The jade pendant turned into powder, and he was like a wild beast whose heart was dug out on the spot. He shook his head and turned around, spurting out a cloud of blood.
"Lord Shen——"
"grown ups--"
There were screams coming from beside me.
Chen Jie could see nothing and hear nothing. The scene of Du Yaoyao being insulted and her body thrown away appeared in front of his eyes.
She was crying, she was struggling, blood was flowing from her lower body, and she was drowning little by little in the river.
Two lines of clear tears fell and melted into the scarlet blood.
He stumbled and fell, mumbling, "I don't believe it..."
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"I don't believe she is not the Censor's wife!" A young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes speculated as he glanced at the figure in the room.
"Keep your voice down." The middle-aged woman in simple clothes advised in the courtyard, "Since the girl asked us to find a female corpse to replace her, she must not want to reveal her identity and go back with the official. How can we force her to do that?"
"The official's wife is so nice, why doesn't she want to go back?" The young man wondered, and sighed, "Mom, do you know how valuable she is? The reward notice outside is a thousand taels of gold and ten thousand taels of silver. Wealth that we can never earn in our lifetime!"
The woman also sighed. If it is really as good as it seems, which woman would not want to go back?
According to the two sons, they found the girl in a deep pit in the wild. She seemed to have been buried alive as a dead person. When she was rescued, she was dying and was holding on by just one breath.
I heard that the wife of the censor came from a merchant family and had average education. Those who use their beauty to serve men, no matter whether they are wives or concubines, can never keep men happy. What's more, the other party is a high-ranking official in the court.
The young man recalled the first glimpse he had of her and could not help but feel angry. "I thought my elder brother and I had found a fairy girl and that she could be our wife. But who knew that she was in poor health, had difficulty giving birth, and was also from a prominent family."
Jindu is a remote place, and most of the women from the rural villages have married and moved to prosperous areas, leaving many single men. Over time, the custom of brothers sharing wives emerged.
"A poor mountain village can't afford a golden phoenix." The woman said frankly. Not to mention Censor Shen, the Du family in Qingzhou alone is also a well-known wealthy family, and she is also a natural beauty. Such a woman is not an ordinary person.
The most important thing is that she has done a favor to their family.
The woman said, "She is your uncle's savior. Your uncle worked in Prince Chen's mansion and was implicated in the prince's treason case. He thought he had no chance of survival. But the censor's wife was kind-hearted and interceded for Prince Chen, the Song family, and the Ruan family. That's how he managed to survive in the imperial mausoleum."
In previous years, when corrupt officials were uncovered in the capital and other places, many of them had their entire families destroyed when the Censorate handled them. This is the first time that a servant can survive when the master commits such a serious crime.
People were talking about it a lot, saying that it was not that the censor had changed his character, but that his wife was kind and compassionate.
The common people always stand on the side of sympathy for them.
The young man wanted to say something else, but a soft cough interrupted him.
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