After being scolded by the prefect, Tang Tongsheng trembled and said, "Sir, are you here.

This jade pendant is his, not his, and Tong Sheng didn't know, but Tong Sheng dared to swear to God that he would never have any love for his wife."

The prefect was used to seeing the person who cried for justice and said indifferently: "Then you have no evil with her, will the jade pendant fly to your house? A mere child has no fame and fortune to protect his body, and the official does not move the torture instruments, so you will naturally refuse to confess. Come and pick up the person!"

The yamen runners stepped forward and threw the sticks, took off Tang Tongsheng's shoes and socks, placed a pair of white tender legs between two pieces of wood, and tied them tightly. Then, Tang Tongsheng immediately screamed and fainted.

After a while, Tang Tongsheng slowly woke up. The prefect asked, "Do you want to do it?"

The miserable Tang Tongsheng lay on the ground and said with a sad face: "There is no traitor - love, what trick do I have?"

The prefect then sneered and hit a hundred big boards again. The boards hit the butt with a crackling sound. The feeling was unimaginable. Tang Tongsheng, a poor scholar who was powerless, could not bear it in a few strokes, and had to shout, "A small wish."

As soon as the yamen runners stopped, he fainted again. When he woke up, Tang Tongsheng sighed: "It is true that the wife of the Mu family is thinking about me. She threw this jade pendant over it. The villain is self-righteous and dared not rape her. If the adults don't believe it, just interrogate the woman."

The prefect pondered for a moment and ordered He to come to court. Generally speaking, the government has unwritten standards for measuring, which is also the experience inherited from many years. When interrogating an affair case, you must first look at the appearance of the woman. It would be fine if she looks ugly, but if she looks good, do you still need to ask? A beauty is the source of right and wrong.

Soon He walked in and knelt down. He walked less than thirty meters away. After walking for a long time, he was timid and afraid of being slow. Moreover, she was as light as a swallow. When she walked, she swayed like a boneless person, and looked as weak as the wind. Before she could interrogate, Yiran first drew a picture of a beauty.

The prefect ordered her to raise her head, and she saw He's eyebrows and eyes as picturesque as autumn waves, and her shy face as snowy as snow, reflecting a little red lips that looked like blood. The red ones are redder, and the white ones are whiter.

The prefect smiled first, then asked furiously: "From your appearance, you will know that it is a lust. You came to the trial today, and you still applied powder on your face and lighted rouge on your mouth, and twisted in front of our mansion. If you don't ask about your usual evil deeds, you will know that the affair must be true."

This is the underdeveloped information. It turns out that this prefect has been extremely strict in his tutor since he was a child. His personality is too conservative. He has hardly been to romantic occasions for ten years and has never seen many women. Especially beautiful women, how could he be so arrogant and slutty that he can rely on the novel's meaning?

Another honest man married his cousin. His wife looked like a normal temper but was very irritable. He had always been afraid of her. Not to mention taking a concubine, there was not even a beautiful female cat at home.

Therefore, the prefect took it for granted that women in the world had to apply makeup to their skin to become white, tender and smooth, and only when they were touched by rouge would be red, and they would be elegant when they were twisted. I didn’t know that He’s appearance was actually born with a weak look, so how dare he apply makeup to them in the hall? They had plain faces.

The prefect cursed indiscriminately and said, "You are so arrogant to say that Tang Tong rapes you, so that you can avoid the use of torture instruments."

He cried with a grievance: "The little woman has no affair with him, where can I start with the help of the slave family?"

The prefect made up his mind and ordered the punishment. The yamen runners straightened He's slender hands. He put his pity and green fingers in the pen tube and clamped them tightly. It hurts so much that he was a beauty. His miserable appearance looked like he was crying in a gentle manner. Even the officials couldn't bear to watch it anymore. They wanted to beat the adults away with one stick and save this little beauty with a watery beauty. You know!

