The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 48 Partridge (2)

I was caught off guard, turned around suddenly, and shouted, "Why did you close the door?"

"You are here." Qin Jian said solemnly.

"I know I'm here." I was a little anxious. "But how do I get out later?"

"Where are you going?" Qin Jian looked at me with strange eyes, "You just stay here and don't go anywhere."

"You...you dare to imprison me!" I was shocked and angry, and rushed over to shake the prison door.

"Didn't you come here with the letter yourself?" Qin Jian took out the letter from his pocket, shook it at me, and said slowly, "Everyone who comes with this letter will stay here .”

I was dumbfounded. It turned out that the content of the letter was to ask Qin Jian to imprison the sender!

After Qin Jian finished speaking, she stood there and looked at me with her head tilted for a while. I thought he would mock me for sending me to the door, but there was no such intention in his eyes, and there was a trace of respect instead.I couldn't understand more and more. He looked at me with respectful eyes, but put me in prison without any room for negotiation. What's the situation?
After he sent me into the cell, he even bowed slightly before turning around and leaving, and the person behind him naturally followed suit.I stood dumbfounded for a while in the prison, and didn't realize it for a long time. Could it be that the mysterious woman was the real culprit behind the tragedy of the Wei family, and that's why she designed me to send a letter here, so as to prevent me from investigating what happened back then?And what kind of prison is this, why are the people here waiting for Gu Yin's arrival?
I have no clue about these things, and I am confused.At this time, a voice behind him suddenly said: "You... are the patrol horse?"

"Ah?" The voice was low and hoarse. I turned around and saw a man sitting in the corner, not wearing prison uniform or anything like that.This is also the strange thing about this prison. Its prisoners neither wear the clothes of prisoners, nor do the guards wear the clothes of jailers.Everyone was dressed clean and tidy, which was quite different from the general prison.At this moment, I was still carrying a burden on my body, and I was dressed in a blue cloth bunt, looking like a patrolling horse.

"Another city patrol horse, hehe." The man murmured, and suddenly let out two chuckles. He didn't know whether it was my dignity that made him laugh, or the profession of city patrol horse made him feel ridiculous.

I felt a little unhappy, thinking that you are the emperor, and you are going to stare at me here, and was about to return a few haha, but when I was about to exit, my heart moved, and I suddenly asked: "Another one? Do you know me?" Gu Yin, do you know where he is?"

As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I felt a little regretful. This man has been in prison for an unknown number of years. If he wants to know where Gu Yin is, he may have to count his fingers.The man didn't take it seriously, he stood up from the corner and walked to me, saying, "You also know Guyin?"

I nodded, "I've been looking for him everywhere."

"It seems that there are quite a few people looking for him." The man sighed for no reason. I heard that he was also looking for Gu Yin, and I was wondering if I should tell him what a coincidence. At this time, the man said again: " Since you don't know where he is, how did you come here with his letter?"

"What, the letter I sent was written by Gu Yin?" I was stunned, and then hurriedly asked, "How do you know that the letter was written by him?"

"Because we used that letter to find Qin Jian by ourselves." The man said slowly, without a smile on his face, "Is it ridiculous? We are in prison here, but we all sent it to our door by ourselves. "

What he meant was that all the prisoners in this prison found Qin Jian with letters written by Gu Yin, and Qin Jian put them all in prison and refused to let them leave.However, why did they come to Qin Jian with Gu Yin's letter, and why did Gu Yin ask Qin Jian to keep all the senders behind?
I asked these questions, and the man seemed to have heard it, but he didn't seem to hear it, he didn't say a word, and didn't answer.When I saw this, I couldn't help being a little devastated. The people in this prison are all virtuous, whether guards or prisoners, as long as they don't want to answer, they can ignore your words, and I don't know whether they are cultivating collectively or individually.

I was a little irritable by them, so I had no choice but to go to another corner where the quilt was spread, put down the burden on my body, and sat down.Seeing that I didn't speak, the man said by himself, "You came just in time."

"Just what?" I asked him casually, not expecting him to say anything.

"It happens to be haunted." The man said, "The cell is haunted, do you know?"

"I know, didn't I see you just after I came in?" I casually sarcastically said to him.

The man obviously didn't react, and asked me, "What do you mean?"

I looked at him suspiciously, and I didn't know if he really didn't hear me scolding him or pretended to be confused with me, so I replied vaguely: "It's nothing."

The man was stunned for a while, and then said: "Then don't sleep to death at night, that ghost will walk through each cell one by one."

I listened to his serious nonsense, and I didn't bother to pay attention to him. I happened to be tired and sleepy after a day's journey, so I fell headfirst on the bedding, thinking in my heart, I don't know when to eat, and I hope I don't eat too badly.It was already afternoon when I came, and the sky darkened quickly after a short while. Torches were lit in the cell for lighting, and guards came to distribute food from room to room. , there are meat and vegetables, and half a chicken.

I walked over to the prison door, reached out to bring in the dinner from the floor outside, and helped the man in the same prison to take it, the man nodded to me to thank me, and after taking it, he ate it in a gentle manner, seeing how he was eating. Knowing that he must have been a cultivated person in the past.

