manynovel Chapter 811: Imprisoned
Chapter 811: Imprisoned
Jiang Youzhen was about to curse when a piece of rag was stuffed into her mouth, which made her almost vomit.
She looked closely and saw a man with a small mustache on his lips, about forty years old, wearing a green official uniform, and his rank should be similar to hers.
A name quickly flashed through my mind: Bian Chunlin, the judge of the Salt Transport Commissioner's Office.
At this moment, the other party's face was cold, and there was a vicious flash in his slender eyes.
"Put him in jail!"
The cell was filled with a foul smell, and Jiang Youzhen was pushed in. As soon as she stood firm, she heard someone calling her from the cell opposite.
"Master Jiang, Master Jiang?"
Jiang Youzhen quickly looked across and found that it was Tao Chendong.
"Lord Tao, why are you here?" Jiang Youzhen was very surprised.
"Oh! It's a long story." Tao Chendong sighed, his face full of melancholy.
"Let's make it short." Jiang Youzhen said while holding onto the railing.
"It was that bastard Lu Shengyuan who arrested me. I was using the restroom in the restaurant when someone put a sack in my hand and beat me with a club. When I woke up, I was already in this cell."
"Then why did you conclude that it was Lu Shengyuan?"
Tao Chengdong said angrily: "If it's not him, who else could it be? Even if it's not him, he must be the mastermind behind it. Brother Yuan Xi was murdered by a traitor, and the death has been kept secret for so long. As the highest official here, do you believe that he has been kept in the dark?
Brother Yuan Xi hasn't shown up for such a long time. As a superior, how could he not come to check on him in person?"
Jiang Youzhen naturally thought so, otherwise he would not have asked Tao Chendong to come and investigate the case. Unexpectedly, as soon as Tao Chendong entered Jiangling, he was probably discovered by Lu Shengyuan.
"As soon as I arrived in Jiangling, I went to find Lu Shengyuan. I didn't expect that he was more anxious than me. Sigh!"
As he spoke, he suddenly looked at Jiang Youzhen again, "Then how was Lord Jiang captured?"
"They said I was impersonating an imperial envoy and arrested me. I took out my gold medal, but they said it was fake." Jiang Youzhen sneered.
"How ridiculous! These people did it on purpose. It seems they are going to risk everything."
"I guess they think that the truth has been revealed, so they might as well go all out and eliminate all the people sent to investigate the case. But if that's the case, then wouldn't they really be enemies of the court?"
Jiang Youzhen found this to be strange. These people seemed desperate and would not care about anything else. However, they were openly hostile to the imperial court. Aren't these people afraid that the imperial court would send troops to suppress them?
As they were talking, the jailer suddenly whipped over with a whip, hitting the wooden railing directly. Jiang Youzhen quickly dodged, and the strong wind from the whip hit her, but fortunately Jiang Youzhen reacted quickly and the tail of the whip passed in front of her eyes.
The whip almost hit her face.
"How dare you! Do you know who this is? He is the imperial envoy sent by the court. How dare you attack the imperial envoy?" Tao Chendong shouted when he saw this.
"What imperial envoy? Several scoundrels pretending to be imperial envoys have been arrested in the city recently. The imperial envoy is clearly in Lin'an Prefecture, how could he come to Jiangling?" the jailer shouted coldly.
"Behave yourself and wait for your master's decision."
Jiang Youzhen and Tao Chendong looked at each other, and they both felt something was wrong.
Jiang Youzhen paced to the corner and sat down. It seemed that these people wanted to use such a lame excuse as the real or fake imperial envoy to deal with her.
She just didn't know what their plan was. She felt that if she had taken action just now, those people would definitely not show mercy.
She was killed during the fight, and when the court investigated the matter later, it could be said to be an accidental killing, after all, she was fighting desperately at the time.
"After they caught you, they didn't do anything to you?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
"No! They have kept me locked here. No one came to interrogate me, and no one tortured me." Tao Chendong shook his head.
As he spoke, he saw Jiang Youzhen close her eyes and start to think. Not daring to disturb her, he sat aside and waited.
Then after waiting for a while, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Master Jiang? Master Jiang?" He called out twice, but found that Jiang Youzhen didn't respond to him at all, but kept his eyes closed.
"Master Jiang, what should we do next?"
He leaned on the wooden railing and found Jiang Youzhen sitting against the wall in the opposite corner with his eyes closed and breathing steadily.
This? Is this falling asleep? He couldn't believe it.
How could they sleep at a time like this? They were both in prison, and now they had to find a way out as soon as possible!
Those people are likely to kill to silence the witnesses, and Jiang Youzhen will be the first to bear the brunt and is in greater danger than him.
"Master Jiang, wake up!"
Tao Chendong called out, but he didn't dare to speak too loudly for fear of attracting the prison boss.
"What a sin! When can I not sleep? Why can I fall asleep at this time?"
"Oh!" Tao Chendong sighed deeply.
He never thought that one day he would feel that his days were like years. Since he entered the government, he was full of energy and ambition, and wanted to make great achievements. However, he did not expect that after only two years, he realized the darkness of the officialdom.
He climbed up step by step, using all kinds of connections. Now he is over 40 years old, but he is still only a fourth-rank official.
He glanced at Jiang Youzhen. He thought that this young man was in the emperor's favor and would become a high-ranking official in the future, so he wanted to take a gamble.
Unexpectedly, the dream had just begun when they were thrown into prison, not knowing whether they could ever return to Tongzhou Prefecture.
He didn't know how long it had been before he smelled the fragrance of food and heard footsteps coming from the opposite side.
Just when Tao Chendong was feeling melancholy and sad, a steamed bun was thrown in from not far away and rolled down to his haystack.
Steamed buns made of whole grains? It seemed that he had never eaten them since he became an official.
There was a lot of dust on the steamed bun in front of me, making the already black and yellow dough look even dirtier.
Since he was thrown into prison, he has been eating a steamed bun for every meal to keep him alive and prevent him from starving to death.
But within a few days, he had become pale and thin. He missed the delicacies he usually ate and couldn't help wanting to shed tears.
Suddenly, there was a sound of chains twitching at the cell door. Soon after, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps, and it seemed that there were several people.
He immediately leaned over the wooden railing and looked over there. In a moment, a person came into his sight.
"Lu Shengyuan?" Tao Chendong shouted excitedly.
"Lu Shengyuan, do you still dare to come to see us?"
Finally meeting Lu Shengyuan, Tao Chendong wanted to eat his flesh alive. This man had locked him up here for several days, and he was almost going crazy.
"You let me go, but why did you lock me up? I am an official appointed by the court and I have done nothing wrong. What right do you have to lock me up?"
When Lu Shengyuan arrived at Tao Chengdong's cell, he sneered, "You are the prefect of Tongzhou Prefecture, but you left your post without permission. What are you doing in Jiangling? According to the laws of this dynasty, officials who leave their posts without permission and leave their jurisdiction without reason should be detained immediately and reported to the court, waiting to be dismissed and investigated."