Chapter 25: The Mysterious Beard
Chapter 25: The Mysterious Beard
Not far away, there was a group that could barely be called a "human", whose tall body was only a huge skeleton, squatting in the corner, talking self-deprecating words.Mo Wanqing couldn't help feeling sore in his heart, he couldn't help asking: "How long have you been locked up?"
The bearded man trembled, as if stretching his body and remembering the past.With disheveled hair and a pair of eyes that are surprisingly bright, "I can't remember, anyway, it didn't happen in a day or two. They arrested me without a definite charge, so they dragged on in a hurry, and didn't convict me. Don't let me go either."
Mo Wanqing was stunned, how could such an outrageous thing happen?
"No way?"
In my impression, even if the people above want to punish themselves, they will give a high-sounding excuse, and this excuse should be enough to pass the court-martial trial.
The bearded man shrugged helplessly, and he didn't want to say more. His matter was not a secret in the prison. He was caught as a "military spy", but he was just an ordinary butcher. He looked strong, but his background was simple. But that's all.
But he was arrested by the officers and soldiers for interrogation, and he would not be released if the interrogation failed. A day or two, after a long time, he did not know how long he had been locked up here, maybe more than a year or two, but the official He has not been convicted yet, and he has not been acquitted of his injustice.
From persistently complaining about grievances to now waiting to die in despair, people's hopes have been bit by bit polished.
Mo Wanqing didn't ask any more questions. To be honest, the experience of the bearded man indirectly hit him. Could it be that there is no so-called "law of kings" in this world?Will he be imprisoned endlessly like this bearded man?
Thinking of the consequences, I was afraid for a while. Not to mention the environment here, even the best nest was hard to accept without freedom and being imprisoned.
Speaking of which, the atmosphere became gloomy, and the bearded man didn't make any more sound. He squatted in the corner as if taking a rest.
Time passed bit by bit, until the grandmother who delivered the food pushed the small trolley and filled the food spoon by spoon into the groove in front of each prison door.Smelling the smell of food, the bearded man jumped up and squatted in front of the groove, picked up his chopsticks, and quickly planed there.
Mo Wanqing stared blankly at this scene. In his opinion, even if this kind of meal was free, it would be extremely disrespectful, but the bearded man ate it calmly and even naturally.
With a "bang", a spoonful of rice was also put into the groove in front of him. Mo Wanqing looked down at the pile of unknown substances. Brown vegetable leaves and slightly yellowed rice were mixed together. To describe it, it is just leftovers that can be eaten.
Mo Wanqing smiled wryly. He was really stingy. The free one was just like this. He also often went in and out of this kind of place where people were detained. But at that time, even a meal of normal people’s food was the cheapest nutritional supplement. It will still be provided.
This gap is enough to be understood by the human body. He picked up a pair of wooden chopsticks placed beside the groove, and the mottled traces showed that they were a pair of chopsticks with a "story".
When the food was put into his mouth, he realized that it was rancid almost instantly, and spit it out quickly.Seeing this, the bearded man on the opposite side laughed, "I just bet you couldn't eat the food here, as expected..."
Mo Wanqing flipped the ball of food with chopsticks, "How do you eat rotten food?"
"Be patient, you're just not used to it when you first came here. It's basically rotten here in summer. Do you think other people eat well? If you don't eat, you will starve to death!"
I will only mention this here. Everyone here is desperate, and they are all mortal. Who has the leisure to care about others?It's rare for the bearded man to be overflowing with love. It's pitiful to see him come in as a kid, but his sympathy won't last forever.
After eating, the bearded man went back to the corner and huddled on the mat to rest. He would rather fall asleep when he had nothing to do. After all, he had nothing to do but sleep.
That night, Mo Wanqing still didn't eat the lump of food. He folded his arms and looked up through the fence to look at the sky outside. The bright moon illuminated the prison clearly. It was a very beautiful scene...
Mo Wanqing woke up the next day hungry, accompanied by a twitching sensation in his stomach. After several days of abuse, his body finally protested to him.
Seeing the young man's distress, the bearded man gave a light snort and said nothing, he had already given enough points, and he had to bear the fate of not listening to him.
Mo Wanqing stood up slowly while supporting the wall, and tightened her abdomen with the clothes on her body, so that the burning feeling subsided a little.
He started to be in a daze, looking at his white and tender hands, thinking deeply, until the jailer came to take him to the court.
It was the same scene as yesterday, except that he also saw Boss Zhang and a few servant-like people he didn't know here.
When the case was asked again, it was nothing more than those few things, but at this time Boss Zhang insisted that his daughter died because of his infatuated love for Mo Wanqing, and the witnesses were those servants.
Maid Furong is Miss Zhang's personal maid, she is very familiar with Miss Zhang's affairs, and she was the first to be interrogated.
