The dumb aunt lay quietly, as if she was asleep, but in fact she was awake, and a thousand thoughts in her heart were full of thoughts like a wind wheel.

To be honest, my heart is very messy.

There are moanings, cursing, cries, and weeping...... Although it was dark and it was impossible to see which prisoner in the cell was tossing, the ears were full of these cries.

She was locked up in a single room.

I don't know if it's because she's a woman, or because Li Zhizhou is scrupling about Liu Dingmao's face after all, anyway, it's a great luck not to be thrown into the big room full of people.

However, the single room is not comfortable, it is dark, gloomy, damp, and smelly, and people will be cold, biting, and cold after staying for a long time.

Her eyes widened slowly.

It's dark in front of my eyes.

Close your eyes first, calm down, and then try to open them slowly.

It's really a cold, damp place, and it still stinks.

A disgusting breath came to my nose and filled my mouth and nose.

I remember when she woke up a few days ago, she was so smoky that she almost fainted from the stench - she desperately held her breath, such a smell, she would rather not breathe and suffocate to death. It smells so bad that it doesn't smell as good as when you lift the lid on the sewer in the community. She only held it for twenty seconds, and then slowly relaxed, and gave in to the smell. There is no way, if you want to live, you must first breathe, and if you don't breathe, you have to die. She still wants to live, so naturally she can't suffocate to death for a breath. The woman's husband is a big man, who can bend and stretch - she laughed to herself in her heart at that time. Then deeply, deeply, deeply, she took three big breaths, and she no longer felt so stinky, and felt that her nerves were numb by the smoke, and it seemed that people's adaptability was still quite strong.

Now her optic nerves have long since adapted to the environment and can see her surroundings clearly.

She was locked up in a dark place, surrounded by walls on three sides, and the walls were so gray that she didn't have the courage to reach out and touch them. On one side is the door, and I don't know what kind of wooden frame is nailed into the door.

The ground was wet, covered with a layer of wheat straw, but it had not been replaced for a long time, and it could not be exposed to the sun, and the prisoners who had been imprisoned could defecate on the ground one after another, so the straw had long become slimy.

Luckily, her shoes were always on her feet, thank goodness, otherwise she would have stepped on the sticky ground.

She sat up slowly, her whole body aching, her head heavy, and her head filled with a feeling of mush.

She first recalled the two times she had been in prison.

For the first time, she was at Liu Dingmao's house, and discussed with Liu Dingmao and others overnight about Bai Yulin being suddenly arrested by the government, and suddenly someone came to the door overnight and arrested her without saying a word. The iron chain was put around her neck, and she was led away, and she fainted as soon as she left the gate of Liu's house. I don't know how she was brought here, but she felt pain everywhere in her body, and from this pain, you can guess that she was either pulled back by some broken car, or left on horseback and hunched back. And then he was thrown into this place where he did not see the light of day.

The second time was after today's court, she was taken to Wanji to collect evidence at the scene, and as a result, she met five mothers, so she was allowed to deliver the baby. After finishing her work, the government continued to escort her back to the palace, and she was sent here for the second time.

It was dark in the cell, and it was impossible to see whether it was day or night outside, so I could only calculate an approximate approximate based on the time when the jailer delivered food twice a day.

It was time for dinner, and in the distance a light flickered, and the jailer's rough voice shouted, "It's time to eat—it's time to eat—get up and prepare your rice bowls—"

There was a rustling sound in the cells on the left and right, and some of them may have been felons with heavy shackles.

When she heard the word "eat", her stomach twitched.

The prison food was not delicious, I don't know if it was rancid itself, or as soon as I was sent to the cell, I was smoked by the stench here, and I smelled a smell of gluttony.

But she still has to eat—her bones are not good, and if she continues to be hungry like this, she will collapse.

Thinking about the day she was arrested by the government, in just one day, she actually fainted twice in a row, this physical fitness, there is really no one, more and more like a pampered daughter of a big family.

How does this work?

Definitely not!

It's obviously a maid's life, how can there be a sick and crooked young lady's body, there is still a long way to go in the future, and everything is not to be talked about without a healthy body.

She grabbed a wooden bowl from her side and tried to move her limbs, whether she was shackled or not, so she could move freely. She slowly stretched her legs, stood up and moved a few steps, grabbed the wooden railing and looked outside, waiting for the jailer to arrive.

