west room.Di Yun shuddered, not expecting that there were other people in the cell.I saw this man with a bearded face, long hair hanging down to his neck, and ragged clothes, he looked like a savage in the barren hills.He was handcuffed and fettered, exactly like himself, even wearing two iron chains in his luteal bone. The first thought in Di Yun's mind was joy, and a smile flashed across the corner of his mouth, thinking: "So there are people as unfortunate as me in the world." But then he changed his mind: "This person is so vicious, he must be a murderer and arsonist , A gangster who committed all kinds of crimes. He deserved what he deserved, but I was wronged!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but burst into tears. He was tried and flogged, and Lang Dang was imprisoned. Although he suffered so much, he gritted his teeth and endured it. He never shed a single tear. At this time, he could no longer hold back and simply burst into tears. The bearded prisoner sneered and said, "It's really good at pretending! Are you an actor?" Di Yun ignored him and cried loudly on his own.Only the sound of footsteps was heard, and the jailer came over with another bucket of urine.No matter how stubborn Di Yun was, he didn't dare to contradict him, so he had to slowly stop crying.The jailer looked sideways at him, and suddenly said: "Little thief, someone is watching you." Di Yun was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly said: "It is... who is it?" The jailer looked at him sideways for a while, then took out a large iron key from his side, and opened the iron gate outside.Only the sound of footsteps was heard, the jailer walked through a long corridor, the sound of opening the iron gate, followed by the sound of closing and locking the iron gate, the sound of footsteps of three people in the corridor, walking towards this side. Di Yun was overjoyed, and immediately jumped up, his legs gave way and he was about to fall, so he hurriedly leaned against the wall beside him, the pipa bone on his shoulder was stretched, causing another burst of pain.But he was full of joy, he forgot all the pain, and shouted loudly: "Master, junior sister!" He only has two relatives in this world, master and junior sister, and there are two other people in the corridor besides the jailer, naturally they are master and junior sister. Suddenly, he yelled out the word "teacher", but the word "father" below was condensed in his throat, and he opened his mouth wide, unable to close it.The first one who came in through the iron gate was the jailer, the second one was a handsome young man with rich clothes, but it was Wan Gui, and the third one was Qi Fang. She yelled: "Senior brother, senior brother!" and rushed to the iron fence. Di Yun took a step forward and saw that she was wearing a silk shirt, not the new clothes she wore from the countryside, so he stopped taking the second step.But seeing her eyes were red and swollen, she just called out: "Senior Brother, Senior Brother, you...you..." Di Yun asked: "Where is Master? But... have you found his old man?" Qi Fang shook her head, tears streaming down her eyes.Di Yun asked again: "You... how are you? Where do you live?" Qi Fang choked and said, "I have nowhere to go, so I'm staying at Senior Brother Wan's house for now..." Di Yun shouted: "This It's a harmful place, so don't live there, hurry...move out." Qi Fang lowered her head and said softly, "I...I have no money. Master Wan... treats me very well, he A few days... go to the Yamen every day, spend money to manage... rescue you." Di Yun was even more annoyed, and said loudly: "I haven't committed a crime, what do I want him to pay? How can we pay him back alive in the future? The county magistrate finds out my wrongdoing, and he will let me go." Qi Fang cried out again with an "ah", and said bitterly, "You...why did you do such a thing? Why...why did you leave me?" Di Yun was startled, and immediately understood that at this moment, Junior Sister still believed that Tao Hong's words were true, and believed that these bags of gold, silver and jewels were indeed stolen by herself.All his life, he respected and loved Qi Fang, pitied and feared her, told her everything, discussed everything with her, but he didn't know that when such a big matter happened, she was no different from others, and most people thought that Go rape women by yourself, steal gold and silver, thinking that you can do such bad things. In this instant, the pain he felt in his heart was a hundred times stronger than all the pains he suffered in his body.He was tongue-tied and wanted to defend Qi Fang with thousands of words, but his throat suddenly became hoarse and he couldn't utter a single word.He exerted all his strength, his face flushed red, but his throat and tongue were always out of order, and he couldn't make the slightest sound. Seeing his terrifying expression, Qi Fang became frightened and turned her head not to look at him. Di Yun struggled for a long time, but still couldn't say a word, suddenly saw Qi Fang turned her head away from him, and couldn't help but feel great grief: "She hates me, hates me for abandoning her to find another woman, hates me for stealing from others He hates me for wanting to sneak away alone when the teacher is in trouble. Junior sister, junior sister, why do you come to see me if you don’t believe me so much?” He no longer dared to look at Qi Fang, and slowly turned his head. Come, towards the wall. Qi Fang turned her face and said: "Brother, there is no need to talk about the past, I just hope...to get a message from dad soon. Brother Wan, he...he is trying to get you out..." Di Yun wanted to say: "I don't want him to protect you." He also wanted to say: "Don't live in his house." But the harder he tried, the more tense and twitched his muscles became, and he couldn't say a word.He couldn't help shaking, and the iron chain clanked. The jailer urged: "The time has come. This is a death row prison. It is dedicated to murder and repeat offenders. People are not allowed to visit the prison. If the higher-ups know about it, we can't afford it. Girl, if this person gets out alive, he is also a useless person." You should have forgotten about him long ago and marry a rich and beautiful young master!" As he spoke, he cast a glance at Wan Gui, and laughed lewdly. Qi Fang begged: "Uncle, I still have a few words to say to my senior brother." Stretching her hand inside the iron fence, she pulled Di Yun's sleeve, and said softly: "Senior brother, don't worry, I will definitely ask Senior Brother Wan saved you, let's go find Daddy together." Passing a small bamboo basket in, he said: "There are some bacon, cured fish, boiled eggs, and two taels of silver. Senior Brother, I'll come and see tomorrow you……" The jailer became impatient, and shouted: "Miss, if you don't leave, I won't be polite!" Only then did Wan Gui speak: "Senior Brother Di, don't worry. Your business is mine. I will try my best to plead with the county magistrate and convict you as lightly as possible." The jailer kept urging her, but Qi Fang had no choice but to walk out aggrieved, looking back at Di Yun every step of the way, but seeing him was like a stone statue, always facing the wall motionless. All Di Yun could see were the bumps and bumps on the stone wall. He really wanted to turn his head, look at Qi Fang's back, and call her "Junior Sister", but not only could he not speak, his head and neck were also stiff.He heard the footsteps of the three people in the corridor gradually going away, heard the sound of unlocking and opening the iron door, and heard the footsteps of the jailer coming back alone in the corridor, and thought: "She said that she will come to see me tomorrow. Alas, but It will be a long day before I see her again." He reached into the bamboo basket to get food.Suddenly a big furry hand stretched out and snatched the bamboo basket. It was the vicious prisoner.I saw him grab a piece of bacon in the basket, put it in his mouth and chew it. Di Yun said angrily: "This is mine!" He was able to speak suddenly, and he felt very strange.He took a step forward, wanting to snatch it.The prisoner stretched out his hand and pushed, Di Yun couldn't stand still, and fell backwards, with a bang, the back of his head hit the stone wall.Only then did he understand the true meaning of "wearing the lute bone and becoming a useless person".
