Joyful Reunion

Guan Li stopped the carriage outside the north gate of the Imperial Prison, Bitao was very worried, but Yan Shuangzi could only go in alone, Guan Li said: "Miss must be careful, give those people more money, Miss Bitao and I are right here Wait, girl, go and come back quickly."

Yan Shuangzi took a few deep breaths and walked to the door. The silver ticket had already been folded into the size of a sign, and handed to the guard at the first gate together. The man took the things, returned the sign to her, and led her in silence. Going inside, the more you go in, the darker and damper it becomes, the smell is rancid, mixed with some screams coming from nowhere, it's gloomy like going to hell.

Turning around, she couldn't tell the direction at all, she just stared straight at the back of the person leading the way in front, the light was dim, and from the corner of her vision, she saw vaguely lying people in the cells on both sides, motionless, silent, and not moving. Knowing whether it is a dead person or a living person, he went through a few narrow passages and prison gates. As long as he changed the person to lead the way, he had to look at the sign and hand over the bank ticket. Then he arrived at a courtyard, and the leader went in. After a while, A person came out from inside, Yan Shuangzi raised her eyes and saw that it was one of Cui Zhen's brothers, but she didn't know which one it was.

Zhou Laosi was also stunned, waved the man to leave, and said: "Isn't this Miss Yan, she is really capable, and our girls from this world can come in!"

Yan Shuangzi blessed Fushen, and said: "The treatment was busy that day, so I don't know what to call this gentleman?"

Fourth Zhou waved his hand and said: "I can't be called a gentleman. My surname is Zhou. Since the girl can come in, it means that she has broken the rules. We have to follow the rules when we get here. I say it doesn't count." , I’ll go and call the Lord to the girl.”

After finishing speaking, she turned around and went in again. Yan Shuangzi stood alone in front of the courtyard gate, surrounded by eerie silence, after a long time another person came out from inside, it was Cui Zhen.

Yan Shuangzi took a fixed look at him, then saluted her, Cui Zhen frowned at her, said nothing for a while, just walked forward in silence with a sullen face, Yan Shuangzi followed behind him, and turned around a wall again, Just arrived at a place.

Cui Zhen pushed open the door, and Yan Shuangzi followed behind her, her eyes were dark and she could hardly see. After a while, she gradually got used to the light, and saw a person lying on the ground in a small room by the east wall, with only a layer of weeds under him. He is still wearing an official uniform, so whoever it is is not Li Yuncong!

Cui Zhen opened the door and signaled her to go in. Yan Shuangzi's heart was raised in her throat, and she could barely move. When they opened the door and came in, there was such a noise, why didn't he react at all?

She walked slowly and got closer, and finally saw his appearance clearly, and covered her mouth after a choked sob, only to see that his face was sallow, his lips were cracked, his cheeks were thin and sunken, and his face was also swollen. For some reason, there were still several scratches. She just fell asleep on the ground like this, and she couldn't see the slightest vitality of the past. She finally swallowed back the crying, and then she shook her hand to feel the pulse, and Li Yuncong woke up immediately.

He was a little confused when he had a fever. He opened his eyes and saw that there was a person sitting in front of him. After a long while, he realized that it was not the jailer of Jin Yiwei. When he took a closer look, the girl's eyes were red, and tears were rolling down silently. Crying and shaking all over, it was Yan Shuangzi!

Li Yuncong turned pale with shock, and said in a hoarse voice: "Ayan?! Why did you come here? Who told you to come, how did you come in, get out quickly!"

Seeing him struggling to get up, Yan Shuangzi cried out in shock, "Did they torture you? Where did you hurt? How dare they! How dare they!"

The tears fell even more fiercely, and in a hurry, he groped and inspected him with both hands, fearing that he might hurt a vital point, Li Yuncong hurriedly pressed her hand and said: "Ayan! Don't be afraid, I'm fine, I'm fine, it's just that I was hurt the first two days when I came in." I hit the board a few times, and then it never happened again, I was still in office, and I was not charged with crimes, they didn't dare to really use torture!"

He said it lightly, but Yan Shuangzi's heart was twisted like a knife. The court stick is an extremely serious insult to civil servants. She has always respected and protected him most in her heart. She never thought that he would be treated like this, and cried: "So you are Received the imperial staff as soon as they came in? The Holy Majesty didn’t instruct them, how dare they insult the court officials like this privately! Jinyiwei was originally a product of the emperor’s evil intentions! Now this ghostly place is even more..."

He covered her mouth before she finished speaking, and her tears kept falling on his hands. Li Yuncong felt sore in his heart, but his eyes were clear, and he looked very serious in the dark, softly said: "Speak carefully!"

It wasn't until she nodded that Li Yuncong slowly put down his hand and said, "How did you come in, is my mother okay at home?"

Yan Shuangzi nodded and said: "She is fine, Aunt Yun has been with her all the time, and she knows when I come today."

She paused, and then said: "The mother-in-law has sent a letter to Huai'an, and someone will go to Beijing soon. The family has gone the way of Dongchang Zhang Yinxin. I'm really afraid... I'm afraid they will torture you , I'm even more afraid... even more afraid that you don't understand..."

