A Journey into the World of Movies

Chapter 101 Tragic Man

The conversation was divided into two parts. Since Lin Yang helped Ning Caichen to stand out, Ning Caichen successfully received the 70 taels of accounts, and Lin Yang's amulet, Yufeng Talisman, and paper crane were beside him, so Ning Caichen decided to go first. Go back to your hometown, return the account to Jubaozhai, and then go to the capital to catch up with the exam.

When Ning Caichen returned to his hometown, it was already October, the autumn wind was bleak, and everything withered.

Walking on the streets of his hometown, there were few people, and there were corpses of sickness and starvation everywhere, which made Ning Caichen frown.

The doors and windows of every house on the street were closed, and the two women saw a young man passing by, and started talking.

"Who is that young man?"

The other woman recognized Ning Caichen, and sighed: "He is that poor scholar from the back street, he just came back now, the world has changed!"

Ning Caichen didn't know that the two women were secretly talking about him, and he never imagined that his hometown would look different, and it was no longer the hometown he remembered.

Ning Caichen saw the only small restaurant open on the street, and he happened to be hungry, so he went in.

In the small wine shop, there are some men with hideous faces, obviously all desperadoes.

Someone who recognized Ning Caichen said, "Isn't he the guy who collected the bills from Jubaozhai?"

"Jubaozhai is gone long ago, he is still stupid!"

Ning Caichen and these people in the wine shop looked at each other, although he felt a little uneasy, but seeing that he was in his hometown, Ning Caichen felt lucky, and guessed that these folks would not harm him.

Ning Caichen found a table to sit down, and the cook brought him a bowl of human meat.

After all, it was because of his poor experience that Ning Caichen didn't feel it after taking a few mouthfuls.While he was still eating, he suddenly saw a burly man walking in, holding on to a human thigh.

Now, Ning Caichen was not calm anymore, and he looked into the cook's pot again, and something was even more wrong.Just at this time, a dog came in with a human hand in its mouth.

Ning Caichen understood in an instant, and immediately vomited.

Before Ning Caichen finished vomiting, everyone in the wine shop had already surrounded Ning Caichen with their swords.

Everyone laughed ferociously.

"Did you get the bill?"

"How much did you receive?"

Ning Caichen felt bitter in his heart, he was surrounded by a group of people, even the Yufeng Talisman, he couldn't escape.

Just at this time, a voice came from outside.

"Stop! We're after fugitives."

"The yamen servant is here, run!"

All the desperadoes in the wine shop scattered like birds and beasts.

Ning Caichen thought that the yamen servant was good, so he got up and picked up his bookshelf.

However, the yamen servants couldn't catch the desperadoes, so they arrested Ning Caichen.

One of them compared the reward images and squeezed Ning Caichen's chin.

"You are Zhou Yabing?"

Ning Caichen hastily denied, "He has a beard, but I don't! I'm a good person!"

The yamen servant didn't listen to Ning Caichen's explanation at all.

"Shave off the beard, isn't it gone? Take it back and receive the reward!"

Ning Caichen: "...!"

The servants couldn't help but arrest Ning Caichen and put him in prison.

Seeing all the yamen servants leaving and himself being imprisoned, Ning Caichen immediately yelled: "What are you doing? I didn't break the law. Let me out quickly. I was wronged. I'm not Zhou Yabing!"

As soon as Ning Caichen made a sound, other prisoners in the prison also booed: "Let me out, I'm not Zhou Yabing!"

Ning Caichen yelled a few times, but he didn't call back the yamen servant, instead he heard a shout from behind him in the prison.

"Don't be noisy!"

Ning Caichen looked back and saw an old man with disheveled hair and ragged clothes writing on the wall.

Ning Caichen approached slowly, and said behind the old man, "My name is Ning Caichen, I'm not Zhou Yabing!"

The old man turned around, threw Ning Caichen to the ground with a flick of his hand, then leaned over and said, "I'm a human being just like you, and I'm destined to go to jail."

Ning Caichen didn't believe it: "Old man, don't be so pessimistic!"

The old man continued: "My ancestors have no eyes, let me be good at learning, and let me write books to pass on to the world. Who knows, when I write travel notes, I am said to have leaked state secrets; when I write history, I am said to be satirizing the past; I instigate rebellion; write ghost stories, and say I lead people to superstition; in the end, I had to rewrite the biography of a celebrity. Who knows, the celebrity I wrote lost power and was designated as a rebellious party. Together with him, I was sentenced to life imprisonment Are you saying that he was born to go to jail?"

