worthless [rebirth]

Chen Ling was locked in a cell that accommodated 300 prisoners. When the guards pushed him into the cell, there were many people lying on the floor of the cell. There was no bed, not even a simple straw stack, just a few hundred people. Lying down, people are pressing people, people are crowding people, and the prison uniforms are stained with blood and mud, and the original color of the clothes cannot be seen clearly.

Most of the people were sickly lying on their sides, only a pair of black and white pupils on their dirty faces showed that those people were still alive, the sound of panting, howling, and groaning filled the entire cell, as well as the sound of stillness. There was a disgusting smell of feces and urine, because the ground was full of filthy things that the prisoners had disposed of on the spot except for the people lying there, accompanied by the rats frolicking wildly, it was simply horrible.

"Go in!" The jailer unceremoniously pushed Chen Ling, sent him into the cell, and locked the door heavily.

Chen Ling was pushed forward and staggered a step, accidentally stepping on someone's foot.

"You're blind!" This was a thick, bearded man who was sleeping on another person's lap with his eyes closed, but when Chen Ling woke him up, he yelled in displeasure.

"I'm sorry." Chen Ling apologized, raised his foot and took a step back. He felt something soft under his foot. He looked down and saw that it was a pile of excrement. Already choked by the unpleasant smell, Chen Ling finally couldn't hold back and vomited it out.

"You are wronged! My lord! You are wronged!"

When the other prisoners heard the commotion here, they didn't have the intention of watching the excitement. Instead, they got up from the ground and stretched out their hands to grab the jailer's clothes.

"what!!!"

Suddenly someone screamed, and Chen Ling took a look because of the discomfort in his stomach. It turned out that a person grabbed the jailer's trouser leg so tightly that he chopped off a hand.

"Ouch—" The smell of blood mixed with the stench of feces was even more unbearable. Chen Ling didn't have a meal in the morning, so there was nothing to vomit, but now he almost vomited all his bile.

Seeing that someone had his hand chopped off, the other prisoners didn't dare to cry for injustice, but no one went to see the injury of the prisoner whose hand was severed, let alone help him stop the bleeding.

The bearded man who was stepped on by Chen Ling before was even more exaggerated, and even made a joke, pouting at the people next to him with mischievous eyebrows, pointing at Chen Ling and laughing: "Yo, he even vomited on it, with a Like a girl!"

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed.

Chen Ling stubbornly resisted the feeling of vomiting, wiped the corners of his mouth, and stared at the bearded man without saying a word.

"Are you angry?" The bearded man laughed dryly, sat up, and said, "Come and beat me on the back!"

Immediately someone beat his back courteously.

Youzai Youzai enjoyed the service, and the bearded man looked Chen Ling up and down, seeing that he was not like a child of ordinary people but like a young master of a wealthy family, he spat on the ground and said in a rough voice: "Boy! What did you do to get caught?"

Chen Ling was very disgusted with this kind of cell boss bully, but in order to avoid unnecessary troubles, he still answered, and said lightly: "I was wronged."

"Ahahaha!" The bearded man laughed so hard that he leaned back, and many people laughed along with him.

Hearing the unfriendliness in the laughter, Chen Ling frowned displeasedly, and said, "What are you laughing at?"

"We have all been wronged." Those people said with a smile, "How many people in this cell are not shouting that they have been wronged, but how many of them can really claim their injustice?"

"Let me tell you, don't think about whether you are wronged or not, you should ask God to bless you to live until the day you finish your sentence!" The bearded man said, with a hint of ridicule towards Chen Ling in his tone, laughing at his thoughts Too naive.

Chen Ling felt that he had nothing to say to these vulgar people, so he stopped talking.The thin man whose hand had been cut off was still crying by the fence, but his voice was weak from the blood loss.Chen Ling couldn't stand it, so he stepped on the rare gap on the ground where there was no feces, and tore off the corner of his clothes to bandage him to stop the bleeding.

"Qi—" the bearded man coldly rolled his eyes at Chen Ling, and said with a sneer, "I'm too busy to take care of myself, so I care about others!"

Hearing the sound, Chen Ling took a glance out of the corner of his eye, and saw that the man with the beard lying on the ground before lying down again had his legs crossed and his eyes closed to rest.

"Thank you...Thank you..." The injured man thanked Chen Ling.

"It's easy to do." Chen Ling said calmly, seeing that the place was clean and not full of filth, so he squatted down with his back against the fence.Holding his knees with his hands, he witnessed everything in this cell. From time to time, mice ran past his feet unscrupulously, and not one, but five or six in groups.

