Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The mother and son of the Wei family, who were about to make more trouble, were immediately frightened and trembled when they heard that their titles were revoked. They no longer dared to be arrogant and bark in the court. They could only take the thirty taels of silver handed over by the Lin family and left unwillingly.

To talk about this matter, the verdict has been made, but Grandpa Lin was still worried about the angry and sinister looks of the mother and son when they left. He was afraid that the mother and son would continue to do bad things and cause trouble again, so he told Lin Xiaoyue about this matter.

Lin Xiaoyue didn't expect that they would conceal such a big thing and only tell her after the verdict was announced. But now that things have come to this, there is no point in saying more, and she can only hold her breath. First go to the prison to see the second sister, and discuss other things later.

When Grandpa Lin and the others heard this, they knew that Lin Xiaoyue had taken over the matter, so they did not stay any longer. They asked Lin Baotian to drive the car and took the depressed people, the hunter Lin who had stayed behind to recuperate, and his young wife back to Linjiazhuang.

After seeing the people off, Lin Xiaoyue thought for a while, went back to her room, picked up a backpack, and rode her mule to the town.

Arriving in the town, Lin Xiaoyue went straight to the government prison.

Everyone in the county government knew her, and since she was now a princess, they naturally did not make things difficult for her and let her in.

Men and women were imprisoned separately in the cell. After greeting the prison boss, Lin Xiaoyue followed him down the long stone stairs into the dungeon.

This was the first time that Lin Xiaoyue saw an ancient prison. Not only was it dark and damp, but her nose was also filled with a strong musty smell. Faintly, she could hear rustling and squeaking sounds. The environment was truly beyond description.

She followed the jailer, thinking about how Lin Zhaodi was such a straightforward girl, but because she was implicated by others, she was not only beaten with a stick but also locked up in this dark place. She must be feeling very aggrieved.

After going down the stone steps, there was a dark room with torches on. In the dark room was a large brazier. Through the light of the blazing fire, the walls were lit up with all kinds of horrifying torture instruments.

There was a table and several benches on one side of the dark room. When the jailer brought the princess down, the jailers, who were sitting on the chairs eating crispy fried peanuts and drinking two glasses of wine, stood up and saluted the jailer and the princess.

"Okay, it's none of your business, just chat about your own things. Also, drink less, if anything goes wrong, I will take the consequences myself."

In broad daylight, a group of subordinates were lazy and even drank a little. The jailer was afraid that he would be seen as indulging his subordinates in laziness in front of the princess. Although he was not under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate, his rank was still there. If he leaked a word to the county magistrate, he would be the one who would be in trouble. Because of this worry, the jailer pretended to scold the jailer.

The jailer also knew how to read people's faces, so he quickly straightened his posture and explained in a serious manner, "Yes, yes, yes, we were just chattering, and we were on guard in our minds."

"Alright, alright, let's all go and get back to work."

"Okay, okay, boss."

Lin Xiaoyue did not comment on this. She was only here to visit someone, not to monitor him. Why should they be so strict? Therefore, she did not say anything to the prison boss and the jailer.

The noise here was quite loud, so it naturally attracted the attention of the prisoners around.

So when Lin Xiaoyue followed the jailer to the passage on the right where the female prisoners were held, they passed by cells separated by wooden pillars and hands kept reaching out, trying to grab the jailer and her, some begging for mercy, some weeping and expressing their injustice, some cursing and swearing.

The two kept walking forward. In a cell at the end of the long dark corridor, the jailer stopped, opened the chain on the cell door, bowed and stepped out, leaving the space for the sisters.

Lin Xiaoyue thanked the jailer in a low voice and handed him twenty taels of silver in the dim light.

The jailer pretended to refuse at first, but when he saw that Lin Xiaoyue was really giving it sincerely, he politely took it and said in a flattering way that he was keeping watch outside and the princess could talk to others without worry.

Lin Xiaoyue nodded, watched the jailer retreat respectfully, then ducked into the cell.

With the help of the light from the torches on both sides of the passage, Lin Xiaoyue looked at Lin Zhaodi with a sullen face, who was lying on a pile of grass, sleeping with a pale face. Even she and the jailer were unable to wake her up.

Lin Xiaoyue hurriedly took two steps forward, put her backpack on the ground, raised her hand and put it on Lin Zhaodi's forehead to test the temperature, then looked at the injuries on her back and confirmed that the fever was caused by wound infection.

She hurriedly took advantage of the backpack to get antipyretic drugs, disinfectant alcohol, cotton cloth, etc., fed Lin Zhaodi the medicine and wiped the wound. After all the trouble, she herself was covered in sweat.

After helping Lin Zhaodi lie down again and covering her with a thin blanket, Lin Xiaoyue sat down and quietly looked around the prison environment.

The county magistrate must have instructed the jailer to arrange a single cell for Lin Zhaodi, so that the second sister was not locked up with other prisoners and avoided the possibility of other prisoners taking the opportunity to bully her.

The cell where the second sister stayed was at the innermost part of the passage. The place was not spacious. There was nothing in the cell except a floor full of weeds that gave off a foul odor and a window that was opened very high. A faint ray of light came in from the small window, making the cell with poor air circulation even darker and more depressing.

An unknown amount of time had passed, but when Lin Zhaodi slowly woke up, she saw in the dim light of the fire that Lin Xiaoyue was sitting next to her, leaning against the wall with her eyes closed and taking a nap.

She was stunned for a long time, and only came to her senses after seeing the surroundings clearly, remembering that she was sued by the shameless and disgusting mother and son. Because there was a witness to prove her presence, and the doctor confirmed the injuries on the mother and son, she was sentenced by the county magistrate to ten strokes of the cane, a fine of thirty taels of silver, and three days of detention.

Thinking about how he felt like he was thrown into a furnace and roasted soon after being thrown into prison, he had a splitting headache and became increasingly confused. Unexpectedly, when he woke up, he saw his third sister standing by his side. He didn't know when he had changed his bloodstained clothes into a clean and fresh one. It must have been his third sister who changed them for him.

Fortunately, she repeatedly told the people in the farm and her mother not to tell her third sister, so as not to make her worry again. In the end, she still alarmed her third sister again...

Lin Zhaodi was sincerely grateful to her third sister for not shying away from going into the prison to change the medicine and take care of her. Not to mention that she was a princess, she had to protect her reputation. Even ordinary people, if a relative in a family was in prison, no matter if he was guilty or not, would be avoided by everyone, fearing that getting close to him would be implicated and damage his reputation.

Therefore, Lin Zhaodi felt quite sad that Lin Xiaoyue came to take care of her at this time, and couldn't help sniffing.