Even the worst common locks in the 21st century are much better than those of this era.
Zhang Shixun had read articles about locks and knew that the Song Dynasty also had good locks, and there were many varieties, such as text locks, secret door locks, and reverse pull locks. In addition to the common forward-opening and reverse-opening locks, there were also mandarin duck locks that required two keys to open at the same time.
There are also rarer special locks, such as the "three-slap lock". As the name suggests, after the key is inserted into the lock, it needs to be hit three times in a row to open it.
The most perverted one is the "Poetry Lock" with Chinese characteristics. This will test your ability. It is not enough to just find the key. You must match the correct poem to open it.
The wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.
Although he knew he couldn't reach the lock on the cell door, he still tried to touch it.
As the sky gradually brightened, Zhang Shixun nudged Gao Yanei, who was soundly asleep, and said, "Yanei, wake up."
"Stop making trouble, let me sleep a little longer." Gao Yanei muttered, turned over and went back to sleep.
Zhang Shixun pushed him again, but when he didn't respond, he shouted in his ear, "Yanei, there's a fire."
Gao Yanei jumped up and asked in panic, "Where's the fire? Where's the fire?"
Seeing Zhang Shixun looking at him with a smile, he realized that he was teasing him and became unhappy. "You are so boring. You won't let me sleep well so early in the morning."
"I'm bored and you're sleeping like a pig. That's not good!"
"You make me very angry!" Gao Yanei glared at him. For anyone, being disturbed in a sweet dream would be an annoying thing.
"Yanei, don't be angry yet. Let me ask you, do you want to take a walk outside the cell?" Zhang Shixun asked in a low voice.
"Walk outside the cell?" Gao Yanei suddenly became excited. "You mean escaping from prison?"
"Why would you break out of prison? With your father here, there's no need to make such a big fuss."
Gao Yanei suddenly felt like a deflated ball and said, "I want to sleep a little longer, please stop making trouble."
"Don't rush to sleep yet. Listen to me." Zhang Shixun pulled him to the prison door, pointed outside, and asked him, "Sir, how many people are imprisoned in this prison?"
Gao Yanei blinked and said casually, "There must be at least one or two hundred people. Why are you asking this?"
"Let me ask you again, has anyone ever escaped from Kaifeng Prefecture Prison?"
Gao Yanei scratched his head, thought for a moment, and said, "I haven't heard of it. I have heard that the Kaifeng Prison is very well-protected. The walls are double-layered, with fine sand in the middle. If you try to dig out, the fine sand will bury you alive."
"What if we get out of the prison door?" Zhang Shixun asked again.
"Are you kidding me?" Gao Yanei pointed at the fence, which was as thick as his arm. "Who can break this thing?"
Zhang Shixun laughed, patted his shoulder and said, "Yanei, I have a way to get you out, do you believe it?"
"Really?" Gao Yanei looked at Zhang Shixun suspiciously.
"Really?" Zhang Shixun said affirmatively, "Do you want to try it?"
Gao Yanei's eyes lit up, then dimmed again. He said, "Even if we can get out of this prison door, we can't get out of the prison door or the main gate outside. The Silusi prison has several doors."
Seeing Gao Yanei was unmoved, Zhang Shixun continued to tempt him: "Yanei, I'm not asking you to escape from prison. I want you to become famous... Let me ask you, do you want to become a household name in the capital?"
Upon hearing this, Gao Yanei immediately perked up and asked, "How can one become so famous... Zhen? Tell me."
"Come closer and listen." Zhang Shixun waved his hand.
Gao Yanei hurried over obediently and put his ear close to Zhang Shixun.
Zhang Shixun whispered a few words in his ear. Gao Yanei listened and nodded frequently. Before he finished listening, he rubbed his hands and urged, "I understand. Brother, let's get started now."
"Take off your clothes." Zhang Shixun pulled Gao Yanei's collar.
"Take off your clothes?" Gao Yanei was shocked.
"Take off your underwear, I can use it."
"Oh!" Gao Yanei took off his underwear and handed it to Zhang Shixun, then asked with his bare chest, "What do you want my underwear for?"
Zhang Shixun smiled mysteriously and pulled the underwear. Not bad, very firm.
He picked up the kettle and started pouring water on his underwear, and soon the underwear was soaked.
Gao Yanei watched from the side with eyes wide open, his eyes full of curiosity.
"Alright! Put on your coat, Yanei, and get ready to go out." Zhang Shixun draped his soaked underwear between the two wooden posts of the fence, tied a knot, and then said to Gao Yanei, "Give me the stool."
"Oh!" Gao Yanei agreed and hurriedly brought the stool over.
Zhang Shixun inserted the legs of the stool between his wet underwear and began to rotate it, one circle, two circles, three circles... As the underwear became tighter and tighter, the two wooden pillars gradually approached each other. By the time he stopped, he had created a gap in the cell fence that was big enough for a person to get out.
Zhang Shixun turned to look at Gao Yanei, and seeing him dumbfounded, he kicked him and said, "What are you standing there for? Get out of here!"
Gao Yanei finally reacted, growled excitedly, and slipped out of the prison door.
Zhang Shixun slowly loosened the legs of the bench and untied the wet underwear from the doorposts, and the two doorposts returned to their original state.
When looking at Gao Yanei, he saw that he held his head high, with his hands behind his back and his chest puffed out, just like a proud rooster.
Gao Yanei looked around disdainfully, coughed lightly, and then paced along the corridor of the cell.
At this time, most of the prisoners in the cell were still asleep.
"Wake up, wake up! A bunch of lazy bums!" Gao Yanei walked with his legs spread wide, shouting at the door of every cell.
After a while, all the prisoners were woken up by this guy.
A group of prisoners lay on the fence, looking at him with sleepy eyes.
The prisoners were all wondering, isn't this gentleman also imprisoned in a cell? Why did he appear in the corridor?
Seeing that they were all looking at him in surprise, Gao Yanei felt very proud and swung his body more exaggeratedly. He nodded to the prisoners in the cells next to him as he walked, and waved from time to time.
"Yanei, why are you hanging around outside? Could it be that Marshal Gao is here to pick you up?" A prisoner finally couldn't help but asked him curiously.
Gao Yanei's eyes narrowed into slits as he smiled, and he said cheerfully, "My father didn't come to pick me up. I was bored in the cell by myself, so I came out to relax."
"Hiss...!" Everyone gasped.
This is the Kaifeng prison. I have never heard of anyone being able to get out of the cell.
Listening to Gao Yanei's tone of voice, why does it sound like he's at home?
Seeing their shocked eyes, Gao Yanei's vanity was greatly satisfied, just like drinking a glass of ice water in the dog days of summer, so refreshing.
"Yanei, how did you get out?" someone asked again.
Gao Yanei stopped and said to the man, "Guess."
"I can't guess." The man shook his head.
"Try your best."
"I still can't guess."
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