She didn't dare to finish speaking, fearing that something bad was going to happen, Li Yuncong hurriedly patted her arm to comfort her: "Don't cry, don't think about it, you see, I'm also very good, I think that I have no shame in my actions in the past, Guochao will definitely not be like this Regardless of the innocence of my subjects, sooner or later the Holy Majesty will come down with a decree. The thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king, which violates the holy will. In a few months, I will be able to go out, but you should not stay here now. This dark place is not you A girl should come, go back and tell my mother that I don’t need me to teach you, go back quickly, tell the family not to find any more ways, and no matter what happens in the future, don’t talk to Dongchang again The eunuch has anything to do with it, understand?"

Yan Shuangzi couldn't help nodding, tears splashed, and felt that the heat in his palm was abnormal, so she quickly felt his pulse, congestion, qi deficiency, high fever, but fortunately there was no internal injury, took out the medicine on herself, suddenly thought of something, turned around and saw, Cui She stood at the door looking at them like a pestle at the door, and saw that she had brought something out, but she just didn't say a word, Yan Shuangzi didn't know what he meant, so she couldn't care less at this moment, she raised her hand and stuffed the medicine into Li Yuncong's mouth for him to swallow , Even if they don't want to eat it in their stomachs, it is impossible to make him spit it out.

Putting another few pills into his hands, he whispered: "Third brother, is he taking care of this place? Did he make things difficult for you?"

Li Yuncong glanced at Cui Zhen and said: "This place is different from other prisons for prisoners. They also have their duties. Generally, they will not interrogate without authorization. Don't worry, don't stay any longer. Let's go!"

Cui Zhen came over and said: "The time has come, girl follow me out!"

Yan Shuangzi's tears kept falling, but she held onto his sleeve tightly and refused to let go. Li Yuncong took her hand, slowly opened it, wiped her tears again, and said with a smile: "Don't cry, let's go! In the future Don't come again!"

Seeing that he was calm and composed, Yan Shuangzi had no choice but to tell him to take care of herself even if she refused in every possible way. She went out and saw that the door was locked again.

Cui Zhen turned around and stretched out his hand to the right, saying meaningfully: "Miss Yan, this way please!"

Yan Shuangzi didn't know what was going on inside, so she wiped her tears and walked in the direction he pointed, but Li Yuncong got up suddenly and said, "Wait! What is Qianhu going to do! This is not the way out! Ayan, don't go!"

Cui Zhen's expression was blank, and he said: "The Futai doesn't know the structure of this prison, the direction of my finger is another exit, I just ask Miss Yan to look at some things, and then send her out!"

Li Yuncong said sharply: "You and I have grievances, but we can't offend Ayan. Why do you make things difficult for her? What are you going to do!"

Cui Zhendao: "The government is worrying too much, you and I don't have any grievances, I just asked her to stop by Lao Liu to see how the injury is recovering that day, Miss Yan is my brother's life-saving benefactor, how could I make things difficult for her?"

After saying that, she ignored him and only stretched out her hand to signal that Yan Shuangzi didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, and couldn't bear Li Yuncong to argue with him while dragging his sick body at a disadvantage, so she just looked at him and straightened up and walked forward.

Li Yuncong was furious, and shouted loudly: "Cui Zhen! If you dare to hurt her, I will never spare you!"

Cui Zhen paused, turned a deaf ear and walked forward.

Turning around a secret passage, standing outside an entrance, Yan Shuangzi stopped, Cui Zhen walked down first and said: "Miss Yan just follow me, after exiting the entrance of this hall, you are outside."

Yan Shuangzi said: "Why don't you tell me that when you leave this hall, you are in the world?"

Cui Zhenwen nodded and said: "So, this is what you should say. I see that you just met Li Zhiyuan and cried softly, but you really can't connect with the female doctor who cursed in Yonghe Hall that day."

Yan Shuangzi ignored him, and followed him to the inside, she was so smoked that she almost vomited immediately, staggered a bit, and then covered her mouth and nose, Cui Zhen suddenly said: "Miss Yan, be careful, there is someone in front of you, Be careful not to hit it."

Yan Shuangzi was reminded by his sinister voice, only then did she realize that there was really a person in front of her, if that human-shaped "thing" hung in the middle with a lute bone was really a person.

She had never seen such a terrifying situation. The man was disheveled, his tattered clothes had already grown together with the flesh and blood on his body, and all kinds of strange marks on his body could no longer tell whether they were wounds or dirt. The whole person seemed to be alive. Like a skeleton, if he didn't hear the movement and move his head, he would be no different from a dead person.

This is a living dead!

She is well aware of the structure of the human body, and instinctively looks at the human body from a medical point of view. She can see at a glance where the person has been tortured, how long it has been, and can even deduce what kind of torture instrument it is. She can't help thinking about the torture at that time tragedy.

She couldn't take a deep breath to calm herself, her mouth and nose were full of the smell of hell, her heart was cold, and her back was sweating profusely, and it took a long time for her to say in a hoarse voice: "What crime did this person... commit? "

"Forget!" Cui Zhen said coldly, with a strange light in his eyes, he only looked at the girl's white porcelain face, and her slightly red lips because of the desire to vomit, and said: "In the prison There are too many people like him who came in without knowing when or why they were interrogated. After a long time, torture has become a habit, and the prisoner has already said what he should say and what should not be said. Who cares whether he committed a crime or not? What's the matter! Left and right are also going to die in this place, sooner or later."

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