Song Ziyu saw Zhang San standing next to the female jailer and saw that he was holding a bundle and slowly stopped.
"It is you!"
Song Ziyu's voice was weak.
"Yes." Zhang San nodded, "General Ming Xiao sent you something."
As soon as Song Ziyu was taken away, Song Heng knew that she would never return. After finishing his work, he ordered Zhang San to send Song Ziyu some quilts and warm clothes.
Song Ziyu's mentality was a little broken. Her father asked Zhang San to give something away. Doesn't that mean that she will stay in this prison for a long time.
"Did my dad have anything else to say?"
She looked at Zhang San and asked.
Zhang San shook his head hesitantly. The general only asked him to deliver something to the eldest lady and said nothing else.
The jailer opened the cell door and Zhang San put the bundle inside.
"Miss, the younger one is going back right now."
For some reason, he suddenly felt that the young lady standing in the cell looked a little pitiful.
Hey! Although Zhou Yu is not a good person, what the eldest lady did not only harmed herself, but also deceived the general.
When word spreads about this, the general might be scolded a lot.
After the jailer locked the cell door, Zhang San left with the jailer.
Song Ziyu glanced at the bundle on the ground, climbed onto the bed in despair, and continued to sit on the corner of the bed with her legs crossed, ignoring anyone who spoke to her.
"Did you hear that?
That person just called her eldest lady, and what else did he say about general? She is the eldest lady of the general's family!"
"Tsk, tsk, the young lady from the general's family was sent to prison. What a big deal this is!"
"That's right!"
As dawn broke, Shen Wan pinched her eyebrows and closed the code in her hand.
She asked Butler Yun to help find this code yesterday, but after looking at it all night, she could not find any legal provisions that could help Song Ziyu defend his innocence.
There was no law to protect minors in this era, and Song Ziyu's killing of Zhou Yu was not due to excessive self-defense, let alone causing death due to negligence. She only killed Zhou Yu impulsively due to a brain twitch.
"My head hurts..." Shen Wan pinched her eyebrows and muttered softly.
The laws of this era were very simple and crude. Paying back debts and paying for life by killing people were all matters of nature, but the rules were not so detailed.
When sentencing, the governor will base the sentence on precedent, law, and public opinion.
According to the law, Song Ziyu should pay with his life, so she could only start with precedent and public opinion.
There was no need to go to court today, but Song Heng still entered the palace wearing official uniform.
"Your Majesty's ministers are guilty and have come to plead guilty."
As soon as he entered the imperial study, Song Heng knelt on the marble floor.
Xuanyuan Yu had already heard some rumors, and did not ask Song Heng to get up. He frowned and looked at him kneeling on the ground and said, "Is everything rumored outside true?"
Song Heng did not deny it, nodded and said: "It's true. In order to protect his daughter, Wei Chen ordered someone to quietly dispose of Zhou Yu's body and bury it in a mass grave."
Xuanyuan Yu couldn't hide the disappointment on his face, shook his head and said: "Song Heng, Song Heng! What do you want me to say about you?"
He is the most loyal, courageous and upright person, but now he has done something like this.
As an ordinary person, he could understand Song Heng's mood. After all, no father would be so cruel as to send his children to prison.
However, as a ruler, he could not understand Song Heng. In order to ensure the fairness and justice of the law, he always advocated that the emperor should be guilty of the same crime as the common people.
Song Heng knew that his daughter had killed someone, but he chose to cover it up and help dispose of the body. This was a violation of the law knowingly and was punished with an additional penalty.
Song Heng lowered his head and said in a low voice: "I am guilty."