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Chapter 17 The Rules of the Numbers

Li Yu was arranged in cell No. 107. When the police sent him into the room, he saw that there were already seven prisoners in the room, sitting in the bunk bed in unison, watching him silently. The police opened the door and pushed him in, and shouted to a prisoner in the room: "Ling Santai, this is the new arrival in your cell. You are responsible for arranging a bunk for him."

"Okay." The prisoner named Ling Santai agreed in a long voice.

The police walked away, and everyone seemed to have suddenly come alive and began to make various moves. Li Yu noticed that among the seven people, there was a middle-aged man sitting in the innermost place, looking a little timid, huddled in the bunk and not moving. The others stared at Li Yu with a rude look, as if he was looking at a piece of fat meat to be cut.

"You... come here." Ling Santai sat on his bunk with his legs crossed, like a god. He hooked his finger at Li Yu and said in a commanding tone.

Li Yu walked to Ling Santai's shop without hesitation, bowed slightly, and said, "What are your instructions?"

"I said, what's your name?" Ling Santai said in an official voice.

"Li Yu."

"Because something happened."

"fight."

"Who is fighting?"

“Don’t know.”

"I don't know!" Ling Santai glared at her eyes, "What's the fight if you don't know?"

"That's right, this kid is not honest. He must have committed the flower case!" A prisoner next to him echoed.

"That's right, it must be like this!" In addition to the middle-aged man in the corner, other prisoners also started to cheer together.

At this moment, Li Yu had already understood the interpersonal relationships in the cell. Ling Santai was undoubtedly the leader of the prison in this cell. Everyone else lived with his breath and was considered his minion. Of course, the middle-aged man in the corner was exception. He should be the victim of everyone and belonged to the type who was bullied.

Li Yu was not afraid of Ling Santai, nor his minions. His idea was that if you don’t offend me, I won’t offend you, and stay in the detention center for two days, and then you can go out. He didn’t know if Gao Shixin and Ge Jianyu would look for him everywhere. When encountering such a thing, he would not be inconvenient to pull these two people in, so he could only let them be anxious. With this idea, he maintained an attitude towards Ling Santai and was waiting for the other party to take action.

Ling Santai grinned at the corner of his mouth, he reached out to calm the noise of the minions, then pointed to the corner of the wall and said, "You go to sleep there, Shop No. 8."

The shop in the cell is a row of bunks that are close to the ground, with only the words 1 to 8 written on the wall, indicating which place belongs to which bunk. Li Yu walked to the corner of the wall and saw the place with the words 8. However, the place was already half occupied by the middle-aged man he had seen before, leaving him with only a foot wide position.

"Laojia, I'm No. 8, what number are you?" Li Yu bowed to the middle-aged man and asked politely.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect to see such etiquette in the detention center. He subconsciously bowed and returned the tribute, and then smiled bitterly. He lowered his voice and said, "I was originally No. 8. When you come, I will become No. 7."

"Oh." Li Yu nodded. The more he leaned against the inside, the less ventilated it was. And it was close to the public toilet, which was the worst position. Before he came, the middle-aged man was the air-feeding bag in the cell, so he could only sleep in Shop 8. Now that he came, the middle-aged man's status changed from last to second to last, so he had the privilege of sleeping in Shop 7.

"Isn't No. 7 here?" Li Yu pointed to the 7 words written on the wall and reminded.

The middle-aged man quietly whispered and signaled Li Yu to observe himself. Li Yu turned his head and saw that Ling Santai occupied two people alone, and the others moved to the side. The middle-aged man's shop No. 7 was naturally occupied, so he could only squeeze over to Shop No. 8.

"Haha, it's okay." Li Yu was able to take his shoes and sat on the bunk like other prisoners, sitting with the middle-aged man.

"What do you call a guy?" Li Yu asked.

"Me? Oh, my name is Shen Jiaze." The middle-aged man replied, and then asked, "Where are you?"

"My name is Li Yu." Li Yu said, and then he inevitably explained which fool's question was.

Probably because he felt that Li Yu was also a vulnerable group in the cell and had a bit of love with him. Shen Jiaze opened up and whispered with Li Yu. From the conversation, Li Yu learned that Shen Jiaze was a technician of an optoelectronic equipment company in Yuhai. He was honest in daily life and did not like to cause trouble. This time he went to the detention center because he couldn't stand the company boss harassing a female colleague in front of him, so he picked up the keyboard on the desk and opened the boss's head.

