Chapter 214: Tragedy and Comedy

Chenyu Valley Prison is the largest prison in Taoyuan City, located in a remote mountain gully on the outskirts of Taoyuan City. The mountaintop is a wind power plant built in recent years, and there is an abandoned jade mine at the bottom of the valley.

The stonemasons of Zanju Town used to come to this valley to mine stone in the early years. Later, this small artisan town famous for jade and stone carving gradually declined. Coupled with environmental protection issues being put on the agenda, and rare earth mineral deposits being discovered underground in Taoyuan City... with various reasons piled up, the mine in Chenyu Valley was abandoned.

The abandoned mine site was later converted into a prison. Due to its geographical advantages, not a single successful prison break had occurred since the prison was built.

After multiple expansions and renovations, this "Chenyu Valley Prison" became the largest and most famous prison in Taoyuan City, and the vast majority of local criminals in Taoyuan City served their sentences here.

In the past two months, the crime rate in Taoyuan City and surrounding areas had suddenly soared, and most of them were violent crimes of injury or murder. Regarding these vicious criminal events that had appeared in clusters recently, the Taoyuan City Court held the principle of sentencing heavily and quickly, striving to reduce the impact as soon as possible, whether it was public opinion impact or political impact.

Thus, Chenyu Valley Prison had become unusually lively recently. Many new faces were sent in every week, and most of them were first-time offenders with no criminal record.

Prisoners in prison also rank themselves by seniority.

Financial and political criminals, who sound high-end the moment you hear about them, are still people above others even when in prison; there is no shortage of people in prison who want to get on good terms with such people, fantasizing about whether they can ride their coattails to success after getting out. However, sex offenders, especially those who commit sex crimes against minors, are long relegated to the very bottom of the contempt chain.

Generally speaking, violent criminals such as robbers and murderers are labeled "not to be messed with" by their fellow inmates, but this batch of new prisoners is a bit different. Almost none of them are the ruffians who have robbed repeatedly and been caught repeatedly; instead, most of them are honest people.

Honest people who have never committed a crime and are clean.

"I say, Old Li, you are just a farmer who grows crops and doesn't know a single big character, how dare you take a knife to hack the village chief?"

In the dark cell, the fellow inmate sleeping on the upper bunk couldn't help but ask.

Old Li, sleeping on the lower bunk, was silent for a long time before answering woodenly: "I, I don't know... I was just impulsive, hot-blooded, and when I came to my senses, I..."

Then he had killed the village chief of their village.

Li Tie, male, 53 years old, single, farmer, education level semi-illiterate, made a living by farming in the countryside, was locked in this prison because of a crime of passion. The person he killed was their village chief.

"Old Li, I've heard others say in the past two days that your village chief is indeed not a good thing..."

The voice on the upper bunk was very low, because chatting was not allowed after the lights were out in the prison:

"I heard from Brother Wang that the cement road in your village was only built last year. Your village chief embezzled a lot of money from this road and used it all to build his villa..."

Country people all have a sense of protecting their land, and those who become village chiefs are no exception, although he doesn't need to farm.

The village chief of Old Li's village used the embezzled money to build a stylish two-story villa on his abandoned farmland. It was very glorious, but Old Li's field happened to be below the village chief's villa. As soon as the foundation of the house started to be laid, various construction sewage flowed directly into his field along the terrain, poisoning all the rice Old Li had worked so hard to grow.

That year, he had no harvest.

Old Li tried several times to report to the village, but returned empty-handed, and could only watch helplessly as the village chief's villa was built more and more beautifully, while not a single seedling could grow in his own field.

On the day the villa was completed, the village chief set up twenty tables for a housewarming banquet, inviting everyone in the village, including Old Li, to congratulate him. In the festive atmosphere, Old Li drank cup after cup of wine. He watched the village chief's old face smiling like a chrysanthemum, and the glazed tiles on the villa roof shining brightly in the sun, hating him extremely in his heart.

Whether it was the wine or the hatred, before the dishes were even served, Old Li left the table with a dark face.

He found a firewood knife in the ditch by the field, tucked it into his waist, rushed into the villa that was too golden and magnificent for country people, and hacked off the village chief's festive head in front of all the guests.

A crime of passion, the circumstances were vicious, and there was no remorse afterwards. No matter how the mediator persuaded him, he was unwilling to bow his head and apologize to the village chief's family, only hating that his knife was too crisp, letting that corrupt official die too painlessly.

Then he was sentenced heavily and quickly to this place, one of the prisons with the highest difficulty for prison breaks in Qinzhou.

"I was sentenced to 25 years, and my farmland was also auctioned by the court to pay for the village chief's family. After I get out... I will be seventy years old."

Old Li lay on the bed, two lines of old tears sliding into his ears.

A country person in his seventies, with no fields, no land, how is he supposed to live?

But if you ask him if he regrets it? Old Li's answer is no regret. Even if he could do it again, he would still choose to pick up the firewood knife. He only hates that he was too nervous at the time and only hacked the village chief, letting that corrupt official's family continue to be arrogant in this world and bully the poor...

Yes, his family.

Old Li opened his eyes in the dark, silently clenching his fists.

He was over fifty, and because he had been farming for many years, he had ruined his body, and his waist was not very good. If it weren't for the court's tough attitude, the prison wouldn't want to accept someone like him, fearing that he would have an accident in prison.

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"I heard people say that if you behave well in prison, you can get a sentence reduction... I am so old, the prison guard definitely doesn't want to take care of me all the time, I, I must strive for a sentence reduction..."

Yes, he must strive for a sentence reduction, strive to get out of prison early, strive so that after he is free, he won't be too old to lift a knife.

Old Li gritted his teeth in the dark, hatred replacing confusion, filling his mind.

"Twenty years later, the village chief's youngest son should be married, right..."

A gust of wind blew through Chenyu Valley, blowing the fan blades of the wind power plant on the mountaintop to rotate continuously, and also blowing away the dark clouds covering the moon. A new moon appeared in the turbid pupils of the uneducated farmer, and the cold moonlight passed through the iron window.

The gray life had a goal again. Old Li fell into a deep sleep contentedly, determined to perform well tomorrow.

Old Li, who had fallen asleep, didn't see that in the silvery-white moonlight, a beautiful butterfly bathed in snow-white silver radiance, landing lightly on the iron window.

"Another tragedy caused by a Thought Steel Seal."

Ning Zhe closed his ice-blue wings and landed on the iron railing, tilting his head to watch Old Li lying on the bed with his compound eyes, murmuring in his heart:

"But even without the influence of the Thought Steel Seal, would his life turn into a happy comedy with a big reunion?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 215 =====