Chapter 423: Dead End: Purgatory

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A sudden sound rang in my ears, and I opened my eyes wide as I listened to the heavy iron lock open, and the heavy iron door in front of me let out a long, dull hiss, and was slowly pushed open.

A pitch-black corridor appeared in front of me.

There was a familiar, decaying smell pouring out of it, and the feeling of dΓ©jΓ  vu made me fall into a trance.

The cold and damp dungeon, the disgusting musty smell, the dry grass on the ground, and the rats that gnawed at the corners of my skirt, all the memories were obviously far away, but they all seemed to suddenly come back to life at this moment, and the scenes appeared in front of me.

My face turned pale.

At this time, the jailer who opened the door and walked in front felt something strange, looked back at me, seemed to sneer, and said, "What, little lady, are you scared?"

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"If you are still scared at this time, then the money you have just been spent will be in vain. ”

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I knew how difficult it was to get in this time, and I also knew the methods of those jailers, so I subconsciously reached out to protect my stomach and slowly walked inside.

This is the prison in Yangzhou.

It's also the place where I almost lost my life......

As soon as Liu San'er was arrested, I hurried to Yangzhou, although I had a big stomach and was inconvenient, but I still endured the discomfort on my body and asked around for news. I originally thought that I could visit him for a little money, but I didn't expect that this time the situation seemed to be a bit special, the government was stricter than before, I thought of a lot of ways to deal with the people here, with the silver and some savings given by Huang Tianba, I finally moved this jailer, and I could come in, and it was only a while.

Walking all the way forward, there were many prisoners in the cages on both sides, unkempt, covered in dirt and blood, and a few of them were the students of the town, apparently already tortured, scarred, almost half of their lives lost and lying there, completely unable to move.

My heart was clenched.

Liu San'er...... Liu San'er, how is he?

Just as he was thinking about it, the jailer had already walked to the front of the cell door and stopped, and called, "Liu San'er, your wife has come to see you." ”

As he spoke, he said to me, "Say whatever you have to say quickly, or the head of the cell will come back and meet you." With that, he turned and left.

I didn't care about his words, I just looked at the cage with wide eyes, the ground was covered with grass, and there were a few rats in the corner, which had been shrunk back in fright, and a small piece of sunlight cast on the skylight above my head, which shone on this small cell, and it looked even more dark and penetrating.

This is where I was imprisoned......

I was in a trance, and when I walked to the door of the cell, I looked at a man curled up in the dark corner of the cell, his hands clasped tightly on his knees, and I heard the voice of the jailer, and then I slowly raised my head.

At this moment, I almost suffocated.

Those eyes, which were obviously familiar eyes, black and white as bright as obsidian, looked so dazed, so chaotic, with a strange red in the woods, and there was an aura that seemed to be swallowed up by the surrounding darkness.

My throat suddenly seemed to be choked, and I said softly, "San'er?"

He looked at me for a while, as if he was a little tempted, and then puzzled: "Light...... Ying ......?"

"It's me!"

I hurriedly agreed, and looked in with both hands on the bars of the cell door, and his eyes widened all at once, as if he could not believe himself, and he looked at me in a daze for a long time, and then stood up at once, but before he could stand firmly, he fell to the ground again, and let out a groan of pain.

"San'er!San'er, what's wrong with you!?"

I shouted anxiously, he gritted his teeth, slowly moved to the edge of the fence, and stood up holding on to the cell door, and I saw clearly that his body and face were all wounded, and there were traces of whipping, soldering iron, and knife cuts, and even where he walked, there were blood stains, shocking red!

My heart suddenly cooled, and I trembled: "San'er!"

He stood in front of me, looking down at me, as if he had been fished out of hell, and suddenly returned to the world, and there was some disbelief, that upright face with a haggard and helplessness that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, his lips were pale without a trace of blood, and even his eyes were darkened.

He looked at me stunned and muttered, "Light, is it really you......?"

"No, it's really me. ”

"It's you...... It's you ......."

He trembled and reached out and grabbed my hand, as if he wanted to squeeze it hard, but he had no strength at all, his eyes were red, and even his voice seemed to be broken: "I thought it was ...... I will definitely die, and I will never see you again, and I will never see my mother again. Mother, is she okay, she knows my ......."

He spent half of his life in a small fishing village, and the biggest change in his life may be that he met me and rescued me, he must have never thought about how these prisons, tortures, and an ordinary person could encounter such a nightmare.

Looking at his haggard appearance, my heart was almost broken, and I choked up: "Mother...... I already know, I asked someone to take care of her and my aunt, so I came to you. ”

His eyes gloomed and said, "Mother, you must be very sad." ”

I didn't dare to sue him, Aunt Liu was seriously ill now, which would only make him more worried, so he didn't say anything anymore, but looked at the injuries on his body, and said softly: "They, have they been tortured?"

"Hmm. ”

"Why did they torture you, you didn't do anything!"

Hearing my words, his eyes lit up with fear, and his whole body trembled violently.

"They tortured me and the students a lot, saying that we were against the party and asking us to confess. ”

"What?!"

