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Chapter 1188: The Jailer

"What's wrong? You think I can't find out?" Faced with Hongli's words, Liu Hu hurriedly denied: "This is not what I meant. It's really..."

Hongli patted him on the shoulder and said: "Okay, I know what you mean. If there is really any danger, I will reveal my identity. Besides...you are still by my side. With your skills, I will definitely be able to protect you."

Protect me and my wife."

Liu Hu was silent for a while and said: "Fourth Master, the Hangzhou magistrate once greeted you at the pier. If you go to court, I'm afraid he will recognize you."

"No." Hongli said with certainty: "On the day I landed, I was accompanying the emperor's mother in the chariot. The Hangzhou magistrate could only look at me from a distance, and then he didn't have time to kowtow and ask, so he shouldn't recognize me.

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While they were talking, Qiao Yan'er was walking back and forth uneasily in the cell opposite. Xianyue patted the haystack beside her and said, "You have been walking for a long time, aren't you tired? Come and sit for a while."

Qiao Yan'er stopped as she was told, but did not sit down. Instead, she knelt down in front of Xianyue with a plop, her eyes were red and said: "Madam, I'm sorry, it was me who caused you trouble. It's all my fault. If you and I

If anything happens to Fourth Master, I will never forgive myself in this life!"

Xianyue helped her up and said warmly: "Silly girl, what are you talking about? Don't worry, fourth master and I will be fine. We are just trapped here temporarily."

"You don't understand." Qiao Yan'er said with tears: "The power of Wanhua Tower is far greater than you think. When the trial starts, we will definitely lose. If it's just me, that's all. I'm just worried.

It will hurt you and Fourth Master." At this point, she blamed herself: "It's all my fault, I should have advised you to leave, so that nothing would happen."

Xianyue comforted: "It was me and Fourth Master who decided to stay, it has nothing to do with you."

Qiao Yaner choked up and said: "But... we are locked up in a prison now, I am really worried, otherwise..." She gritted her teeth and said: "I will go with Granny Lin, so that you will be fine.

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Xianyue didn't expect that she would say this, and said in surprise: "Didn't you say that you would never go back to Wanhua Building again?"

Qiao Yan'er took a deep breath, lowered her head and said, "Since my parents passed away, you and Fourth Master are the only people who have been kind to me. I will never let anything happen to you two. Wanhua Tower..." She gritted her teeth and said with trembling words:

"It's nothing more than death. There's nothing left in this world that I can miss."

Xianyue smiled slightly, took her hand and said softly: "Don't worry, you and I will be fine. By the way, where are you from?"

"I'm going back to Madam, it's Jinzhou Prefecture." As she said this, Qiao Yan'er showed a nostalgic look, "Although I was poor in the past and had to do all the work myself, my parents loved me very much. Every time I came back from work,

They always bring me some delicious and fun things, and they also say that they want to earn more money for me to get married, but before I get married, they have already..." After speaking, she was speechless and couldn't say anything.

Go down.

Xianyue caressed her palm, and a trace of suspicion flashed through her eyes, "The matter has come to this, and it is useless to be sad anymore. I believe that your parents are in heaven, and they also hope to see you live well." Qiao Yaner waited until she stopped.

After she stopped crying, she said to Yan: "By the way, you said you have to do a lot of work, what are they?"

Qiao Yan'er wiped her tears and said: "It's nothing, it's just laundry, sweeping the floor, cooking and feeding chickens. I'm used to it. Later, when my parents saw that I liked reading and reading, they took out the money they had saved for a long time.

Let me go to the private school to observe."

"It is a virtue for a woman not to have talent. There are very few parents in ordinary families who are willing to pay for their daughters to study. Your parents are really rare."

Hearing this, Qiao Yan'er's voice choked up again, "It's a pity that they died of illness before I could repay their kindness in raising them. I... am really unfilial."

"You living well is the best reward for them, and it is the continuation of their lives." When she let go of Qiao Yan'er's hands, doubt appeared in her eyes again.

I don't know how long it took, someone brought a bucket and said in a loud voice: "It's time to eat!" As he said that, he scooped out rice and placed it in front of each cell. There were as many bowls of rice as there were people, with a few yellow cabbages on top.

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Liu Hu took a bowl and was about to hand it to Hongli, but he smelled a sour and sour smell. He immediately called the jailer and asked, "Why is this food so sour?"

The stocky jailer stopped, turned his bearded face and said, "So what if it goes bad, as long as you can eat it."

"Can it be eaten?" Liu Hu scolded: "You don't want to feed pigs such food, how can a human being swallow it?"

"Pig?" The jailer raised his eyelids, looked at him, and sneered: "Your pig is lucky, and it actually has white rice to eat? Let me tell you, the food here is just like this, it's up to you whether you want to eat it or not!"

"You!" Liu Hu served the emperors of two dynasties. He had never been so angry before. He was so angry that he wanted to kill this jailer who looked down upon others with a knife.

Hongli said: "When the emperor first came to the throne, he once said that even if he is a criminal, he should have two meals of white rice a day. How does it make sense for you to use sour rice to make up for it?"

The jailer's expression changed, and he suddenly reached in from the fence, grabbed the bowl from Liu Hu's hand, and took away the bowl on the ground. Liu Hu came to his senses and said angrily.

: "What do you mean?"

"Since you think it's sour, don't eat it and stay hungry." After saying that, the jailer walked out. Hongli called him and said, "Why don't you answer my words?"

The jailer paused and said in a cold voice: "You like to reason so much, just go and talk to the emperor. The prerequisite is that you have the life to get out alive." With that, he strode away, ignoring Hongli and others.

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Liu Hu frowned and said: "Why are you listening? He seems to be very dissatisfied with the emperor? Has he met the emperor?"

He looked at Hongli, who shook his head slightly. After he ascended the throne, except for two tours to the south, he stayed in the capital. How could he know a jailer in the Hangzhou government office?

At this time, an old voice came from the cell next door, "You don't know something. He used to be the head catcher here, and was later demoted to jailer; and he has a benefactor named Xie Qian."

"Xie Qian..." Hongli murmured and repeated, then suddenly looked at the figure leaning over from the next door and said, "But Xie Qian, the former prefect of Hangzhou?"

The man glanced at him in surprise, "You know, yes, he was the original magistrate of Hangzhou. When he was in office, he was very diligent and caring for the people, but he was demoted to a commoner because of an unfounded crime. Wang Bao only accepted it with thanks.

Sir, after Mr. Xie's accident, he didn't want to work under Mr. Li, so he asked himself to be transferred to this cell. Can you tell me, is he satisfied with the emperor? "


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