The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 54 Partridge (8)

I had no choice but to walk out of his room, to the open space, and saw Wu You honestly looking up at the sky, murmuring.A few guards were scattered on both sides of the male and female prisoners. I counted them, and those who went out to buy food were not counted. There were eight guards in total, including Qin Jian, nine of them were all armed.

There were about five or sixty prisoners. I found a place to sit down and counted the heads there, not including me. There were 60 male prisoners and 48 female prisoners. people, a total of 12 people.I was idle and thought to myself, if the remaining 63 people want to escape here, they must do it hard, because the nine gunmen can completely control them.But if there were only two or three guards, it was entirely possible for the sixty men to surprise them and flee.

But how could Qin Jian only leave two or three guards here?

I pushed this thought out of my mind, and my eyes chased the brocade flute on the side of the female prisoner.She didn't have any abnormalities, but she was frightened just now, and she was sitting against the wall surrounded by several female prisoners, and she didn't seem to be in a very high mood.

But why would Wu You call her a ghost?Just thinking about it, someone suddenly said: "Wu You used to like brocade flute."

I turned my head and saw that Gu Yue sat beside me at some point, looking at the female prisoner, and said, "After a few years here, everyone started to break down. It was at this moment that Wu You asked The brocade flute is courting."

"Jindi rejected him," I suddenly realized, "so he has a grudge?"

"It's not really a grudge." Gu Yue still didn't look at me, "Maybe in his heart, he really thinks that Jindi is a ghost."

He said, and added, "He started to get a little confused, that's when Jin Di rejected him."

I nodded, this can explain why Wu You thinks that Jindi is a ghost.During that period of emptiest and most desperate days, originally Jindi could save him, but Jindi rejected him, which probably pushed him to despair faster.And in his despair, he subconsciously felt that it was all because of Jindi that he became like this.So after the ghost took the person away, he began to think that Jindi was a ghost again.

It's just a love-hate story.

Even so, Wu You has nothing to blame.In all fairness, if I was imprisoned in one place for ten years for no reason, I'm afraid I would blame others.In the final analysis, all of this was caused by Gu Yin and Qin Jian.

"Aren't you drawing long and short today?" I asked Gu Yin.

"No need to smoke today." He replied.

"No need to smoke?" I was a little surprised, "What do you mean, no one will be taken away tonight?"

"People have been taken away one after another, and you haven't seen anything strange in the past two nights. Do you think Qin Jian will let things go on like this?" Gu Yue said calmly.

I was at a loss for words for a while, but he really saw that I was helping Qin Jian to investigate this matter.Gu Yue's expression remained unchanged, she neither accused me nor said anything.I was a little embarrassed, and I had nothing to say: "Then what do you think Qin Jian will do next?"

"If you were Qin Jian, what would you do?" Gu Yue turned to look at me.

I thought about it carefully, Gu Yue has always been the leader of the past few days. If these prisoners really reached an agreement with the ghost, then the contact must be Gu Yue.If I were Qin Jian, I would isolate Gu Yue from these people and see how the situation develops.

"You will isolate me from others, right?" Gu Yue said.Seeing that he saw through my thoughts, I nodded.

Gu Yue smiled at me, "Qin Jian is a smart person."

I wondered what he meant by that, did it mean that Qin Jian would think of a better solution than me, or that Qin Jian would think the same as me?At night, after everyone entered the cell, Qin Jian brought someone to our cell and signaled Gu Yue to follow him.

It seems that I am still a smart person, and I can't help but feel relieved.But at this moment, something I didn't expect happened - after Gu Yue walked out of the cell, Qin Jian waved to me, signaling that I would go with him.I'm a little baffled, Qin Jianjian isolated Gu Yue, why did he take me there?
Qin Jian brought Gu Yue and me to the first row of houses, locked us in an empty room, locked the door, and left without saying a word.This row of houses was probably where the guards lived, so the windows were much larger than those of the second row of prisoners. At this time, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and standing in front of the window could just see half of the bright moon.

The moonlight covered the open space outside the window, and it seemed that it was still flowing all over the place.I stood by the window and looked at the bright moon for a while, and then I walked back to the bed.Gu Yue was already lying on the bed with her hands behind her head, not thinking about anything.He had expected that Qin Jian would detain him alone, but I didn't know that I would be treated the same way, so I didn't know what to say to him for a while.

After a while, maybe because the angle of the bright moon shifted, the moonlight actually sneaked in from the window, covering him softly, making him almost transparent.Gu Yue's expression was serene, and there was a strange sense of beauty when he looked at it. At this moment, he suddenly said: "That night, the moonlight shone into the cell very rarely."

"What night?" I asked him.He took out the toothbrush that had been worn into a triangular cone from his sleeve, and motioned to me.It dawned on me that he was talking about the night he was about to commit suicide.

"The moonlight that night was also so pleasant. Something too beautiful always hurts, because it will drag you into it and you can't get out. The moonlight is so beautiful that it's like urging people to die," Gu Yue leisurely recalled In the past, I was a little lost in thought, "I thought to myself, how nice it would be to die in such a moonlight."

