Chapter 175
The prestige of the Yichun Qinglisi was thoroughly established after Zhang Jiuxiang dealt with Li Lanshan.
Whether it was Yao Chunnuan's reluctance to confront him, or the two of them acting out a grand spectacle, it was enough to remind Yichun's civil and military officials not to make the wrong move. After all, Li Lanshan, Lord Yao's cousin, was incarcerated, and his three years in prison were no joke.
That night, Yao Chunnuan and Qi Yingshan washed up and lay down on the bed.
Yao Chunnuan lay down and Qi Yingshan gave her a massage.
The pressure he applied was just right, neither too strong nor too light, making her moan. His palms were not at all like his skinny figure, but rather thick and warm, feeling extremely comfortable against her body.
"Are you in a good mood?" Qi Yingshan noticed that the person under him was in a slightly cheerful mood, unlike the depressed mood of the past two days.
"Hmm." It's okay.
Now, Yichun's judicial system is finally established. Their Yichun is becoming more and more comprehensive, and Yao Chunnuan is naturally happy.
Li Lanshan was sentenced to three years in prison. Although she was a little sad to hear this result as a relative, the matter was a foregone conclusion, and the sadness was quickly resolved by her.
Moreover, in the matter of Li Lanshan, Yao Chunnuan believed that she had done everything she could and should do. Even if she was said to be cold-blooded for not intervening in the matter, she had prepared the money and the subsequent path for him.
After the new prison management system was implemented, if Li Lanshan behaved well, he might have a chance of being sentenced. She had already set the stage for him. If he couldn't seize the opportunity, he couldn't blame anyone else. Others were trying to save you, so you had to work hard to save yourself, right?
While Qi Yingshan was getting a massage, Yao Chunnuan told him about her plans in a disjointed manner.
Seeing her busying around for a man these days, Qi Yingshan couldn't help but feel jealous, even though this man was her cousin and a married man.
Because the massage was so comfortable, Yao Chunnuan felt a little drowsy, and then she heard Qi Yingshan's voice sounding faintly.
"Li Lanshan is like this, and you have devoted all your energy to him, spending both money and manpower..." Her follow-up management of the prisoners in the prison is meticulous and strict. She has been thinking about it for a long time and has spent so much energy on it.
"If something happens to me one day, will you also run around and think of ways to help me?"
Yao Chunnuan was stunned, then turned over and looked at the person above.
At this moment, he looked a bit like a resentful husband. Yao Chunnuan reached out and touched his angular and handsome face, smiling, "Don't worry, if that day really comes, I will do my best to rescue you."
Qi Yingshan looked at her. "Even if it costs a lot?"
"Yes, even at a great cost."
"Even if saving me is harder than saving Li Lanshan?"
"I will try harder to save you than I did to save cousin Li Lanshan."
Hearing this answer, Qi Yingshan was finally satisfied. Then, for some reason, he asked again, "What if I and..."
Hearing this, Yao Chunnuan's scalp tingled. She quickly moved forward and kissed him on the lips to stop him from saying anything else. As her lips and teeth moved, she said intermittently, "Baby, let's think of something good..."
Under Yao Chunnuan's provocation, Qi Yingshan turned from passive to active and turned around to press the person down.
When Yao Chunnuan was in the midst of passion, she was distracted for a second and secretly thanked herself for getting away with it.
God knows, Yao Chunnuan was afraid that he would ask the eternal question: if he and her father fell into the water at the same time, who would she save first.
Compared to this kind of problem, exercising on the boat was easier, though it was a bit demanding on her waist. She was a little tired after a few days of eating a lot of meat. Also, her contraceptive pills were almost gone, so she had to ask Ba Yuan for more.
Yichun Prison
His name is Ding Jincai. He is the only son in the family. He has an uncle and three cousins. He is the fourth among the youngest generation of the Ding family and is known as Ding Laosi.
His parents died young, and he grew up eating from one family to another, often hungry. Growing up like this, he naturally became a street thug. Needless to say, there were many street thugs like him in their teens and twenties.
He could steal and rob people for a small fortune, but how else could he get enough money to live? People like him, when they had money, would call friends over for a meal, then gamble the rest at the casino, thinking they were living a pretty good life.
But if you walk on the road at night too much, you will inevitably encounter ghosts.
He was caught when he and his friends were robbing someone and they ran into a tough guy. The guy had some connections, so they were all sentenced to more than ten years in prison.
After entering prison, he didn't feel bad about it. He didn't deny that he was lazy. He didn't have to work every day after entering, and he was provided with free food, although it was just leftovers from other people. The food was really just like pig food, sometimes rotten, without oil or water, and tasted bad. But since it didn't cost him money, he wasn't picky. And he was very quick, always grabbing the cleanest and best portion from the pig-like prison food.
There was one downside to his time in prison: it was a bit cold and gloomy. But it didn't matter; they were minor issues, something he could overcome with his youth and strength. As for the rats and cockroaches, he could ignore them. Sometimes, looking at the plump rats, he'd lick his lips with a look of regret. Rat meat was truly delicious, but it was a shame they couldn't use fire in the prison. Otherwise, roasting it with a little salt would have been excellent. Well, he wouldn't dare eat it raw. It wasn't that serious, was it?
Ding Jincai thought he could stay comfortably in prison for ten years.
