The Dark Lord Ye Tian Zi 夜天子 CHAPTER 1
Ye Tian Zi
CHAPTER 1
Xuanzi No. 1 Prison
"Some people say that this place is the underworld. People like us are The ghost pawns in the Yama Temple, bullshit, obviously bullshit! This is an extremely irresponsible slander against us by people who don't understand us! This kind of prejudice and misunderstanding makes me and other hard-working, loyal and dedicated people grieved."
The person who spoke was wearing a light-blue soap uniform, with a lacquered cloth crown slightly larger than his head on his head, an old red cloth webbing tied around his waist, and a pair of white gang black that did not fit well under his feet. Face straight boots, this dress is clearly a jailer.
However, he was standing in the darkened cell of No. 1 Xuanzi Prison of the Beijing City Punishment Department. Facing the prisoners who had just been imprisoned in the cell, he had a humble tone and demeanor, like a young man recruiting business from the "Spring Breeze Proud Building". Only a sweat towel was missing from the shoulders.
He was very young, at the age of transition from juvenile to youth. His stature is neither tall nor short, his physique is moderate, and his appearance is only medium-to-high, but his willow-like eyebrows complement his eyes, especially his mouth with clear lip lines and diamond-shaped lips, which makes him transparent. A bit of red lips and white teeth.
He smiled lightly, as gentle as a virgin: "Ye Xiaotian, was in the sky prison when I was three years old, and when I was sixteen, I officially took over from my father's class and became the No. 1 prisoner of this mysterious character. A guard. It is now the eighth year of Wanli, and I have been an imperial clerk for three years. Thanks to the appreciation of the prisoner, I am now the head of the No. 1 prison. Xiaotian, I have a pure and good nature..."
Ye Xiaotian boasted. As soon as he said this, a jailer in his early thirties walked quickly to his side and whispered into his ear: "Boss, someone is making trouble, they think our food is poor, and the bedding is wet, look... Ye Xiaotian turned his head slightly and asked in a low voice, "What kind of bastard is he who doesn't open his eyes, who dares to be arrogant in a place like ours?"
The jailer replied in a low voice, "It's Guan Yun, the former Chancellor of the Right Temple of Dali Temple."
Ye Xiaotian asked again: "Have you figured out his details?"
The jailer said: "He's guilty of corruption and pilfered 50,000 taels of silvers. The Grand Secretary personally agreed to his arrest. Those behind him have also been arrested with no hope of being released."
Ye Xiaotian nodded, swept away the prisoners who had just been locked in the left and right cells, his smile was still quiet, and his voice was more beautiful and clearer than many girls' lips and was so small that it can only be heard if the jailer stand beside him .
"These corrupt officials who gave birth to children without an asshole, 60 taels of silver was enough to skin him in the days of Master Hong Wu, but now they have embezzled 50,000 taels of silver, and they still talk about this and that, does he think this prison is for enjoying his retirement? Very shameful. Since he doesn't like sleeping on the bed, put him in the empty cell at the end of the cell to sleep on the straw like a pig, just give him a nest and a bowl of water a day, let him be hungry, that's fine as long as he is not dead."
The jailer said worriedly: "Boss, what if he really wants to commit suicide?"
Ye Xiaotian sneered: "It's no wonder that people who are still poor in this place are willing to die. You don't have to beat him, and you don't have to scold him, just leave him like this, when he is willing to give in, then punish him to clean the toilet for a month, I don't believe that he can't be cured!"
The jailer smiled and led the way.
Ye Xiaotian coughed and faced the prisoners who had just been imprisoned with a smile like a spring breeze, and his voice was even more gentle and amiable: "Everyone, you are all high-ranking officials who live in eight seats, with jade clothes and food of the official lords, although you are all fallen here, you are all still a noble, Xiaotian will take care of them with all his heart, so that all of you will feel like home in my Xuan Zi No. 1 prison."
As soon as ye Xiaotian finished speaking, he smiled and bowed to them. His gaze swept across them as if he was making an appearance on a stage. With just one glance, he took care of every “official”, and then he stepped away gracefully, his demeanor just like a parent patrolling his homeland.
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The prison of the Ministry of Punishment, commonly known as the sky prison. Heaven and earth were divided into four prisons, and the four prisons were all the officials who were put in prison because of "Brother Kong Fang." Most of them were fat, greasy and rubbish masters, in the Sky Prison is also the most ill-crime place.
However, the place where officials are detained is no better than an ordinary prison. It is difficult for people who are still in prison today to say whether they will be able to reinstate them tomorrow. Furthermore, even if they are in prison, the identity of the officials is different from that of ordinary prisoners. If anyone wants to commit suicide or self-mutilation, the prison guards will be unlucky.
But you have to condone them blindly, let them be intimidating, and even collude inside and outside, colluding with news, and it will be bad luck if you don't do your best as a jailer. Therefore, it is the most difficult thing to be a jailer in the Heavenly Prison, and it is even more difficult to be the head of the Heavenly Prison. You have to have a lot of means to deal with this group of people.
Ye Xiaotian took over his father's assignment at the age of sixteen and became a prison guard of this Xuanzi No. 1 prison. He became the head of the prison in just three years, and his methods were evident.
On weekdays, there are new criminals, and they have their own jailers to introduce him to the situation in the prison. Ye Xiaotian doesn't have to come forward in person. However, two months ago, Liu Fenghui, the chief of the Sixth branch, wrote to the Emperor to impeach the two major disasters of the Beijing division: one is the destruction of the people's homes by the prefecture-level officials; the other is that the noble Qi Fuxing encroached on the people's interests, causing the people to be impoverished and miserable.
