It was a good time to enter spring in Lanjiang City. The women's prison was near the river, and it had always been cold in the cells. Now that they had a rare opportunity to come out, it was almost the middle of April, and the temperature had warmed up. It was afternoon, and the sun poured down and landed on the large sunscreen in front of the laundry room, making people's hearts itch.
In the fourth prison, five people were squatting in a row on the cement floor in front of the laundry room, washing clothes. If it weren't for the eye-catching prison clothes on their bodies, the five of them would be chatting casually like rural women who only worried about their three meals and five grains.
"Sister Qiu, among us, you come from the best family. Can you tell me if a rich man's wife is just like the actors on TV? She has someone to take care of her every day. She has to either apply facial masks or go to the spa every day. She even has a special nanny to take care of her dog."
The one who started this topic was Su Hong. She looked at Zhuang Suqiu eagerly, looking forward to it.
Zhuang Suqiu rolled up her sleeves, and her fair arms were exposed to the sun. They were stained with soap and reflected the colorful light. She smiled and said, "Most likely, but not all of these."
Su Hong glared at her. "Rich people have troubles too? Don't tell me that rich people will be lonely. I don't believe it. "
"Then, Second Sister, if you have money, how are you going to live?" Ye Huanyan put the clothes that had been wrung dry in another basin, and asked as she fetched fresh clean water under the pipe.
Su Hong was stunned.
"Of course, I'll live the kind of life I just mentioned. I won't think about anything else, and I'll live a good life every year."
"Don't you want to find a man?" Fu Yingxiang teased.
This question stumped Su Hong, but the big-hearted Su Hong quickly felt relieved. She waved her hand and said, "What's wrong with that? If I have money, I'll keep whoever I like. In this day and age, there's no need to talk about relationships. Only money is practical. After I'm done playing with men, I can even keep dogs. "
Ye Huanyan and Fu Yingxiang looked at each other and snickered. Even Xiao Wu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst into laughter.
"Sister Hong … your taste is too strong …"
As the saying goes, men don't keep cats and women don't keep dogs.
Su Hong's face turned red from their laughter. However, Ye Huanyan and Fu Yingxiang were too far away. She could only reach Xiaowu with the towel in her hand, so she shouted.
"You little hussy, even you are laughing with me. You haven't even grown all your hair yet. Have you tried those that aren't that heavy?"
Xiaowu dodged the water stains and laughed, "Why haven't I tasted it before? Second Sister, you haven't seen it before, so how do you know that my hair isn't fully grown? "
"Little wench, you'll know once I strip you naked."
The quarrel became more and more outrageous, and the words of the two became more and more unpleasant to the ear. The remaining three people who were watching the show had different expressions on their faces. They all wanted to laugh but couldn't thicken their faces to laugh. It was very uncomfortable to hold it in.
Despite the commotion, the prison guards were still monitoring them from behind. They only verbally attacked each other for a while before calming down very quickly.
Zhuang Suqiu, who had been silent for a while, suddenly said, "Xiao Hong, what do you think is the most regrettable thing in your life?"
"I don't have money …" Su Hong answered without even thinking.
Among the five people here, except for Su Hong, they all came from good families and had never lacked money.
After Su Hong answered, Zhuang Suqiu lowered her head and rubbed the bedsheets in her hands.
She said calmly, "I've never lacked money, but ever since I was born, the burden of inheriting the family business was on my shoulders. When I was five, I went to all kinds of meeting places with the elders in my family. At first, I just had to follow the rules and not cry. Later on, as I grew older, I had to know how to read people's expressions, be sweet and obedient. After I was ten, I had to be smooth and slick in social interactions and draw inferences from one case."
Su Hong was stunned for a few seconds. She stared blankly at her eldest sister who had always been calm and steady. She didn't know what to do.
"When I was six years old, my biggest regret was that I couldn't be like other children at my birthday party and dirty my clothes. I couldn't show my love for cake, not just cake, but everything that I liked."
Ye Huanyan came from a good family, but she wasn't as powerful as the Zhuang Family, so she couldn't empathize with her.
However, she didn't notice that Fu Yingxiang's expression changed slightly. She rubbed the bedsheets even harder.
Su Hong was stunned. "Why are your elders so strict with you?"
"Actually, they weren't strict." Zhuang Suqiu smiled calmly.
"They didn't hit me or scold me. They just made me feel that there were many things that I couldn't do. I had to hide my emotions and not let others find out. My mother told me since I was young that our emotions are our biggest weakness for others to attack. So, emotional management was the biggest constraint they had on me since I was young."
"So, they didn't want you to laugh loudly when you were happy, and they didn't want you to cry loudly when you were sad?"
Zhuang Suqiu was stunned for a moment. It was the first time she had heard such a straightforward explanation. Compared to the mess she had made just now, it was much easier to understand.
In the end, she nodded with a bitter expression on her face.
Su Hong frowned and took a deep breath. "Are they planning to suffocate the child to death …"
Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly became a little gloomy, Ye Huanyan turned off the water valve, coughed, and joked, "Second Sister, if you were to grow up like this, would you be willing?"
Su Hong said casually.
"Forget it, I'd rather earn my own money. If I'm happy, I'll earn more. If I'm unhappy, I'll close the shop today. I'll live a happy life one day at a time! There's no need to be angry. "
After saying this, Su Hong glanced at Zhuang Suqiu and said carefully,
"Sister Qiu, I'm not talking about you. I'm just saying, sigh, anyway, everyone has their own life. You have your own advantages. It's better than me leaving home at the age of 12 to make a living alone."
Seeing that she was comforting her in such a serious manner, Zhuang Suqiu laughed and glanced at her.
"Do I need you to comfort me? I'm living a life without anyone to care about me now, right? I've lived for more than 30 years and I've encountered something like going to prison. I reckon that the coffin of my ancestors can't be closed anymore. I'm considered to have done whatever I want for once. "
Everyone was amused. Zhuang Suqiu had always been mature and steady. Her tone of speaking was most likely influenced by Su Hong and Xiaowu.
If the saying "one is marked by the company one keeps, one will be marked by the company one keeps" was combined together, even cinnabar would be covered in dust when it met black ink.
Xiaowu twisted her clothes and raised her head to ask, "Sister Qiu, what do you want to do after you get out? What about the mistress … "
Ye Huanyan was squatting beside Zhuang Suqiu. She could clearly see that her eyes trembled slightly and there was a faint trace of hostility in them when Xiaowu mentioned the "mistress".
"I'm your big sister, I can't embarrass you all, right?"
"Big Sister, if there's anything, just call me. My brother has enough manpower. As long as you give the order, I guarantee that he'll tear the mistress apart on the street …"
Tear her apart alive? Everyone's mouth twitched slightly.
After all, she came from a martial arts school. She was violent.
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