The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 11 Unsaveable Lives
The police officers and patrolmen, unable to ascertain the details of the case, were in a hurry.

The family members, unable to find out the specific situation in prison, were also anxious.

Only the person who caused this chaotic situation remained unperturbed.

After discovering that all the prisoners in the jail had been starving for almost two days and one night, the magistrate quickly ordered the cooks to start a fire.

The prison food arrived late today, but it was pretty good.

Each person received a bowl of millet porridge and two mixed flour steamed buns.

Gan Minglan ate her steamed bun and porridge with relish.

If it weren't for the limited supply, she would have liked to order two more set meals.

The other women in the room looked much more disheveled compared to her eating pace.

The lowest-ranking maids in their former homes had better meals than this prison food.

But the intense hunger that gripped them made them shut up.

They ate with such gusto, devouring everything in a flash.

He even learned on his own how to hide uneaten steamed buns in his clothes.

Gan Minglan shook her head upon seeing this:
If we can get through tonight, we'll see our loved ones first thing tomorrow morning. When they see us off, shouldn't they bring some good food?

In this heat, don't let the steamed buns go bad by keeping them in your bosom!

Her adoptive father hadn't thought of this.

Gan Hongzhen was preoccupied with figuring out how to get his mentally challenged daughter out of prison.

He had no thought whatsoever about the food and supplies needed on the road to exile.

in the afternoon.

The father and son hurriedly drove their mule cart from Leyuan County, arriving in Daming Prefecture just before the city gates closed.

They came in such a hurry that they didn't even bring a change of clothes.

They found an inn that was closest to the prefectural government office, checked in, and then left the inn.

The two returned to the inn exhausted just before curfew.

Gan Hongzhen frowned and asked, "What did your classmate's uncle say?"

Gan Mingfu looked distressed:
"Father, my classmate's uncle is still working overtime at the yamen. He hasn't been home for a day and a night. His family said that a shocking murder occurred in the yamen the night before last, and seven jailers died!"

"Did you hear me clearly? It's a jailer, not a yamen runner."

"It was a jailer who had his throat slit while on night duty. My classmate's uncle was a coroner's assistant."

Gan Hongzhen was so anxious that he paced back and forth in the room.

The situation is not good; it involves the jailer.

Their means of transmitting messages are probably about to be cut off!

How can I meet my son-in-law if I can't even get the news out?
How can you get your son-in-law to write a letter of divorce if you can't even see him?

The exile procession will set off early tomorrow morning.

The more I think about it, the more anxious I become.

Gan Mingfu was spinning around by his father until he felt dizzy, and he only regretted that he could not suffer in place of his older sister.

The older sister who risked her life to save me deserves all the kindness I can show her!
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for many.

The next day, it was still dark.

A scream rang out from room number seven.

"Dead, dead!"

"Someone come quickly!"

Gan Minglan, who was engrossed in upgrading her superpowers, was startled by the commotion outside the space.

It turns out that the two women who attempted suicide the night before had secretly hanged themselves from the beam!
She felt a tightness in her chest.

Did her husband, Ah Tu, work for nothing?

The enemy is dead, shouldn't we be reborn?

That's such a pathetic way to die!
Clearly, the other women in the room didn't think like her.

They just stared at the hanged man, weeping and sighing:
This person said, "Waaah, it's better to be dead, it'll end it all! Being humiliated while alive is worse than being dead and having peace!"

One said, "Waaah, without their chastity, they won't have a good life even if they live to the border town." Another said, "They were so happy before they went to sleep last night, saying that God couldn't bear to see them suffer, and that the way those four beasts died touched their hearts."

Gan Minglan: Listen to what you're all saying!

The suicides of these two men went unnoticed.

Each person was given a straw mat, and they were simply rolled up and dragged out.

When Prefect Zhao received the news, he simply changed the number of people from 360 to 358 on the issuing order.

The group ate steamed buns while waiting to depart.

Just after Mao hour.

There was commotion outside the government office.

The shrewish mother of the jailer.

She brought her mother-in-law, her eldest son's whole family, her second son's wife and granddaughter, and her youngest son.

There are also three uncles and six aunts in the family, totaling more than eighty people.

People dressed in mourning clothes blocked the entrance to the government office.

The 160-pound she-devil sat down on the ground, pounded her hands on the ground, and wailed loudly:
"My son, you're only twenty-five! You've broken my heart as your mother, making me, an old woman, bury my son."
My dear husband, did you feel any pain when you died? All our neighbors praised you for your kindness. How many people did you help and how much pain did you spare us in your life?

Your Honor, you must do justice for this woman!

The woman's husband and son are the pillars of my Yu family.

They have elderly parents to care for in their final days, and young sons who are not yet married.

"We can live without anyone else in the family, but we can't live without these two."

Yu Laotou's over seventy-year-old mother lay down on the ground and wouldn't get up.

"If you don't give this old woman an explanation, I'll kill myself right here in front of your government office!"

A group of teenagers knelt there, kowtowing repeatedly to the gate.

"Bang bang bang"

The sound of flesh and blood colliding with the blue brick floor sent shivers down one's spine.

Other family members of the prison guards who came upon hearing the news followed suit.

The old people lay on the ground throwing tantrums, while the young ones kowtowed and begged for mercy.

The women either wailed loudly or their eyes were red with sorrow.

The main focus should be on making this a major undertaking.

For a while.

The prefectural government office was completely surrounded by the family members of the deceased.

After daybreak, the whole street came alive.

People don't even have time for breakfast; they can eat watermelon until they're stuffed.

In just a few days, Prefect Zhao aged several years.

The investigation conducted yesterday by the Superintendent and the Magistrate has reached a stalemate.

Without any substantial progress, how can we explain this to the families of the deceased?

I don't know who leaked the news.

The deceased's family members turned all their anger towards the Zuo family, whose entire extended family had been implicated and punished.

Especially the shrewish woman from Prison Chief Yu's house.

She shouted at the top of her lungs at the onlookers:

"My son has been a prison guard for seven or eight years and has never made enemies with anyone!"
If anyone sought revenge against him, aside from the Zuo family who were imprisoned for 'aiding the enemy,' who else had the ability to kill more than ten officials in one go?
The Zuo family can't do anything to the imperial court, so all they do is persecute us ordinary families.

Didn't they say that powerful families all kept assassins? It must have been the Zuo family's assassins who did it!
The mastermind behind the murder is hidden among these people. Your Honor, you must find them.

The old woman demanded they pay with their lives for my son and the head of the household!

"Kill for life!"

"Kill for life!"

"Kill for life!"

Unaware of the facts, onlookers also joined in the shouting.
(End of this chapter)