"What kind of bullshit survival rules?" Feng Hai snorted, "You better tell me now."
Bai Jinchuan is not that kindhearted, if one more person knows, then it's one person more to compete with, "Ask Wang Mo. In the beginning, he didn't want to expose Xia Chuxue for the arson. He obviously didn't want it to be exposed so quickly, lest other people be on guard and take credit for it. Obviously, he knows about it."
Wang Mo wouldn't say it, so he didn't admit it, "How could I know? If you want to fight, just fight!"
"No, I won't." Bai Jinchuan lightly shook his folding fan, "We were all injured, and if the four of us kill each other, wouldn't this only benefit King An?"
Thinking that his words made sense, Wang Mo and Feng Hai no longer pointed their swords at Bai Jinchuan and Xia Chuxue, and they dispersed in different directions.
Yan Shuixin pretended to run towards the prison, but actually hid secretly behind the utility room. When no one paid attention, she picked up a bucket from the utility room, and quietly took it with her. As she passed by, she heard the conversations of a few people. She quickly went to the well behind the kitchen, leaned over the edge of the well first, and saw that the fish in the well water was still alive, so she quickly fetched half a bucket of water and walked back.
She is scared of being pursued and killed if she carries too much water, so half a barrel will be considerably faster to carry.
After turning back to the prison, she carefully passed the trap she had set and returned to the inner room connected to the jailer's duty room.
Xiao Yeheng was still lying unconscious on the bed.
She reached out to untie the straps on his waist and legs, took off his prosthetic limb, and covered him with a blanket.
It was very hot in June, and the quilt only covered his waist.
There are windows in the hall and the inner room of the duty room. Both windows are made of rectangular stone slabs, which are different from ordinary paper windows. They are probably used to prevent people from sneaking in.
To open the window, one has to push the stone slabs locked by the bolts.
Not wanting others to know about Xiao Yeheng's situation, she chose not to open the window.
The duty room was not dark either, because the sunlight came in through the cracks in the windows.
She had to digest the news she just heard. What kind of bullshit rules are there in this damn prison?
It seems that only Wang Mo, Xia Chuxue and Bai Jinchuan know about this rule.
What a frustrating thing.
She got up, walked to the stone window and stood there, looking through the crack in the window at the hospital room that had collapsed in the flames but was still burning in the distance. Tears welled up in her eyes.
It hurts so much!
There are memories of her life with Xiao Yeheng, and the leftover forty-eight catties of grain. There is also the stove that she and Xiao Yeheng made together...
the sweet potatoes that they baked together, she only ate half of them, and the other half hadn't been eaten yet.
There is also half a piece of bacon, her kitchen knife, firewood knife, and several clean prison clothes prepared...
All of them were burned away by the damn Xia Chuxue!
She didn't cry in front of Xiao Yeheng, but rather laughed, because she didn't want him to be uncomfortable.
After standing in a daze for a while, she sighed, moved a chair from the hall of the duty room. She walked back to the bed where Xiao Yeheng was lying, put the chair on the edge of the bed and sat down.
She guarded Xiao Yeheng quietly.
She hoped he can get better soon.
Yan Shuixin took the little bag beside her and spread it out. Inside were twelve rice cakes cooked with six catties of rice.
The rice is dried in the sun and is easy to store.
There is also a bag of soybeans weighing a pound wrapped in cloth.
Other than that, nothing else.
As for this dry food, she prepared it in advance thinking that she would escape from prison at any time.
Fearing that people would find out, she dug a hole under the bed in the side room of the former medical supervision room, and buried it in the soil.
Unexpectedly, it came in handy to save lives.
Without this ration, she and Xiao Yeheng would starve to death immediately.
The prison guard's duty room is suitable for temporary living, but the environment is not as good as that of the jailer's dormitory, and it is far away from the only well, so it is inconvenient to fetch water.
So, no one lived here before.
Yan Shuixin moved the bag of carbon from the interrogation room next door, as well as the brazier and soldering iron used for the torture, to the hall of the duty room, and moved the two long tables away.
Prepare this place as a temporary kitchen.
The weather was hot, and everyone in the prison had enough firewood to burn before, so this bag of carbon was not taken away by anyone.
It can be seen that other weapons and weapons such as daggers in the torture room were picked up in advance.
At night, Yan Shuixin was hungry and wanted to eat some dry rice cakes. After thinking about it, the rations were precious, so she decided not to eat.
At around ten o'clock in the evening, she felt Xiao Yeheng's pulse and knew that he was about to wake up.
Therefore, she took out a small bamboo tube the size of a thumb from her sleeve pocket, which had a fire folder inside.
She casually entered one of the long rows of cells, picked up three bowls used by the prisoners, and carried a pile of dry straw back to the duty room hall. She lit the straw in the brazier, and burned the carbon. A pot of charcoal fire was raised.
Burning charcoal in a closed environment can cause carbon monoxide poisoning. She left the doors between the inner room and the duty room open, although the wind could not blow in, the air was still circulating.
Because the open duty room door is connected to the two meter corridor of the large prison, turning a corner, it forms a long row of large prisons, with a small air window at the top of each prison wall.
There are more than one hundred windows in total, so it is impossible to get suffocated.
She took the three bowls she picked up, poured some water into the first bowl from the half bucket of water she brought, and washed the dishes.
Wash the second and third bowls repeatedly with the used water.
Save water as much as possible.
Place two of the bowls next to the ashes of the brazier, and let the burning coals roast the bowls.
She took two rice cakes, put them in two bowls, and mixed them with water.
Wait until the torch has heated the water and rice in the bowl, and then consume the dry rice after the water has softened it.
The last bowl is reserved for drinking water.
Xiao Yeheng was awakened by the smell of rice. He opened his eyes, and what he saw was a dark room, and he couldn't even see his fingers.
Struggling to sit up, he found that although he was so hungry that his hands and feet were weak, but the original serious injury was slightly better.
This is all thanks to Xin'er's healing pills.
He looked for Yan Shuixin at first glance, and was relieved to see her busy in the guard's duty room outside.
But, where did the charcoal brazier and rice come from? Isn't all the rations burned?
Yan Shuixin heard the movement, and immediately walked to the bedside, "My lord, you're awake."
He nodded his head slightly. The crutch was also buried in the sea of fire, so wanted to tie the prosthetic limb back to his left leg, but he couldn't reach it without walking.
Yan Shuixin didn't want him to put on the prosthesis now, "My lord, let me help you go."
He hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.
As a last resort, he leaned against her and walked on one right leg. With her help, he sat down on the chair in front of the brazier.
The hot rice was grilled on the side of the charcoal brazier. At this time, the water soaking the rice was boiling.
Yan Shuixin folded the cloth that was used as a bundle, wrapped the two hot rice bowls, and put them on the ground next to the brazier, "Wait until it cools down, then you can eat."
Xiao Yeheng looked through the window and saw the moonlight was deep outside, it was already midnight, "Xin'er, have you had dinner yet?"
'No, not really.' She thought so in her heart, but her head nodded, "I ate it."
"The food in the infirmary's kitchen is all burned out. Where did we get the rice?" He asked suspiciously.
"Didn't I tell you that there is a bag buried under the bed in the infirmary room, if we want to escape, we have to take it with us." She looked at him, "Haven't you checked it before?"
He shook his head and looked at her with heartache. "So, you ventured into the wing to get this. When I thought about the rice cakes you made, I thought they were also burned in the kitchen."
She was helpless, "Fortunately, it was hidden under the bed in the wing room. Otherwise, it would've been gone." Looking at him worriedly, "Your injury will last for at least seven or eight days, and these twelve rice biscuits in our hands can only last for three days if we're full. What should we do?"
"Three days later, this king's injury will be healed by half. After we run out, I will go grab some food." Xiao Yeheng said.
"Even if it's someone else's food, it won't last long."
He was silent.
The prison is full of death, and it seems that there is no chance of life for anyone.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng shared dozens of catties of grain at the beginning, but they didn't want to grow sweet potatoes or grain in the past, because they were afraid of being robbed. If you plant some sweet potatoes, it is estimated that the seedlings will be stolen and eaten before they grow up.
Now it was burned by a fire. The only luck was that she and Xiao Yeheng ate a full meal at the beginning, and they didn't save on rations.
If the six catties of rice and biscuits she rescued are done in three days, it will be her and Xiao Yeheng's time to steal some.
Yan Shuixin recounted what she overheard in the conversation between Xia Chuxue and Bai Jinchuan while fetching water.
Xiao Yeheng said distressedly, "Xin'er, don't take the risk of fetching water in the future." He glanced at the half bucket of water against the wall, "I'll figure out a way before we run out water."
"I want to work with you," she said, "I don't want to be separated from you for even a moment anymore."
"Okay." He nodded emotionally.
At this time, the two bowls of hot water soaked the rice had cooled slightly, Yan Shuixin used hard straw sticks to make chopsticks, and began to eat happily.
The dried rice is soft, but the taste is a bit bland, since there is no salt or sauce.
Seeing that Xiao Yeheng didn't move, she asked, "Husband, why don't you eat?"
He looked slightly embarrassed, "I'm so weak, I'm afraid I'd pick up the bowl and spill it." It never occurred to King An that he might one day be afraid of knocking over a bowl of rice.
