In Cai County Prison.
The two detectives smiled and looked at Zhou Dagu: "The guy inside has been hungry for a long time. Nothing will happen to him if he is sent in!"
"You don't care! What can you and I do according to the orders from above?"
"It's not that I'm kind-hearted, I'm just afraid that if I bite this and that piece of food in a while, we brothers will have to clean it up!"
The two detectives looked at each other, feeling trembling all over and having goosebumps on their skin.
Zhou Dagu scratched the railing and thought about what happened during the day.
As expected, he was right as he had originally guessed. They were not deserters now. Daying's military policy was strict. No evidence was needed to be demoted as a deserter. As long as you left your post without orders from your superiors, you were considered a deserter.
He had a vague memory in his mind. He remembered that Daying Confucian Temple had a special method of transmitting information. Court affairs and military camp secrets were often disseminated in this way. If this matter could be transmitted to the Caixian County Government, it must also be transmitted to the capital. Already knew about this.
"Xiang Zhao has already taken action?" Zhou Dagu had a guess.
I'm afraid there is no other way to explain it.
The matter of the deserter's status can be easily solved, as long as Butler Asan returns to the capital, meets with Prime Minister Zhao, and recruits him truthfully as he told him.
Regardless of whether Zhao Xiang is willing to believe it or not, he must declare it to the world according to his own sacrifice for the reputation of the Zhao family.
At that time, the lives of Zhou Dagu and Asan can be saved. After all, these two heartless people are the only evidence that the second son of the Zhao family is a hero.
Zhou Dagu shook his head. He also wanted to tell the truth and restore everyone's innocence, but innocence was not important to these people now. Looking at their family letters, they were all concerned about their relatives at home.
He can bring innocence to the military household, but what about the future of their family's livelihood?
Are you counting on this incident to bring down Prime Minister Zhao?
It's simply impossible. Telling the truth will only make the people at the bottom worse!
Zhou Dagu breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe one day, he would be powerful enough to reveal the truth, but right now, survival was the most important thing.
People in the lower class have exhausted all their strength just to breathe every day.
"But who is this member of the Wang family?" Zhou Dagu was confused. Most of the memories in his mind were in Zhoujia Village, and even further away was a private school.
When he was young, his father loved him, and he had little contact with the white clouds and dog-like things about human nature.
"You don't even know Wang Yuanwai? Or are you not from Cai County?"
Zhou Dagu quickly turned his head and realized that there was not only himself in this cage, but also another person hiding in the haystack: "Who are you?"
The strong man hiding in the haystack peeled off the thatch covering his face, revealing a big, rough face.
The man's face was burly and dark, and his eyes were filled with desire as he looked at him. He had yellow teeth and just opened his mouth, and smoked Zhou Dagu out a meter away: "My name is Xu Dian!"
"I don't know you. I want you to tell me your identity. Like me, my name is Zhou Dagu. I am a scholar from Zhoujia Village!"
"My name is Xu Dian, from Wangjia Village, a reckless man!"
"You can call yourself a reckless man, but you are really self-aware! Does the strong man know Yuan Wang?"
"He is my uncle! He is my father's close friend in life and death!"
Zhou Dagu got closer to the railing and asked: "Wang Yuan is your uncle. He has a fortune and there are people in the Chaotang County government office. Why are you being imprisoned here?"
Xu Dian's eyes widened: "That bastard Wang Yuanwai, he has a lot of money, and it's all taken from my Xu family's wealth!"
"My blind father, I was a brother to him, but who knew he wanted my father's life? He used tricks to seize my family property and forced my parents to death. If he hadn't been afraid that my uncle would come back to take revenge after he died, he would take me As a bargaining chip, I'm afraid my Xu family will be ruined!"
"Hey! It's no different now than if the bloodline is cut off!"
When Zhou Dagu heard this, his eyes lit up. He watched him take a step forward and asked, "Do you also have a deep grudge against the Wang family? You don't know that the Wang family is also the life-and-death enemy of our family!"
Zhou Dagu picked up the stick on the ground and knocked it on the railing: "Little man, I live on the edge of the city of Cai County. I have a house and fields at home, and my life is endless. Who would have thought that except for the king, he would be arrogant and ruthless, colluding with the government?" Mu Wutian, occupy my big house and take me away."
"Xu Zhuangshi, Wang Yuanwai designed it. My family owes him only five taels of land rent. Who knew that his interest rate has increased to one hundred taels!"
"The most hateful thing is that he put me in a cage and wanted to take away my fifteen-year-old girl, a little girl in her prime. How could that hateful Wang Yuanwai be able to do this!"