Outside the door was a dark passageway, and on the opposite side were small cubicles, which were filled with prisoners.

My stomach is so hungry, my intestines are fighting, and I am gurgling.

There was a black jar at her feet, from which the source of the stench came from, the toilet bowl in the prison. She has eaten very little in the past few days, and she has pulled very little. But the filth left by the prisoner from the last time is still there.

She covered her nose and stepped back.

The jailer was swearing as he scooped up the food.

I could hear the sound coming from afar, but the people just didn't come.

It can be seen that this prison is very large, and there are many people holding it.

The dumb aunt felt so hungry that her heart was close to her back.

This morning I went to the court, and then I was taken to Wan Ji, and I didn't stop delivering four women with difficult births and examining a pregnant woman, and she was really exhausted.

Now I just hope that there is food to eat, and hunger makes people no longer have the courage to dislike whether the food is bad or not, even pig food, as long as it can fill the stomach.

Standing so tired, she tried to squat, slowly leaning against the wall behind her, this squatting felt that her legs were not her own, so sore, so soft that she could no longer hold up, and she didn't care about the dirty and wet ground, sat down, closed her eyes and counted the sheep in her heart.

One sheep, two sheep, three sheep...... I'm so hungry, so thirsty, so cold, so damp—

Looking back on the road I have traveled since last winter, it has not been a long road, but it is also bumpy and full of legends.

What do we do next? Looks like we'll have to think about it.

Thinking about it, she fell asleep in a daze.

Someone was crying in his ears, and the cry grew louder and louder.

Who, what can cry so sadly?

It's like a boy's voice.

When she opened her eyes, there was a light not far in front of her, and a tall figure under the lamp was next to Liu Wan, who was thin in stature.

It was Liu Wan who was crying, and it was a big man with a lantern in his hand, who seemed to be a jailer.

Seeing her open her eyes, the jailer scolded Liu Wan: "Didn't you wake up, I said that she was only asleep temporarily, you just don't believe it - hurry up, a quarter of an hour." With that, he handed the lantern to Liu Wan and turned to leave.

Screams rang out in the cells next to and across the street.

"Uncle, I want to see my family and help deliver a letter-"

"I'm so hungry—"

"Wronged—I'm wronged!"

"If you don't call me a doctor, I'll really die of illness in prison—"

……

These voices came like ghosts in the dark, and they came with the light in Liu Wan's hand.

Where had Liu Wan seen such a situation, he was too frightened to look at it, just sticking to the prison door of the dumb aunt, and the lantern in his hand was shaking tremblingly.

"Don't be afraid—" The dumb aunt moved over, stretched out her hand from the gap in the wooden fence, and pinched Liu Wan's hand, "That's it in prison, why are you here? I met in a hurry today and didn't bother to ask, are you okay at home? Does the Bai family's aunt have a letter? The Bai family's aunt is hiding? Won't they also be arrested by the government?"

She was in a hurry, and she couldn't wait to ask all the questions in one go.

Liu Wan grabbed her hand with his backhand, squeezed it fiercely, tears flashed in his eyes: "Stinky woman, as soon as you meet, you know that you are thinking about others, why don't you talk about yourself first, what's wrong with you? Are you still able to eat? Are you getting better?"

The dumb aunt didn't answer, and looked at Liu Wan in a daze.

Liu Wan didn't answer, and looked at the woman separated by the wooden fence opposite.

"Are you going to kill me in a hurry, knowing that I'm just an acute person!" the dumb girl suddenly laughed and pinched Liu Wan's face fiercely.

Liu Wan didn't hide, and smiled bitterly: "It's all right." In the past few days, the master has been running for your business, but unfortunately Li Mingyuan was unhappy because the master said that he was sick some time ago, and he deliberately made things difficult for us, so he never saw you. It took me some money with the cell boss to be quietly brought in to see you. ”

As she spoke, she tore off a bamboo basket from her arm and opened it, and the dumb aunt smelled the fragrance.

"Buns, they smell so good—" she exclaimed in surprise, grabbing one and eating it.

"Give me one, kind girl, be kind, I'm going to starve—" Someone immediately begged.

There are ten buns in total.

