Lu Ming

In an instant, after retrieving the backgrounds of the two prisoners, with a "poof", Bao Shinan squirted out the tea and slammed the tea bowl on the table.

Looking at the hooded head bent over and coughing, Xiao Guan seemed to be completely unaware of what was going on, so he picked up the white belly towel from the tea tray and handed it over with concern.Then he asked softly: "But the tea choked your throat? Wrap your head tightly, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay...it's...ahem...I choked."

After coughing a few times, Bao Shinan probably recovered in his mind.After taking the towel and wiping his mouth, he gasped and coughed a few times, then picked up the tea bowl again, lowered his head and sipped the tea...

After half a cup of tea in this way, maybe the tea is full?Bao Shinan suddenly raised his head.This time, not only did his face return to normal, but he also had a more inquiring expression.

Leaning forward slightly, Bao Baotou stared into Xiao Guan's eyes and asked: "Brother Xiao Guan, do you know that there are three or two people in Tian Datian, who are guilty of rebellion and treason, and are currently locked up in death row."

"I know about this matter."

The relaxed Xiaoguan seemed to have known about this question a long time ago.After nodding in agreement, he also picked up the tea bowl, took a sip unhurriedly, and then asked back with a flat face: "Bao Baotou, there is no one in the Great Ming Law, so that relatives and friends of rebels are not allowed to visit the prison, right? "

"Ha ha."

Bao Shinan laughed sadly: "Three or two rebels in Tian Datian, who had eaten the bear's heart and leopard courage, dared to come to Huguang from Luoyang to buy grain... Ha ha, ha ha... Daming law allowed the family members Visiting the prison, but there are also rebels in the Daming law..."

But today was really weird.

At this point in a passage, Bao Shinan, who is usually eloquent and eloquent, suddenly got stuck again.

His expression was dull, his eyes were looking at the sky, his mouth was open, and he couldn't help murmuring "buying grain", as if he was desperately trying to remember something.

After another half a cup of tea, Bao Laotou finally came back to life again.

This time, the movement of his resurrection was relatively loud... His complexion changed frequently, his eyes rolled around, his mouth opened and closed, he hesitated to speak... This kind of thing will be sent to the ENT department for examination in future generations.

During the whole process, Xiao Guan, whose expression had already become dull, just watched Bao Laotou acting calmly, without saying a word.

"Hahaha."

After a long time, the jailer brother who finally finished the emoji spree, first raised his head and laughed three times, and then he said with a smile on his face: "Brother, it was just that I was worrying too much. To be honest, we are prison , as long as you spend enough money, you are a traitor, and you should serve your employer! Do you think this is the case!"

"Ah!" Xiao Guan's expression became lively at this moment.I saw him slapping his own thigh hard: "The sky is big and the earth is big, and money is the biggest. There are rules in the industry, and you must be worthy of customers in everything. You can't break the rules, can you?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Bao Shinan patted himself on the head vigorously at this time, half self-deprecating and half saying: "Look at me, I'm so lazy, I don't have to break the rules, my brother made my brothers laugh today."

"It's okay, it's okay. Let's talk, everyone is always a good brother!"

"Um……"

After rounding the scene up to this point, Bao Shinan probably felt that it was almost the same, so his expression became sincere, and he started to talk about business: "Speaking of which, brother Guan, to take care of Tian and Da... this price... is precious...! "

"It's easy to say, easy to say. As long as my brother is willing to help, I won't worry about money."

Xiao Guan stretched out his hand while talking, and patted the back of Bao Shinan's hand on the table lightly.

Then, as the sleeves of Xiao Guan's robe slowly faded away, two large silver ingots of white snowflakes were left on the table: "I will go to prison from tomorrow. These are only the monthly fee, and there will be more for next month. "

The next moment, Bao Shinan's robe sleeves slowly covered the silver ingot... Two tacit faces across the table reached a deal: "Deal! Brothers just come tomorrow..."

……

When Bao Laotou came to work in the Yamen, it was already five poles in the sun.

Fortunately, today is not the grand master's opening day, so Bao Baotou strolled all the way and entered the gate of the prison.

