She believed that her daughters had been reincarnated into their family, blocking her son's path. She demanded that her last daughter be drowned to scare away the baby girls who would be reborn into her family, preventing her from having any more daughters!
Later, when Gao Ming was born, she would often bring up this matter to show off, very proud of her decision back then.
So when Han was giving birth to her third daughter, she almost drowned her, but fortunately Han saved her in time.
"That old hag is wicked!"
Gao Ming felt that he was different from his father. His father had no other wealth besides twenty acres of land, five of which were his mother's dowry. He couldn't afford to divorce his wife and remarry.
But he has his wife's dowry in his hands, so he has the means!
His parents were also afraid that Han would continue to give birth to daughters, so they agreed to their son marrying someone else, but they were reluctant to give up the good life that their daughter-in-law would bring.
Especially his father, who was being addressed as "Old Master" by everyone, actually believed that his wife's dowry belonged to his family!
How could I bear to spit out the fatty meat I'd already eaten!
The Gao family wanted to divorce his wife, but they were reluctant to part with their money. Then one day, Gao Ming heard that in the next village, there was a lazy man who had been beating his wife for years, and his wife had eloped with a peddler.
This inspired Gao Ming, and he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"Has the idle man's wife truly escaped her misery?"
No, just like the Han family, they were all slandered. Gao Ming secretly sent people to investigate this matter and found out the truth, so he followed suit.
He conspired with his parents to poison his wife and bury her in their own backyard, even copying the location of that idler's.
Later, after passing the imperial examination and becoming a scholar, he devised a plan to have the idle man die by drowning while drunk.
"That's quite a thoughtful plan; they even silenced anyone who might know the truth!"
"That's right, Gao Ming's mind is quite meticulous. He didn't even dare to ask someone else to do it for him when he pushed the idle man into the water. His father did it himself."
However, this was unnecessary for him. In the countryside of this era, there were 80% of cases where young women or wives eloped with someone, and the perpetrators were usually their closest family members.
The fact that Gao Ming's ex-wife, Han, eloped was actually known to all of Gao's family and friends, who understood the character of Gao's parents.
They were wary of Gao Ming being only a scholar, and even more so when he passed the provincial examination and became a successful candidate in the imperial examinations. This had become an unspoken understanding in the isolated village.
"Didn't the Han family have any suspicions?" After all, how could her parents not know what kind of person their daughter was?
Of course they had suspicions, but they couldn't find any evidence. Besides, the Gao family had Han's three daughters, who were ready-made 'hostages.' For the sake of their granddaughter's future, they couldn't really break ties with the Gao family.
Later, Gao Ming passed the imperial examination, and his landlord family had even less power to deal with him.
"Wasn't it said that Han eloped with Gao Ming's classmate? Did this classmate actually exist?"
[He did indeed have a classmate named Qu Zheng, and this person's talent surpassed his own. In the academy, Qu Zheng always held a clear advantage over Gao Ming, making Gao Ming a perennial runner-up.]
"This person is dead too? A brilliant move?"
Qu Zheng was chased and seriously injured on his way back to the academy. If someone had treated him in time, he could have survived.
Unfortunately, he was unlucky. Although he managed to escape the pursuit, he collapsed in the woods by the roadside while seriously injured, where he was encountered by Gao Ming, who was on his way to the academy from home.
Qu Zheng initially thought he was saved when he saw his classmate with whom he had a decent relationship, but little did he know that Gao Ming had long wished him dead.
Gao Ming initially feigned concern, but after ascertaining the situation, he didn't hesitate much and immediately sent Qu Zheng away.
"That's ruthless! He's decisive enough!"
The crowd quietly moved further away from Gao Ming. He seemed kind to everyone, but they never expected him to be so ruthless.
However, he did not expect that Qu Zheng had lied to him. He was not robbed on the road at all, but was being hunted down because he had something that others wanted.
He has already been implicated because of today's events.
"Does Qu Zheng have other identities?"
Indeed, it involves a secret affair of the Great Yan Dynasty, which implicated Gao Ming in the rebellion.
Today we won't talk about Qu Zheng, but only about Gao Ming. This man killed Han Shi and falsely accused her of eloping with someone. He pretended to be heartbroken and focused on the imperial examination for three years without getting married.
It wasn't that he didn't want to get married; it was that he hadn't met a girl from a good family. Later, after passing the imperial examination, he caught the eye of the great wronged official Gu Yutong, who took him as his son-in-law.
"Does Lord Gu have a problem with his eyesight? This Gao Ming is not even of average appearance, and he is a married man with three children."
"With so many successful candidates in the imperial examinations, why did she take a liking to him at first sight? And his daughter became a mother right after entering the family, was she even willing?"
Here, marriage is arranged by parents and matchmakers, and the girl has no say in the matter. Of course, this doesn't apply to families who dote on their daughters.
Lord Gu clearly valued Gao Ming's 'talent' and married his daughter off into a terrible situation.
Gu Yutong's face was alternating between white and red, partly from being frightened by Gao Ming's involvement in the treason, and partly from being scolded by the two ancestors above her until her face turned red and she couldn't lift her head.
Since the Divine Artifact Master calls it a pit of fire, then his third daughter must be having a hard time, wearing her old clothes from before her marriage and never wearing her precious jewelry again...
What made Gu Yutong even more uneasy was that he suddenly remembered that the Divine Artifact Master had said that his later years would be miserable. Could this be related to Gao Ming's rebellion?
"The Gu family has really struck a 'good match'!"
[The whole family was implicated, and the descendants were sent away to live a miserable old age!]
Gu Yutong thought to himself, "Just as I thought." As the other boot landed, he felt a sense of relief, as if the dust had finally settled.
Fortunately, it was not too late. Gu Yutong clenched her fists and decided to go back and get a divorce for her daughter!
In the following days, rumors about Gao Ming, the clerk of the Ministry of Revenue, circulated throughout Dayan, from high-ranking officials and noblewomen to ordinary people.
In Yue Fuguang's words, Gao Ming became the number one person on the Beijing hot search list, suddenly becoming famous overnight!
First, it was rumored that Gao Ming, a senior official in the Ministry of Revenue, not only spent his wife Miss Gu's dowry, but his mother also harassed his daughter-in-law for a long time, and even her clothes and jewelry were forcibly taken away by the old woman.
When the Gu family learned of this, they went to the Gu family's door to demand an agreement, but in the end, they couldn't reach a consensus. Miss Gu the Third took her only daughter with Gao Mingsheng and divorced her.
A few days later, Gao Ming's ex-wife's family went to the yamen to accuse Gao Ming of murdering his wife!
Prefect Bao Yuanjun personally presided over the investigation, and in the end, Han's remains were unearthed at the Gao family's old residence.
When the matter was exposed, Gao Ming and his parents were thrown into prison. Without any questioning from Judge Bao, Gao Ming and his parents confessed everything.
However, their testimonies differed. In Gao's father's testimony, Gao's mother was the mastermind, while in Gao's mother's testimony, Gao's father was the mastermind.
Gao Ming became a pure white lotus in the mud, a 'filial son' forced to help his parents hide their corpses out of filial piety.
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