Monks don't care about money, they only care about fate, and they never lie.
Lin Linyou donated half a month's salary to the merit box, and Master Putong, the host, took them to Yang Fang's Zen room and ordered the young novice monk to bring them fast food.
Lin Linyou roughly pushed open the meditation room and stepped inside.
Sure enough, Yang Fang was among them!
"Eldest brother, second brother!" Yang Fang was obviously surprised when he saw them, and stood up with help from the table at a loss.
The two of them ignored him and sat at the same table with him.
When the vegetarian meal arrived, it was still steaming hot. Anqing indica rice and yellow rice from Hangjiahu, Zhejiang were mixed and steamed, and served in a wooden lacquer bowl with a few black beans dotted on top. The dish was much simpler, including a small plate of pickled radish. Dried, a small plate of seasonal fresh broad-leaf Wu Siong, and a small plate of salted vegetables.
"Three donors, please take your time." The two young monks put down their meals in unison and exited the room.
Very hungry, very hungry.
With his mouth full, Zhang Bi lowered his head and took big mouthfuls of food.
Although Lin Linyou was also hungry, he ate very elegantly. After taking a bite of rice, he picked up a dried radish and bit into it. From the sound, he could tell that the dried radish was crisp and refreshing: "Jianchu Temple's vegetarian meal is indeed well-deserved."
"Brother, second brother, listen to me explaining to you." Yang Fang felt guilty.
After finishing one bowl, Zhang Bi was obviously not full yet. He reached out to take the bowl of vegetarian rice in front of Yang Fang and started to eat it with his chopsticks. After a while, another bowl of vegetarian rice entered his stomach.
Lin Linyou, however, was still eating slowly.
"Tell me!" Zhang Ben pushed the bowl away, wiped his mouth, and chewed still unfinished, and finally looked at Yang Fang, "What have you done in the past three days without telling me and your second brother?"
"I... met someone." Yang Fang muttered.
"Oh, who did you see?" Zhang Bi seemed to be interrogating the prisoner.
"..." Yang Fang hesitated for a while and finally said: "Jiang Ayan."
Hearing this, Zhang Bi glanced at Lin Linyou subconsciously.
Lin Linyou was not too surprised, thinking in his mind: Could it be that the third brother and Jiang Ayan had some shady and cheap deal? In exchange for clues about the descendants of the Huang family?
"What are you looking at me doing?" Seeing Zhang and Yang staring at him, Lin Linyou lowered his head and continued eating.
"It seems that the vegetarian food at Jianchu Temple is really good." Zhang Bi nodded and continued to stare at Yang Fang, "otherwise, third brother wouldn't have stayed so long..."
Under Zhang Bi's "interrogation", Yang Fang "honestly" confessed:
The two met as early as the third year of Yongle, that is, five years ago.
At that time, Yang Fang was just a jailer in the Yamen Prison of Shangyuan County, Yingtian Mansion.
One day, a murderer was arrested and taken to the county jail. He was put in heavy shackles and placed in a single cell under strict supervision!
After the preliminary trial by the county government, the magistrate said that he would be sent to the capital soon and handed over to the Sanfa Division for personal interrogation, because the man killed was actually someone from the Sixth Section!
That's a Beijing official who often serves the emperor!
Wanted posters were posted everywhere. As soon as this person sneaked into Shangyuan County, he was caught by the sharp-eyed police officers.
"Assassinations of court officials, big and small, are considered treason: beheaded, relatives exiled for two thousand miles, and wives and slaves used as official slaves. If you support a hired assassin to escape, the hired assassin will be imprisoned as well!"
Just when everyone thought that the murderer was certain to die, a mysterious man in black robe came to the county government one day, had a passionate talk with the magistrate, left several large silver coins, and left with a wave of his sleeves.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."
"It's so late, but your Majesty still personally inspected and followed suit. We really admire you."
After flattering him, the magistrate smiled and waved his hand, and the two attendants behind him placed a food box on the desk.
"No, seeing how hard you are working, I will give you some midnight snacks."
At night, the magistrate personally brought wine and meat to express his condolences and rewards to the jailers, saying that everyone worked hard, but there is no work that is not hard! The magistrate emphasized that we must work hard, do our best on every shift, be unafraid of hard work and difficulties, and not slack off, so that prisoners cannot escape or dare not escape, and they must cooperate with the work and actively reform...
