You are such a black-hearted and rotten thing, you will be struck by lightning and suffer no good..."
Before the word "death" was even uttered, the Luzhou prefect could no longer bear it and slammed the gavel.
“Bang!”
"This old woman is defying the court. Give her five lashes of the cane to wake her up!"
Immediately, two more officers came over and pinned the old woman down and covered her mouth.
Before the old woman could react, she was beaten with a stick.
“Ah, wow—”
The court, which had been noisy, fell silent.
The Meng family was speechless, but they didn't say anything. Seeing the old woman being beaten, they felt relieved.
【This prefect is a good man.】
Meng Shuyan admired her sincerely, because most people would not think that the old woman was wrong, and some even thought that Xiu'er and her mother were wrong.
Chen watched the old woman being beaten and was glad that she woke up in time.
The five boards were quickly beaten.
When the old woman was being beaten with a stick, the prefect of Luzhou knew who Xiu'er's father, the concubine, and their illegitimate son were.
Seeing their irresponsibility and the vicious look on their faces at Xiu'er and her daughter, he made the decision directly.
He agreed and set up a new household for Xiu'er and her mother on the spot.
Xiu'er's father and grandmother both disagreed, because if they and their daughter left, there would be no one to do the housework.
"If you disagree, then he will be favoring his concubine over his wife, and he will be punished with fifty strokes of the cane, his concubine will be sold, and he will be fined fifty taels of silver."
The Luzhou prefect said lightly.
If the population wasn't so small now, he really wanted to beat them to death with fifty lashes.
Xiu'er's father and grandmother finally dared not say a word.
Xiu'er and her mother cried bitterly when they saw that they could finally escape from that heartless family and escape from the suffering.
"Let's draw lots."
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