Blade of Wind

Guessing that it should be almost dark outside, I stood up and moved around a bit, called Qinglong, and prepared to forcibly escape from the prison.

Qinglong still had an expression of "I don't want to talk to you", but he still held the big knife in his hand, waiting for my order to split the prison door open.

Xiu Huang, who was standing by the fence, suddenly called out, "Wait."

I turned my head to look at him, Xiu Huang stretched out his hand from the fence to touch it a few times, and said, "The cell door doesn't seem to be locked properly."

"Eh?" I couldn't help but startled.

He had opened the cell door, and sure enough the key was still in the lock.Probably the person who delivered the meal at noon did not dial it out.But the light in the prison was too dark, and we didn't think about it, so we never noticed it.

The few of us looked at each other, feeling a little strange for a moment.

"How can a person who delivers food to the prison every day make such a low-level mistake?"

"Maybe someone is trying to get us out?"

"We have no relatives and no reason in Liuguo. Who knew we were imprisoned here. Moreover, if you want to save us, you should tell us if you leave the key, so that we will spend half a day in prison for nothing."

I snorted and stepped out of the prison.

A Ao and Xiu Huang also followed, and the Qinglong was cut off.

In fact, there was nothing to end, and no one stopped and chased me all the way out.There were a few guards in the room at the exit of the corridor, but for some reason, they were sleeping there lying on their stomachs, and a strong man even snored loudly.

I felt strange, and even stretched out my hand to shake in front of one of the guards, and clearly saw his eyelashes move, but the kid didn't open his eyes.

... Are you pretending to sleep?It must be pretending, right?

I wanted to hold him and wake him up, but Ao stopped me.He sighed, and said, "Anyway, we are going to escape, so don't cause more trouble."

I frowned, "But...we fought all the way out by ourselves, and it feels completely different from being released by someone so inexplicably?"

Ah Ao sighed, and didn't say anything, just dragged me all the way to prevent me from doing anything.

We met quite a few guards, but they were either sleeping or just busy with something. In short, we walked out of this prison, and no one came up to stop us.

But we had just turned the corner when we suddenly heard a commotion over there. "The criminals have escaped." "Hurry up and catch them!" The shouts were endless, and I was about to turn around and fight, but there was not even one who caught up.

...What is the situation?

Xiu Huang didn't speak all the way, but at this moment, he suddenly said: "I understand!"

I looked up at him, but saw a sneer on his lips, "These corrupt officials have a good plan!"

"Eh? What's going on?"

Xiu Huang glanced at the government office not far away with disgust, and said, "Let's leave here first."

We had just come out of the prison, all our luggage was gone, and of course our belongings were also searched.Fortunately, the errands probably still had doubts about our identities, so they had some scruples and didn't take off our clothes, so they didn't attract attention when walking on the street.

We found another cheap inn, asked for a room, had a good hot meal, and then Xiu Huang told us what he just wanted to understand.

"They just want us to escape by ourselves." Xiu Huang said, "As long as you have a little knowledge, you will guess the identity of the Lord. Therefore, since this matter has been done, it will not end well anyway. Even if it is like what I said before , seriously handle it according to the law, we can't really serve our sentence in Liuguo, show our identity and make a big fuss, and in the end it's always unlucky for the officials who judged. So it's better to let us escape by ourselves, pretend to chase, 'it's impossible to catch ', there is no other way. Big things turn into small things, they don’t need to hold us accountable for killing people, and we won’t hold them accountable for their disrespect, and our entangled beasts belong to them, and they can make some money.”

"They dare!" I slapped the table, remembering how Xiangqiong stole the jewels offered to the king and escaped to Liuguo and was arrested in the animation, and I couldn't help but get angry, "Now that I know My identity, dare to swallow my money?"

Xiu Huang raised his eyes and looked at me, "So what if you know? Can the lord go back and wear court clothes and bring a guard of honor to demand from him?"

"Uh." I was at a loss for words.

It's really like that, it seems that I really lose face.

"What's more, among the Twelve Kingdoms, even a king can't interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. The Lord is the new king who has just ascended the throne, and he doesn't have the same friendship with King Liu as King Yan. Naturally, it is impossible to go to King Liu for this matter. File a complaint. Even if we seriously follow the laws of the Liu Kingdom, we are the first to commit murder."

"That's justifiable self-defense!" I slapped the table again, "In the situation at that time, if we didn't take action, would we be waiting to be killed by them? Didn't it mean that the laws of Liu Kingdom were the most perfect among the Twelve Kingdoms? Couldn't even this be guaranteed? ?"

Ah Ao only interrupted at this time, and said softly: "No matter what the reason is, it is always wrong to kill people, to stop violence with violence is..."

