Chapter 55

This is not a small matter, although it is true that the status of the merchant is low. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But Qiao Xingwang is a famous imperial businessman, and his status is equivalent to the leader among merchants, so naturally many businessmen and ordinary people pay attention to him. As soon as I saw him caught, and it was so sudden. Don't think about it, the government must want to clean him up.

The people applauded, Qiao Xingwang had such a big fortune, which would always make the people who had worked hard all their lives but had little money jealous, and it was inevitable to gloat.

The merchants were in a state of panic among themselves, fearing that the government would raid their homes if they found a reason to do so. The family fortune that has been earned all his life is not like Qiao Xingwang?

No, businessmen began to give all kinds of gifts to officials, which is a common rule between them, giving gifts to eliminate disasters. This also made many officials gain a lot of benefits, and no one cared about Qiao Xingwang's innocence anymore.

And Qiao Xingwang in the prison is still thinking about what he did wrong? Is it that the wine sent to the guards is not enough, or is the gift to the various scholars and attendants not heavy enough?

In his heart, he didn't think about whether he could go out at all. Because in his cognition, he has given a lot of favors, and the gifts are heavy enough, and arresting him in is just a slight punishment. There are people above him, who dares to really treat him like this? Someone will definitely pretend to interrogate him later, and if he gets some benefits, he will be let out.

It's okay, isn't it just money, he has a lot of money. He doesn't care about such a small amount of money.

Qiao Xingwang's relaxed mood disappeared after three days.

In the past three days, I slept in grass nests, ate glutinous rice, and drank swill. Qiao Xingwang has endured all the hardships. At first, he would haughtily summon the guards and ask him to change him to a better cell and a good meal, only to get a sturdy whip.

Qiao Xingwang, who had suffered a lot, didn't dare to be so arrogant the next day, lowered his posture, and even took out the silver ticket hidden on his body to bribe the guards, just wanting to change to a comfortable cell and have a full meal.

It's a pity that even so, Qiao Xingwang didn't get his wish. The guard smirked and took all the silver tickets from him, even his clothes, and threw him only a set of sour and shabby prison clothes. In the end, he beat him up and complained that he didn't take out the silver ticket earlier.

On the third day, Qiao Xingwang was so difficult to swallow the spoiled meal. Because if he doesn't eat any more, he will starve to death. Two days ago, he didn't eat a bite of the food he didn't like, and now he can't eat it if he wants to, and the bowl of rancid rice he eats now is still given to him by his family members in the same cell.

He chewed on the unpalatable food as he gritted his teeth in his heart, cursing the guards, thinking that he must make them look good when he went out! At this time, although he had a hard time in the cell, he still firmly believed that he would be able to get out.

But as time went by, not only did no one come to interrogate him, but the housekeepers, servants, and concubines in his house were taken out one after another for torture, and some of them even did not come back at all, and even if they returned to the cell, they were covered with scars. This made Qiao Xingwang feel very scared and panicked.

At this time, he no longer had the confidence he had when he first came in, and he could walk out of this cell safely.