The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 50 Partridge (4)

Gu Yue and Jin Di chatted for a while at the fence, and somehow they all seemed to me, maybe because I was new here, Gu Yue took it as something new and told her about it.I met Jindi's eyes and smiled at her.She also smiled at me, showing a mouthful of white teeth, which is obviously an ordinary beauty, but this smile has a taste of overwhelming the country, I couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

Jindi talked to Gu Yue for a while, and then went back to her own open space. Several female prisoners came up and hugged her, which showed that she was very popular.After Gu Yue came back from the fence, she went to the corner and sat down. Seeing this, several male prisoners also surrounded her.I saw them all gathered together, and I also gathered around to watch the fun.

Several onlookers glanced at me, but said nothing.Gu Yue glanced around the crowd, and took out a handful of small bamboo branches from his pocket, which must have been broken off from a broom, then raised his hand in the air, and said solemnly, "Come on."

I was a little surprised, it turned out that these people gathered here to cheat.I tugged on Lao Yao's sleeve and asked, "What are you guys trying to do?"

"Gambling." Lao Yao grinned at me.

"What are you gambling?"

"If you have anything, bet on it." He said, went up and took a bamboo stick from Gu Yue's hand.I saw that the bamboo branch was obviously shorter than the others, and he won the lottery.

Lao Yao tilted his head and looked at the bamboo branch in his hand, as if he didn't know what he was holding, he smiled after a while and said: "I lost."

The others didn't speak either, just staring at him blankly.Lao Yao bit the bamboo branch in his mouth, nodded to them, then turned around and walked away, he didn't take out the lost things to compensate them, and they didn't even ask.I thought it was the same, this group of people are trapped here, what can they lose, they just hang out together to relieve boredom.

After these people finished drawing long and short, they walked away in twos and threes.I didn't know what to do for a moment, so I sat in the corner with Gu Yue, but my eyes followed Lao Yao, watching him staggering to find a place by himself, the hen saw him sitting down, cooed and pecked at him hands.

Lao Yao spread his hand and let it peck at his hand.The hen pecked for a while, but found that she had eaten nothing, so she flapped her wings and walked away in protest.Lao Yao just watched it go away, and suddenly grinned as he thought of something.At this time, among those who participated in the long-term smoking just now, some people came up to him from time to time and handed him a crumpled cigarette.Lao Yao never refused anyone who came, he accepted them one by one, and then he smoked one cigarette after another alone, puffing on the clouds.

This place is almost isolated from the outside world. One can imagine how much effort it takes to get these cigarettes here, but Lao Yao lost by smoking long and short, but they gave him the hard-won cigarettes. Could it be that they smoked long and short to win? ?But just now old Yao Mingming said that he lost.

I looked at them strangely, I couldn't figure out what was strange about it for a moment, I wanted to ask Gu Yue, but after glancing at him, I shut up knowingly.Lao Yao's eyes looked indifferent in the smoke, but there was a hint of wisdom in his indifference.No one went up to disturb him, and the whole morning passed like this.

Lunch was eaten in the first row of rooms, and the two rooms were opened up as a dining hall, with simple tables and chairs.I lined up with everyone to get a meal from the kitchen stove, and sat at a table with Gu Yue.They ate chicken for lunch. They must have killed a chicken at noon, but the meat was small and there were many people. Almost everyone got only a small piece.

I was secretly surprised. Although I have only been here for less than a day, I have already discovered that although this place is called a prison, the prison actually treats the prisoners very well. Not only are there meat and vegetables for every meal, but the guards never sleep Cursing and scolding prisoners, it can be said that apart from restricting their personal freedom, this place is really not like a prison at all.

It was very strange.I sat down at the table and was about to start eating when Gu Yue, who was sitting next to me, suddenly stood up, walked up to Lao Yao, and put my piece of chicken on his plate.Following his action, almost everyone stood up, walked over and gave Lao Yao their piece of chicken.

Lao Yao's plate was quickly filled with chicken. Seeing this, I quickly stood up and was about to walk over when Gu Yue pulled me and said flatly, "You don't need it."

At this time, Qin Jian came in from the outside, found out about this, walked over and stood in front of Lao Yao, and asked quietly, "What's going on?"

Lao Yao picked up a piece of chicken on the plate with his chopsticks, held it up in front of his eyes for a long time, and suddenly laughed out loud: "No matter how cooked the chicken is, it can't be recognized after being divided into so many pieces."

It turned out that this chicken turned out to be the one he fed in the morning, and it dawned on me, no wonder everyone didn’t eat it.Qin Jian probably also knew that he used to feed that chicken. He frowned slightly after hearing this, and was about to walk over to ask the guard why he chose that chicken to kill, when Lao Yao took the piece of chicken in his hand. I stuffed it into my mouth and chewed it with gusto.

