Chapter 655: To punish a person, one must punish his heart
Li Qingping covered her belly with one hand and her lips with the other. When she raised her face again, she could only cry with her bloody mouth open.
She looked so pitiful. But the guests present only stared at her coldly, without any sympathy.
If it weren't for their status, they would have rolled up their sleeves and beaten up the black-hearted couple together!
If this happened in the village before, Feng would have beaten them into pig heads, hung them on a jujube tree, stuffed chilies into their pants, and left them in the sun for two days and two nights!
But now that the Jiang family has status, Feng still resisted the urge to use force and took out a more effective way to torture them.
"Someone, go and report to the police. Li Qingping and Wang are conspiring to murder the princess. Let the Dali Temple bring them to justice!"
Li Qiqiao stepped forward and gritted her teeth and snorted, "Just based on the charge of murdering the princess, it's enough to chop off their heads. Add to that all the previous crimes, they must be tortured several times before being sent to the execution ground."
Li Qingping just stood up, holding her stomach. When she heard that she was going to be beheaded, she was so scared that her calves trembled and she fell to the ground.
Aunt Wang knew that she was doomed at this time. In order to survive, she didn't care about anything.
Knowing that the Jiang family would not let her go, she threw herself at Li Hutu's feet and wanted to ask him to help her find a way out.
"Master, Master! I don't want to die yet!"
Aunt Wang grabbed the corner of Li Hutu's robe tightly and shouted at the top of her lungs, "This was all Ping'er's idea. She was shameless and had a child with someone else. I did this to protect her and the reputation of our Li family. You can't help but save me!"
Li Hutu was originally filled with grief and anger, and his face was ashen.
But when the person beside him cried and begged, he couldn't help but soften his heart and pounded his thighs in pain.
One was his own flesh and blood.
Although the other was a concubine, she also worked hard for his Li family.
How could he really watch them being taken away by soldiers and subjected to such severe punishment?
Li Hutu trembled, staggered forward, and begged Feng, "Madam Jiang, it is my family who is sorry for you, sorry... our princess, I really don't have the face to face your family again... but please give them a break and let them live..."
"Let's solve this matter privately. You can beat me or kill me. I have no complaints. I just hope you can give them a chance to reform..." Li Hutu lowered his head in shame.
Feng shook her head slightly.
This Lord Li is really as his name suggests, he is so confused.
At this point, he still can't see through the concubine's evil heart and wants to spare her life? What's the point of keeping her alive? Will she continue to harm the Li family?
Jiang Fengnian frowned, and finally couldn't help but stepped forward to rebuke, "Oh, Lord Li really loves his family! But they are your family, isn't Nuobao the apple of our eye? You want to kill someone but don't want to admit your punishment, there is no such thing in the world!"
"Yes, you think they are pitiful, but what about my Nuobao, my elder brother and my elder sister-in-law? They have been schemed against by you for many days, how dare you beg for mercy?" Li Qiqiao also asked painfully.
Li Hutu's eyes narrowed, and he tightened his throat with guilt. He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
At this time, Ma Po, who had been kneeling on the ground, suddenly poured him a basin of cold water.
It completely extinguished his desire to save Aunt Wang.
"Master, she is a liar. Don't believe her!"
Ma Pozi grabbed Aunt Wang's collar and scolded her angrily, "What do you mean you are doing it for the good of the young lady? How long do you want to keep pretending? You have never really cared about the young lady. You just want her to marry a rich man and pave the way for your son!"
After saying that, the old woman closed her eyes in pain and simply revealed a dusty past.
"Master, in fact, Aunt Wang's method of harming the princess is not the first time she has used it. Do you remember the winter fourteen years ago?"
Fourteen years ago?
Li Hutu didn't even need to think about it, and he immediately realized that it was the year his wife died.
Ma Pozi shouted, "Fourteen years ago, our lady had just passed away, and Aunt Wang was a maidservant. At that time, you were grieving for the lady and had not been to her room for many days."
"Later, she couldn't bear it anymore, so she ordered a servant to take a colored light bulb and deliberately lead the young lady to the fish pond. Then, when the young lady was about to drown, she jumped into the water to save her. She was frozen and had a fever for many days, which moved you. From then on, you got the power to manage the family." Ma Pozi continued.
What?
Li Hutu's thoughts suddenly returned to that winter, and his heart followed, falling into the freezing fish pond at that time!
