Madam Zhang felt even more uncomfortable when she heard that Wang Ruijiao and her brother were really punished because they paid late.
She immediately whispered to Wang Ruijiao, "I'm sorry, I was delayed today because of something. I promise it won't happen again. Just wait here with peace of mind. I will win your case." .”
After hearing Madam Zhang's words, a gentle smile appeared on Wang Ruijiao's gloomy face, "Is everything my sister-in-law said true?"
Madam Zhang nodded immediately after hearing this, "Of course it's true."
However, Zhang Xuenian felt something fishy from it. He raised his head and glanced at Mrs. Zhang, then he whispered, "Where did you get so much money?"
Hearing Zhang Xuenian's words, Madam Zhang said unceremoniously, "Don't worry about it! Anyway, it's enough that I can protect you."
After saying this, Madam Zhang just nodded to her younger brother and said, "Please take good care of me and don't cause trouble again."
After being warned by Madam Zhang, Zhang Xuenian could only nod helplessly. After all, he was not alone. After a fight just now, he also realized that he could not protect anyone, so Madam Zhang's protection was so important.
However, he couldn't bear it in his conscience, so he only took the initiative to say to Mrs. Zhang, "Sister, don't be too desperate. There are some things you can't do without doing."
Hearing Zhang Xuenian's words, Madam Zhang only said hello with a smile, and then she added, "I didn't expect that our A-Nian would actually feel sorry for others. It seems that we have to get a wife for our A-Nian."
Facing Madam Zhang's words, Zhang Xuenian remained silent.
After Mrs. Zhang applied the medicine to her brother, she gave the remaining ointment to Wang Ruijiao. Then she only told Wang Ruijiao, "Gillian, please remember to apply the medicine to A Nian on time."
Wang Ruijiao only nodded seriously when she heard this.
Madam Zhang then took out a stack of pancakes from her arms. This was something she asked the hotel to pack for her when she was preparing a banquet. .
She knew that the food in the prison must be unpalatable, so she brought back these clean pancakes with meat inside, and the thin layer of skin was covered with meat.
In this way, one pancake can satisfy hunger for a long time.
After Mrs. Zhang took out the cake wrapped in oil paper from her arms, she handed the cake to Wang Ruijiao and said, "You guys eat the cake."
When Wang Ruijiao and Zhang Xuenian saw this thing, their eyes almost glowed green.
It's true that they haven't had anything normal to eat here for a long time.
You must know that those people are very oppressive towards ordinary people. How can they be polite to prisoners like them?
Even if Mrs. Zhang pays five taels of silver a day, the only treatment they can enjoy is that they will no longer be beaten and can be alone together.
However, as for food, they still eat whatever they eat at the moment, and only steamed buns and gruel are provided every day.
If you just eat this, it's okay. After all, steamed buns and porridge are actually good things for people outside.
However, the steamed buns were barely chewable, and they also had a rancid smell, and some even had green hair on them. You don’t even know where they got such steamed buns from.
If you think that you can only eat steamed buns but you can also eat porridge, then you are still too naive. The porridge here is not generally unpalatable. If you can find a grain of rice in the porridge water, you will win. In the turbid soup water, there are only stones and sand.
This isn't porridge at all. It's just rocks and sand mixed with yellow mud water.
At first, Wang Ruijiao and Zhang Xuenian were unwilling to eat this food. After all, they would not get sick after eating this kind of food.
The most taboo thing in prison is getting sick. The lack of a doctor is the second most taboo thing. The main reason is that the environment here is really not suitable for recuperation. Many people may even be infected by fungi before they are tortured to death by the disease.
And there are many people who have died from this kind of food.
At first, Wang Ruijiao and Zhang Xuenian were a little picky and refused to eat the food. However, no matter how hungry they were for a few more days, they no longer cared about being picky.
After all, people need to eat, and there is nothing in this prison, so no matter how reluctant they are, driven by hunger, they don't care whether they will get sick if they eat these things.
However, Zhang Xuenian is still a bit particular. He will break off the hairy steamed buns and eat the clean part. Although the clean part is not very clean, he will also use his own clothes to filter the yellow muddy water and drink it.
They had two bowls, one of which was used to hold the filtered yellow mud water. Although they were still hungry after eating this way, they were not much cleaner, but they still survived.
Still hungry though.
So when they saw Mrs. Zhang actually bringing pancakes, their eyes turned green. They immediately took the meat pie from Mrs. Zhang's hand and started to feast on it soon after.