And this bit of food was rescued by Xin'er at the risk of burning herself to death.
Yan Shuixin wanted to eat before feeding him, but she remembered that it was midnight and he hadn't eaten dinner, so she shared the warm rice in her bowl with him one bite at a time.
Xiao Yeheng reclined in his chair and let her feed him mouthfuls. He thought this simple rough food to be extremely delicious.
His bowl of rice was also shared by the two of them. She originally wanted him to eat more, but he didn't agree, so the two could share their food more evenly.
Glancing at the ten rice cakes spread on the table, Xiao Yeheng suddenly furrowed his brows and said, "Xin'er, you hadn't eaten dinner previously!"
"Why do you say that?"
He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You said that there are only twelve rice cakes in total, depending on the portion size, you cooked two just now. If you really had eaten dinner, there should only be nine left on the table, not ten. So, you were hungry while waiting for me to have dinner."
This man was too smart to be deceived, so she couldn't deny it, "There's not enough food, so it's okay to miss a meal."
Tears welled up in his eye, and he looked at her with heartache, "Xin'er, if you are like this, my heart hurts so much. I would rather not eat than you to be hungry."
She was also very moved and helpless, but had no choice but to negotiate. Before the remaining food was eaten, both of them had a full meal.
It was a bit cold in the middle of the night, Yan Shuixin sat by the brazier to warm herself, without feeling sleepy at all.
Xiao Yeheng wanted to sit cross legged on a chair, but the chair was not wide enough. Just when he was about to sit on the ground, Yan Shuixin brought him another chair to splice it together.
He sat on two chairs facing each other, and could sit cross legged.
He closed his eyes, calmed the mind, and let his true energy flow through his limbs, so that the injury will heal faster.
In the afternoon, Yan Shuixin had used needle and thread to sew a bamboo vest with the light coming in from the window. Now she wants to continue working, but the light from the brazier is not enough.
Not wanting to damage her eyes, she stroked the bamboo vest and didn't continue sewing. Fortunately, it was just a few pieces of bamboo cloth before, making Xia Chuxue think it was for a summer mat.
If she knew it was 'body armor', then it would have been snatched away.
She got up and went around the inner room, and took out a wooden washbasin under the bed. She had no idea which guard used it to wash their face or feet before.
However, she had put seven catties of soaked soybeans in the basin earlier, and they had been soaking for almost twelve hours.
Xiao Yeheng let the energy in his body circulate for a while, then opened his eyes and looked at her action inexplicably, "Is that soybeans?"
She had a mysterious expression, "Do you know about bean sprouts?"
"I've eaten it before."
"The soybeans have been soaked for enough time, and they are ready to sprout." She winked at him, "There's no food, we have to get some vegetables, right?"
He was puzzled, "Xin'er, why do you seem to know everything?"
"I'm a fairy haha." She joked. The simple task of growing bean sprouts was taught during her junior high school biology class.
"You are my fairy." He said solemnly.
Yan Shuixin smiled even more happily, "Thank you very much for your praise." She busily began tearing a piece of cloth in half, put half on the bottom of the wooden washbasin, put the soaked soybeans evenly on the cloth, and then cover with the other half of the cloth, "In this way, drizzle a little water every morning and evening, and place it in a cool place. In three days, you'll be able to eat the bean sprouts."
He gazed gently at her, his eyes filled with deep love.
The next day, while Xiao Yeheng was recuperating from his injuries, Yan Shuixin continued to make rice with hot water. She also divided the remaining soybeans into many portions, and grilled a few of them with charcoal fire for each meal. The roasted soybeans were added as an extra dish.
In her free time, she continued making bamboo vest, and finally finished Xiao Yeheng's one.
She happily let him take off the outer shirt and try it on, and when she found that it fit, she let him wear it inside.
In the evening, Bai Jinchuan quietly approached the outer wall of the prison guard's duty room. Yan Shuixin quietly opened half of the window, and threw a long knife directly at Bai Jinchuan.
Bai Jinchuan was almost hit, and backed away a few steps in shock. For a moment he couldn't tell whether the knife was thrown by Yan Shuixin, or Xiao Yeheng?
If it was the latter, could it be that Xiao Yeheng was not seriously injured? With that thought in mind, he didn't dare to take the liberty to kill anymore.
Xia Chuxue also wandered outside for a while, then retreated unwillingly.
Three days later, Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng ate up all their dried rice and three catties of soybeans, leaving only a basin of bean sprouts.
Fortunately, she also made her own bamboo vest and wore it under her coat.
And Xiao Yeheng's injury also healed by 60%. If he uses force again, his life will not be in danger.
The half bucket of drinking water was also depleted.
To avoid starvation, the two decided to go out and rob.
Xiao Yeheng walked steadily alongside Yan Shuixin, and the two walked to the open space outside the jailer's dormitory.
A flying arrow came from nowhere for a sneak attack, Xiao Yeheng grabbed the arrow with his hand without changing his face, and took off the cold iron arrow for later use.
Seeing this, Xia Chuxue, who had shot in the dark, turned pale with fright, and fled away.
Xiao Yeheng was worried about Yan Shuixin, so he didn't chase after her.
The two wandered around the rooms of the prison guard's dormitory, but found no one there, and they didn't find half a grain of food, but they found a piece of candle.
The other few people saw Xiao Yeheng leaving the prison from a distance and knew he would come to settle the accounts. They had already taken the remaining grain and ran away without a trace.
Yan Shuixin remembered that there was a live fish in the only well, and went to the well behind the communal kitchen, only to find that the live fish that was two fingers wide had disappeared.
She didn't know who caught it and ate it.
After fetching a bucket of well water and carefully identifying it, she found that the water was not poisonous. She took the bucket of water to the public bathroom to wash her hair and take a shower.
It's summer, and she hadn't washed in three days, so she was very dirty.
Xiao Yeheng was in charge of keeping watch, so she was not afraid of sneak attacks.
After she finished taking a shower and wiping her hair with a cloth, she used firewood as a pole, found two empty buckets in the prison. She carried two buckets of water, and returned to the duty room of the prison.
Xiao Yeheng was not allowed to help carry water because he was injured, and he was also afraid that his injury would be aggravated, and that he would not have the time to react when others attacked him.
As night fell and there was no food to eat, Yan Shuixin took out the fermented bean sprouts. She picked up more than half of them, boiled them in a bowl with water on a charcoal basin for a while, and shared them with Xiao Yeheng.
This could be considered a real meal.
She urged Xiao Yeheng to take a bath with one of the buckets of water.
Xiao Yeheng followed her advice and went to one of the cells to take a shower. For the sake of safety, it was inconvenient for the two to separate. During this period, Yan Shuixin stood in the cell with her back facing him, listening to the sound of splashing water behind her, while daydreaming about something.
The two turned back to the inner room of the duty room.
Yan Shuixin leaned her face against his shoulder from behind and said, "Husband, are you feeling better?"
He hummed lightly.
"Then can you move?"
He turned around and put his arms around her, "Yes."
"Why didn't you ask me why I let you take a bath?"
He froze, looking at her beautiful face under the flickering candlelight, "You..."
"We've been married for a long time, have you forgotten something?" She blushed.
With an excited tone, he asked tentatively, "Xin'er, do you agree..."
She nodded.
There will be one last meal of bean sprouts tomorrow, and after finishing, there will be no food left.
She doesn't know for sure, if the two of them will starve to death.
Also, this damn prison is also a knife hanging over the head.
She was almost humiliated by Awang before.
Her innocence can only be handed over to Xiao Yeheng, so what is she waiting for?
Wait until the two of them die before regretting? It's better to cherish the present moment.
Xiao Yeheng lowered his head and kissed Yan Shuixin's lips, hugging her and falling towards the only bed in the duty room.
The night wind poured in through the cracks of the window, blowing the candles on and off, but they rose up to meet difficulties, burning fiercely, and their enthusiasm spread uncontrollably.
The tree outside the prison was baptized by the sudden and violent storm. The vines fluttered, swayed, and twisted around the tree trunk. It seemed like they should have been intertwined together. In the clouds and rain, purified and dancing, tossing and turning...
All night long, Xiao Yeheng and Yan Shuixin lingered together until dawn before falling asleep...
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The sun was shining on the earth, and the sky was clear.
Thousands of imperial guards suddenly killed all the archers who were ambushing in all directions outside the prison, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.
Yan Shuixin observed the situation outside with great excitement, and found out that the emperor personally led the team to rescue King An.
On the ground in the prison, Bai Jinchuan, Wan Niang, Xia Chuxue, Awang, together with Feng Hai and Wang Mo, knelt on the ground, and the Imperial Guards held their swords against their necks.
Yan Shuixin stood beside Xiao Yeheng. Emperor Xiao Jing rushed over to them, and hugged King An, weeping bitterly, "Third Brother, you have suffered a lot. I have learned that this deadly prison is completely devoid of justice and law. After investigating the conspiracy between the Empress Dowager and and King Jin, I will will definitely kill them for your sufferings."
"Thank you, brother, for your concern." Compared to the excitement of the emperor Xiao Jing, Xiao Yeheng remained expressionless.
The emperor restrained his expression, and glanced menacingly at the six prisoners kneeling in a row on the ground, "How to deal with these living prisoners is up to you, third brother."