Qi Fang didn't come to see him the next day.It didn't come on the third day, and it didn't come on the fourth day. Di Yun hoped and disappointed day after day, and on the tenth day, he almost went crazy.He yelled, made noise, and bumped his head against the wall, but Qi Fang never came, and all he got in return was urine from the jailer and beatings from the murderer. After half a month, he finally gradually calmed down and became silent. One night, suddenly four guards came into the cell, all with steel knives in their hands, and escorted the murderer out. Di Yun thought to himself: "Should we take him out to execute and behead him? That would be good for him, and he won't have to endure such a hard life in the future, and I won't have to be bullied by him anymore." He was sleeping dimly, when he suddenly heard the sound of iron chains scraping the ground, and the four jailers carried the murderer back.When Di Yun opened his eyes, he saw that the murderer was covered in blood all over his body, obviously someone had tortured him severely. As soon as the prisoner fell to the ground, he fell unconscious.After the four guards left, Di Yun looked at him with the moonlight shining into the cell, and saw bloodstains on his face, arms, and legs from the brutal beating.Although Di Yun was bullied by him for several days, he couldn't help but feel unbearable when he saw such a miserable situation, so he poured some water from the water bowl and fed him. The prisoner slowly woke up, opened his eyes and saw that it was Di Yun, suddenly raised the iron cuffs, and slammed them on his head.Although Di Yun lost his strength, he still had the wit to respond, and hurriedly dodged to avoid it, but the prisoner didn't have enough strength in his hands, and halfway back, he came back and hit him hard on the waist with a bang.Di Yun was unsure of his footing, and fell straight to the left.他手足都有铁链与琵琶骨相连，登时剧痛难当，不禁又惊又怒，骂道：“疯子！” 那囚徒狂笑道：“你这苦肉计，如何瞒得过我，乘早别来打我的主意。” 狄云只觉胁间肋骨几乎断折，痛得话也说不出来，过得半晌，才道：“疯子，你自身难保，有甚么主意给人好打？” 那囚徒一跃而前，左足踏住狄云背心，右足在他身上重重踢了几脚，喝道：“我看你这小贼年纪还轻，作恶不多，不过是受人指使，否则我不一脚踢死你才怪。” 狄云气得身上的痛楚也自忘了，心想无辜受这牢狱之灾，已是不幸，而与这不可理喻的疯汉同处一室，更是不幸之中再加不幸。 到了第二个月圆之夜，那囚犯又被四名带刀狱卒带了出去，拷打一顿，送回牢房。这一次狄云学了乖，任他模样如何惨不忍睹，始终不去理会。不料不理也是不成，那囚徒一口气没处出，尽管遍体鳞伤，还是来找他的晦气，不住吆喝：“你奶奶的，你再卧底十年八年，老子也不上你的当。”“人家打你祖宗，你祖宗就打你这孙子！”“咱们就是这么耗着，瞧是谁受的罪多。”似乎他身受拷打，全是狄云的不是，又打又踢，闹了半天。 此后每到月亮将圆，狄云就愁眉不展，知道惨受荼毒的日子近了。果然每月十五，那囚犯总是给拉出去经受一顿拷打，回来后就转而对付狄云。总算狄云年纪甚轻，身强力壮，每个月挨一顿打，倒也经受得起，有时不免奇怪：“我琵琶骨被铁链穿后，力气全无。这疯汉一般的给铁链穿了琵琶骨，怎地仍有一身蛮力？”几次鼓起勇气询问，但只须一开口，那疯汉便拳足交加，此后只好半句话也不向他说。
如此匆匆过了数月，冬尽春来，屈指在狱中将近一年。狄云慢慢惯了，心中的怨愤、身上的痛楚，倒也渐渐麻木了。这些时日之中，他为了避开那疯汉的殴辱，始终正眼也不瞧他一下。只要不跟他说话，目光不与他相对，除了月圆之夕，那疯汉平时倒也不来招惹。 这一日清晨，狄云眼未睁开，听得牢房外燕语呢喃，突然间想起从前常和戚芳在一起观看燕子筑巢的情景，心中蓦地一酸，向燕语处望去，只见一对燕子渐飞渐远，从数十丈外高楼畔的窗下掠过。他长日无聊，常自遥眺纱窗，猜想这楼中有何人居住，但窗子老是紧紧的关着，窗槛上却终年不断的供着一盆鲜花，其时春光烂漫，窗槛上放的是一盆茉莉。 正在胡思乱想，忽听得那疯汉轻轻一声叹息。这一年来，那疯汉不是狂笑，便是骂人，从来没听见他叹过甚么气，何况这声叹息之中，竟颇有忧伤、温柔之意。狄云忍不住转过头去，只见那疯汉嘴角边带着一丝微笑，脸上神色诚挚，不再是那副凶悍恶毒的模样，眼睛正望着那盆茉莉。狄云唯恐他觉察自己在偷窥他的脸色，当即转过了头不敢再看。 自从发见了这秘密后，狄云每天早晨都偷看这疯汉的神情，但见他总是脸色温柔的凝望着那盆鲜花，从春天的茉莉、玫瑰，望到了夏天的丁香、凤仙。这半年之中，两个人几乎没说上十句话。月圆之夜的殴打，也变成了一个闷打，一个闷挨。狄云早已觉察到，只要自己一句话不说，这疯汉的怒气就小得多，拳脚落下时也轻得多。他心想：“再过得几年，恐怕我连怎么说话也要忘了。” 这疯汉虽然蛮横无理，却也有一样好处，吓得狱卒轻易不敢到牢房中罗嗦。有时狱卒给他骂得狠了，不送饭给他，他就夺狄云的饭吃。若是两人的饭都不送，那疯汉饿上几天也满不在乎。 那一年十一月十五，那疯汉给苦打一顿之后，忽然发起烧来，昏迷中尽说胡话，前言不对后语，狄云依稀只听得他常常呼唤着两个字，似乎是“双花”，又似“伤怀”。 狄云初时不敢理会，但到得次日午间，听他不断呻吟的说：“水，水，给我水喝！”忍不住在瓦钵中倒了些水，凑到他嘴边，严神戒备，防他又双手殴击过来。幸好这一次他乖乖的喝了水，便即睡倒。 当天晚上，竟然又来了四个狱卒，架着他出去又拷打了一顿。这次回来，那疯汉的呻吟声已是若断若续。一名狱卒狠狠的道：“他倔强不说，明儿再打。”另一名狱卒道：“乘着他神智不清，咱们赶紧得逼他说出来。说不定他这一次要见阎王，那可不美。” 狄云和他在狱中同处已久，虽苦受他欺凌折磨，可也真不愿他这么便死在狱卒的手下。十七那一天，狄云服侍他喝了四五次水。最后一次，那疯汉点了点头示谢。自从同狱以来，狄云首次见到他的友善之意，突然之间，心中感到了无比的欢喜。 这天二更过后，那四名狱卒果然又来了，打开了牢门。狄云心想这一次那疯汉若再经拷打，那是非死不可，忽然将心一横，跳起来拦在牢门前，喝道：“不许进来！”一名高大的狱卒迈步过来，骂道：“贼囚犯，滚开。”狄云手上无力，猛地里低头一口咬去，将他右手食中两指咬得鲜血淋漓，牙齿深及指骨，两根手指几乎都咬断了。那狱卒大吃一惊，反身跳出牢房，呛啷一声，一柄单刀掉在地下。 狄云俯身抢起，呼呼呼连劈三刀，他手上虽无劲力，但以刀代剑，招数仍是颇为精妙。一名肥胖的狱卒仗刀直进，狄云身子一侧，一招“大母哥盐失，长鹅卤翼圆”（其实是“大漠孤烟直，长河落日圆”），单刀转了个圆圈，刷的一刀，砍在他腿上。那狱卒吓得连滚带爬的退了出去。 这一来血溅牢门，四名狱卒见他势若疯虎，形同拚命，倒也不敢轻易抢进，在牢门外将狄云的十八代祖宗都骂了个臭死，甚么污言秽语都骂了出来。狄云一言不发，只是守住狱门。那四名狱卒居然没去搬求援军，眼看攻不进来，骂了一会，也就去了。 接连四天之中，狱卒既不送饭，也不送水。狄云到第五天时，渴得再也难以忍耐。那疯汉更是嘴唇也焦了，忽道：“你假装要砍死我，这狗娘养的非拿水来不可。”狄云不明其理，但想：“不管有没有用，试试也好！”当下大声叫道：“再不拿水来，我将这疯汉先砍死再说。”反过刀背，在铁栅栏上碰得当当当的直响。 只见那狱卒匆匆赶来，大声吆喝：“你伤了他一根毫毛，老子用刀尖在你身上戳一千一万个窟窿。”跟着便拿了清水和冷饭来。 狄云喂着那疯汉吃喝已毕，问道：“他要折磨你，可又怕我杀了你，那是甚么道理？” 那疯汉双目圆睁，举起手中的瓦钵，劈头向他砸去，骂道：“你这番假惺惺的买好，我就上了你的当么？”乒乓一声，瓦钵破碎，狄云额头鲜血涔涔而下。他茫然退开，心想：“这人狂性又发作了！” 但此后逢到月圆之后，那些狱卒虽一般的将那疯汉提出去拷打，他回来却不再在狄云身上找补。两人仍然并不交谈，狄云要是向他多瞧上几眼，醋钵大的拳头还是一般招呼过来。那疯汉只有在望着对面高楼窗槛上的鲜花之时，脸上目中，才露出一丝温柔的神色。
到得第四年的春天，狄云心中已无出狱之念，虽然梦魂之中，仍是不断的想到师父和师妹，但师父的影子终于慢慢淡了。师妹那壮健婀娜的身子，红红的脸蛋，黑溜溜的大眼睛，在他心底却仍和三年多前一般的清晰。 他已不敢盼望能出狱去再和师妹相会，每天可总忘不了暗暗向观世音菩萨祝祷，只要师妹能再到狱中来探望他一次，便是天天受那疯汉的殴打，也所甘愿。 戚芳始终没有来。 有一天，却有一个人来探望他。那是个身穿绸面皮袍的英俊少年，笑嘻嘻的道：“狄师兄，你还认得我么？我是沈城。”隔了三年多，他身材已长高，狄云几乎已认他不出。 狄云心中怦怦乱跳，只盼能听到师妹的一些讯息，问道：“我师妹呢？” 沈城隔着栅栏，递了一只篮子进来，笑道：“这是我万师嫂送给你的。人家可没忘了旧相好，大喜的日子，巴巴的叫我送两只鸡、四只猪蹄、十六块喜糕来给你。” 狄云茫然问道：“哪一个万师嫂？甚么大喜的日子？” 沈城哈哈一笑，满脸狡谲的神色，说道：“万师嫂嘛，就是你的师妹戚姑娘了。今天是她和我万师哥拜堂成亲的好日子。她叫我送喜糕鸡肉给你，那不是挺够交情么？” 狄云身子一晃，双手抓住铁栅，颤声怒道：“你……你胡说八道！我师妹怎能……怎能嫁给那姓万的？” 沈城笑道：“我恩师给你师父刺了一刀，幸好没死，后来养好了伤，过去的事，既往不咎。你师妹住在我万师哥家里，这三年来卿卿我我，说不定……说不定……哈哈，明年担保给生个白白胖胖的娃娃。”他年纪大了，说话更是油腔滑调，流气十足。 狄云耳中嗡嗡作响，似乎听到自己口中问道：“我师父呢？”似乎听到沈城笑道：“谁知道呢？他只道自己杀了人，还不高飞远走？哪里还敢回来？”又似乎听到沈城笑道：“万师嫂说道：你在牢里安心住下去罢，待她生得三男四女，说不定会来瞧瞧你。” 狄云突然大吼：“你胡说，胡说！你……你……你放甚么狗屁……”提起篮子用力掷出，喜糕、猪蹄、熟鸡，滚了一地。但见每一块粉红色的喜糕上，都印着“万戚联姻，百年好合”八个深红的小字。 狄云拚命要不信沈城的话，可又怎能不信？迷迷糊糊中只听沈城笑道：“万师嫂说，可惜你不能去喝一杯喜酒……” 狄云双手连着铁铐，突然从栅栏中疾伸出去，一把捏住沈城的脖子。沈城大惊想逃。狄云不知从哪里突然生出来一股劲力，竟越捏越紧。沈城的脸从红变紫，双手乱舞，始终挣扎不脱。 那狱卒急忙赶来，抱着沈城的身子猛拉，费尽了力气，才救了他性命。 狄云坐在地下，不言不动。那狱卒嘻嘻哈哈的将鸡肉和喜糕都捡了去。狄云瞪着眼睛，可就全没瞧见。 这天晚上三更时分，他将衣衫撕成了一条条布条，搓成了一根绳子，打一个活结，两端缚在铁栅栏高处的横档上，将头伸进活结之中。 他并不悲哀，也不再感到愤恨。人世已无可恋之处，这是最爽快的解脱痛苦的法子。只觉脖子中的绳索越来越紧，一丝丝的气息也吸不进了。过得片刻，甚么也不知道了。
