Three thousand five hundred words. It seemed writing Dream of the Red Chamber still came more naturally, after all; the plot had been laid out long ago.
Given Jia Yingchun's temperament, after their initial warmth, the sisters-in-law inevitably fell into an awkward silence.
Wang Xifeng thus realized that Sun Shaozong had vanished without a trace. She craned her neck to peer outside the cell door while complaining sourly, "He disappeared in the blink of an eye. How could that heartless man just leave?"
Seeing the resentment written across her face, Jia Yingchun hurriedly explained that Second Master had gone to visit Shi Xiangyun, who had been imprisoned several days earlier, at Brother Bao's request.
"The Shi family has fallen into trouble too?"
This was the first Wang Xifeng had heard of it, and she quickly pressed her sister-in-law for the details.
It turned out that only a few days after Jia She and Wang Xifeng, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, had been thrown into prison, someone impeached the Baoling Marquis, who was overseeing military affairs in Yun-Gui, for embezzling military provisions.
Emperor Guangde flew into a rage. No one knew what sort of "miracle worker" he had dispatched, but despite the vast distance between the capital and Yun-Gui, the man made the round trip in only half a month and returned with irrefutable evidence.
Thus, the Shi family's men and women, young and old alike, were "reunited" in the Prison God Temple.
Pitifully, this family of two marquises had lived in poverty for most of their lives. When they finally got hold of a lucrative post in their old age, it destroyed their household and cost them their lives.
Still...
Wang Xifeng was the first to refuse to believe that the Shi family had brought all this upon themselves.
She vaguely guessed