King An waved his hand expressionlessly, "Dig a big hole, and bury them all."
Yan Shuixin hurriedly raised her hand and said, "You can't bury me. In the past few months, I have devoted myself to King An, eating with him and sleeping with him. Even if it's not worth mentioning, I still worked hard."
"When will this king bury you? Except you, everyone else will act as fertilizer." King An stretched out his arms, wrapping Yan Shuixin in his arms.
"My lord, you are so kind." Yan Shuixin leaned her head in his arms, "What shall we do after we get out of prison?"
"This king will immediately request an edict from my royal brother to marry you to me. From now on, you will be my Princess An."
"But..."
"This king said, if you dare to object, you and your family will be punished."
"Then I will marry you." She laughed helplessly, and ate with King An at a nearby inn. After having a delicious meal, they returned to Beijing in a soft sedan that was easily carried around...
"Ah!" Suddenly, two painful screams pierced the sky.
Yan Shuixin was sitting in the sedan chair eating, when she was awakened by screams. She sat up suddenly from the bed and found Xiao Yeheng sleeping next to her. The two of them were still sleeping intermittently in the prison guard's duty room, "Where is my soft sedan chair or my chicken legs?"
Xiao Yeheng sat up, and looked at her with a puzzled expression, "What soft sedan chair...chicken legs?"
"Didn't the Imperial Guard kill all the archers outside and rush in to save us?"
He shook his head.
Only then did Yan Shuixin's face pull down. It turned out that just now, it was a beautiful dream caused by hindsight. While holding her chin, she said, "My lord, I had a dream just now. I dreamed that the emperor brought people to rescue us. Then, the two of us ate braised pig's trotters, stewed chicken with ginseng, and fried frog legs in sauce in the sedan chair back to Beijing..." It seems that even in a dream, she wanted to go out and eat a big meal.
A trace of guilt filled Xiao Yeheng's eyes, "I'm sorry, Xin'er, for making you suffer with this king. If you can go out, this king will definitely make it up to you."
"Thank you, my lord." She was not polite.
Yan Shuixin moved to get out of the bed, but just as she stood up, her legs were so weak that she almost fell down. It was only after Xiao Yeheng helped her quickly that she was able to stand still.
Xiao Yeheng glanced at the red stain on the bed, indicating that she had already given him her innocence.
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She is now completely his!
His half disabled face, which had always been calm, exuded deep satisfaction.
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Yan Shuixin picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on. Seeing the blue and purple marks on her arms, she couldn't help but stare at the culprit.
Xiao Yeheng took the initiative to tie her shirt, stretched his arms around her from behind, and said in a deep male voice, "Xin'er, this king will be responsible."
She snorted angrily, "Just responsible?"
"I am pleased with you." He raised his hand and caressed her long black hair that was scattered on her back, and promised, "In this life, I will not marry unless it's with you."
Her body stiffened for a moment, and she turned to look at him, "My lord, in fact, you don't have to be like this."
He suddenly pulled down his face and said, "Why, you don't want to?'
Yan Shuixin thought to herself, she had been boyfriend and girlfriend with him in ancient times. If she didn't really get married, then one day when she returns to modern times, he would have to marry another one.
Now...
Last night, she also knew that she was his first woman. No wonder he blushed occasionally before.
She can't just pat her butt and say she's leaving, can she?
"Of course I would, otherwise, how could I have committed myself to you?" She took the initiative to hug him back. It's not good to break his heart now. Let's talk about it in the future.
Xiao Yeheng didn't know why, although he got Xin'er, he still felt uneasy, as if he would lose her at any time.
Obviously, she only has him in her heart, and her body is only his.
Xiao Yeheng chose to ignore the indescribable worries, and chose to treat her better in the future, making her unable to do without him.
Xiao Yeheng put the artificial eye he had taken off during the night back into the hole in his left eye socket, and also put on a prosthetic limb for his left leg. He slipped on shoes and socks for the prosthetic foot, lowered his pants, and arranged his attire to look like he didn't have an amputated leg.
Yan Shuixin also got dressed, adjusted to the weak legs caused by "doing things" too much, and was still able to walk limply with all her strength.
"Xin'er, you should sleep a little longer. You worked hard last night, and you only slept for two hours this morning. Thanks for your hard work." He hugged her habitually, and said lovingly, "I'll make something to eat, and call you when it's done."
"I can't sleep anymore." She lifted her head from his arms and asked softly, "What about you? You should be more exhausted, so I'll make the food while you sleep."
"I'm fine." He stared at her with a burning gaze, "People who practice martial arts are full of energy."
She smiled shyly.
She always feel that after the two of them had consummated the marriage, they became closer in their hearts.
Xiao Yeheng supported Yan Shuixin and walked to the prison guard's duty room, where he pushed open the stone window.
The sunshine outside the window is not as bright as the one in Yan Shuixin's dream, but the rainstorm has just stopped, the ground is still wet, and the branches were blown to this side and had been conquered by last night's storm.
Yan Shuixin felt that it was really suitable for the occasion, she was also conquered by him last night.
She looked back at the wooden tower in the center of the prison, and saw that Awang and Wan Niang held their hands tied with ropes and lifting them above their heads. The ropes were tied to the fence on the top of the tower, and their bodies swayed in the breeze.
Countless arrows pierced Awang's body, and Wan Niang also had three arrows pierced into her body, but the two of them didn't respond at all. Visually, they should be dead.
From a distance, it took several glances to see who was hanging.
Yan Shuixin thought of the two screams that woke her up from her dreams just now, and that was probably from Awang and Wan Niang before they died.
Xiao Yeheng just glanced at the two corpses, and said indifferently, "It's cheap for Awang. Being shot to death by an arrow is much more comfortable than being mutilated by this king."
"He's dead, so let's just forget about the fact that he wanted to bully me before he died," she said.
Without saying a word, he quickly lit the charcoal fire and placed a bowl on top of the charcoal. He mixed the only remaining handful of bean sprouts with water and boiled them in a bowl.
The two of them sat by the charcoal fire, waiting to eat the last bit of food.
After eating, there will be nothing left to eat.
Xiao Yeheng sat on the chair, stretched his arms around her waist, and let her sit on his lap.
She wanted to get up, "My lord, your legs..."
He didn't allow her to move, resting his chin on her shoulders and neck, sniffing the faint scent of her hair, "Your feather-like weight is no problem for this king."
Yan Shuixin sat quietly in his arms, enjoying the warm moment.
Even if Wan Niang and Awang died, they would not be able to save much rations. There will definitely be more deaths in prison.
Being able to stay with him for an extra moment is worthwhile.
Xiao Yeheng had similar thoughts, holding her tightly, almost wanting to embed her into his own flesh and blood.
How lucky is he, who is as incomplete and terrifying as a ghost, to have such a beautiful woman as her!
He can only cherish her with his life.
After a while, a bowl of boiled bean sprouts was done cooking. Both of them wanted the other to eat more, but they both refused, so they had to split the food in half.
The two of them put in a lot of effort last night, especially Xiao Yeheng who worked so hard. They drank more vegetable soup, and they were able to fill their stomachs a little.
Suddenly, thick smoke billowed out of the prison, and firewood was piled up around the outside of the prison wall. Oil was poured on the wood, and the firewood exploded instantly, and even the walls of the prison began to heat up.
"Xiao Yeheng, Yan Shuixin, don't you two like to hide in prison? Let's burn you to death!" Xia Chuxue's sinister voice came from the open space outside.
"The roof and walls are all piled with firewood." Bai Jinchuan's voice also came over, "You two were having a good time, and you didn't realize it. If it hadn't been for last night's rain, which stopped now, this young master would have ignited the fire long ago."
Wang Mo's voice was somewhat regretful, "Even though the firewood was wet, it began to burn after being doused with oil. Doctor Yan, I'm afraid you'll have to die."
"People cannot pass via the little air windows in each prison room." Xia Chuxue drew a bow and arrow in her hand, aiming at the stone window of the duty room, "The prison gate is scorched, no one can rush out. If you dare to run through the window, I will shoot you into hedgehogs!"
Yan Shuixin's heart was a bit depressed. The bow in Xia Chuxue's hand was made by Xiao Yeheng, and this bitch must have snatched it away before burning down the infirmary.
"We'll see who becomes a hedgehog!" An arrow shot out from Xiao Yeheng's hand. Xia Chuxue couldn't dodge it in time, and the sword in Bai Jinchuan's hand blocked it for her.
Xiao Yeheng picked up Yan Shuixin's cloth bag and folded it, and said to Yan Shuixin, "Xin'er, we can't stay here. We won't be able to get out when the fire gets bigger. This king will knock down a stone window and block the arrows, so follow behind and fly out of the window."
She nodded slightly.
Xiao Yeheng held a long knife in his hand and cut off the connection between the stone windows at the window frame. In the next moment, he wrapped a piece of cloth around the scorching stone window to insulate it from heat, held a sword in the other hand, and flew out from the window opening.
Yan Shuixin picked up the sword that she had picked up in advance, followed closely behind, and stood firmly on the open space a few steps away from the prison.
Almost at the same time, Xia Chuxue fired three arrows simultaneously, but hit the stone window blocked by Xiao Yeheng.
