Yu Hezhang sighed, "Oh... Once in our college's monthly exam, a student from the town won first place, surpassing him, so he thought that I accepted bribes and let the child from the town win first place! Oh!" Speaking of Bai Zhankui, Yu Hezhang sighed again and again, "I opened the academy to cultivate talents, but in the end, he accused me of accepting bribes. In his eyes, there are no good people, only evil people. Besides, there are good and evil among the rich. The child from the town is very talented, and his family attaches great importance to academic studies. They also hired a private tutor from the capital at a high price. It is natural for the child to get first place in the exam, and it is even more likely that he will become the top scorer this year! This person, if he has evil in his heart and a narrow vision, he will not go far." Yu Hezhang shook his head again and again.
"So you think your daughter will not be happy if she marries him?"
Yu Hezhang pursed his lips and was silent for a while, with sadness on his face: "Yes... If this person looks at the world with malice, then no matter how good this world is, it is still evil. You need to be cautious when getting along with him and take care of his sensitive and fragile heart, because he will use malice to guess your thoughts. It is very tiring to be with such a person. That's why I think Pingting will suffer in the future, and it turned out to be true!" Yu Hezhang stretched out his right palm, sighed, and slapped his thigh heavily, "I should have locked up Pingting and broken that Bai Zhankui's leg! It is better for me to accompany the Bai family's money and let their daughter hate me for the rest of her life than to collect her body now..." Yu Hezhang choked again with regret.
It is not easy for parents to have children and raise them. What they want to protect is their children's happiness and joy. But in the end, there is still a link that goes wrong, and the mistakes are repeated, leading to a big mistake that is ultimately irreversible.
Fu Mingrui also fell into silence as he sat next to Yu Hezhang. It was difficult for an honest official to judge family affairs. If Yu Pingting was alive, it would be difficult for him, as an official, to judge her family affairs.
He sighed, and when he looked up, he saw Duanmu Qingchen eavesdropping outside the window. He rolled his eyes and sighed. How could the Qian Dynasty have such a sneaky prince? The future of the Qian Dynasty is worrying.
Yu Hezhang calmed down for a while, wiped his tears, and looked at Fu Mingrui: "By the way, sir, who killed my girl? Have you found out?"
"I've found out." Fu Mingrui paused, and under Yu Hezhang's anxious gaze, he said solemnly, "It's Chen Jinhua."
Suddenly, Yu Hezhang felt as if he was struck by lightning and couldn't believe it.
"She believed in the witch's words and gave the maid acupuncture to pray for a child." When he first heard it, Fu Mingrui couldn't believe that such a foolish thing still existed in the enlightened and advanced Qian Dynasty, and it was even in the foothills of the capital, which made him hard to believe. But as he investigated deeper, he was even more surprised that this phenomenon was particularly common in the countryside.
There is no fixed number for having a son or a daughter. How can a girl have a son by giving acupuncture to a girl? If you give birth to more children, there will be boys and girls. Coincidentally, Yu Pingting actually gave birth to a son, which made the villagers believe in the witch.
“Too ignorant… too ignorant…” Yu Hezhang was furious, his lips trembling with anger, “This is why I want to open an academy!” The strong anger made Yu Hezhang extremely emotional, “Master Fu, do you know? My ancestors also came from the countryside. Because of the ignorance there, my ancestors realized that they must study, and our family gradually became a family of scholars and educated people. That Chen Jinhua! She is my grandmother! How could she do such a thing?! Could it be that… she also hid my daughter’s head?!” Yu Hezhang’s eyes were instantly filled with fear and his face turned pale.
When Fu Mingrui heard Yu Hezhang's last words, his eyes immediately gleamed with a sharp light, and he asked solemnly: "Dean Yu, what happened to your daughter's head?"
Yu Hezhang burst into tears: "To be honest with you, when Pingting's mother and I went to collect Pingting's body, we found that Pingting's head... was gone..."
"What?!" Fu Mingrui was a little shocked by this sentence. Yu Pingting committed suicide by drowning, so how could she suddenly disappear with her head? Is there some hidden story behind this
Yu Hezhang cried and shook his head: "The Bai family is such a sin! We went to ask for Pingting's body, but they refused to give it to us..." Yu Hezhang was already sobbing. He was even more heartbroken when he heard that his daughter's body was not even intact. "Pingting married the Bai family, so her death is theirs! We also know this. When a daughter gets married, she belongs to someone else, and the body is theirs. However, Pingting's mother and I are really worried that they won't give Pingting a proper burial... Also, Pingting explained in her last letter..."
Yu Hezhang took out the last letter from the pile with trembling hands, took out the letter and placed it in front of Fu Mingrui.
Fu Mingrui read the letter, which was written in beautiful handwriting: If anything happens to my daughter... Please take care of your children...
Judging from the signature on the letter, it was January of this year, two months before her suicide. It seems that she had no intention of taking her children with her to the afterlife at that time.
"So we went to ask for the girl, but the Bai family refused to give her to us. We begged and pleaded, and finally, they told us straight out. It turned out! They wanted money!" Yu Hezhang slapped his thigh in grief, feeling inexpressible pain and resentment.
Fu Mingrui remembered that it was mentioned in the oral records of the villagers of Baijia Village that the house in Baijia Town belonged to Yu Hezhang's family. At that time, Fu Mingrui was immediately puzzled by this. Why did the girl go to the Yu family, but the Bai family moved into the old house of the Yu family? If the Bai family still had the girl, then it would be more reasonable for them to live in the town to give the girl a better environment.
Now, everything is clear.
“They asked for the old house in my town. We gave it to them directly. As long as we can get Pingting and Yaer back, we will give them everything.” Yu Hezhang sighed and wiped his tears. “There has been a folk legend since ancient times that if you collect a corpse, you must collect the whole body. If there is no head, you can't find the way to the underworld and can't be reincarnated…” Yu Hezhang burst into tears again. “I didn’t expect the Bai family to be so vicious. My daughter died, but they didn’t let her reincarnate and let her wander the world. That’s right! They must be the ones who did evil!” Yu Hezhang wiped his tears and looked determined. “Because, if there is no head, we can’t find the person who hurt her and we can’t take revenge! Now I understand! Pingting…” Yu Hezhang burst into tears sadly.
Fu Mingrui was surprised, but more angry. How many more people would be harmed by these folk superstitions
After Yu Hezhang calmed down, Fu Mingrui asked Wang Quan and the others to escort Yu Hezhang out of the Eight Gates. He stood alone in the hall to calm down. Now, he needed to be calm and not let this anger affect his fairness as the leader of Half Gate! (To be continued)