"That night I saw a sneaky figure in the lady's yard. Before I stepped forward to question him, I heard the voice of the master scolding, and the little thief showed his original shape. Then the master asked the servants to chase him, and then Little people don't know about it."
Going to the court is a very scary thing. The young lady's bizarre death has scared her enough, and soon she was imprisoned by the master, and today she was inexplicably asked to go to court to identify her.She was just a maid, who knew that so many terrible things would happen one after another?
After the maid finished speaking, Boss Zhang came out to add, it was nothing more than chasing someone and suddenly remembered that Mo Wanqing's back looked familiar, so he tried to go to the coffin shop, and sure enough, he caught Mo Wanqing who had sneaked back there.
Everything up to this point is true, and when the judge asked him if he admitted it, he graciously admitted it.But then Boss Zhang angrily accused him of having an affair with his daughter, which he refused to admit to death.
"I did sneak into Zhang's mansion that night, but I don't know Miss Zhang at all!"
"Bold! You are allowed to talk nonsense in front of the adults? You keep saying that you don't know Hong Su, so why did you let me be locked up for 5 days without resisting? What else can it be if it's not a guilty conscience?"
Mo Wanqing had a headache, he was indeed guilty, but it was not because of Miss He's affair, but because of Boss Zhang, but this really made it hard for him to explain.
He couldn't understand why he found the smell of sin ants on the things left by Boss Zhang, but after chasing them, there was nothing, just like they stood so close now and didn't notice anything strange.
If it wasn't that the sin ant was still an egg, he even suspected that it was deliberately designed by the sin ant to harm him.Leading him to the Zhang Mansion, killing the young lady, and blaming himself, well, if this is the case, it is really so intelligent that people can't wait to worship it.
However, this assumption is destined to be untenable. The egg is smart enough to calculate, and it can't do it, so it can fool around with the young lady and make her pregnant.
Boss Zhang became even more angry when Mo Wanqing refused to admit the affair. If the jailer hadn't stopped him, he would have stepped forward to question him.
"Snapped!"
"Silence! Are you the judge or am I?"
Everyone fell silent, Mo Wanqing hung her head and waited to see if this superior person could give herself justice.
The people in front of the hall first asked Fu Rong, the personal maid, to identify if that figure was Mo Wanqing, and she definitely said yes!Then he asked Mo Wanqing why he appeared in the young lady's yard so late.
"I entered by mistake! I finally saw the lights and was discovered just as I was about to step forward."
"It's obviously a fabrication. It's not easy to get in by mistake, but it's the little girl's yard? My lord, the little girl's yard is in the innermost part of the house. How can it be so easy to get in randomly?"
Boss Zhang is telling the truth. Generally, rich families will arrange the yards of the female relatives at the back and hide them deep in the yard.But Mo Wanqing did not lie, because he entered through the back door...
"Back door! I entered through the back door."
Mo Wanqing didn't intend to conceal the path of his entry, he knew the truth that the more you hide, the harder it is to win people's trust.
Sure enough, the judge asked: "Is the back door the closest to the lady's house?"
Boss Zhang didn't say "no" this time with a livid face. He really didn't expect this kid to enter through the back door, because the back door of his house is in the same alley as the back door of many other yards, and it is generally not opposite to their house. If you know enough, it will not be so easy to find the back door that belongs to his yard.
"Then I want to ask you, why did you sneak into the Zhang Mansion late at night?"
Going back to the question that Mo Wanqing refused to answer the most, he still hesitated. He really wanted to make up a reason decisively, so the question came, how should this reason be said?He thought about it all night, but he could barely come up with a reason to say half of it and hide half of it.
"I'm looking for Boss Zhang."
It's normal for an employee to find the boss, but the timing and method are a little bit wrong. How should he say next? Better than homicide.
It was said that he was looking for Boss Zhang, and the doubts of the adults in front of the hall increased instead of diminishing.
"There are countless ways to find him, and countless times, why did you choose to sneak in late at night?"
Mo Wanqing was speechless, and it really made him realize at a glance that he felt even more headache.It's wrong to say anything now, the judge is not stupid, and the boss Zhang who is staring at him is waiting to catch his pigtail.
"I'm……"
"You made it up! Come to me late at night? You can't find a valid reason. It's a joke to say this reason."
Boss Zhang couldn't bear it long ago. For this liar who was full of lies, he didn't believe that he was responsible for his daughter's death. the second time!
Mo Wanqing lowered his head, feeling an unprecedented sense of aggrievedness eroding his heart, just when he wanted to simply say that it was for stealing, a voice suddenly saved him.
"For a betting joke!"
Someone at the door resolutely walked over regardless of the interception, the azure robe was dazzling in the sun...
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