Liu Xinru was not actually imprisoned in the real prison of the Yamen, but in the "temporary shelter" used by the Yamen to detain suspects awaiting trial and investigation, but it was also dark, damp and dirty, and there was not much difference from the real prison.

If there is a difference, it is that in terms of guards, it is not as tight as prisons. Visits from outsiders do not require strict government approval procedures. Therefore, Yang Xueru, who was the daughter of the Yang Mansion, did not even show her father Yang Qi's token, so she was led by the guards and officials respectfully in front of her head and entered this separate prison cell connected by the corridor.

The air was so thick that it was almost suffocating.

Yang Xueruo couldn't help frowning and covered her mouth and nose with her hands.

Hongmian immediately exclaimed, muttering dissatisfiedly, looking at Yang Xueruo's unswerving steps forward, she could only follow behind despite her unwillingness.

Several lights flickered on both sides, the light was dim, and the atmosphere of the whole cell was eerie. Yang Xueruo walked and walked, and there was a faint pity in her heart: that Liu Xinru was also a beauty like delicate flowers and bones, and she couldn't help but be weak, but now she was beaten into a place where this kind of beast didn't want to stay and didn't see the light of day.

Yang Xueruo still has some contact and understanding of Liu Xinru. Because she organized the Wangjianglou Poetry Club twice, she invited Liu Xinru to the banquet to sing and dance and play the piano, and she also talked in private, and she still praised Liu Xinru's talent and skills and high body.

Such a beautiful person, why is he trapped in prostitution?

When I got closer, the small cell, which was only seven or eight square meters square, was surrounded on three sides by dirty yellow mud walls, and on the front was a fence made of iron and wood, locked with a huge iron lock.

There was only a thick layer of straw on the ground, and there was nothing else in the cell. There is not even a convenient place, and it seems that it can only be solved on the spot.

Liu Xinru and the maid Tian'er sat there curled up on their knees, their eyes glazed and their hair disheveled and unkempt. Although it has been less than half a day since she entered the prison cell, in this kind of ghost place, for Liu Xinru, there is no difference from the Netherworld Mansion, she knows that she no longer has any way to live, and her vitality is extinct, but poor Tian'er is affected by herself, and she can't survive eighty percent.

Ruby Liu's heart is dead, and despair flows through her entire body and mind.

She hung her head, numb. Even though she heard footsteps coming from her ears, she didn't bother to look up. Death is going to die anyway, what do you care?

Tian'er subconsciously raised her dirty little face and looked at Yang Xueruo who was walking slowly, there was a servant on her side who was carrying a lantern and followed respectfully, and there was a girl with flowers and branches on the other side waiting for her

Of course, Tian'er knew Yang Xueruo.

Her eyes lit up, and there was a glimmer of starlight in her eyes that had been desperate and frightened. Almost subconsciously, she struggled to get up and then stumbled over, knelt on the ground with a pop, and cried, "Miss Yang, please save us!" ”

Yang Xueruo stopped, waved her sleeves, looked at Tian'er who was crying for help behind the fence, a trace of unbearability flashed in her eyes, and she said softly: "Don't cry first, wait for me to talk to your young lady." ”

Liu Xinru looked at her empty and desperate eyes, Yang Xueruo was stunned, and her heart was even more compassionate.

Liu Xinru didn't say a word, just looked back at Yang Xueruo sluggishly. Yang Xueruo sighed faintly and said softly: "Miss Liu, you have suffered. I know that you are being coerced, and I can guess who is behind it. I also know that your so-called pregnancy and fornication with Kong Lang are all fake. Do you know that this matter is not difficult to verify, and after a while, a stable woman will come to inspect your body, if you are not pregnant or still a virgin innocent, then you are framing the scholar for plotting misdeeds, and the crime is not light. ”

The corners of Liu Xinru's mouth trembled, she grabbed Tian'er's hand and struggled for a while before she reluctantly stood up, and said in a trembling voice: "But I don't have a choice." If I don't comply, I will be sold by the Zhou family into the land of fireworks in Yangzhou, and life is better than death. But even so, I gritted my teeth. But they used Tian'er to blackmail me, I was a lowly person and died, but Tian'er is innocent, I can't watch her accompany me to jump into the fire pit. ”

The corners of Yang Xueruo's mouth twitched, and she said lightly: "I empathize with all kinds of coercion and coercion that Miss Liu has suffered. However, with Miss Liu's intelligence, it is not difficult to understand that even if you accept their instructions to do it, the end can be imagined. The Zhou family will not care about you, the officials will not let you go, and no one in this Jiangning County can afford you. In the end, it was a dead end. ”

"Since advancing and retreating are dead ends, why did Miss Liu choose Lakonglang to go into the water and pour a basin of sewage on him? Have you ever thought that if you open your mouth to testify today, whether it is true or not, Kong Lang will be infamous and discredited for it? Yang Xueruo's eyes shot a sharp brilliance, and her voice suddenly became a little colder.

Yang Xueruo is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, behind her gentleness is an incomparably strong temperament, and her logic and concept are also very simple, since you Liu Xinru is a death left and right, why do you want to frame others? If Yang Xue made her own choice, she would definitely choose to fight to the death and never bow her head.

And although Yang Xueruo sympathized with Liu Xin's situation at such a moment, she was still a little dissatisfied with her behavior of falsely accusing Kong Sheng.

Liu Xinru was speechless and choked by Yang Xueruo's almost reprimanded words, her face was flushed, she lowered her head weakly, and said in a low voice: "Xinru is ashamed, Miss Yang's lesson is that Xinru knows that she is guilty and is willing to forgive her sins with death, but Tian'er is innocent, if she ...... If possible, ask Miss to save Tian'er. ”

Liu Xinru slowly knelt on the ground and couldn't stand on the ground. Tian'er had already cried on the side and became a tearful person, because she was afraid of arousing Yang Xueruo's disgust, she restrained and suppressed her crying vigorously, her entire thin body was twitching violently, and tears and snot were left together.

Yang Xueruo stood there quietly, the light of the lantern held by the official swaying, contrasting her pretty facial expression with a little erratic. She sighed lightly and said unhurriedly: "Miss Liu, I came today to scold you angrily and vent the anger and resentment in my heart. Because of your actions, my Kong Lang almost died. But seeing that your master and servant have fallen into such a miserable situation, I don't feel good in my heart. ”

"In the past, when I heard that Kong Lang went to the Rose Fang every day to be obsessed with you, and the people in the city were talking about his various unbearable things behind his back, I didn't pay too much attention to it, because I also misread Kong Lang at that time...... In fact, I still haven't figured out what he used to be profligate for? ”

"I thought he really had feelings for you. It is reasonable for a beautiful woman like you to be favored by men. When I heard that Kong Lang would go to the Rose Shop to meet you again, I felt a strong sense of jealousy. And it was at that moment that I understood where my heart belonged. Miss Liu, you don't know, when Kong Lang told me in person that he had no thoughts about you, I was so happy when I was upstairs in the smoke and rain that day. ”

"Miss Liu, the people of the Zhou family were so despicable and shameless that people hated the disease. For a hypocrite like Zhou Chang, I would rather die than get married. ”

Yang Xueruo said eloquently, speaking of this, her eyes lit up, and she said softly: "Miss Liu, thinking back on the past, thinking of the present, you have always been a person who cannot be avoided between me and Kong Lang, if you suffer because of this, we can't bear it." In this way, I can save you from prison, but only if ......"

Yang Xueruo paused slightly when she said this.