Xu Dian was furious and hammered the wall with his hands: "You idiot, you robbed my family of money, and now you are endangering the countryside. I will definitely eat his flesh!"
"A brave man has great righteousness!" Zhou Dagu raised his hand and found that what he was holding was not a stick, but a small bone with no discernable species.
He shook his hand and dropped the small bone on the ground.
The strong man Xu Dian saw it and came over laughing: "I just said that the wild wolf we ate a few days ago was missing a bone. I didn't expect it to be here!"
Xu Dian picked up the bones and stuffed them into his mouth.
Zhou Dagu stopped him in time. Xu Dian raised his head and wondered, "Why are you stopping me? What, you want to eat too?"
Xu Dian felt distressed, broke the small bones with both hands, and gave a section to Zhou Dagu: "You and I are in the same boat, so I will give you a section to keep you alive, so that you can take revenge on the Wang family!"
Zhou Dagu took the small bones and threw them on the ground.
Xu Dian stood up, a head taller than Zhou Dagu, pointed at him and cursed: "You bastard, you thought you were outside now! In this cell, it's good to eat as many bones as you can, why throw them away?" !”
Zhou Dagu reached out and touched his arms. He had just been pulled out of his home. He had been hungry since he was a child, which made him have a great fear of the word "hungry".
So, when he went out, he put two steamed buns into his arms.
He took out the steamed buns and Xu Dian swallowed them. There was no rice or noodles in this prison. He hadn't eaten Dabai steamed buns in several years!
Zhou Dagu looked at him and smiled, unwrapped the word "happy" on the bun, and stuffed his hands into his crotch.
His clothes are special. There is a small bag next to the crotch, which can hold some gold and silver to prevent thieves from stealing.
He took out two pieces of dried wolf meat from it and roasted it over a fire. The wolf meat was not delicious, but it was filling!
Zhou Dagu stuffed the dried meat into the steamed bun. The steamed bun was big and the dried meat was even bigger. The big steamed bun could not fit these two pieces of dried meat. The purple-red dried meat was exposed. Four or five prisoners in the nearby prison had already Was woken up.
They stared at Zhou Dagu's things and stared at the exposed dried meat.
An old man couldn't help but say: "Little friend, I am also an enemy of the Wang family. Can you give me a piece of my mind? When I get out, I will give you the evidence I have to sue the Wang family!"
"We all are. I was also brought here unjustly by a member of the Wang family. Please, give me a bite!"
"Let me take a bite. I only need one bite. If you swallow this bite, you can kill me today!"
The prison was dirty, but clean.
Except for the prisoners, there was no living thing. Even rats and flies got into the bellies of this group of hungry and brainless people.
Zhou Dagu held the steamed bun to his mouth and took a deep breath: "Smells delicious!"
"Bah!" He only said one word, and there were countless swallowing sounds around him.
Zhou Dagu raised his head and handed the steamed buns with meat to Xu Dian: "Eat!"
"Give it to me?" Xu Dian couldn't believe it: "Why?"
"There's no reason, you're hungry, I'll feed you, it's that simple!"
Xu Dian took the steamed bun and lay on the ground about to bite it. Zhou Dagu pulled him up and said, "Stand up and eat, sit down, just don't eat lying down!"
He kicked the bones on the ground with his kick: "They treat us as wolves and dogs, as wild beasts, but brothers, you and I are both human beings, just people who were framed!"
Xu Dian stood up slowly and looked at him. The eight-foot-tall man's eyes turned red: "Yes! I am a human being!"
Xu Dian finished the meal in two bites, his face turned red from suppressing it, and he looked at Zhou Dagu.
Zhou Dagu thought he was still hungry and hesitated to give the other bun to Xu Dian. He knew that he would be out soon, but he couldn't tell the deadline.
Xu Dian took a step forward and suddenly knelt in front of him: "Ms., they said today they would give me a pretty boy to eat, but I don't think you are a pretty boy, you are a wife, a gentleman!"
"You taught me to be a human being. There was no one in my Xu family before, but now there are people again. From now on, my life, Xu Dian's, will be yours!"
"I am willing to stay with you and be a stable boy and a book boy. Please accept me!"
Zhou Dagu took his hand: "Strong man, I'm still in prison, how can I accept you!"
"If you don't accept it, I won't be able to afford it!"
Zhou Dagu sighed and took his hand: "Since you insist on doing this, you can stay with me from now on!"
Zhou Dagu lowered his head and approached his head: "Xu Dian, I promise you with my life that I will let you kill Wang Yuanwai with your own hands and let you take revenge!"
Xu Dian nodded heavily.
