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"Dangdangdang..." Two jailers appeared outside the cell at some point and knocked on the iron bars with the handles of their knives. "Li Caifeng, come out. The master wants to interrogate her."

"Li Caifeng..., Li Caifeng?"

"Li Caifeng, bring her to trial."

"Ah? Yes." Zhou Chang didn't react for a moment.

She was facing the only small window above her head, worrying about how she could earn commissions and upgrade in this environment while stretching her aching body.

It was the first time for Manager Li to be imprisoned in his life and he was completely clueless.

Zhou Chang could only follow him out in a daze.

Two jailers sandwiched her, one in front and one behind, and walked forward along the dark and narrow prison corridor.

Passing by one cell after another, Zhou Chang suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Why are they all men?

The next moment he stopped.

How come the jailer escorting her is also a man?

"What are you looking at? Just keep walking straight." the jailer behind him shouted.

Zhou Chang suddenly remembered in panic that three days ago, she saw with her own eyes that Manager Li was taken away together with other male managers on the same ship.

Even so, shouldn’t men and women be detained separately?

Zhou Chang turned two more corners with confusion and was finally brought to a room with brick walls on all four sides.

There was a table facing north and south in the room, and the other three sides were filled with various torture instruments.

Zhou Chang was pushed to kneel down in front of the table.

Sitting behind the desk was a skinny man who looked to be in his thirties, wearing a dark green military officer's robe.

The man had a brownish-sallow complexion and no beard. His protruding ears made his already wrinkled and wrinkled face look even more pointed.

Zhou Chang had never seen this person in Li's memory, so he just knelt there without saying a word.

A jailer behind him bowed and reported: "Your Excellency, the suspect has been brought to the Yuefang female manager, Li Caifeng."

Zhou Chang wondered how Master Li became a suspect?

There was a "pop" sound.

The man with the protruding ears slammed the gavel and said, "Are you Li Caifeng?"

"Yes, I'm Li Caifeng." Zhou Chang deliberately emphasized the word "common woman" to remind the other party that he was not a suspect.

"Are you the female manager of Yaoyuefang?" The man with protruding ears and duck voice seemed to mention the three words "Yaoyuefang" on purpose.

"Yes." Zhou Chang felt strange, but didn't dare to say more.

"Did you personally select all these Kabuki actors who came from the southwest?" asked the man with big ears.

"It's not just me. I'm just helping the chief steward. The final decision is still made by the chief steward." At this time, Zhou Chang tried to speak cautiously.

Manager Li, whose real name was Li Caifeng, was originally a servant of the Yuan family in Danlu Longyu. Because of her intelligence and hard work, she was appreciated by the Yuan family and was married to a very capable shopkeeper at that time.

Later, the Yuan family came to Jindu to expand their business and opened a brothel named Yaoyuefang, and let her husband be the chief manager.

Li Caifeng also followed along. At that time, Yaoyuefang had just opened and many things needed to be done. Since she had never been able to get pregnant and she was smart and capable, she helped her husband.

Unfortunately, after a few years, her husband died of illness, and Li Caifeng became a widow as she was unable to give birth to a child.

The Yuan family felt that she was alone and had nowhere to go, and that she was familiar with Yaoyuefang, so they kept her in Yaoyuefang to continue to handle matters for her late husband.

It’s a pity that she is just a woman after all, and she cannot be the chief manager no matter what.

Although Li Caifeng was born a servant, she was always proud and arrogant. She refused to be like the madams in other brothels and greet customers. Gradually, she was pushed to the margins and became the second in command in charge of internal affairs in Yaoyuefang.

On weekdays, he oversees all the food, clothing and daily expenses of the girls in Yaoyuefang. Occasionally, when needed, like this time, he accompanies the head manager to go out to buy people and helps to make the selection.

The man with the big ears continued to ask seriously, "Anyway, you are in charge of this group of kabuki. You should be the most familiar with them. So tell me, is there any one who is suspected of being a spy? Point him out."

"No." Zhou Chang answered without even thinking.

In Li's memory, these Kabuki girls were all poor and innocent girls. Although it was her duty, she couldn't help but feel sympathy and pity for them. Although she couldn't save them, she didn't want them to be involved in this case that could cost them their lives.

The man with the protruding ears seemed to have expected this answer, and slammed the gavel: "You are such a shrew, you won't confess easily. Come on, I will torture you."

Before Zhou Chang could react to what "torture" was, the two jailers who had just escorted her over came over with something made of five small wooden sticks strung together with ropes.

Isn't this something that clamps your fingers?

"I really don't know, I don't know. I am at most a witness. Why are you torturing me..." Zhou Chang was incoherent in fear.

The protruding ears are deaf to everything.

"Ah..." A piercing pain came over him and Zhou Chang couldn't help but scream.

"I don't know, I don't know..." He could still shout at first, but soon he couldn't even shout.

The man with protruding ears looked down at him and said, "Haha, the jailer didn't even use any force, but you are in so much pain, and you still won't confess?"

"I don't know, I just don't know." Zhou Chang's forehead was covered in sweat, and he used all his strength to fight the last bit of clarity.

Indeed, the torture she had seen on TV in her previous life was always carried out by two people pulling hard to the sides. But now, in front of her, a jailer grabbed her wrist and forced her fingers into the gaps of the wooden stick, while another jailer pulled her to the sides alone.

But why?

It still hurts so much.

Just when he felt that his finger joints were about to be broken, Zhou Chang's consciousness suddenly began to blur and retreat, but his throat could not help but roar: "Are you going to torture me to extract a confession and make me accuse the innocent? You can't do it."

The voice was not hers, but that of the original owner of this body, Mr. Li.

She felt like her soul was leaving her body due to the pain, but her mind still retained a certain degree of clarity, and she could clearly feel the strength coming from the heart of Master Li.

No matter how much physical pain he was in, Master Li was unwilling to implicate innocent people just to suffer less.

Originally, Zhou Chang didn't have a very good impression of Manager Li, but now he looks at him differently.

She always has a gloomy face on weekdays, which is because she is a single woman and has to fight among men.

A tragic emotion burst out from Master Li's body, and with this power, he was able to grit his teeth and persevere.

Even though Zhou Chang was in so much pain that his body was "separated", Master Li's consciousness was still so firm and consistent.

It hurts so much that I can no longer tell where it hurts.

The pain that spreads throughout the world.

Zhou Chang even hoped to faint.

"Stop——" The duck's voice with protruding ears seemed to come from far away.

When Zhou Chang heard the word "stop", it was like hearing heavenly music.

Her consciousness was suddenly pulled back, she gasped heavily and withdrew her hands tremblingly.

I curled up with my hands pressed against my stomach, the pain only getting worse when my fingers regained full feeling.

The man with protruding ears looked down at the man, stroking his hairless chin and smiling sinisterly: "It seems like you really don't want to tell me?"

After taking a few breaths, Zhou Chang finally felt like he was back to reality. He spoke in a hoarse voice, "What do you want me to say? I don't know anything in the first place."

"Don't know? I think you are deliberately covering up for me." The big ears were not annoyed, but sneered, "It seems that I have to punish you severely."

"You have no reason to torture me at all." Zhou Chang's heart sank to the bottom.

It turns out that stopping pinching her fingers was not to let her go, but to change to cruel treatment. "I have always respected money. I have never stolen, robbed, or had anything!"