Bai Jinchuan and Wang Mo swung their swords at the same time, but was knocked down by Xiao Yeheng's sword in the other hand.
After a while, Xiao Yeheng got into a battle with Bai Jinchuan, Wang Mo, and Xia Chuxue, attacking each other's vital points with their moves, and the fight was indistinguishable.
Feng Hai was holding a sword and preparing to join the team of Bai Jinchuan and the other three. Yan Shuixin brandished her sword to stop him, "Feng Hai, are you stupid? If you help them now, then as long as Xiao Yeheng and I die, the three of them will kill you next."
"How could that be possible?" Feng Hai didn't believe it, "Wang Mo and I are good brothers. We rob together, drink plenty of wine together, and eat meat together. Even if Bai Jinchuan and Xia Chuxue have bad intentions, Wang Mo will not treat me poorly."
Upon hearing this, Wang Mo's face flashed with a hint of guilt.
Yan Shuixin said with a serious expression, "Do you remember when we overheard Bai Jinchuan talking to Xia Chuxue? Did you ask what the survival rules in the prison are? Even your good brother Wang refused to tell you?"
Feng Hai paused as he was about to fight Yan Shuixin with his sword.
Yan Shuixin knew that she couldn't beat him, so she adopted another strategy of fighting, "I'm a weak woman, so take it easy on me, and I'll tell you."
For a moment, Feng Hai didn't care that the other four people were still fighting, and stood five steps away from Yan Shuixin to withdraw his sword, "Say whatever you want to say, but if you dare to fool me, I..."
Yan Shuixin interrupted him, "This is a deadly prison secretly built by King Jin and his accomplices. They have set up a secret village for the wealthy nobles, who have nowhere to go make bets for entertainment. The banker outside also has a list of members in this prison, and the more bets the member gets, the faster they die. Now, we are the only ones left."
"Everyone knows this already." Feng Hai was impatient, "Are you trying to delay time with your nonsense?"
Yan Shuixin continued calmly, "The deadly game in this prison lasts for half a year, there are twenty rules, and each one is different. There were only fifty people in the previous round, and they were asked to kill each other. Those people refused, but rather joined forces to escape together. Unfortunately, they were all wiped out by the archers ambushing outside the prison. And in our round, everyone can act as a killer. Killing a person will get you two taels of gold as a reward.. The more kills, the more rewards. If there are more than one hundred people, the prize money will be doubled. Therefore, Xia Chuxue, the big winner, killed over a hundred people in one go with Qihuan poison."
Feng Hai was very surprised, as if thinking of something, "No wonder Wang Mo and the prison chief always beat prisoners to death for no reason. They had killed at least dozens of prisoners in their hands, and I even thought they were crazy. So, it turned out that they doing it for a bounty."
Yan Shuixin said sarcastically, "Didn't the prison guard Li Dian notice the oddity of the prison chief Sun Cheng's death when he was alive? Wang Mo didn't want the rules to leak out, since it would be better if one less insider competed, so no one was allowed to investigate the cause of the prison chief's death. Even though Li Dian raised questions at the beginning, he suppressed it. My understanding is that Sun Cheng received the rulebook as soon as he became prison chief, and given his good relationship with Wang Mo, he told him about it. But, he didn't tell you."
She took out a booklet and a stack of paintings from her arms and threw them to Feng Hai, "This booklet was discovered while Xiao Yeheng and I looked for food in the guard's dormitory. I found this booklet in Xia Chuxue's room, and I quietly collected it without even telling King An about it. I'm guessing Xia Chuxue discovered it while sleeping with the prison chief. As for these paintings, they record what happened in the prison, who killed how many people."
Feng Hai read through the pages one by one, and sure enough, there were pictures of recent events on them. The rule book not only recorded the tragic situation of the prisoners in the previous round, but also the key points of this round, "According to the rules, only one of us can get out alive! The one that survives not only receives the bounty for the number of people killed, but also an additional three thousand taels of gold!"
"That's right," Yan Shuixin spread her hands and continued, "There are so many of us, but only one can live. King An has excellent martial arts skills, which is the biggest threat to Xia Chuxue, Bai Jinchuan, and Wang Mo. Xia Chuxue set fire to the food in order to force us into chaos, kill each other, and reap the benefits. Wang Mo and Bai Jinchuan did not want to expose her as the arsonist, obviously they also want to join hands to deal with King An. The three of them have reached an agreement long ago and kept it from you. Tell me, if King An dies, who will they kill next?"
Xiao Yeheng fought fiercely while listening to the conversation between Yan Shuixin and Feng Hai, and his heart trembled.
Yesterday, while searching through the dormitory, he saw Xin'er had taken a booklet and several pages of drawings, but she didn't show any intention of showing him and kept them away. He didn't ask much, just thought it was an ordinary book.
It turned out to be the deadly rules in the prison!
No wonder, she had to dedicate herself to him last night, she must have known that her life would not last long. How could he just watch her die?
Feng Hai picked up his sword and slashed at Wang Mo, "It must have been hard for you to hide this from me, brother!"
Yan Shuixin picked up the drawing paper on the ground, and asked the five people in a huddle, "Who drew this picture recording the murder? It is very realistic, and there is a half-peach blossom sign in the lower right corner of the page. It's the secret code of King Jin, right? It must have been Master Bai Jinchuan who drew this? He knew about the rules from beginning to end, which means that he is the painter."
"You're quite clever." Bai Jinchuan sarcastically agreed with her words.
With Feng Hai, an expert, helping Xiao Yeheng to fight the battle, Bai Jinchuan, Xia Chuxue and Wang Mo gradually lost.
Yan Shuixin was idle, so she took the sword in her hand and aimed it at Xia Chuxue, ready to slash it at her.
Xia Chuxue found out and quickly dodged.
She also aimed at Bai Jinchuan and quickly changed her direction.
When Bai Jinchuan found out that Yan Shuixin was about to attack him with a sword, he averted his focused to avoid her sword. Xiao Yeheng took the opportunity to make a horizontal chop, and Bai Jinchuan's head and neck were separated. His head rolled to Yan Shuixin's feet, with his mouth open.
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Seeing this, Xia Chuxue turned around and ran away. The sword in Xiao Yeheng's hand flew towards her, piercing her from behind and protruding from her chest. Before Xia Chuxue could scream, she fell to the ground and died, kicking up a cloud of dust.
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Feng Hai and Wang Mo were evenly matched, but Wang Mo wanted to guard against Yan Shuixin's tricks, so when he was distracted, his chest was slashed.
"Brother, I have something to say," Wang Mo clutched his bleeding chest, "Yan Shuixin's martial arts skills are extremely poor, and if we joined forces to kill Xiao Yeheng. The one who can get out must be you and me..."
"Unfortunately, I don't trust you. You have been hiding something as big as the prison rules from me and treating me like a fool!" Feng Hai's eyes turned red with murder, "My food was burned, and I even ate Zhao Bing's flesh to avoid dying from starvation. I'd rather take the risk of robbing Xiao Yeheng, but have you ever considered giving me some of your food?"
Even if Wang Mo blocked his moves, he couldn't win against him. With a sullen face, he didn't answer.
"I wanted to hurt Yan Shuixin, but she mocked me for 'doing things' quickly. As a brother, you help outsiders laugh at me, have you ever thought how that makes me feel uncomfortable?" Feng Hai asked again.
"I..." Wang Mo kept silent.
"Back then, You, I, and the prison chief were sworn brothers. We all worshiped the same master. We were not born in the same year, month, or day, but we wanted to die in the same year, month, and day." Feng Hai shouted, "I and the prison chief, Sun Cheng, were both literate, but you, Wang Mo, are not. The prison chief was in charge of the whole prison and told you the rules. He really treats you like a brother. He is not as scheming as you are, so you must have stopped him from telling me."
"..." Wang Mo remained silent. It seemed that the other party was right.
"Why should I join forces with you when you are about to kill me secretly" Feng Hai, with a face full of pain and anger at his brother's betrayal, and picked up the sword to kill Wang Mo.
Wang Mo had no choice but to fight back, "Brother, you have been instigated by Yan Shuixin. Originally, I would have joined forces with you and others to surely kill Xiao Yeheng, but now that Bai Jinchuan and Xia Chuxue are dead, we can't beat Xiao Yeheng at all."
"So what? She's telling the truth, and you deserves to be killed a thousand times. I'll send you to hell!" He rose from the ground, raised his sword and slashed at Wang Mo's head.
Wang Mo narrowly dodged. When he saw Feng Hai fall to the ground, he swung the sword in his hand swung back, and the knife was about to stab Feng Hai's neck.
But, Wang Mo suddenly fell to the ground, convulsed, and died.
Feng Hai survived the disaster, and upon closer inspection, he saw Wang Mo's neck pierced by a dagger that was originally used by Zhao Bing to assassinate Xiao Yeheng, but it disappeared later. It turned out that it was Xiao Yeheng who had taken it away.
Xiao Yeheng was withdrawing his gesture of throwing the dagger, Feng Hai knew that it was King An who saved his life.
The sky was gloomy, and the open space of the prison was littered with the corpses of Bai Jinchuan, Xia Chuxue, and Wang Mo.