"Shut up." I stared at him, "Don't use Qilin's kindness here."

"Taifu's benevolence is the embodiment of God's will. God has the virtue of being good at life, so he doesn't like too much killing in the world." Xiu Huang also said, "Liu Wang seems to have always followed the way of benevolence and insisted that the Liu Kingdom does not need to make great efforts. punishment."

"Punishment of great punishment?"

I didn't understand, Xiu Huang explained again, "It's the death penalty."

"Abolish the death penalty and rule the country with benevolence?" I frowned, and couldn't help but sneer, "Then why did we meet such gangs of robbers and such greedy officials just after we arrived in Liu Kingdom?"

Xiu Huang said: "What King Liu means is that if a person kills someone, even if he is killed again, the dead person cannot be resurrected, and one more life cannot make up for the family. It is better to stay Follow him, educate him, and let him continue to contribute to the country's atonement."

"And then?" I laughed again, "You also said before that those people who got tattooed on their faces are repeat offenders, and they atone for their crimes like this?"

Xiu Huang closed his mouth and smiled helplessly.

Ah Ao said: "The original intention and starting point of not using the death penalty is good, Jie, you should not just see one or two bad examples and completely deny it."

I snorted, "I don't care about the principles of heaven and benevolence, but isn't it only right and proper to kill people to pay their debts and pay their debts?" Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that I also committed a crime on my own hands. Although it was self-defense, it was still a murder after all. , Feeling a little guilty for a while, he simply waved his hand and said, "Forget it, why are we arguing about the laws of other countries here!"

Ao looked at me and laughed.

There were also a few traces of smiles in Xiu Huang's eyes.

I pretended to drink tea and said, "It's a matter of discussing what we should do next. You see, we are penniless now, what should we do when we have to pay the bill tomorrow? What about the travel expenses after that?"

Xiu Huang smiled, and said: "Tomorrow, I'll go and see if I can find an acquaintance who has business dealings with my father. Let's raise some money first..."

"No!" I interrupted him, "If you ask someone to borrow money, and you borrow it abroad, it's really disrespectful to the country."

Ah Ao took a sip of tea, "You only know that you have lost your dignity now? You have been in a small prison just now!"

"That's different. The small black prison is where everyone gets implicated by the robbers together." I looked at Xiuhuang, "But asking you to borrow money from Mr. Yishan's acquaintances is like always asking your daughter-in-law to reach out to her natal family..."

Before I finished speaking, I felt that the atmosphere was not right, so the sound automatically disappeared.

Xiu Huang looked at me with a gentle smile and soft eyes.

Although Ah Ao didn't make a sound, his face darkened.

... The metaphor really can't be used indiscriminately.I regretted so much that I just wanted to bite my tongue off.

For a moment, none of the three spoke.

I just feel like there are thorns growing in the air around me.But we are afraid that we will not be able to pay the rent tomorrow, so we only have this room, and now we have nowhere to hide.

The room is not big, and there is no furniture. There is a big kang along the wall, and we all sat around the kang table on the kang.At this time, my eyes glanced at the bedding next to me. Where I was still sitting still, I stood up abruptly.

Xiu Huang stood up after me, and asked, "My lord?"

I blushed, stunned for a while, rolled my eyes several times, and finally found an excuse, reached out and patted the table again, "I can't swallow this breath!"

Xiu Huang didn't seem to know what expression to put on, "Why?"

"Could it be that my money was taken for nothing by those corrupt officials?" I snorted, "I'm going to go to their house to cheat!"

Ah Ao sighed silently, "You just want to escape?"

I pretended I didn’t hear it, “I’m going to rob the rich and help the poor on behalf of the heavens! Anyway, we’re getting back our own luggage, and most of it is their stolen money. How dare they say it? Besides, even if they know that I did it How about it? Since they want to release us so cautiously, do they dare to catch us back with great fanfare?"

Xiu Huang was silent for a few seconds, then nodded, "I'll accompany you."

"No, no need." I quickly refused, "You accompany Ah Ao. It is more convenient for me to go with Qinglong, and I will be back soon."

Xiu Huang turned his head to look at A Ao, without insisting, he only said: "Lord, be careful in everything."

"Don't worry, you killed monsters with me, don't you know my skills?" I laughed, "A county government office..."

"I'm just worried that it's not enough for the Lord to entertain."

I choked for a moment before realizing that he was not worried about what would happen to me, but worried that I would have a direct confrontation with those people.I had no choice but to make a haha, and said: "Don't worry, don't worry. I won't hit people at worst, can't I just steal things?"

Xiu Huang then nodded and sent me out.