In the Empire jails
Prisons take a great
place in the novel. That is normal if you consider the personality
of our heroes who mainly recruit among the outlaws. But the Chinese
jails are also a world where you can meet many innocents whose only
fault was to get through the way of dishonest notables. Prisons
are thus a place for injustice and corruption.
Happily for
our bold men, jail-keepers are sometimes more fair than the judges
themselves and some of them will take their defence to save them
from an unjust fate.
Cai Fu and Cai Qing,
Yue He as well as Shi En
will thus join our heroes.