"You...you mean, that year Ping'er fell into the ice cave, and then fell seriously ill, and has been weak for many years. It was not an accident, but all the calculations of Aunt Wang?" Li Hutu stepped back in disbelief.
Ma Po wiped her tears, raised her finger to the sky and said, "I can swear, if it's a lie, let the thunder strike me to death. Aunt Wang has been deliberately doting on the young lady all these years, just to make the young lady useless and have to rely on her from now on. Can't you see it, old man?"
This time, not to mention Li Hutu, even Li Qingping's eyes widened, and her lips trembled.
"No, no, Aunt loves me so much, how could she do that!" Li Qingping couldn't help but burst into tears. Li
Hutu clenched his fists tightly, and the shock in his eyes flashed for a moment, and soon turned into a huge hatred, and burst into a raging rage!
"I trusted you for many years, it turns out that Ping'er was all harmed by you, you bitch!"
Li Hutu cried bitterly, and then pressed Aunt Wang to the ground. Fists rained down like raindrops.
Aunt Wang was hit twice, and stars appeared in her eyes.
But soon, she gave up and stretched out her hand to grab it back.
"Li Hutu! You wretched fellow, no matter how I plotted, at least I gave birth to a son for your Li family to continue the family line!"
"Your daughter is shameless and had an illegitimate child with her own uncle. If you want to talk about cheapness, I don't think anyone is more cheap than her, bah!"
For a while, the yard was in chaos.
Li Hutu and Aunt Wang were fighting each other, and Ma Pozi and Li Qingping also rushed over and joined the fight.
Several people cried and cursed, and from time to time, a few strands of hair or broken bracelet fragments flew into the air.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Mrs. Wu couldn't bear it any longer, and pulled Mrs. Pei Xiaoshao together, grabbed the dishes and drinks, and threw them at Li Qingping and Aunt Wang.
We have to vent our anger for Nuobao!
The two of them were "stealing" while they were afraid of being seen, so every time they threw something, they looked left and right, their eyes rolling around, like thieves.
Xiao Nuobao was sitting in the attic, and he burst into laughter when he saw this.
Hahaha, Madam Wu has always been jumpy, but how come Madam Pei Xiaoshao also has such a lovely side.
At this moment, how could the guests around them not notice it, but everyone did not expose the two of them. Instead, when they saw that the things on the table were almost thrown away, they quietly brought the dishes and water on their table, fearing that the two of them would not have enough fun.
Feng watched with a smile, she was not idle either.
At this time, she had already sent Madam Zheng out of the house to go to the Dali Temple to call the officers and soldiers to arrest the chief criminal of the Li family.
Soon, upon hearing that the matter concerned the little princess, the Dali Temple Minister personally brought 20 officers and soldiers and rushed to the Jiang Mansion.
Aunt Wang had been beaten so badly that her eyes were black and blue, her forehead was swollen, and half of her arm was broken.
While she was wailing and begging for mercy, several officers and soldiers directly twisted her shoulders and put the heavy handcuffs around her collar.
When she was brought to court, because there were witnesses, the Dali Temple Minister interrogated her several times, and Aunt Wang could not bear it anymore and had to admit her guilt.
Conspiring to murder the princess and trying to silence Ma Pozi, these two crimes alone were enough to sentence her to be beheaded as a warning to the public.
However, the Jiang family did not want her life because Nuobao was fine, so they asked to exempt her from beheading and instead exile her to the border, where she would be a slave to the border soldiers for the rest of her life!
"Although the death penalty can be avoided, she can't escape the living crime. Exiling her to slavery is not much better than beheading her." Jiang Fengze snorted and shook his head.
He had been to the border and knew that the official slaves there had to work for at least nine hours a day.
Even in the coldest days of winter, they had to use cold water to wash clothes for the soldiers. There were often thousands of pieces of clothing, but only two official slaves to do it. They often couldn't finish it, and beatings were commonplace.
Feng shook her head indifferently, "This woman has a vicious mind. Letting her serve the border troops can be regarded as letting her slowly atone for her sins."
As for the girl Li Qingping.
She fainted from fright just after entering the hall, and there was a pool of yellow liquid under her long skirt.
Xiao Nuobao had said earlier that for the sake of Master Li, she didn't want to do it to the end.
So Jiang Fengze spoke up for his sister, hinting to the Dali Temple Minister that Aunt Wang was the mastermind, and as for the accomplice, she only needed to be given a light punishment, but she must also be taught a lesson.
