The eldest brother is General Dingyuan, the commander of Yanzhou, and now guards Yanmen Pass; the eldest sister-in-law is respectful and virtuous, living in the Duke's Mansion, raising a pair of children.
My second brother is General Mingwei, the garrison commander of Yunzhou, and now he is stationed in Youzhou; my second sister-in-law is my close friend Liang Ruolan, and they have two sons and one daughter.
The third brother followed his mother to study medicine and was in charge of the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic "Jingrentang"; the third sister-in-law was a female doctor, gentle and virtuous, with one son and one daughter.
My fourth brother is still studying at Donglin School and is not married yet.
Her four brothers, three sisters-in-law, and seven nephews and nieces were all beheaded?
Shen Yuyao was heartbroken.
Three days later, court officials impeached my grandfather for colluding with foreign nations and committing treason.
[The so-called conspiracy to rebel is that my fourth uncle will bring back a woman from the Duke's Mansion today. This woman's true identity is the Princess of Western Xia. This matter is not enough to be convicted...but...]
[That same day, the Dali Temple Minister received a tip-off and found in my grandfather's study a map of the Kyoto city defenses, a geomancy map of Yanmen Pass, and correspondence between my grandfather and the Xixia monarch... These were the ironclad evidence that the Duke's Mansion was plotting treason!]
[Over a hundred people from the Duke's Mansion were imprisoned. My two uncles, who were guarding the border, rushed back to rescue them upon hearing the news, but they were all murdered on the same day as my third uncle from the clinic and my uncle who died at the academy!]
On the night my uncle received the tragic news, someone unexpectedly opened the city gates and let the enemy in. The next day, my uncle was beheaded, and his head remained hanging on the wall of Yanmen Pass for over three months...
On his way back to the capital, my second uncle's horse stepped into a trap, and dozens of spears pierced his body. He suffered for over ten hours, bleeding to death. His body was then trampled into mud by dozens of war horses.
[As soon as my third uncle arrived at the gate of the Duke's Mansion, he was besieged by dozens of black-clad assassins. He was left with only one arm and one leg, blinded, and fell to the ground, dead.]
[As soon as Fourth Uncle entered the Duke's Mansion, he was shot dead by archers ambushed on the rooftop, his heart pierced by thousands of arrows!]
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