"There are a few students who can't hold on, and they confess to the painting, and they are arrestedβ€”" Speaking of this, his voice also trembled, and said: "They also want me to confess my guilt, and they want me to admit that I am against the party, and I know that this is wrong, so I have been refusing to speak, and they beat me every day......

Hearing him say this, my heart ached, although I could see at a glance that he had suffered a lot in the past few days, I didn't expect that he was living this kind of purgatory!

"San'er ......"

I was almost about to cry, grabbing his hand, looking at the injuries on his body, although Liu San'er's expression was very frightened, but his eyes were full of a heaviness that he had never felt before, and muttered: "Do you know, these officials are not people, they ......"

There was a deathly silence in the prison, I couldn't even hear my own breathing, but I could clearly hear his heartbeat, one tone heavier than the other, and after listening to his words, I looked up at him, and my heart seemed to sink into a cold pool.

His excessively thin face became clearer and clearer in the dim light, but there was a hint of sharpness and heaviness, and he said: "To this day, I feel that I am not clear enough, and I am very confused. ”

"San'er, don't say it. ”

Seeing my tears in his eyes, he sighed softly, slowly lifted his scarred hand, and gently stroked my face.

The prison was cold air, he was shivering with cold, but there was a strange heat in his palm.

"Light ......"

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"You, take care of yourself. ”

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"If this time ......"

He didn't finish his words, but these words were like a dark hand of fate, trying to choke my throat, and I suddenly lost my voice and shouted: "Shut up!"

He also seemed to be startled by me, and looked at me with slightly wide eyes, but the look in his eyes was not annoyance and surprise, but a deeper pain.

After a long while, he choked up and said, "Light ......"

I gritted my teeth, held the tears in my eyes, slowly held his hand, pressed it to my cheek, felt the hot breath, and said more heavily than one word: "I once said that you are my husband, I will not allow anyone to hurt you, let alone let you leave me." ”

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"No matter who it is!"

"Light ......"

He was also so choked that he couldn't speak, he could only look at me, gently rubbed my cheek with his scarred palm, and after a long time, nodded solemnly: "Don't worry." I'm going to keep it up!"

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He suddenly laughed again: "When I feel uncomfortable in this, I name the child, and I have already named it a lot." I will definitely come out and wait for the child to be born, and then our family will ......."

My tears rained down and I couldn't speak.

Before he finished speaking, the jailer had already walked over and said impatiently, "Have you finished speaking, let's go!"

I don't have much money on me, so I can come down to see him, and I begged for a few words for a long time, but I can't keep it anymore at this time, so I can't help crying and hurriedly say to him: "Did they dip your whip in water?" You remember, don't touch the wound, when there is sun, you should bask more, otherwise the wound will rot faster, don't eat things indiscriminately, remember!"

Liu San'er listened, and suddenly looked at me with some surprise: "Light, how do you know this?"

I didn't have time to say anything more, the jailer had already come, pulled me out, and I could only watch him stand at the door of the cell, and watch me walk up the stone steps, as if all his strength had been drained away at once, and he fell to the ground.

By this time, the iron door of the prison had been closed.

I stood at the door, helpless like a puppet with a broken string, almost no strength, and I really wanted to fall down, and I didn't care about anything anymore.

Why...... Why is this ......?

At this moment, the jailer's voice sounded in his ears again: "Let's go, it's not for you to stay here." ”

But I still stood still, my eyes looking at the iron door as if I wanted to see through it, and then look at the darkness inside, and the man who refused to give in to the darkness.

No, I can't fall!

He hasn't given up yet, and I can't fall!

I want to save him, my husband, my home, must not be just lost, just let go!

Thinking of this, I gritted my teeth, turned my head to look at the impatient jailer, and reluctantly made a little flattering smile: "Big brother, I want to ask, when will the official master release him?"

"Let him go?"

"Yes, my husband is just a handyman, not a rebel. ”

The jailer sneered, and my heart sank for a moment.

He looked around, then at me, and simply said, "Look at your pitiful belly, sue you, die of this heart as soon as possible, and remarry." This group of people has already been determined to be against the party, and the big man will not let it go. ”

"What?!"

My eyes widened in horror: "But, my husbandβ€”"

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside, and when he turned his head, it was a cell leader, followed by a few jailers who followed him, and when he saw us, he immediately said, "What are you doing?"

I glanced at the cell boss, and suddenly my face changed and I lowered my head.

When the jailer saw him, he was also startled, and hurriedly glared at me, and then said with a smile: "Big brother, it's nothing, this woman wanted to see her man, but I stopped her." ”

I walked over with my head down, and Yifu said, "I've caused trouble for a few big brothers, since I can't watch it, then I'll go first." ”

With that, he turned around and left.

Just as I turned around, the cell boss suddenly frowned and said, "Wait a minute." ”

My heart skipped a beat, and my steps froze.

The man walked up to me slowly, and I buried my head lower, and he looked at me, and frowned, as if to remember something, and said, "Y-I saw you somewhere?"