Xia Wanwan whipped her little head around and spotted her youngest maternal uncle.
Liu Shi crouched, picked up her pacifier, and popped it into her mouth, then carried her quietly farther inside.
Before long.
They came upon a brightly lit room, with a man's wails and angry curses coming from within.
"Do you know how I've survived this past month?"
"That Qin Yan, a young master from the Government Office, actually came to the cell to beat me himself! Covering my whole body in whip wounds was bad enough."
"He even stripped me naked and beat my ass..."
"I've never suffered such humiliation in my life."
"Every morning at daybreak, they dragged me up for a beating. After lunch, they beat me again. Xu Rourou's Father was locked in the cell opposite mine, and all that old bastard did was shit. The stench was unbearable."
"The Informant Shopkeeper who passed messages for me in the Capital was locked in the next cell. It was all that idiot Xu Bo's fault."
"Once they came in, there were people to share the torture with me. Those guards beating me were fucking exhausted like dogs. They'd rather haul bricks than stay there beating people!"
"I'll never let that bastard Qin Yan off, or Qing Da! I only wanted to give his daughter a try. It wasn't as if I wanted his life. Did he have to do this to me?"
He recalled the last time Qing Da had pinned him naked to the ground and beaten him.
He found it both thrilling and humiliating. How had those people in the Jail come up with it?
"Hiss-ah! Can't you be gentler?"
Xie Jinzhao turned toward Li Duoduo in displeasure.
Li Duoduo was applying medicine to his buttocks. Hearing that, she hurriedly apologized. "Sorry, sorry.