Chapter 934 Nailed on the pillar of shame (first update)
Author: Moon Meow
Chapter 934 Nailed on the pillar of shame (first update)
Mrs. Shen had already been severely irritated by today's events. When she learned that her son had been arrested in the Yamen, a sweet and fishy smell came up in her throat.
None of the ten Shen Jingyings hold a higher status in her heart than her son.
Her face was full of panic, "Is the emperor punishing him because of Jingying? He was also deceived by Jingying."
On the contrary, Jingying is staying well in the woodshed now, and no one in the palace has come to arrest her.
The servants could only find out that their master had been taken away, but they didn't know the specific charges.
Mrs. Shen no longer had any feelings for Shen Jingying, only resentment and disgust remained in her heart.
"Drag Jingying out and hit twenty boards."
When Shen Jingying was imprisoned in the firewood shed, she didn't even get a drop of water, and she was tortured by fear and uneasiness all the time. She was so tired that her eyes were blue.
She even fainted after twenty big boards. In the past, even if a girl from the Shen family made a mistake, the most she could do was copy scriptures or be punished by kneeling in the ancestral hall. This was the first time that she was treated like a servant and was pressed directly on the bench. He beat her without even giving her any face. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Shen Jingying would lose any status in the government from now on.
Mrs. Shen said in disgust: "I'm pretending again. I woke her up and kept locking her in the woodshed."
"When will her father come back and when will he let her out?"
Even though she severely punished her granddaughter, Mrs. Shen was still worried if her son did not return safely.
She seemed to have remembered something and said fiercely: "Let Aunt Ke come over."
The other granddaughters are all well-behaved and sensible, but only the second granddaughter is bold and deceives others. This must have been taught by Aunt Ke. Aunt Ke was never a peaceful person. When she was young, in order to consolidate her status, she did not drink the Bizi Decoction. She was pregnant before joining the family. Thinking about it now, Jingying’s temperament can be said to be exactly the same as her mother’s.
Today she was like a firecracker, exploding at the drop of a lick. Naturally, the servants were willing to find Aunt Ke so that the master could vent his anger and prevent the master from venting his anger on them.
It's just that they searched for a long time and couldn't find Aunt Ke.
Aunt Ke never came back since she left home in the morning.
Mrs. Shen suddenly had a bad premonition, "Look again, besides Aunt Ke, who else is missing?"
Half an hour later, the list of missing persons was delivered to Mrs. Shen.
In addition to Aunt Ke, there are nine servants in the mansion. Most of them are Aunt Ke's people. In addition, there is one who is the steward of the front yard, and three are servants who used to serve the eldest granddaughter Shen Jingzhu. people.
Silent Bamboo.
After learning that she had been kidnapped by bandits, Mrs. Shen announced that her granddaughter was dead. During this period, she never thought of her name again.
What happened to Aunt Ke? Why did she suddenly disappear?
Aunt Ke loves her daughter very much, so she cannot leave her house secretly.
Then when her son was taken away... Mrs. Shen felt that there was something going on here that she didn't know about. She was so troubled by this matter that she couldn't sleep all night.
By the afternoon of the next day, after Shen Congyu's confession came out, the incident between Shen Congyu and Aunt Ke spread throughout the capital.
Aunt Ke was so bold that she plotted to kill the main wife. Years later, she even intensified her efforts to bribe people to kill the eldest daughter of the Shen family. As a husband, Shen Congyu doted on his concubines and destroyed his wife, and also sheltered the vicious concubine. He was ruthless and unjust to his wife and legitimate daughter. He doesn't even take Daxia's laws into consideration. He can be said to be Aunt Ke's accomplice.
Aunt Ke, as the chief culprit, was sentenced to beheaded in half. Shen Congyu, an accomplice, was deprived of his honor and could never be employed.
Under the arrangement of the imperial court, more and more details about this case came out.
That very legendary story focused the attention of the people in the capital on this matter, and no one even paid attention to the Crown Princess. After all, the Crown Princess was too far away from ordinary people and had nothing to do with them.
The story of a deceased soul complaining about injustice in a dream is so wonderful, it is even better than the one on the stage.
Not that no one was suspicious, but others soon spat in their faces.
"Three ministers and the emperor all have the same dream. Can this be arranged by humans? Those gentlemen will not lie!"
"This Aunt Ke is really not ordinary vicious, she is the most poisonous to women's hearts." A scholar shook his head and said, and the woman next to him immediately became dissatisfied after hearing this.
"No matter how poisonous you are, can you men still be poisonous? You men are so poisonous that women have no business. Last year, a man in Liaozhou made his wife into a living pig. The year before last, he had a son-in-law who wanted to seize the property of his in-laws. Exterminate the Yue family and cut their bodies into pieces."
Because Su Yueling often asked people from the White Lotus Sect to collect cases from various places and arrange plays to tour in various places, so some famous stories from other places can be said to be treasured by the people in the capital.
"That is, if we want to talk about being ruthless, Shen Congyu is even more ruthless. Guo is the wife he shares the same bed with, and his concubine is still his flesh and blood. He is not just sitting back and watching them being killed."
The scholar just sighed a few words casually as usual, and then habitually belittled the woman, but he got this scolding.
These women know nothing about quoting scriptures, but they are the best at talking.
They have long been dissatisfied with the fact that men blame women every time something happens, and they look like men are innocent.
The scholar's face turned red at the words. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard the woman opposite say: "You can't defeat us, so you are ready to say that good men will not fight evil women."
Being told the central issue seemed to have him stuck in the neck, and in the end he could only leave in despair.
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It was something that everyone in the capital knew, and the Shen family naturally received the news faster.
Mrs. Shen fainted at that time. She pinched her and injected her with acupuncture and decoction, but she finally woke up.
There she cried and howled for her son, saying that those evil things were all done by Aunt Ke and had nothing to do with her son. However, Shen Congyu's confession had come out and there were witnesses. Shen Congyu and Aunt Ke had long been nailed to the pillar of shame. No matter how much she cried out for injustice, no one cared about her.
The Shen family was panic-stricken, and her confidant took advantage of Mrs. Shen's lack of energy to steal the deed of sale and some money and ran away. If the house was ransacked, wouldn't they also be sold?
When Shen Jingying was locked up in the firewood shed and starved, some sisters at home secretly stuffed her with steamed buns to keep her alive.
After this incident came out, everyone just felt cold and no one cared about her anymore. They didn't think that Shen Jingying knew nothing about her eldest sister.
It is normal for two sisters to quarrel and have conflicts, but it is so inhumane to kill siblings for their own status. They still remember the eldest sister Shen Jingzhu. Although she is a bit arrogant, she treats the younger sisters very well and is not unreasonable. When slaves bully concubines, they will also stand up for them.
But for the Shen family, this is not the worst situation.
Mrs. Shen just woke up and received bad news again.
The Ministry of Revenue sent several officials to carry the Guo family's dowry - the Guo family had entrusted a dream to the emperor and several ministers to donate her dowry to the imperial court.
Mrs. Guo had passed away many years ago, and the dowry had always been kept by Mrs. Shen. She had already rushed it into her warehouse, and a lot of it was sold off.
The imperial court is very easy to talk to in this regard. It doesn't matter if it's gone, just use something else to offset it.
They directly took out the Guo family's dowry list, and used the Shen family's money to make up for the missing parts.
Mrs. Shen fainted again when she saw her beloved and precious things being carried away to pay debts.