An Ying once again stood in front of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment holding the bundle.
An Ying was originally a trainee lawyer in a law firm, riding an electric donkey in the wind and rain. One day after the trial ended, she followed the lawyer out of the court. Suddenly a van rushed straight towards her. The driver seemed to be the defendant. He was still muttering something. The lawyer pulled her to the side to dodge. As a result, she wiped her face. The hand gel slipped out of the teaching lawyer's hand. Wherever she was, she couldn't hear anything. She saw that the teaching lawyer seemed to be roaring something. What the hell, he was roaring all day long. Then his vision went black and his whole body was in severe pain. An Ying thought it was over. Now, my life is about to end before it even begins.
Who knows, I woke up not in the ICU, but in a country called Daqi. In the new world, she is the eldest daughter of the An family, a tea farmer in Xinshi Town, Huzhou, with a younger brother and a younger sister. An's family is engaged in tea business, with more than ten acres of tea land, one workshop and one shop. Father An collected the tea leaves and made tea cakes himself. Some tea cakes are sold directly to the capital, while others are sold in their own shops. An's mother had already passed away when An Ying came. An Ying usually runs the tea shop at home and prepares tea soup for guests.
Overall, An's family is fairly well off and life is not too difficult. There is nothing inappropriate about An Ying. Compared with the days when she was tired, poor and busy before, she feels there is nothing wrong with this peaceful life. Goodbye, the days when you ride a scooter and get scolded like a dog.
Until a month ago, the governor of Huzhou put An's father in jail on the charge that the tribute tea he made was too small. Before An Ying could figure out the situation, An's father was escorted all the way to the capital.
In order to save her old father, she and her old servant Uncle Zhou rushed to the capital together.
Unfamiliar place. She has been to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment three times, but she has not seen her father. Each time she was kicked away by the guards at the door. Fortunately, she was often scolded by customers before, so it felt familiar. Uncle Zhou on the side burst into tears: "Miss, I feel wronged."
This time she exchanged some money, thinking of putting some money into the hands of the guard at the door so that she could go in and meet him.
She observed several guards at the door who often guarded the door. Two of them were much kinder, especially one named Zhong Tianfu, who almost relented several times. Today, Brother Zhong is on duty again, and An Ying has been brewing in his mind the movements and expressions he has been waiting to use for a long time.
Taking advantage of the scorching sun at noon and no one around, An Ying walked over with her head lowered, holding a dime of silver tightly in her hand. When she walked under a shadow, she swallowed and quickly stuffed the silver into the hand in front of her eyes. Inside, he said softly: "It's small, please keep it."
According to her past observations, the guards would usually look at the person quietly after accepting the money, and in a few days, they would probably take the person in from the side after the interior was tidied up.
She saw the hand in front of her holding the dime she gave her, wide open, completely different from the way other people held it secretly in their palms. She thought to herself that Brother Zhong looked honest and quite greedy, so she took out another dime. As soon as he stuffed it, he even took the initiative to close his hand.
Then when he looked up, An Ying was thinking about using the expression he had practiced many times, but when he saw it clearly, he was stunned. He didn't know when a new guard came to the door. He had just done the operation, and he actually got the wrong person! But the matter has come to this point, and I can't get my money back. I think that a new person also has the benefits of being a new person. It's easy to talk, and maybe he can get some words out of him.
"Brother, look, I'm from Huzhou. I just want to go in and see if my father can be accommodating..."
The guard next to her came to pull her, and An Ying felt something was wrong. This new guard, oh, no, it doesn't seem to be a guard. He is wearing a thin royal blue robe. There are dark bamboo patterns in the blue fabric. It is definitely an expensive material. An Ying knew that he must have gotten into trouble, but he was reluctant to give out the two cents of silver. He gritted his teeth, held on to the blue robe and looked up with tears in his eyes.
Su Huangzhe looked at the two cents of silver in his hand, and then at the girl in front of her with her bun in a bun. She was wearing an ephedra double-breasted shirt made of fine cloth and a blue skirt. There was no hairpin ring but she was tied with two bright yellow hairpins. Ribbon, fair face, big and bright eyes, although there are tears in the eyes, it can be seen from the eyes that they are not the grief-stricken family members of the prisoners.
The guard Zhong next to him said: "Girl, don't stop here, your father is in a Tianzi cell, and you can't visit the prison." While pulling An Ying to the side, he winked. Several other guards came up to salute the man in blue robes and said, "Master Su."
Su Huangzhe!
A name crossed An Ying's mind.
It is said that Dad's case was transferred to the Ministry of Punishment for trial, and the presiding officer was Su Huangzhe, the Minister of Punishment. The Minister of Punishment is the second-in-command of the Punishment Ministry. This was something Huzhou Prefecture Master Yin gave her.
"That girl, what's your father's name?" Su Huangzhe motioned to Guard Zhong to bring him over.
Zhong Tianfu felt sorry for this half-grown girl. He wanted to find an opportunity to tell her about the secrets of the Penal Department Prison, but he didn't know that he would get into a big trouble today. He originally wanted to take her away quickly, but unfortunately Mr. Su still spoke, so he had to bring An Ying forward.
An Ying replied hurriedly: "My father's name is An Tinggui. He was escorted from Huzhou a month ago. My father is old. I just took a look and told him how my younger brothers and sisters are doing."
Su Huangzhe squeezed the money in his hand, and An Ying said quickly: "I will buy tea soup for you. The sun is so bad today, and you are here on business..."
Su Huangzhe smiled. The twelve or thirteen-year-old girl was quite courageous. She squeezed the silver in her hand and said, "An Tinggui is involved in the tribute tea case. You can't even get in." After that, he handed over the two cents of silver. Hand it to her.
An Ying stood blankly at the door with the two cents of silver in her hand, watching Su Huangzhe walk into the prison of the Criminal Department.
Zhong Tianfu on the side comforted him: "Girl, luckily it's Mr. Su today. If it were Mr. Chen Dong or Mr. Liang Gang, you would be in dire straits."
An Ying looked at the two cents of silver in his hand and said thoughtfully, "Is Mr. Su good-tempered?"
Zhong Tianfu said in a low voice: "You have the best temper in the entire punishment department." He then said: "Girl, you go quickly. If Mr. Su comes, the adults will probably interrogate the prisoner. Then Mr. Chen and the others will come later, you can't mess with them. Get up. Let’s go home and wait for news.”
An Ying didn't know who Chen Dong was or who Liang Gang was. There was no search software here to find out, so he had to rely on his mouth to find out.
She squatted in the shade of the alley near the prison of the Criminal Department, quietly watching the people coming and going at the entrance of the Criminal Department. She also paid attention to Zhong Tianfu's actions, thinking about waiting for him to show off and get closer.
The past is gone with the wind
Do the work in front of you first
Life is not easy anywhere
