Liang Qiuyu left. On the way back, she kept thinking about why the tyrant emperor treated her like that yesterday and why he treated her like this today?

Yesterday, he wanted to eat her alive, but today he treats her like a stranger. How could he let her go?

He must have been frightened by the lightning and dared not do bad things again, fearing to anger the gods again.

A tyrant ruler naturally values ​​his life more than anyone else.

However, Liang Qiuyu didn't understand how he knew about hybrid rice. Could it be that the officials of Sino-Agricultural Temple had already...

Absolutely impossible.

The rice production in Jingguo has been declining year by year.

Only the rice in their Liangjiazhuang increased year by year.

"Erhu!"

"Sister Qiuyu!"

"You guys are... hurry back."

"Sister Qiuyu, is it true that the tyrant emperor didn't die?"

"Let's go back and talk about this! Don't be so reckless in the future!"

Liang Qiuyu and his companions had just returned to Liangjiazhuang, and before they could rest for a moment, another incident happened.

Erhu's family's oxen were poisoned to death by someone unknown.

Erhu's mother wanted to go to the county magistrate to investigate the case immediately, but Erhu's father would not let her go.

If they went there, wouldn't that just add to the trouble for the tyrant emperor? Liang Qiuyu also didn't suggest that they go to the county government office to ask for an explanation.

Liang Qiuyu had just returned, and her parents had already packed her bag and told her to run for her life. Who knows, the emperor might change his mind the next second.

"I go alone? Brother Ahai won't go with me?" Liang Qiuyu didn't see Brother Ahai, and as smart as she was, she seemed to have thought of something.

Mother Liang wiped away her tears and said, "Don't say anymore. Ever since you were... their family has been here to cancel the engagement. Everyone is saying that you've been abused by the tyrant emperor and almost killed him... They say you're the daughter of divine punishment!"

Liang's father: "Now is not the time to cry, escape is the most important thing!"

"Erhu! Come back!" Erhu's parents chased after him, but they couldn't catch up. They were so anxious that they had to turn back and ask Liang Qiuyu for help.

"No, Erhu Niang, Qiuyu finally escaped from the tiger's mouth..."

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"Who asked you to demolish the house? What crime should you be punished for?" Baili Tang shouted.

Lord Jia immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, "Your Majesty, this room is ominous..."

Are you eager to destroy the evidence? Baili Tang sneered in his heart, you want to build a house like this, and attract lightning to strike me, why don't I repay you in the same way.

"Stupid! If it weren't for this sturdy building, I would have died by now. I need to wait here for a while longer... cough cough cough..." He pretended to cough as he spoke - I need to recuperate.

"Then..." Lord Jia looked up, glanced at Baili Tang, and quickly lowered his head. Few people in Jing State dared to look Baili Tang in the eye.

"Are you a pig? I command you to restore yesterday's house within two or three days. Only a house as solid as that can make me feel at ease. If you delay, I will kill all your clans!"

In the room, Baili Tang roared.

But why do I feel that my acting is so exaggerated?

Jia Shidao was ecstatic in his heart, "What a foolish king! If the thunder didn't kill you yesterday, why would you worry about not having another chance in the future?"

There have been a lot of clouds, rain, and thunder lately. The longer you live here, the more likely you are to be struck.

Jia Shidao replied: "I will do my utmost to fulfill your Majesty's command!"

Think about it from another angle. Didn't Jia Shidao just save the tyrant's life? What if the other houses had been destroyed beyond recognition by lightning? If he had known this would happen, he would have made some mistakes... Even the wisest can make mistakes!

Using iron to attract lightning was told to him by a sorcerer. In the whole Jing Kingdom, he is the only one who knows this principle now. The sorcerer has asked him to send people to silence him.

After Jia Shidao left, Eunuch Yang knelt on the ground as soon as he came in: "Your Majesty, you must not live in that haunted house again..."

"go out!"

"His Majesty!"

Baili Tang has three purposes for doing this:

1. "Prove my innocence" and tell the people that it was not God who wanted to strike me down, but someone was deliberately plotting to murder me.

Second, give Jia Shidao something to do, so he won't be thinking of other ways to harm me all day long. Only Jia Shidao went to clean up the scene - destroy the evidence, so he is naturally the most suspicious.

3. Destroy Jia Shidao.

As for Eunuch Yang and the others, Baili Tang still needed to "investigate" them. He found that Baili Tang's memory had declined drastically, and now, he could only remember a few things.

Of course, very few people know this secret.

Even Eunuch Yang, who served him, didn't know.

Not long after Eunuch Yang left, gongs and drums sounded in front of the county government office.

Since Baili Tang needs to rest, who dares to disturb the emperor at this time? Isn't it better to live a leisurely life?

"Who is beating the drum?" Jia Shidao frowned. He was arranging people to repair the building that was damaged by lightning. This time he wanted to add higher iron pillars, at least to a height of ten zhang (33 meters).

"Your Excellency, it's Liang Erhu from Liangjiazhuang. He said his cow was poisoned to death!"

"Give him thirty lashes and then drive him away!"

"Yes, sir!"

In the agricultural era, the importance of oxen to farmers is self-evident. Some say that one ox is equivalent to ten workers.

The "Song Xing Tong" in the early Northern Song Dynasty had strict regulations: "Anyone who kills official or private cattle intentionally will be sentenced to one and a half years in prison... Anyone who kills his own cattle and horses will be sentenced to one year in prison."

The Southern Song Dynasty was even more severe: "Anyone who intentionally killed an official or private horse or cattle was sentenced to three years' imprisonment"—slaughtering one's own oxen resulted in three years' imprisonment. If someone stole and slaughtered someone else's oxen, they were sentenced to "twenty strokes of the cane on the back and one year of forced labor at any place."

In "Water Margin", Lu Zhishen eats beef, which represents resistance to the court!

Paired labor, also known as tattooing and exile, is a mixed punishment that applies three types of punishments, namely, beating with a stick, tattooing on the face, and exile, to criminals at the same time. It is a punishment for criminals who have committed serious crimes and are sentenced to exile.

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