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With Qiu Huaixin's consent, it will be much easier for Mrs. Wu to visit the prison.

At least Magistrate Jiao won't be stuck here to prevent people from entering. It's just that they sent two women guarding the female prisoners to search carefully. Only then did Mrs. Wu and Baolian, a maid carrying a food box, enter the cell. .

"Thank you." Baolian hastily stuffed a purse into the hands of the headed woman. Regardless of the shriveled purse, it meant that it contained bank notes, at least ten taels of silver.

"The old lady is worried about her feet." The old woman still had a sullen face, but her attitude was obviously better after she put away her purse. At least she moved the lantern in her hand to the side so that the old lady Wu who was following behind could illuminate it.

There are few prisoners in the women's prison. Even in the early winter season, there is still a musty smell in the cell. In addition, the cell looks terribly cold, which makes people feel panicky.

After leading him all the way to the cell, the woman hung the lantern on the wall, and then said with a dull face: "The old woman will come back in a quarter of an hour. If you have anything to say, madam, hurry up."

Sitting in the pile of straw in a daze, Mrs. Wu may have been imprisoned for a long time, and her whole body was a little dull, and she slowly raised her head when she heard the mother-in-law's voice.

"Zixian." Mrs. Wu looked at her embarrassed and thin daughter, her voice choked up.

Even Baolian on the side was stunned for a moment. Is this the lady who is so rich and precious, and who speaks with a dignified air?
Wu almost thought that she had been locked up for a long time so she was hallucinating, but looking at Mrs. Wu outside the cell, Wu's tears flowed out, and the whole person rushed over like crazy after being stunned for a moment. "mother……"

"Zixian, my poor daughter..." Mrs. Wu couldn't help but shed tears, looking at her daughter kneeling in front of the prison door like a beggar with great heartache.

Baolian was shocked, and the maidservant who was able to serve by Mrs. Wu's side was naturally different from ordinary servants. After recovering from her senses, she quickly said, "Old lady, let the servant girl serve you something to eat first."

Madam Wu choked up, took the bowl from Baolian's hand and handed it over, "Yes, Zixian, don't cry, mother is here, drink some soup first."

The soup is still warm, with a strong ginseng flavor. Compared with the cold steamed buns and vegetables boiled in clear water in the prison these days, this ginseng soup is definitely delicious.

Maybe it was seeing Mrs. Wu, or maybe drinking a bowl of ginseng soup, Wu also regained her former composure, and held Mrs. Wu's hand through the gap between the wood, "Mother, take the old ginseng plant you married. Did the ginseng make soup?"

To the aristocratic family, a piece of ginseng is not a precious thing, but the old wild ginseng is hard to come by.

Mrs. Wu brought this branch to the Wu family when she got married. It is a life-saving treasure. It has been smooth sailing all these years, and Mrs. Wu has never been willing to use it. I found the old mountain ginseng from the warehouse to nourish Wu's body.

Seeing Wu Shi whose face was dirty and her hair messed up, Mrs. Wu was wiping away tears for Wu Shi, feeling sad from her heart, she couldn't help but pat her on the back hard.

"Why are you acting so foolishly, kid? That's your little uncle, your husband's brother. How can you be so cruel as to do something to him?"

...

Wu shi was originally a smart person, and Wu shi knew that he would not survive after receiving the news of being imprisoned in the government prison.

As the saying goes, where there is a stepmother, there is a stepfather. When Mrs. Wu was in her boudoir, she also had a few little sisters who had close contacts, and two of them had stepmothers as the head of the family. The distressed stepmother has plenty of ways to torture her stepson and stepdaughter.

Mrs. Wu also figured it out. If she died, as long as her natal family was still there and her grandparents and uncles looked after her, brother Chen's life would not be too difficult. He is a man and has already started studying. It is not easy for a human hand to reach into the front yard.

Furthermore, Mrs. Wu has also been a daughter-in-law under Mrs. Qiu's hands for several years. Even if her stepmother is unkind, Mrs. Qiu will never allow anyone to torture her own grandson. If she gave birth to a daughter, she should worry about it.

After calming down the excitement, Wu took a look around calmly. There were no other people around the dark cell, but even so, Wu didn't dare to take it lightly.

"Mother, I fell out of love for a while." Mrs. Wu said with a bitter face, and smiled at Mrs. Wu's distressed and helpless eyes: "Father-in-law and mother-in-law have always favored Huaixin, and this time mother-in-law is going to give Huai a letter." Xin ordered a girl from the Nanling Gu family, and I panicked all of a sudden, and for some reason, I just decided that if something happened to Huaixin, no one would rob my husband of the family property."

"You are stupid, how can you think like that!" Mrs. Wu raised her hand as if she wanted to wake up her daughter who was on the tip of her horns, but looking at Wu's thin face, she couldn't bear it, and finally the hand fell on her head. Gently stroking, "Brothers are of one mind, their benefits cut through gold! How will Bingde face his younger brother in the future, and how will Brother Chen face this uncle?"

Thinking of her son, Wu's strength suddenly collapsed, and she sat on the ground with her head down and cried, "Mom, I know I was wrong... It's a pity it's too late... It's too late..."

A quarter of an hour will soon be up. After crying, Mrs. Wu resigned to her fate. She held Mrs. Wu's hand and said, "Mother, tell my husband that I'm sorry for him."

Sobbing, Wu continued to speak: "Brother Chen, mother, you must tell him that I, the mother, did something wrong. I have to blame for all this. Let Brother Chen not resent anyone..."

After Mrs. Wu left the cell with her maid, the old lady who led the way immediately led a doctor in. After carefully checking Mrs. Wu's pulse and making sure there was nothing abnormal, the doctor left.

On the other side, the people lurking in the cell have reported the conversation between Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Wu to Jiao Zhifu and other officials in the government office. The daughter of the family, they had to handle it carefully.

"You look smart, why did you do such a stupid thing?" The official in charge of recording couldn't help muttering, Wu could still think of his son in the end, and told him not to hate the Qiu family. Shi is not stupid, but it happens that smart people do stupid things.

Prefect Jiao didn't care what Wu said, and looked at Dr. Luo who was standing below and asked again, "Are you sure there is no problem?"

"Responding to my lord, the prisoner is not poisoned, and there is no other abnormality in his body." Dr. Luo replied affirmatively. He also personally inspected the food box brought by Mrs. Wu when she visited the prison. There is no problem with the food and ginseng soup.

Jiao Zhifu was cautious, he was wary of Mrs. Wu poisoning Wu Shi through other methods, so he asked Dr. Luo to check Wu Shi's pulse to make sure nothing would go wrong.

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