The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 49 Partridge (3)

Gu Yue looked back at me on the bed and said, "Go to sleep. The ghost won't come tonight."

I opened my mouth wide: "What do you mean?"

Gu Yue turned over and lay down on her back, "There's a new guest, it won't come."

I was a little confused: "Is that ghost afraid of life?"

Gu Yue didn't call me back, so I had no choice but to lie back on the bed again, but my eyes kept looking outside the prison door, muttering in my heart whether there was a ghost or not, it couldn't be that old boy Gu Yue who was teasing me.Even though I thought so, I still couldn't feel at ease in my heart. I just passed the night in a daze, and nothing happened. When I woke up the next day, I had two big dark circles under my eyes, as if I was hit in the face in the middle of the night. punch.

When I got up early in the morning, the guards came and released all the people in the cell. I followed them to the open space outside, and found that there was already a group of people moving around the fence, but they were all women. To separate male and female prisoners.

There was a large iron bucket in the open space on both sides, with porridge inside and bowls and chopsticks next to it. We lined up to get a bowl of porridge and a few pieces of pickles, each of us found a place to sit and drink.I sat next to Gu Yue, finished my porridge tastelessly, and asked him: "What do you usually do here?"

At this moment, I thought that if I couldn't go out all the time, since Bu Ying knew I was here, he would definitely come to find me, and the anxiety in my heart subsided, so my tone became calm.

"As long as you don't leave here, you can do whatever you want." Gu Yue replied to me.

I was startled, and looked at the guards at the four corners of the open space. They all looked solemn, but their faces were quite peaceful, far from the viciousness of ordinary jailers.If it's true what Gu Yue said, as long as you don't leave here, you can do whatever you want, then it's not bad to stay here.I thought so in my heart, and then I heard Gu Yue say quietly: "But what can we do if we don't leave here?"

I looked around and found that most of the prisoners were just like him, looking bored. After eating the porridge, they leaned against the corner of the wall to bask in the sun in twos and threes, not even bothering to move.There are a few others that are not quite right, one of them is actually holding an old hen in his arms, whispering there, I don't know what opinions he is exchanging.Another person was looking up at the sky, greeting a bird passing by in the sky, with an affectionate tone as if the one flying past was his son and daughter.

I'm afraid these people have some problems with their minds.I felt hairy in my heart, Gu Yue saw my eyes straightened, and said calmly: "If you stay here for ten years, you won't perform better than them."

Only then did I realize that staying in a closed place for a long time would be such a torment to people, I couldn't help shivering, and secretly prayed that Buying would find out that I didn't go out from here earlier and come to me sooner.In comparison, except for the occasional selective deafness, Gu Yue's performance is already the best among these people.

"They are more or less abnormal, what about you, how did you survive these ten years?" I couldn't help asking him.

"How did you survive?" Gu Yue slowly repeated my words, and then smiled strangely at me. I felt a shudder on my back, thinking that he also had some special hobbies that are not known to outsiders. When he turned it over, he found something out of his sleeve.

This thing is a long strip with a flat top and a tuft of hair on it. It turned out to be a bone toothbrush.It's just that the handle of the toothbrush has been ground into the shape of a triangular cone, with a sharp end, presumably it can easily penetrate the human body.I was taken aback. It turned out that he turned this toothbrush into a murder weapon, but—whom did he want to kill?

"If you want a toothbrush to kill people, you can't grind the handle flat and thin, otherwise it will be easily broken when piercing into the human body. It must be ground into a triangular cone, which not only ensures sharpness, but also is not easy to break." Gu Yue actually said carefully Explained the toothbrush killing method to me, and I stared at him dumbfounded. It turned out that he just looked normal, but in fact he liked to stab someone with a toothbrush.

When I thought that I actually stayed with him all night, I couldn't help but break out in cold sweat.Gu Yue glanced at me, then suddenly pointed the handle of the toothbrush at her heart, and pressed down hard, I screamed, causing several guards in the distance to look at me.Gu Yue put the toothbrush down and pressed it against her chest, then covered it with her hands, and grinned at them, and they turned their heads away again, ignoring this side.

"As long as you're determined enough, poke the handle of the toothbrush here." Gu Yue closed her eyes and took a deep breath, as if she could smell the smell of freedom, "No one can stop you, you can go wherever you want. "

I was horrified when I heard it, and then suddenly realized that the purpose of his sharpening this toothbrush was to commit suicide, not to give it to anyone.This idea must have sprouted when he felt that he couldn't hold on, but he didn't know why he didn't put it into action in the end.

"Are you wondering why I didn't die in the end?" Gu Yue looked at me with an inexplicable look in her eyes, "Originally, I decided to stab the toothbrush down that night, but just now At that time, I heard the sound of the flute."

"Flute sound?" I didn't understand what he was saying.