Seeing this, Qin Jian stopped in her tracks and stood there wondering what to do. After a while, she continued to walk towards the kitchen stove, took her own meal, and sat in another place separated from the prisoners. I ate alone - this is also the strange thing about this prison, all guards and prisoners eat the same meal.

Lao Yao ate the chicken piece by piece, and Qin Jian also ate his own meal in an orderly manner.After eating, everyone went to wash their dishes and put them in a big wooden bucket. I sat there without moving, wanting to wait for everyone to finish washing before going there.

Qin Jian also sat there without moving. After a while, she suddenly walked towards me and said to me, "Come with me."

I glanced at Gu Yue, Gu Yue smiled strangely, but didn't speak, but got up straight to wash the dishes.I had no choice but to follow Qin Jian out of the dining hall and went to the room where I saw him when I first came last night.

The room was still so dark, Qin Jian sat back at the table, and immediately became one with the room, as if he was the soul of the room, and he just went out to have a meal just now.I didn't know what he wanted me to do, so I quietly waited for him to speak.Unexpectedly, after a long time, he still had no intention of speaking, so I had no choice but to ask him, "What do you want me for?"

"The cell is haunted." Qin Jian was silent for a while before finally speaking.

This was the third person who mentioned this to me, and I was taken aback: "So what they said is true!"

Qin Jian nodded: "One person has already been taken away by the ghost."

"Are you sure it's a ghost?" I said, "Why do you all say that?"

"Because the number of people is counted before entering the prison every day. We counted the number of people that night and everyone went in. But when the door was opened the next day, that person disappeared. Everyone in the cell said that they saw A ghost walked through each cell one by one, and then chose that person, led him through the wall and disappeared." Qin Jian said in a low voice, without any fluctuation in his voice, as if saying that a weasel stole A chicken is taken instead of a ghost taking a person.

What he said was similar to what Gu Yue told me, it seems that the haunting in the cell is indeed true.My back felt a little chilly, and I asked him, "Are you sure that person disappeared?"

"The entire prison cell was searched. We even dug three feet into the room where he was, but we didn't find any trace of him—people don't just disappear out of thin air."

"Then what do you want me to do? I can only deliver letters, but not catch ghosts."

Qin Jian was silent for a while, "Gu Yin didn't ask you to send that letter. It's been more than ten years, and he won't send it again."

"I don't even know who sent the letter..." I said.

"So, I don't want to keep you here either." Qin Jian interrupted me before I finished speaking.

I was taken aback, "Are you going to let me go?"

Qin Jian didn't speak, and it took a long time before he said slowly: "I want to ask you to do me a favor."

"what?"

"Help me find out what happened in the cell, so as to avoid such things from happening again in the future." Qin Jian said, "We sent someone to guard the cell all night, but nothing happened in the cell that night."

I suddenly realized that it turned out that he had this idea, so he put me in prison without saying a word. "But I was in the cell last night, and nothing happened."

"That's different. You were a newcomer last night. Maybe when you really become a part of them, you will see many things." Qin Jian said, "Don't worry, as long as I find out about this matter, I will let you go." left."

"Then if you can't find out, are you going to imprison me for the rest of your life just like imprisoning them?"

"You are not them. Whether you find out or not, as long as you want to leave, I will not stop you."

"Then why did you imprison them?" I asked back.

Qin Jian seemed to be caught by my question, opened her mouth slightly, and didn't know how to answer for a while, and said after a while: "I was entrusted by someone."

It really was Gu Yin's idea to imprison these people here!

Qin Jian glanced at me and said, "Are you also looking for Gu Yin?" She paused, "You can leave now, but if you stay to help me, I will tell you where to find Gu Yin .”

I snorted: "If you knew where he was, you wouldn't have been waiting for him here for ten years."

"Of course I don't know where he is now, but I can tell you where he went after he left here ten years ago."

I cheered up. Gu Yin was a key figure in the Wei family tragedy, and he might have found out the truth. If we knew his whereabouts ten years ago, we would naturally be able to track down his whereabouts.This matter is too important to me, so I agreed straight away: "Okay, I will help you."

Qin Jian was not excited when he heard the words, but said slowly: "Okay. Have you noticed that they are cheating?"

I nodded, "Lao Yao got the shortest bamboo stick. He said he lost, but everyone gave him all their cigarettes instead. Why, is there anything wrong with this?"

"And at lunch, everyone gave him what they had on their plate. They were making it up to him."

I was surprised when I heard this, it turned out that this was also part of the bet, but why did the winner have to compensate the loser?
"Before that person was taken away by the ghost, he also had a fight with them. He was also the one who lost and everyone gave him compensation. In the middle of the night, he was taken away by the ghost."

I felt chills all over my body, and I almost cried out: "They are trying to decide who is taken away by the ghost!"

Qin Jian nodded calmly, "I suspect that they have reached an agreement with that ghost, and they will draw lots to decide who will be taken away."

(End of this chapter)