When Magistrate Cai saw Xiao Yulou coming in, he scolded in a low voice: "Nonsense! Is this the place you should come?"
Xiao Yulou quickly introduced Hu Qi to him: "Sir, this is my cousin Hu Qi. When he learned that the young leader of the caravan was arrested and imprisoned, he begged me to take him to see him. I really can't defeat him...
…”
Magistrate Cai couldn't help but glance at Hu Qi, and his eyes immediately lit up:
I thought that Xiao Yulou was already a rare beauty in the world! I didn’t expect that there would be someone as beautiful and handsome as Hu Qi!
His greedy eyes swept over Hu Qi and Xiao Yulou, and he couldn't help but begin to doubt their relationship.
Are they really relatives?
At this time, there was no time to think too much. Magistrate Cai scolded with a straight face: "This is a death row. You can't get in just by walking in! Get out quickly!"
With that said, regardless of the presence of others, he put his arm around Xiao Yulou's shoulders and walked out.
Xiao Yulou did not dare to disobey, so he turned around and shouted to Hu Qi: "Xiao Qi, let's go out first!"
Hu Qi took another deep look at the girl in his arms, and then carefully put her down.
Immediately, he slowly stood up and walked over step by step, lifted his robe and knelt on the ground with a thud, and solemnly kowtowed several times to Xiao Yulou and Magistrate Cai.
"Please allow Master Cai, I want to stay here with her!"
Xiao Yulou was shocked when he heard this and was speechless for a moment.
Magistrate Cai was stunned for a moment and then sneered: "What kind of place do you think this is? Did you come here just because you wanted to?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yulou secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly advised: "Xiao Qi, let's leave quickly! Don't worry, I will ask for your forgiveness regarding Gang Leader Lu. Don't be willful anymore!"
Hu Qi turned a deaf ear and continued to kneel on the ground, speaking more firmly: "Isn't Magistrate Cai always looking for people from the caravan? Hu took the initiative to surrender, don't you still accept it?"
When Xiao Yulou heard this, his whole body was shocked, and he asked with a pale face: "Xiao Qi, what crazy talk are you talking about? How can you be a member of the caravan?"
Hu Qi's eyes were intense and he spoke with certainty: "Prefect Cai, not only did I join the caravan, I also saw the secrets in the mine."
Magistrate Cai's eyes narrowed and he asked in a deep voice, "Is this true?"
Hu Qi smiled softly and said confidently: "That's true!"
Xiao Yulou was about to speak, but was interrupted by Magistrate Cai: "Hu Qi, since you have already recruited him, you can't leave!"
Hu Qi smiled slightly, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Master Cai!"
After saying that, he stood up slowly, couldn't wait to return to Lu Ning, and held her in his arms again.
Xiao Yulou suddenly felt sour in his heart. He covered his mouth and swallowed: "Xiao Qi! Why are you so stupid!"
Hu Qi did not turn around, but spoke in a very calm tone: "Boss Xiao, I think you can understand this emotion, and I hope you can fulfill it!"
Xiao Yulou couldn't help but feel great grief in his heart. He stared at the two people in the prison with tears in his eyes, knowing that it was useless to say anything.
Magistrate Cai grabbed him and said coldly: "Yulou, please don't interfere in this matter anymore! Since Hu Qi has confessed, it is impossible for him to come out again!"
With that said, he forced his arms around Xiao Yulou and walked out.
Xiao Yulou had no choice but to walk out of the cell one step at a time, but the tenderness in Hu Qi's eyes was only for Lu Ning.
He didn't know how long he had been asleep, but when his senses gradually recovered, Lu Ning felt warm all over his body, and the injuries on his body didn't seem to hurt that much anymore.
In a daze, she thought everything in the prison was just a dream, and she was sleeping in a warm room.
She slowly opened her eyes with anticipation, but the scenery that caught her eyes was still the barren and dirty everything in the prison.
A crisp and faint fragrance of plum blossoms came, and Lu Ning realized that he was being held in Hu Qi's arms.
Slowly raising her eyes, she suddenly looked into his tender eyes. Lu Ning's cheeks turned slightly red and she struggled to escape.
"Don't move." Hu Qi couldn't help but hugged her tighter and whispered softly in her ear: "You're hurt."
His words seemed to have magic power, and Lu Ning obediently stopped moving.
She managed to squeeze out a hint of faintness and asked in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Qi, it's really you! I'm not dreaming!"
She looked extremely weak, with no color at all on her face.
Hu Qi reached out to touch her forehead and said sadly: "Hey, you still have a fever! No wonder you are talking nonsense!"
"I'm fine..." When Lu Ning said this, heart-wrenching pain was already radiating from his fingers and legs.
She was afraid that Hu Qi would be worried, so she gritted her teeth and held back from screaming.
He lowered his eyes and looked at his ten fingers, which were wrapped like rice dumplings. Then he looked at his legs, which were also wrapped in thick white cloth, and he knew that this was done by Hu Qi.
"Thank you." She lowered her eyes and sat uneasily in Hu Qi's arms.
Hu Qi stretched out her hand to smooth the broken hair on her temples, and said softly: "You were seriously injured, and the conditions here are bad. I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover."
Lu Ning said "Hmm" softly, and a blush appeared on her pale cheeks.
She tried several times to move her body away, but she couldn't muster any strength, so she had to give up.
Hu Qi hesitated for a moment, then asked carefully: "They... they didn't do anything to you, right?"
Lu Ning bit her lower lip and shook her head with difficulty: "Fortunately you showed up in time, otherwise..."
