Volume 1 The Kingdom of the Sky Chapter 25 The Redeemable Sentence
"Chief Ding, what do you want?" Zheng Ding looked at Ding Gou with infinite grievances.
"Accept the punishment of the law!" Ding Gou never forgot his original intention.
Zheng Dingqiang suppressed the urge to beat people, and looked at the second daughter with great tiredness.
"Actually...... With your skills, it may only take half a day to be exonerated. After being silent for a long time, Ding Gou suddenly spoke again, but this time it was hope.
The relieved smile finally returned to Yan Huixue's face, and the skill called ridicule was back online: "I can't see that there are quite a lot of preferential policies for your Heavenly Spirit Eight Division!"
Lei Nana also grinned: "You are really a person, and you don't say such a good thing early!"
Ding Gou's expression was still solemn, and he was not infected by Yan Huixue and Lei Nana at all: "In our Heavenly Spirit Eight Division, all those who have been sentenced to imprisonment can be exonerated through ransom. ”
"Is this because I am afraid that the sentence will be too much, and the residents of the whole country will be imprisoned for the rest of their lives? Your king is quite good at doing business!" As soon as Rena took the opportunity to mock, she couldn't help but think of the sad story just now, and immediately apologized solemnly, "I'm sorry, take back what you just said." ”
Ding Gou only responded to her with a sigh, and then explained: "You misunderstood, this redemption is not money, but jade. As you all know, our Heavenly Spirit Eight Divisions are rich in beautiful jade, and these jade mines are now occupied by the demons, if you can obtain a certain amount of jade from the jade mines, you can offset the corresponding sentence. ”
All three nodded thoughtfully.
"Didn't you ban the jade trade, why ......?" said Renana, frowning.
"Then where do you think the jade roads, houses, and various daily necessities that can be seen everywhere come from?" Ding Gou asked rhetorically.
Renana didn't seem to understand, but she didn't ask any more.
As soon as she fell silent, Yan Huixue was confused again: "But the three of us are not miners, and we don't know anything about mining!"
"Don't worry!" Ding Gou had expected this question: "The jade mine of our Heavenly Spirit Eight Divisions is rich in veins, and jade materials can be seen everywhere, saying that it is mining, in fact, it is no different from picking up stones." It's just that in the past ten years, it has been occupied by very powerful demons, so the difficulty of mining is getting higher and higher, and many people have never returned. Ordinary prisoners, unless they are sentenced too long or are very confident in their own strength, would rather spend a few more months in prison than want to go there to fight, so I didn't think of this method at first. ”
Curious. Zheng Ding, who hadn't spoken for a long time, finally spoke, "What kind of demon clan is entrenched over there?"
"Jelly Slime!" replied Ding.
"Slime?" Zheng Ding and the three of them fell through their glasses.
"It's the kind of slime that can trample on several slimes with a single kick?" Zheng Ding once again sought certainty. His words are indeed a bit exaggerated, in fact, slimes are more than enough to deal with ordinary ordinary people. It's just that for people of Zheng Ding's level, slimes and the like are really too miscellaneous and too unsightly.
"Of course, it's not all ordinary jelly slimes, there are also some slime bosses mixed in them, and their strength should not be underestimated, they should belong to the boss of the slime clan!" Ding Gou added.
"No matter how bullish it is, it's also a slime!" Zheng Ding didn't take it to heart at all, and pulled Ding Gou to let him take the three of them to surrender themselves, and after listening to the entire redemption plan, he couldn't find the slightest difficulty, and this "confession" attitude naturally followed by a 180-degree turn, after all, if they can cooperate, no one will stupidly choose to fight, and whether they can return to the ground depends on their mood.
Ding Gou was of course happy to see Zheng Ding's positive and cooperative attitude, and he happily led the way in front at the moment, as if the scene of the two sides fighting had never happened.
Ding Gou is also very interesting, not to mention personally escorting him to the prison, he also specially asked the warden to handle the redemption process, which can be regarded as a disguised dot.
Seeing Ding Gou coming over in person, the warden was also quite polite and "received" Zheng Ding and his party in his office.
The prison of the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Spirit is said to be a prison, but it is actually more like a large factory, a large factory for processing jade. There is a large workshop in the middle, and the main building is a small circular high-rise that tightly encloses it around the core, and the lower floors are half of the cells and half of the various staff's offices, and the warden's office is located on the top floor of the building, looking down from the window, the prisoners have a full view of the various activities in the "workshop", some cutting, some carving, and some polishing.
"It's still ...... Labor reform?" Zheng Ding asked with a smile on his face.
The warden is a dark-skinned spirit man, there are not a few mustaches, but they are deliberately left very long, which shows how much he cherishes this, the length of his ears is between Ding Gou and Zheng Ding, and it is not as flat as other spirit clans, but it is pointed on the top of his head, and the overall image is like a bat, looking down with Zheng Ding's previous gaze, and when he looks back, he still has a confused face: "Yes...... Is there something wrong?"
