The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 59 Partridge (13)

"Do you think I have faith?" Qin Jian opened his eyes and looked at me with a pleading look in his eyes.

In fact, he is also ignorant of the so-called "belief", but because he trusts Gu Yin, he feels that he should have such a thing, so he sticks to it for ten years.Honorable?Of course respectable!Sad?So sad!

I just felt that my throat was blocked by something, and I couldn't say anything. I could only look into his eyes and nodded vigorously.Seeing me nodding, Qin Jian seemed to have just let go of the stone that had weighed on her heart for ten years, her eyes began to loosen, and her words became irrelevant.

He said softly: ""Partridge Flying"...it sounds so good, I can't play it as well as him...Why did they kill me? Why?"

He spoke intermittently, but I could hear the hairs all over my body stand on end.It turns out that "Partridge Flying" has not been played by the brocade flute, but by Qin Jian.The song that gave Gu Yue the courage to continue living was played by the warden who guarded him!

I was so shocked by the news for a moment, my mind went blank, and I asked in a daze, "You played "Partridge Flying". Why did you play this piece?"

"This song was taught to me by Gu Yin. He said that his family has been practicing rhythm for generations." Qin Jian suddenly regained consciousness.I know that this is his last flashback. "I was short-tempered at that time. He told me that when I felt that I was about to lose control, I would play the song "Partridge Flying". I had already forgotten about it when I got here, but one day, a female prisoner suddenly Asking me to give her a piece of bamboo to make a bamboo flute, I just remembered this again."

Gu Yue once told me about this, that the female prisoner who asked for the bamboo flute was the brocade flute, and that's why he believed that "Partridge Flying" was played by the brocade flute.Qin Jian was already struggling to say this, but panting and struggling, she said to me, "Gu Yin left here ten years ago to find out something, but I don't know what it is."

He still told me about Gu Yin's departure back then, and I nodded, and I already understood what he said.Presumably Gu Yin left here to investigate the tragedy of the Wei family just because he got some clues.And precisely because of what he found, he never came back here, and he failed to fulfill his promise to Mrs. Wen, returning to Wen's house and telling me the truth of the year.

"Can you tell me where he went when he left here?" Qin Jian was already dead, but I still asked him.

"In my drawer, there is a letter," Qin Jian said intermittently, "You send this letter to Hushan, to a man named Hu Xiaotian. That's when Guyin went..." The words didn't finish , he tilted his head and died, his eyes still looking straight at me.

I stretched out my hand to help him close his eyes, his chest felt as if he had been punched in the face, and he was so stuffy that he panicked.The surroundings were still shouting and shouting, I turned around and sat next to Qin Jian's corpse, I just felt that the scene in front of me was so ridiculous.The prisoner doesn't know why he is a prisoner, and the jailer doesn't know why he is a jailer, but here they are fighting each other.I couldn't help laughing absent-mindedly, is there anything more absurd than this in this world?
The fighting gradually began to end. Although there were more prisoners than the guards, most of them were frail scholars. Where were the opponents of these bandit-born guards? Although they did not use guns, everyone was gradually driven into the male prison cell.

I got up from the ground, not knowing where to go, so I walked towards the cell.The guards were a little surprised when they saw that I took the initiative to walk into the cell. They knew that I was actually Qin Jian's guest.I stood at the door and said to them: "Qin Jian is dead, there is no need for this prison to exist anymore."

All the guards looked at me blankly, one of them hesitated and asked, "But where can we go and what can we do?"

Yeah, where can they go and what can they do if the prison is gone?Go back to being a bandit again?

I was also at a loss and didn't know how to answer them, so I turned around and continued walking into the cell.Everyone went in except the dead and wounded prisoners.After experiencing this failed prison escape, the prisoners were all downcast, and could no longer have the courage to resist, so they just stood on the passageway of the cell, and the passageway was packed to the brim.No one spoke, and a depressed atmosphere occupied the entire cell.

I walked through the crowd and came to the side of Gu Yue behind the crowd, and Jin Di lay beside him with unknown life or death.Gu Yue sat on the ground with a gray complexion, her eyes glazed over, she didn't raise her head when she heard someone approaching, but after the initial madness, she had already calmed down.I also sat down beside him, and after a long silence, I said, "Four people died and countless injuries were made, but they still didn't escape. Is it worth it?"

"Is it worth it?" Gu Yue looked indifferent, "They would rather die than stay here any longer, do you think it's worth it?"

"You admit that they were dead and not taken by ghosts?" I asked him.

"I know you will see through this matter sooner or later," Gu Yue said indifferently, without any emotion in her voice, "That's why I made you think about it."

When I heard the words, I suddenly realized that it turned out that Gu Yue deliberately arranged to divert my eyes twice to prevent me from seeing which cell the person who was about to disappear entered, and the purpose was to make me think in that direction.I was really fooled, thinking that Wu You was not in my cell at the time, and I called Qin Jian to expose the matter, but Wu You was in the cell without incident, which made me blush, and from then on I thought I was wrong. Never thought about it again.

