Chapter 1444 Zhuge Wolong

Jiang Hao found an inn in the county and rented a guest room with a small courtyard. The rent was not cheap, but the small courtyard was very elegant and quiet, with a private door and courtyard. It had a master bedroom, guest room, kitchen, and bathroom. It was rented to high-end guests.

Not long after, a figure flashed in the room and bowed to Jiang Hao, saying, "Sir, I found a secret room in the home of the county magistrate Qian. It is under the bed in the county magistrate's main bedroom. His money is all in the secret room."

Jiang Hao smiled.

A man suddenly emerged from the underground secret room in the back house of the county government. It was pitch black without any light. Jiang Hao wiped his eyes and opened his eyes. The eyes can not only see the air, but also have a certain night vision ability.

The secret room is about 20 square meters. There are several huge camphorwood boxes in the corner. Jiang Hao opened one and found a neatly stacked silver ingot inside. There are seven boxes in total. Jiang Hao guessed that there should be about 30,000 taels.

On a stone table next to it, there was a small box. When it was opened, it was filled with all kinds of gold, silver, and jewelry. The things in this box were also very valuable.

Jiang Hao touched the boxes one by one, without any courtesy, and put them all into the space.

Other practitioners might disdain to do such thefts, fearing that their reputations would be tarnished, and even more afraid of damaging their spiritual practice, but Jiang Hao didn't care at all. He had stolen a lot of money, even the Manhattan vault in the United States, so this little silver was nothing.

Jiang Hao had spent almost all the hundreds of taels of silver he had earned from selling talismans from the old fox, so he didn't have to worry about money now.

I just don't know if the Pu'an County Magistrate would be so distressed that he would die if he saw that the silver he had worked hard to collect for several years had disappeared.

"Bang bang bang!"

It was the night of Hai.

The jailer in the prison turned around again, and seeing that the prisoners had all gone to bed honestly, he returned to the door and sat down, yawned, and dozed off on the back of the chair.

At this moment, a head popped out from the ground, looked at the prison, half of the body was exposed, and two soybeans were shot at the two jailers.

Puff!

The soybeans hit the acupuncture points of the two jailers, and the two guys fell asleep immediately.

Jiang Hao retracted his body, sneaked under a prison, and came out directly from the ground and stood in the cell.

In the prison, an old man in ragged clothes was resting with his eyes closed, holding a grass stem in his mouth, with his legs crossed and his feet swaying. In the thatched pile next to him, a man in gray clothes curled up, and only his back could be seen.

Suddenly,

the old man felt something strange in the cell, opened his eyes, and found a man in a moon-white robe standing in the cell. The old man was startled. How could there be a living person out of nowhere?

The old man was about to speak, and Jiang Hao immediately put his finger to his mouth, "Don't make a sound, it will be bad if you disturb others."

The old man immediately shut up.

Jiang Hao also recognized who the old man was at this moment, and bowed his hands and said, "May I ask if it is Mr. Zhuge Wulong?"

"Are you a human or a ghost? How did you appear in the cell quietly?" Zhuge Wulong asked curiously and nervously.

"Are you afraid of people or ghosts?" Jiang Hao asked with a faint smile.

Zhuge Wulong was asked for a while, and then laughed awkwardly, "Yes, I am afraid of people or ghosts. I am like this now because of people. Death is also a kind of relief for me. I am already like this. What does it matter if you are a human or a ghost?"

Hearing the conversation, Ning Caichen, who was already sleeping unsoundly, woke up and turned his head. With the help of the dim light in the prison, he saw that there was one more person in the prison. Ning Caichen sat up and looked at Jiang Hao curiously and asked Zhuge Wulong, "Senior Zhuge, when did there be one more person in our cell?"

Zhuge Wulong shook his head, "I don't know either."

Jiang Hao looked at Ning Caichen and found that it was his brother. It was just because he was imprisoned here that he had a beard on his face, and the whole person looked much older.

"But Brother Ning Caichen." Jiang Hao bowed his hands and asked.

Ning Caichen was startled and stood up immediately. He grabbed Jiang Hao's hand and said anxiously, "You, you know me, you know my name is Ning Caichen, I said my name is not Zhou Abing, no one here believes it, do you know me, can you help me talk to the yamen runners, I really am not Zhou Abing, they arrested the wrong person, let them let me go."

Being arrested and imprisoned, Ning Caichen shouted countless times that he was wronged, but no one listened. Now that someone who knows him finally appears, he seems to have grabbed a life-saving straw.

Jiang Hao looked at Ning Caichen. Speaking of it, he is just an ordinary scholar.

"Brother Ning, you say you are wronged, in fact, those yamen runners, constables, and hunters also know that you are wronged, but they need someone to go to jail. They can get the court reward by catching the fugitive. It's that simple." Jiang Hao said.

Ning Caichen's face turned ugly after hearing Jiang Hao's words, and he murmured absentmindedly: "Is there no reason in this world?!"

Jiang Hao smiled and patted Ning Caichen's shoulder, "Brother Ning, don't worry, I'm here to save you."

When Ning Caichen heard this, he immediately showed an excited expression. He could finally get out, but then he became nervous again. He came to the side of the cell and secretly looked in the direction of the jailer while holding the thick wooden bars.

"Brother Ning, don't look at them. I have knocked them out. No matter how bad it is now, they will not wake up until tomorrow." Jiang Hao said.

He turned to look at Zhuge Wulong, "Senior Zhuge, let's go together."