It was already unbearable for Chen Ling to hold ordinary prisoners here, but Jiang Chi was held in the death row. I don't know how bad the situation is?Not only did Chen Ling start to feel a little worried, Jiang Chi was injured, so staying in such a messy environment for a long time would be harmful instead of beneficial.

"Come, come, dinner is ready!"

At this time, the iron door outside the cell opened again, and several jailers brought in two wooden barrels. Before Chen Ling realized what happened, the prisoners who were lying on the ground stopped in the blink of an eye. Get up, push and rush towards the door, holding a pottery bowl with half rotten in hand.

The man with the severed arm also wanted to get the meal, but he lost too much blood and was already weak, so he couldn't move.Seeing that Chen Ling was still squatting, he nudged Chen Ling with his elbow, and said weakly, "Hey...why don't you go to pick up the meal? You only get the meal once a day, and if you go late, it will be gone. You can only wait This time tomorrow."

"Yeah." Chen Ling didn't know the rules in the prison. After hearing the man's explanation, he immediately got up and planned to get two steamed buns. As a result, the gate of the fence was already surrounded by water, and he couldn't squeeze in at all, so he had to stand outside the crowd. He waited until they were all gone before going to pick up the meal, but at that time the bucket of gruel and corn bread had already been snatched, so he had to return to the previous position empty-handed.

"Didn't grab it?" The man shook his head and smiled, and said, "You are new here and don't know the rules. It seems that you can only be hungry today, so you have to move faster tomorrow."

"Thank you for the reminder." Chen Ling smiled lightly. In fact, Chen Ling wasn't the only one who didn't get the rice. On the contrary, most people's bowls were empty. It was because the prison guards didn't bring enough rice that everyone rushed to grab it.

Jiang Guo is a big country, who would have thought that such a scene in prison, is this really a peaceful and prosperous age?

"Ah..." Chen Ling couldn't help but sighed.

"Give!"

When Chen Ling was in a daze, a cornbread was delivered to him. Chen Ling didn't pick it up directly, but raised his head and followed the outstretched hand to look up, and saw that it was the bearded man from before.Thinking of this person's unfriendliness before, Chen Ling was afraid that there was something tricky in it, so he looked at him warily and didn't bother to take the cornbread.

"Take it!" The bearded man scolded impatiently, "Are you going to be hungry tonight if you don't eat?" He said and stuffed the cornbread into Chen Ling's arms.

Chen Ling found that when he picked up the cornbread, everyone looked at him a little strangely, with a hint of envy, and a little jealousy in his body.

"You can't be killed by medicine." The bearded man snorted coldly, returned to his position and continued to lie down, while a group of people squeezed his arms and beat his legs.When everyone was scrambling for food just now, Chen Ling had already noticed that the bearded man hadn't moved from the beginning to the end, but now there were three cornbreads in the pottery bowl beside him, not counting the one for himself.

It seems that the bearded man is really the "prison bully" of this cell, Chen Ling thought, and then broke the cornbread in half, planning to eat half for himself and give the other half to the injured person.When he broke open the cornbread, he was stunned for a moment, because it was not an ordinary steamed bun, it was filled with two slices of duck leg meat.

Then he looked at the cornbreads that the prisoners gnawed on. They were all black and hard dead faces. Only then did he understand why those people looked at him like hungry wolves just now. What I'm really looking at is just this kind of cornbread with a lot of mystery.

Chen Ling looked at the bearded man in bewilderment, wondering why his prison life was different from others' because he was also a prisoner.

"In prison, money is still as easy to use as outside." The prisoner with the severed hand explained to Chen Ling quietly: "That bearded man heard that he has a mountain and robbed a lot of money, as long as he is willing to spend money, let alone that he can It’s delicious and delicious, even if you go out early, you might as well.”

Chen Ling gave the half of the cornbread to the other party. He didn't speak, but subconsciously squeezed a piece of jade pendant that was next to his body.It was brought out by him from the palace. Although it was not a priceless item, it should still be a treasure in the eyes of these jailers who have never seen the world. When necessary, you might as well take this piece of jade for a try.

Eating cornbread in the face of the stench in the room did require a certain amount of endurance, and Chen Ling ninja swallowed the half of the cornbow uncomfortably.

Less than half an hour later, the prison was quiet again. Some old, weak, sick and disabled huddled in the corner, trembling and moaning softly. Everyone seemed a little listless and lazy.Even the bearded man looked exhausted with his eyes closed.

The entire cell, which can accommodate 300 people, does not even have a single window. The only thing that can be used for lighting is the kerosene lamp placed on a square table outside the fence. The light is dim and lulls people to sleep.After some time, Chen Ling started to feel a little sleepy. Because he couldn't see the sun, he couldn't tell the time, but according to the time when Chen Ling came here, it's probably midnight now.