可是他终于渐渐有了知觉，好像有一只大手在重重压他胸口，那只手一松一压，鼻子中就有一阵阵凉气透了进来。也不知道过了多少时候，他才慢慢睁开眼来。 眼前是一张满腮虬髯的脸，那张脸咧开了嘴在笑。 狄云不由得满腹气恼，心道：“你事事跟我作对，我便是寻死，你也不许我死。”有心要起来和他厮拚，实是太过衰弱，力不从心。那疯汉笑道：“你已气绝了小半个时辰，若不是我用独门功夫相救，天下再没第二个人救得。”狄云怒道：“谁要你救？我又不想活了。”那疯汉得意洋洋的道：“我不许你死，你便死不了。” 那疯汉只是笑吟吟的瞧着他，过了一会，忽然凑到他的身边，低声道：“我这门功夫叫作'神照经'，你听见过没有？” 狄云怒道：“我只知道你有神经病，甚么神照经不神照经，从来没听见过。” 说也奇怪，那疯汉这一次竟丝毫没有发怒，反而轻轻的哼起小曲来，伸手压住狄云的胸口，一压一放，便如扯风箱一般，将气息压入他肺中，低声又道：“也是你命大，我这'神照经'已练了一十二年，直到两个月前方才练成。倘若你在两个月之前寻死，我就救你不得了。” 狄云胸口郁闷难当，想起了戚芳嫁了万圭，真觉还是死了的干净，向那疯汉瞪了一眼，恨恨的道：“我前生不知作了甚么孽，今世要撞到你这恶贼。” 那疯汉笑道：“我很开心，小兄弟，这三年来我真错怪了你。我丁典向你赔不是啦！”说着爬在地下，咚咚咚的向他磕了三个响头。 狄云叹了口气，低声说了声：“疯子！”也就没再去理他，慢慢侧过身来，突然想起：“他自称丁典，那是姓丁名典么？我和他在狱中同处三年，一直不知他的姓名。”好奇心起，问道：“你叫甚么？”那疯汉道：“我姓丁，目不识丁的丁，三坟五典的典。我疑心病太重，一直当你是歹人，这三年多来当真将你害得苦了，实在太对你不起。”狄云觉得他说话有条有理，并无半点疯态，问道：“你到底是不是疯子？” 丁典黯然不语，隔得半晌，长长叹了口气，道：“到底疯不疯，那也难说得很。我是在求心之所安，旁人看来，却不免觉得我太过傻得莫名其妙。”过了一会，又安慰他道：“狄兄弟，你心中的委屈，我已猜到了十之八九。人家既然对你无情无义，你又何必将这女子苦苦放在心上？大丈夫何患无妻？将来娶一个胜你师妹十倍的女子，又有何难？” 狄云听了这番说话，三年多来郁在心中的委屈，忍不住便如山洪般奔泻了出来，但觉胸口一酸，泪珠滚滚而下，到后来，便伏在丁典怀中大哭起来。 丁典搂住他上身，轻轻抚摸他的长发。 过得三天，狄云精神稍振。丁典低低的跟他有说有笑，讲些江湖上的掌故趣事，跟他解闷。但当狱吏送饭来时，丁典却仍对狄云大声呼叱，秽语辱骂，神情与前毫无异样。 一个折磨得他苦恼不堪的对头，突然间成为良朋好友，若不是戚芳嫁了人这件事不断像毒虫般咬噬他的心，这时的狱中生涯，和三年来的情形相比，简直算得是天堂了。 狄云曾向丁典问起，为甚么以前当他是歹人，为甚么突然察觉了真相。丁典道：“你若真是歹人，决不会上吊自杀。我等你气绝好久，死得透了，身子都快僵了，这才施救。普天下除了我自己之外，没人知道我已练成'神照经'的上乘功夫。若不是我会得这门功夫，无论如何救你不转。你自杀既是真的，那便不是向我施苦肉计的歹人了。”狄云又问：“你疑心我向你施苦肉计？那为甚么？”丁典微笑不答。 第二次狄云又问到这件事时，丁典仍是不答，狄云便不再问了。 一日晚上，丁典在他耳边低声道：“我这'神照经'功夫，是天下内功中威力最强、最奥妙的法门。今日起我传授给你，你小心记住了。”狄云摇头道：“我不学。”丁典奇道：“这等机缘旷世难逢，你为甚么不要学？”狄云道：“这种日子生不如死。咱二人此生看来也无出狱的时候，再高强的武功学了也是毫无用处。”丁典笑道：“要出狱去，那还不容易？我将初步口诀传你，你好好记着。” 狄云甚是执拗，寻死的念头兀自未消，说甚么也不肯学。丁典又好气又好笑，却也束手无策，恨不得再像从前这般打他一顿。 又过数日，月亮又要圆了。狄云不禁暗暗替丁典担心。丁典猜到他心意，说道：“狄兄弟，我每个月该当有这番折磨，我受了拷打后，回来仍要打你出气，你我千万不可显得和好，否则于你我都是大大的不利。”狄云问道：“那为甚么？”丁典道：“他们倘若疑心你我交了朋友，便会对你使用毒刑，逼你向我套问一件事。我打你骂你，就可免得你身遭恶毒惨酷的刑罚。” 狄云点头道：“不错，这件事既如此重要，你千万不可说与我知道，免得我一个不小心，走漏了风声。丁大哥，我是个毫无见识的乡下小子，倘若胡里胡涂误了你的大事，如何对得起你？” 丁典道：“他们把你和我关在一起，初时我只道他们派你前来卧底，假意讨好于我，从中设法套问我的口风，因此我对你十分恼怒，大加折磨。现下我知道你不是卧底的奸细了，可是他们将你和我关在一起，这般三年四年的不放，用意仍在盼你做奸细。只望你讨得我的欢心，我向你吐露了机密，他们便可拷打逼问于你。他们情知对付我很难，对付你这个年轻小伙子，那便容易之极。你是知县衙门的犯人，却送到知府衙门的囚牢来监禁，自然便是这个缘故。” 十五晚上，四名带刀狱卒提了丁典出去。狄云心绪不宁，等候他回转。到得四更天时，丁典又是目青鼻肿、满身鲜血的回到牢房。 待四名狱卒走后，丁典脸色郑重，低声道：“狄兄弟，今天事情很是糟糕，当真不巧之极，给仇人认出了我。”狄云道：“怎么？”丁典道：“每月十五，知府提我去拷打一顿，那是例行公事。可是今天有人来行刺知府。眼见他性命不保，我便出手相救，只因我身有铐镣，四名刺客中只杀了三个，第四个给他跑了，这可留下了祸胎。” 狄云越听越奇怪，连问：“知府到底为甚么这般拷打你？这知府这等残暴，有人行刺，你又何必救他？逃走的剑客是谁？”丁典摇摇头，叹道：“一时也说不清楚这许多事。狄兄弟，你武功不济，又没了力气，以后不论见到甚么事，千万不可出手助我。” 狄云并不答话，心想：“我姓狄的岂是贪生怕死之徒？你拿我当朋友，你若有危难，我怎能不出手？” 此后数日之中，丁典只是默默沉思，除了望着远处高楼窗槛上的花朵，脸上偶尔露出一丝微笑之外，整日仰起了头呆想。 到了十九那一天深夜，狄云睡得正熟，忽听得喀喀两声。他睁开眼来，月光下只见两名劲装大汉使利器砍断了牢房外的铁栅栏，手中各执一柄单刀，踊身而入。狄云惊得呆了，不知如何是好，但见丁典倚墙而立，嘿嘿冷笑。 那身材较矮的大汉说道：“姓丁的，咱兄弟俩踏遍了天涯海角，到处找你，哪想得到你竟是躲入荆州府的牢房，做那缩头乌龟。总算老天有眼，寻到了你。”另一名大汉道：“咱们真人面前不说假话，你将那本书取出来，三份对分，咱兄弟非但不会难为你，还立刻将你救出牢狱。”丁典摇头道：“不在我这里。十三年前，早就给言达平偷了去啦。” 狄云听到“言达平”三字，心中一动：“那是我二师伯啊，怎地跟此事生了关联？” 那矮大汉喝道：“你故布疑阵，休想瞒得过我。去你的罢！”挥刀上前，刀尖刺向丁典的咽喉。丁典不闪不避，让那尖刀将及喉头数寸之处，突然一矮身，欺向身材较高的大汉左侧，手肘撞处，正中他小腹。那大汉一声没哼，便即委倒。 那矮大汉惊怒交集，呼呼两刀，向丁典疾劈过去。丁典双臂一举，臂间的铁链将单刀架开，便在同时，膝盖猛地上挺，撞在矮大汉身上。那人猛喷鲜血，倒毙于地。 丁典霎息间空手连毙二人，狄云不由得瞧得呆了。他武功虽失，眼光却在，知道自己纵然功力如旧，长剑在手，也未必及得上这矮汉子，另外那名汉子未及出手，便已身亡，功夫如何虽瞧不出端倪，但既与那矮汉联手，想来也必不弱。丁典琵琶骨中仍是穿着铁链，竟然在举手投足之间便连杀两名好手，实令他惊佩无已。 丁典将两
Di Yun was sitting in the room. At that time, it had been more than two hours since Wan Zhenshan was killed. He was sitting blankly at the table, looking at the half-inch burnt candle, his heart was in a state of confusion. At this time, everyone who chased Qi Changfa had returned. "The murderer has escaped from the city, and we can't catch him!" "Tomorrow, let's chase him to Hunan. We will catch the murderer no matter what and avenge Master!" Hmph! Even if we chase him to the ends of the earth, we must catch his corpse in ten thousand pieces." "Tomorrow, we will spread all kinds of posts in the rivers and lakes, and we must invite martial arts heroes to uphold justice and hunt down this despicable and shameless murderer together." "Yes, yes! Let's put The murderer's daughter and the puppy surnamed Di were slaughtered first to worship the heroic spirit of the master." "No! Let's wait until the county magistrate comes to examine the corpse tomorrow." The disciples of the Wanmen family discussed these things, and they had already stopped. Di Yun wanted to ask his junior sister to run away alone, but thought: "She is a young girl who is living in the rivers and lakes. Who will take care of her? Should I take her and run away together? No, no! This disaster is all caused by me. If I hadn't been brave enough to fight and cause trouble with all the senior brothers in the Wan family, how could Uncle Wan have suspected that my master had stolen the "Liancheng Sword" formula? My master is the most honest and good person, how could he steal some sword formula? The old beggar taught me these three moves of swordsmanship. But the master has killed someone, and if I say it at this time, others will never believe it. Even if I believe it, what's the use? It’s not good to be alone. Tomorrow I will speak out in public and defend Master. But... But Master Wan was clearly killed by Master, how can Master’s bad name be washed away? No, I must not escape, I will save it for Master to make up for the crime, Let them kill me!" Just as his thoughts were ebbing and flowing, he suddenly heard a light click on the roof outside. When he raised his head, he saw a black shadow jumping across the roof from west to east. He almost called out "Master", but his eyes were fixed Look, that man is tall and thin, definitely not the master.Then there was another figure jumping over, and this time it was more clear that the figure was holding a single knife. He thought to himself: "Are they looking for the master? Could it be that the master is still nearby and hasn't gone far?" Just as he was wondering, he suddenly heard a woman's exclamation from the east room. He was taken aback, grabbed the hilt of his sword, and jumped up. The first thing he thought of was: "Are they bullying Junior Sister?" Then he heard a woman's cry: "Help!" The voice didn't seem to be Qi Fang, but he cared too much, before he could tell if Qi Fang was in danger, he jumped out of the window, just stood on the eaves, and heard the woman screaming: "Help! Help!" He ran to follow the sound, only to see the light from the upstairs in the east, and a window was still shaking.He went to the window and looked in, only to see a woman lying on the bed with her hands and feet tied, two men stretched out their hands to touch her cheeks, while the other wanted to untie her clothes.Di Yun didn't know who this woman was, but seeing her pale with fright, she was rolling and struggling on the bed, calling for help. Although he himself was in trouble, but seeing this scene, he couldn't ignore it, immediately he rushed in through the window with his sword and led someone, stabbing the back of the man on the left with his sword.The man on the right raised a chair, and the man on the left had already drawn out his single knife and slashed over.Seeing that the faces of these two people were covered with black cloth, only a pair of eyes were