Gu Xin patted her back and waved to her eldest daughter.
The little girl then came over to help Sun, and her younger siblings also stood up.
Gu Xin pulled up a stool and said, "Sit down and have some water! Remember not to get emotional during pregnancy. I know that no one can stay calm after something like this, but look at your three children and the baby in your belly. For their sake, you should calm down. You can't let your children lose both their father and mother, right?"
"Mother!" the children called out timidly beside Madam Sun, looking like they were about to cry, and looked extremely pitiful.
Sun sat on the stool, took the water handed to her by Du San Niang, and gulped it down.
She took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness, I would like to ask, if the man surnamed Liu is caught, will he be sentenced to death?"
Sun was somewhat nervous, her eyes filled with hatred and worry.
The children also looked at Gu Xin nervously.
Gu Xin said, "Yes. If what Zhong said is true, then Butcher Liu is the murderer and will be executed."
Madam Sun then asked, "If I wish to divorce him now, and have my children take my surname and sever their father-son relationship with him, will my son be able to take the imperial examinations in the future?"
Gu Xin was taken aback; she didn't know this and hadn't looked into it.
The imperial examination system required tracing back several generations of ancestors; it seems there was such a rule. If a family had committed a crime within five generations of their ancestors, their descendants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations.
But she had never heard of someone who divorced and severed ties with their father before.
Lu Zheng stepped forward: "If the Hu family is willing to let them leave the clan, and your Sun family ancestors have not committed any crimes, according to the existing laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, your son can participate in the imperial examination. Your daughter can also participate in the imperial palace's selection of concubines."
Madam Sun nodded, stood up and thanked them: "Thank you, Princess and General. I understand. I will take care of it tomorrow. I hope the Princess can give me some time."
Gu Xin looked at Madam Sun with some admiration. Just now, she felt that Madam Sun didn't care about the children at all, but now, she seemed to be completely thinking about the children.
Madam Sun continued, "Today, after Liu returned home, he took a bath, changed into coarse cloth clothes, wore a straw hat, and cloth shoes before going out. He pushed a cart himself, with sacks of things on it. I thought he was going to collect pigs, and he was indeed heading south. He left around 3 PM this afternoon. When the princess's people came looking for him just now, I felt something was wrong and checked the box where the silver was kept; one hundred taels of silver were missing."
Gu Xin nodded: "Okay, thank you so much, Sister Sun! I'll start drawing now. Please describe his appearance in more detail. Let's draw a few more pictures and send someone out to look for him."
Mrs. Sun nodded: "Okay."
Then she watched as Gu Xin, Lu Zheng, and Gu En took a pen she had never seen before and began to draw on a relatively stiff piece of paper.
After she finished describing them, she herself could hardly believe that these three painters were so skilled, even better than the scholars from her hometown village.
You can tell at a glance that this picture belongs to that despicable, filthy man.
Now that things are more or less clear, all that's left is to catch Butcher Liu. Gu Xin invited everyone to drink a bowl of calming tea to help them fall asleep. The Sun family mother and her children also received some, and Gu Xin even specially placed a jade bead in Sun's bowl.
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