Wanghai County, county government prison.

Because Yang Ruoqing said hello, Dabai and Hongmei were imprisoned in the same cage.

There was a simple wooden bed in the corner of the cell, with several bundles of straw piled on top and a tattered quilt.

When Dabai and Hongmei were escorted here, Dabai struggled and cursed all the time.

Then Dabai was taken out again.

When he was taken out, he was still yelling and cursing, saying that he was the cousin of the great general who protected the country, and that he was the cousin of Yang Yong'an, the current number one scholar, and that he wanted the county magistrate to come see him and so on...

An hour later, Dabai was brought back again.

When he went out, he walked out by himself. When he came back, he was carried back by two jailers. He stopped yelling and cursed. He let out a pained groan when the two jailers roughly threw him into the straw pile on the bed.

He cursed: "What a shame..."

Before he could exit, the jailer immediately kicked him and punched Dabai a few more times in the chest.

"If you tell me that you have a dirty mouth, there will be no dishonesty here!"

The jailer spat, locked the prison cell and left.

Dabai lay straight on the straw pile and groaned in pain.

At this time, Hongmei came over from the corner with her shoulders hunched, "Dabai, Dabai, how are you doing? Don't scare me, wuwuwu..."

Dabai's fair face, which he claimed to be a handsome man, was now beaten into a fat pig's head, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, as if a pot of paint had been poured on it.

Hearing Hongmei's cry, he tried hard to open his eyes, because one eye was swollen, and it took him a long time to barely open one eye.

He saw that the red plum in front of him was not much better, his hair was disheveled, the blood on his face was gone, and he was crying without any sense of control. He was not at all like the neat man in red clothes standing behind the counter dialing the abacus.

woman.

"Don't be afraid, I'm fine."

Dabai raised his hand and pinched Hongmei's face.

Hongmei held Dabai's hand tightly and found that his fingers were covered in blood.

"What on earth did they do to you? Are they trying to kill you?" Hongmei asked sobbing.

Dabai spat out a mouthful of phlegm with bloody foam, gritted his teeth and said, "I've been in trouble this time. They caught me here specifically to be beaten!"

"Who tricked you? Didn't your father tell you it was your uncle and they wanted to report you to the police?" Hongmei asked.

A fierce light danced in Dabai's eyes: "My uncle and the others reported me to the police because they wanted me to starve and freeze in prison and suffer a little punishment. They wouldn't really do anything to me. Look at me being beaten. Apparently there are others.

Hiding behind my back and plotting against me!"

Hongmei's face turned pale and she asked in a low voice: "What? You mean there is something deeper here? Someone wants to borrow a knife to kill someone? Who could that be?"

Dabai's face was full of ferociousness, "Who else can have the means to make the officials obey her orders? Of course it's my ugly cousin!"

Ugly cousin?

Hongmei was stunned for a moment. If I remember correctly, Dabai's cousins, except He'er who sells vegetables in the town, are all prettier than the others. How could they be so ugly?

Suddenly, Hongmei thought of someone, and her expression became more and more nervous: "You mean, while the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind, your cousin, the general's wife, wants to kill you?"

Dabai endured the pain and let Hongmei help him sit up first.

Every movement involved the wound, causing him to grimace in pain.

"Kill me? That doesn't mean that in her eyes, a small role like me is not qualified enough for her to use the knife."

"I didn't want to kill you, so why did I beat you like this?" Hongmei asked in confusion.

Dabai sneered: "Humph, she dislikes me just like my uncle and the others, but she is much more ruthless than my uncle and the others. If I don't let me shed a few layers of skin this time, I'm afraid they won't let me out!"

"

Hongmei breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that Yang Ruoqing would not kill Dabai.

"As long as you can get out alive, we won't panic."

"You still have to panic!" Dabai said again.

"Why?"

"We have no money! We are just two paupers now!" Dabai said again, turning his pockets out and feeling cleaner than ever before.

"Where did the money go?" Hongmei opened her eyes wide in shock and stretched out her hands to search around Dabai's body.

Not only were the banknotes hidden in her pocket gone, but the soft silver she kept close to her body and several pieces of her jewelry were also missing.

Because she was pregnant, she wanted to travel lightly when she ran away, so the two of them put all their valuables on Dabai. They just wanted to run away before being caught, and they could hide anywhere with dozens of taels of silver.

For a while.

When the storm is over, I will return to Qingshui Town. The two-story shop will be left there, and business can still continue.

Anyway, the reason why I went to jail this time was not for anything else, but because I injured someone in a fight.

"When did you lose this?"

Hongmei was really anxious now. Even if Dabai was arrested by two jailers before, she had never been so anxious or panicked.

Most of the money accumulated by the Zhang family over the years has been used to expand and repair the shop, and the other half has been used for expenses.

Because she spends a lot of money, she uses the best rouge and gouache, and wears the best materials and the most popular colors and styles in her clothes. Her ex-husband, shopkeeper Zhang, dotes on her. She has spent so much in these years that she has basically not saved any money.

Come.

Although she quickly got involved with Dabai after her ex-husband died, and even instigated Dabai to squeeze forty taels of silver from the family, half of the money was used to renovate the shop, and the other half was spent on eating and drinking.

It cost about the same.

Fortunately, business was good after the new shop opened, and they made their money back in just a few months. But now that the money was lost, even if they left, it would be difficult for the shop to reopen!

"Why are you so careless? That's money to save our lives. How could you lose it? How can you live like this? I still have a baby in my belly. Poor, I have such a miserable life. Wow

Woohoo..."

When not a single thing was found from Dabai's body, Hongmei completely collapsed and sat on the ground with disheveled hair while crying and cursing Dabai.

Dabai was also extremely upset.

Where did I lose it? During my previous torture?

wrong!

"I remembered! I know when I've lost it!"

Dabai suddenly shouted.

Hongmei stopped crying and looked at him with red eyes.

Dabai tried his best to remember: "Do you remember that not long after we escaped from the back door of the shop, two men in black clothes suddenly came towards us. They bumped into me deliberately, and then used this excuse to scold me for not being smart enough to walk. Then they continued

Beat me up?"

Hongmei also remembered.

At that time, the two of them were in a hurry and chose some remote and uninhabited roads, but even then they bumped into someone. It was obvious that the other party was deliberately looking for trouble!

"Our belongings must have been secretly stolen by those two people at that time!" Dabai patted his thigh and said decisively.
Chapter completed!