Xiao Yeheng stood with his hands on his back, standing beside Yan Shuixin. He glanced at Feng Hai with icy eyes and a cold voice, "You are the only one left. Let's do it."
Feng Hai clenched his fist in one hand and pointed a sword at Xiao Yeheng in the other.
The murderous intent is on the verge of breaking out.
After a long while, Feng Hai laughed wildly, and then regained his composure, and snorted, "King An, I know I'm no match for you, and I certainly won't risk my life in vain. Killing is not the only method in this prison. There is no food in the prison. I saw that Xia Chuxue and Bai Jinchuan burned all the remaining food before they died, and even filled the well. They were determined that only one person would survive to leave the prison today. There is no food or drink in the prison, and staying is a death sentence. It is better to escape from prison."
As the words fell, Feng Hai lifted his sword and his figure leaped up and down, and reached the high prison wall.
He seemed to hesitate for a moment before picking up a wooden stick and leaning against the wall. Using his lightness skills, he stepped on the stick and used his strength. His figure flew over the towering prison wall and disappeared outside.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng's eyes naturally followed Feng Hai's figure, and when they were distracted for a while, three arrows flew past.
The two arrows that were supposed to hit Xiao Yeheng's chest did not go in, but the third arrow pierced into his arm.
"My lord!" Yan Shuixin exclaimed anxiously.
A few more arrows flew over, Xiao Yeheng held Yan Shuixin in his arms and leaped a few times, and in an instant he arrived at the source of the arrows.
Wan Niang hid behind a tree, and was about to continue shooting arrows, when Xiao Yeheng snatched the bow and arrow from her hand and swung his palm. Wan Niang was hit, and flew out like a kite with a broken string.
Yan Shuixin was surprised, "Wan Niang, didn't you hang under the tower, and your body was shot by flying arrows outside the prison? Didn't you die?"
When she raised her head and looked at the two corpses hanging under the wooden tower, there was only Awang left.
Of course, she doesn't believe Wan Niang staged a fake body, so she said with certainty, "You pretended to be dead."
Wan Niang got up from the ground, obviously unharmed, and tore open the front of her clothes. Inside was a wooden board with three broken arrows tied into it. The board was tied to her waist with a rope and stood upright in her clothes. She lowered her head and bit the other end of the tie on the wooden board, causing the board with the arrow to stand up. The arrow popped out from the opening of her clothes and looked like three horizontal arrows were being inserted into her chest.
She took away the wooden board where the arrow was inserted and threw it on the ground, and answered irrelevant questions, "Doctor Yan, when Awang kidnapped you, Xia Chuxue set fire to the infirmary room, but I quietly followed Awang. I originally wanted to see if Awang is a master of hidden martial arts, and if so, I will follow him. As a result, I found that he had almost no martial arts skills, and his terrible acupoint tapping techniques were still taught by Bai Jinchuan. Ever since I heard Xia Chuxue talking to Bai Jinchuan before and learned about the rules of survival in prison, I often eavesdropped on what the two of them were saying, and found that only one person in the prison could survive. And that Bai Jinchuan secretly drew what happened in the prison!"
Wan Niang said viciously and firmly, "I don't want to kill a person to just get two taels of gold. I must live to the end to get the all the rewards. My martial arts is still learned from sleeping with men outside. I know that I am not your opponent, so I can only wait for you all to kill each other." I will have the last laugh when you all die. As a result, the two villains, Bai Jinchuan and Xia Chuxue, bound me and Awang and hung us beneath the wooden tower. Poor Awang was shot to death by the arrows outside the prison, whilst I turned around in mid-air, letting Awang's body block the flying arrows outside the prison for me. Then I stuck the three flying arrows inserted into the wooden board vertically against my body, and made it look like I was shot by the arrows too. Sure enough, once I pretended to be dead, you all started to kill each other, and I just had to wait to get the benefits."
Yan Shuixin was a little puzzled, "When your hands were suspended in midair, how did you untie the rope?"
Wan Niang flashed a thin blade in her hand and said, "This blade was honed by disassembling the edge of a guard's long knife. I cut the vertical rope that hung my hands, and then I grabbed Awang's body with both legs to avoid falling from a high altitude. The blade in my hand cut the rope that bound my hands, and then I used my lightness skills to climb the wooden tower to the ground, and then steal Xia Chuxue's bow and arrow to plot against Xiao Yeheng."
This time, it was Wan Niang who's puzzled, "Why couldn't the two arrows pierce King An's chest?"
"Because he has a shield to protect his body." Yan Shuixin didn't tell her that she and Xiao Yeheng both wore bamboo vest. Arrows can't pierce through boiled bamboo slices.
Xiao Yeheng pulled out the arrow that pierced his arm with one hand, and Yan Shuixin hurriedly tore off his clothes around the wound, poured a pill from the porcelain bottle from her pocket, crushed it, and sprinkled it on his wound.
With him staring at Wan Niang, she is not afraid of the other party's sneak attack.
"What's the use of giving him medicine?" Wan Niang burst out laughing, "Before I shot the arrows out, I smeared the arrows with Qihuan poison. From now on, Xiao Yeheng can't have sex with you happily, otherwise he will become like those murderous prisoners. Even if he doesn't have sex with women, he will slowly die of illness."
Yan Shuixin was so angry that her body trembled, she couldn't believe it, "Where did you get the Qihuan poison from?!"
"Back then, Xia Chuxue and I were locked in the same cell. Although I didn't know what kind of powder she was hiding, but I knew it must be something sinister. I secretly stole some and hid it for emergencies. I knew that it was abnormal for people to die in this cell every day," Wan Niang sneered, "In order to survive, I had to hide my strength. No matter who bullied me, I would bear it."
Wan Niang stared at Xiao Yeheng viciously, "You cripple, if you had accepted my courtship back then, maybe I would have let you go. Now, you just have to wait and die!"
The poison from Xiao Yeheng's wound spread, and he quickly sealed several acupoints on his arm. In addition, his previous injuries had not healed, so he suddenly felt his body was extremely heavy, almost staggering and unable to stand still.
Wan Niang was waiting for this moment, and she drew out the long knife tied at the back of her waist, and stabbed at Xiao Yeheng.
Yan Shuixin stood in front of Xiao Yeheng, the knife in Wan Niang's hand could not penetrate Yan Shuixin's chest. Yan Shuixin used her sword to slash her neck.
"You...you..." Wan Niang stared at Yan Shuixin in disbelief, and she died as she fell to the ground.
To her very last breath, she still couldn't figure out why even Yan Shuixin, a woman with low martial arts skills, was unaffected despite being pierced in the chest by the sword.
Although Xin'er was also wearing a bamboo vest, and couldn't be cut through with a knife, Xiao Yeheng was still moved by the fact that she stood in front of him to block the attack.
Yan Shuixin probed Xiao Yeheng's pulse with three fingers and found that he was not only seriously injured, but also really poisoned by Qihuan Powder. The poison had already spread into his veins.
In the future, his health will definitely be poor. Not only can he no longer have intercourse with a woman, it would even...affects his fertility.
Throughout his life, It is difficult for him to have any children.
Tears slipped from Yan Shuixin's eyes like beads on a broken thread, flowing endlessly.
Xiao Yeheng raised his hand distressedly to wipe away the tears on her face, "Xin'er, what's wrong with you?"
"My lord, I cannot detoxify you. Even if there is medicine in the prison, there is nothing I can do." Yan Shuixin hated herself, her medical skills were not good enough, so she could only watch her lover suffer from the poison.
"It doesn't matter." Xiao Yeheng said soothingly, "This poison can't be cured. At worst, you can't have sex. The body will become weaker, but with this king's martial arts, I won't die."
"Really?" She raised her head and stared at him sadly.
"Really." He stretched out his arms to hug her slender body, leaning his head on her thin shoulders. This will be the last time that she will be so close to him. From now on, she would definitely hate him for the rest of her life.
Yan Shuixin also hugged his thin waist, and suddenly thought of something. She went over to examine the corpses of the others, and made sure that Awang, Wang Mo, Wan Niang, Bai Jinchuan and Xia Chuxue were really dead.
Only Feng Hai escaped from prison, but did he successfully escape?
She hoped he would escape, and if he succeeded, she and Xiao Yeheng could also give it a try.
Just as she was thinking about it, she walked up the ladder of the wooden tower and climbed up. She only reached halfway up. Standing high, she saw from afar that Feng Hai had been hit by dozens of arrows and died in an open space about fifty meters outside the prison.
Suddenly, a flying arrow shot from outside the prison, brushing past Yan Shuixin. She hurriedly climbed down and jumped from the ladder, finally standing still.
The arrows from outside did not shoot again. Xiao Yeheng stared at her coldly, and said with sarcasm, "Are you going up to seek death?"
He had never spoken to her in such an attitude before, Yan Shuixin was puzzled for a moment, "I just took a look to see how Feng Hai is doing, he is dead now. It looks like no matter who goes out, they can't escape the rain of arrows."
Yan Shuixin ran to the well behind the communal kitchen and found that the only well in the prison had been filled up. Then she ran to the prison guards' dormitories to search, only to find a pile of ashes of the grain, not a single food was found.
