Old things in the Red Chamber

temple of hell

This place is very desolate and dilapidated. Compared with the previous life, the life here is simply hell.

But none of the women locked up here cried.For them, death is just a matter of time.

So many people become insensitive, no matter how much they care about the outside world, how much they don't give up, no one will answer you when they cry and cry in this place, and they gradually give up struggling and want to die.

But there are exceptions to everything, some people always don't want to die.

In the early morning, the prison woman took over a group of children prisoners. It doesn't matter whether they are tortured or not. Most of the women imprisoned here lived in luxury and well-being before. There are also many high-ranking officials and nobles among their relatives outside, so they also No one deliberately made it difficult for them, but they were worried that they would offend their relatives outside because they wanted to die. After all, being cut off by the court and being tortured to death were two different concepts.The grown-ups don't care, these little people may not be able to withstand the anger of others.

But if there are other preferential treatments for them, I can’t say it. The food in the prison is not good, and the cells are not easy to live in. They are what they are like.

It's just that among the group of people who came this morning, there was a female prisoner who was particularly domineering. When the prison nurse went to pull her, she scolded her and made many people shake their heads secretly.

After stuffing the people into the cell, the prison maids gathered together to cook for them.

When there are no outsiders, they will inevitably discuss the prisoners in their own care.

"Who is that little daughter-in-law who scolded people just now?"

A woman divides the food into the box, so she must inquire with others, after all, there are very few overbearing people like this.

"You don't have to give her preferential treatment for the sake of outsiders. I heard that this person will not live long. Others are imprisoned by the men in the family. She is imprisoned here. Apart from being implicated by her own men, her hands I heard that there are also murder cases.”

Having said that, many people came to look at it one after another, and the mother-in-law who knew the news couldn't help shaking out the news she had heard.

"I heard that this person is very jealous. There was an obedient concubine in his family who was tortured to death by her. It is said that he was poisoned to death by putting down a pack of medicine. And the official investigation has evidence, so, this The little daughter-in-law can't escape Qiu Houwen's beheading."

The others all clicked their tongues, "This little daughter-in-law is really too. Many wives and grandmas hate concubines, but they just come forward to toss and toss her. How can there be a pack of medicine to kill her."

"In my opinion, that concubine may not be honest and obedient, it may be too much, otherwise how can a grandmother who is in charge of the family have the same knowledge as them."

Another mother-in-law inevitably objected, "I would trust others, but the little daughter-in-law who just came today is not a swallow, we just pulled her back and opened her mouth to scold Sister Li. Such a person is in our How dare you be so bold here, if you put it in her own home, even if there is a dishonest one, she will clean it up early."

The others felt that what they said was reasonable, and they each carried their lunch boxes to the cell to share meals with the female prisoners.

It was the turn of the new little daughter-in-law, who was still angry at these women in the morning, but changed into a smiling face at noon.

He took the food box with both hands, with a smile on his face, "I beg my mother to do one thing. After my mother goes out, go to Osmanthus Xia's house in the west of the city and tell my mother that I am here. My mother will definitely thank my mother with a lot of money."

She bit the word "heavy gold" very hard, and the prison maid who gave her the lunch box was also a little bit moved.

Speaking of which, these women who are on errands also make a lot of extra money. The people who are locked up here are more or less from some family background. They pass their news to their natal family. In the last period of time, I lived comfortably, and secretly brought some food and clothes into the cell, or news from outside.

To pass these things on, it is necessary to bribe these women.So when she heard that she could get a reward, the prison woman who was in a bad mood nodded heavily at this time.

They avoid Shangguan and outsiders in this kind of thing, but they don't shy away from their own people.After taking back the food box, a few people sat by the well to wash the tableware, and began to talk about it.

"Is there an Osmanthus Xia family in the west of the capital? What is the way? Is the little daughter-in-law today a girl from their family?"

"Why, the little daughter-in-law asked us to send news?"

"No, listen to her tone, we can make a lot of money."

"Old sister, others don't know about Osmanthus Xia's family, but I still know about it. My son has a house in the west of the city, which is not too far away from Osmanthus Xia's house. Their family was really the same family ten years ago. At that time The master of their family is still there, and he is also capable. He is an imperial merchant in the palace. As soon as I went there, there were only two mothers left in the family, and there was no male to support the family, so the business fell into decline. Two or three years ago, I married an emperor whose surname was Xue. Entrust the family business to the son-in-law, but who knows that not only the family business has not been entrusted to the son-in-law, but the wife of the Xia family has adopted a son."