Mrs. Zhang was afraid that the two of them would choke, so she kept urging them, "Eat slowly, don't choke. No one will compete with you. There is enough cake."
However, no one paid attention to Madam Zhang's words. The two of them ate quickly and urgently. Occasionally they choked, so they took a sip of the filtered yellow mud water.
Seeing this situation, Madam Zhang felt sour in her heart again.
However, in the eyes of the prisoners who had been tortured for a long time, this situation was enough to make them envious of their immortal days.
After all, not to mention eating meat, it had been a long time since they had eaten normal staple food of rice and noodles.
Therefore, after smelling the aroma of the meat, the prisoners around them just lay down one by one. They greedily smelled the aroma of the meat pie, and they greedily looked at the juicy meat pie, as if just that, they had already eaten the meat. cake.
Some people even just kept tapping the wooden railings with the shackles in their hands and saying, "Hey! Brother, give me a taste!"
"Brother, give me some to eat. Just a little!"
However, Zhang Xuenian ignored the prayers of these people.
But it’s normal to think about it. This meat pie is not enough to begin with. If you give it to them, they will be hungry. Moreover, they have no friendship with these people. If that's all, that's fine. What's even more outrageous is that the reason why they were taken to the prison for evildoers over there before noon today was actually thanks to this group of people. In order not to be assigned there, they all just pointed at Himself and Wang Ruijiao.
Although the jailers did not take their words as their purpose, their suggestions brought themselves and Wang Ruijiao to attention.
So when he thought of this, Zhang Xuenian had no sympathy for them at all.
After all, if Ajie had not come over today, he would have been beaten to death sooner or later, and Gillian would have become the plaything of those people sooner or later. They could not imagine how evil a person's evil thoughts could be.
So facing such a group of people, Zhang Xuenian naturally put away his excess sympathy. Even if Wang Ruijiao saw that a child was pitiful and wanted to share some of the cake with that child, Zhang Xuenian immediately pulled Wang Ruijiao back.
He whispered to Wang Ruijiao, "Don't give it."
Wang Ruijiao looked at Zhang Xuenian in confusion.
However, Zhang Xuenian became increasingly cold in Wang Ruijiao's puzzled eyes.
He just said expressionlessly, "The child doesn't live alone. There are so many people inside him. How can you guarantee that they won't snatch the child's food? Even if the child eats it, do you believe that the child will be targeted? Yes." Get killed!"
Being isolated in this kind of prison is a terrible thing.
Here, they are separated from other people and can ensure a certain degree of safety. However, if they live with them, their safety will be lost.
So here, a little kindness may lead to disaster. It is really stupid to maintain rich kindness without enough ability.
Madam Zhang agrees with her brother's statement. Although she has not lived here and has not seen the cruelty of human nature here, how could Madam Zhang not know this for a character who has been sheltering from the wind and rain outside.
Therefore, she only treats Wang Rui
Jiao said, "Ruijiao, you heard what my brother said about this. It's a good thing for people to be kind. However, in a cruel environment, maintaining kindness is harmful to others and yourself."
Seeing that Mrs. Zhang had said this, Wang Ruijiao was a person who listened to the advice. In the end, she did not share the food in her hand with anyone.
Seeing that Wang Ruijiao and her brother were both listening to the advice, Madam Zhang was completely relieved.
After the two of them finished eating the cake, the jailer outside happened to come to urge them, and Madam Zhang was ready to leave.
However, before leaving, Mrs. Zhang only said to her brother, "I will come to see you again in the future."
After saying this, she left.
When they came out of the prison and came to the hall, a group of jailers and the old yamen servant were all drunk.
She hated this man, but she didn't have the right to hate him now.
After all, this old man allowed himself to meet his younger brother and sister-in-law, and he also changed their living environment.
So this old man is kind to himself.
Although he bought himself, he actually wanted nothing more than to enjoy beauty.
Even if you are with this person without knowing it, you may not end up well.
But if you can save your brother and sister-in-law by only sacrificing yourself, then such a commitment seems to be nothing.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhang directly picked up the old yamen servant without any words from the jailer.
However, after picking up the old yamen officer, she only asked the jailer, "Where should I send this man?"
When the jailer heard this, he just smiled and said, "There is no place for him to sleep here. If you have the courage, you can send him home, but his mother-in-law is very fierce. If you send him to his mother-in-law, her mother-in-law will take a look." You are so beautiful as a flower, you will definitely be jealous. Her wife's hands are very cruel."
The jailer had already spoken to this point, what else did Madam Zhang not understand?
