Zhou Jinru mixed in the team with cleaning tools, and three or four workers in light blue overalls pushed a box truck past, leaving a deep indentation on the wheels.

"What are these?"

"Sausages, bread, tea, and wine."

Adella judged with just one glance, and she continued: "The best food is for the officers, and it has nothing to do with the low-level soldiers. ”

Zhou Jinru didn't ask any more questions, his eyes fell on the guards in front of him, they were wearing dark blue military uniforms, checking the identity documents of the workers one by one, and their attitudes were tough and bad.

He reached for his ID and found a certificate with a yellow coat in his jacket pocket, which he could see his name and place of residence inside, as well as a black-and-white photograph that was not very clear.

Zhou Jinru remembered that Adella said that there was a person who couldn't come today because of an emergency, and when they boarded the ship, someone expressed confusion about his joining, but the document was his photo, and all kinds of signs showed that his appearance here was arranged by the person behind him.

Zhou may not know the real situation, but Zhou Jinru, who really entered the sitcom, knows nothing.

"ID!"

The guard took the document from Zhou Jinru's hand rudely, stared at a pair of bloodshot eyes and compared the document and the real person from time to time, and then handed the document to him and continued to check the next worker.

The cart full of food and alcohol was opened, and the wooden barrels inside were also lifted, and in the face of the rich and delicious food, many workers had red eyes and swallowed saliva from time to time, and many more people just glanced at it and lowered their heads and walked forward.

"We are in charge of cleaning the cells where ordinary prisoners are held, and they are basically ordinary people who have been imprisoned for trivial matters."

Adella whispered, her eyes a little complicated, and Zhou Jinru realized that she was almost sent to prison by Chen, but fortunately Father Albert bailed her out at the last minute.

Bail is not something that ordinary families can afford, and once sentenced, they will have to spend the next few years in prison and participate in compulsory labor.

This again involves the question of how many such prisoners were held in Voll.

Adella suddenly said, "Your girlfriend has a lot of enemies here." ”

"She's enforcing the law, and I can only support her."

"Hmph."

After passing through the first checkpoint, the inventory intensity is much smaller, and the second and third checkpoints only check the tools they carry, and the release speed is also much faster.

In front of the fourth outpost, they came to an inner city wall, gray bricks piled up into a wall more than ten meters high, the surface was covered with moss, more than a dozen guards with weapons stood in two rows at the city gate, on the city wall set up several large crossbows aimed at the ground, their clothing was very different from those guards on the periphery, the uniform changed from light blue to dark red, wearing tall triangular warped leather hats, and the guards holding long-handled axes and guns also hung crossbows, looking like they were ready for battle.

Zhou Jinru stood behind and found that several team members in front couldn't help but glance at each other a few times, this action was very common among the workers, and civilians had rarely seen such a tight defense.

On the city wall, a man in a tricorne fur hat with feathers on his head stepped out, his eyelids drooping, looking at the dozens of hired men on the ground, and outstretched his hand hidden in the sleeve of white gauze lace.

"Silence."

Swish!

The guards who stood in two rows laid down their weapons in unison, and their uniform movements caused a commotion in the ranks of the workers, while the man on the city wall had an extra blank piece of paper in his hand, and said in a calm tone: "The great Victorian monarch has ordered that the general prison of Voller be cleaned today for a reward of fourteen shillings." ”

His words caused an even greater uproar, and some of the hirers shouted: "What was promised to us was one gold pound and four shillings!" ”

"It was a clerical mistake by the clerk, it has been changed now, there is no problem, get ready to work, cherish this job, this is your good luck."

After the man finished speaking, he turned to leave, and as he walked down the tower, he casually handed the piece of paper to the adjutant beside him, and said disappreciably: "The moths of these countries, the weekly salary of an ordinary worker is only six to eight shillings, and they only need to work for one day to get two weeks' wages from others, but they are not satisfied. ”

Under the city walls, Adella calmly lowered her hands, neither shouting nor sighing, just watching it happen.

Zhou Jinru had a view in his heart, from one gold pound and four shillings to fourteen shillings, and the remuneration was almost halved, and this money was not directly distributed to the workers, but was allocated to the workers' associations through the state finance, and then the workers' associations lent money to the labor companies of the employees, and finally the employees could get their hands on payday, and walked down layer by layer, which is really indescribable.

Even if it is only ten shillings, it is enough for an adult to survive for half a month.

"The price of bread is going to rise again this month, and there is a great deal of trouble on the part of the occupied territories, and His Majesty is grieving about it."

Zhou Jinru looked at the girl next to him and said this, he remembered that when he first entered the sitcom, there was a news item in the newspaper that it was a factory fire in the occupied area, and two years later, the occupied area is still not calm.

"It's been colder than usual this year."

Adella tightened her sleeves, bent down to pick up the bucket, carried the mop, and behind her was a simple sprinkler, Zhou Jinru looked similar to her, and the group of them walked into the gate, over the wall, and into the depths of the Voller prison.

Zhou Jinru didn't understand the connection between her two sentences at first, when he saw the guards carrying wooden barrels, giving each worker a piece of brown hard bread, suddenly understood that the weather was colder than usual, indicating that the demand for people living in the city was greater, in this era, the productive forces have not yet been liberated, the harvest of food is limited, coupled with the influence of the weather, and human factors, will inevitably lead to soaring food prices.

His Majesty's concern is the occupied territories, but he ignores his own people, and his greatness cannot fill the stomachs of the hungry.

It's not about dancing on three eggs anymore, it's about lighting a cigarette by a barrel of dynamite to cool down.

Zhou Jinru bit the bread in his hand, he was not full, and after half the night, he was hungry at this time, and he had to eat the bread no matter how hard it was.

It would be nice if there was a cup of hot water.

Thinking like this, he saw Adella take off the water glass hanging around her neck and take a sip, the cup that was very poorly insulated must be cold water now.

"Are you either?"

She handed over the glass.

"Thank you."

Zhou Jinru did not refuse, drinking cold water and eating hard food is the life of ordinary people in this era.