Sir, don't shoot! [Quick Transmigration]

"It's almost time to come today." Liu Yuqin grabbed the corner of her sleeve and poured Zhou Lancang a cup of tea.

Zhou Lancang didn't hesitate, picked up the cup and drank it slowly, his eyes drifted to the calm river outside the fence, where boats and boats passed by.

Liu Yuqin also poured herself a cup of tea, raised her glass and said with a smile: "Knowing that the young master is not good at drinking, I will replace the wine with tea. I hope the young master will have a safe journey here."

Zhou Lancang also laughed and drank the tea in his cup.

The two sat and chatted with each other for a long time, mostly talking about where the spring tea produced this year is delicious, and what special dishes the famous chefs of Jingzhong Restaurant have.

While talking, Zhou Lancang leaned on the railing, and saw from a distance on the stone road in the city, a procession of horses galloping towards the embankment, with a hundred pairs of horseshoes raising the noise.The riders on horseback were all wearing clothes that he was all too familiar with.

There was a commotion downstairs, mingled with the shrill cries of the madam.

Tianshuifang has a lot of strong men who take care of the house and guard the courtyard. They are more than enough to deal with ordinary ruffians, but when they meet regular officers and soldiers, they can only be dealt with.

Dozens of armored Habayashi Imperial Guards broke into the pavilion, their chaotic steps made the floor vibrate.

"Come on, take down the criminal!" The leader shouted when he saw Zhou Lancang.

"May I ask what crime the leader is using to get me?" Zhou Lancang stood up, looking quite calm, but his face was a little pale.

"You don't know what crime you are charged with?" The leader of the guard sneered, "The Ministry of War issued a document ordering you to take up the post at the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army within three days. If you stayed at a restaurant, absented yourself from duty without reason, and had sex with prostitutes, you should be severely punished according to the law, and the order will be issued. What else is there to say?"

"I haven't received the document from the Ministry of War—" Zhou Lancang opened his mouth to argue, but his momentum weakened first.

Leaving aside the crime of absenteeism without reason, official drinking and sex with prostitutes was a crime that was enough to go to prison in the dynasty, but the late emperors mostly turned a blind eye to the situation of Beijing officials who were prostitutes. After Emperor Yanxi came to power, he did not take it Start rectification.

This does not mean that it is legal for officials to seek flowers and ask willows, everything depends on whether the procuratorate wants to question the crime.Those who are given a lighter sentence will be fined a salary.

But this time it was Ouchi's Habayashi Army who came to take him down, which made it clear that the emperor wanted to take him down.

If you want to commit a crime, there is no reason to worry about it, not to mention that he was originally the one who was wronged.

Zhou Lancang fell silent, with his lips tightly shut, and looked back at Liu Yuqin, whose face was pale with fright.

"Officer, I beg you to be merciful. Mr. Zhou has always treated his slaves with courtesy in Tianshuifang. Except for enjoying the scenery and listening to music, he has not violated the rules with his slaves. You have wronged him. I beg you to do well. Let him go...?"

Liu Yuqin was on the verge of weeping. Seeing my pitiful look, many officers and soldiers couldn't help but look at her a few more times.However, the Yulin army was ordered by the emperor, so naturally they would not be shaken just by these few words of hers.

"Whether you have wronged him or not is not up to you." The leader gave Liu Yuqin a sideways look, and raised his chin to signal his subordinates to tie up Zhou Lancang, "Take him away."

Zhou Lancang tied his hands behind his back, without saying a word, several officers and soldiers pushed him down the pavilion.

After all, he had served as the commander of the Habayashi Army before, even if the few people who came to arrest him had not been brought up by him, they had all heard of his name to some extent.

One of them whispered to him: "General Zhou, you are unlucky for committing a crime this time. If you are lucky, you will be finished after a few days in prison. You must be safe and don't stir up any troubles, so as not to cause trouble." upper body."

The person arrested was his former boss. This feeling is quite emotional.