exposed, Di Yun shouted: "Bold villain, save your life!" The two men kept silent, and each used single-handed combat.One man shouted: "Brother Lu, blah blah!" The other said: "For Wan Zhenshan's luck, he will take revenge next time!" He raised both knives and slashed at Di Yun's head. Seeing the ferocious approach, Di Yun dodged to avoid it.A man quickly kicked over the table, the candlestick fell down, and the room was pitch black.There was only a whooping sound, and the two jumped out of the window, followed by a series of ping-pong sounds, and a few tiles were thrown towards them.Di Yun couldn't see clearly in the dark, and he wasn't good at this kind of light-handedness, so he didn't dare to chase him out. He thought to himself: "One of the thieves is surnamed Lu, most likely he is from Lu Tong's group, and they are here for revenge. They don't know that Uncle Wan is dead." Suddenly I heard the woman on the bed shout: "Oh, it hurts to death. I have a small knife in my chest. Pull it out quickly." Di Yun was startled, and said: "The thief stabbed you?" The woman moaned: "Stabbed! Stabbed!" Di Yun said: "I'll light the candle for you to see." The woman said: "Come here, come quickly, come here quickly!" Hearing her panic, Di Yun took a step closer and said, "What?" Suddenly, the woman opened her arms, hugged him by the waist, and shouted: "Help, help!" Di Yun was even more shocked than Shicai. Seeing that her hands and feet were bound, why would he hug him?He hurriedly stretched out his hands to push, trying to break away from her embrace, but unexpectedly, the woman hugged his waist desperately, and couldn't push her away for a while. All of a sudden, the eyes lit up, and two torches were put into the window, illuminating the room as bright as day, and several people asked at the same time: "What's the matter? What is the matter?" The woman shouted: "Flower picker, flower picker! Help, help, help!" Di Yun was anxious, and shouted: "You...you...why don't you know what's good?" He stretched out his hand and pushed her body.The woman was hugging his waist, but now she resisted with all her strength, shouting: "Don't touch me, don't touch me!" Di Yun was about to run away, when he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and a long sword was already resting on his neck.He was about to make a decision, when a white light flashed suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his right palm, and with a clang, the long sword in his hand fell to the floor.He looked down and was so frightened that he almost fainted. He saw that the five fingers of his right hand had been cut off, and blood was gushing out like a spring. When he squinted in panic, he saw Wu Kan holding a bloody long sword. , stand aside. He just said: "You!" He kicked Wu Kan with his right foot, suddenly he was punched hard in the back of the heart, staggered and fell on the woman.The woman called again: "Help, flower picker!" Lu Kun's voice was heard saying: "Tie up this little thief!" Although Di Yun was a country boy who had never seen the world, he knew at this moment that he had fallen into the insidious trap set up by others.He jumped up, turned around, and was about to pounce on Lu Kun, when he suddenly saw a pale face, it was Qi Fang. Di Yun was stunned, only to see that the expression on Qi Fang's face was sad, contemptuous, and angry.He shouted: "Junior Sister!" Qi Fang's face flushed suddenly, and she said, "Why...why are you like this?" Di Yun was full of grievances, how could he speak at this moment? Qi Fang cried out with an "ah", and said, "I...I'd better die." Seeing that all five fingers on Di Yun's right hand were cut off, she felt a pain in her heart again, gritted her teeth, and tore herself apart. He put a piece of the placket on the cloth shirt, and approached him to bandage his wound.At this time, her face turned white again. Di Yun was so painful that he wanted to faint a few times, but he couldn't help himself, he only bit his lip until it bleeds, and he couldn't say a word. Lu Kun said: "Little wife, this bastard dares to be rude to you, we will kill him to vent your anger." It turned out that this woman was Wan Zhenshan's concubine.She covered her face with her hands, sobbed, and said, "He...he said a lot of nonsense. He said that your master is dead and told me to follow him. He said that Miss Qi's father killed someone and wanted to It hurt him. He... He also said that he had obtained a lot of gold, silver and jewels and made a fortune, and told me to go away with him immediately, so that I could eat forever..." Di Yun's mind was in chaos, and he just murmured: "Fake...fake..." Zhou Qi said loudly: "Go, go! Go and search this little thief's house!" Everyone pushed and pulled Di Yun to his room.Qi Fang followed behind in a daze. But Wan Gui said: "Everyone, don't make things difficult for Senior Brother Di. You can't wrong a good man if you don't understand the matter!" Zhou Qi said angrily, "What else don't you understand? This kid is a good man!" Wan Gui said: " I don't think he is a person who does evil." Zhou Qi said: "Didn't you hear it with your own ears? Didn't you see it with your own eyes?" Wan Gui said: "I think he drank a few more glasses, but he was sexually disordered after drinking. .” All these things happened one after another, Qi Fang had already lost her mind, hearing Wan Gui's defense for Di Yun, she was secretly grateful, and said in a low voice: "Senior Brother Wan, my senior brother... is indeed not that kind of person." Wan Gui said: "That's right, I said he was just drunk, and he would definitely not steal money." While speaking, everyone pushed Di Yun to his room.Shen Cheng's eyes turned around in the room, he lowered his body, and stretched out his hand to pull out a heavy package under the bed, but he heard clanging and metal bumping noises.Di Yun was even more stunned. He saw Shen Cheng unwrapping the package, and his eyes were full of squashed gold and silverware, wine pots and wine glasses, and so on. They were all things from the banquet in Wanfu. Qi Fang let out an exclamation, and stretched out her hand to support the table. Wan Gui comforted: "Junior Sister Qi, don't panic, let's think of a way slowly." Feng Tan lifted the quilt and found two more packages.Shen