Many people should have already fallen asleep. Although Chen Ling was sleepy, he couldn't sleep at all, because rats and cockroaches were more rampant at night. After witnessing a huge mouse crawling up a prisoner's face, he gnawed off half of his nose. After that, Chen Ling didn't even feel sleepy anymore.

"Ah!" The bitten prisoner woke up from his dream, holding his nose and screaming.Someone was woken up, cursed and turned over and went back to sleep.

Here, sympathy will not exist. When everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, no one will spare their thoughts and energy to care about an irrelevant person.

Thinking of this, Chen Ling felt an indescribable chill in his heart.

Everyone is the same, indifferent, selfish, hypocritical, but humble, weak, and helpless at the same time.Life or death cannot be controlled by oneself.

Chen Ling squatted with his eyes open until dawn, so much so that his legs became numb afterwards.At daybreak, the door of the cell was opened again, and the jailer brought back a seriously injured person from outside.

"Go in!" After the jailer threw the man in like a torn sack, he locked the door again and left. Chen Ling glanced at it from a distance, and saw that it should be a prisoner who had just been interrogated and received severe punishment, with whip marks all over his body , and there were many traces of being burned by the soldering iron on his face, bloody and bloody.

The man had been lying on the ground since he was thrown in, motionless.A rough-looking man next to him might think he was an eyesore, so he kicked him in disgust and said, "Go to hell!"

Unexpectedly, the man was kicked and turned over, his back was still motionless, his eyes were closed, and his chest could not be seen rising and falling.

The man felt that something was wrong, so he reached out his hand to poke under his nose, then snorted indifferently, and kicked the man further away again.

"This is..." Seeing this scene, Chen Ling was a little puzzled.

The man with the severed hand shook his head silently at Chen Ling, sighed and hesitated to speak.

Chen Ling couldn't help but walked over, tried under the man's nose, and found that the man had already stopped breathing.Standing up straight, Chen Ling found that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes, as if they thought he was meddling in his business. It seemed that the prisoners were already used to being taken away alive, but they were already dead when they returned.

Chen Ling felt a little uncomfortable. He didn't understand why these people were so indifferent. They could remain indifferent while watching someone die in front of him.Chen Ling tore off a piece of square cloth from the hem of his clothes and covered the prisoner's face with it.

"Hey! You're very meddling!" someone shouted unfriendly to him.

Chen Ling turned around and saw that it was the bearded man from yesterday, maybe it was because he took the other party for a while. Although the man still looked unreasonable, Chen Ling didn't hate him as much as before.

There is a saying that "different ways do not conspire with each other", Chen Ling felt that there was no need to spend too much time talking with someone who had a different opinion from his own, so he didn't answer.

The bearded man sneered, pointed to the left corner of the deepest part of the cell, and said coldly: "See, there are dead people piled up on the ground over there. If you want sympathy, do you come here?"

Slightly stunned, following the direction the bearded man pointed, Chen Ling saw about [-] people lying on the ground in a haphazard manner, and several of them were stacked on top of them, all of them motionless.In fact, Chen Ling noticed that corner yesterday, but he always thought that those people were sleeping, but he didn't expect that they had become corpses.No wonder the cell smelled so bad. It wasn't all the smell of feces and urine. It was summer, and the corpses would smell after a day. And those corpses had been stored here for an unknown amount of time, so it was strange that they didn't rot.

"Won't the jailer come to deal with someone's death?" Chen Ling asked.

"People die here every day, those who were beaten to death, those who starved to death, those who couldn't stand the injustice, those who died of illness... Those jailers have long been impatient, and simply let them rot. Give him more money." The bearded man said casually, looked up at Chen Ling, and said, "You're not from the local area, are you?"

"I'm a businessman from the imperial city, unfortunately I was involved in a murder case." Chen Ling said.

"You're out of luck." The bearded man spat, and greeted Chen Ling, "Come and sit!" He raised his foot and kicked a thin man's butt beside him, cursing, "Stop!"

"Yes, yes, Brother Long." The thin man nodded and bowed, and hid aside, giving Chen Ling a seat.

Chen Ling hadn't figured out the details of the big bearded man yet, but just looked at him warily, not daring to sit over rashly, who knew if the other party had no good intentions.

"I won't eat you again, just look at you like that, and mutter silently." The bearded man scratched the back of his head impatiently, cursing all the time.

Hearing that the other party is a king of the mountain, now he really looks like a bandit, Chen Ling thought in his heart.After all, being in prison is no better than being outside, and one thing more is worse than one thing less. In the end, Chen Ling sat down.

