The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 973: Every law should be punished
Chapter 973: Every Thing Should Be Punished
The young woman was so angry that her whole body was shaking. She was obviously filled with anger, but she couldn’t utter a word.
The maidservant who hugged the young woman tightly with tears on her face was so angry that she shouted heartbreakingly: “There is a god above us! Aren’t you afraid of being struck by lightning for slandering our young lady like this? Our young lady has been married to the Bai family for so many years, and she has served her parents-in-law wholeheartedly every day, without any slackness. You keep saying that you regard our young lady as your own daughter, but is this how you treat your daughter?!”
“Bah! You shameless and dirty thing! If I had a daughter like you, I would have strangled her to death long ago. Why did you let her live?” The elder’s wife no longer cared about her dignity and cursed at the top of her voice.
Seeing that many people had gathered to watch the fun and were standing by the river looking around and talking, the elders knew… they could not drown their daughter-in-law in the pond this time. After all, Bai Qingyan was implementing a new law. If they forcibly drowned her, Bai Qingyan would definitely target their family because of his heartless style.
“That’s enough!” The elder looked at Lupin deeply and said, “Let’s just forget about this matter!”
“Master!” The elder’s wife opened her eyes wide, unable to believe that her husband would really let it go like this, “She wants to remarry!”
The elder held the cane in both hands, looked at the trembling young woman and said, “Since you are determined not to be a wife of the Bai family, then I will grant your wish and give you a divorce letter on behalf of my son!”
Although the elder of the Bai clan had to bow his head, he was still angry and spoke slowly: “My Bai clan is now a royal family! You are leaving the Bai family today, I hope you will not regret it in the future! I put this here… Your mother’s family can’t afford to offend our Bai family, and you will definitely not be able to return to your mother’s family after being divorced! And in the future… no matter who you marry, the Bai family will not forget this great humiliation and will not let your life be easy. This… If your cousin hears it, I hope your cousin still has the ability to marry you!”
As soon as the elder finished speaking, he heard the sound of angry horses neighing behind him.
The clan elder turned around and saw that the one leading the charge was Bai Qingyan. He was immediately panicked and hurriedly pulled his wife and servants to kneel down to greet him. His forehead was immediately covered with sweat.
Didn’t Bai Qingyan say that he was going to the Imperial College today? Many people went to the Imperial College to watch the fun, so why did Bai Qingyan appear here again?
“Welcome, Your Majesty!” The elders of the Bai clan bowed their heads and shouted with a respectful attitude.
The people who were watching the fun did not expect that the Empress of the Great Zhou would come in person, and they all knelt down and kowtowed to welcome her.
When Lupin saw Bai Qingyan coming, he also brought the Bai family guards and knelt on one knee to salute: “Miss!”
“Uncle Ping, you’ve worked hard. Get up!” Bai Qingyan said as he looked at the master and servant who were hugging each other tightly and crying uncontrollably behind the Bai family guards. “Help your master get on the carriage first and change his wet clothes.”
The young woman came back to her senses and hurriedly kowtowed to Bai Qingyan with her stunned maid: “Thank you, Your Majesty!”
Bai Qihe hurried as fast as he could, but was still one step behind Bai Qingyan. When he arrived, he just happened to see the young lady being helped onto the carriage brought by Bai Qingyan’s men. She immediately dismounted and saluted Bai Qingyan.
“Does the clan leader know about this?” Bai Qingyan’s gaze fell on Bai Qihe who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.
“Your Majesty, Bai Qihe just received the news.” Bai Qihe knew that he had failed in his duty again, and kowtowed to Bai Qingyan, “As the clan leader, Bai Qihe has not managed the clan members well, please punish me, Your Majesty!”
“Patriarch, please stand up first…” Bai Qingyan stood with his hands behind his back, holding a horse whip, and looked coldly at the elders kneeling on the ground, “You know that the new law encourages widows to remarry, but as a member of the Bai clan, you not only do not support the new law, but also want to drown women who want to remarry. Elders… are you going against the new law of the Great Zhou?”
Bai Qing spoke slowly and gently, but every word seemed to weigh as much as a thousand gold coins, which suddenly crushed the elder’s spine. The elder kowtowed hastily, his voice trembling a little: “Your Majesty, although there are national laws, the clan has its own rules. I am not wrong to deal with it according to the clan rules!”
“Clan rules…” Bai Qingyan narrowed his eyes, “Bai family rules… do not allow widows of the Bai family to remarry?”
Bai Qihe stepped forward quickly and said, “Your Majesty, it has not happened. The clan law stipulates that… if a woman does not observe chastity and commits adultery, she shall be drowned in a pond! If a woman commits adultery with someone in the clan or a servant, both of them shall be drowned in a pond together.”
“Your Majesty!” The elder kowtowed again, “This whore was thrown into the pond not because she wanted to remarry, but because she had an affair with her cousin before remarrying, and had an affair with other men, which damaged the reputation of our Bai family. According to the clan rules… this whore should be thrown into the pond.”
Bai Qingyan walked over to the pig cage with the water grass still hanging on it and asked, “Have you caught the adulterer? Who is he?”
The clan elder had never expected that this matter would become so big. He just heard Bai Qingyan’s question and said this reason casually.
“Your Majesty, she wants to remarry her widowed cousin. Isn’t this evidence? Her cousin lost his wife… My son also died a violent death. Who knows… It was she and her cousin who teamed up to kill my son and her cousin’s wife!” The elder’s wife cried, “Your Majesty, please make a decision for us!”
Bai Qingyan stared at the pig cage, his eyes becoming colder and colder: “Where is the evidence?”
The elder did not dare to raise his head, turned around and knelt, kowtowed to Bai Qingyan, his whole body trembling: “I haven’t got the evidence yet.”
“Without any concrete evidence, you are using torture privately and taking human life lightly.” Bai Qingyan turned his head to look at the clan elder, his fingers stroking the black gold whip, “It is the clan leader’s right to punish according to the clan law and rules, but you are here to punish the Bai family woman privately, and the Bai clan leader doesn’t know…”
“Those who violate the new law, take human life lightly, and intend to kill people should be executed!” Bai Qingyan pursed his lips and looked at the weeping elder and his wife. “Come here, tie them up and send them to Jingzhao Yinfu to be dealt with strictly according to the law!”
Lupin immediately led his men forward and lifted up the elder.
The elder’s throat tightened and he cried in embarrassment, “Your Majesty, after my son got married, he worked hard to create a family business for my daughter-in-law and unborn child, so he went on a long journey! In the end, my son died in the hands of bandits, and I have no grandson! My son really liked this daughter-in-law, and I, as a father, cannot watch my daughter-in-law remarry!”
The elder’s wife also cried out loudly: “What kind of new law is this? Why do we have to force a widow to remarry? She is my son’s woman!”
“Yes, why does the new law force widows to remarry?”
“That’s right. If my wife remarries with my child after I die, I will die with regret!”
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