Chapter 585 Fear
After finding out Xia Ziying's true identity, the emperor angrily called Master Cao and his son over.
Before and after this year, Mrs. Cao was walking around, trying to find a well-matched wife for Cao Huajun.
But after searching again and again, no one liked Cao Huajun, and she didn't want to marry into the Cao family.
Cao Huajun was notorious and had a wife. No one was willing to send a legitimate daughter to the Cao family to be Cao Huajun's stepmother.
Later, Mrs. Cao's conditions for marrying her daughter-in-law were lowered one level, from a legitimate daughter to a concubine.
Not to mention, this lowered the conditions, and two families really wanted to marry their concubines into the Cao Mansion.
Cao Huajun's first wife is Princess Chu Yu's biological sister. Cao Huajun is also Princess Chu Yu's biological brother-in-law. With this relationship, if the Cao family has a good relationship with the Chu family and the Chu family, then... ...As in-laws of the Cao family, they can drink a bowl of broth no matter what.
There are still people in the Cao family who want to climb up, but no patriarchal wife is willing to use her biological daughter to climb the rotten tree of the Cao family.
The legitimate daughter was reluctant to give up, so she used a concubine who was dispensable in the house. This business was a sure profit.
Therefore, Mrs. Cao has been very close to one of the families in the past few days, so she invited an official mediator to come to propose marriage and set a date.
No one expected that something like this would happen.
When the Cao family and his son were escorted to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment by the emperor's people, they were shocked when they saw Xia Ziying's face.
Especially Cao Huajun, he almost didn't pounce.
Cao Huajun still has some feelings for Xia Ziying. What he is particularly obsessed with is her face, and his second obsession is Xia Ziying's body.
God knows, after Xia Ziying disappeared, he found many women, and even went to Xinghualou several times, spent a lot of money, and played the top card of Xinghualou, but no one's taste was as good as Xia Ziying's.
Xia Ziying was born with charm and talent, which made him sink and sink in deeply.
When Xia Ziying disappeared, he began to miss her and often couldn't sleep thinking about her at night.
The person who thought he would die outside appeared in front of him at this moment. If it weren't for the emperor, Chu Jingqi, and a large group of ministers sitting there, Cao Huajun would have been unable to control himself and pounced on Xia Ziying's body. On my body.
"What...what's going on? Your Majesty, old minister...this, is this old minister's daughter-in-law?" Mr. Cao knelt down tremblingly and saluted the emperor. The emperor didn't ask him to get up, and he didn't dare to get up. Cao Huajun knelt down in fear.
The moment Master Cao saw Xia Ziying, his mind was all confused and he didn't know what was going on.
However, he was not stupid. When he saw the emperor here and a group of first- and second-grade ministers from the court, he guessed that something big must have happened.
The Minister of Punishment snorted, and seeing Master Cao's confused face, he told Master Cao and his son the whole story.
After hearing this, Mr. Cao almost fainted from fright.
Ignoring the stench all over the floor of the dungeon, he knelt on the ground and begged, "Your Majesty, I have no idea what this stupid woman did. She escaped from my house the year before last." I sent people to search everywhere, and finally found a body. I thought it was her... and even held a funeral. This... I never expected that she would still be alive and... would do such a treasonous thing. "Your Majesty, this stupid woman deserves to die. However, the Cao family was wronged. What she did is unacceptable to the Cao family." Without knowing it, even the minister...doesn't know she is still alive...please ask the emperor to clarify."
Master Cao was so frightened that he begged incoherently. Cao Huajun no longer dared to cast his gaze on Xia Ziying's face and could not bear to turn his eyes away. He hurriedly knelt on the ground like his father and begged in a low voice.
The emperor snorted and said, "You don't know, you don't know... My daughter-in-law ran away from home and didn't report it to the government, but she just gave a funeral..."
In Dasheng, a daughter-in-law's escape from home is just like a slave's escape. It is also a crime. The husband's family can report it to the official to punish the daughter-in-law.
When Xia Ziying escaped from the Cao family, the Cao family were afraid of losing face, so they did not go to the government office to report it. However, after a few months, they found a suitable corpse and held a deserted funeral for Xia Ziying.
But the Cao family never expected that Xia Ziying, who had escaped alone and penniless, was still alive. Not only was she alive, she also became the princess of the Japanese country.
If these were not enough, he also became the murderer who poisoned the queen and framed Princess Chu Yu.
Just one of these is enough for the Cao family to kill the nine clans.
When Mr. Cao thought of this, he was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat and regretted that he had not divorced Xia Ziying directly after Xia Ziying escaped.
Although it will break up with the Xia family, it is still better than the current situation.
The Cao family did not give Xia Ziying a divorce letter, so even if there was a funeral, Xia Ziying was still alive and still the daughter-in-law of the Cao family.
The daughter-in-law committed a serious crime, and the Cao family was also implicated. In the morning of the next day, someone impeached Mr. Cao for failing to teach his daughter-in-law.
When everyone in the Xia family learned the news, they were all shocked.
At first, Mrs. Xu was very excited and happy when she heard that Xia Ziying was still alive, but...then, after hearing about the mistakes Xia Ziying had made, Mrs. Xu began to be afraid. She was so afraid that she hid in the house and dared not see anyone. , and dare not go out.
She is not afraid of framing Princess Chu Yu. After all, in her eyes, Chu Yu is Xia Ziying's biological sister. A biological sister is easy to talk to, but... poisoning the Queen is a capital crime. Not only is it a capital crime, It is still a mortal sin to kill the nine tribes.
Mrs. Xu was afraid that Xia Ziying would be implicated, and then... she would be like the Lu family in the past, and the whole family would be caught at the market entrance and beheaded.
When she thought of that scene, Mrs. Xu was so frightened that she cowered in a corner of the room, trembling all over.
Mr. Xia and the second Mr. Xia also panicked and hurriedly took the initiative to plead guilty, leaving the emperor alone.
The two brothers did not plead for mercy in the memorial, but just blamed themselves. It was okay to teach their daughter. As the father and uncle, they asked the emperor to punish them.
Xia Shiming even thought that after giving birth to such a daughter, he could no longer teach the students in Dasheng. On that day, he took leave at home and waited for the emperor's decree of punishment.
Old Mrs. Xia was lying on the hot bed, crying loudly, scolding Xia Ziying for being unfilial, because it was the Xia family that had brought this unreasonable disaster.
After scolding Xia Ziying, he scolded Mrs. Xu again, "She gave birth to a good daughter who has brought shame on the Xia family. Now, such a big thing has happened again. If there is something wrong with my Xia family, I...I But what should I do?”
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