Chapter 14 Crying! You are going to enter the palace before you make any money?
Cui Ya was slapped several times by Tie Zhu Niang. She was stunned on the spot and even her head was buzzing.
Now seeing Shen Chaoyan asking her questions innocently, she glanced at Tiezhu Niang's face and shook her head desperately, "I'm not, I didn't!"
Shen Chaoyan continued to blink, "Cousin, you mean, you are not a virgin, or you are not pregnant?"
"I..."
Tiezhu Niang had a bad temper. Before Cui Ya denied it, she slapped her a few more times, "How dare you lie? What, do you think that if you hide in the capital, you can remarry as a virgin? Bah! I tell you, as long as I am here, this is impossible!"
Her last sentence undoubtedly shattered Hu's dream of relying on her granddaughter to marry into a wealthy family to support her in her old age.
Hu was immediately defeated and pointed at Lu Qiyun excitedly, pretending to be powerful. "Xiao Erniang, my nephew is a high-ranking official in the capital! My niece-in-law said that she would make the decision for us. You slandered my granddaughter with empty words and even injured her. I will not let you go! I will let my nephew send you to jail! Chop off your heads! Let your Tie family be extinct!"
Xiao Erniang's expression froze, and she subconsciously looked at Lu Qiyun.
Shen Chaoyan, who was standing beside Lu Qiyun, shook his head quietly to Xiao Erniang, indicating to her that the Shen family would never get involved in this matter.
Xiao Erniang understood what she meant, and turned to the officer and said, "Officer, our Great Xia law stipulates that those who regret or run away from an engagement will be punished. Please punish them impartially!"
Hu immediately jumped up, "Do you think you are the only one who understands the Great Xia law? Your family didn't issue a marriage certificate, so Cui Ya and Tie Zhu's marriage doesn't count at all!"
Xiao Erniang shouted, "Nonsense! When you accepted the betrothal gift from our family, you said that you would let Cui Ya marry you in three days, but what happened? You took Cui Ya away! You old man, you cheated our family of the betrothal gift and regretted the engagement. If you don't break the law, who will?"
"You gave it to us of your own accord. What can you do to us?"
As soon as these words came out, the officers next to them stepped forward and arrested Hu and Cui Ya. "It is written in Article 13 of the Marriage Law that even if there is no engagement certificate, those who accept the other party's betrothal gift and then regret it shall be beaten
with sixty sticks." Hu was completely panicked. "Niece-in-law, please help me. His family only gave us two taels of silver. At worst, we can just return the silver to them! I don't want to be caught and beaten with sixty sticks!"
Would this old woman still be alive after being beaten with sixty sticks?
Lu Qiyun looked helpless, "It's a government matter, it's not convenient for me, a woman, to interfere."
Hu immediately turned her head and glared at Shen Chaoyan, "But, didn't this girl say that we didn't break the law, will we be fine?"
"It's all my cousin's fault, she didn't tell me the truth about her receiving the betrothal gift! It's illegal to run away after receiving the betrothal gift, you just have to accept your fate, it's only sixty strokes of the cane anyway, you can get through it if you grit your teeth!"
The servants that Shen Chaoyan sent to pick up the officials and Tiezhu's family had already informed the officials and told them that the Shen family would not interfere in this matter and hoped that they would act in accordance with the law.
At this time, as soon as Shen Chaoyan finished speaking, the officials immediately ordered in a deep voice, "Take them away!"
"Yes!"
"Niece-in-law! Save me! Save us!"
When Hu was taken away, she turned her head and asked Lu Qiyun for help, but Lu Qiyun ignored her.
She didn't say anything until the crowd disappeared at the intersection. "Yan'er is right. People should pay the price for their mistakes."
The Hu family's grandson was beaten with sixty boards, but the government ordered them to return the betrothal gifts in full after they regretted their marriage. However,
Xiao Erniang told the officials that they didn't need to return it.
She even pleaded with the officials to let them go.
Tiezhu's father was furious, "Why don't you let them rot in jail? What's the point of releasing them?"
"Breaking off an engagement is not murder, how long can they be locked up in jail?" Xiao Erniang narrowed her eyes and said hatefully, "They killed our own flesh and blood, how can we let them off for that little bit of betrothal gift? Let's take them back to Sanxi Village. Since the betrothal gift has been paid, of course we have to take Cui Ya in."
"What? Mother, why do you want me to marry Cui Ya, a vicious woman who killed my child with her own hands? I don't want it!" Tiezhu protested.
Xiao Erniang slapped him on the back of his head, "You also know that she killed your own flesh and blood with her own hands, shouldn't you take revenge on her with your own hands?"
"How is revenge marrying her? It's too easy for her!"
"Not marrying her, just give her a title of concubine and bring her into our home! In the future, feed her some leftovers and stale rice every day to make sure she doesn't starve to death! As for the legitimate wife, mother has already found one for you. The granddaughter of your third uncle and aunt's family is two years younger than you, and her temperament and personality suits my liking. Let her marry into our Tie family, and in the future, Cui Ya will serve you and your wife, doing the laundry, cooking, and taking care of the shit and piss, and mother will feel more at ease!" Tiezhu
's eyes lit up when he heard this. He felt happy just thinking about Cuihua living a life worse than pigs and dogs after marrying him. "Then I will take her home as soon as I return to the village! I will never let her live a comfortable life!"
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Shen Chaoyan learned from the heavenly book about the tragic end of Cui Ya's ancestors and grandchildren who were dragged back to Sanxi Village by Tiezhu's family, but her heart was not moved at all.
Every evildoer will be punished by his own evil.
In the original storyline of the comic, their ancestors ruined Shen Linfeng's reputation and were the indirect murderers who killed him. They deserved the punishment!
She should concentrate on studying the market of pens, ink, paper and inkstones in the capital, and think about how to make the shop famous.
The craftsmen in the workshop are working overtime to make pencils in order to open the shop.
She, the hands-off manager, can't be too comfortable!
However, with only three days left before the opening, the palace sent someone to pick up Shen Chaoyan.
All the minor characters who dragged down the Shen family in the book were dealt with by Shen Chaoyan. Now the last remaining "hidden danger" is her elder brother Shen Yushu, who is bravely killing the enemy on the battlefield far away on the border.
Any news from the border battlefield was quickly passed to the ears of the tyrant.
Although she could know the situation of her elder brother through the Heavenly Book, she still had to contact the tyrant to solve the fundamental problem. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win.
Moreover, in the nearly one month of owning the Heavenly Book, Shen Chaoyan has become more and more familiar with the functions of the Heavenly Book.
The Heavenly Book is like an artificial intelligence that does not need to rely on a server.
As long as you pass keywords to the Heavenly Book, you can find all the information in the Heavenly Book, not limited to gossip.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Heavenly Book knows astronomy and geography. There is no answer that cannot be found in the Heavenly Book, only what you can't think of.
In ancient times when information was spread very slowly, the power of the Heavenly Book was so powerful that it
was against the will of heaven. Shen Chaoyan believed that with the Heavenly Book in hand, even if she entered the harem, she could easily get to the end.
Before she left the mansion, she fully demonstrated her value. Not only did she help her father solve several old cases that had been piled up by Zhao Ruhai, she also successfully helped her second brother break the bottleneck period and lost a full five kilograms of fat.
However, the time spent with family is always beautiful and short.
Three days passed quickly, as if it was just a blink of an eye, and someone from the palace came to pick up Shen Chaoyan.