Mrs. Zheng held back her tears, looked at the money in her wallet, and had no choice but to go to Ding Shi Ji to buy some food with her own money.

Ding Shi Ji is not all about sky-high-priced dishes. Their high-priced dishes are generally the specialties here, but other dishes that can be found everywhere are still very different from other places.

Mrs. Zheng borrowed a basket and bought a basket of vegetarian steamed pancakes stuffed with cabbage and tofu, and a can of leftover noodle soup from someone else's soup cakes. The cook knew that she was going to deliver the meal, so he specially scooped a spoonful of chicken stock and mixed it in. Add it to the noodle soup, add a little umami flavor, and add some chopped green onion and salt to make the noodle soup not so shabby.

Mrs. Zheng returned to the county government office with the basket in her arms. The jailer led her to the cell.

Since their crimes were not serious, Lu and Qiao Zaohua were imprisoned in a relatively loose outer prison. This was not a dungeon, but several rows of short brick buildings. Each cell was only the size of a normal house surrounded by four pillars.

The jailer led her to the door of this cell, pointed inside, and said: "That's the third one on the left. You can go alone, I'll watch here."

Ms. Zheng bowed and thanked her, lifted up her skirt and crossed the threshold.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, the stench of the courtyard made her unable to help but cover her mouth and nose.

Although the ventilation and lighting effects here are much better than those in the dungeon, most of the prisoners here have not paid attention to personal hygiene for a long time, and the toilet barrels in each cell are not cleaned every day, so the smell is very unpleasant.

Mrs. Zheng looked left and right, and finally found the cell where Mrs. Lu and Qiao Zaohua were being held. She walked over quickly. Mrs. Lu, her hair disheveled, weakly leaned against the brick wall in the cell. Mrs. Zheng stepped forward and lowered her head. She called out "Mother" in a low voice.

Mrs. Lu raised her eyelids with great effort and saw that it was her third daughter-in-law. She immediately threw herself on the railing of the cell door and cried bitterly: "My son! I thought I had no hope in this life, no hope! In the end, I still have no hope." You must be my most beloved son, and I have not loved you in vain! You don’t know how much your sister-in-law and I have suffered here, and I thought I would never see you again!"

During these days, the county government's daily meals only consisted of porridge with clear soup and little water, or pancakes made with coarse grains that were so rough that they could almost cut your throat. This made Qiao Zaohua, who was used to eating small stoves at home, cry in grievance all day long.

In the past, there was generally no food in the cells of the county government, and only family members could deliver meals. The late emperor decreed that each county must provide meals to prisoners, and the food situation could be determined based on the money and grain income of each county. With this provision, Lu's There is no way to ask the jailer to help call the family under the guise of delivering food.

Logically speaking, this is definitely not the case in normal times. Otherwise, how can the outsiders use money to ransom people when they are in prison? But Lu and Qiao Zaohua were specially ordered by the county magistrate to take care of them, and they must be allowed to feel the pain every day for a few days. It should not be called the feeling that the earth and the earth are not working properly, that's why Lu and the others are in such misery.

Ms. Zheng also had mixed feelings. She never thought that her mother-in-law, who had always been aloof and superior, and her sister-in-law, who used her nostrils to look at people, would now be in such a mess.

She placed the basket at the door, lifted the cloth covering the basket, and said softly: "Mom, I brought some cage cakes for you and my sister-in-law. You must be living a simple life these days. Please replenish your health quickly. My sister-in-law is young. Be gentle, don’t use her mouth!"

Mrs. Zheng spent ten cents to buy twenty vegetarian steamed buns, which were piled up in a basket and trembled. Ding Shi Ji’s steamed buns were very solid, with cabbage, tofu, and The vermicelli and pickled pickled cabbage are fried in rapeseed oil, and the neat pleats are soaked in yellow rapeseed oil, emitting heat and making your fingers lick your fingers.

Lu's face lit up with joy, and she immediately went to shake Qiao Zaohua, who was lying on the straw bed sleeping like a pig.

"Hua'er, get up quickly! Your third sister-in-law is here with food!"

Qiao Zaohua woke up in confusion, rubbing her eyes not knowing what had happened. She only heard the word "eat", and immediately rushed to the door like crazy, stretched out her hand from the railing, as if she was reincarnated as a hungry and consumptive ghost.

He grabbed the cage cake and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Slow down, slow down!" Mrs. Lu hurriedly helped Qiao Zaohua on her back, feeling so distressed that she burst into tears. How much injustice had her old daughter suffered since she came in yesterday!

Mrs. Zheng saw that Qiao Zaohua was devouring the food, so she picked up two large steamed buns from the basket and handed them to Mrs. Lu: "Mother, you can eat too."