Walking through the narrow and gloomy alley all the way, checked the cells on both sides, and greeted the guards on duty, Bao Shinan went to the death cell again, and then he ordered his most clever apprentice Gu Three, the two of them went to the official office dedicated to the cell boss.

After entering the room, Bao Shinan closed the door, pulled Gu San over, with a serious expression on his face, and whispered to his apprentice: "I need you for an urgent matter."

"Master, follow orders!"

"Listen to me, change your clothes now, and then go to Luomashi to inquire about a man named Xiao Guan... I want to know everything about this man, as much as I can inquire, the house is old, if there is anything wrong Son, ask me all."

"It's a small matter, master, please look at it."

"Bastard!"

Seeing Gu San eager to try, Bao Shinan had a grim expression on his face, and slapped his apprentice viciously to "wash his hair"... "Wake up to me, don't let the rumors go away... That man is a gangster, he leaked the wind, Carefully send you to the river to feed the fish!"

Gu San's face turned pale at this moment...he understood the importance of this matter...and also understood the meaning of the master: if the wind leaked, the Jiangyang bandits would not kill him, but the master would also send him to feed the fish.

At the moment when Bao Shinan watched his apprentice go out of the yamen, Xiao Guan, who looked a bit cautious, also reported the situation in a room: "...so... that's it... I'm afraid that the prison chief got his mind... to squeeze him out first. Yinzi, report me again and take credit..."

"Very good, very good! Xiao Guan, you are very good... What we want is that he squeezes the money first! This is the time we are fighting for now!"

Chapter 657 Rescue the thief ([-])

If you use a drone to take aerial photos, the Hanyang government office in Hanyang City is a standard municipal office in the Ming Dynasty.

The government office faces south and is located in the northeast area of ​​Hanyang City—the true north represents the Forbidden City. In order to avoid taboo, the government office gave up the true north position.

The Hanyang government office covers an area of ​​about [-] mu, which is available to most government offices.Its interior along the central axis is a building complex with the lobby, second hall and inner hall as the core.

In addition to the second hall that people are most familiar with, the buildings in the entire government office also include side rooms, side rooms, horse houses, side rooms, list rooms, warehouses, department rooms, official houses, back houses, etc. The total number of houses and buildings is no less than a thousand... In fact, this is a pocket version of the Forbidden City.

With government offices, there are prisons.During the Ming and Qing dynasties, every prefecture and county government office must set up prisons... This is one of the necessary administrative facilities for the ruling group.

The choice of the location of the prison is not random, and the location is generally west or southwest of the yamen.

The East hosts life, and the life gate and god gate are placed on the east side for ordinary people to enter and exit; the death gate and ghost gate are placed on the west side for death row prisoners to pass through.The southwest belongs to the land of Kun, which is regarded as a dirty place according to Feng Shui. Building prisons in this direction is to make the best use of everything.

Hanyang Mansion is no exception. The prison is located under the west wall of the mansion, adjacent to the outer wall.

The street outside the west wall of Fuya is called Yaxi Street.It is said that it is a street, but it is not wide enough, it can only barely accommodate two carriages, so it is more appropriate to call it an alley.

Because it is adjacent to the prison, ordinary people are afraid of bad luck and will not come here, so Yaxi Street is a deserted alley.In addition to writing fortune-telling and snack stalls, there are only two wreath shops.

Since ancient times, there have been countless secretive activities in the prison system, most of which are shady.

In addition, even on weekdays, the various officials and lords who come and go to the government office are also unwilling to see the unlucky prisoners and prisoners coming in and out of the office.

To sum up, the prison system actually escorts in and out of prisoners in many cases, including exporting/importing prohibited items, all through the west door.

The West Bianmen is located on the west wall of the government office, and it is an inconspicuous outer door.

This inconspicuous access door is the first checkpoint that a certain anti-thief rescue team focuses on.

In the previous plan, the plan to enter the prison from the front of the yamen was quickly rejected... There are too many people coming and going, and there are too many uncontrollable factors to break through multiple gates.