The prefect asked, "He just said that the jade pendant was you thrown over and intent on seducing him. He was blaming you. Why did you hide it for him?"

He's face disappeared without blood and became even whiter and tenderer. He cried to Tang Tongsheng: "The emperor is above, why did I throw away the jade pendant with you? I used to live in the back room, and you were studying next door to lure me; I moved to the front to avoid you, and you followed you back to the back. Just for you to follow, my parents-in-law became suspicious of me, so they trapped me here. It would be fine if I didn't blame you, but I'm wronged me!" After that, he burst into tears.

The prefect watched coldly, and his thoughts were gradually closing. He thought that such a handsome and handsome scholar, who was separated by a beautiful woman, could something happen if he had a talented man and a beautiful woman? Now he should call her husband to see what he looked like. If his husband looks like Tang Tongsheng, he would have to take some thought; if he is a mediocre person, the natural evil will be obvious.

He immediately ordered: "Let Tang Sheng be imprisoned, and bring Mu Shou's son to the next trial tomorrow, and then the case will be finalized."

Tang Tongsheng, who was injured, was imprisoned in prison. The prison guard asked for money, the injury was doctor, and he also had to deliver food to treat him. What should I do if I had no money? I could only beg my son to ask my future father-in-law to borrow money.

The unlucky thing is that my father-in-law has long been regretful. At this time, there are very few people in Yunnan who can pass the exam, and few pass the exam for scholars. Besides, the times have changed. If a poor scholar is not diligent in all his body, he is far from being as hard-working and rich as the people who have worked hard and started a workshop. It is better to have a promising career in a new school. He is nothing more than to be a decent and tight-stock gentry for the rest of his life.

Now that he has seen such a scandal happen again, even if he is innocent, his reputation will be destroyed half. The institution will inevitably prohibit him from taking exams in one or two worlds, and his future will basically be lost.

Therefore, he replied very simply: "I don't have any money to borrow. If he is willing to withdraw from the marriage, he would rather return the gift."

At this time, Tang Tong's life was important, and he didn't care about anything else. He had no choice but to write a document for cancellation of the engagement. The official sent it there, and then exchanged some money for his life.

Because the prefect was busy receiving Mu Qingshuang's arrival, he did not go to the church for several days, and even completed his official duties, and summoned Mu Shou's son.

Don’t say anything at first sight. A book with good things is written as "Xijiangyue" to make jokes: the face looks like dark lacquer, the hair is like gold threads, the nose has snot and eyes are fat, the face is dense and numb, and the bad appearance is as good as it is, but who knows there are even more flaws. There are good branches in the pupil, and the official is squinted.

The prefect, who thought he was self-righteous, shook his head. Not to mention women, even men frowned when they saw him. He would have to fall in love with him. After asking a few words, he couldn't answer a word, and he knew he was a fool.

"Stop talking." The prefect asked Tang Tongsheng to come up and said, "Are you going to do it now?"

How did Tang Tongsheng deal with him? After raising him for a few days, his injuries healed a little. He was even more reluctant to change his words. The prefect said without saying a word and ordered: "Seal!"

Tang Tongsheng was helpless now. People in later generations may not know how powerful the clamping sticks in the government were, but in ancient times, the one who could survive the first time was recognized as a iron man.

Moreover, Tang Tongsheng's leg bone was injured and could not resist it anymore, otherwise he would have to be disabled. He was completely disappointed and shouted, "Stop clamping, I'll just make a move. The villain and He family are in love with each other. The jade pendant is the record she gave me. The little family cannot keep it. He took it out and sold it, and was recognized by someone. The move is true."

The prefect said with satisfaction: "Put off the stick and beat the twenty big boards instead as punishment."

He called Mu Shou up and asked, "It is true that the affair was found. Then He, do you still want her to be a wife?"

Mu Shou smiled bitterly and said, "I am a decent person. How can I keep a woman who has lost her integrity? I would rather let my son write a divorce letter."