Cheng and Feng Tan unwrapped it separately, one bag contained silver ingots and ingots, and the other bag contained women's jewelry, pearl necklaces, gold bracelets and gold rings. At this moment, Qi Fang has no more doubts, she is full of resentment, and wished she could kill herself immediately with a horizontal sword.She grew up with Di Yun since she was a child, and she had already considered him as her future husband in her heart. She never expected that this lover whom she had always loved dearly would go away with other women when she was in trouble.Could it be that this enchanting woman really fascinated him?Or is he afraid of being implicated by his father and wants to escape alone? Lu Kun yelled and cursed: "Stinky thief, the stolen goods are all here, do you still want to deny it?" He slapped Di Yun twice hard with his bow left and right.Di Yun's arms were grabbed by Sun Jun and Wu Kan respectively, unable to block, his cheeks on both sides swelled up immediately.Lu Kun dismissed the sex and punched him in the chest. Qi Fang shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight, you have something to say." Zhou Qi said: "Kill this little thief to death, and then report to the officials!" He also punched him.Di Yun opened his mouth and spat out a big mouthful of blood.Feng Tan raised his sword and stepped forward, saying: "Cut off his left arm, let's see if he can do more bad things?" Sun Jun raised Di Yun's left arm, and Feng Tan raised his sword to cut it off.Qi Fang screamed "Ah".Wan Gui said: "Everyone look at me, don't make things difficult for him, we will send him off immediately." Seeing Feng Tan slowly withdrawing his sword, two lines of tears rolled down his cheeks, Qi Fang glanced at Wan Gui, her eyes were full of gratitude. "Five, ten, fifteen, twenty..." The guard counted, and hit Di Yun's hind leg with all his strength.Di Yun's body was held down by two other guards, and the bamboo board fell down again and again.These blows were nothing compared to the pain in his heart, not even the pain in his right palm. He just thought in his heart: "Even Sister Fang thinks I'm a thief, even she thinks I'm a thief." "Twenty-five...thirty...thirty-five...forty..." The board was falling, the skin was swollen and cracked, blood stained the board and splashed on the ground around it. When Di Yun woke up in the prison cell, he was still groggy. He didn't know where he was or how long it had passed. Gradually, he felt the pain at the severed five fingers on his right hand, and he felt pain again. Pain in the back, legs, buttocks where the plank was whipped.He wanted to turn over so that the wound would not be pressed to the ground, but suddenly, there was an indescribably severe pain in the two shoulders, which made him faint again. After waking up again, he first heard his own hoarse moans, and then felt severe pain all over his body.But why does the shoulder hurt so badly?Why is this pain so unbearable?He only felt an indescribable fear, and for a long time, he didn't dare to lower his head to look. "Could it be that both of my shoulders have been chopped off?" After a while, he suddenly heard the sound of iron objects hitting lightly, and when he lowered his head, he saw two iron chains hanging down from his shoulders.He was horrified, and when he looked sideways, his whole body trembled with fright. This trembling made the pain in his shoulders even worse.It turned out that these two iron chains passed through the lute bone of his shoulder blades, and were locked together with the iron shackles on his hands and the iron chains on his ankles.Wearing the lute bone, he once heard his master say, that is the government's way to deal with the most vicious Jiangyang robbers, no matter how strong your martial arts are, if the lute bone is pierced by an iron chain, you will not be able to use it at all.In an instant, countless thoughts turned in my mind: "Why do you treat me like this? Do they really think I am a robber? I have been wronged like this, can't the official find out?" In the magistrate's hall, he had told the story intermittently, but Wan Zhenshan's concubine Taohong strongly testified that it was he who intended to rape and not someone else.The eight disciples of the Wan family and many family members testified that they saw him hugging Tao Hong, and saw the stolen goods being searched out from under his bed and under the quilt.The servants in the yamen also said that the ten thousand families in Jingzhou are so famous that no thief would dare to make a move. Di Yun remembered that the county magistrate had a handsome appearance and a very kind face.He wanted to know that the magistrate of the county listened to people's words for a while and wronged a good person, but he would find out in the end.However, the five fingers of his right hand were cut off, how can he use a sword again in the future? Filled with anger and grief, he stood up regardless of the pain, and shouted: "Wrong, wrong!" Suddenly his legs felt sore and he bent over and fell straight to the ground.He struggled and wanted to get up again, but just when he stood up straight, his legs and knees became weak, and he fell forward again.He crawled on the ground, still shouting: "Wrong, wrong!" Suddenly a voice from the corner of the room said coldly: "If someone wears a lute bone, all his kung fu is useless. Hehe, hehe! The cost is really not small!" Di Yun didn't care who was talking, let alone No matter what these words mean, I still shouted: "I am wronged, I am wronged!" A jailer came over and shouted: "What are you yelling for? Shut up!" Di Yun shouted: "I am wronged, I am wronged! I want to see the magistrate and ask him to redress his grievances." The jailer He shouted: "Can you shut up?" Di Yun shouted louder instead. The jailer grinned grimly, turned around and picked up a wooden bucket, and poured the wooden bucket down on him through the iron bars.Di Yun only felt a pungent stench, and it was too late to dodge, his whole body was drenched immediately, and the bucket was actually urine.The urine dripped on the broken wounds all over his body, and the pain became even more severe.His eyes darkened and he passed out. He had a high fever in a daze, and sometimes called out: "Master, Master!" Take a bite.