The Dali Temple Minister really got the idea.
So he only punished Li Qingping with twenty strokes of the cane.
But he also said that considering the public outrage over this matter, the caning could not be carried out only in the court, but had to be carried out at Caishikou.
In the afternoon, Li Qingping was stripped of her outer skirt, wearing only light white quilt pants, and was pressed on a bench covered in blood and beaten with a cane in the street.
Almost all the people in Beijing who had nothing to do went to watch.
Even the streets outside Caishikou were blocked.
Li Qingping was beaten twenty times in only a pair of tight pants, facing the gazes, ridicule, and insults of tens of thousands of people.
These twenty boards were not only for her body.
They were also for her self-esteem and her future...
The Jiang family watched her faint several times, and finally shook her head, and finally let out the anger in their hearts, and returned to the mansion.
Now it was finally over, and the little fat girl was also very comfortable, knowing that she would soon stop pretending to be sick and could walk freely.
After returning home, Jiang Fengnian still couldn't help but asked his sister, "Nuobao, although Li Qingping was deceived by that concubine, she herself is not a good person. Isn't it too light to punish her with only twenty boards?"
In fact, Feng and others also had this idea.
The Jiang family didn't want her to be a government slave like Concubine Wang, but they felt that she had to be locked up in prison for a few months and eat prison food to relieve their hatred.
"Yes, Nuobao, why do you just want her to get less beatings? Is it all for the sake of Lord Li's face?" Li Qiqiao also asked.
Little Nuobao sat on the armchair, shaking his white little feet, but shook his head.
"In fact, if you want to teach someone a lesson, the best way is not to punish her body, but to cut off her hope."
The little fat girl narrowed her eyes and her voice became cold. "Stripping her pants and caning her in public, even if she is still in the capital in the future, she will carry this shame wherever she goes, and it is impossible for her to turn over."
After these words came out, the Jiang family suddenly understood.
It turned out that the little guy was not indifferent, but wanted to use the most painful way to make Li Qingping pay slowly. Sure
enough, after all that, Li Qingping returned home.
But as soon as she closed her eyes, she could hear other people's curses in her ears. She often cried until midnight and could not fall asleep.
Later, she couldn't help it and cut her wrists twice in the yard.
Thanks to the Li family's maids who found her in time and rescued her, but her eyes were empty, like a walking corpse, with only tears flowing from the corners of her eyes.
However, despite this, Li Hutu was still glad to save his daughter's life. He
was still grateful to the Jiang family.
After all, in his eyes, as long as he could keep his daughter by his side, he would be satisfied even if she never married again in this life.
When people outside learned that Li Qingping was able to avoid severe punishment because of the Jiang family, they couldn't help but praise the Jiang family for their generosity.
Just like that, another day or two passed.
Xiao Nuobao finally decided that it was time to spread the news so that she, the little "patient", didn't have to pretend anymore.
When the news that the little princess suddenly woke up and recovered well came out, the whole city was extremely happy and people celebrated everywhere.
"Great! Have you heard? The princess is fine now."
"Wow, thank God for blessing her. The princess is the lucky star of our Nanji. If she doesn't wake up, we will be worried sick."
"I said it, the princess is blessed by God, how can a lucky star be in trouble? May the princess live a thousand years!"
There was a cheer in the streets.
Everywhere people were celebrating Xiao Nuobao's "recovery".
Little Nuobao felt a little guilty when he heard the noises, but he was more happy to go out, so he ran into the house, picked out some clothes, and planned to go out and have fun in a few days.
At noon the next day, just after breakfast, Mrs. Xiao and Madam Xiao came over, followed by Madam Wu.
They knew what Pang Ya was thinking and wanted to take her out for a good walk.
"Princess, have you woken up? You must be bored at home during this period. The dog days are coming soon. How about we go to Chengde to escape the heat?" After Madam Wu entered the house, she went straight to Nuobao.
At this time, Mrs. Xiao couldn't help laughing, "We were just talking to Guaibao. There is a cool mountain further north of the capital, not far from Chengde. The hot springs on the mountain are warm all year round, and it is also a good place to escape the heat."
When the little Pang Ya heard this, she was already biting her little finger and giggling. She agreed to everything one by one and couldn't wait to go out and run crazy.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes!
At this time, bad news came from Xiaoliu Village.
"Princess, old lady, something bad happened in the village!"
"Someone sneaked into our village before dawn, and after being discovered, they started to attack, injuring more than one villager!"
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