met free Chapter 126 Died
Chapter 126 Died
Hearing the magistrate's question, Song's mother and others, who were not in a hurry at first, suddenly panicked.
"My Lord, please understand, we are not colluding with the bandits. Those bandits came here on their own, and it has nothing to do with us."
"Yeah, it has nothing to do with us. They came here on their own."
Several women rushed to explain themselves, but the magistrate just sneered.
"I think you're still not telling the truth. You just disliked this girl, and then the bandits kidnapped her. How could it be such a coincidence?"
Shen Yitian raised her eyebrows when she heard this. Well, this sounds reasonable.
"Your Excellency, please be wise. We really didn't do it!" Several women were frightened to death. No one knew who took the lead, but they began to kowtow.
The magistrate looked at Shen Yitian calmly, and when he saw that she did not express her opinion on the matter, he snorted coldly.
"He is still not honest on the road of exile and falsely accuses others of trying to escape. It's simply despicable." He slammed the table and was frightened to see several women kneeling and begging for mercy below.
"Come here, drag these men away and give them twenty lashes of the cane. The leader, fifty lashes of the cane."
After sentencing these people, he suddenly remembered that these were not the people under his rule, but the exiled prisoners escorted by Yuan Dutou, so he looked at Yuan Dutou again.
"Captain, do you have any objection to this decision?"
This is a very friendly way to seek Yuan Dutou's opinion.
"No problem. Those who like to stir up trouble should be punished." Yuan Dutou said indifferently.
He was also fed up with these prisoners who kept causing trouble.
Since you like to stir up trouble, you must be prepared to be punished.
The beatings used by the magistrate of Liuyuan County were not the same as those used by Yuan Dutou on the road. The beatings used by the county magistrate were all of special quality, heavy and thick.
Every time the victim was hit, it felt like his bones were broken.
The women who caused the trouble were pressed onto the torture bench one by one, beaten one by one, and cried out in pain.
Shen Yitian couldn't bear to listen to it, so she said something to Yuan Dutou and went straight upstairs.
Yue Niang also took Fugui'er and returned to the dormitory after getting permission from Yuan Dutou.
Before leaving, Fuguier looked at Song Xiaer with pity in his eyes and said, "Come back to your room with us."
Just now Yue Niang said that children should not watch such bloody scenes.
He didn't understand what it meant, but he now felt that what Yue Niang said was right, so he wanted to take Song Xiaer, who was also a child, back to the room.
But Aunt Song was being beaten outside, so how could Song Xiaer leave?
The little girl ignored him and didn't even look at him.
Fuguier felt a little embarrassed and subconsciously wanted to go up and forcibly pull Song Xiaer away.
Anyway, he was taller than Song Xiaer and was not afraid of the girl's resistance at all.
Yue Niang immediately saw what he was going to do and grabbed him by the collar before he could move forward.
"Come back to my room quickly. What are you doing?" Yue Niang scolded him with gritted teeth.
On this side, Fugui'er had just been dragged back to the room with the big bunk bed by Yue Niang when Aunt Song San, who had been beaten the most, fainted.
The doctor who had just been invited had not left yet, so the magistrate simply asked him to go and see Aunt Song.
"Sir, this woman's pulse is weak. I'm afraid she can't be treated anymore," he said as soon as he felt her pulse.
"I just noticed that she has old injuries. If she's not seriously ill, it's fine. But if she has any old injuries, they're bound to be triggered."
The doctor's words are very pertinent.
He was invited by Shen Yitian, but what needed to be done had already been done.
Now he is speaking from the perspective of a doctor.
The magistrate was not impressed by his words. "She is indeed a shrew. What old injury? She must have been beaten on the road because she was not honest."
Yuan Dutou nodded and said, "Yes, she was dishonest more than once on the road, and I gave her ten strokes of the cane."
It was said that there were ten strokes of the board, but the beatings were not as heavy as those inflicted by the yamen runners.
If these yamen runners took action, ten strokes of the cane would not allow them to walk normally.
The prefect sneered and said to the doctor, "A cunning woman is a cunning woman. Showing mercy, Captain, will only make these people despise your authority even more. Since she is so cunning, then continue to beat her. Wake her up, and I will make her be punished while she is awake."
Yuan Dutou raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
Soon, Aunt Song was beaten unconscious again. She woke up and was beaten unconscious again, repeating this countless times until she didn't even have the strength to cry out in pain.
Song Yuerong and others looked at her lower body covered in blood and couldn't help but turn their heads away.
When I thought that I would be punished like this later, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.
To see how hard the bailiffs hit, just look at the young hunter who was lying on the ground unable to get up after being beaten with ten boards and had to be dragged away.
He, a strong young man, couldn't even withstand ten beatings, let alone Aunt Song who had an old injury.
The woman died before she was beaten with fifty boards.
Everyone was terrified. Several women who were detained by the yamen runners sobbed and cried softly. It was unclear whether they were crying for Aunt Song who had passed away or for themselves who were about to be beaten.
Aunt Song, who had died, was dragged off the torture bench and left there. The bailiff didn't even glance at her before dragging the next person to be tortured onto it.
Song Xiaer finally mustered up the strength to break free from Xiao Yu's hands and rushed directly towards Aunt Song's body.
"Mom, mom, what's wrong with you? Wake up." The little girl didn't know what death was, and just kept shaking her mother's body.
Even people who don't usually interact with them couldn't help but be moved when they saw this scene.
The few people behind were not knocked unconscious, but the yamen runners hit them very hard, and they were unable to walk on their own after being tortured.
Song Yuerong still has her mother to support her, so Yue Niang, the second sister-in-law, can only rely on her own children.
The half-grown child doesn't even know how to take care of himself, but has to learn to take care of her.
Sister-in-law Yue Niang couldn't bear to see this, so she had to ask Daya to go over and help.
"She's your second aunt after all, so go and help her. Help her to the bunk room and get a basin of water to wipe her body."
After saying that, she walked over to her second brother's wife and said, "You have some money on you, right? I'll ask the doctor to check you out, and you can pay for it yourself."
Yue Niang's second sister-in-law nodded weakly, but her eyes were full of resentment.
If she could speak, she really wanted to question her sister-in-law. She was in such a state that why couldn't her sister-in-law help pay some of the medical fees?
The farce downstairs was finally over. When Shengsheng came up, she told Shen Yitian that the magistrate had someone wrap Aunt Song's body in a straw mat and threw it into the nearby mountains.
Yuan Dutou has already written the official document, and the county magistrate will take it back, stamp it, and send it back to the capital.
After that, there was no longer any Aunt Song in their team.