Jiang Se followed Cao Yu downstairs and walked for about an hour. Almost all he saw were prisoners doing manual work. The silent indifference made his heart heavy.
The dead feeling is hard to describe in words. Although the windows and desks here are clean and bright, despair has formed a haze that hangs over everyone's head.
Mo Anqi seemed to be affected by this, and her smile became less. When she walked to the next prison, before the prison guards introduced them, Jiang Se saw one of the girls sitting on the ground, crocheting wool skillfully with her hands. She widened her eyes and couldn't help shouting:
"Dai Jia!" Why is she here
Jiang Se couldn't help but grab the iron bars on the prison door with both hands and put his face close to it.
"You should be careful."
Cao Yu reached out and pushed her away a little. Inside the prison, Dai Jia turned a deaf ear to Jiang Se's cries.
She seemed to have immersed all her thoughts in knitting, and her expression was exactly the same as the person Jiang Se had seen before. She had a plain face and no longer looked as charming as when Jiang Se first saw her. It was not until Jiang Se called her the second time that she paused and raised her head with a somewhat stiff movement. At that moment Jiang Se thought of the unoiled robot. She could even hear the creaking sound between Dai Jia's bones when she raised her head.
"Daijia!"
When she saw Jiang Se, her expression was neither sad nor happy, as if the person greeting her was just an insignificant stranger. Her hands were still instinctively knitting. If it weren't for the fact that her cheek muscles twitched violently at that moment, Jiang Se would almost have thought that she was still as calm as she appeared.
"Dai Jia, 21 years old, came in March this year."
And the crime she committed was that she killed someone.
When Jiang Se heard the news that Dai Jia had killed someone, he couldn't believe his ears. She had been in jail for six months. No wonder her cell phone was always turned off when he called her during this period.
Seeing that she had no interest in shopping any further, Cao Yu did not expect to see an acquaintance here at Jiang Se, so he made a gesture and had someone temporarily prepare a chat room. He asked the prison guard to bring Dai Jia out to give Jiang Se and Dai Jia a chance to meet.
Jiang Se didn't expect that his next meeting with Dai Jia would be like this.
She was wearing prison clothes, her hair was tied up in a ponytail, and her body smelled like she hadn't showered for a long time. But she looked expressionless, as if she didn't feel her own embarrassment. When the prison guard asked her to sit down, she held her legs with both hands and didn't dare to put her hands on the table.
Someone in the prison poured a glass of water for Jiang Se, and Cao Yu also accompanied her to prevent the female prisoner from suddenly attacking and hurting others.
Jiang Se was someone whose superiors had given him notice. If something happened to him in prison and he got hurt, no one would be able to take the blame.
"What's going on?"
Jiang Se took a deep breath and asked.
Dai Jia's eyes fell on the table, without looking at Jiang Se, and said calmly:
"I killed someone."
Jiang Se had heard about her murder from the prison guards before, but she thought of Dai Jia, whom she knew before, and looked at the woman who now talked about "murder" with a numb expression. Jiang Se held the water cup tightly.
"What's going on?"
When Jiang Se asked this question, Dai Jia still maintained her previous actions, without a trace of embarrassment on her face, and her expression was as calm as an ancient well without any ripples:
"I signed a contract with an agency, and they wanted to force me to make a movie, but I didn't want to." When she said this, her tone was smooth, as if she was mechanically reporting something to her superiors:
“I was sent here after the court ruling came into effect.”
When she saw Jiang Se, she did not feel the joy and excitement of meeting an acquaintance. She simply finished her story, raised her head, looked at Jiang Se and smiled slightly. Her smile did not reach her eyes, as if she was just a puppet, and instinctively pulled the corners of her mouth:
"That's it, can I go home now?"
Dai Jia's eyes could not see Jiang Se. She faced Jiang Se, but her eyes seemed to see through Jiang Se and look at the prison guard standing behind Jiang Se:
"There are many tasks to do. If we delay any longer, we won't be able to complete them."
She explained, and Cao Yu glanced at Jiang Se. Jiang Se had a complicated expression. She recalled the first time they met at the Imperial Capital Film and Television University, the charming Dai Jia, and then looked at the woman whose smile was now weak, and remained silent.
The prison guard took Dai Jia away. Her footsteps seemed a little heavy, and the "thump thump" sounded in Jiang Se's ears. Cao Yu had someone bring Dai Jia's information, which recorded the reason why she entered the prison.
She killed a Jufeng Entertainment agent named Zhang Hua. She was quickly found guilty and thrown into the Western Suburbs Women's Prison.
When Jiang Se saw Jufeng Entertainment, he remembered what Dai Jia had said before and felt that something was wrong.
After this happened, she naturally had no intention of staying any longer. She came out of the prison with Mo Anqi first. After saying goodbye to Cao Yu, Mo Anqi let out a long sigh:
"I don't know why, but I feel it's quite depressing inside."
Everyone's expression seemed very indifferent. Some people were chattering endlessly, while most of the prisoners were silent and focused on the work at hand.
When someone was talking, the indifference of the people around him made the deathly silence in the cell seem even more apparent.
Mo Anqi started the car and looked at Jiang Se sitting in the back through the rearview mirror with some curiosity. She couldn't help but ask:
"Sese, she is the person you called but couldn't find after you came back from Fu County last time?"
"Yes."
Jiang Se nodded, she was a little annoyed:
"She is a friend of mine."
Mo Anqi was a little surprised. Jiang Se's daily social life was simple, and she didn't interact with many people. Her interpersonal relationships were very simple. She had a good grasp of her daily routine. In addition to work and study, she either learned dance from her coach or occasionally dated Pei Yi. She had friends of the same age around her, but they were not very close, like Yu Xiaozhou and others in the First Academy, who she would only send messages to occasionally.
She knew that Jiang Se had a friend named 'Dai Jia', and this person's mobile phone number was still in Jiang Se's phone. When Jiang Se changed his phone number, it was Mo Anqi who helped him write down the phone number.
Mo Anqi didn't know who this 'Dai Jia' was before. Since she signed as Jiang Se's assistant, she didn't see Jiang Se having any contact with this person. She only knew that Jiang Se had called her earlier, but her phone was turned off and she didn't get through.
Jiang Se actually wondered if something had happened to Dai Jia, but she didn't expect that she would kill someone and end up in a women's prison.
"For the second drama I took on, Gu Jiaer's "Fake It Comes True", she helped me and told me the audition time."
When they met afterwards, Dai Jia had warned her to be careful of traps in the entertainment industry, but she ended up getting into trouble herself. (To be continued)