"It seems that Xia Chuxue and the others really made a plan. Today, only one person will be allowed to leave the prison alive, and there is no food or water left in the prison." She was worried and turned around, only to find Xiao Yeheng staring at her with a cold face, "Fool! Now that there are only you and me in the prison, it's time for you to die!"
She looked at him in surprise, "You want to kill me?"
Xiao Yeheng approached her with a sword in his hand, and a murderous aura appeared in his eyes, "Since there is no possibility of survival after escaping from prison, then, let's play according to the rules in the prison. If you die, then this king will be the only survivor, and can get three thousand taels of gold as a reward. Of course, this king doesn't care about the mere three thousand taels of gold. However, It's just too tempting to be able get away from this prison! On the other hand, if you kill this king, you can also leave."
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Yan Shuixin froze on the spot, looking at him sadly, "Xiao Yeheng, you said that you love me, and you will protect me with your life."
"You are just a mere illegitimate daughter of a minister, with a low status. This king was just bored in prison, and I only wanted to play with you." Xiao Yeheng stared at her with a playful and frivolous expression, "But you took it seriously." The single eye looked up and down at her slender body, "You are so stupid to give your innocence to this king. This king is happy to enjoy it, speaking of it, your taste...is really good. The innocence you have tried so hard to keep was ruined by me. You are really foolish to the extreme!"
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Yan Shuixin's tears filled her eyes again, and she asked in a hoarse voice, "Do you really not love me?"
"How can this king love you?" He looked up to the sky and laughed as if he had heard some joke. There was a sadness that he didn't know in his smile. "My king's heart has long since died. Even a kind woman like my adoptive mother was just putting on a performance, so what are you? You are just coveting the status of this king. Otherwise, how could you pay attention to a cripple like me?" His heart seemed to have been torn open by a huge gash, and it hurt so much.
Yan Shuixin listened to his hurtful words, with a sad and angry expression, "Since you don't love me, why did you touch me? Why were you so eager on the bed?"
"For men, sex and love are two different things. "He looked at her contemptuously, his body trembling because he was holding back something, "A beautiful woman like you, how can a man refuse?"
She stared deeply at his cold, half-disfigured face, and suddenly said, "I don't regret being with you."
There was a trace of emotion in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, forcing himself to say, "You're just a woman. After this king goes out, I can get as many as I want!"
She was silent for a while. The cool wind blew past, blowing her long black hair, while the sleeves of her clothes fluttered in the wind. Her eyebrows and eyes were so stunning.
Xiao Yeheng clenched one hand tightly into a fist, and pointed a sword at her with the other, barely able to hold it.
After a while, she spoke softly and said, "Since King An said he never loved me, then, who do you love?" She seemed to think of a name, "Do you love your ex-fiancée, Xie Siya, the daughter of Marquis Dingyuan? That's right. You were engaged to her at the age of thirteen, although you broke off your engagement with her five years ago after being injured. After all, for the past five years, before you went to prison, you have been guarding your body for her and never got married."
Unexpectedly, she would say such a thing. Xiao Yeheng clenched his clenched fist and made a 'crack-crack' sound, as if he was trying to hold back something, he closed his eyes and shouted, "Since you know, why bother asking!"
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"How can I understand if I don't ask?" Yan Shuixin felt a heavy pain in her heart, and suddenly a stern look flashed in her eyes, "Since King An has never loved me and wants to kill me, why do you still talk so much nonsense? Why don't you just do it!"
Xiao Yeheng's chest was in severe pain, and he didn't sure if his chest was genuinely harmed, or if it was uncomfortable because he had hurt her. He said fiercely, "Then you are looking for death, and this king will cut you off!"
The sword in his hand was aimed at her beautiful white neck and swung horizontally.
Seeing that she was about to fall to the ground like Bai Jinchuan.
She also had a knife in her hand, but she didn't slash back at him. She stood tall and graceful, her slender hands holding the handle of the knife without any movement. That's fine, maybe after she dies, she can go back to modern times to see her parents.
The blade in Xiao Yeheng's hand was only a paper thin distance away from her neck, "Are you really not afraid of death?"
"The outside world only says that King An has always been ruthless." Instead of avoiding it, Yan Shuixin slashed her neck towards the blade. "I had no idea that when King An will kill someone, he would spew nonsense and take a long time."
He was afraid that the blade in his hand would cut her, so before she took the initiative to feed the knife, the sword moved to the side and retracted.
Yan Shuixin looked at his forbearance and gloomy expression, and chuckled, "Why, King An spoke so harshly, but he couldn't do anything when it was over?"
She turned around and walked across the open space in front of the guard's dormitory, heading towards the direction of the prison.
The prison is mainly made of stone materials. Previously, Xia Chuxue and others placed firewood and poured oil on it to burn it. After the firewood was burned out, although the walls of the prison were blackened by smoke, it did not appear to collapse at all.
Xiao Yeheng silently followed behind her, and asked in a loud voice, "Where are you going?"
"Suicide." She answered as she walked, "Only this cell has caught fire. Although the fire has been extinguished, the cell must be very hot. If I go in, I will probably be scorched. My appearance after death will most likely be unsightly."
It seemed like she was talking about something mundane.
Xiao Yeheng suddenly threw the sword in his hand, making a 'clang' sound. He immediately hugged her from behind, and said hoarsely, "No, I don't want you to die!"
She didn't really want to die either. And she wasn't sure if she could even go back to modern times after death. If everything disappears, wouldn't it be a disaster?
She just wanted to scare him.
She froze, and said in a cold voice, "If I'm dead, won't the lord be able to go out?"
"Without you, what's the point of this king's life!" He said sadly, tears welling up in his one eye, he finally spoke the truth, "Xin'er, this king has never loved Xie Siya. In the last five years, I haven't guarded my body for her, and there is no reason to marry her. She is just the fiancé that the late emperor ordered me to marry. After my disfigurement, she was frightened and disgusted, so I broke off my engagement with her and had no connection with her anymore. The only person I have ever loved in my life until now is you. Whether it was before or now, it will be you, only you!"
She sighed leisurely and said, "Since that's the case, why did you hurt me so much just now?"
"I wanted to provoke you to kill me," he said with pain on his face, "Only one can live, so I will choose you. "
She smiled wryly, "I had guessed that's what you meant." Yan Shuixin raised her head and stared at him, "If I was so angry that I killed you just now, wouldn't you face the crime of being a heartbreaker and die unjustly? And be hated by me?"
He lowered his head, tears rolled down from his single eye, and his voice was full of depression, "As long as you can live well, this king... will do it."
She took a step back, and the sword in her hand suddenly pressed against his neck, "Then you go to die!"
He remained motionless, his gaze fixed on her deeply, as if he wanted to burn her into his soul. His voice was calm, "It's my luck to die in your hands. Unfortunately, there is no murderous look in your eyes, so you can't do anything."
Yan Shuixin threw away the sword in her hand, raised her slender hand to caress his scarred left cheek, "Xiao Yeheng, do you know? I was so heartbroken just now, but no matter what, I still didn't want to hurt you. Maybe, this is love. But I really want to be like you, say harsh words to anger you, and pretend not to love you."
"No!" He suddenly roared, "Xin'er, you can't do this, even if you're just pretend that you don't have this king in your heart, this king's heart would bleed from pain!"
"So put yourself in my shoes. What you did just now, didn't that make my heart bleed?"
Xiao Yeheng tightly wrapped his arms around her, whispering shakily, "I'm sorry, Xin'er!"
"Let go." Yan Shuixin pushed him aside coldly, and said to him, "There's some things that can't be forgiven with an apology. I, Yan Shuixin, am just a mere illegitimate daughter of a minister, with a low status, and not worthy of King An."
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She turned to walk in the direction of the communal kitchen, and he followed behind, painfully saying, "Xin'er, this king shouldn't be self-righteous for your own good. This king has never cared about your identity."
Looking at her lonely and thin figure, his heart ached and he said, "I can even give up my life for you, so why would I care whose daughter you are."
She still ignored him, but he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, and falling heavily to the ground. She finally turned around, ran to him in two or three steps, and helped him up, "My lord, how are you?"
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With blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, he stared fixedly at her worried face, and said painfully, "Xin'er, listen to what this king said. If it were someone else, they might survive to the end according to the prison rules. But this king was thrown in this prison, with my leg chopped off by the collusion between Empress Dowager and King Jin. They will definitely not give this king another life, and will not allow this king to go out to seek vengeance. Therefore, you can only leave if you kill me."
"If you die, I don't want to live anymore." She raised her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, her tears trickled down, and said in a manner imitating the ancients, "Xin'er is already yours, you have said that you would be responsible. In this life, we live together and shall die together."
Her tears fell on his face, burning his heart. He looked at her determined expression, knowing that she would not change her mind, so he nodded solemnly.
"Once this king vomits blood, you won't be angry anymore." A pale smile was drawn on the corner of his lips.
"And you're still joking." She gave him an angry look, and helped him lean against the side wall of the utility room.
She went to pick up the arrow that had pierced his arm earlier, took out half of a bellyband from her bosom to wipe the poisoned arrow, and threw the arrow away, "My lord, although I cannot detoxify you right now, but after we go out and study carefully, there is still a slight chance. I will save the venom first, and I will study it in the future."
