Chapter 1: Prison Sentences

Dafeng Jingzhaofu, prison cell.

Xu Qi’an woke up in a haze, smelling the damp, putrid stench in the air, causing mild discomfort and stomach acid to turn over.

What’s with this overwhelming stench, the family’s Erha ran to shit on the bed again …. According to the smoky degree, I am afraid it is not pooped on top of my head ….

Xu Qi’an’s family has a dog, breed husky, commonly known as Erha.

North drifted for ten years, alone, this person ah, lonely for a long time, will inevitably want to raise a dog to comfort and amusement …. Not physically.

Opening her eyes and looking around, Xu Qi’an was confused for a moment.

Stone walls, three bowl-sized square windows, and he lay on a cold, tattered straw mat, the sun shining through the square windows on his chest, dusty mincemeat floating in the beams.

Where am I?

Xu Qi’an contemplated for a moment in a skeptic-like daze, and then he was really skeptical.

I crossed over ….

A frenzy of memories came rushing in, not giving him a chance to react at all, inserting themselves forcefully into his brain and flowing rapidly.

Xu Qi’an, character Ning Banquet, a constable of Changle County Office under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture of Dafeng Dynasty. His monthly salary is two taels of silver and one stone of rice.

His father was an old pawn who died in the ‘Battle of Shanhai’ nineteen years ago, and then his mother also died due to illness …… Thinking of this, Xu Qi an was slightly relieved.

It is well known that people who have lost both parents are not simple.

“I didn’t realize that after reliving my life, I still can’t escape the fate of being a cop?” Xu Qi’an had some toothache.

In his previous life, he graduated from the police academy and managed to enter the system with a golden bowl.

However, although Xu Qi’an took the path his parents chose for him, his heart was not in the profession of people’s servant.

He liked being uninhibited, he liked freedom, he liked paper, he liked Ji’s words in his diary:-

So he resigned brazenly and went into business.

“But why am I in jail?”

He struggled to digest the memories and soon realized the situation he was in.

Xu Qi’an was raised by his second uncle since he was a child, and was disliked by his aunt because he practiced martial arts all year round and had to eat more than a hundred taels of silver every year.

After cultivating to the peak of essence refining at the age of 18, he stagnated, and due to his aunt’s pressure, he moved away from the Xu residence to live alone.

Through the uncle’s relationship, in the Yamen mixed a constable’s errand, originally the days were good, who thought …..

Three days ago, that seventh-grade green-robed second uncle, who worked as an officer in the Royal Sword Guards, escorted a batch of tax silver to the Ministry of Households, and on the way there was an accident, and the tax silver was lost.

The whole 150,000 taels of silver.

The court shook, the saint was furious, personally ordered, Xu Pingzhi in five days after beheading, the three relatives of the family, men sent to the border, women sent to the Department of Education.

As Xu Pingzhi’s own nephew, he was relieved of his post as constable and sent to the capital prison.

Two days!

In two days’ time, he would be exiled to the bleak and desolate frontier lands to spend the rest of his life in labor.

“The opening is hell mode ah ….” A chill ran down Xu Qi’an’s spine, and his heart followed.

The world is in a state of feudal rule with no human rights. What is the borderland?

Desolate and with a harsh climate, most of the prisoners sent to the border did not live more than ten years. And many more died on the way because of various accidents and diseases before they even reached the border.

Thinking of this, Xu Qi’an’s scalp exploded with chills.

“System?”

After a moment of silence, Xu Qi’an’s tentative voice resounded in the silent prison cell.

The system doesn’t care about him.

“System …. System Dad, come out.” Xu Qi’an’s voice was permeated with urgency.

Silence.

There’s no system. Surprisingly, there’s no system!

It meant that there was little he could do to change things, and in two days he was to be shackled and shackled and sent to the frontier, where, given his physique, he shouldn’t die on the way.

But it’s not a benefit, being squeezed for labor in a career of acting as an instrumentalist and eventually dying …..

It’s horrible, it’s horrible!

Xu Qi’an’s beautiful fantasies about this matter of traveling through ancient times shattered like a bubble, and all that was left was anxiety and fear.

“I have to find a way to save myself, I can’t just dogpile.”

Xu Qi’an paced around the small prison cell like an ant on a hot pan, like a wild beast that had fallen into a trap, struggling to think of a solution.

I am the peak of refining essence, the physical quality is strong and scary ….. But in this world belongs to the unyielding silver, jailbreak is impossible …..

