"I'm willing to take her in!" Suddenly, someone outside the hall shouted. It seemed that they were from a wealthy family in the city. "Come to our house and be a maid. We will pay you." The other party was also full of sincerity.
"Be a maid in your home? Come to my home and be my goddaughter!" Another person also shouted, as if competing with others, "I will pay for your education, and when you are old enough, I will find you a good family to marry into!"
"Come to our house, more people, more pairs of chopsticks!"
"Child, come to our house, we will treat you well~~~"
“Come to our house!”
“Come to our house!”
The louder and louder shouts of the people in the capital outside the hall moved the girl to tears.
Fu Mingrui was somewhat surprised by this result. Looking back, the old woman from Baijia Village actually wanted to ask Wang Cuihua for the money for selling her child. She was really stubborn and infuriating.
"Bang!" Fu Mingrui slammed the gavel again and said solemnly: "The case file of Baijia Village will be distributed to officials in various states and cities as a warning to the world. If there are similar cases, they can refer to the judgment of this case!"
Duanmu Qingchen nodded in agreement. But this is far from enough. If people are not enlightened, there will be countless Yu Pingtings with miserable fates and countless Xishan baby girls who died because of the preference for boys over girls.
As the crown prince of the Qian Dynasty, he couldn't just sit here and do nothing. He held great power in his hands, and he had to do something for the women he respected and loved. Even if he couldn't shake the millennium-old concept of favoring boys over girls, he had to fight for some fairness for women all over the world, at least, so that they wouldn't repeat Yu Pingting's mistakes.
The girl was eventually adopted by a wealthy family in the capital and became their adopted daughter. From then on, she was no longer bullied and even had her own maid. It is said that the girl's biological mother actually recognized the girl in the hall, but when she saw that a family in the capital was willing to adopt the girl, she did not recognize her. Whether she was afraid to recognize her, was too embarrassed to recognize her, or... wanted the girl to live a better life, it is unknown.
After all, if the girl returned to Baijia Village and the environment remained unchanged, she might eventually become a Wang Cuihua, a Chen Jinhua, or a Yu Pingting.
Meng Mu moved three times to choose her neighbors. The environment has a great influence on a person. The local environment and soil nurture the local people. In addition to the local environment and soil, it also refers to the local people's hearts.
The case of Yu Pingting became a special case in the Qian Dynasty, and because of Fu Mingrui's peculiar interrogation of the dead coffin, it became an even more strange case. It was included in the book "Qian Dynasty Strange Cases" and has been passed down for thousands of years.
In a river-view private room in Wanghu Tower, Lian Youyou and the others sat around a round table filled with delicious fish and meat.
The fat Buddha's eyes narrowed into lines as he smiled: "Amitabha, the wine and meat pass through the intestines, but the Buddha remains in my heart."
"Everyone has worked hard~~This meal is for Xiao Linzi~~~" Sanniang smiled charmingly. It was said that Lin Tingjun was treating, but Lin Tingjun was not present.
After everyone came out of the Eight Gates, they went straight to Wangjiang Tower for a meal without even calling Lin Tingjun.
"You are so bad, leaving Brother Lin alone in the Nine Gates." Yun Yao said, but her chopsticks moved faster than anyone else.
Yunxi couldn't help but tease her when he saw her pouting but eating the fastest: "Since you and Xiao Linzi are on the same page, why don't you go back and accompany him? We can eat more~~"
"Hmph! You wish!" Yun Yao gave her brother a fierce look.
"I'm too lazy to say pack it up, pack it up." He Shiqi said as he hurriedly stuffed food into his mouth.
The coffin man picked up a large chicken drumstick for Little Lettuce and picked up the wine glass with a smile: "Come on, let's thank Xiao Linzi together."
Everyone smiled in unison, even Heiyan at the table grabbed a wine glass, stood up and clinked it with everyone else's glasses.
"bite-"
"Thank you for the treat, Rinko~~~"
Lian Youyou sipped the wine glass with a smile, wondering how the portrait of her was being painted by Aishuang.
"What I want to tell you today is a strange case among the people! It is said that a young girl fell in love with the wrong man at the prime of her life. That was her fate. It was her fate!"
The sound of storytelling came from outside. Lian smiled and pursed her lips. It was compiled into a book and sung into a song so quickly, and it became widely known. This would be more effective than Fu Mingrui sending the case files to various states and villages.
Lian stood up slowly, holding the wine glass in her hand and walked to the window. She poured the wine into the mirror lake outside the window. "Yu Pingting, you can close your eyes now."
The wine flowed into the Tianliu River, which ran through the Qian Dynasty, along with the water from the Mirror Lake. A human head, which had turned into dry bones, actually floated out of the river and was slowly washed up among the reeds on the river bank. A small boat passed by slowly, and the fisherman on the boat discovered the human head and screamed in fear.
The surrounding fishermen also rowed their boats closer, some reported to the authorities, and the brave ones began to speculate where the head came from. Based on the direction of the river, they inferred that it came from the capital.
"Could it be Yu Pingting's head?!" someone suddenly exclaimed.
Suddenly, the fishermen were stunned.
Those who have heard of Yu Pingting's story know that her head was chopped off by her mother-in-law and thrown into the village river. Baijia Village is in the direction of the capital, and the river eventually flows into the Tianliu River. The Tianliu River eventually flows into the East China Sea of Qianchao. In other words, if this head is not brought ashore today, it will enter the sea tomorrow and never return.
Everyone couldn't help but sigh that there must be a god behind all this.
After Fu Mingrui's trial, Duanmu Qingchen returned to the palace immediately. Fu Mingrui was a little surprised at how fast he returned. He thought that the prince would not return to the palace until the last minute of the three days, that is, at night. Unexpectedly, after he finished the trial, Duanmu Qingchen hurried back to the palace.
Duanmu Qingchen went straight to the Imperial Study Room when he returned to the palace. It was a surprise to Emperor Cheng that he rarely came to see him on his own. The prince usually avoided him and deliberately stayed away from him, fearing that he would ask him about his studies and punish him by making him copy scriptures.
"Father, I have been ordered by the Grand Tutor to investigate human nature in the past three days. In order to study human nature, I went to the Eight Gates to check the case files." Duanmu Qingchen suddenly became well-behaved in front of Emperor Cheng.
Emperor Cheng suddenly felt strange, but what was strange? Oh, his son was very serious today, and he actually called him father. Has he grown up? He frowned: "I heard that you made the Eight Gates so chaotic?! The Eight Gates is the most important government office in the capital! It is responsible for major criminal cases, so don't go and cause trouble for Fu Mingrui!"
Duanmu Qingchen looked at Emperor Cheng's face and continued to speak respectfully: "Father, during the three days I was in the Eight Gates, Fu Mingrui handled a strange case and examined a coffin. Would you like to listen?"
When Emperor Cheng heard about the coffin, he became interested. He put down his red brush and looked at Duanmu Qingchen: "Okay, tell me about it."
Duanmu Qingchen suddenly raised his head, clapped his hands, and said seriously: "It is said that a young girl is so pretty at the age of 28, but she married a heartless man and died~~~~~~~~~"
Emperor Cheng sat stiffly on the dragon throne. Was this prince going to tell a story? ! What on earth did he give birth to? ! (To be continued)