Manbao listlessly took the basket and asked, "What are Fifth Brother and the others busy with at home?"
The bailiff wouldn't let them talk much, barking, "Take the stuff and get out quickly, do you think this jail is your home?"
Bai Shan and Manbao silently thought: it almost is.
Zhou Lijun then waved at them and shouted, "Fifth Uncle didn't write to tell the family, Little Aunt can rest assured."
The deputy director of the Ministry of Justice checked their baskets and saw they were all stuffed buns, then waved them through.
Seeing their listlessness, he said irritably, "Don't look as if we've wronged you; the Ministry of Justice doesn't even want to detain you."
Manbao and the others had just finished their evening meal when they understood why the deputy director had said that. As Manbao was giving acupuncture to two sick prisoners, a commotion arose outside, and the two immediately dropped the needles on the patients and ran to the jail gate, ears perked up to listen.