Just when everyone was drowsy, the magistrate lowered his voice and whispered to Yang Fang and other jailers to do this... After that, he personally handed the key to the prisoner's single cell to the cell leader, and so on. Such whispers of encouragement mean that everything will be rewarded if it succeeds! Then he got on the sedan chair and went home to sleep.
As soon as the magistrate left, Yang Fang and the other two jailers complained:
"Shameless old thief, I don't know how much money I received from Li Jinglong, but he gave us such food and wine!" A jailer used chopsticks to dig through the dishes. Not many pieces of meat were found, but it seemed like leftovers.
"Li Jinglong?" Yang Fang lowered his voice and asked curiously, "How did you know it was him?"
The jailer said, "It goes without saying! Think about it! Who is the most vicious person who was shot by Section 6 recently? Isn't it him?"
"Then he dares to kill people at this time? Wouldn't it cause more trouble?" Another jailer also whispered, "He is not afraid of offending the Holy One!"
"Ahem! You don't understand." The jailer pointed with chopsticks, "Last year at this time, Mr. Zhou personally went to court to expose the boy named Li, but the emperor ignored him. Then, he was repeatedly impeached by Zheng Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment and others. , the emperor still hasn’t pursued the case, what does this mean?”
"The world has just been settled, and the emperor has just begun to guard the throne. Don't you want to kill the hero?"
"The emperor favors you, and you are proud of it! Do you understand? You are confident, and you kill people just to scare the monkeys!"
"No." Yang Fang said, "Letting this mad dog out is the real way to scare the monkeys!"
"It's really too arrogant!"
"Then...Brother Yang, shall we let him go?" the jailer asked Yang Fang cautiously.
The magistrate's intention was to let them fake a prison robbery.
According to the Law of the Ming Dynasty: "If a thief comes from outside to rob a prisoner and is unable to defeat him, he will be exempted from the crime." In other words, if the prison is robbed inside and outside, the jailer, warden, county magistrate and others can be exempted from the crime.
It's different if you've read a book. The magistrate is a master at taking advantage of legal loopholes!
"Don't ask me if I want to do it, I'm not the county magistrate." Yang Fang picked up a piece of dried meat and put it in his mouth, then picked up the wine bowl and took a sip of wine.
"Do it! What else can you do if you don't do it?" The jailer also lowered his head and drank silently.
By the time they finished drinking, it was already past midnight. The three of them had become more courageous after drinking.
A slightly tipsy jailer turned his head and gave the cell leaders a sinister look.
The three cell heads understood, opened the cell door, took the criminal hostage, and ran towards the north gate of the prison entrusted by the magistrate.
Yang Fang and three others followed closely...
Arriving at the slightly opened north gate, the three cell leaders abandoned the criminal and immediately turned back, running back toward Yang Fang and the others.
When they were about to arrive, Yang Fang and the others also followed the magistrate's instructions. A fierce light suddenly appeared in their eyes, and they pulled out their swords and chopped each of the prisoners on the neck!
This is to treat the prison boss as an accomplice in prison robbery! Killing people and silencing them, killing two birds with one stone!
Yang Fang and a prison guard fell down under the sword.
The other jailer was restrained by the cell leader he was fighting.
"Forget Bashuzi! People in the temple don't respect the moral principles of the world!" the cell leader roared angrily.
Yang Fang didn't answer, and he and another jailer attacked the cell head one after another.
The prison head was also very straightforward. He grabbed the jailer's knife from his arms, raised his hand and wiped it on his neck. The jailer covered his neck, and blood arrows flew out from between his fingers. His expression was painful, and his body fell limply. Down……
After a fierce battle, the other jailer was defeated and was chopped down by his head. Only Yang Fang, who was seriously injured, was still struggling to hold on...
…
"I didn't expect you, third brother, to have such an exciting past!" Zhang Bi said, "This cell leader has such high martial arts skills..."
Yang Fang's body tensed up. He didn't know whether it was because of nervousness, or because he was back to the battlefield in front of the county jail: "Yes, the cell leader is none other than Jiang Ayan!"
"So, what happens next?" Lin Linyou finally had enough.