Zhuge Wulong sighed slightly, "Thank you for your kindness, young man, but I never planned to go out!"

"Why?"

"What will happen if I go out? I, Zhuge Wolong, was very proud as a young boy. I entered the Hanlin Academy as the number one scholar in high school. After that, I worked as an official all the way. Everyone said that I am a very smart person, but in the end it was not all in vain."

"The emperor is stupid, the civil and military officials are greedy and hypocritical, the people have no life, and no one cares about the sufferings of the people. I am not pedantic, nor stupid, but I just don't want to join the trend. I have repeatedly advised, but I have been demoted again and again, and I have been ostracized by my colleagues. In the end, he was left without an official position."

"Forget it, I thought at that time that I would give up officialdom to write a book. Who knows, if I write travel notes, they say I leaked state secrets; if I write history, they say I use the past to satirize the present; if I comment on the art of war, they say I instigate rebellion; if I write stories of gods and monsters Well, they said that I led people to superstition; in the end, I rewrote the biography of a famous person. As a result, the famous person was involved in an accident, and I was convicted as a gang member. Hehe, I was sentenced to life imprisonment together with him... Alas, life is just a prison! "

Ning Caichen thought of his own experience and said with tears in his eyes, "In this world, it turns out that there is no reward for being a good person."

Jiang Hao thought for a while, "Mr. Zhuge, since you have talent and learning in your mind, why don't you find a place to write down what you want to write. Even if you can't live now, it may not be possible in the future. It's not in vain to leave something for future generations." Come to this world."

Zhuge Wolong was slightly moved after listening to Jiang Hao's words, but after thinking about it he shook his head, "I am alone and penniless, and I am a repeat offender of the imperial court. How will I live and work after I get out? That's all, I will just spend my remaining days in this prison."

"Mr. Zhuge, I have a place over there. You can stay with me. As for your identity, you have lived in this prison for decades, and there are still a few people who remember you. When you come to my place, Mr. Zhuge can write his book with peace of mind." Jiang Hao said.

Zhuge Wolong thought for a while, "Okay, thank you so much, young hero. In fact, I have been digging the hole these years and have dug it very deep. I think I will be able to dig it out soon."

Jiang Haoxin said, you are the ancient version of Shawshank.

"Why bother?" Jiang Hao smiled.

As he spoke, he came to the door of the prison. He had a piece of iron wire in his hand, and lightly poked the door lock, and the door lock opened with a click.

"Wouldn't it be better to just walk out?" Jiang Hao waved his hand in an inviting gesture.

When the three of them passed by the jailer, Ning Caichen walked carefully for fear of waking him up. Jiang Hao led the way and opened the cell door all the way. The three of them came to the courtyard openly. Jiang Hao grabbed Ning Caichen and Zhuge Wolong moved his arms and feet to move his spiritual power, leading the two of them to fly over the high wall.

The three of them landed on the street. Ning Caichen couldn't believe it, "Are we coming out now?"

"I have long heard about the legends of strange people and strangers in the world, and today I have seen it!" Zhuge Wolong sighed.

The three of them walked through the streets for a while and came to the small courtyard of the inn where Jiang Hao rented. Jiang Hao grabbed their arms and jumped into the courtyard.

The lights were on in the main room. Zhu Guang opened the door and came out, bowed to Jiang Hao and said, "Sir, the hot water is boiled and the clothes are ready."

Jiang Hao said to Zhuge Wolong and Ning Caichen, "Why don't you two take a shower and change clothes first? We'll talk later."

Zhuge Wolong said in his heart that this young knight was quite thoughtful and had even prepared bath water and clothes. From this, it could be seen that he was fully confident that he could rescue the two of them.

Zhuge Wolong and Ning Caichen walked into the bathroom. There were two large wooden buckets inside. The water in them was still steaming. There were locust and soap beside the buckets. There were two new sets of scholar robes neatly placed on the chairs next to them.

Don't doubt whether there is soap or scented soap in this dynasty. Jiang Hao really didn't make it himself.

There is a paragraph in the original text of "Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua", "Ximen Qing said: "I'm waiting for the girl to get the jasmine soap to wash my face. Jin Lian said: "I can't tell you, Baba used that soap to wash his face. No wonder your face is whiter than other people's buttocks!" "

It’s strange why I remember this section so clearly.

The two were imprisoned in prison and had not taken a bath for an unknown period of time. As soon as they entered the tub, they immediately groaned in comfort. For them, taking a hot bath was the most beautiful enjoyment in the world.

Ning Caichen washed his hair with soap locust and asked while washing: "Senior Zhuge, who are you, that knight, to take such a big risk to save you?"

Old Zhuge, who was rubbing his back with a towel, was stunned for a moment and turned to look at Ning Caichen, "Isn't he here to save you? I was just passing by."

Ning Caichen paused and said, "I don't know him."

"I don't know him either." Zhuge Wolong said in surprise.

"This is strange, why did he take the risk to save the two of us???"

With doubts in their hearts, the two of them took a shower and changed into clothes. Ning Caichen shaved off his beard, and Zhuge Wolong also tidied up. The two of them suddenly became refreshed. As soon as they walked out of the bathroom, Zhu Guang was waiting outside, looking at the two of them. The man bowed and said: "Two gentlemen, my young master has set up a banquet in the living room and will vacuum the house for you two."

When the two heard this, they happened to go over to ask their questions.