I wondered what kind of argument this was, and Gu Yue said again, "The sound of the flute sounded at this time. It was jerky and frustrating. In fact, it was not good at all. But at the moment when the sound of the flute sounded, I couldn't help it." Stop crying. It is different from the moonlight, which is as beautiful as a murder weapon, and it is full of the breath of the world. I thought to myself, I am still alive, so don’t die.”

Just as he was speaking, a melodious flute sounded suddenly, quiet and distant, ethereal and profound, like moonlight condensed into silk, entangled around people eagerly to refuse.When the sound of the flute suddenly sounded, I was startled at first, and then I couldn't extricate myself from it. I only felt that the sound of the flute was clear and pleasant, without the jerky and frustrated feeling that Gu Yue said.

As soon as Gu Yue mentioned the sound of the flute, the sound of the flute rang, which was too coincidental.I looked at him inquiringly, and Gu Yue smiled slightly. Although the sound of the flute was a little jerky and frustrating, she closed her eyes and listened intoxicated. After a while, she said: "Whenever the moonlight shines into the cell, she I will play the song "Partridge Flying". I think it is because partridges can fly higher and farther under the moonlight."

It turned out to be the case.

I stopped talking and closed my eyes like Gu Yue, quietly letting the sound of the flute wash away the dust from my body, feeling refreshed and happy.Unexpectedly, when both of us were immersed in it, a shrill cry suddenly sounded, heart-piercing, and the sound of the flute stopped abruptly, as if we were frightened.

Gu Yue and I opened our eyes at the same time, I jumped up from the bed in a jerk, ran to the window and put my feet on my feet to look out, thinking that the ghost might have appeared again.But when the ghost took people away before, there was silence in the cell, why was there such a big commotion this time, besides, Gu Yue didn't let everyone flirt during the day.

Just thinking about it with some doubts, I saw Qin Jian hurried out of his room, fully dressed, I wondered if he never took off his clothes to sleep.Qin Jian walked to the cell, ordered the two guards to open the door and walked in, but walked out after a short while, as if nothing major had happened in the cell.

"What's the matter?" I asked him loudly through the window.

He came over and stopped in front of the window, and replied: "It's nothing, Wu You went to the wrong cell when he went in at night, and suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, so he yelled."

The guards will only count the number of prisoners when they enter the cell to ensure that everyone has entered, but they will not check the people in each room one by one, so the prisoners may walk through the rooms.

"Go to the wrong cell?" I was a little puzzled, "He has lived here for ten years, will he go to the wrong cell?"

"He has always been in a bad mood and often made mistakes." Qin Jian had a familiar expression, "It's late at night, please rest." Then she left from the window and walked straight into her room.

I also went back to the bed from the window. Gu Yue also heard the shout just now, but she was indifferent, still holding her hands behind her head, not knowing what to think.There was a movement in my heart, and I suddenly had a feeling that this cry was also in his expectation.

"Did you see Wu You go into the wrong cell?" I asked him.

"Yeah." He still didn't open his eyes.

"Then why didn't you remind him?"

"They're all in prison, does it matter which room they're in?"

I was speechless again, so I lay back on the bed.After being interrupted by the shout just now, the sound of the flute did not sound again.But after listening to the sound of the flute, I understand why Gu Yue can draw the courage to continue living from the sound of the flute.Listening to such a flute in such a moonlight really makes people feel peaceful, and feels that no amount of suffering can be endured.

I thought to myself, I don't know when I fell asleep.When I woke up in the morning, the sun was rising, the guard opened the door, and Gu Yue and I walked out, and we saw the brocade flute on the side of the female prisoner at a glance, probably because I heard her playing "Partridge Flying" last night. When I saw her, I suddenly felt that her eyes were bright, giving people hope like the rising sun.

Maybe I stared at her for a long time, she also noticed it, smiled calmly, and nodded to me.I thought to myself, how could she smile so peacefully in such an environment?

We came out later than everyone else, and when we came out, Wu You was walking back from the fence.The guard didn't control him, so he must not be looking for trouble, but he seemed to have said something to Jin Di.Jin Di looked calm, and I thought to myself, could it be that Wu You went to apologize to her?
After Gu Yue came out of the room, she walked towards Jindi, and the two talked through the fence as usual.I found Wu You while they were talking, and he also greeted the bird that flew past as usual. Today, for some reason, the bird dropped guano on him.Wu You stared blankly at the dirt on her body, but didn't clean it up.

He was still in a daze when I walked up to him, and I asked him, "Did you go to the wrong room last night?"

Wu You turned his head and glanced at me, it seemed that it took a long time to recognize me, and replied: "It's not that I went wrong."

I was a little surprised: "It's not you, who is that?"

"It's angry with me." Wu You murmured, "It won't pay attention to me anymore."

"Who?" At first I thought he was talking about the Jin Di, but it took me a long time to realize that he was talking about the bird that flew past, and I didn't know any grievances between them for a moment.

"I lied to it." Wu You raised his head and looked up at the sky, not feeling sore in his neck, "It should not talk to me anymore."

"What did you lie to it?" Anyway, I was bored, and I chatted with him casually. If someone was listening at this time, the expression on his face would be wonderful.

"I didn't do it on purpose." Wu You held his head in his hands in pain, "No, I did it on purpose. I deserve to die, it's right, I should have died a long time ago."

(End of this chapter)