"That woman is your lover, brother?" Li Yu asked curiously.

Shen Jiaze blushed a little and waved his hands repeatedly, "No, it's just that we have a better relationship."

"Brother is amazing, I deserve the word chivalrous." Li Yu praised.

Shin Jiaze sighed and said, "Oh, it was also an impulse, and I regret it now. I beat my boss up, and the company will definitely not be able to go back. After going out, I have to find a job now."

Li Yu comforted: "Brother, auspicious person has his own appearance, and everything will be fine."

"I'll tell you a wise man." Shen Jiaze said. When he talked about this, he secretly looked at Ling Santai and the others and found that those people were gathered together to smoke and play cards. No one paid attention to their corner. So he whispered to Li Yu: "Xiao Li, let me tell you that Ling Santai is a tough guy, very famous in the East New District. He often goes to the detention center and almost treats this place as half a home. Don't offend him. If you have any grievances, you can admit it. People are under the roof, you must bow your head."

"Oh, I understand." Li Yu accepted Shen Jiaze's kindness, but did not take his advice seriously.

Next, the two of them talked about other things. Li Yu had less than two days in this era, and the ones who had contacted more were Gao Shixin and Ge Jianyu, and they had never sat down and talked seriously, so many things were only understood. Now that they had free time, and Shen Jiaze, who was also bored, had him a teacher, asked questions about his future and greedily absorbing information about this era.

Shen Jiaze was a little surprised at Li Yu's ignorance at first, but after listening to the stories about Taoist temples and Taoist priests that Li Yu said, he became emotional and began to reveal the knowledge he knew like a bamboo tube, from common sense of life to legal system, from Chinese history to world politics. Li Yu was so intoxicated that he felt that this prison disaster was too much. On other occasions, he could not find such a enthusiastic teacher.

After chatting for a long time, it was time to start dinner. There was a bucket of rice and a pot of vegetables in each cell. As soon as the food was delivered, a minion took Ling Santai's rice bowl diligently, helped him fill a bowl of rice, and then picked out all the only slices of meat from the bowl and put them into his bowl. When Ling Santai took the bowl with satisfaction and started eating, several other minions flocked to the meal. As for Li Yu and Shen Jiaze, it was naturally the last one.

The remaining rice was enough for one person. As for the dishes, it was not left at all, leaving only a little soup under the basin. Shen Jiaze was used to it. He took the bucket of rice, served half a bowl for Li Yu, and half a bowl for himself. Then he distributed the soup in two bowls and said, "Eat something, you won't be hungry."

Li Yu looked at the two bowls, then picked up his own bowl, played cards and transferred part of it to Shen Jiaze. Shen Jiaze hurriedly covered the bowl and said, "No, no, I have a small appetite, so it's enough to have these. You are a young man, so you have to eat more."

After dinner, Ling Santai and his gang continued to play cards, while Li Yu and Shen Jiaze continued to chat. At 9 o'clock, a whistle sounded in the corridor, which was a signal to inform the prisoners to sleep. As for the lights in the cell, in order to prevent the prisoners from doing bad things in the dark, they were not turned off all night.

Li Yu and Shen Jiaze went to bed separately. Shen Jiaze put his head to Li Yu's ear and whispered: "Xiao Li, I tell you that they may come to search your pocket later. Don't resist. If you have money in your pocket, you can just think it's spending money to buy peace. They will wait for the guard to fall asleep before doing this. You must be mentally prepared."

"Oh, I understand." Li Yu replied lightly.

Sure enough, about half an hour after the sleeping whistle blew, the snoring of prisoners in other cells came from the corridor. Ling Santai, who was pretending to be asleep, suddenly sat up, as if he had received some signal, and several other minions also sat up at the same time.

"Come here!" Ling Santai lowered his voice and ordered.

At this time, two minions tacitly walked to the door of the cell, blocking the window with their bodies, and monitoring the movements in the corridor. They wanted to deal with Li Yu, so they naturally had to beware of being seen by the guards. In fact, they didn't know that Ling Santai was ordered to deal with Li Yu this time, with the purpose of forcing Li Yu to tell him his origin. The information that Du Shuangyue did not get in the interrogation room was expected to rely on Ling Santai to obtain.

Li Yu slowly stood up, walked to Ling Santai's shop, and asked, "Brother, do you have any instructions?"

"What orders do you want? Take it out as much as you want. Take out all the things in your pocket." A minion named Deng Chen said for Ling Santai.
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