She folded the bellyband, stuffed it into a bamboo tube the size of a finger, covered the plug, and put it in her sleeve pocket. In this way, it will prevent the sample from being damaged.
He looked at her calm expression, as if the two of them could really get out, and said indifferently, "Previously, when this king was shot in the arm by a poisonous arrow, I originally wanted to cut off my arm. Anyway, this king has already lost one limb already, so losing an arm is nothing."
"Don't. There is no medicine in the prison, and there are only two pills left in my porcelain bottle. Even if you grind it into powder, It will not be enough to stop the bleeding from a big open wound. If you really did that, you would have lost too much blood and died long ago."
"I also thought of this, so I didn't cut it." Xiao Yeheng looked regretfully at Yan Shuixin's stunning face and said, "I just did it yesterday... And now I can't have intercourse in the future. The beauty is in front of me, but I can't touch her. This is even worse than death."
"At least you're still alive and can see me." Yan Shuixin fed the last two healing pills from the porcelain bottle into his mouth, "If you die, you won't be able to see me anymore."
He swallowed the only two precious pills and said, "Therefore, I will live well with you."
She leaned over and imprinted a kiss on his forehead, "I wanted to kiss your mouth, but it's covered in toxic blood. So, in order to avoid being poisoned, I've changed the place."
He lifted his sleeve and wiped the blood stains from the corner of his lips, "It's all right now."
She looked at his half-damaged, half-handsome face, with a sour smile, "Save it for future kiss."
"Then, I will remember." He nodded seriously.
Yan Shuixin went to the backyard of the public kitchen earlier, and the well had already been filled in, with huge stones still pressing on it. She wants to move the stone away and dig out the soil from the well again to get water to drink.
But Xiao Yeheng was seriously injured and was powerless to help.
It was a very hot day in June, and she and Xiao Yeheng were so thirsty that their lips were chapped, and each of them had only eaten half a bowl of bean sprouts in the morning. After the previous fierce battle of killing, they had already exhausted themselves and were hungry. She's afraid that there is no way to move the boulder away, and then dig out the buried soil underneath.
Even if she can, they can't stay in prison any longer, so she didn't want to waste that much effort.
After thinking for a moment, she gave up the well and instead searched for rainwater in various parts of the prison.
It rained heavily last night. Although the ground had already dried up, there may still be some water stored somewhere.
Sure enough, she found a discarded porcelain bowl in the open space next to the prison guard's dormitory.
A corner of the bowl was missing, and it was placed facing the sky. It must have been soaked in rain and evaporated by the sun, and there were still two mouthfuls left.
She hurriedly picked it up and brought it to Xiao Yeheng's side, "My lord, drink some water."
How could Xiao Yeheng not know how precious this little rainwater is, so he shook his head.
She forced him to drink, but he was stubborn and only took a sip with her.
Finally, there was no rainwater left.
In the prison, there was no water or food... It was already evening.
She and Xiao Yeheng had been hungry all day. They were both thirsty and hungry, what should she do?
Yan Shuixin glanced at the corpses on the ground, and asked Xiao Yeheng helplessly, "My lord, are we really reduced to eating our own kind?"
He asked back, "Are you gonna eat?"
She shook her head and said, "I would rather starve to death than eat human flesh."
"Then I won't eat it either." The implication is that if she eats it, he will eat it too.
In fact, Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng haven't eaten salt for several days. The human body is also deficient in salt after a long time.
Before she can use medication to examine his injury, he must be released from prison.
No matter which direction you think about it, it is imperative to get out of prison.
In the evening, the sky was filled with sunset clouds that looked like fluttering ribbons, galloping horses, and giant cotton wool... Under the beautiful and colorful sky, it appears that two imprisoned people were going to starve to death in certain deadly prison.
Yan Shuixin took a chair from the jailer's dormitory for Xiao Yeheng to sit on, and discussed with him in detail, "My lord, tell me, is there a way for the two of us to break out of the arrow ambush outside the prison?"
He sighed, "If in the past, when I was not injured, perhaps I could have taken a chance, and it would have been a narrow escape. Now, I am seriously injured, my whole body is weak, and even walking is difficult. It is absolutely impossible."
"Then, let me be the final winner."
His eyes lit up, "Xin'er, do you agree to take my head?"
"What a beautiful thought." Yan Shuixin snorted coldly, "Why are you so honest? There is no one else in the prison, so I'll use a charred corpse to replace you. Who will be able to tell that you aren't dead?"
"But the archers outside will clear the place and count the bodies."
"There are a lot of people who died this time, so far there are 328 corpses in total, and they are basically buried in the open space behind the prison. The corpses have been buried one after the other, the ones who died early have turned into bones after a few months. The rest are rotten and stinky." Yan Shuixin continued, "Even if they wish to count the corpses, they will most likely give up if they have to dig them all up."
Xiao Yeheng agreed, "Then let's do it according to your plan. You go out pretending to be the final winner, while I hide in the prison. We need to find a place where no one will find it. The well or any other residence in the prison I'm afraid it won't work. When this round of deadly games is over, the next group of people will be arrested, and all the houses will be restored."
Yan Shuixin thought for a while, "The smell in the latrine is so bad that no one wants to go there. So there is a solution!"
She went to a long row of toilet doors. In each room, there was 1.5 square meters of wooden round barrels on the ground, with a height of around 50 centimeters. The barrels' flat surface was supported by wooden boards, and there was a hole in the centre for human waste to pass through.
After picking a hut, she moved the big wooden barrel out, picked up a hoe from the utility room, and dug in the place where the wooden barrel was originally placed. After digging for an hour, it became dark.
She rested for a while.
Xiao Yeheng's internal force amplified the pills he took, so his body recovered a little, then he picked up the hoe and continued digging.
Yan Shuixin was so hungry that her whole body was weak, and her throat was almost dried up with thirst. There was not even a drop of water or food in the prison.
She couldn't stand it any longer.
Seeing a few birds perched on a branch in the open space of the cell, Yan Shuixin quickly picked up the only bow in the prison, and brought some arrows from the room where Xia Chuxue lived before her death.
She has no idea how to shoot an arrow at night. Even if she shoots it, she won't be able to aim precisely.
The bow and arrows were handed over to Xiao Yeheng, and he was called to a place 20 to 30 meters away from the tree, pointing to the bird on the tree.
He understood her meaning and drew a bow to shoot arrows, aiming at the three birds on the tree, firing all three arrows at once.
The three birds were shot at the same time and fell to the ground.
The rest of the birds flew away in fright.
"My lord, you are amazing!" Yan Shuixin happily kissed Xiao Yeheng on the cheek.
He froze for a moment, with an unnatural blushing on his cheeks, "It's a small skill, it's not worth mentioning."
She excitedly went to pick up three birds that had been pierced by arrows, plucked their feathers with her bare hands, and dissected the bird's belly and removed its internal organs with the knife that had previously sliced carrion on Xiao Yeheng's leg.
They chopped down the wooden tables and chairs in the kitchen and used them as firewood to start a fire
Three prepared birds were roasted over the fire.
The two of them were so hungry that their eyes were filled with stars, and they almost drooled as they stared at the roasted birds.
After a while, the birds were roasted. Each one weighed about three to four ounces, which was still very fat for a bird.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng each had one and were half full. Although there is no salt, the taste is very bland, and it's still satisfying to eat.
Yan Shuixin wrapped the remaining roasted bird in leaves and kept it for Xiao Yeheng.
She put six wooden barrels on the side wall of the leeward utility room, and built a wooden frame on each barrel. On the frame, several knives were tied with tree vines, with the blades facing downwards.
Xiao Yeheng watched from the side, "Xin'er, you are..."
"There will be fog at dawn, and it will condense into dew when it is cold." Yan Shuixin explained, "This place is dark and cold, and it is the best place to get as much dew as possible."
Xiao Yeheng stared at her in admiration, "You can even come up with a way to get water! My Xin'er is so smart."
"If you want to be Princess An, how can you be a fool?" She smiled at him.
The two of them continued to dig in one of the toilets, resting and digging all night. In the end, they finally dug a hole that was one square meter wide and about two meters deep.
A large pile of firewood was also prepared on the open space of the prison, and several corpses in the prison were moved to the firewood pile to be burned.
The sky was bright, and the first ray of sunlight penetrated through the night, ushering in the morning.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng walked side by side to the wall of the utility room, and found that there was some dew in the six wooden barrels, all of which were poured into one barrel, which became half full with dew water.
The two were dying of thirst, and each drank a large bowl to quench their thirst.
Xiao Yeheng took out the only roast bird and prepared to share it with Yan Shuixin, but she shook her head and said, "I'll go out right away, and I'll have something to eat. And you, you can only rely on this ration, I don't know how long you can last before I can come back and save you."
"It's okay if you don't come back, I won't blame you." His gaze kept falling on her, his affection was deep like the sea, and he was afraid of missing a glance.
Next, Yan Shuixin went to the room of the dead prison chief Sun Cheng, found paper and ink, and carried a painting that Bai Jinchuan had painted before his death. The scenes in the painting were written about what happened in the prison, and the content is about Wan Niang and Awang being hung on the top of the tower, and Bai Jinchuan and others are fighting fiercely with Xiao Yeheng.
After that, Bai Jinchuan died and it was impossible to continue painting.
