Chapter 8

This is an opportunity, to maybe get access to medicine.

While cooking, Zheng Quan looked back at Yan Shuixin, pointed to the open space next to the stove, "Just put the firewood here."

"Yes." Yan Shuixin nodded, and walked slowly over with firewood in her arms.

Taking advantage of Zheng Quan's inattention, she changed to holding the firewood with one hand, freed one hand, took out the leaves covered with rat feces hidden in her sleeve pocket, and wiped it on the armrest of of the chief's chair a few times.

Sun Cheng will most likely touch the handrails. A person who is allergic to wild fruits is more likely to be allergic to the handrails that have been smeared with mouse poop.

Without bringing attention to herself, she put a handful of firewood on the side of the stove.

"Add firewood." Zheng Quan ordered.

She did as she was told, and threw the leaf that had been stained with rat feces, together with the firewood, into the stove without anyone noticing.

"Old Zhao is sick, I have to do all the chores, I'm so exhausted!" Zheng Quan finished cooking and put a pot of vegetables into a wooden barrel.

Several barrels of vegetables and cooked rice have been placed on the ground, "You, go and deliver food to the prisoners."

Yan Shuixin felt that this was a good job, so she quickly agreed.

Holding a bucket of rice and vegetables in one hand, she walked towards the prison.

A dozen jailers followed the leading middle-aged man towards the kitchen.

The leader, a bearded man with a long knife on his waist, who's dressed differently from other guards, with more complicated patterns and a different color of gown. This man is obviously the prison leader, Sun Cheng.

Yan Shuixin brushed past this group of people, and quickly lowered her head respectfully.

Sun Cheng stopped in his tracks, and cast a cold glance at Yan Shuixin who was wearing a prisoner clothing, "Why did Yan Shuixin, the female prisoner, come out?"

Just as she was about to speak, Li Dian, the jailer next to him, quickly said, "Boss, Zhao is sick. She is timid and cowardly, but her hands and feet are very diligent. The younger one asked her to do rough work for Zhao."

Sun Chengli rolled his eyes around Yan Shuixin's face, saw the other party's eyes looking at him, and said in a deep voice, "Just don't make any trouble."

Yan Shuixin hurriedly said, "Master, the young one will not cause trouble."

Sun Cheng didn't say anything, and led a group of jailers to the direction of the kitchen.

Yan Shuixin carried two buckets of food and walked across a large open space, entered the prison, and walked around the corner of the duty room.

After seeing no one around, she picked up the big spoon with which she scooped up the food, and immediately began to gobble it up.

She shared her meals with Xiao Yeheng, and there were only two meals a day, so she couldn't get enough to eat at all, and she was starving to death!

Today's meal is still green vegetables and thick yellow rice.

She is satisfied when she felt her stomach bulge.

It took two minutes to fill her stomach before she wiped the corners of her mouth and continued to carry the bucket to fetch meals for the prisoners.

"Ugly woman, why are you bringing food today?" The prisoner in the first cell, brother Sheng, saw her carrying a wooden barrel close to the iron railing, and wanted to grab her again.

"Whoever is dishonest...won't eat." Yan Shuixin now has two big buckets of food in her hands, so she naturally has some confidence.

Seeing this, the other prisoners obediently stretched out their bowls to pick up the food, and stopped thinking about her. Everyone thinks that touching an ugly woman is not as important as eating.

"Give me more." Prisoners kept urging.

Yan Shuixin didn't dare to fight too much, "I can only give as much as the handyman Zheng gives, otherwise there won't be enough food, and some people will not be able to eat."

The prisoners complained a few times one after another, but she was fine with it.

Yan Shuixin went from cell to cell to give food, but two buckets of food were not enough, so she went back to the kitchen several times to get enough food.

When she arrived at Cell 59, she immediately filled the two empty bowls inside to the brim.

Xiao Yeheng was surprised at first that she was able to take on the job of delivering food.

He thought that she would give him less food like other cells.

Unexpectedly, not only did she fill two bowls, but she also packed the food tightly, equivalent to three bowls of rice.

Yan Shuixin beckoned him to come closer, Xiao Yeheng knowingly climbed to the side of the iron railing.

She lowered her voice, "Hurry up and finish eating, I've already eaten."

Hundreds of people, each with a little less food, was enough to feed her and him.

Xiao Yeheng started eating silently.

Yan Shuixin breathed a sigh of relief.

After working for a while, Yan Shuixin washed up many large wooden buckets carrying food when the jail guards finished eating and left the kitchen . She also washed up all the dishes in the kitchen.

Zheng Quan went to take a nap, got up and got ready to work, and found that Yan Shuixin had done all the work, he was very satisfied, "You did good."

"Thank you Brother Zheng for the compliment."

"Yo, that's right." Zheng Quan laughed loudly, "I've been called many things by people in prison, but it's the first time someone called me Brother Zheng."

"It should." She said kindly, "In the future, if Brother Zheng has any orders, just say it."

Zheng Quan looked her up and down with squinting eyes, "Any errands are fine?"

Yan Shuixin noticed the lewd light in his eyes, her heart sank, but she said on the face, "Brother Zheng, the little girl is ugly, she can only do rough work."

