Chapter Twenty-Four New Treatment

  "It's the government, I'm innocent! They're the ones who are after me and hitting me!"

  After hearing Hu Baoguo's words, Li Tianyuan's face suddenly fell, and this guy was puzzled for the first time in his life. Why should the victim also be punished?

  "Why did you get hit when so many others didn't?"

  Hu Baoguo kicked Li Tianyuan with a bad temper and scolded: "What kind of government is this? Who did you learn from, you little bastard, you're asking for trouble!"

  Generally speaking, adult prisoners in prison usually refer to their instructors as "the government".

  And this juvenile detention center was converted from a prison, with some old prisoners who stayed after serving their sentences, and they also had some contact with these children, so privately sometimes they would also shout slogans against the government.

  Li Tianyuan's cries of injustice did not change Hu Baoguo's mind, and he could only obediently follow another instructor to the solitary confinement room.

  The two parties have already left, and the atmosphere in the cafeteria has eased up immediately. Of course, the daily playground ventilation was cancelled, I don't know how many people were scolding those two unlucky guys behind their backs.

  As Li Tianyuan left the cafeteria, Director Hu suddenly pointed at Qin Feng who was about to return to his cell and said: "You... come with me!"

  "Me?"

  Qin Feng looked around and pointed at his own nose, saying: "Director, are you... calling me? I haven't done anything!"

  Last time was an unexpected disaster, this time Qin Feng didn't know why Master Sochang had targeted himself again. Looking at the situation, it didn't seem like his own prison break had been discovered either.

  "Spare me the nonsense, I know you haven't done anything, otherwise you would have been locked up by now."

  Hu Baoguo waved his hand to interrupt Qin Feng's words and said, "I called you here just to follow me, where did so many useless words come from? Haven't you memorized the prison rules?"

  "Yes, I obey!"

  Qin Feng listlessly responded with a "yes" and followed Hu Baoguo from behind, but his mind was racing quickly, "Could it be that something happened yesterday, but it doesn't seem quite right?"

  Hú Bǎo Guó's build doesn't resemble that person from yesterday, it definitely can't be him. And if that person wanted to harm me, he only needed to shout out loud yesterday, no need to report to the director today, right?

  Thinking of this, Qin Feng's heart suddenly calmed down, and he looked up to see that he and Hu Baoguo had already arrived at the playground. In the vast empty field, there were only the two of them.

  Hu Baoguo suddenly spoke up and said: "The person has arrived, remember our agreement."

  "What was agreed upon? Director, what did you and I agree on?" Qin Feng, who followed behind Hu Baoguo, was confused by Hu's words.

  "I haven't spoken with you."

  Hu Bao Guo turned around with a bad temper, and Qin Feng suddenly saw that behind the iron wire mesh three or four meters in front of him, an old man with a face full of wrinkles, whose age could not be discerned, was smiling at him.

  "You...... you......"

  When he saw the old man, Qin Feng's eyes widened involuntarily, because from the other's physique, he could tell that this old fellow was absolutely the one who took him back to prison yesterday.

  From last night to now, Qin Feng had been guessing in his heart, but even if he thought hard, he would never have expected that the "master" was actually this old man who served under him every day?

  "What's wrong with you?"

  Hu Bao's voice startled Qin Feng awake, "Youngster, from now on, you don't have to attend afternoon drills and evening self-study sessions. Follow him to grow vegetables instead, it counts as labor, if done well, there might be a chance for reduced sentence in the future!"

  "What...what?" Qin Feng looked at Hu Baoguo in disbelief. "Let...let me grow vegetables and I can reduce my sentence?"

  Whether it's a prison or a juvenile detention center, the inmates inside also need to be reformed through labor, of course, the treatment of juvenile delinquents is slightly better, and every three to five days, there will be some manual work to do.

  But in the juvenile detention center, there is one task that someone does every day, which is to help with cooking and cleaning. In order to make use of idle labor, these tasks are generally done by young people.

  Of course, because helping in the kitchen will be done outside the warning zone, the opportunity to escape will also increase greatly. Therefore, such work is generally assigned to those who are about to be released after serving their sentence.

  As they were about to be released, the youngsters generally did not run away. The management of these juvenile offenders was also very lenient. Occasionally, they could step out of the correctional facility and breathe a mouthful of free air.

  So don't look at it as a trivial matter, almost all the young offenders wanted to get this opportunity, Qin Feng never thought that Hu Da would give him this chance.

  "Alright, you follow him then! You must return to your cell and sleep before lights out tonight!"

  Hu Baoguo's mood didn't seem too good, after handing over Qin Feng, he turned around and left with a flick of his hand, but he seemed to not be afraid that Qin Feng would run away, and didn't even warn him.

  "Hey kiddo, isn't it strange? Come over and plow this land for me first."

  Just as Qin Feng was standing there in a daze, the familiar voice from yesterday suddenly entered his ears, and he was startled. He looked towards that person.

  "You... what kind of person are you? Why does the principal have to listen to you?"

  Qin Feng had countless questions and misunderstandings in his heart. He urgently needed to get answers, because the events that were happening before his eyes made Qin Feng feel extremely absurd.

  "Me? What kind of person am I?"

  The old man laughed and beckoned to the armed police officer at the not-so-distant sentry post, saying in a somewhat desolate tone: "I've been in this prison for over thirty years, what kind of person do you think I am?"

  It seemed that he had received instructions, and the armed policeman did not react to the old man's action of opening a small door on the iron wire mesh wall, but his eyes swept over Qin Feng several times.

  "Are you in charge here? Retired?"

  Qin Feng felt that he had figured it out, and apart from this answer, there seemed to be no other reason that could explain why the old man was able to come and go freely in and out of prison.

  "Who cares about discipline? I'm the one being disciplined!"

  After hearing Qin Feng's words, the old man was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on and almost jumped up. He pulled Qin Feng to the iron wire net and said, "Hurry up and get to work, finish your work and go back to sleep."

  "Good!"

  Qin Feng nodded, the past few years of wandering with his sister had taught him that silence is golden, and he forcibly suppressed the curiosity in his heart. Qin Feng really picked up a hoe and turned over the earth.

  The place where Qin Feng used to live was a suburb of Cangzhou, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the city had not been planned to be built there yet, it was all farmland everywhere, and it was not much different from rural areas.

  At the age of eight or nine, Qin Feng had already helped people pick up wheat ears with his sister and had even planted rice seedlings and harvested wheat himself, so he was not unfamiliar with farm work. After taking over the hoe, he did it in a similar way.

  It was just the old man who let him plow that piece of land, which seemed to be newly opened up. After turning over the three-point land, Qin Feng was also exhausted and sweaty, leaning his hoe against a tree. Qin Feng didn't say anything either, silently standing there.

  "Damn it, I really don't know if you're fourteen or forty..."

  The old man stared at Qin Feng for a long time, seeing that this kid really didn't intend to speak up, and couldn't help but say: "Kid, don't you want to ask anything? You're not curious at all?"

  The old man came from a prestigious family and started his adventures in the jianghu at a young age, meeting countless people from high-ranking officials to ordinary citizens and bandits. Although he had already taken notice of Qin Feng before, he still didn't expect that a thirteen or fourteen-year-old youth would be so calm and composed.

  "Curious, very curious, but I asked you and you didn't say, doesn't that mean it was a waste of asking?"

  Qin Feng nodded heavily and replied briefly, but his words made the old man somewhat laugh and cry.