Xie Shi measured the character to capture the fugitive
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there were two guards in charge of the Kyoto prison, one named Hu Meng and the other named Xia Kan. The two have two common characteristics: they both love to drink and can brag about it. Therefore, the two are like-minded and have been partnered together for more than ten years, and the feelings between the two can be described as more than brothers and sisters.
One day, someone gave Hu Meng a pot of good wine, and Hu Meng thought to himself: "Such a good wine, I drink it alone is not interesting, it is better that I prepare two small dishes, and when I am on an errand at night, I will take it to prison and make two cups with the old man Xia Kan!" ”
In this way, on the night of their duty together, Hu Meng brought this altar of wine and the appetizers prepared in advance into the prison, and he placed the wine and food on the small table in the prison for the prisoner to rest. As soon as Xia Kan saw that there was wine and vegetables, the saliva immediately flowed out three feet long. So the two people quickly sat down with great interest, you and I a cup, eating and drinking and blowing and making trouble, unconsciously, a pot of wine went down halfway.
Unexpectedly, their every move was clearly seen by a prisoner named Shao Ba in the opposite cell. Before his arrest, the boy was a squad leader in a gang of bandits.
One night, Shao Ba was ordered to take two bandits and jumped to the capital to step on the spot, and the fast catchers who had received the secret report in advance came to a "turtle in an urn", and during the fight between the two sides, the other two bandits were killed on the spot, and Shao Ba, the boy, stubbornly resisted and eventually fell into prison. After this guy was arrested, his mouth was so hard that he couldn't pry it open, and the government had no choice but to temporarily put him in a big prison.
Shao Ba saw that Hu Meng and Xia Kan were a little drunk, and the boy had a clever move, and a prison escape plan suddenly appeared in his mind.
Only to see him suddenly stand up, walk to the iron bar door of the cell, cover his stomach and "chirp and hum" and moan incessantly. But Hu Meng and Xia Kan patronized and bragged about drinking, and even had the heart to pay attention to him. He saw that the two jailers did not care about him at all, so he simply pulled his throat and shouted loudly: "Military master, I want to go to the hut to thin, I can't hold back!" ”
Hu Meng and Xia Kan were eating and drinking happily, when the fierce man heard the prisoner shouting to go to the hut, and suddenly felt a little disappointed. Hu Meng said angrily, "In the middle of the night, what are you yelling about?" Xia Kan also echoed: "Are you looking for a beating in TMD?" ”
When Shao Ba heard this, he shouted even louder: "Oh yo, no, can't hold back!" Saying that, he deliberately squeezed out a loud fart, and then covered his stomach to make a look of unbearable pain.
When Hu Meng saw it, he said to Xia Kan, "Brother, you drink slowly first, and I will escort this boy to the hut!" Hu Meng stretched out and lazily got up to unlock the door of the cell where Shao Ba was being held.
Shao Ba bent over his waist, covered his stomach and slowly moved out of the cell door, he hummed and groaned, and pretended to be pitiful and pleaded with Hu Meng: "Please raise your noble hand, hurry up and open the shackles for me, I am almost unable to hold back!" Hu Meng didn't eat this set, he went up and raised his leg and kicked Shao Ba, "You boy give me less instigation!" Come on! Saying this, he pushed and shoved Shao Ba and came to the hut. Shao Ba deliberately rubbed and rubbed in the hut for a long time, and in the midst of Hu Meng's scolding, he slowly left the hut before following Hu Meng back to the cell.
After Hu Meng returned, he and Xia Kan touched another cup, and the two had just drunk it, and Shao Ba in the cold prison was pulling his throat away again, "Oh yo, oh yo, mom!" Oh my belly! Can't hold back! ”
Xia Kan was angry as soon as he heard it, and he got up and kicked at Shao Ba's calf across the iron fence, "You boy, you can't stop in the middle of the night!" ”
"I can't hold back!" ShaoBa slowly squatted on the ground on his stomach in pain.
"Get out!" Xia Kan opened the cell door and shouted at Shao Ba. Only then did Shao Ba slowly get up from the iron fence.
Shao Ba went to the hut again to rub it for a long time before being scolded by Xia Kan.
Not long after he returned to the cell, he saw that Hu Meng and Xia Kan were drinking a little high, so he repeated the same trick, pulling his throat and shouting. And so on and so on, and the two jailers were a bit overwhelmed.
"NND, you can't tell grandpa to drink and stop!" Hu Meng couldn't help scolding.
