Chapter 106
"Greetings, Aunt. How have you been lately?" Yao Shuheng bowed respectfully to Madam Yao and asked with a smile.
"Good! Seeing Heng'er, Auntie is all right." Madam Yao was in a good mood upon seeing her nephew from her maternal family.
You know, the last time I saw Yao Shuheng, he was just a child. In the blink of an eye, he has grown up so much.
"Where are my uncle and cousin Zhiwei?" Yao Shuheng asked, somewhat puzzled.
He had seen his cousin when she was little; she was very cute.
I wonder what kind of beautiful and ethereal beauty my cousin Zhiwei has grown into.
I thought of what my mother had said to me before I left.
Yao Shuheng's expectations for Li Zhiwei grew even higher.
"Heng'er, you've come at an inopportune time. They've all gone to the capital." Madam Yao was taken aback at first, then smiled and said to her nephew.
Feeling somewhat depressed, she didn't want her family to know about the terrible things that had happened to their Li family. After all, she had actually written to her brother and sister-in-law, hoping they could arrange a marriage between Yao Shuheng and Li Zhiwei, but she wanted Yao Shuheng to stay in Li'an County from now on.
Her brother and sister-in-law had not replied to her letter, and at that time, the Marquis of Ru'an's family came to propose marriage again, and their attitude was very sincere, so she and her husband agreed to the marriage.
Unexpectedly, he almost pushed his daughter into a fire pit.
"It was Heng'er who notified us beforehand, which is quite unfortunate." Yao Shuheng was a little disappointed, but he still smiled and chatted with Madam Yao about things in Qujing.
This made Yao laugh heartily.
He frankly said that he wanted Yao Shuheng to stay with him in Li'an County for a while longer.
Imperial Clan Court
The heavy prison door opened from the outside, and a ray of sunlight shone in.
Mrs. Lou gazed greedily at the light outside, thinking, "It must be my daughter who has come to save me!"
"Go in!" A guard pushed a woman in palace attire into the room. The woman looked somewhat disheveled.
His mouth was gagged with a strip of cloth, and his hands were tied behind his back.
The person who came was none other than Liu Ruyan.
"Yan'er?" After looking at her for a long time, Madam Lou finally realized that this person was her daughter, Liu Ruyan, who was a concubine in the palace.
"Waaah!" Liu Ruyan saw Lou Shi and wanted to say something, but her mouth was blocked and she couldn't say anything.
Seeing her mother dressed in prison clothes and shackles, Liu Ruyan cried out in distress. Unfortunately, she was no longer the high and mighty Consort Liu.
"What's the rush?" A guard behind him gestured, opened the cell where Lou Shi and the others were, and pushed Liu Ruyan inside.
The door was quickly locked again.
"Liu, from now on, you will live with the Liu family!" After saying this, the guard left.
With trembling hands, Madam Lou untied her daughter. Seeing her daughter like this, Madam Lou asked tearfully, "Why did you come in too? Is it because the Emperor doesn't want to let the Liu family go?"
As she wept, Lady Lou looked at her daughter, still holding onto a sliver of hope that the Emperor would show mercy for her daughter's sake.
"Mother, why were you imprisoned?" Liu Ruyan had been thinking about this all the way. If it were just her problem, it wouldn't be possible for her parents to be imprisoned by the Imperial Clan Court.
She blamed herself for not listening carefully to the imperial edict at the time.
"Your father..." Lou Shi thought that because of the big mistake made by Liu Zongcheng, not only would the Liu family be punished, but even her maternal family would be included in the nine clans this time.
This time, the Emperor showed no mercy and inflicted the most severe punishments on their family members.
Thinking of this, Lou Shi cried again.
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