But Xibianmen is easy.As long as you break through this door, you can reach the prison system at the shortest distance while avoiding contact with other system personnel in the mansion.

It was noon on the second day after Bao Shinan and Xiaoguan "negotiated" in the restaurant.

During this period of time, the yamen naturally rested after get off work.However, a small number of excellent employees still have to work hard overtime...for example, the prisoners in the prison...these are examples of caritas and love, and they are worthy of praise.

The next moment, Xiao Guan, who was wearing a plain robe, jumped off the side of the carriage parked on Yaxi Street.

After dusting off his robe, he reached out to take out two food boxes from the car, and the small pipe knocked on the animal face iron ring on the west side door.

There was a sound, and soon a prisoner on duty opened the small window on the door to observe.He clapped his hands and said hard work, and reported his name.Before it was too late, the latch rang, and the door was quietly opened halfway, and the small tube was put in.

As soon as he entered the door, Xiao Guan glanced left and right.

What came into view was first a simple canopy against the wall, in which there were only two gentlemen and a bill.The rest is a long path between the feet.

The government offices and county offices built in the early days all had some military design requirements.

The existence of this lane is to provide a line of defense for the government and the government to guard after the city is breached.Therefore, the two high walls are made of high-quality blue bricks. The walls are 4 meters high, and there are rain-proof sliding tiles on them... This is also stipulated by Zhu Yuanzhang: "The outer wall of Fuzhou County is one foot and five feet high. With blue plaster."

The tubule is now between the two high walls.

Behind the case, the faces of the two prisoners in official uniforms were stiff.After putting the small pipe into the door, without further ado, he first searched his whole body carefully, including the food box.

After it was over, one of the thin-faced and mouse-whiskered men said, "Since I'm in charge of my friends in person, I'll explain myself to you, so let me do it."

"There is work, there is work." Xiaoguan then picked up the food box, and followed the thin-faced prisoner, and walked south along the wall for another 20 meters.

At this time, the real door leading to the yamen appeared on Xiao Guan's left hand.

When entering this door, Xiao Guan noticed: Unlike the first door opened from the inside, this second door, the thin-faced jailer took out the key, was a lock that was opened from the outside.

This idea of ​​use is easy to understand: the first door needs to be isolated from the outside world, so it needs to be opened from the inside.The second door is the working door for the staff in the aisle, which can be opened by the on-duty personnel at any time.

Xiao Guan secretly took note of this link.

After passing through the second gate on the second wall, another narrow passage appeared in front of Xiao Guan, and another high wall faced him.

This time, Xiao Guan knew: the prison has arrived.

Sure enough, I walked southward along this narrow path for more than ten meters, and then turned eastward, and it suddenly became clear: the main gate of the Hanyang government prison has arrived.

At this point, Xiao Guan, who had a general understanding of the topographic map of the government office in advance, was secretly pleasantly surprised: from a door to the prison gate, this journey is equivalent to walking in the corridor between the prison and the outer wall.

The prison complex virtually blocked the contact of irrelevant personnel.

This tacit design of the prison system is exactly what the rescue team needs.

From the outside, there is nothing special about the mysterious and gloomy prison in the legend.It is a traditional Chinese foyer with a curved inner splayed wall.

The door of the foyer is closed tightly as usual, with a black plaque on it, with the word "Prison" written on it.On the left and right sides, there are the same black vertical plaques, but it is a couplet: "I hope people will be happy in their careers, so why worry about prisons being empty."

Here, there is a guard on duty.Xiao Guan, who was following behind the thin-faced prisoner, took a closer look at the guard: an ordinary pawn with the word "forbidden" on his chest was leaning on a rotten chair, drowsy.

Theoretically speaking, the guards in charge of the prison system should belong to the "strong class" of the three classes of yamen servants.

However, due to the relatively strong professionalism and privacy, the people in the prison system are an independent hilltop among the government servants.The squad leader is called the prison head, and the ordinary employees are called jailers.

This group of people has a special establishment in the yamen, and it is at the same level as the head of the strong team called "dutou" as the saying goes.

Usually in the county government, the establishment of jailers is 6-8 people.In the Hanyang government office, due to the relatively large scale, there were 14 jailers in total.

