Chapter 137 Level 2 (7)
Not long after returning to the yard, a group of guards with swords suddenly appeared outside the yard and surrounded it tightly.
Tao Zi looked at their murderous appearance, as if they had just come down from the battlefield, and suddenly felt uneasy.
Without waiting for her to speak, Ah Fang quickly opened the gate and tried to leave, but was stopped by the guards. She said coldly, "Who are you? How dare you surround the lady's yard!"
The guards remained silent, and no matter what methods Ah Fang used, he couldn't get any information out of them.
Tao Zi lowered her eyes and said, "Afang, come back."
She sat in the inner room, with several maids standing solemnly around her.
In the evening, A Yuan came back. Fortunately, the guard did not stop people from coming in.
Seeing her panic, Tao Zi became even more uneasy. A Yuan was not like A Fang. She was always steady and prudent, and rarely panicked.
Ah Yuan knelt before her and said in tears, "Madam, the General's Mansion has been raided!"
She stood up suddenly and said sternly, "Tell me everything in detail."
Her voice trembled as she spoke, "Someone obtained proof of treason from the general's mansion. The emperor was furious and imprisoned the entire mansion the day before yesterday. In half a month, all the men will be executed and the women will be enslaved."
Tao Zi's legs softened and she sat down on the chair.
She forced herself to calm down. There was no way her father was collaborating with the enemy. Someone must have framed him!
At this time, someone walked in. It was the concubine who had suffered a miscarriage.
Tao Zi looked at the smug look on her face and said coldly, "Madam Xu, what do you know?"
Aunt Xu, supported by her maid, found a stool and sat down casually. She said, "Madam, you are wrong. My last name is Zhou, and my name is Zhou Jiaojiao."
She clenched her fists. Zhou Jiaojiao was exactly the name of the concubine from a few years ago.
In an instant, she understood everything.
She said word by word, "Was it that bastard Zhou Qifang who framed my father?"
Zhou Jiaojiao stood there in a daze, not understanding how she knew about this.
Tao Zi looked at her expression and immediately realized that she had guessed right.
Back then, Zhou Qifang didn't have the ability to save people from before his eyes, let alone forge a new identity for Zhou Jiaojiao.
Anyone who has the ability to do this must have something to ask for.
Letting a wolf into the house, really letting a wolf into the house!
In shock and anger, a mouthful of blood spurted out of his throat.
"lady!"
The maids hurried over to support Tao Zi.
Zhou Qifang happened to walk in and said anxiously, "Tao Zi, if you dare..."
When he saw the scene inside the house, he immediately shut his mouth.
Tao Zi wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said, "Zhou Qifang, you have harmed my entire family. You will not live a good life!"
Zhou Jiaojiao stood up hurriedly and said, "Cousin, I really didn't say anything."
Zhou Qifang ordered: "Take my aunt back."
Then he looked at Tao Zi and said, "Your father reported my family to the emperor, causing Jiaojiao to fall into prostitution and me to be exiled. If it weren't for meeting a noble man, how could I have a new identity and seek revenge? Now, I am just showing you the evidence of your father's collaboration with the enemy. What's wrong with that?"
Tao Zi calmed down, slowly took out a hairpin from the dressing table, inserted it into her bun, and said nothing.
Seeing her like this, Zhou Qifang breathed a sigh of relief. "A day of marriage is a hundred days of grace, not to mention that you saved my life. Don't worry, the emperor is tolerant and will not harm married women. I will retain your status as my legal wife, but from now on, you must not leave this courtyard. The guards outside will only stay for a while and will leave after the Tao family is dealt with."
Tears welled up in her eyes: "Zhou Lang, you must let me see my father one last time."
He was stunned for a moment, but for some reason, he still agreed.
Half a month later, Tao Zi stood in the inn closest to the execution ground in the capital, looking at his relatives from afar.
"It's noon!"
Tao Zi closed her eyes, knelt down, and kowtowed three times. When she looked up again, the ground was already covered with blood.
She closed her eyes, and Zhou Qifang's voice came slowly from behind her: "Wuyou, don't worry. I won't take my anger out on you for your father's affairs. You can still live a good life when you return to the Zhou family."
She suddenly pulled out the hairpin from her hair, turned around and was about to rush over, but the scene in front of her suddenly shattered.
A woman slowly walked over from the shattered scene and asked, "Hate it? I'll give you a chance to be reborn, do you want it?"
Tao Zi gradually calmed down and asked, "Who are you?"
"I? Of course I am an immortal who cannot bear to see such a tragedy."
She smiled and whispered, "Wuyou."
The woman dropped her nonchalant expression and looked over: "What are you talking about?"
"Wuyou, you are Wuyou, the eldest daughter of the general's mansion."
She looked at her with an inexplicable expression: "You are Wuyou."
She had already remembered everything, so she naturally didn't take it to heart and asked directly, "What do you want me to do?"
The woman said calmly, "Of course it's revenge. I want Zhou Qifang's family to be destroyed and everyone in his family to be safe and sound."
Tao Zi looked at the woman coldly and said slowly, "The eldest daughter of the General's Mansion is at least a ghost from three thousand years ago."
The woman smiled and said, "So what? I still can't get revenge."
She didn't care about what the woman said at all. She just murmured, "A ghost from three thousand years ago, the remains of a powerful being in the Out-of-Body Stage. How did I, a person in the early stage of Solid State, wake up? I guess it was you who made me wake up."
Seeing that she completely ignored her, the woman asked helplessly: "Don't you want to pass?"
Tao Zi asked back, "Whether you can pass this test depends entirely on your satisfaction, doesn't it? Besides, no matter how smooth things are, you can't change what has already happened."
The woman's expression gradually became horrible: "Don't you hate it?"
"This didn't happen to me, so why should I hate you?" Tao Zi said calmly, "I can only say that I feel sorry for your family."
When saying this, Tao Zi was actually very helpless. The Gate of Inquiry was just such a trap. She couldn't lie to the gatekeeper, but she had to do as the gatekeeper wished.
For this reason, she couldn't pretend that she wasn't awake, nor could she pretend to empathize with the other person, but that would not satisfy the guards.
Well, this time, probably only kind-hearted people like Xi Jing have a chance to pass.
Tao Zi felt extremely helpless in her heart, but she didn't show it on the surface.
The woman stared at her, her expression suddenly normal, and she said again: "If it were you, what would you do?"
"What?"
"Two chances: rebirth, starting all over again; becoming a ghost, secretly waiting for the opportunity of revenge."
Tao Zi cheered up, is there still a chance?
She weighed the two options in her mind and said, "For a ghost."
"But if that happens, my parents and relatives can't be saved."
Tao Zi said calmly, "The parents and relatives you reborn into are not the same people you originally were. You saved your family from another world. But in your original world, your enemies are still alive and well."
The woman looked at her and smiled, tears slowly falling. She bowed deeply to her and said, "Thank you."
Tao Zi was at a loss.
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