"No, no!" Zheng Ding shook his hand again and again, and at the same time secretly glad in his heart that they had such a redemption policy, otherwise if he asked himself to do the handiwork here for forty-five days, it would be doubtful whether his sanity would be normal when he went out.
The warden coughed dryly twice and cut to the chase: "I don't know how long the sentences of several people are?"
"A month and a half!" replied Ding Gou.
The warden took a pen, asked the names of the three people, and then quickly wrote on the document: "For a month and a half, each person needs to mine 100 catties of jade, or 4 pieces of 50 catties of jade, or 50 pieces of 10 catties of jade......"
After the chatter was finished, and the file was closed, the warden looked at the three of them with a smile and said nothing. And Ding Gou also straightened his collar and got up to enter the farewell procedure with the warden.
"This, that's the end?" Renana was shocked.
"That's right!" the warden thought for a moment and added, "With Chief Ding here, I didn't need to be verbose, remember that the redemption period is three days, and if you can't get enough jade materials in three days, you still have to come back to serve the rest of your sentence!"
After saying goodbye to the warden, Ding Gou also turned around and greeted the three of them: "Okay, let's go to the jade mine! After collecting the required jade materials, we can send them here at any time to reduce the sentence." ”
Lei Nana's worldview has been refreshed again, listening to Ding Gou's words, the meaning of the entire mining process is unsupervised? No matter how simple it is, there is always a limit, right, the ideal society that was painted as a prison in ancient times has really been reborn here?
"Chief Ding, if you just let the prisoners mine on their own, aren't you afraid that they will take the opportunity to escape?" Zheng Ding, who had the same question, said what Lei Nana was thinking.
"Where to escape?" Ding Gou asked rhetorically.
The two of them suddenly realized, yes, where can they escape in this isolated and closed country? Not to mention that they don't know how many pursuers like Ding Gou can communicate with birds, and the chances of escape are even slimmer.
The three politely said goodbye to the warden and turned around and followed Ding out of the office.
"Welcome to come back next time!" The warden's enthusiastic voice sounded in the ears of Zheng Ding and the others, which was quite uncomfortable.
All the way downstairs, just as soon as he stepped into the hall on the first floor, a familiar voice drilled into the ears of four people, including Ding Gou: "You let go of me! I didn't steal!"
"We've been together, she's really not stealing!" another voice sounded with a high level of familiarity.
The four of them changed color at the same time, Xin Chen!
Ding Gou's head was like a cassette, turning to the center of the dispute little by little, and it was Xin Chen who was being grabbed, and it was naturally Ding Qi who was helping to explain.
"What's going on?" Zheng Ding rushed to a few people with an arrow step.
"Brother Ding!" Xin Chen's eyes flashed with tears, "I really didn't steal!"
"But the Sage's Staff was obviously found in your desk! How can you explain this? Your grades in the Priesthood College have always been among the best, and you got a perfect score in the graduation exam today, so it is normal for you to become an excellent priest and want to get a weapon to match it! The motive and evidence are complete, and you still don't admit it?"
Zheng Ding and the three of them were secretly speechless, listening to this person's aggressive tone, daring to love the royal family is not a privilege at all in their eyes?
The strong man may have said something and continued to talk: "And you missed the graduation exam this morning, and it was the make-up exam you took later, could it be that you stole the staff while everyone was busy with the exam?"
"Fuck your fart!" Zheng Ding raised his fist and was about to make a move, "Xin Chen has been with us in the morning, how can he have time to steal any bullshit staff?"
As soon as the fist was raised, he was grabbed by Ding Gou, who came back to his senses, and hinted with his eyes that he should not make things bigger. "This young man is right, they are indeed together in the morning, and many orioles have seen them, and if you don't believe it, you can ask them, and even if you don't understand, there are always people in your academy who can understand." ”
"Yes, yes, you can ask!" Ding Qi also argued.
The strong man's face turned slightly red: "Then it's also possible that she stole it at other times, and you don't stay with her every minute, right?" And the staff was found in her desk, this is the most direct evidence, according to the laws of the Eight Heavenly Spirit Divisions, this crime of stealing can be established!"
"Directly your sister, is it who stole the things? Couldn't it be that someone framed them?" Zheng Ding's lungs were about to explode.
"Framed, what is framed?" the strong man looked puzzled.
And Ding Gou and Ding Qi were also very confused and did not answer Zheng Ding's words, obviously there is no such dark word as "framed" in their dictionary.
Yan Huixue slowly approached Ding Gou and asked in a low voice, "If Xin Chen is really convicted of theft, what kind of punishment will he receive according to the laws here?"
"Ten years ......," Ding Gou replied weakly.