"Yes, the sound of the flute is playing "Partridge Flying." Gu Yin recalled the past that night, with an intoxicated expression on his face, "The sound of the flute sounded so suddenly, as if it was specially made for Come to save me." Gu Yue said, tears streaming down her face suddenly, "I know it is telling me that the partridge will fly out, and I also told it that the partridge will fly out. So I put down my hand Toothbrush, I don’t want to die anymore.”

His mood fluctuated a little, and I listened silently. Although I couldn't empathize with him, I understood.When people fall into despair, once they find some sustenance, they will renew their hope.

"Then do you know who blew that 'Partridge Flying'?" I asked him.

"I know." Gu Yue told me that in those days when he was secretly grinding the handle of his toothbrush, one day, one of the female prisoners on the other side of the fence suddenly ran to the edge of the fence, pointed to a clump of bamboo behind the prison and said to the guard, Can you give her a section of bamboo to make a flute.The guard hesitated for a moment, went to ask Qin Jian for instructions, but came back and refused her.

He witnessed this scene at the time and looked at the disappointed expression on the female prisoner's face.He thought to himself, there is no hope, there is no need to hold on anymore, go to die, it is better to die than to stay here.That night, he was about to stab the toothbrush in through his heart, but at that moment, the sound of "Partridge Flying" sounded like a ghost in the prison.He was crying with joy at that time, he knew that Qin Jian finally agreed to the female prisoner and gave her the knot of bamboo.

"Do you think it's strange why a piece of music can give me the courage to live?" Gu Yue asked me, and then said to herself, "No, you won't understand. I have been influenced by my ears and eyes, and I have been living with melody since I was a child. Do you know what is the most uncomfortable thing for me in the past ten years?"

He pointed to his ear, "There is no music. Do you know how hard it is for me not to hear a melody for ten years? It's like a fish landed on the shore and can no longer be nourished by water, just like A bird has broken its wings and can no longer feel the vastness of the sky."

He spoke excitedly, and I reached out and patted the back of his hand to express my understanding.Gu Yue smiled at me, and murmured: "The partridge will fly out - I went to her the next day and told her this."

"The partridge will fly out." I echoed him.

"You're lucky—the cell is haunted." This was the third time he talked about it, and I finally couldn't hold back and asked him, "The cell is haunted. What does it have to do with my luck?"

"Because ghosts can pass through walls, they can take you out of here." Gu Yue said solemnly.

I was choked by him again, what kind of logic is this?To put it this way, if we all sit in a row and crash into death here one by one, we will be able to ascend to heaven immediately, and everyone is really happy.I glanced at him suspiciously, suspecting that although he looked normal, he still had some mental problems.

After Gu Yue finished speaking, she closed her eyes and basked in the sun, and ignored me.I looked around, and the person who was holding the hen just now came to me at some point, and spread out the broken rice grains that he didn't know where to come from to feed the chicken.The hen was nodding her head once and for all, agreeing unconditionally to whatever he said.

I watched the chicken eating rice there for a long time, and I wanted to ask him if he would eat the eggs laid by this friend, but in the end I didn’t dare to ask.After the man finished feeding the chicken, he asked me out of the blue, "What's your surname?"

"Miangui, my surname is Wen." I hurriedly said my name, and then asked him about Gao's surname.

"They all call me Lao Yao." The man let go of the hen, allowing it to look for food elsewhere, but his eyes followed it all the way. "Do you think there is something wrong with my sanity?"

"Ah? No." I quickly denied it.But he smiled slightly, and said lightly: "It's okay. Don't you think it's very boring to stay in such a place for ten years and keep your mind awake?"

So you just go crazy?I secretly thought in my heart that I really couldn't keep up with these people's thinking.But judging by the way he speaks clearly, it really doesn't look like there is a problem with his mind.

"The most important thing is to have something to do." Old Yao said quietly, "If you don't want to go crazy, you have to try your best to find something to do for yourself, no matter what. Otherwise, you won't last three years here."

I thought about it carefully, and actually felt that what he said was very reasonable. For a while, I felt that not only was he insane, he was even considered a wise man, so I asked him: "Gu Yue said that the cell is haunted, is it true?"

"It's true. That ghost has already taken away a person." Lao Yao glanced at Gu Yue, and added, "You're lucky."

He also said I was lucky.I then asked him, "Why?"

"Because ghosts can lead you out of here." This answer was almost the same as Gu Yue's.I looked at him suspiciously, then at Gu Yue, these two people seemed to have problems with their minds, but at the same time they didn't, I couldn't tell what was going on with them for a moment.

Gu Yue didn't open her eyes when she was listening to us talking, but at this moment she opened them suddenly, and glanced at the fence.There was a female prisoner on the other side of the fence walking towards this side. She was about forty years old.

Seeing Gu Yue bouncing off the ground as if eating a spring, and trotting all the way towards the fence, I knew in my heart that this was probably the female prisoner that Gu Yue was talking about playing "Partridge Flying" .

"Her name is Jindi." Lao Yao followed my gaze and said, "Gu Yue survived because of her."

(End of this chapter)