When Lu Ying was just thrown back into the cell, he fainted several times.
At night, there was coldness and pain, which made him cry and howl in pain until his voice became hoarse.
Some people scolded him before, but then the jailer shouted: "Be patient! He won't be able to scold him for a few days!"
The other prisoners stopped saying anything. No one wanted to argue with the dying man.
It's late at night and the chill is getting worse.
Lu Ying curled up in the straw like a dead dog, her legs seemed to be bitten by a giant beast and kept swinging, and the muscles, bones, skin and flesh were all torn and painful.
He expected to die or fall into coma.
But it just couldn't happen.
He was so conscious in pain that he didn't even have the strength to seek death.
Lu Ying was skilled in medicine, and he knew that biting his tongue would not kill him at all.
He couldn't even hit the wall and hang himself because he couldn't stand up at all.
He tried his best to open his eyes wide, but the darkness was so thick that no light could be seen.
Suddenly, he smiled, and then he couldn't hold it back.
In the dark and cold night of winter, his laughter was like the strange cry of an owl, jie jie jie... jie jie jie...
The prisoners in the surrounding cells began to curse again.
After all, even if they are dying, they should not be disturbed to sleep.
It's hard to fall asleep once you wake up on such a cold night.
The guard was also woken up. He came over with a lantern and yelled: "It's okay to mourn during the day. What's wrong with your hair at night?!"
As he spoke, he separated the fence and hit him twice hard with the handle of the knife.
However, this pain is nothing to Lu Ying now.
He laughed until he was out of breath, laughed until he cried, coughed, and even vomited.
"What the hell are you laughing at?! What are you laughing at?! You're about to die!" The guard hit him twice more, and when he saw that he stopped laughing, he turned around and walked away angrily.
After a long time, when everything around him calmed down, Lu Ying seemed to mutter to himself, or seemed to answer the guard's words: "What are you laughing at? You are laughing at me for selling medicine all my life, and there are so many medicines that I have taken in and resold." Thousands of catties.
Who would have thought that at the end of the day, I wouldn’t even have a single pain-relieving herb in my hands.
If I had known this, I should have carried a Gelsemium leaf on my sleeve when I first came in.
Although this thing causes heart-breaking pain, the beauty is that it is fast enough.
What a pity...it's a pity that I made the wrong calculation..."
After two more days of torture, Lu Ying's eldest daughter came to visit the prisoner.
This is also the first time Lu Ying has seen her family since she was imprisoned.
"Dad, my daughter brought you her favorite lamb bone noodles, with poached eggs and wontons inside." Lu Ying's daughter held back tears as she opened the food box.
A hot aroma wafted out.
"Are you here to see me off?" Lu Ying knew that this meal was almost a meal for her head.
His daughter sobbed, neither admitting nor denying.
"Has the house... been ransacked?" Even though he knew that the house ransacking was an unchangeable fact, Lu Ying still couldn't help but ask for details.
"Well, I started copying it the day before yesterday." Lu Ying's daughter said.
"How is your mother...how is she?" Lu Ying asked again. .
"Mom, it's okay, my family property has been confiscated, but there are still a few old houses in front of Zu Tomb where I can stay. Where are my third sister and the others accompanying my mother!"
In fact, the eldest daughter did not tell the truth. After hearing that Lu Ying was sentenced to death and that all the family property would be confiscated, Yang became furious and suffered from rheumatism.
Although he survived, he had a crooked mouth, evil eyes, and incontinence, and he was already a disabled person.
"Your three sisters...have all been divorced and returned home?" Lu Ying immediately thought of her married daughters. Her husband's family was very likely to divorce their wives for fear of being implicated.
Seeing that he had already asked about it, the eldest daughter did not dare to hide it anymore. She knew that she could not hide it, so she said, "My second sister and I are fine. The third sister and others were kicked out by my husband's family..."
"Alas! You and your second sister have given birth to a son after all. How many stomachs are there?
Not living up to expectations..." Lu Ying didn't ask about the unmarried ones, most of whom were betrayed by the officials.
Otherwise, the eldest daughter will definitely tell herself that at least she can feel relieved.
What he is most worried about is his son Lu Zian: "How is An'er? The bones in his body..."
"An'er is with her mother! Dad, don't worry." The eldest daughter had to lie again, "But she also fell ill and is taking medicine now."
In fact, Lu Zian has been dead for three days.
"Oh, we can't see each other for the last time." Lu Ying smiled bitterly, "Where's the housekeeper? Did he go to Yangmei Street to pick someone up?"
"The house on Yangmei Street was naturally inspected. The woman my father brought back was frightened and had a miscarriage. Now I don't care about her life or death. After all, she has not officially married and has not been included in the family tree." Lu Ying's eldest daughter is here The first time she told the truth, her father had many concubines, and she had a natural dislike for these women.
"The housekeeper was also arrested, sentenced to exile, and escorted out of Beijing after the New Year. He has been our housekeeper for decades, how can the government let him go?"
"That's right! Huan'er, you are the eldest sister. Our family has fallen into ruin. At least you and the second sister are still safe.
Please take more care of me in the future! Dad, thank you. "
"Dad, let's eat the noodles first. Eat them while they're hot." The eldest daughter wiped away her tears. Compared to the other sisters, she was lucky, but her life at her parents' house would definitely not be easy in the future.
In the past, she respected her family's wealth, her parents-in-law respected her, and her husband loved her.
She was able to avoid being abandoned only because she gave birth to three sons in succession.
But in the future, don’t think about being as comfortable as before.
As expected, Lu Ying didn't ask any more questions, lowered her head and ate the noodles.
The daughter also brought wine and thoughtfully poured him a glass.
Lu Ying finished eating the noodles and looked at her daughter for a while before speaking: "Have you brought any medicine?"
The daughter took out a purse from her arms, handed it to him and said, "Here are twenty Huoluo Pills. Take them to relieve the pain."
"That's not it," Lu Ying shook his head, "I know you must have brought it with you. I don't want your father to be beheaded, I want to keep his body intact."
Lu Ying's eldest daughter couldn't stop crying after hearing these words. She did bring it.
"Let's go! Leave the wine." Lu Ying grinned and clenched his hands tightly. "If you have any troubles at your in-laws' house, just endure it. It will be fine when the sons are older."
"Dad, these are a set of clean clothes and shoes. My daughter, please put them on for you." Lu Ying's eldest daughter cried.
"I can wear it myself," Lu Ying smiled, "You go back!"
That night, Lu Ying fully dressed and died in prison.
Many death row inmates died in prison before execution, and Lu Ying's situation was special.
How many people were looking forward to his death, but it made no difference whether he was beheaded or died in prison.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they just did a hasty autopsy and carried it out.
For Lu Ying, when the person died and the house was ransacked, the matter was completely over.
No need to splash extra water.
After all, too many people just want safety, even the emperor.