But the truth wasn't that all the changes started when Li Lanshan came in. No, the changes actually began a year before Li Lanshan came in. Their food improved, and he always knew they were picking up leftovers from the government office. This change wasn't obvious at first, and it was only when he was more attentive that he noticed it. First, there was more oil and water, and more good things appeared in the food. Before, he might not even snatch a bone from the food in a month. But later, he was so quick-eyed and quick-handed that he could snatch good things from the food every few days, either bones or meat.
He was wondering at the time, had the government become rich? Why were they eating meat every other day? Later, when he realized that the government was eating meat every day, he became numb to it.
So he began to pay attention to the information revealed by the jailer.
For nearly a year, he heard bits and pieces of information from the jailer from time to time, and he actually guessed the reason.
Yichun had changed. They abandoned the Governor's Mansion and established the City Lord's Mansion. The City Lord's Mansion had a very powerful woman as the second in command. Under the governance of the City Lord's Mansion, the lives of the people of Yichun were getting better and better.
The more Ding Jincai listened, the more uncomfortable he felt. He had been in prison a long time ago, when Yichun City had not yet changed hands, and the person in charge was still Prefect Lei.
Ding Jincai believed the rumors were true. The quality of their prison food was a testament to this. Furthermore, after Yichun City changed hands, there were very few prisoners like him. Presumably, as the lives of the people of Yichun improved, there were fewer and fewer people like him. If Yichun had been like this before he came, he certainly wouldn't have ended up like this.
Oh, I'm getting off topic. Speaking of that change, well, it started shortly after Li Lanshan entered. I heard that Li Lanshan is Mr. Yao's cousin.
Not long after Li Lanshan arrived, the government sent someone to give these prisoners a haircut. The haircut was crude and simple, leaving each of them with a bald head. There was no other way, as many of the prisoners' hair was infested with lice.
Then the government renovated the prison. I heard that the money was allocated by the City Lord's Mansion, and the prisoners were also assigned to help. This is like renovating your own home, so just do some work, no problem.
After the renovation, the prison was divided into many small rooms, each of which was spacious and bright. Then, the jailers brought in four wooden bunk beds, divided into upper and lower bunks, and arranged for the prisoners to live in them.
After the renovation, the prison was made better than his original home. Before Ding Chaozhou could be happy, the prisoners were assigned to work.
The job is simple, just pasting paper boxes.
Later, Ding Jincai heard Li Lanshan mention that the paper box they made was called a matchbox.
Matches were a new gadget that made it much easier to start a fire, much more convenient than a flint or tinderbox. A small box of matches was not expensive, only two copper coins, but it lasted a long time.
They were all lazy people, so why would they want to do such a job? Not to mention sitting there all day, pasting away, sometimes he could paste hundreds of matchboxes a day.
Ding Jincai wasn't always a scoundrel. When he was fifteen or sixteen, he wanted to be a good person, saving money to get married and have children. He once worked at the docks carrying heavy bags, but it was exhausting. Each load weighed hundreds of pounds, and he had to work almost non-stop. After a day of sweating, he only earned a dozen or so copper coins. Even that little copper coin would be gone after he'd cut off half a pound of meat.
He felt this was not the life he wanted. How could his labor be worth only a few dozen copper coins? So he only went to the dock carrying heavy bags for one day and then quit.
There are many people like him in prison.
For prisoners who were unwilling to work, the jailers neither beat nor scolded them. They would lock them in a room, not allow them to sleep, not talk to them, and then deprive them of food or water.
After being tortured with so many methods, the prisoners became afraid and started to work honestly.
Besides making matchboxes, they also had to water the land and grow vegetables. That's right, their head jailer had somehow managed to get a piece of land and planted it entirely with vegetables. Every afternoon, they were assigned to water the land, weed, and do other chores. Furthermore, during the summer harvest and autumn harvest, they were taken to the Yichun military settlement to work!
After that, their meals gradually improved. They ate whole grains, vegetable pancakes, brown rice porridge, etc., just like normal people.
Later, Ding Jincai realized that the food they ate was actually earned by their own hands. He was a little amused and confused. He had not been self-reliant and self-sufficient when he was outside, but he was imprisoned and in prison, but he achieved self-sufficiency in prison.
By the way, they were later given some cultural classes, primarily based on Yichun Law. Later, their duties expanded beyond just pasting paper boxes. However, they were still manual labor. They worked every day, and if they didn't work one day, everyone felt uncomfortable and uneasy. This made Ding Jincai feel that the prison had become terrifying after the reforms.
Later, the new emperor issued a general amnesty. He behaved well in prison, and his original crime was not a serious crime such as murder or arson, so he was pardoned.
After he was released, he easily found a job with the skills he had learned in prison. It wasn't as hard as carrying bags at the docks, and the pay was decent, enough to cover his daily expenses and save a little.
Ding Jincai was in his early twenties when he left. After saving money for several years, he married a widow through a matchmaker and later had two children. Even in his old age, he was always grateful to the new court and to Lord Yao.
In reality, the person he was most grateful to was Lord Yao. He knew he had benefited from Li Lanshan's help. If he hadn't been reformed in prison, even if he hadn't died during those ten years, he would have followed his old ways after being released, and died somewhere unknowing. He would never have lived like he did now, with a wife, children, and grandchildren, and died of old age.
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