In this way, the prefect wrote the verdict. The yamen runners ordered to post it outside: I found Tang Sheng, Mu Shou lived next to each other. Mu Shou's daughter-in-law He was a husband for several years. Although she had a poem about Taoyao, she had not been able to do anything.

Tang Sheng's study room was separated from He's bed by a wall, and he complained about the unrelenting one another, and then he became accomplice. He gave the jade pendant as a gift, and Tang Sheng sold it poorly, and was gained by everyone, and spread it together.

Mu Shou was ashamed of being surrounded by the walls, so he was in charge. According to Sheng's confession, everything was true. What words should be made for stealing and adultery? Because he was a traitor, he would be a gentleman. He was a defiled person and could not match his good man, so he should be sent back.

Mu Shou's family is not strict and shows a warning.

Mu Shou was beaten with the symbolic ten boards. When it came to an end, the advantages of scholars in ancient times were revealed. It was enough to be beaten hard, and the prestige of the Mu family also took effect. Otherwise, if it were a civilian who was not a scholar, the relocation of officials and sales for the time being, at least they would not be allowed to march in public.

The boat moved slowly in the canal, and it started to rain before I knew it. The whole of Jiaxing was shrouded in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

After listening to Mu Qingshuang's words, Ye Qin and Lin Daojing were silent and looked quietly in the distance and thought.

Once upon a time, such things were considered to be fair and authentic. Regardless of whether He and Tang Tongsheng had an affair, they were wrong, especially for women. No matter whether you actively or passively attract men, it was yours, and even women themselves recognized this truth.

It's different now. At least Lin Daojing and Xiao Yezi no longer agree to obey the orders of their elders, so they should marry willingly. Even if they marry a man who is as stupid as a pig, they must keep their husband wholeheartedly.

For Xu Hao, is this considered advocating feminism? Obviously not, it is the same for men. What kind of wife do you marry if your parents are responsible for? Even if you have no opinion and are willing to respect your parents, then what is the future wife Fengjie, who plans to run for the president of the United States?

So whether this is right or wrong, just He wants to marry such a husband, it makes the two daughters feel that it is not worth it.

Lin Daojing said first: "I think it's good to separate through this matter. Even if the reputation is gone, what can I do? Instead of giving yourself aggrieved for the rest of your life, it's better to be lonely and lively, even if you starve to death."

Xiao Yezi asked, "According to Erniang's statement, there is obviously no relationship between the two. Could it be that He deliberately threw the pendant away? Just to get rid of his husband's family?"

This sentence made Mu Qingshuang feel excited when Erniang said, hugging her and smiling: "You think that they are ours. If it were ours, you don't have to guess who they are instructed behind the scenes. Only you girls would be so bold. Then He should not obey orders honestly."

Xu Hao smiled at this. He could really do such a thing, and said, "There must be somewhere else. There are many similar things in the world. You can't tell us an ordinary unjust case. Just as Daojing said, He's taking this home can be considered a blessing in disguise. With her character and beauty, she is in Yunnan, where the conservative atmosphere is not strong. It is not difficult to marry a good man in a few years."

"Yes, yes!" Xiao Yezi was very happy for He. "It is better to live a simple life with a normal husband than to keep a disgusting man in a rich and elegant manner. Although he was wronged by his son, I think he should sympathize with the woman more. His family is rich and decent, and he can lose his wife?"

Mu Qingshuang said, "Of course it's indispensable. Listen to me and continue to say that the ending of custody will surprise you."

I heard the following, and the three of them were interested and wanted to know what was going on next. Xiao Yezi said naively: "If Tang Tongsheng could marry He home in vain, it would be considered a fake to be true. Unfortunately, scholars nowadays, alas! It's impossible."

Lin Daojing said: "The two of them resent each other, and it would be fine if they don't take revenge on each other in the future. I'm just wondering, what's going on with the pendant?"
Chapter completed!