On the fourth day, the fever on my body finally subsided gradually.All the wounds were numb with pain, and it was not as intense and unbearable as it was a few days ago.He remembered his grievances, and opened his mouth to shout again: "Wrong!" But the voice that came out at this time was extremely weak, only a few intermittent groans. He sat for a while, staring blankly at the cell.It was a big stone house about two feet square. The walls were made of rough big stones, and the ground was also paved with big stones. There was a dung bucket in the corner of the wall, and the smell was full of stench. and musty. He turned his head slowly, only to see a pair of eyes staring fiercely at him in the corner of the west room.Di Yun shuddered, not expecting that there were other people in the cell.I saw this man with a bearded face, long hair hanging down to his neck, and ragged clothes, he looked like a savage in the barren hills.He was handcuffed and fettered, exactly like himself, even wearing two iron chains in his luteal bone. The first thought in Di Yun's mind was joy, and a smile flashed across the corner of his mouth, thinking: "So there are people as unfortunate as me in the world." But then he changed his mind: "This person is so vicious, he must be a murderer and arsonist , A gangster who committed all kinds of crimes. He deserved what he deserved, but I was wronged!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but burst into tears. He was tried and flogged, and Lang Dang was imprisoned. Although he suffered so much, he gritted his teeth and endured it. He never shed a single tear. At this time, he could no longer hold back and simply burst into tears. The bearded prisoner sneered and said, "It's really good at pretending! Are you an actor?" Di Yun ignored him and cried loudly on his own.Only the sound of footsteps was heard, and the jailer came over with another bucket of urine.No matter how stubborn Di Yun was, he didn't dare to contradict him, so he had to slowly stop crying.The jailer looked sideways at him, and suddenly said: "Little thief, someone is watching you." Di Yun was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly said: "It is... who is it?" The jailer looked at him sideways for a while, then took out a large iron key from his side, and opened the iron gate outside.Only the sound of footsteps was heard, the jailer walked through a long corridor, the sound of opening the iron gate, followed by the sound of closing and locking the iron gate, the sound of footsteps of three people in the corridor, walking towards this side. Di Yun was overjoyed, and immediately jumped up, his legs gave way and he was about to fall, so he hurriedly leaned against the wall beside him, the pipa bone on his shoulder was stretched, causing another burst of pain.But he was full of joy, he forgot all the pain, and shouted loudly: "Master, junior sister!" He only has two relatives in this world, master and junior sister, and there are two other people in the corridor besides the jailer, naturally they are master and junior sister. Suddenly, he yelled out the word "teacher", but the word "father" below was condensed in his throat, and he opened his mouth wide, unable to close it.The first one who came in through the iron gate was the jailer, the second one was a handsome young man with rich clothes, but it was Wan Gui, and the third one was Qi Fang. She yelled: "Senior brother, senior brother!" and rushed to the iron fence. Di Yun took a step forward and saw that she was wearing a silk shirt, not the new clothes she wore from the countryside, so he stopped taking the second step.But seeing her eyes were red and swollen, she just called out: "Senior Brother, Senior Brother, you...you..." Di Yun asked: "Where is Master? But... have you found his old man?" Qi Fang shook her head, tears streaming down her eyes.Di Yun asked again: "You... how are you? Where do you live?" Qi Fang choked and said, "I have nowhere to go, so I'm staying at Senior Brother Wan's house for now..." Di Yun shouted: "This It's a harmful place, so don't live there, hurry...move out." Qi Fang lowered her head and said softly, "I...I have no money. Master Wan... treats me very well, he A few days... go to the Yamen every day, spend money to manage... rescue you." Di Yun was even more annoyed, and said loudly: "I haven't committed a crime, what do I want him to pay? How can we pay him back alive in the future? The county magistrate finds out my wrongdoing, and he will let me go." Qi Fang cried out again with an "ah", and said bitterly, "You...why did you do such a thing? Why...why did you leave me?" Di Yun was startled, and immediately understood that at this moment, Junior Sister still believed that Tao Hong's words were true, and believed that these bags of gold, silver and jewels were indeed stolen by herself.All his life, he respected and loved Qi Fang, pitied and feared her, told her everything, discussed everything with her, but he didn't know that when such a big matter happened, she was no different from others, and most people thought that Go rape women by yourself, steal gold and silver, thinking that you can do such bad things. In this instant, the pain he felt in his heart was a hundred times stronger than all the pains he suffered in his body.He was tongue-tied and wanted to defend Qi Fang with thousands of words, but his throat suddenly became hoarse and he couldn't utter a single word.He exerted all his strength, his face flushed red, but his throat and tongue were always out of order, and he couldn't make the slightest sound. Seeing his terrifying expression, Qi Fang became frightened and turned her head not to look at him. Di Yun struggled for a long time, but still couldn't say a word, suddenly saw Qi Fang turned her head away from him, and couldn't help but feel great grief: "She hates me, hates me for abandoning her to find another woman, hates me for stealing