"Are you also this kind of meat and vegetables on weekdays?" I asked him, "It's so remote here, isn't it not easy to go out and do some shopping?"

The man carefully squeezed a grain of rice into his mouth, and said in a low voice: "This is a military camp. There is land behind the camp where you can grow fruits and vegetables, and you can also raise poultry and livestock. You can be self-sufficient. You only need to go out every six months. Just buy food once. But with so many people eating, there is a huge amount of food for half a year, so every time you go out to buy food, you need a lot of people."

When I heard the words, I suddenly realized, no wonder I didn’t see many guards when I came here. It must be the shopping season, so most of the guards have gone out.

"What kind of prison is this, and what does it have to do with Guyin?" It was rare for him to speak, so I hurriedly asked him.

"What does it have to do with him?" The man slowly chewed the food in his mouth, and then swallowed it, and I couldn't help swallowing with him. "In the 15th year of the Republic of China, the Nationalist Government launched the Northern Expedition with the intention of unifying the country. But in fact, fighting is a chaotic world. In a chaotic world, human lives are as cheap as grass dogs, and a large number of intellectuals are displaced. At this time, someone told us that they could escort us to Nanjing. , so each of us found here with his letter, and we just waited for everyone to arrive and set off together. Unexpectedly, when we got here, the person did not show up, and the person who was originally responsible for escorting us became Jailer, imprison us here for a full ten years!"

Ten years ago, Gu Yin found these people in the war and promised to bring them to Nanjing safely, but in the end he never showed up.The people he arranged here imprisoned these people and did not allow them to leave.It sounded as if Gu Yin deliberately tricked them here.

I couldn't help being a little dazed. Originally, I heard from Bu Ying that people like Gu Yin have been running to save the country and the people, and Gu Yin has been investigating the Wei family's affairs, so I subconsciously thought he would not be a bad person, but It is not something a good person would do to deceive so many people into being imprisoned here.

The letter I sent must have been left by him back then, but somehow it fell into the hands of that mysterious woman. As a result, I sent the letter and sent myself to prison.It wasn't until then that I panicked. These people have been imprisoned here for ten years. Do I have to stay here for ten years?

When I think of this, I can't help but shudder.The man glanced at me, seemed to see through my thoughts, and suddenly said, "You're lucky."

This person looks like a good person, but he can't say anything good. This is good luck, so what is it that he stayed here for ten years?I replied to him feebly: "I would like to borrow your good words."

The man smiled slightly, but looked at the opposite cell, and said faintly: "The cell is haunted."

This is the second time he talked about it, and I couldn't help but get curious, so I pulled myself together and asked, "Is the cell really haunted?"

"Really." He pointed to the opposite cell, and said word by word, "Every day at midnight, that ghost would pass through the wall, walk through every cell, and finally disappear at the end of the wall."

What he said was serious, but I was skeptical and asked, "What is it going to do?"

"Every time it appears, it will take away one person." He turned his face and said to me, "Since last night, it has taken away one person."

"Someone was really taken away?" I couldn't help but get a chill on my back.

"A big living person just disappeared out of thin air, are you telling me it's true?" He asked back.

The hairs on my body stood upside down, and I looked around in horror, lest that ghost was peeping in any corner.Seeing this, the man comforted me and said, "Don't worry, it's just getting dark now, and it won't come out until midnight."

I thought to myself, is this considered comforting? Could it be that ghosts that come out in the middle of the night can’t scare people to death?The man ignored me, but slowly ate all the food on the plate.When I saw this, I immediately turned my heart around, thinking that if it was me who was unlucky, then I couldn't be a starving ghost, so I ate all the things on my plate.

The man boasted: "Okay, a porridge and a meal, it's hard to come by."

I almost choked myself to death when I heard the words. It turned out that he was not afraid of being a starving ghost, but because of family training.When I was in the Wenling Wen family, I also received this kind of family training since I was a child. When I heard him mention it at this time, I couldn't help but think of the Wen family who was buried in the landslide.I grew up there, and always regarded it as a writer, and Mrs. Wen as a relative, but I could never go back to that place, and I would never see that person again. Every time I think of this place, my heart feels uncomfortable.

Seeing that my mood suddenly became depressed, the man looked at me twice more, came over and collected all my plates, and put them outside the cell door. After a while, a guard came and took the plates away.We were speechless for a while, and we were all silently thinking about our own thoughts. After a while, I realized that I still didn't know his name, so I asked him.

"Gu Yue." The man didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't answer for a long time. Just when I thought he was going to turn a deaf ear to me again, he suddenly spoke.

I also said my name, and neither of us had anything to say. I was a little tired after driving for a day, and I tend to get sleepy in such a silent environment, so I got a little confused, but I kept thinking about the haunting that Gu Yue said , The upper and lower eyelids kept fighting, but they refused to shake hands and make peace.

I persisted like this until midnight, when suddenly a spark exploded from the torch on the wall, I jumped up from the quilt, my teeth chattered, and asked Gu Yue: "Is the ghost here?"

(End of this chapter)