Chapter 237: 237. Chapter 237: Am I Really Your Biological Child?

237. Chapter 237: Am I Really Your Biological Child?

Jiang Xiaoxiao and her mother didn't go to the county yamen, but through the word of mouth of everyone, they roughly knew the trial result of this child abduction case.

In the main hall, the majestic Lord Cishi interrogated Li Shoude for his crimes. Besides conspiring with the Huang family to abduct children, there was also the serious crime of imperial examination fraud!

The onlookers were stunned when they heard that Li Shoude had also committed the serious crime of imperial examination fraud.

This was a serious crime punishable by death, how could Li Shoude dare to do it!

Thus, in front of millions of people, Lord Cishi personally issued the verdict—according to the laws of Dayin, Li Shoude committed imperial examination fraud, and he would be sentenced to death at the end of October.

Once the verdict came down, Li Family Old Man fainted on the spot.

As for Yun Ying, because she conspired with the Huang family to commit the crime of abducting children, although it didn't lead to death, she would be punished with twenty heavy strokes and demoted to slave status.

Slave status could be said to be the lowest class in this ancient world, passed down from generation to generation, unable to change, unable to take the imperial examination, unable to be an official, not allowed to purchase land and property, not allowed to marry ordinary people, and having no freedom for a lifetime, living as a slave to others for generations.

Such a trial result was simply worse than death for Yun Ying.

"... Then, which family was Yun Ying sold to as a slave?" Jiang Xiaoxiao asked with curiosity.

In the soap shop, Xiao Linzi, who had watched the whole process at the county yamen, was pulled by Jiang Xiaoxiao and asked endlessly as soon as he returned.

At this time, he was dry-mouthed, hurriedly picked up the tea cup, drank a big mouthful of tea, moistened his thirsty throat, and then continued: "She wasn't sold, her slave contract was bought by the Li family."

What?

Yun Ying was bought by the Li family?!

Learning this result, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but be stunned, somewhat unbelievable.

Impossible, would the Li family be so kind?

"I heard that the Li family stuffed dozens of taels of silver into the county yamen, originally wanting to handle the relationship to save Li Shoude, but Li Shoude was directly sentenced to death. Those yamen servants who took the silver were embarrassed to take the money for nothing, so they gave them Yun Ying's slave contract as compensation..."

After hearing the ins and outs, Jiang Xiaoxiao almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Haha... thirty mu of land, exchanged for a slave contract of slave status... the Old Li family must be regretting it to the point of turning green.

Yun Ying was demoted to slave status, her identity information in the official archives was already a slave status, no matter where she went, she could only be a slave for a lifetime.

A slave who could never turn over, the slave contract was worth at most three taels of silver.

And the Li family's thirty mu of land was worth sixty taels of silver.

When Li Family Old Man returned to the village, he brought back two people.

One was Li Jinfeng, who was released without guilt.

The other was Yun Ying.

However, Yun Ying was carried back by two yamen servants.

She was beaten with twenty heavy strokes, the flesh on her buttocks and back was almost beaten to pieces, and she, who was delicate and weak, had never suffered this kind of crime, and fainted from pain after finishing the strokes, unconscious.

Those two yamen servants were good to the end and helped carry the person back.

After arriving at the Li family, the two yamen servants threw the person to the ground and left without looking back.

Before the Li family could react, Li Family Old Man, who had followed back all the way, seemed to use up all his strength, his legs went weak, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted again.

"Old man!!"

Li Family Old Woman hurriedly rushed forward, pinching his philtrum and slapping his face, and finally managed to wake him up, but Li Family Old Man sat there as if he were stupid, dull and stunned, his expression withered, his face pale, as if he had suddenly aged more than ten years.

"Old man, what's wrong with you, don't scare me..." Li Family Old Woman cried out with her loud voice.

"My son... is gone..." Li Family Old Man muttered, "Shoude... is gone..."

He kept repeating this sentence, and as he spoke, he cried out in pain.

Li Family Old Woman also followed and cried.

The two cried together.

Li Shoucai watched from the side, indifferent.

Li Shoude's trial result had long spread throughout the village, and the villagers were celebrating, only his courtyard had the unlucky wailing... but these had nothing to do with him. He only wanted to know now, what about those sixty taels of silver?

Li Shoucai walked forward, squatted down, ignored Li Family Old Man, who was crying heartbreakingly, reached out to him, and asked word by word: "Father, where is the money?"

The eldest brother wasn't saved, then.

Li Family Old Man's crying stopped abruptly.

He subconsciously looked at Yun Ying, who had fainted on the ground, then curled his lips and cried even more heartbreakingly...

Seeing this, what else did Li Shoucai not understand.

The money was gone.

Not a cent left.

Li Shoucai's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his fists were clenched tightly.

The next second, he reached out his hand, grabbed Li Family Old Man's hair, and smashed it hard against the ground.

With a "bang," blood flowed all over the ground.

The whole small courtyard was quiet for a moment.

Li Family Old Woman's wailing was stuck in her throat.

Li Shoucai seemed not to see anything around him, pulled up Li Family Old Man's head by himself, and said gloomily: "Father, tell me, am I really your biological child?"

Li Family Old Man was smashed until he was dizzy, his head full of blood, and his scalp was pulled until it hurt, and the blood flowed down his forehead, into his eyes, blurring his vision.

He could only vaguely see the person in front of him with a cruel and gloomy face, the expression that hated him to the bone, as if he wasn't his son, but an evil spirit asking for his life...

Li Family Old Man couldn't stop trembling all over, even his lips were trembling, and he stammered: "Son, I, I..."

Li Shoucai didn't wait for him to finish, pulled his head and smashed it against the ground again with force, and while smashing, he couldn't help but roar hysterically: "Say it! Am I really your son! Why did you give the eldest brother so many benefits, and I have nothing! Where am I worse than the eldest brother?! So much money, all smashed on him, did you consider me! What about me? Am I not your son!!"

The Li family members looked at Li Shoucai, who seemed to be possessed, and were all stunned in place.

But no one dared to come forward, and everyone in the courtyard was silent, and no one dared to stand up and say a word for Li Family Old Man.

Li Family Old Man's screams soon resounded throughout the courtyard and spread to the village.

Many people in the village heard the screams, but everyone was indifferent.

Guihua Shen, dressed in coarse hemp clothes, stood in the crowd and only cast a cold glance toward the Li family's direction.

Regarding what happened inside, everyone agreed not to ask.

The screams lasted until evening before ending.

Regarding this matter, Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't know.

Tonight, she and her mother stayed in the shop in town, so they knew nothing about what happened in Yuhe Village. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 238 =====