Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11877

"Dad, I'm so glad to finally see you! I've been living a miserable life..."

Finally, at the end of the dimly lit corridor, past one cut-open cell after another, the brother and sister saw Si Xi's father, Da Xi, and Er Xi, the father and his two sons, in the innermost large cell.

Immediately, Sixi's mother rushed over, grabbed the wooden fence, which was as thick as a child's arm, shook it vigorously, and burst into loud wailing.

Si Xi's father and the others were in a dark and damp cell. In the corner of the cell was a wooden bed with two quilts lying on it. However, the quilts were so tattered that they could no longer be called quilts; they were blacker and dirtier than a rag that hadn't been washed for ten years.

Not only that, but if you wring them out, you can wring out a puddle of water. Yet, even with these two quilts, Da Xi and Er Xi were covered with them. The two brothers huddled together in the corner, shivering from the cold.

Si Xi's father sat at one end of the wooden bed, his head drooping. When he heard Si Xi's mother's wailing coming from the wooden fence, the three of them looked up at the same time.

When Erxi saw that the people who came were his mother and his eldest uncle, he hurriedly pushed the bedding on the ground, rolled off the wooden bed, and then scrambled towards the wooden fence.

"Mother, Uncle, please save us! I'm going to die!" Erxi cried out on the spot.

Sixi's father and Daxi were both surprised and delighted. Seeing their family members come in was like seeing a savior and hope. The father and son quickly ran to the wooden fence.

As they walked, the sound of chains beneath their feet alerted Sixi's mother and uncle, who were standing outside the wooden fence. They realized that the three of them were still wearing shackles—cold, hard shackles that prevented them from taking large steps. The rings were so tight around their ankles that they had scraped off the skin and caused them to bleed.

At that moment, Sixi's mother was so heartbroken that she couldn't stop crying. She tried to reach her hand through the gap in the wooden fence to stroke Erxi's face, and then stroked Daxi's head and hands.

"My son, my good son, you have suffered, you have endured hardship, my good son..."

"God, what sins have we committed to deserve this suffering for my son! Waaaaah..."

Although many cells in this prison are filled with prisoners, and many prisoners are making strange noises.

However, Si Xi Niang's loud crying was so loud that it disturbed the jailers who were playing cards at the door.

Sure enough, from the entrance of the corridor came the roar of the burly jailer from before: "What are you yelling about? If you yell again, I'll throw you out!"

When the roar reached them, all five people reacted instinctively.

Si Xi's mother instinctively covered her mouth, while Si Xi's uncle rushed over and covered his sister's mouth. So Si Xi's mother's mouth was now covered by two hands, one her own and the other naturally her brother's, making it almost impossible for her to breathe.

When Sixi's mother heard that roar, she instinctively trembled.

Da Xi hunched his shoulders and lowered his head.

Erxi, who was lying on the ground, was so frightened that he covered his head with his hands and curled up.

After the burly jailer finished shouting and seemed to return to the table by the door to continue playing cards, the people in front of the wooden fence finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Sixi's uncle said to Sixi's mother, "Take it easy, our time for visiting him in prison is limited, let's talk about the important things first!"

Sixi's mother nodded repeatedly, not daring to refute. She squatted down, stroked Erxi's face with both hands again, and asked him incoherently about his situation in prison these past two days.

Erxi's situation was definitely bad; the answer was as terrible as it could get, causing Sixi's mother to burst into tears again.

Erxi then inquired about the situation at home, especially his pregnant wife: "Mother, did that woman run back to her parents' home after seeing that I was in jail?"

Sixi's mother said, "No, her family sold her out. She wouldn't have enough to eat if she went back. She'd be stupid to run away." Sixi's uncle stamped his foot, "Oh my god! Time is limited. I'm telling you to get down to business, why are you talking nonsense!"

"Let me speak, let me speak."

So, Sixi's uncle came up to Sixi's father and said, "Brother-in-law, have you been interrogated in jail these past two days? Has the county magistrate sentenced you?"

Sixi's father said, "Brother, I've been wondering about this too. Logically speaking, the officials who came to arrest us that day said something had happened to our peanuts."

"I had already prepared my explanation in my mind. When I got to the court, I was going to explain to the officials that we were honest and law-abiding citizens, and that no one in our family had ever done anything wrong!"

“Ever since they arrested my father and me, they’ve just left us here. They bring us food twice a day, but they don’t care about anything else, and they don’t interrogate us.”

"I asked the prison guard who came to deliver food when the trial would be over, but he told me not to ask and just to wait."

“I said, how long are we going to stay? If someone is guilty, they should be tried; if they are innocent, they should be released. To keep them locked up like this in the freezing cold is going to kill them.”

"Before I could finish speaking, the jailer came in and gave my father and me, the three of us, a good beating!"

When he got to the sad part, Sixi's father choked up.

The light was dim, and it wasn't until then that Sixi's uncle and Sixi's mother noticed that the three of them had indeed broken skin, bruises, and swelling on their faces... They couldn't see their bodies because they were wearing clothes, but they could imagine that they were in no better shape!
"Waaaaah, damn it..." Si Xi's mother felt so heartbroken that her chest felt like it was going to burst, and she couldn't help but start crying and cursing again.

This time, two hands reached out and covered her mouth at the same time. This time, they were Si Xi's eldest uncle and Si Xi's father, who reached out from behind the wooden fence!
"You wretched woman, stop howling! You're going to kill us with your howling!" Si Xi's father yelled at Si Xi's mother in a low voice.

Da Xi and Er Xi kept gesturing to Sixi's mother. Er Xi even said in a tearful voice, "Mother, the jailers here beat people without blinking an eye. You get beaten for nothing. Please don't tell anyone!"

Sixi's mother was truly terrified; she froze, her face blank.

Si Xi's uncle lowered his voice and said to Si Xi's father, "Brother-in-law, if that's the case, then the matter is quite clear."

"What do you mean, brother?"

"This matter has offended the Yang family; you've been set up!"

"what?"

"What?"

Si Xi's father, Da Xi, and Er Xi were all dumbfounded.

After a moment, Sixi's father sighed, "Actually, I've been thinking about that kind of thing in jail these past two days... Alas, I regret it so much. I offended someone I shouldn't have, and someone I can't afford to offend!"

Da Xi said, "Father, San Xi was right back then. It doesn't matter who Si Xi marries, why should we be the bad guy?"

Erxi nodded repeatedly: "I think Xiuhong is quite nice. She and Sixi grew up together as childhood sweethearts."

Da Xi added, "Xiu Hong didn't look down on us because we're just country bumpkins. She's always very polite to us when we meet in the village."

"Father, you and Mother shouldn't have separated us. Now you've ruined us!"