"Why are you so stupid!" Hu Qi sighed and said sadly: "That day, Elder Yun's family came to make trouble, but your brothers ignored you and allowed Ye Guming to unjustly accuse you and whip you! But now you have to do it for
Is it worth protecting them, being so seriously injured, and almost being insulted?"
Lu Ning smiled sadly, opened his mouth with difficulty, and made a weak voice: "It has nothing to do with whether it is worth it or not. It is my duty as the young gang leader to protect my brothers! My foster father has always taken the lead and sacrificed himself for others. He does not allow me to be weak and retreat!
"
Seeing her pretending to be strong, Hu Qi felt a heavy pain in her heart.
"Xiao Qi, why did you appear suddenly?" Lu Ning leaned weakly in his arms and looked at him with a faint smile.
"It was Xiao Yulou who found me," Hu Qi said softly, "I just realized that the reason why Magistrate Cai brought people to the mine to rescue me was because Xiao Yulou did not hesitate to commit himself to Magistrate Cai. But he asked for it.
He knows Magistrate Cai very well and knows that he is a person who goes back on his word, so he searched for my traces everywhere and wanted to take me out of Lingzhou. Only after my repeated requests did he agree to take me to see you!"
"It's really hard for him. He's so obsessed with you..." Lu Ning sighed.
"I'm not crazy about you..." Hu Qi blurted out his feelings.
Lu Ning was suddenly startled and looked at him deeply for a long time before saying softly: "Thank you, Xiao Qi."
At this moment, she didn't know what else to say except thank you.
The person she thought about day and night was far away, but when she was in despair, it was the young man in front of her who risked his life to stay by her side and protect her.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
Hu Qi hurriedly pulled up the corner of her clothes and wiped away her tears. She was a little at a loss: "Did I say something wrong and make you angry? Why did you cry suddenly?"
Lu Ning shook his head and swallowed: "No, I'm not angry. It's just that you came in so carelessly. Are the brothers in the gang okay? Toto, don't you care too?"
Hu Qi's face darkened, and he said angrily: "Why do you care about those ruthless people? After you were taken away, before Ye Guming gave the order, they walked away, fled, and all left!"
Lu Ning closed his eyes and let out an inaudible sigh: "That's all. It's human nature to fly away when disaster strikes. I can't blame them!"
"Where is Toto? Has he left the city?" This is what Lu Ning is most concerned about.
Hu Qi smiled helplessly and said: "How can I, a person who has no power to tie a chicken, take care of Toto! Even if I drug him, I have to hold him down to feed him! So, I had to give him medicine."
He was handed over to the Ye family. They were very skilled in martial arts and tied up Totuo in a few seconds and took him away. They must have already
We left safely, you don’t have to worry anymore!”
Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension in his heart completely relaxed.
"By the way." Hu Qi changed the subject and asked, "Didn't the military attaché want to arrest you for questioning? Why would you be locked up here? Why are you covered in wounds?"
Mentioning this matter, Lu Ning turned pale with anger: "Zhifu Cai used that military attache to trick me here, but he had no intention of letting me leave alive! He was worried that I would be implicated in the Dongchuang incident, so he pressed me to ask me about the whereabouts of other members of the caravan, but he couldn't.
As a result, he tortured me in anger."
Although she only mentioned it in one sentence, when Hu Qi saw her appearance, he could imagine the torture he had suffered. It was like thousands of sharp knives piercing his heart, making him filled with righteous indignation and furious.
"This Dog Officer Cai! If I leave here one day, I will definitely kill him!"
Hu Qi cursed harshly in her heart, but when she lowered her head and looked at Lu Ning, she felt another tenderness:
"Little deer, don't be afraid! I will always be by your side, life and death! From now on, if you are in the fire, I will be in the fire. If you are in prison, I will chase you into the prison. Although I am useless
, but I will risk my life to protect you!"
Lu Ning looked at his clear eyes and gentle smile, and her heart seemed to collapse...
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With Hu Qi's company, life seems not so difficult.
Xiao Yulou bribed the jailers and occasionally sent them some medicine and delicious meals.
Because of careful care, Lu Ning's wounds did not continue to worsen, but instead slowly improved.
Hu Qi also learned how to deal with wounds and how to take care of patients from a young man who had nothing to do with his life. Such changes made him a little proud.
After these few days of getting along, Lu Ning became extremely curious about him - what kind of person is Hu Qi?
After he was imprisoned, he never complained, but always smiled at all harm: whether it was cold, hunger, filth or nightmares.
Every time the jailer brought food, Hu Qi would put the cold steamed buns into his arms and warm them before letting Lu Ning eat them.
Every night when going to bed, Hu Qi would wrap Lu Ning tightly in two pieces of fox fur before falling asleep.
Within a few days, Lu Ning's face turned a little red, but Hu Qi lost weight.
Lu Ning looked at himself being wrapped like a rice dumpling, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Xiao Qi, one is enough for me to cover, why bother giving me both, you will catch a cold if you don't cover them!"
Although Hu Qi's nose was red from the cold, she smiled nonchalantly: "I'm in good health! Your injuries haven't healed yet. It will be bad if you catch a cold again!"
Lu Ning's cheeks were dizzy, he gritted his teeth, lifted a corner of the fox fur, and said shyly: "How about... let's build it together! Anyway, your fox fur is big, enough for two people..."
Hu Qi was shocked, then smiled: "I'm really not cold."
Lu Ning sat next to him and gave him the fox fur. He blushed and said, "In this situation, we have to support each other to survive. Other things... we don't care about so much."
Seeing this, Hu Qi no longer refused.
The warmth inside made him shiver, but he didn't forget to tease: "It's the body temperature of a deer inside, it's really warm!"
Such a joke made Lu Ning feel that the already not spacious space became even narrower.