"Hu Ge!" With the help of wine, Xia Kan said to Hu Meng in a low voice, "Open the cell door and let this guy go to the hut to untie his hands, anyway, he is still wearing shackles and shackles, and he can't run!" Hu Meng thought it made sense, so he scolded and grinned, "You boy don't rub me, go back quickly!" Then he simply opened the cell door and let Shao Ba go by himself, and Shao Ba pretended to be a non-committal and nodded his head.
After Shao Ba left, Hu Meng and Xia Kan continued to drink and eat vegetables, pushing the cup to change the cup, and the two unconsciously became drunk and unconscious.
When it was almost dawn the next day, Hu Meng woke up and saw that Xia Kan was still lying on the opposite table and couldn't wake up, he stretched out his sore arm, and suddenly found that the door to the cell opposite Shao Ba was open. Hu Meng was suddenly agitated, and he immediately ran over to check where there was still Shao Ba's shadow. Hu Meng was confused at that time, and it took him half a day to remember that Shao Ba had gone to the hut last night. He hurried to the hut again, but still found no shadow of ShaoBa. Hu Meng was suddenly panicked, he quickly came back to wake up Xia Kan, Xia Kan heard that Shao Ba had escaped, he was frightened on the spot, the two discussed for half a day, and did not dare to hide the truth privately, so they had to report this matter truthfully to the prison guard, and the jailer was not lightly frightened when he heard it. While scolding Hu Meng and Xia Kan as two hun balls, he quickly dispatched a few guards to look around for fugitives. However, everyone was busy until the third pole of the sun, and they did not find Shao Ba's shadow.
"It's amazing! The door outside the prison was so locked, and ShaoBa was still wearing handcuffs and shackles, could it be that he had long wings and flew? "Everyone looked at each other and couldn't guess what it was all about." Finally, someone proposed to ask Xie Shi, the "Holy Hand of Word Measurement", to help.
"Yeah, how come I didn't think of that?" The jailer slapped his head on the door and hurriedly asked Hu Meng to go to Xie Shi's measuring hall to do this errand. Hu Meng listened, and without saying a word, he turned around and trotted away and rushed to Xie Shi's word measuring hall.
Coincidentally, Hu Meng had just gone out not far, and on the road he met Xie Shi, Hu Meng quickly went forward to give Xie Shi a gift, told Xie Shi the ins and outs of the matter, he grabbed Xie Shi's sleeve and pleaded bitterly: "Sir, you must be able to save me!" I have the old and the young, and they all expect me to live! Xie Shi saw this and asked Hu Meng to write a word on the ground. Hu Meng picked up a stone from the ground and almost without thinking wrote a "parrot" on the ground.
Xie Shi looked at the word for a moment and said to Hu Meng: "The parrot has a clever tongue, although it can speak, but it does not know how to protect itself, and eventually it will be caught and put in a cage." So this fugitive can't run! ”
Hu Meng scratched his scalp and looked at Xie Shi incomprehensibly. Xie Shi pointed to the word "parrot" he had written and said to him: "The left side of the word 'parrot' is a 'baby', indicating that the fugitive's feathers are not yet abundant, so how can he escape far?" ”
At this moment, Xie Shi glanced up and saw a sparrow standing on the eaves of the prison city, looking uneasily. Xie Shi pointed to the sparrow and asked Hu Meng, "See the sparrow on the eaves?" ”
"See!"
"What's under the eaves?"
"Thatched house!"
"That's right! You can go to the hut and look for it, and the fugitive is hiding there! ”
Hu Meng didn't have time to say anything more, so he quickly went back to report to the jailer, who ordered everyone to pick up the guys and surround the hut together, and they went in to see that Shao Ba was sitting on the toilet and untied his hands.
It turned out that Shao Ba was really going to escape while the two jailers were drunk. But helplessly, his hands and feet were shackled, and every step he moved, in addition to being inconvenient, would make a noise, so he secretly hid in a secluded place in the prison, moved a stone to break the chain on his body, but the night was so quiet, he did not dare to make too much noise, so he smashed and stopped, and he tossed and turned most of the night in fear, seeing that it was going to be done, but he heard someone in the prison shouting to arrest the fugitive, Shao Ba saw that there was no hope of escape, and simply sneaked back to the hut and pretended to be unarmed.
Afterwards, the prison guard took Hu Meng and Xia Kan to Xie Shi's measuring hall to pay their respects. They also sent Xie Shi a plaque with the words "Things are like gods" written on it.
Since then, Xie Shi's fame in the capital has become even greater.