"There are too many officials staying overnight in the restaurant. When did you make such a big fight?" Zhou Lancang gritted his teeth, very dissatisfied, "Tell me honestly, what did I do? Don't use that official talk to fool me." I."

"Hey, hey, keep your voice down!" The volume was getting louder, and the officers and soldiers who were talking to him became nervous, wishing to cover his mouth.

The officers and soldiers looked left and right for a long time, making sure that the leader walking in front could not hear their conversation, and then said bitterly: "My general, Liu Yuqin is the person whom the Holy Majesty favors, and everyone in the palace knows about it. You Even if you want to have fun, one or two nights is fine, but you have stayed in Tianshuifang for nearly a month every night, so what is it?"

"You said... Qin Niang, she... with the Holy Majesty?" After hearing these words, the indignation on Zhou Lancang's face was suddenly replaced by blankness.

"Look, the Holy Majesty wants to find someone to do the surgery, who else can he take if he doesn't take you?" The officer and soldier sighed.

He sympathized with this young and meritorious general.But as we all know, the Holy Majesty has a special liking for Liu Yuqin, but Zhou Lancang didn't know anything about it and touched the scales. Emperor Yanxi probably couldn't bear it this time, so he made such a big move.

A group of people put Zhou Lancang into a prison car and sent him to the Imperial Prison.

The leader may also be thinking about his past friendship. When he came, he took the bustling main road, and when he went back to work, he chose some secluded alleys to avoid the crowd pointing.

After hearing what the officer and soldier said, Zhou Lancang probably understood that this innocent disaster could not be avoided no matter what, and his demeanor gradually returned to calm, as if resigned to fate.

The Tianlao Imperial Prison is located in a secluded place in the middle of Beijing. There are houses but no windows, and the sky is dark.The walls are very thick, revealing a sense of shade.

The Habayashi guards didn't want to stay in such an ominous place for a long time, and after handing Zhou Lancang over to the jailer, they hurried back to answer their orders.

The jailer escorted Zhou Lancang through the long corridor, and his vision became dimmer as he went in. In the end, he couldn't distinguish day from night, and he could barely see by relying on the torches on the wall.

There is only a small hole in the ground for food delivery in the cells on both sides, and there are vague howls and stench coming from the partition wall.

The smell of the prisoners, the smell of food corruption, and the smell of pus from tortured wounds mixed together and rushed into the nostrils.

In the past, when the founding of the country, there were [-] tortures in prisons. The specific punishment methods were kept secret. Everyone only knew that most of the people who had been sent to the heavenly prison could only enter or not, and it was difficult to escape.

It wasn't until the Emperor Xiandi gave amnesty twice during his reign, and the actual situation in the prison spread through the dictation of the prisoners who were lucky enough to be released from the imperial prison.It was not without reason that Fu Renda died in prison less than a year after he was imprisoned.

If it was before, Zhou Lancang never dreamed that he would step into prison one day.

The jailer's face was gloomy and expressionless. Perhaps the order from above had not been delivered, and they didn't explain how to deal with Zhou Lancang, so they didn't make things difficult for him for the time being. They just searched his whole body according to the rules, put on prison clothes, and put him in the prison .

The shackles on his hands and feet were heavy and cold. The cell where he was held was considered to be in the best condition, but it was still filled with humidity, with a lingering putrid smell, and insects and rats crawled on the ground.

The jailer took him into the cell, turned around and left. Without the oil lamp in the jailer's hand, the torch a dozen feet away was the only source of light.

The only thing he could do at this point was to wait.

Two meals a day in prison are brought in through the hole in the door.This is one of the few ways to count time.

Zhou Lancang was mentally prepared for his imprisonment, which was one of Li Yuanyin's strategies, but Li Yuanyin only let him know that he had to stay in prison for a certain period of time, but did not say how long.

He didn't expect that he would spend two months in prison.

Two months later, two masked men in black appeared at the door of the cell, and the cell boss unlocked the big lock on the door, leaving the two behind and left.

Surprised by the flames and the sound of footsteps, Zhou Lancang raised his head and unexpectedly found that one of the men in black had eyes he was extremely familiar with.