from others He hates me for wanting to sneak away alone when the teacher is in trouble. Junior sister, junior sister, why do you come to see me if you don’t believe me so much?” He no longer dared to look at Qi Fang, and slowly turned his head. Come, towards the wall. Qi Fang turned her face and said: "Brother, there is no need to talk about the past, I just hope...to get a message from dad soon. Brother Wan, he...he is trying to get you out..." Di Yun wanted to say: "I don't want him to protect you." He also wanted to say: "Don't live in his house." But the harder he tried, the more tense and twitched his muscles became, and he couldn't say a word.He couldn't help shaking, and the iron chain clanked. The jailer urged: "The time has come. This is a death row prison. It is dedicated to murder and repeat offenders. People are not allowed to visit the prison. If the higher-ups know about it, we can't afford it. Girl, if this person gets out alive, he is also a useless person." You should have forgotten about him long ago and marry a rich and beautiful young master!" As he spoke, he cast a glance at Wan Gui, and laughed lewdly. Qi Fang begged: "Uncle, I still have a few words to say to my senior brother." Stretching her hand inside the iron fence, she pulled Di Yun's sleeve, and said softly: "Senior brother, don't worry, I will definitely ask Senior Brother Wan saved you, let's go find Daddy together." Passing a small bamboo basket in, he said: "There are some bacon, cured fish, boiled eggs, and two taels of silver. Senior Brother, I'll come and see tomorrow you……" The jailer became impatient, and shouted: "Miss, if you don't leave, I won't be polite!" Only then did Wan Gui speak: "Senior Brother Di, don't worry. Your business is mine. I will try my best to plead with the county magistrate and convict you as lightly as possible." The jailer kept urging her, but Qi Fang had no choice but to walk out aggrieved, looking back at Di Yun every step of the way, but seeing him was like a stone statue, always facing the wall motionless. All Di Yun could see were the bumps and bumps on the stone wall. He really wanted to turn his head, look at Qi Fang's back, and call her "Junior Sister", but not only could he not speak, his head and neck were also stiff.He heard the footsteps of the three people in the corridor gradually going away, heard the sound of unlocking and opening the iron door, and heard the footsteps of the jailer coming back alone in the corridor, and thought: "She said that she will come to see me tomorrow. Alas, but It will be a long day before I see her again." He reached into the bamboo basket to get food.Suddenly a big furry hand stretched out and snatched the bamboo basket. It was the vicious prisoner.I saw him grab a piece of bacon in the basket, put it in his mouth and chew it. Di Yun said angrily: "This is mine!" He was able to speak suddenly, and he felt very strange.He took a step forward, wanting to snatch it.The prisoner stretched out his hand and pushed, Di Yun couldn't stand still, and fell backwards, with a bang, the back of his head hit the stone wall.Only then did he understand the true meaning of "wearing the lute bone and becoming a useless person".
Qi Fang didn't come to see him the next day.It didn't come on the third day, and it didn't come on the fourth day. Di Yun hoped and disappointed day after day, and on the tenth day, he almost went crazy.He yelled, made noise, and bumped his head against the wall, but Qi Fang never came, and all he got in return was urine from the jailer and beatings from the murderer. After half a month, he finally gradually calmed down and became silent. One night, suddenly four guards came into the cell, all with steel knives in their hands, and escorted the murderer out. Di Yun thought to himself: "Should we take him out to execute and behead him? That would be good for him, and he won't have to endure such a hard life in the future, and I won't have to be bullied by him anymore." He was sleeping dimly, when he suddenly heard the sound of iron chains scraping the ground, and the four jailers carried the murderer back.When Di Yun opened his eyes, he saw that the murderer was covered in blood all over his body, obviously someone had tortured him severely. As soon as the prisoner fell to the ground, he fell unconscious.After the four guards left, Di Yun looked at him with the moonlight shining into the cell, and saw bloodstains on his face, arms, and legs from the brutal beating.Although Di Yun was bullied by him for several days, he couldn't help but feel unbearable when he saw such a miserable situation, so he poured some water from the water bowl and fed him. The prisoner slowly woke up, opened his eyes and saw that it was Di Yun, suddenly raised the iron cuffs, and slammed them on his head.Although Di Yun lost his strength, he still had the wit to respond, and hurriedly dodged to avoid it, but the prisoner didn't have enough strength in his hands, and halfway back, he came back and hit him hard on the waist with a bang.Di Yun was unsure of his footing, and fell straight to the left.他手足都有铁链与琵琶骨相连，登时剧痛难当，不禁又惊又怒，骂道：“疯子！” 那囚徒狂笑道：“你这苦肉计，如何瞒得过我，乘早别来打我的主意。” 狄云只觉胁间肋骨几乎断折，痛得话也说不出来，过得半晌，才道：“疯子，你自身难保，有甚么主意给人好打？” 那囚徒一跃而前，左足踏住狄云背心，右足在他身上重重踢了几脚，喝道：“我看你这小贼年纪还轻，作恶不多，不过是受人指使，否则我不一脚踢死你才怪。” 狄云气得身上的痛楚也自忘了，心想无辜受这牢狱之灾，已是不幸，而与这不可理喻的疯汉同处一室，更是不幸之中再加不幸。 到了第二个月圆之夜，那囚犯又被四名带刀狱卒带了出去，拷打一顿，送回牢房。这一次狄云学了乖，任他模样如何惨不忍睹，始终不去理会。不料不理也是不成，那囚徒一口气没处出，尽管遍体鳞伤，还是来找他的晦气，不住吆喝：“你奶奶的，你再卧底十年八年，老子也不上你的当。”“人家打你祖宗，你祖宗就打你这孙子！”“咱们就是这么耗着，瞧是谁受的罪多。”似乎他身受拷打，全是狄云的不是，又打又踢，闹了半天。 此后每到月亮将圆，狄云就愁眉不展，知道惨受荼毒的日子近了。果然每月十五，那囚犯总是给拉出去经受一顿拷打，回来后就转而对付狄云。总算狄云年纪甚轻，身强力壮，每个月挨一顿打，倒也经受得起，有时不免奇怪：“我琵琶骨被铁链穿后，力气全无。这疯汉一般的给铁链穿了琵琶骨，怎地仍有一身蛮力？”几次鼓起勇气询问，但只须一开口，那疯汉便拳足交加，此后只好半句话也不向他说。