Emperor Wanli attached great importance to this memorial, and immediately issued an edict to investigate the foreshadowing of the internal government treasury bureau and other items, and decided to reduce it to reduce the burden of corvée service of the people. At the same time, the Three Law Divisions were ordered to strictly investigate the officials and the nobles' families for harming the people, so there were so many more people in Tianjiu, and more than ten criminals were imprisoned at once.
"Little brother, the old man has already studied the Western astrology book that you brought last time. I have a lot of experience. Come on, let the old man do the math for you."
Ye Xiaotian was walking out, next to the cell. There was a sudden greeting from inside, and at the same time, a dead branch-like arm protruded from the wooden fence and swayed towards him enthusiastically.
The wooden fence of this cell is made of thick logs, and the new paint peels off to reveal layers of cracked old paint, silently announcing its age to people. The gap between the fences was only a palm wide, but the criminal's thin face seemed to be able to get out of the fence effortlessly.
He was old-fashioned, with sunken cheeks, and was wearing a very dirty prison uniform, which was full of folds and was almost invisible. The white hair on the head is sparse and almost completely bald, with only a few white hairs remaining tenaciously sticking to the flesh-red scalp, standing upright.
This bald old man's name is Yang Lin. He is an official and a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. As an official in charge of an official, it can be said that when he is in office, he can be described as wind and rain. Unfortunately, he became a prisoner when the incident happened. Involving some big people, so three years in prison has not yet been sentenced.
This Yang Lin has always been obsessed with metaphysics, and he didn't have much time to study when he was an official. For the past three years, he has been doing nothing in prison, studying the Zhouyi Ghost Valley every day, but he has become more and more engrossed to the point where his mental state grew deranged and gotten the nickname by the jailers and prisoners as the 'The Illuminated One. '
Yang Lin always wanted to find someone to try his skills every time he learned something from his research, but the jailers and prisoners were never interested in his nonsense, so his only test object was Ye Xiaotian. Touching bones, divination, looking at pictures, approving eight characters..., all of which have been tried on Ye Xiaotian.
Ye Xiaotian didn't quite believe his nonsense, but he still made an interesting appearance and squatted down in front of Yang Lin.
If these prisoners, especially those who have not yet been sentenced, have any good or bad, as the head of the prison, he must be held responsible for dereliction of duty, so Ye Xiaotian always racks his brains for prisoners who have suicidal thoughts to give the prisoners a reason to live.
This Yang Lin was doomed to be unable to escape from birth, the difference was only in the early and late death, which depended on the battles of the big men above. Since he has determined that it is impossible to get rid of the crime, even his family has not come to visit, it can be said that there is no love in his life.
For such a person, torture and punishment can only make him die early, and good wine and tea can't be the motivation for him to live. Fortunately, he likes to study mystic arts, so Ye Xiaotian chose to do what he likes, and collected many books on this subject for him. Yang Lin is so obsessed with mysticism now that Ye Xiaotian has contributed to the flames.
Ye Xiaotian squatted down in front of the prison door, pretending to be in high spirits, and said, "Master Yang has already gained from his research? Ha, he is indeed a master. I heard the Western missionary say that this constellation technique calculated by the solar calendar, It is difficult for us Easterners to study and understand."
Yang Lin stroked his sparse beard and said proudly: "This old man is very knowledgeable, and the mere Western constellation technique is more than one level worse than my Middle-earth Zhouyi technique, what is it that I don't understand? Come on, come and report your birth date."
Ye Xiaotian recited the birth date in cooperation, and Yang Da Shenzhu immediately fell into deep thought, saying: "Well, I will convert your birth time into the Western calendar first... ..."
Yang Lin held his fingers and muttered for a while, then suddenly his expression lifted and said, "Yes! You should belong to the Gemini zodiac according to the birth date. Gemini people are very clever, but their temperament is one with two sides. : Movement and yin and yang, mutual ebb and flow. Good and evil, happiness and melancholy, gentleness and cruelty at the same time, complex and complicated..."
Yang Lin said, swinging his bald head repeatedly. As a good listener, Ye Xiaotian did not miss the opportunity, he added a sentence: "So, what is the fate of the kid?"
At this moment, a very elegant and clear voice suddenly came from the cell next to him: "Xiao Ye..." There was business coming", Ye Xiaotian quickly quickly waved his hand to let Yang Lin stop, rushed over head over heels, rubbed his hands and smile, "Huang Shilang, I don't know what the boss has ordered?"
Huang Shilang took out some loose silver and handed it out from the fence door. He said slowly, "Please, Ye Tou'er, please buy me a 'Tianfu' pickled elbow. The knife should be thinner, and a 'bone penetrating' roast chicken should be fresh from the pot. This wine... it's better to carve flowers, and it will take more than five years."
"Okay! Just a moment, the boy will be back soon."
Ye Xiaotian took the loose silver coins and weighed them. He knew that there would be a lot of money left after he bought the wine and meat that waiter Huang asked for. Unexpectedly, he could make a small profit before he handed over his shift today. When he went out, he even walked a lot lighter.
Guarding the high-walled courtyard of the Xuanzi No. 1 prison, dealing with the fallen officials, guarding, frightening, coaxing, cheating, and receiving a little money, this is Ye Xiaotian's daily happy life. He thought that such a "good life" could last a lifetime, but he didn't expect that this would be his last day in the prison.
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