It is estimated that the drawings of what happened in the prison previously have been handed over to the outside world by Bai Jinchuan.
Yan Shuixin thought for a while, then wrote and drew Zheng Quan's body on the white paper, saying that he had been buried. Wan Niang was not dead, so there was a big reversal, and she reaped the benefits by killing Xiao Yeheng and Yan Shuixin, and set fire to their corpses. She afraid to go out indiscriminately, fearing that she would not receive the bounty. She hesitated for a night, but eventually became so thirsty and hungry that she had no choice but to leave the prison.
Xiao Yeheng watched as she made the painting ugly on purpose, and the handwriting was also ugly.
In fact, he has read the letter of commitment written by her before, and her handwriting is very good.
He knew that she was going to pretend to be Wan Niang.
Wan Niang is just a crude girl, and literacy is hard to come by, so it's already fine that her painting skills are good enough for people to understand.
Xin'er deliberately defaced the paintings and characters she drew.
Yan Shuixin handed the painted paper to Xiao Yeheng, "My lord, what do you think?"
"Zheng Quan's corpse was actually not buried, so he will be used to fill in numbers. But his body cannot be used as my replacement." Xiao Yeheng thought for a moment and took a prison guard's long knife to the firewood pile. Looking at several corpses, he chose Wang Mo's body, dug out one of his left eyes, chopped off half of his left leg, and then destroyed his left cheek.
The chopped off left leg was taken to the burial ground and buried.
Several corpses were piled on top of the firewood, and Yan Shuixin also collected some remaining phosphorous powder from Xia Chuxue's room, and sprinkled it on each corpse on the firewood to help ignite.
Xiao Yeheng blew on the torch in his hand and threw it into the firewood pile.
A large pile of firewood burned the six corpses of Wan Niang, Xia Chuxue, Bai Jinchuan, Zheng Quan, Wang Mo, and Awang...
In the raging fire, the fragrance of meat quickly spread.
There are few trees in the prison, and there are not many birds flying over. They can't shoot birds anymore. Yan Shuixin closed her eyes, cut off a piece of cooked meat from Bai Jinchuan's corpse with a long knife, wrapped it in leaves, and handed it to Xiao Yeheng.
He took it.
He understood what she meant. If she doesn't return after being released from prison for a long time, and he can't take it any longer, he'll have something to eat.
The two of them walked silently to the toilet where the pit had been dug, Yan Shuixin's eyes were red, she pointed to the mud pit dug inside, "My lord, go in."
She first put the precious half bucket of dew in it, along with a low chair and a sword for self-defense.
A hollow bamboo stick is inserted diagonally into the pit and buried in the soil, while the other end protrudes from the grass outside the toilet and is hidden in the weeds outside. It is used to maintain air circulation in the pit.
There had been no bamboo in the prison for a long time, but this long bamboo had grown recently. Yan Shuixin chopped it down and pieced it together.
Xiao Yeheng entered the pit about two meters deep, and handed her the roasted bird in his hand, "Xin'er, you eat."
She shook her head and said, "My lord, keep it."
He insisted.
"If you continue to be stubborn, I won't go out." She smiled sadly, "We will starve to death together."
He was helpless. He had no choice but to put a package of roasted bird meat and a package of similar meat in his hand in the pit for later use.
Xiao Yeheng propped himself up on the ground and jumped down into the two-meter-deep pit.
Yan Shuixin picked up a wooden board and was about to cover the pit.
"Wait a minute, Xin'er!" he said suddenly.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Lower your head, I want to kiss you." Xiao Yeheng stood on the chair in the pit and waved to her.
Yan Shuixin put the wooden cover aside first, leaned over with red eyes, wrapped her arms around his neck, and took the initiative to kiss his lips, while tears rolled down her eyes.
Xiao Yeheng kissed her deeply, almost biting her, and a line of clear tears also rolled down from his one eye.
Perhaps this farewell will be forever.
His beloved woman, he must see her again!
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After a while, Yan Shuixin asked him to sit back on the low chair in the pit. With a firm heart, she covered the pit with wooden boards one and a half meters away, and the half meter hole above was filled in with the soil that had previously been dug up
Get rid of the excess soil, dig some hard ground of the same color to cover it, and step on it tightly.
Pretending that no one had touched the ground, she moved the removed toilet bucket back to the pit.
No one knew that Xiao Yeheng was hiding in the pit below.
"My lord, I'm leaving." Yan Shuixin stood outside the toilet in the thatched hut, and promised sadly, "You must live well. If the archers outside clear the area and discover you, then fight with them and resist. If Xin'er is alive, I will definitely find the best opportunity to come back and save you!"
"Xin'er, the last winner may not really survive. You must prevent them from killing you. You have to choose the right time to escape." Xiao Yeheng's urgent voice came faintly.
"Xin'er understands, my lord, take care!" Yan Shuixin turned and left.
Yan Shuixin walked to the open space of the prison with heavy steps, picked up the only bow and arrow, and used the arrow to penetrate the stack of paintings that Bai Jinchuan and herself had made. She climbed half of the wooden tower, set up the bow, and shot arrows.
The arrows strung with painted paper flew out of the high prison wall and landed in the open space outside the prison.
Several arrows shot from all directions outside the prison, intending to kill the person who climbed the tower. She hurriedly jumped down the tower, but now, she can only wait.
She grabbed a handful of ashes and smeared it all over her face, to avoid people with bad thoughts coming in from the outside.
Those drawings announced that this round of the prison's deadly game is over, and the only winner is 'Wan Niang', so she believed that someone will enter the prison soon to respond.
Yan Shuixin is nervous and melancholy, there are still two months before the time when the emperor sent the imperial guards to rescue him.
At that time, She and Xiao Yeheng would have probably died of starvation by then.
Even if they occasionally shoot a bird and don't starve to death, the Qihuan poison in Xiao Yeheng's body will worsen, and there will be no medicine in the prison. If the treatment is delayed any longer, it will be more dangerous.
Not to mention two months, even if he has excellent martial arts skills, he might die within a month.
Therefore, she and he must escape from prison as soon as possible.
If she can't break through the archers outside, then she will go out first, so that people outside will think that there is no one else alive in the prison except her, and only then will the archers withdraw.
After that, Xiao Yeheng will have a chance of survival.
Although it is not clear why the plot did not follow the original script, Yan Shuixin has no choice.
The sun was shining brightly, and the sun seemed to be completely unaware of the bloody storm that had just happened in the prison, and it was still shining like a golden light.
About an hour later, Yan Shuixin heard footsteps outside the high prison wall.
The neat formation, from far to near, numbered at least a hundred people.
She didn't have to go out to see, she was already aware that a large group of people surrounded the prison.
boom! boom! boom!
The sound of the prison wall being hit continued.
With a loud bang, a big hole suddenly broke through the wall.
Outside the high wall, Yan Shuixin saw a wooden cart tied with a huge head of iron. Several masked men in black pushed the cart, causing the giant log on the cart to hit the prison wall, causing it to break even larger holes.
When a hole in the wall with the width of the gate was broken, the leader of the men in black raised his hand, and a large group of men in black with knives rushed into the prison through the hole. There were still archers outside, drawing their bows on guard.
With her head down, Yan Shuixin stood on the open space outside the cell, pretending to be timid and weak.
A group of men in black stopped three steps away from her, and the person in black holding the drawing paper looked at her, "Are you Wan Niang?"
The counterfeit 'Wan Niang' nodded quickly.
The man in black ordered, "Raise your head."
Yan Shuixin's hair was messy and her facial features were dirty, which concealed her peerless appearance. Her sparkling eyes also showed fear as much as possible, suppressing her sharpness.
A row of men in black were all looking at her, and one of them said, "An useless woman has won the championship this time."
"Not all of the women in the prison have slept around. It's a pity that Yan Shuixin died after only sleeping with a man named Awang." Another man in black spoke up.
The man in black, who was the leader, shouted, "Don't talk too much. It's not easy for this woman to defeat so many opponents and become the only survivor." With a wave of his hand, "Go, and find King An's body. The leader has told us that we must not let King An go out alive."
Several men in black pulled out a charred corpse from the fire, "Boss, King An's body has been found."
The leading man in black narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at it for a long time, unable to tell whether it was genuine or not.
His eyes fell on Yan Shuixin's face, "Is there really no one else alive in the prison?"
She shook her head and said, "On the drawings, this slave painted everything quite honestly."
"Count all the corpses in the prison. Don't leave anyone alone." The leader of the men in black ordered again.
The other men in black quickly carried out the order.
Yan Shuixin stood dryly aside, and cautiously asked the leader of the men in black, "Master, this slave has become the only one alive, when can I receive the reward?"
"There's no rush." His fierce eyes shot over, "If everyone else is really dead, naturally you won't miss your reward. If there is anyone left alive, you will die immediately!"
"There will be absolutely no other living people." Yan Shuixin lowered her head, trying to minimize her sense of existence.
She prayed in her heart that no one will find Xiao Yeheng.
A team of masked men in black went to search the latrines, and even the toilet pits were searched one by one.
Xiao Yeheng was in the deep pit underground, calming his mind and listening. He has profound internal energy and better hearing than ordinary people, so he could faintly hear the noise outside.