Xiao Guan glanced at the guard, followed the thin-faced prisoner, and entered the prison through the short side door.

Passing through the gate, the first is a green brick screen wall.Going around the screen wall, what Xiao Guan saw was another ordinary main courtyard.

On the front of the courtyard is the prison lobby, and on the left and right sides are the office room and torture room... Looking from the outside, there are indeed many instruments of torture hanging on the wall of the torture room, which looks blood-stained, and a sinister smell comes out immediately.

And it was Bao Shinan who was waiting for Xiao Guan in the courtyard with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face.

Seeing Bao Laotou, Xiao Guan, who was already mentally prepared, hurried forward: "Haha, Bao Laotou is really a trustworthy person!"

"My job, my job."

Bao Laotou is extra polite today.After exchanging a few pleasantries, he waved back the thin-faced prisoner, and personally led the little tube inside.

Along the way, Bao Laotou also enthusiastically introduced to Xiaoguan: the left and right doors of the main courtyard lead to a courtyard where ordinary prisoners are held.

And the left side door that he leads Xiaoguan to go is the only way to enter the death row.

Through the left side door, Xiao Guan finally saw the legendary prison.

This is a courtyard where ordinary prisoners are held.Different from the fence-style prison cells similar to Datongpu in film and television dramas, real prisons in ancient times are actually rooms made of bricks and stones.

When he got here, Xiao Guan didn't have much to say, and followed the cell head step by step through the narrow aisle.

On both sides of the aisle, there is a row of ordinary cells.These rooms are all made of blue bricks, with narrow windows and low doors.

Looking up, the top of the head is so narrow that it feels like a ray of sky, and there is still a rope net between the two eaves... The night hunters and directors flying around in the film and television drama probably didn't expect this kind of thing.

Across the courtyard of ordinary prisoners, facing the narrow passage, are two forbidden rooms, where the jailers live.

Next to the forbidden room is the destination of Xiaoguan's trip: death row.

Death row is a separate door.On the door of the prison is engraved a head of "Qi An", which resembles a "tiger head", so it is commonly known as "Tiger Head Prison".

In the entrance hall of Hutou Prison, there is a door at the front and back, and the distance between them is only two or three meters, which is exactly the distance of a room.

The two doors were wide open at the moment, and Xiao Guan swayed into the death row following Bao Baotou.

However, when Xiaoguan passed through these two doors, he deliberately observed the position of the door frame.The next moment, he thought to himself: "As expected!"

The two prison doors are ingeniously designed, one opens to the left and the other opens to the right.When the prisoner escapes, even if he can open the first door in a hurry, he will often be helpless in front of the second door.The wisdom of the ancients can be seen.

Xiaoguan didn't know about this design beforehand.However, before he set off, his "brother" and master Huang Zhong took out a piece of paper from nowhere and told him nine subtleties that need to be observed as much as possible: the joint of the prison door is one of them.

The death row courtyard is not as crowded as the general prison courtyard outside. After all, the number of death row prisoners is relatively rare.

However, the construction of the death row courtyard is the most labor-intensive.

It is also a courtyard structure, three of which are cells with thick walls and bottom bricks, three cells on each side - the walls are 5 feet thick and filled with sand to prevent prisoners from punching holes to escape.

There are wells and sinks in the Death Row compound.In order to prevent prisoners from throwing themselves into the well, the width of the well is only half a foot, and the wheels and buckets are specially made.

As Baotou entered the courtyard, a prison came out of the forbidden rooms on the left and right sides.

What follows is the normal visitation process.First Bao Laotou recommended, and then Xiaoguan thanked the two elder brothers on duty for their hard work and handed over some money.

Next, Xiao Guan also handed one of the food boxes to the two old brothers: "It's cold, eat a small dish to keep out the cold."

After these procedures were completed, the smiling jailer took off the key hanging on the wall of the forbidden room and opened the door of a cell in the east of the courtyard for Xiao Guan.

After the thick wooden door was opened, as the sunlight shot into the prison, the first thing Xiao Guan saw was a thick fence—this fence also had a lock.