"Later, did the adoptive son support the family business?"

"I'm just going to say that this son is not a good guy. He eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles. The family is in trouble. He doesn't want to support the family. Instead, he eats and drinks too much. In the past two or three years Kung Fu, not to mention the gardens outside the city, those who are in decline now have to pawn the things in the house to live. In the early years, there were a lot of slaves in the house, and I heard that the slaves in the house have also dispersed in the past six months."

"So, there may not be any oil and water on our trip?"

The mother-in-law who wanted to spread the word was very happy, but she felt disheartened when her colleagues said this, but when she thought about the emaciated camel that was bigger than the horse, the rotten boat and three catties of nails, this new little daughter-in-law After all, she is the only daughter of the Xia family, even if the family has no money, for the sake of her only daughter, she will try her best to send news here.

After making up her mind, the prison lady took advantage of changing shifts with others to go to Xicheng and found Osmanthus Xia's house. When she saw the vermilion paint on the door, she knew that the family was indeed in decline, and she didn't even bother to repair the facade.

Anyway, there was a knock on the door, and an elderly woman opened the door.

"Is Xue Xia a girl from your family?"

As soon as this question was asked, the woman who opened the door immediately covered her eyes with a handkerchief and began to cry. This kind of thing happened to prison women a lot, and it was necessary to persuade others.

After telling her mother what Xia Jingui wanted to bring, Mrs. Xia just wiped her hands awkwardly after hearing about it.

"Old sister, you don't know that I depend on my son for my life now. He is not willing to rescue his sister...I also went to inquire. My girl heard that she killed someone...it can't be saved."

Seeing that this trip was a waste of time, the prison lady didn't change her expression, she still kindly asked Mrs. Xia, "Do you have anything for the old lady to bring to her?"

Mrs. Xia thought for a while, "Just saying I'm sorry for her is enough."

She started crying again, and the prison maid continued to persuade her, seeing that it was getting late, and she couldn't stay here for long, so she stood up and was about to leave. When she walked to the entrance of the alley, she saw a young man who came back drunk and went to Kicked open the door and swam in.

The prison woman shook her head, and told her colleagues about it after she went back, "Every family has a difficult scripture to recite, and it's right for her not to save her girl, but the son who followed her might not end well."

But Xia Jingui couldn't accept this.

The prison nurse kindly told her about this incident, and she herself was yelling in the cell at that time.

From then on, the whole person changed, as long as he was awake in the cell, he would yell at anyone day and night.

The vulgarity of the words surprised these prison women who do errands every day.And the swearing is extremely ugly. First, I scolded my mother-in-law. The most angry and funny thing is that her mother-in-law is also imprisoned here. After hearing her daughter-in-law scolding herself, she has the strength to stand up. .

After this matter was repeatedly disciplined by the prison maids, the two finally calmed down.

But within a few days, Xia Jingui started scolding again, this time scolding her husband, from cheating before marriage to doting on concubines after marriage, and finally imprisoning herself in jail, she scolded her for three days in a row Even the prison wives can't bear it if there is no change of words at night, not to mention other female prisoners.

Xia Jingui scolded her husband. It was true that her mother-in-law didn't scold her, but she started crying again. Crying was the most taboo in the cell. There was a beginning, and these sentimental women would inevitably cry together.

Some people became calmer after crying out, and some people started looking for death after crying out. It is said that several women wanted to hang themselves that night...

The jailwives couldn't take it anymore, and they discussed with the supervisor, "Or move that Xia Jingui away, she is a troublemaker, here she sees this and that, scolds her husband and sister-in-law, scolds sister-in-law If you scold your own girl, it's fine if you scold everyone in their family, but the people in the prison opposite her didn't provoke her, and she scolded her..."

When the manager heard about it, he just frowned.

"The way I see it is because you gave her too much food, starving her for a few days, as long as she still has some breath, and beats, scolds, throws and slaps her without strength, the matter will be settled."

It is indeed a way to say this, Xia Jingui has not been able to eat enough every day since then, but she is indeed a fighter in some respects, the more suppressed, the more violent she is, until the end, she smashed her head on the railing, Blood was overflowing, the whole person laughed crazily, and then danced with hands and feet in the prison, causing many people to dare not look at her, only thinking that this woman is really crazy...

The person in charge said to the prison maids, "It's not unheard of to pretend to be crazy, so just do what you want. After two or three months, you'll be executed directly after autumn. Don't ask me for instructions if you have anything else to do."