The old lady is reborn

Inside the paddock camp, the arrangements for the next five days had been announced by the messenger soldiers between the tents.

Take a day off.

Over the next four days, the four princes led their team to find a gift for the emperor and empress. The gift could only be obtained in this hunting ground.

After listening to this, Luoxue felt that although this was also a competition, it was only a matter of consideration between a few princes and it was not very meaningful.

Looking for gifts? What's the point of competing? It's boring.

Rong Huaian has been in a particularly good mood since he gave the dagger to Anyang.

Jing Zhong, He Shao, Lin Yindi, Yue Heng and others went to Huaian's tent again.

After several people discussed, it was decided that what the four princes would send would be kept secret from each other. They probably wouldn't bring many people to look for gifts, only their trusted confidants would follow.

But in order to prepare gifts for the Emperor and Empress, one still has to put in some effort, so a few of them decided not to follow their own team and just go together, looking around everywhere, and if they see anything good, they will order four portions.

Sending them to their own teams separately was considered as doing their best for the princes in their teams and for the emperor and empress. As for whether the princes would use their gifts, that was not their concern.

Except for Yan Hui who had to rest in the tent, when the others were preparing to ask for leave from their respective teams, they learned that the leading princes of each team indeed let the members of their team take care of themselves.

So these people set out in a separate team. Not long after they went, they met Princess Anyang and several palace maids.

Anyang also wanted to find a gift for her brother and sister-in-law. She lost her biological mother, Concubine Yang, when she was two years old and grew up in the palace of the former queen.

After the death of the late queen, I have received much care from the current Majesty and the Queen.

Huai'an and Anyang rode side by side, talking and laughing. Luoxue was unhappy behind them, and Lin Yindi asked, "Why are you so listless?"

Luo Xue asked back: "According to the rules of your Central Plains, what kind of gift is considered appropriate?"

Lin Yindi said: "When it comes to preparing gifts in the paddock, it usually means catching a living creature, such as a deer or an eagle.

But if it were just this, it would be a bit boring. The princes might have other ideas. "

In the prison in Kyoto, four last meals were given to Cao Yu and his wife and their two sons.

Cao Yu said to Peng Huan, "I'm sorry. I thought I could get revenge in an open and aboveboard manner one day, but in the end I chose this path and implicated you and the child."

Peng Huan said: "You didn't hide the fact that you were going this way from me, I want to go with you.

In this case, there is no point in talking about getting involved.

If it weren't for you, I would have died in the charity hall. I don't regret it.

I just feel sorry for the child.

I will marry you in the next life...I hope the two children will be fine in the next life.

...You are good at studying. You once said, "If Confucius had not been born, the world would have been dark forever." My husband, if I had not met you in this life, it would have been like a dark night, and I would have lived without a heart.

Don't look at me like that... You don't owe me anything, I'm happy with it."

Cao Yu's eyes were red, and he lowered his head: "I owe you, why don't I owe you?

The only thing I owe is you and the children.

If there is an afterlife, I hope you will marry a good man, grow old with your husband, have many children and grandchildren, and live a happy life.

If I had known that I would end up taking this path... I would have thought there would be another way..."

The next day, Vice Minister of Justice Cao Yu and his family of four were beheaded at Caishikou.

Two women in the crowd clenched their teeth tightly, afraid that they would scream out, and their tears flowed, blurring their vision.

His Majesty also sighed: "The more I investigate, the more I find that he is a good official, but if such a person voted for the Six Kings, am I really a good king?"

The Queen said: "If Your Majesty was not a good king, you would not have asked this question at all."

"I always feel like there's something hidden, something's not right about this."

The Queen consoled him: "No matter what the secret is, what he has done is a capital crime punishable by execution of the entire family.

Now that he has been executed, Your Majesty does not need to think about it any more. Perhaps one day the truth will be revealed.”

……

There were two women, one of them wanted to go up and collect the body, but the other one held her tightly and wouldn't let her.

But then they saw people driving several donkey carts, pulling four coffins.

The two women watched from a distance. They heard people nearby talking, "Who is this? How brave he is! He dares to come and collect the bodies of a family that has been executed for treason?"

"If it weren't for Lord Cao, why would he be standing here today? He should have come."

"What do you mean?"

"He was a butcher who had an argument with someone at his pork stall during the day. He said some harsh words to her, and that evening the woman he had been arguing with died.

His own daughter-in-law testified that he became angrier and angrier, and went out with a meat cleaver.

The victim's husband and parents-in-law also insisted that it was he who broke into the house, attacked with a knife, and killed someone.

If Lord Cao hadn't staged a rehearsal and found that this was not right, he would have been unable to defend himself."

"What's wrong?"

"The confession seems to be fine, but if we go to the victim's house and act out what they said, it will be wrong. That person has two shops and lives a good life in that area. His house is also larger and more imposing than those of his neighbors.

Several people said they heard the woman scream from different places in the house and rushed over to see what was going on.

In a real live performance, when each person rushed into the house, the pork seller had to pull out the first cut and cut again. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the three of them to see him cut the first cut.

The parents-in-law’s legs and feet are not in good condition.

The three men changed their statements again, saying that they remembered it wrongly and that only the first person saw it. They arrived too late and did not see it. When the other two of them arrived, they saw the butcher chopping the second time.

Lord Cao asked again, so after he made the first cut, he just stood there and waited for all of you to gather before making the second cut?

And you, the husband, were the first to arrive, still holding the big snow shovel in your hand, and you were also standing there waiting.

The case was later retried.

The man of that family had an affair with the butcher's wife. When the man's wife found out, she came to the stall and scolded the butcher's wife, but perhaps because she was afraid of being embarrassed, she didn't tell anyone about it.

The butcher tried to protect his wife, but ended up quarreling with the woman. The woman went home and quarreled with her husband again, who stabbed her three times in a rage.

Then the whole family worked together with the butcher's wife to frame the butcher."

"How do you know?"

"Everyone in our area knows about this case. When Lord Cao brought people to rehearse the case, many people were looking in from the line where the police were blocking the way."

The two women followed the butcher quietly, because they wanted to know the burial place.