After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Chapter 31 What to Want

The man held the cell head to prevent him from entering, "Whatever you care about him! He is respected by the county magistrate, and his sister is the county magistrate's wife. Are you still afraid that he will harm the county magistrate behind his back?"

He also had something he didn't say in his heart. They are all relatives. Even if there is any disagreement, they still hope to resolve it internally and avoid making the family scandal public. Those of us who are in prison should not get involved, lest we end up offending both parties. Neither side is good.

The prison boss wasn't stupid either. Although the man didn't speak too directly, he still understood the implication of his younger brother's words.

Thinking about the only people in the prison who could interest Master Liu, the father and son from the Zhou family were the only ones in the prison, so the prison boss didn't insist anymore.

Anyway, he was looking for the father and son for the marriage of his niece.

It was really not appropriate for him to get involved in this kind of thing since he was a prison chief.

With this thought in mind, the cell leader followed the pull of his younger brother and sat down.

The four of them got together and continued drinking with pig ears. No one paid attention to "Master Liu" who had walked into the cell.

"Executive member Zhou, Master Zhou." Yu Zizhen stood outside the cell door of her mission target with the face of Master Liu, "You..."

Before she could announce her home in a low voice, Zhou Fengnian in the prison stared at Yu Zizhen with eyes full of hatred, "Master Liu? Oh, what, you came to see if our father and son had been tortured to death. Understand?"

Zhou Fengnian was a local gentry and his family had strong financial resources. He was also an old scholar who had obtained honors for many years and was keen on teaching and educating people. He was very influential in the local area.

The reason why he and his son Zhou Zheng were imprisoned was because he declined marriage with the new county magistrate.

The Zhou family has a rich family but a small population. The whole family regards Zhou Fengnian's only son Zhou Zheng as their eyeball. Naturally, they don't want their young, talented, tall and handsome son to marry the unruly, ruthless and unsatisfactory person from the county magistrate's family. Just kill the servants and humiliate the favored concubines.

But the favored concubine of the county magistrate's family was determined to marry Zhou Zheng. She persuaded her own mother, the third concubine brought to the post by the magistrate.

The third aunt gave the county magistrate another round of well-founded advice, and the magistrate began to be determined to win the marriage.

If they were not good at writing, the whole family would have other ideas.

The county magistrate placed an unfounded charge on the Zhou family, and under the guise of investigation, had the Zhou family and his son arrested together in the county jail.

At first, the county magistrate just wanted to scare the Zhou family and his son. If they were "sensible", the county magistrate had no intention of doing anything to them.

But the Zhou family father and son seemed determined to go against him. Even if he was locked up in prison, they still refused to relent and agree to the marriage.

The county magistrate became so angry that he not only withstood the pressure from relatives and friends of the Zhou family and refused to let the father and son out, but also intensified his torture of the father and son in prison.

Since then, the Zhou family and his son have lived a miserable life of not having enough to eat or drink, or being beaten and tortured every day.

The thick furry clothes they originally wore were stripped off, and the food, drink, clothing, and medicines sent by their families were confiscated as soon as they were brought in. In addition, they were hanged from time to time. Standing up to crack the whip, the father and son watched as half of their lives died.

According to the plot of the original book given by the system, Mr. Zhou was directly tortured to death by the new Baofeng County magistrate. After his death, the Zhou family's family property was swallowed up by the Baofeng County magistrate.

Because he climbed into the big shot from the capital, well, he wasn't really a big shot, he was just a minor official who married the niece of Empress Dowager Lu's cousin-in-law.

Because of getting involved with this minor official who was barely considered an in-law of the Lu family, the Baofeng County magistrate successfully passed the test on the Zhou family's fabricated charges. Not only did Mr. Zhou who died in prison die in vain, Mr. Zhou's son Zhou Zheng also died. After the case was concluded, he was sentenced to exile by the Baofeng County magistrate.As for the female members of the Zhou family, after Zhou Zheng was found guilty, they collectively committed suicide by hanging from a beam.

Perhaps his hatred gave him great courage, and Zhou Zheng escaped on the road to exile.

He fled his hometown and complained to the prefect, but was caught by the prefect, who was his cousin, and sent back to the county seat.

He escaped again on the way to the capital, but was secretly pursued and intercepted by Dali Temple officials who received a message from the prefect.

He was unable to enter the capital and was constantly threatened with death. In desperation, he had no choice but to change his name and follow the refugees south.

When he reappeared, he had become a crazy aide under Duke Jingguo.

He obviously had thick eyebrows and big eyes and looked upright, but in the end, he was called a "madman" because he hated corrupt officials so much that he often ignored the wishes of Duke Jing and killed corrupt officials who surrendered without explanation.

Because his reputation as a lunatic was so loud, many corrupt officials who had ulterior motives in their hearts simply did not dare to accept his lord's surrender.

They were afraid that they would be killed by Zhou Zheng, a lunatic who had lost control. They had no choice but to fight to the end.

They fought to the end, and Duke Jingguo's speed in attacking the city would inevitably be affected.

Duke Jingguo did not want to spend more time and die more people on the road to hegemony, nor did he want his prestige that he had spent many years to establish to be affected because of Zhou Zheng, so in the end, he was executed in front of the battle for disobeying military orders. Zhou Zheng, who has worked for him for more than ten years and made countless contributions.

This time, because the system issued a cannon fodder rescue mission, Yu Zizhen jumped out secretly and interfered. At least the lives of the Zhou family and his son could be saved.

She looked at the prisoners in other cells and said, "Mr. Zhou is joking. I'm here to let you and your son out."

Sure enough, as soon as she said this, the prisoners who were just secretly glancing at them suddenly looked towards her with burning eyes.

Mr. Zhou was dubious, "What does Mr. Liu want?"

He didn't believe that this scheming bitch would let their father and son go in vain.

Yu Zizhen coughed and said, "That's too much."

She wanted money and items that the Zhou family could not take away, and she also wanted the Zhou family and his son to work for her for at least 20 years.

With the cheating device of the system, although it was her first time meeting the father and son, she knew that one of them was good at business and the other was good at strategy.

It just so happened that she was short of both money and talent.

When Mr. Zhou heard what she said, he couldn't help but have a sneer on his face, "Master Liu, you can just say whatever you want."

Master Zhou, who didn't know that the grand master of Baofeng County was about to embrace the thick legs of the Lu family and would soon torture him, was still naive in his words and deeds at this moment, as if he had never experienced a real beating.

But Zhou Zheng got some clues from the private discussions between the prison chief and others. He was very worried. He was worried that the county magistrate had gained the favor of the imperial officials and eunuchs mentioned by the prison chief. He was worried that he would go crazy after gaining greater reliance. Directly break up with their Zhou family.

(End of this chapter)