Looking at the pimples on her face, Zheng Quan really turned off his appetite. There are so many female prisoners available in the prison, and some of them are more pleasing to the eye.

He waved her to return to her prison cell.

Yan Shuixin let out a sigh of relief.

After returning to Cell No. 59, she greeted Xiao Yeheng who was lying on the ground, "Your Highness is well."

Xiao Yeheng had already moved a pile of straws to the corner, and he was sitting on the straws, hooking his fingers at her.

Yan Shuixin walked over, he pushed aside the straws, and showed that there was still a bowl of rice underneath.

"Let's eat," he said.

She wondered, "Didn't I say that I'm full?"

She suddenly understood that he only ate one of the two bowls of rice and kept the other because he was afraid that she had lied to him and was actually hungry.

It's nice to have someone who cares.

She felt sore in heart.

"Eat more." He said stubbornly.

She shook her hand, "I'm really full, if you don't believe me, touch my stomach." She held his big palm and touched herself with it.

Sure enough, the lower abdomen is tight.

Xiao Yeheng touched her lower abdomen, and withdrew his hand like an electric shock, "Respect yourself."

She smiled and asked back, "You are my husband, why are you so reserved?"

He choked back.

The two were forced to do a wedding ceremony, did she really treat him as her husband?

Regardless, he felt much happier.

"My lord, you need to eat more. Only when you are full can you recover as soon as possible." Yan Shuixin fed the bowl of rice into his mouth.

This is the first time Xiao Yeheng has had enough to eat since he entered the cell for more than a month.

In the evening, Yan Shuixin helped Zheng Quan deliver meals to the prisoners, so she ate again, and still made two bowls of rice for Xiao Yeheng.

She could even go to the bathroom behind the utility room while she was out, but it would be inconvenient for Xiao Yeheng to leave the prison. So he couldn't get that benefit.

Thinking about the former handyman Zhao who was lazy and took away the toilet bucket from Xiao Yeheng's prison.

She took a bucket from the utility room, and brought back with her to the cell. The prison guards would most likely not notice if it was lost.

Xiao Yeheng saw that she was so considerate to the point of taking back the bucket, his heart was a little moved, but his face was expressionless.

At night, Yan Shuixin walked to the prison wall and helped Xiao Yeheng up, "My lord, you sleep on the bed tonight."

Last night he slept on the straw floor.

She was so tired that she fell asleep on the plank bed.

Don't let him sleep on the ground tonight.

"No, you sleep on the bed." Xiao Yeheng shook his head. Even if he is seriously injured, he will not sleep in bed with a woman.

What's more, the wooden bed that doesn't even have a bedding is not much better than the ground.

"No. I told you to sleep on the bed, so you can sleep there." She didn't care if he agreed or not, and carried him behind her back and placed his body on the bed.

"No one can change my decision." His voice was so cold that there was no trace of warmth, and he wanted to get out of bed again.

Yan Shuixin frowned, "If your injury gets worse..."

"You don't need to worry about it." He stood up on one foot expressionlessly, but he couldn't stand at all, and his whole body fell to the ground.

Yan Shui quickly supported him and forced him to sit back on the bed, "Then... shall we sleep together?"

Xiao Yeheng's breath was suffocated, and a trace of unnaturalness appeared on his cold face.

"Don't think too much, I don't mean to take advantage of you." She said, "The bed is better than the floor. It would be even better if it were covered with straw. It would be good for both of us. Besides, It seems colder tonight than last night."

He nodded slightly.

In fact, he wanted to say that it doesn't matter if she takes advantage of him...

He moved his lips, but was embarrassed to say it.

Seeing her busy spreading the straw on the plank bed, her movements are nimble, she doesn't seem like a young lady raised in a deep boudoir.

But she has a good manners and a great temperament.

Maybe, she is that special?

After spreading the straws on the plank bed, she helped him to lie on the bed.

She herself walked to the corner and picked up the shovel she had hidden earlier to grind on the ground.

Earlier, she asked Zheng Quan for a bamboo tube to hold water for drinking.

Seeing that she was diligent, Zheng Quan gave it to her.

She put the bamboo tube filled with water in the corner of the wall, and while the shovel was wet with water, she sharpened it on a stone slab on the ground.

Xiao Yeheng lay sideways on the bed, watching her actions. He didn't know what the shovel she got was used for, and he didn't ask.

Seeing that she has been grinding tirelessly for most of the night, she didn't give up until she sharpened the shovel blade like a sharp knife.

The ground in the prison is mixed with hard mud and stone slabs. Yan Shuixin inserted a blade made from a shovel into the gap between the stone slab and the mud floor, covered it with some dust.

She poured some water from the bamboo tube to wash her hands before walking to the bed.

The plank bed is relatively small, only about one meter in width and two meters in length.

Xiao Yeheng was lying on the bed, already occupying more than half of the bed, but fortunately he left the place against the wall inside.

Yan Shuixin and him were going to sleep in the same bed, and she was embarrassed at first, but when she saw that he was already asleep, she felt relieved.

She climbed onto the bed softly, stepped over him, and fell asleep on the inside of the bed.