By clan and friends?

The Xu family was not a large clan, and their clansmen were scattered all over the place, while the entire 150,000 taels of tax silver had been robbed, who dared to plead for mercy at this juncture?

According to the Laws of the Great Fathers, if you make up for your mistakes, you will be exempted from the death penalty!

Unless the silver is recovered ….

Xu Qi’an’s eyes lit up violently, like a person on the verge of drowning had grabbed a life-saving straw.

He was a serious graduate of the police academy, with a wealth of theoretical knowledge, clear logic, excellent reasoning skills, and had read countless cases.

Maybe try to start with that aspect of solving the case, recovering the silver and taking credit for the crime.

But then the light in his eyes dimmed.

If you want to solve a case, you must first read the file and understand the details of the case. Only after that is it time to investigate and solve the case.

Now he’s deep in jail, screaming at the top of his lungs, and he’ll be sent to the border in two days!

No solution!

Xu Qi’an sat on his butt, his eyes lost in thought.

He got drunk in a bar yesterday and woke up in jail, thought he might have died of alcohol poisoning before crossing over.

God rewarded the opportunity to cross over, not by letting him live again, but by thinking that his death would be too easy?

In ancient times, deportation was the second most severe punishment after the death penalty.

In his last life, although he was beaten by society, at least he lived in a peaceful world, you say how good it is to be born again, without saying a word, he stole his parents’ savings and went to buy a house.

Then cooperate with mom, break the hands of the old man who loves to speculate on stocks, so that he can not be a leek.

At that moment, the sound of chains scratching came from the end of the dark corridor, supposedly opening the door.

Followed by the sound of footsteps.

A jailer led a handsome scholar with a haggard look and stopped in front of Xu Qi’an’s cell door.

The jailer glanced at the scholar, “Half a pillar of time.”

The scholar bowed his hand toward the jailer, and after he watched the jailer leave, he turned to face Xu Qi’an head-on.

The scholar wore a moon white robe, his long black hair was tied up in a jade hairpin, and his appearance was very handsome, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and thin lips.

Xu Qi’an’s relevant memories of this person surfaced in his mind.

The second son of the Hsu family, Hsu New Year.

Second uncle’s own son, Xu Qi’an’s cousin, won the exam in the fall this year.

Xu New Year calmly looked straight at him, “The pawn who escorted you to the borderlands charged me three hundred taels, this is the only silver left in our family, go without fear, there will be no accidents on the way.”

“What about you?” Xu Qi’an ghostly uttered these words, remembering that the original master and this cousin were not on good terms.

Because of his aunt’s distaste for him, the rest of the Xu family, with the exception of the second uncle, did not treat Xu Qi’an very well. At the very least, the cousins wouldn’t act too close to him.

On top of that, in the original owner’s memories, this cousin was also a strong-mouthed king who specialized in spitting fragrance.

Xu New Year impatiently said: ”I have been dismissed from the meritocracy, but I have the head teacher of the academy to protect me, so I don’t need to be dispatched. Just mind your own business. When you go to the frontier, curb your temper and live for a year.”

Xu Xinxin studied at the prestigious White Deer Academy in Kyoto, and was highly regarded, and a newly minted scholar. Therefore, after his second uncle’s accident, he was not imprisoned, but he was not allowed to leave Kyoto, and has been running around for many days.

Xu Qi’an was silent, he did not feel that Xu New Year would be better than himself, I am afraid that not only the dismissal of the merit, but also into the pariah nationality, the children and grandchildren are not allowed to study, not to turn over.

And, two days later, the female members of the Xu family will be sent to the Department of Correctional Services to be abused.

Xu New Year is a scholar, how can he still have the face to live in the capital? Perhaps being sent to the frontier would be a better option.

Xu Qi’an’s heart fluttered as he lunged forward a few steps and clasped his hands on the iron fence, “You want to kill yourself?!”

Uncontrollably, sadness welled up in my heart ….. I obviously didn’t even know him.

Xu New Year’s expressionless face whisked his sleeve and said, “What does it have to do with you.”

After a pause, he shifted his gaze down a few inches slightly, not meeting his cousin’s eyes, and his expression turned softer, “Live.”

With that, he stepped away determinedly!

“Wait!” Xu Qi’an stretched her hand out over the fence and grabbed his sleeve.

Xu New Year paused and looked at him in silence.

“Can you get the dossier? The dossier on the case of the missing tax money.”