Chapter 700: Once You Give It Away, You Won’t Come Back (Extra 1)
Chapter 700: Once You Give It Away, You Won’t Come Back (Extra 1)
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Liang Huaixin, who was almost 25 years old, seemed a little out of place among this group of prisoners.
It's not that he is special, but that he is the only one who has served his full sentence.
Other prisoners would more or less have some money sent by their families, either to open up connections or to improve their lives in prison, but Liang Huaixin was the only one who never received such treatment.
It’s not entirely true to say that he has no family. It’s just that there is no one to send messages to the Liang family on his behalf.
Moreover, even if someone from the Liang family really came to give them money, I'm afraid the yamen runners here would never dare to accept it.
They all knew that among the charges against Liang Huaixin, one was "intention" to bribe the police!
So the prison bosses who couldn't make any money would use him to make fun of him from time to time!
Just this day, an idle yamen runner found Liang Huaixin again and teased him, "Hey, you, you have been here for eight years, why doesn't anyone come to visit you?
Are you not welcome at home? Or have your family forgotten you?"
If it was when he just came in, Liang Huaixin might have retorted, but now he just lowered his head and let the other party continue to "preach" to him.
Seeing that Liang Huaixin didn't react, the man felt bored and didn't say anything else.
When he first came in, Liang Huaixin was very arrogant!
It is harder than climbing Mount Heaven to ask him to do more work, and he even ignores others' questions.
However, the prison bosses have plenty of ways to deal with troublemakers like him.
For them, starvation and cold are the lightest punishments.
Once, Liang Huaixin was chained to a urine bucket for more than a month because of his "unruly" appearance in the past.
It's just a matter of living with that unpleasant smell all day long.
Those who wanted to curry favor with the prison boss would go out of their way to "dirty" Liang Huaixin.
Facing those burly prisoners, Liang Huaixin didn't want to endure it, but after being "pressed to the ground and rubbed" several times in a row, he learned his lesson.
You have to work hard during the day and try to stay alert when you sleep at night, because no one knows who is going to be locked up in the prison that day.
In this way, Liang Huaixin survived cautiously in prison.
He lived this kind of life for a full ten years. When he was released from prison, he was no longer the eldest son of the Liang family, nor was he the young man who once was full of vigor and vitality.
He didn't even know where to go now.
He could only inquire about the direction of Yuening City and beg along the way.
The more he walked along this road, the more uncomfortable Liang Huaixin felt. Many years ago, when he was still the young master of the Liang family, he also walked this road.
At that time, he was arrogant and always wanted to make a career in Yuening City.
But he didn't expect that just because of a drunken encounter with such a "vicious" woman, he ended up in such a situation.
When he was in prison, the only belief that kept him going was that he wanted to return to Yuening City and become the eldest son of the Liang family again.
Anyway, I have already been in jail and can never pass the imperial examination. It is also a good choice for me to guard my own piece of land and become a rich man.
This belief made Liang Huaixin walk for a long distance, but when he arrived at the city gate, he found that he needed to pay a head tax to enter the city, but he didn't even have a copper coin on him.
When he was in trouble, Liang Huaixin saw a group of people with straw tags on their heads standing by the city gate. They were not entering the city, and they did not look like beggars.
Liang Huaixin thought about it while talking to those people.
"We are selling ourselves!" said a young man who looked relatively strong. "My father is seriously ill and I really can't afford the medical expenses, so I thought of selling myself to get some money for my family."
Another person said: "My family is so poor that they can't even afford to eat. I will sell myself and give the money to my family, and I can also save some food for them."
Through these people's narration, Liang Huaixin understood that these people, like himself, were also poor and had no money to make trouble.
Thinking of this, Liang Huaixin felt that this might be a solution. After all, even if the Liang family was in dire straits, redeeming a person would not be a big problem.
Just sell yourself first, and then once you get into the city, find an opportunity to ask your family to redeem you.
So, Liang Huaixin also took a straw and stuck it on his head, waiting for those who needed to buy slaves to come and inquire about the price.
But he had been in prison for many years, so he had no idea about the prices of things. Of course, he didn't know how much silver an adult man was worth before.
He sold himself for two days in a row, but he still failed to sell himself.
But the food that had been begged for was almost gone.
There was no other choice, Liang Huanxin had to lower his price. After the price was reduced by 50%, he was finally bought together with another man.
Only after he followed his master into the city did he feel a little relieved.
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