The village head made up his mind and went back with his head down.
That night, everyone in the Yan family stayed awake until dawn, and everyone in the house was in a state of panic. Before daybreak, Xiaohua and Tian set out.
Chunxiao was taken to the township government that day and stayed in the township prison for one night. He was then taken to the county town early the next morning.
She was actually very panicked. The county official who had detained her seemed to be completely ruthless. Yesterday, apart from giving her two stale steamed buns, he didn't even give her a sip of water. She was tied up and sat in the carriage. Her throat felt dry and painful. "Sir, can you give me some water?"
As a result, no one responded to her requests after several times. She was afraid that she was really in trouble this time. If she had known that Xiaohua wanted to worship Buddha before, she should have gone to worship Buddha. It must be that the Buddha saw that she was not sincere and was unwilling to help her anymore.
The crime this time could be big or small, I don't know how the corrupt official will decide. If she just collected cotton privately, it would be for personal gain and she could just fine her. But if she was really accused of treason as they said, not only would she die, but her family would also suffer. In ancient times, power was everything. If she said you were going to be beheaded, then you had to wait for your head to be chopped off. So she had always been on good terms with the government, for fear of such a situation where an egg hit a stone. She didn't expect that she would not be able to escape this disaster in the end.
After walking for a morning, she was thrown into the county prison in the afternoon.
There were several other women in the room where she was locked up. When they saw her, they all looked indifferent and didn't say anything to her.
Chunxiao was new to the prison and still a little panicked. She looked around the cell. There were also quite a few people imprisoned across from her. She was thirsty and hungry. She hadn't showered the previous day, and although the weather wasn't hot anymore, she still smelled terrible after spending the entire night in the cell.
In the evening, someone finally came to serve the meal. She saw a bucket of porridge that was so thin that it couldn't be thinner. She was very thirsty, so she waited until everyone else had their porridge before she got a bowl. After drinking the porridge, she felt her throat felt better.
One bowl of water was not enough to satisfy her hunger. Seeing everyone go for a second bowl, she followed suit. But when it was her turn, the jailer immediately took the bucket and bowl and said, "That's all for today. Wait until tomorrow if you want to eat. You are a bunch of starving ghosts reincarnated. It would be a waste of food if you eat it." The jailer took the bucket and left cursing.
She carefully retreated into her corner.
"What did you do to get arrested?" Someone finally spoke to her.
"I bought cotton from the villagers." Chunxiao looked at the woman who was asking the question. She was disheveled and skinny, and it looked like she had been imprisoned for a while. "What about you?"
The woman smiled and said, "I, I didn't do anything wrong. Do you believe me?"
The woman beside him also laughed when she heard this. "Everyone in this cell claims they are innocent. He has plenty of reasons to lock you up."
Chunxiao felt a chill in her heart. If she was locked up like this for a few days, she could still endure it. But if she was locked up forever, she would probably go crazy. Especially the smell of the cell was unbearable for her.
Chunxiao was originally thinking about how to defend herself, but when she thought of this, she became depressed for no reason and started to curse the official in her heart.
She had no idea what was going on outside, but she had been in the cell for two days. No one came to inform her of the news, and no one interrogated her, as if they were trying to intimidate her. On the third day of her anxiety, someone finally opened the cell door and said they wanted to question her.
She followed the bailiff into a room, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a torture chamber. She was terrified to the extreme, and the people sitting inside covered their noses with their sleeves as she approached.
Chunxiao looked over and saw a young man about 30 years old. He was quite handsome, but for some reason, he gave people an uncomfortable feeling.
"Are you Yan Chunxiao from Yanjia Village?"
Chunxiao didn't know her identity and didn't dare to answer rashly. He just looked at her steadily.
Who knew that the yamen runner beside her would suddenly whip her and say, "Young Master Erlong asked you a question, why didn't you answer? Are you looking for death?"
Chunxiao was suddenly whipped and was in shock and pain. She covered her injured back and looked at the yamen runner fiercely. Seeing that she dared to glare at him, the yamen runner wanted to whip her again, but was stopped by the man.
"I advise you to answer honestly, so you can suffer less."
"Yan Chunxiao, you are aware that your crime this time is very serious. You violated the county magistrate and engaged in private transactions. To put it more seriously, it is treason."
Chunxiao looked at him and asked, "Are you the county magistrate?"
The man was obviously stunned and looked a little embarrassed.
It doesn't look like that. "Are you the county's legal advisor? The chief clerk? Or the captain of the police?" Judging from his clothes, he doesn't look like a captain of the police. Most likely he is a legal advisor.
The officer next to her said, "Young Master Erlong is the county magistrate's uncle. I advise you to be honest and answer your questions, otherwise you will be whipped."
Chun Xiao was furious at the whip. He thought, "You are not from the county government, so how can you judge me?"
When the man heard this, his originally amiable face suddenly turned furious. "I was kind enough to give you some advice, but you insisted on refusing to accept my offer. Wu Si, it's better to use your own method and teach her a lesson."
Then screams came out from the torture room. Chunxiao was finally dragged back to the prison. She felt that something was wrong with her brain today. She had always been a person who did not fight against officials, but today she made herself look like this just to prove herself.
Seeing her like this, the other people in the cell sighed and said, "Why are you doing this? Why don't you just give them what they want?"
The people in the cell fed her dinner out of pity for her. She even pleaded with the prison boss for this, as she could not move and ate very slowly.
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