如此匆匆过了数月，冬尽春来，屈指在狱中将近一年。狄云慢慢惯了，心中的怨愤、身上的痛楚，倒也渐渐麻木了。这些时日之中，他为了避开那疯汉的殴辱，始终正眼也不瞧他一下。只要不跟他说话，目光不与他相对，除了月圆之夕，那疯汉平时倒也不来招惹。 这一日清晨，狄云眼未睁开，听得牢房外燕语呢喃，突然间想起从前常和戚芳在一起观看燕子筑巢的情景，心中蓦地一酸，向燕语处望去，只见一对燕子渐飞渐远，从数十丈外高楼畔的窗下掠过。他长日无聊，常自遥眺纱窗，猜想这楼中有何人居住，但窗子老是紧紧的关着，窗槛上却终年不断的供着一盆鲜花，其时春光烂漫，窗槛上放的是一盆茉莉。 正在胡思乱想，忽听得那疯汉轻轻一声叹息。这一年来，那疯汉不是狂笑，便是骂人，从来没听见他叹过甚么气，何况这声叹息之中，竟颇有忧伤、温柔之意。狄云忍不住转过头去，只见那疯汉嘴角边带着一丝微笑，脸上神色诚挚，不再是那副凶悍恶毒的模样，眼睛正望着那盆茉莉。狄云唯恐他觉察自己在偷窥他的脸色，当即转过了头不敢再看。 自从发见了这秘密后，狄云每天早晨都偷看这疯汉的神情，但见他总是脸色温柔的凝望着那盆鲜花，从春天的茉莉、玫瑰，望到了夏天的丁香、凤仙。这半年之中，两个人几乎没说上十句话。月圆之夜的殴打，也变成了一个闷打，一个闷挨。狄云早已觉察到，只要自己一句话不说，这疯汉的怒气就小得多，拳脚落下时也轻得多。他心想：“再过得几年，恐怕我连怎么说话也要忘了。” 这疯汉虽然蛮横无理，却也有一样好处，吓得狱卒轻易不敢到牢房中罗嗦。有时狱卒给他骂得狠了，不送饭给他，他就夺狄云的饭吃。若是两人的饭都不送，那疯汉饿上几天也满不在乎。 那一年十一月十五，那疯汉给苦打一顿之后，忽然发起烧来，昏迷中尽说胡话，前言不对后语，狄云依稀只听得他常常呼唤着两个字，似乎是“双花”，又似“伤怀”。 狄云初时不敢理会，但到得次日午间，听他不断呻吟的说：“水，水，给我水喝！”忍不住在瓦钵中倒了些水，凑到他嘴边，严神戒备，防他又双手殴击过来。幸好这一次他乖乖的喝了水，便即睡倒。 当天晚上，竟然又来了四个狱卒，架着他出去又拷打了一顿。这次回来，那疯汉的呻吟声已是若断若续。一名狱卒狠狠的道：“他倔强不说，明儿再打。”另一名狱卒道：“乘着他神智不清，咱们赶紧得逼他说出来。说不定他这一次要见阎王，那可不美。” 狄云和他在狱中同处已久，虽苦受他欺凌折磨，可也真不愿他这么便死在狱卒的手下。十七那一天，狄云服侍他喝了四五次水。最后一次，那疯汉点了点头示谢。自从同狱以来，狄云首次见到他的友善之意，突然之间，心中感到了无比的欢喜。 这天二更过后，那四名狱卒果然又来了，打开了牢门。狄云心想这一次那疯汉若再经拷打，那是非死不可，忽然将心一横，跳起来拦在牢门前，喝道：“不许进来！”一名高大的狱卒迈步过来，骂道：“贼囚犯，滚开。”狄云手上无力，猛地里低头一口咬去，将他右手食中两指咬得鲜血淋漓，牙齿深及指骨，两根手指几乎都咬断了。那狱卒大吃一惊，反身跳出牢房，呛啷一声，一柄单刀掉在地下。 狄云俯身抢起，呼呼呼连劈三刀，他手上虽无劲力，但以刀代剑，招数仍是颇为精妙。一名肥胖的狱卒仗刀直进，狄云身子一侧，一招“大母哥盐失，长鹅卤翼圆”（其实是“大漠孤烟直，长河落日圆”），单刀转了个圆圈，刷的一刀，砍在他腿上。那狱卒吓得连滚带爬的退了出去。 这一来血溅牢门，四名狱卒见他势若疯虎，形同拚命，倒也不敢轻易抢进，在牢门外将狄云的十八代祖宗都骂了个臭死，甚么污言秽语都骂了出来。狄云一言不发，只是守住狱门。那四名狱卒居然没去搬求援军，眼看攻不进来，骂了一会，也就去了。 接连四天之中，狱卒既不送饭，也不送水。狄云到第五天时，渴得再也难以忍耐。那疯汉更是嘴唇也焦了，忽道：“你假装要砍死我，这狗娘养的非拿水来不可。”狄云不明其理，但想：“不管有没有用，试试也好！”当下大声叫道：“再不拿水来，我将这疯汉先砍死再说。”反过刀背，在铁栅栏上碰得当当当的直响。 只见那狱卒匆匆赶来，大声吆喝：“你伤了他一根毫毛，老子用刀尖在你身上戳一千一万个窟窿。”跟着便拿了清水和冷饭来。 狄云喂着那疯汉吃喝已毕，问道：“他要折磨你，可又怕我杀了你，那是甚么道理？” 那疯汉双目圆睁，举起手中的瓦钵，劈头向他砸去，骂道：“你这番假惺惺的买好，我就上了你的当么？”乒乓一声，瓦钵破碎，狄云额头鲜血涔涔而下。他茫然退开，心想：“这人狂性又发作了！” 但此后逢到月圆之后，那些狱卒虽一般的将那疯汉提出去拷打，他回来却不再在狄云身上找补。两人仍然并不交谈，狄云要是向他多瞧上几眼，醋钵大的拳头还是一般招呼过来。那疯汉只有在望着对面高楼窗槛上的鲜花之时，脸上目中，才露出一丝温柔的神色。
到得第四年的春天，狄云心中已无出狱之念，虽然梦魂之中，仍是不断的想到师父和师妹，但师父的影子终于慢慢淡了。师妹那壮健婀娜的身子，红红的脸蛋，黑溜溜的大眼睛，在他心底却仍和三年多前一般的清晰。 他已不敢盼望能出狱去再和师妹相会，每天可总忘不了暗暗向观世音菩萨祝祷，只要师妹能再到狱中来探望他一次，便是天天受那疯汉的殴打，也所甘愿。 戚芳始终没有来。 有一天，却有一个人来探望他。那是个身穿绸面皮袍的英俊少年，笑嘻嘻的道：“狄师兄，你还认得我么？我是沈城。”隔了三年多，他身材已长高，狄云几乎已认他不出。 狄云心中怦怦乱跳，只盼能听到师妹的一些讯息，问道：“我师妹呢？” 沈城隔着栅栏，递了一只篮子进来，笑道：“这是我万师嫂送给你的。人家可没忘了旧相好，大喜的日子，巴巴的叫我送两只鸡、四只猪蹄、十六块喜糕来给你。” 狄云茫然问道：“哪一个万师嫂？甚么大喜的日子？” 沈城哈哈一笑，满脸狡谲的神色，说道：“万师嫂嘛，就是你的师妹戚姑娘了。今天是她和我万师哥拜堂成亲的好日子。她叫我送喜糕鸡肉给你，那不是挺够交情么？” 狄云身子一晃，双手抓住铁栅，颤声怒道：“你……你胡说八道！我师妹怎能……怎能嫁给那姓万的？” 沈城笑道：“我恩师给你师父刺了一刀，幸好没死，后来养好了伤，过去的事，既往不咎。你师妹住在我万师哥家里，这三年来卿卿我我，说不定……说不定……哈哈，明年担保给生个白白胖胖的娃娃。”他年纪大了，说话更是油腔滑调，流气十足。 狄云耳中嗡嗡作响，似乎听到自己口中问道：“我师父呢？”似乎听到沈城笑道：“谁知道呢？他只道自己杀了人，还不高飞远走？哪里还敢回来？”又似乎听到沈城笑道：“万师嫂说道：你在牢里安心住下去罢，待她生得三男四女，说不定会来瞧瞧你。” 狄云突然大吼：“你胡说，胡说！你……你……你放甚么狗屁……”提起篮子用力掷出，喜糕、猪蹄、熟鸡，滚了一地。但见每一块粉红色的喜糕上，都印着“万戚联姻，百年好合”八个深红的小字。 狄云拚命要不信沈城的话，可又怎能不信？迷迷糊糊中只听沈城笑道：“万师嫂说，可惜你不能去喝一杯喜酒……” 狄云双手连着铁铐，突然从栅栏中疾伸出去，一把捏住沈城的脖子。沈城大惊想逃。狄云不知从哪里突然生出来一股劲力，竟越捏越紧。沈城的脸从红变紫，双手乱舞，始终挣扎不脱。 那狱卒急忙赶来，抱着沈城的身子猛拉，费尽了力气，才救了他性命。 狄云坐在地下，不言不动。那狱卒嘻嘻哈哈的将鸡肉和喜糕都捡了去。狄云瞪着眼睛，可就全没瞧见。 这天晚上三更时分，他将衣衫撕成了一条条布条，搓成了一根绳子，打一个活结，两端缚在铁栅栏高处的横档上，将头伸进活结之中。 他并不悲哀，也不再感到愤恨。人世已无可恋之处，这是最爽快的解脱痛苦的法子。只觉脖子中的绳索越来越紧，一丝丝的气息也吸不进了。过得片刻，甚么也不知道了。
可是他终于渐渐有了知觉，好像有一只大手在重重压他胸口，那只手一松一压，鼻子中就有一阵阵凉气透了进来。也不知道过了多少时候，他才慢慢睁开眼来。 眼前是一张满腮虬髯的脸，那张脸咧开了嘴在笑。 狄云不由得满腹气恼，心道：“你事事跟我作对，我便是寻死，你也不许我死。”有心要起来和他厮拚，实是太过衰弱，力不从心。那疯汉笑道：“你已气绝了小半个时辰，若不是我用独门功夫相救，天下再没第二个人救得。”狄云怒道：“谁要你救？我又不想活了。”那疯汉得意洋洋的道：“我不许你死，你便死不了。” 那疯汉只是笑吟吟的瞧着他，过了一会，忽然凑到他的身边，低声道：“我这门功夫叫作'神照经'，你听见过没有？” 狄云怒道：“我只知道你有神经病，甚么神照经不神照经，从来没听见过。” 说也奇怪，那疯汉这一次竟丝毫没有发怒，反而轻轻的哼起小曲来，伸手压住狄云的胸口，一压一放，便如扯风箱一般，将气息压入他肺中，低声又道：“也是你命大，我这'神照经'已练了一十二年，直到两个月前方才练成。倘若你在两个月之前寻死，我就救你不得了。” 狄云胸口郁闷难当，想起了戚芳嫁了万圭，真觉还是死了的干净，向那疯汉瞪了一眼，恨恨的道：“我前生不知作了甚么孽，今世要撞到你这恶贼。” 那疯汉笑道：“我很开心，小兄弟，这三年来我真错怪了你。我丁典向你赔不是啦！”说着爬在地下，咚咚咚的向他磕了三个响头。 狄云叹了口气，低声说了声：“疯子！”也就没再去理他，慢慢侧过身来，突然想起：“他自称丁典，那是姓丁名典么？我和他在狱中同处三年，一直不知他的姓名。”好奇心起，问道：“你叫甚么？”那疯汉道：“我姓丁，目不识丁的丁，三坟五典的典。我疑心病太重，一直当你是歹人，这三年多来当真将你害得苦了，实在太对你不起。”狄云觉得他说话有条有理，并无半点疯态，问道：“你到底是不是疯子？” 丁典黯然不语，隔得半晌，长长叹了口气，道：“到底疯不疯，那也难说得很。我是在求心之所安，旁人看来，却不免觉得我太过傻得莫名其妙。”过了一会，又安慰他道：“狄兄弟，你心中的委屈，我已猜到了十之八九。人家既然对你无情无义，你又何必将这女子苦苦放在心上？大丈夫何患无妻？将来娶一个胜你师妹十倍的女子，又有何难？” 狄云听了这番说话，三年多来郁在心中的委屈，忍不住便如山洪般奔泻了出来，但觉胸口一酸，泪珠滚滚而下，到后来，便伏在丁典怀中大哭起来。 丁典搂住他上身，轻轻抚摸他的长发。 过得三天，狄云精神稍振。丁典低低的跟他有说有笑，讲些江湖上的掌故趣事，跟他解闷。但当狱吏送饭来时，丁典却仍对狄云大声呼叱，秽语辱骂，神情与前毫无异样。 一个折磨得他苦恼不堪的对头，突然间成为良朋好友，若不是戚芳嫁了人这件事不断像毒虫般咬噬他的心，这时的狱中生涯，和三年来的情形相比，简直算得是天堂了。 狄云曾向丁典问起，为甚么以前当他是歹人，为甚么突然察觉了真相。丁典道：“你若真是歹人，决不会上吊自杀。我等你气绝好久，死得透了，身子都快僵了，这才施救。普天下除了我自己之外，没人知道我已练成'神照经'的上乘功夫。若不是我会得这门功夫，无论如何救你不转。你自杀既是真的，那便不是向我施苦肉计的歹人了。”狄云又问：“你疑心我向你施苦肉计？那为甚么？”丁典微笑不答。 第二次狄云又问到这件事时，丁典仍是不答，狄云便不再问了。 一日晚上，丁典在他耳边低声道：“我这'神照经'功夫，是天下内功中威力最强、最奥妙的法门。今日起我传授给你，你小心记住了。”狄云摇头道：“我不学。”丁典奇道：“这等机缘旷世难逢，你为甚么不要学？”狄云道：“这种日子生不如死。咱二人此生看来也无出狱的时候，再高强的武功学了也是毫无用处。”丁典笑道：“要出狱去，那还不容易？我将初步口诀传你，你好好记着。” 狄云甚是执拗，寻死的念头兀自未消，说甚么也不肯学。丁典又好气又好笑，却也束手无策，恨不得再像从前这般打他一顿。 又过数日，月亮又要圆了。狄云不禁暗暗替丁典担心。丁典猜到他心意，说道：“狄兄弟，我每个月该当有这番折磨，我受了拷打后，回来仍要打你出气，你我千万不可显得和好，否则于你我都是大大的不利。”狄云问道：“那为甚么？”丁典道：“他们倘若疑心你我交了朋友，便会对你使用毒刑，逼你向我套问一件事。我打你骂你，就可免得你身遭恶毒惨酷的刑罚。” 狄云点头道：“不错，这件事既如此重要，你千万不可说与我知道，免得我一个不小心，走漏了风声。丁大哥，我是个毫无见识的乡下小子，倘若胡里胡涂误了你的大事，如何对得起你？” 丁典道：“他们把你和我关在一起，初时我只道他们派你前来卧底，假意讨好于我，从中设法套问我的口风，因此我对你十分恼怒，大加折磨。现下我知道你不是卧底的奸细了，可是他们将你和我关在一起，这般三年四年的不放，用意仍在盼你做奸细。只望你讨得我的欢心，我向你吐露了机密，他们便可拷打逼问于你。他们情知对付我很难，对付你这个年轻小伙子，那便容易之极。你是知县衙门的犯人，却送到知府衙门的囚牢来监禁，自然便是这个缘故。” 十五晚上，四名带刀狱卒提了丁典出去。狄云心绪不宁，等候他回转。到得四更天时，丁典又是目青鼻肿、满身鲜血的回到牢房。 待四名狱卒走后，丁典脸色郑重，低声道：“狄兄弟，今天事情很是糟糕，当真不巧之极，给仇人认出了我。”狄云道：“怎么？”丁典道：“每月十五，知府提我去拷打一顿，那是例行公事。可是今天有人来行刺知府。眼见他性命不保，我便出手相救，只因我身有铐镣，四名刺客中只杀了三个，第四个给他跑了，这可留下了祸胎。” 狄云越听越奇怪，连问：“知府到底为甚么这般拷打你？这知府这等残暴，有人行刺，你又何必救他？逃走的剑客是谁？”丁典摇摇头，叹道：“一时也说不清楚这许多事。狄兄弟，你武功不济，又没了力气，以后不论见到甚么事，千万不可出手助我。” 狄云并不答话，心想：“我姓狄的岂是贪生怕死之徒？你拿我当朋友，你若有危难，我怎能不出手？” 此后数日之中，丁典只是默默沉思，除了望着远处高楼窗槛上的花朵，脸上偶尔露出一丝微笑之外，整日仰起了头呆想。 到了十九那一天深夜，狄云睡得正熟，忽听得喀喀两声。他睁开眼来，月光下只见两名劲装大汉使利器砍断了牢房外的铁栅栏，手中各执一柄单刀，踊身而入。狄云惊得呆了，不知如何是好，但见丁典倚墙而立，嘿嘿冷笑。 那身材较矮的大汉说道：“姓丁的，咱兄弟俩踏遍了天涯海角，到处找你，哪想得到你竟是躲入荆州府的牢房，做那缩头乌龟。总算老天有眼，寻到了你。”另一名大汉道：“咱们真人面前不说假话，你将那本书取出来，三份对分，咱兄弟非但不会难为你，还立刻将你救出牢狱。”丁典摇头道：“不在我这里。十三年前，早就给言达平偷了去啦。” 狄云听到“言达平”三字，心中一动：“那是我二师伯啊，怎地跟此事生了关联？” 那矮大汉喝道：“你故布疑阵，休想瞒得过我。去你的罢！”挥刀上前，刀尖刺向丁典的咽喉。丁典不闪不避，让那尖刀将及喉头数寸之处，突然一矮身，欺向身材较高的大汉左侧，手肘撞处，正中他小腹。那大汉一声没哼，便即委倒。 那矮大汉惊怒交集，呼呼两刀，向丁典疾劈过去。丁典双臂一举，臂间的铁链将单刀架开，便在同时，膝盖猛地上挺，撞在矮大汉身上。那人猛喷鲜血，倒毙于地。 丁典霎息间空手连毙二人，狄云不由得瞧得呆了。他武功虽失，眼光却在，知道自己纵然功力如旧，长剑在手，也未必及得上这矮汉子，另外那名汉子未及出手，便已身亡，功夫如何虽瞧不出端倪，但既与那矮汉联手，想来也必不弱。丁典琵琶骨中仍是穿着铁链，竟然在举手投足之间便连杀两名好手，实令他惊佩无已。 丁典将两