"It doesn't look like you can kill people like this. That dog officer Wang Anzhi is really blind." The bearded man said, carried away and patted a prisoner on the head, cursing: "Don't just hit the left leg, but also the right leg." And the legs!"

"My cousin and I came here to do the silk business. Unexpectedly, we were framed last night. My cousin was convicted of murder and is now in death row." Chen Ling half-truthfully said.

The bearded man squinted his eyes comfortably, and when Chen Ling said the word "death prison", he opened his eyes and sat up straight, "But which prison cell?"

"?" Chen Ling noticed that there was a small cell surrounded by iron sheets not far from the cell surrounded by iron bars, which could accommodate about 50 people.At first, Chen Ling thought it was the place where the jailers rested, but now it didn't look like it.

The bearded man said: "There are five cells in the Chaozhou Prison. The people in the east, west, north, and south are ordinary criminals. Only the cell in the middle is where the death row is. Your cousin should be in that room."

"Ah?...Ah!" Chen Ling replied absently, staring at the cell, already having a plan in mind, turned his head, and said to the bearded man, "Thank you for your cornbread yesterday."

"What is this?" The bearded man said disdainfully: "Don't say it's corn bread, even if I want to leave now, who would dare to stop me?"

"Prison escape?" Chen Ling asked.

"I'm afraid it's impossible to escape from prison, but it's easy to find a scapegoat." The bearded man said: "As long as you give the jailer a few more money, one or two scapegoats can be found easily. As long as they don't mention this, the higher-ups will People generally don't notice."

"Silver is really so easy to use?" Chen Ling pretended to be puzzled.

Seeing his confused face, the bearded man not only laughed, but said, "Why, you kid, are you going to use your brain?"

"Oh... how can it be, how can it be." Chen Ling smiled and said nothing. He only looked at the cell not far away, and secretly squeezed the jade pendant in his hand.

After about two hours, the jailer opened the cell door again to deliver food. This time, Chen Ling did not wait for the food to be snatched up like yesterday, but ran to the door and waited. When the jailer came over, he immediately pulled Take a person's arm, and look at stuffing the jade pendant into that person's hand.

The jailer glanced at Chen Ling, and said calmly, "What do you want to do?"

"Officer, my brother is in that iron room, can you please pass on a message for me?" Chen Ling said.

The jailer measured the feel of the jade pendant and felt that it was in good condition and worth a few dollars. Seeing that no one of his companions noticed that he had caught the oil and water, he quietly put the jade pendant in his arms and said in a low voice, "What's your brother's name? What else do you want to pass on? But let’s say it first, it’s not okay if it’s involved in the case!”

"Don't worry, sir, I understand all of this." Chen Ling nodded with an apologetic smile, and said, "My brother's name is Mo Xiao. In fact, I don't have anything to say to him. It's just that he was injured before. I want you to take a look at it." See if he is healed, it is best to send him some wound medicine."

"Send medicine?" The jailer's face sank, and he said, "It's just a piece of jade, do you want Master to help you do so many things?"

"That's definitely not possible!" Chen Ling said: "I still have some money in the inn before. I will tell you the address after the matter is completed, and you can just pick it up."

"You won't lie to me?" the jailer was dubious.

"I'm in prison, life and death are not your word, how dare I lie to you?" Chen Ling said.

The jailer nodded, and then he agreed. He took out two cornbreads from the barrel and gave them to Chen Ling, saying, "Go back and wait."

"Thank you, sir." Chen Ling took the cornbread and sat back beside the bearded man with a normal expression.

"It takes so long to get a cornbread? You are so fucking ink!" The bearded man laughed at Chen Ling.

Knowing that it would be useless to talk too much, Chen Ling just responded with a faint "um" and didn't say anything else.Thinking that the place where Jiang Chi was staying was a death row prisoner, Chen Ling couldn't help worrying. Even if the situation in an ordinary cell was like this, it was conceivable how terrible the place where the death row prisoner was held was. What if the other party's wound was infected?

Holding the cornbread, Chen Ling didn't have the heart to eat it. He just waited for the jailer to bring back news about Jiang Chi.

Soon the food was robbed, and the jailer left with the empty rice bucket.After about a stick of incense, the jailer left and returned.

Seeing the man coming back, Chen Ling hurriedly got up to ask about the situation, but he heard the other party say: "Did you make a mistake, there is no one named Mo Xiao among the death row prisoners, did you just come in yesterday? There was no death row prisoner yesterday." New prisoners go in!"

Chen Ling was stunned.

If Jiang Chi was not imprisoned in death row, where would he be imprisoned? !