Qiao Zaohua saw Zheng's delicate white hands "snatching" two cage cakes from her eyes, and gave Zheng a vicious look. The look in her eyes was as hateful as if Zheng had cut her flesh, which made Zheng

I couldn't get angry at all.

"No, I'm an old man, and I can't afford to earn a living with Hua'er. She's young, so she needs to take some supplements! Look, she's lost weight from hunger!"

Mrs. Zheng just wanted to curse.

After all the calculations, the two of them were locked up for only twelve hours! It’s not like they didn’t have food in this prison, so how could they lose weight due to hunger? Moreover, Qiao Zaohua was still as fat as ever, not even a little bit thinner!

Besides, this outer prison is no better than the inner prison where serious criminals are detained. Where can we go if we continue to complain about the food? On the way with the jailer, Zheng asked carefully about the food in the cell. This is different from other prisons in the Qiao family.

What's the difference between the food that several people in the family eat on a daily basis? She's used to eating thin rice and white flour supported by other people's blood and sweat, so she can't stand it if she wants to taste what others eat on a daily basis?

Although her face was a little ugly, she still persuaded her softly: "Mom, it is precisely because you are old that you have to take good care of yourself. Only if you take good care of your body can you continue to protect my sister-in-law? What's more, there are twenty people here.

As for the cage cake, she couldn’t finish it, so it went bad!”

"I can finish it!" Qiao Zaohua swallowed hard the mouthful of food in her mouth. Although the mouthful was too huge and she choked on her chest when she swallowed it, she still had the strength to scream fiercely.

"Hua'er!" Ms. Zheng said with annoyance and a slightly accusatory but still gentle tone: "You are already a big lady, and you are still so ignorant. That's because you have worked so hard to pull your mother to take a bite.

What's the matter? And you also need to be careful with your body. If you suddenly eat so much when you're hungry, do you want to burst your stomach?"

When Mrs. Lu heard what Mr. Zheng said, she immediately felt that it made sense. Then she took the cage cake, took a bite and chewed it slowly, feeling very moved.

She is worthy of being a well-educated scholar. She is more sensible and filial than others! Qiao Zaohua has a third brother who can read, and such a virtuous third sister-in-law. How can she still worry about not being able to find a good marriage in the future?

Mrs. Zheng opened the clay pot again and said, "Here is chicken soup. Don't choke. Moisten your throat."

Seeing the chicken soup, Qiao Zaohua quickly put down the half-bitten cage cakes in her left and right hands, held the jar and drank heavily.

Ms. Lu leaned against the cell door and watched Qiao Zaohua eating, feeling more and more distressed. She said to Mr. Zheng: "From the third family, the third child studied in the county and was a scholar. He must be very respectable in front of the county magistrate.

You have to ask him to get us out as soon as possible!"

Mrs. Zheng nodded and said: "This is natural. How can we watch my mother suffer here? The third child will definitely try his best to deal with it, don't worry."

As she said this, she was screaming crazily in her heart.

The crime of causing trouble in the street is nothing. She will be detained for three or four days at most. When the time comes, she can redeem her husband as soon as she pays the money. Why should she go all the way to find her husband?

The mother-in-law wants to ask her husband to get her out... Doesn't this mean that he is going to confront the county magistrate? He has only been a scholar for a year, and he is going to lose his face! God! Mother must let this happen.

Is it possible to make such a scene that everyone knows about it?

Lu asked again: "Did you ask him to inquire? What was his tone like in front of the county magistrate?"

Zheng held back the nausea in her heart and asked: "My husband is still in the academy! It was my second sister-in-law who noticed that you didn't come home yesterday, so she came to see me early this morning. Don't I feel sorry for your mother? I'll give it to you first."

Send him the stutterer, and then go to the academy to find him!"

Mrs. Lu was elated: "Okay, okay! You are so considerate. Among all my daughters-in-law, you are the most filial, the most appropriate, and reassuring!" As she said that, her expression suddenly changed again, and she gritted her teeth and said: "

It's all the fault of that little whore! You bastard without a father or a mother, you forget your roots when you reach a high branch! You have to let the third child take care of this conscience-less bastard!"

Mrs. Zheng was so tired that she could only respond perfunctorily.

After leaving the cell, Ms. Zheng returned the empty basket and empty jar to Ding Shi Ji. After leaving the restaurant, she slowed down slightly and thought to herself for a while.

I'm not busy going to the academy right now.

Although she really didn't want her husband to interfere with Qiao Yun's affairs, she still had to visit her at this time.

After all, it was because of her that my mother-in-law was imprisoned, so we had to find her to resolve this matter...

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Chapter completed!