But in fact I was right in everything I speculated, except that one of the prisoners could pick the lock.This is also the reason why this person can not participate in the draw, because he must be used in the whole plan, and he cannot be allowed to die.I originally thought that in this plan, the selected people need to hide in other cells when they enter the cell, but in fact they don't need it at all, because they only need that "mouse whisker" to hide their cells when I'm not paying attention. Once the cell door is open, go to another cell.

The truth of the matter is ridiculously simple.The reason why Wu You and the others disappeared without a trace in the cell was not because they were taken away by ghosts, but because they were not in their cell—they died in other cells and were buried in the soil.

The process of things is probably like this: when the prisoners enter the cell gate, they all go back to their respective cells.Then after the gate is closed, "Mouse Beard" will open the cell door of the person who was selected during the long-short time, allowing him to enter an adjacent cell.Then several people dug a hole in this cell together, buried the selected person in it, filled it with soil and restored it to its original state.As for tools, presumably the bed board in the cell can serve as a tool.

When it was dawn, Qin Jian and the others entered the cell and found that the person had disappeared. Even if they dug three feet into the cell of that person, they would not find any trace.They don't know the truth, so naturally they won't dig the ground of other cells, so they will naturally feel that people have disappeared from the cell.In fact, four corpses are being buried in the prison cell now, they are four people who were buried alive!

As for the ghost I saw passing through the wall, it was also dressed up by the prisoners in those cells at that time.The white shadow didn't go through the wall at all, but the prisoners in one cell put on white clothes, walked around where I could see, and then went to places I couldn't see. If the prisoner walked out of my blind spot again, I would think it was the ghost from the cell in front coming through the wall.

In fact, it was nothing more than different people in white clothes appearing in front of me in turn.The "Old Yao" who was following the "ghost shadow" at that time was not Lao Yao at all, but was just pretended by a prisoner in the same cell.In the atmosphere at that time, as long as someone pretended to be taken away by a ghost, how could I doubt all of this?
As for Lao Yao, I believe he had already been buried in the soil at that time.The so-called ghosts will only appear at midnight, but they are used to deceive Qin Jian and me. Let us focus on this time, so that we can relax our observation of the cell at other times.

Wu You's disappearance is because I fell for this trick and didn't stare at his cell until almost midnight, and he had been buried long before that.I don't know what kind of mood they felt when they were lying in that cold pit, letting handfuls of dirt fall on their faces, and how much courage it took to try their best to keep silent.When I think of this, my heart is twitching one after another.

Gu Yue obviously didn't intend to discuss the truth with me, and I still had doubts in my heart, so I had to ask him myself: "Wu You never participated in the contest, why did he keep saying that he deserved to die and then participated in it?"

"He deserved to die." Gu Yue said casually, absent-mindedly, "He was originally a son of a rich family, and his family arranged a marriage for him, but he was influenced by the new trend of thought and wanted to be a free person. His untrained The wife is a reasonable person, and she told him that if he doesn't want this marriage, then the two families can negotiate to dissolve the marriage."

"What happened later?" I saw him suddenly talking about Wu You's old affairs, and I thought that probably Wu You didn't break off the engagement with that woman, so he ran away secretly.This matter is related to a woman's life, and it is really too much to just run away like this.

"Later?" Gu Yue suddenly sneered, his words were full of disdain, "Later he lied to his fiancée that he was not dissatisfied with her and reassured her, but he secretly went to the newspaper office to report that he broke off the engagement with her. This matter It was a sensation at the time, and his fiancée couldn't bear the humiliation, and finally ran to his door and hanged herself in protest."

He was clearly willing to negotiate with him to terminate the engagement, but he insisted on deceiving him, and even published the matter in the newspaper, which is really too deceitful. I was filled with righteous indignation and a little strange, and asked: "Is his fiancée not the same?" If he refuses to dissolve the engagement, why does he insist on doing so?"

"Why?" Gu Yue spit to the side, "At that time, he made a large number of friends who were influenced by new ideas. He wanted to show off and show off his style, so everyone must know that he refused to submit to the family's arrangements. , a free man."

I was dumbfounded when I heard that, and after a long while I said: "The new trend of thought teaches everyone to be free people, but it doesn't instigate him to bully others, right?"

"It's just because he is stupid, what has it to do with the new trend of thought?"

I thought so too, this matter is indeed only related to people, and has nothing to do with any thought.I understand why Wu You said that he should have died a long time ago. He must have never thought of such serious consequences when he did that thing at the time. He has been living in guilt all these years, which is why he lost his mind. question.

But although he blamed himself for so many years, he didn't show it, why did he suddenly say that he deserved to die these few days?My heart moved, and I asked Gu Yue: "You deliberately mentioned this to him to stimulate him to participate in the game, right?"

"Yes." Gu Yue replied casually, still casually.

"No." I stared at him and said, "Wu You suddenly said that he deserved to die. It was when we were just out of the cell yesterday, and at that time we were all isolated by Qin Jian, and you had no time to stimulate him. It wasn't you, it was Another person is provoking Wu You, who is this person?"

(End of this chapter)