The guards were also not very comfortable, because no one ever came to visit them.
After a long, awkward silence, Su Jin was finally brought over under the supervision of two guards.
When Sujin walked, his ankles made a clanging sound, and the iron chain made a screeching dragging sound, which sounded very creepy.
Upon seeing that it was Su Yin who had come to see him, Su Jin was overjoyed: "Yinzi! Quick! Get me out of here!"
The guard grabbed a wrench and smacked him on the back: "Behave yourself!"
Su Yin sighed, her eyes reddening.
Of course, the redness was still caused by him pinching his thigh.
To be honest, seeing Su Jin like this, Su Yin even felt a little schadenfreude—this was Su Dazhi's darling, and now he had fallen to such a state!
Seeing that Su Yin's eyes were red, Su Jin straightened his face and said, "Why are you crying? I'm still alive. Yinzi, weren't you supposed to be in the countryside? What happened?"
Su Yin handed each of the two guards in the room a pack of cigarettes: "Can we talk alone for a bit?"
The two guards took cigarettes, but didn't forget to scold them:
"To make a long story short! Visits are normally not allowed! We're going to be extra careful to accommodate you!"
"Don't even think about doing anything underhanded!"
Su Yin smiled apologetically before the two left, locking the door behind them.
Su Jin hurriedly said, "Silver! Do you still have any cigarettes? Quick! Light me one!"
Su Yin lit a cigarette and offered it to Su Jin.
Su Jin took a deep drag on his finger, and the half-smoked cigarette turned to ash.
Su Jin, with a puff of cigarette in his mouth, leaned back in his chair.
After a long while, smoke finally emerged from his nostrils.
He sighed softly, "Ah, this feeling... it would be worth dying for!"
Seeing this, Su Yin took out his last pack of cigarettes and stuffed it into Su Jin's pocket.
Su Jin shook his head: "Don't put it on me! If they touch it, there won't be anything left. Quick! Light up a few more for me!"
And so, Su Yin served him, and Su Jin smoked seven cigarettes before his expression relaxed: "Yinzi, you came to see me, there must be something you need, right? Tell me!"
Su Yin didn't stand on ceremony with him: "My older sister said you picked up a box she had. Jinzi, that box is mine, it's very important to me, there are really important things inside, can you give it back to me?"
Su Jin was stunned for a moment: "A box? What box?"
Su Yin gestured with her hands: "This box is this long, this wide, and this thick. The wood is very smooth, and it looks very expensive—remember it? Actually, it's not expensive. The things inside are only useful to me, not to you!"
Su Jin squinted as he looked at Su Yin's drawing: "Oh, you mean that box! I did find it! But it's not on me now!"
Su Yin asked anxiously, "Then, where did you put it?"
Su Jin leaned back, looking Su Yin up and down: "Yinzi, looks like you're doing well. The material of your clothes... what is this? Is it wool?"
Su Yin nodded and said, "This is a new type of wool fabric called snowflake wool."
Su Jin clicked his tongue: "You're all dressed up in Snowflake Mud, but where's your older brother? He's locked up in this godforsaken place! Who knows, if the floor collapses any day, I'll be done for!"
Su Yin realized that Su Jin wanted to negotiate, so he quickly asked, "Big brother, whatever you ask me to do, I will do it, as long as you tell me the whereabouts of the box!"
Su Jin laughed and said, "Only I know where that box is hidden. If anyone needs to retrieve it, it will be me."
Su Yin understood—Su Jin still wanted him to rescue her, but how could that be possible?
I know it's impossible, but how can I say this to Su Jin?
Su Yin sighed and slowly said, "Big brother, I've always thought you were the most promising child in our Su family. But fate is so cruel. But big brother, I believe you can't be trapped here forever. I've already spoken with the warden; your sentence is only five years. After five years..."
"Five years? I probably wouldn't even last five months." Su Jin scoffed. "Of the coworkers who went down into the mine with me recently, I can count on my fingers seven or eight dead! I climbed up twice by stepping on other people's corpses, and you're telling me five years... If I'm unlucky, I might not even survive five days!"
Su Yin lowered his voice: "Big brother, I talked to the guards—they can transfer you to the minor offenders' ward, so you won't have to be in the first group going down to the mine face."
"Really?" Su Jin's eyes lit up again.
That's true, but it wasn't Su Yin who asked him first; rather, it was the disciplined person who brought it up to him subtly.
Su Yin nodded emphatically: "Yes, but you need to pay a deposit of 200 yuan to apply for this!"
"200 yuan!" Su Jin sighed.
At his wealthiest, he had over 900 yuan in savings, but now he is truly penniless.
However, in this desolate place, even if you have money, there's nowhere to buy things.
Su Yin added, "I can scrape together these 200-plus by selling everything I own."
"Fine, then transfer me to the minor offender ward, and I'll tell you where the box is." Su Jin seemed determined to make his move without seeing any results.
Su Yin nodded: "I understand, big brother! I'll come see you again when I have good news."
The two brothers gave each other a playful hug and then parted ways.
They both knew they harbored their own ulterior motives.
After the visit ended, Su Yin was about to leave this awful place when he suddenly felt two burning gazes on his back.
Looking back, he saw a strange young male guard staring intently at him.
Su Yin found it strange and looked at the person's features a few times—they were all unfamiliar, and she really didn't recognize him.
However, Su Yin still smiled at him in a friendly manner before turning and leaving.
At this moment, the male guard also turned and walked away, his eyes very gloomy.
If you remove the hat that's pulled low over this man's head, you can recognize him as Jiang Aiguo, the male protagonist in the second disappearance case in Dingjiatun.
I don't know what happened to him after he escaped, but he ended up in this labor camp and became a guard.
Naturally, he no longer uses his original name.
When Jiang Aiguo got his job as a warden here, Su Jin was already serving his sentence in the minor offenders' ward.
It was Jiang Aiguo who instigated his colleagues to find a pretext to punish Su Jin and assign him to the high-crime area.
The reason Su Jin didn't recognize Jiang Aiguo was because these prisoners didn't dare to make eye contact with the guards!
Making eye contact is seen as a major provocation.
The big wrench in the discipline officer's hand is no joke!
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