"They don't let you send more. The inspection at the door was very strict, and it cost me a lot of silver to send it in. Liu Wan looked at the dumb aunt with some apologies, "I can't deliver anything delicious." ”

The dumb aunt munched on the buns, "It's already good - thank you for bothering." I thought that my entry was completely finished, and no one cared about my life or death anymore, but I didn't expect you to come to visit me-"

Liu Wan saw that she finished eating one, handed another one to her hand, and pretended to be very angry: "How can you talk? You have been imprisoned in this kind of place, and you are so unforgiving, you are the daughter-in-law of our Liu family, and when you enter prison, my Liu family will naturally take care of you——"

"I thought you would be wise enough to protect yourself, haven't you already written me a letter of resignation, my lord has also read it, I am no longer your daughter-in-law. ”

Liu Wan glared, "What nonsense, are we that kind of person - no matter what the master thinks, you are still my daughter-in-law in my heart, and you will always be!"

He spoke earnestly, his slender neck straightened, as if he was about to quarrel with someone at any moment.

The dumb aunt ate nine buns in one go, and there was one left, so she couldn't eat it anymore, she looked back and forth, and in a compartment diagonally opposite was a woman holding a child in her arms, and the dumb aunt said: "Give it to her-"

Liu Wan grabbed the bun, and the hungry wolf-like eyes at the door of the prison were lined up, so frightened that he didn't dare to look at it, so he could only throw himself into the woman's compartment far away.

"It's supposed to be separate for men and women, why are they connected?" Liu Wan muttered.

"Master Da Xiao, pull it down quickly, it's good to be divided into a single room, if you stuff men and women into one space, then it's called horror." ”

Liu Wan looked at her dumb aunt's face by the candlelight, her expression had calmed down, as if this prison was no different from home, she was full, touched her stomach, and looked Liu Wan up and down, "Can you take off your coat and give it to me?"

Liu Wan pulled it down without hesitation.

The dumb aunt took the nine purple thick coats and put them on the ground, sat on them, and waved her hand to Liu Wan at the door: "Let's go, it's cold here, your body and bones have not healed for a long time, it's not good to stay for a long time-" Saying that, he closed his eyes, looked like an old monk was in a fixed posture, and ignored Liu Wan again.

Liu Wan was angry and distressed, and stamped his feet and shouted: "How can you be like this? I finally came in to see you, didn't I want to talk and say a few more words?"

"I'm very messed up, I really don't have anything to say, you go back - tell everyone not to worry, especially Chang'an, tell Qian'er to coax well, don't frighten her - I'm fine, I should come here to experience a different life, I guess after another time, the case will be clear, and I can go home." As he spoke, he tightened his body, clasped his arms around his knees, and stopped looking up.

Liu Wan felt sad, "Stinky mother-in-law, it's still hard at this time - how can it be so easy to go home, I see that my father has been so worried that he can't sleep all night these days, and Aunt Jiu's condition has worsened - alas, what's wrong with our family, there is an accident in a row!"

The jailer at the door hurried: "It's time to go—"

Liu Wan shouted, "I will definitely save you out-" was pushed away by the jailer.

The dumb aunt raised her head to look at the high place, there was a cloud of darkness above her head, she endured not to let the tears flow out of her eyes, she did not cry, on the contrary, she laughed to herself, what to cry about, she was safe, and she really came to experience life in this ancient prison.

She slowly recalled the cause and effect of the whole thing, Avi, the matter was all with that person, it was he who was messing with Bai Yulin, heard Bai Yulin's true identity, and went to the government to make a small report; Now there are two cases involving the Liu family, Bai Yulin's matter is not a trivial matter, the court is on the run, and his own affairs are not a trivial matter, a murder case of one corpse and two lives.

Annoying—how can this mess be straightened out?

She has always loved to get into these messy relationships and can't get out, so she likes to do things and be a simple person, and she can't think of what she is most afraid of, but what she is afraid of, but now she is okay, she can't protect herself, and she will go to prison directly.

She thought slowly, even if it was a mess, she had to sort out a clue as soon as possible, otherwise how to answer it would be a question when she was interrogated in court next time, and at that time her answer would have to be fatal, with the effect of sealing her throat with a sword, so that she could go toe-to-toe with the plaintiff Avi and win her chances of victory.

Yes, you have to find a way to get yourself out first before you can go back and save the Bai family.

"It's eaten—it's eaten—" the jailer tapped a spoon on the doorframe—and at last it was the mute's cell.

The dumb aunt went over to pick it up again with the wooden bowl - even if the buns are full tonight, maybe they will be hungry tomorrow, and when they are so hungry that they can't stand it, the rancid rice is also rice.