The old man was babbling. Seeing that others ignored him, he continued to stretch his neck and talk.
"Oh, don't be so disrespectful. Look, if you give me money and I can save your life, we can also benefit from each other, right?
Or have you really done all the bad things, your conscience found out, and you just want to die like this?
Come on, look at your age...well...you're not over thirty yet, are you? How young are you? You still have a wife and children at home, right? Just die? That's a shame.
From then on, your daughter-in-law will have to belong to someone else's family, and your children will have to call someone else daddy. When you go underground, won’t you feel aggrieved?
And your parents and grandparents, don’t you feel bad? If you knew about this, you wouldn't know how much you would cry, right? Hey, I said..."
"Stop talking, shut up!"
The death row prisoner roared violently and sat up suddenly. The long hair on his head seemed to float up, like needles pricking his head.
It also made him look like a hedgehog.
I can actually see the face.
Thick eyebrows, big eyes, high nose bridge, thick nose tip, and slightly sunken eye sockets. It's not the kind of deep hole that was made by torture, but it grew like that naturally.
Obviously, this person does not look like a Tang Dynasty person...
However, the Tang dialect is standard, and the accent is from the Youzhou area.
The fat old man was shocked by the other party's roar, and then he moved his buttocks hard and shrank into the gap in the fence.
If the gap between the bars wasn't really narrow, and if the old man wasn't too fat, he probably could have shrunk into the cell next door.
The death row prisoner didn't do anything to the fat old man. He just glared at the fat old man fiercely, then turned over and lay down again, with his back to the fat old man.
Seeing that the crisis was over, the fat old man said "bah bah bah" a few more times before he wanted to speak out again.
He heard a prisoner in the next cell, who was also sleeping on a pile of wet hay, muttering to him: "That guy is about to die. If you don't pay attention to others, don't talk nonsense to him."
Speaking of which, like him, I am also about to die, so please stop nagging, I am annoyed by it.
In a few days, we will be pushed out and beheaded. Living now is just a matter of catching your breath. If you provoke us, if we want to help you before you die, your death will be in vain. "
When the fat uncle heard someone talking to him, his eyes immediately lit up. Forgetting his fear, he quickly turned sideways, grabbed the iron bar, put his face in the gap between the iron bars, and called to the other party.
"Hey? What crime did you commit? Are you both guilty? Why are you not locked up together? Before you are executed, do you need someone to help you send a message to the outside world?
I'm going to be out of town soon because of my little sin. Please tell me and I can send you a message.
Otherwise, do you have any secret treasure? Tell me, I will take it out for you, then I will take half, and then I will give you half. Don’t worry, I am the most trustworthy person, I will definitely do what I say, and I will never keep it to myself…”
"Shut up!"
The man had good intentions to dissuade the fat old man from seeking death, but in the end, he got annoyed by the fat old man again.
He immediately yelled at him to shut up.
The fat old man shrank back from being yelled at, and moved his face a little further away from the iron bars.
But the mouth didn't stop.
Maybe it's because he feels that the other party can't hit him.
So I continued to ask casually: "Hey, what's your name? Let's not talk about the treasure. Let's talk about business? What crime were you convicted of?"
You are also a death row prisoner, so can you tell me your story? In this way, even if you are gone, someone will still remember you, right? Let's take a trip to this world. If we can be remembered by others, it means that our trip was not in vain, right?
Hey, tell me? Don't you think you're feeling depressed? Get up and vomit your bitterness, I am happy to listen. "
That man was really annoyed by her nagging.
However, he also sat up.
The fat old man’s words: If someone remembers you, your life will not be in vain. These words moved him.
He sat up with difficulty and leaned against the damp stone wall.
Gently, with his scarred hands, he touched the same tattered and bloody underwear on his body. Leaning there, he let out a long sigh.
"It's okay to tell me and let you listen. Maybe if I tell it, I can die faster and suffer less."
After hearing the words, the fat old man immediately turned sideways and sat upright, with his hands on his crossed knees, his eyes bright and alert, as if he was listening attentively.
When the man saw this, he smiled hard at the fat old man.
He smiled so much that blood oozed from the cracked mouth on his lips.
He gently raised his hand to wipe it away, tilted his head back, looked at the top of the cell, and slowly narrated aloud.
"My name is Xu Qinji, and I used to be the chief historian of this Cangzhou government office. Before the Khitan dog thieves came, I suggested to the governor Wu Zhenguo to take precautions in advance, close the city gates, and prepare for war.
After all, the Khitan bandits had already passed through Yingzhou at that time, right? And the scouts have reported that they are coming to Cangzhou.
But Wu Zhenguo... you don't know who he is, right? He is the nephew of Princess Anle's husband Wu Chongxun. How could he listen to me?
I thought of a way to mobilize the soldiers who defended the city, closed the city gate tightly, and prepared to call on the people to defend the city to the death.
After all, there is no governor to contact the garrison outside the city. What can the three thousand garrison soldiers in the city do? We have to let the people defend the city together.
But even like this, even like this... I still couldn't resist it. The city was broken and Wu Zhenguo ran away. The Khitan thieves arrested many people and several officials.
I was also captured due to exhaustion after fighting hard.
At that time, I wanted to die and live and die together with the city. But at that moment, let alone wiping his neck with the knife, even if he wanted to jump off the tower, he couldn't stand up.
Not to mention the injuries all over his body, he just had no strength. I could only be captured alive and dragged down, and then the Khitan thieves forced me to persuade the officials who had not yet been found and hid themselves to surrender.
I refuse.
Just when they were about to torture me, what? He has arrived. His name is Pei Xuangui, he is the governor of the Andong Protectorate, and he arrived with his army.
I shouted to him: "The crazy thief is a disaster and will be destroyed in the day and night." Your Majesty, you must guard your troops and maintain your integrity! '
I just wanted him to leave me alone and just attack the city and kill the thieves.
This Khitan dog thief is so angry that he wants to kill me. But Mr. Pei fought hard to save me. But he came in a hurry, really in a hurry.
Moreover, there was no time to stop the troops to reorganize and wait for the rear troops and food, so they led two thousand people in hot pursuit.
As for the Khitan dog thieves, they had already had enough food and wine to take a breather. so……
In the end, Pei Xuangui was defeated and captured. It's him, the one who ignores you. "