While listening to the old man, Ning Caichen flipped through the old man's cloth bag. Inside the cloth bag was a token and a book of "The Way of the World".

When Ning Caichen was flipping through the pages, a cockroach crawled onto his shoulder, causing Ning Caichen to cry out in shock.

Hearing that there were cockroaches, the old man moved very sharply. He grabbed the cockroach and stuffed it into his mouth to eat.

Seeing Ning Caichen felt sick again.

The old man smiled and said, "Don't waste it. Cockroaches here are more fragrant than chicken legs. You will know when you live here for a long time. There is nothing to eat here. Don't pick and choose."

Ning Caichen asked, "Old man, how long have you lived here?"

The old man said: "I was just like you when I first came here, and now I've become like this. How long did you say, don't you have a personality?"

Ning Caichen saw the appearance of the old man. It had been decades at least, and he immediately became confused. He got up, walked to the prison door, and shouted: "I'm wronged! I'm wronged! I'm wronged! I'm not Zhou Yabing ah!"

Following Ning Caichen's yelling, the other prisoners also shouted mechanically: "I'm wronged! I'm not Zhou Yabing!"

Ning Caichen yelled a few times, but no jailer came, and he returned to the cell dejectedly.

"What should I do? Is it really going to be in prison for decades, just like the old man?"

Ning Caichen was heartbroken for a while.

"How do I get out?"

Ning Caichen thought about it, and finally, he remembered Lin Yang's advice to him.

"By the way, Zhihe! Brother Lin has great powers and will definitely come to save me!"

Ning Caichen took out the paper crane from his bosom, and said happily, "It's up to you now!"

Before Ning Caichen was released, the paper crane was snatched away by the old man.

"Hey, are you playing with paper cranes?"

Ning Caichen was shocked and said, "Give it back to me!"

The old man looked at it, but he didn't see any tricks, so he threw the paper crane to Ning Caichen.

Ning Caichen was afraid that the paper crane would be damaged, so he hastily connected it with both hands.

"By the way, brother Lin asked me to release it when no one is around. During the day, it would be terrible if someone snatched it. I will release it at night."

Ning Caichen put the paper crane in his arms and hid it, and now he is much calmer.

Once he knew that he still had hope of being rescued, Ning Caichen became more calm and started chatting with the old man.

"By the way, old man, what's your name?"

The old man slapped his head and said, "Oh, it's been too long, I don't remember!"

Ning Caichen said: "Old man, don't worry, someone will come to save me, and I will take you out when the time comes!"

The old man shook his head and said: "What's the use of going out, I will be arrested for anything I do, why don't I just stay in prison and write a book quietly!"

Ning Caichen said: "Old man, I know there is a place where absolutely no one would dare to arrest you!"

The old man obviously didn't believe it, "Is there such a place?"

"That's right! Because that place is haunted, no one dares to go there!"

The old man said angrily: "Young man, you still want me to go to haunt the ghost, so why don't you let me go to die?"

Ning Caichen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, there are two magicians with great powers over there. If you follow them, ghosts will never dare to harm you. Besides, not all ghosts are bad. I have seen good ones. ghost."

When the old man heard that Ning Caichen had seen a ghost, he immediately became interested.

"Come on, talk about it, and see if it's a ghost story written by me!"

Ning Caichen immediately told the old man about Lin Yang, Yan Chixia, and Xiahou's fierce battle against the tree demon, as well as about Nie Xiaoqian.

The old man sneered and said, "Young man, I didn't expect you to be good at making up stories!"

Ning Caichen hurriedly said: "Old man, what I said is true, you will know when brother Lin comes to save me."

The old man only thought that Ning Caichen was delusional and went to write a book on his own.

Ning Caichen sat there, thinking silently: "Am I going to ask Brother Lin for help? Or should I not? I have only been away for two months, and I have achieved this kind of virtue. Do I have to trouble Brother Lin again? But if I don't Looking for Brother Lin, am I going to be wronged in prison for the rest of my life? Well, let me wait a few days to see if I was wronged, and sooner or later they will find out and let me out. If I really can’t get out, then go to Lin It's not too late, brother."

(End of this chapter)