Chapter 181 Tears of the Oiran
But the drum of the Dengwen was already ringing, and the woman was taken down and was punished by thirty rods. Only after she survived could she meet the emperor.
Si Moli had already made arrangements. When he was slandering the stick, those people restrained their strength. Although they were beaten hard, they actually would not hurt the vital points.
Even so, the woman still seemed to have lost half of her life. She was covered in sweat and collapsed on the torture stool for a long time.
A palace maid came to help her clean her clothes and change into a clean set of clothes. Only then did the guards come over and help her to the Golden Palace.
Many court officials were very shocked. The Dengwen Drum had not sounded for more than ten years, but the little woman had the courage to be beaten to death. I wonder what major case would be triggered.
The emperor's eyes fell on the woman, and the eunuch beside him asked in a sharp voice: "Who is your highness, what are the injustice?"
After the woman was helped in, she kept kneeling down and her hair blocked her face. When she looked up, the person on one side was calm, while the person on the other side was frightened.
Just because there was a deep and terrifying scar on her left face, she tore her left face apart.
If there was no such injury, he would have been considered a charming beauty.
The woman kowtowed three times tremblingly, calmed down her mood, and then said slowly: "The little girl is named Su Yiyi, from Pingde County. This time she beat the Dengwen Drum to reveal the inside story of the bandits in Pingde County, make injustice for the little girl's husband, and beg the emperor to find my husband's bones for her daughter!"
Her voice was melodious and sad at this moment, making people feel unbearable.
When the court officials heard that it was related to the bandits in Pingde County, they immediately felt energetic.
Tears in the woman's eyes slid down, and through her narrative, everyone knew the whole story.
Su Yiyi doesn't remember who her parents are. When she was very young, she was abducted by human traffickers. Because she has grown up well since childhood, she was sold directly to a brothel in Pingde County.
Although she cried, she was still young after all. After being hungry and beating a few times, she gradually became obedient.
The brothel saw that she was a beauty. Although she treated her as a maid, she had been urinating well since she was a child. She taught her to learn to read and learn to write, and also taught her to play music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She was a little older and didn't have to do heavy work anymore, but she had to start learning charm and take care of her body.
When she was fifteen years old and had a hairpin, she was really beautiful and charming. Her frown and smile were both charming and girlish. She immediately sold her first night at a high price.
Due to the early publicity of the madam, she turned into a very popular courtesan lady. In that night, the cost was earned back.
Later, her reputation became more and more famous, and many men from other places came to visit her and spent a lot of money just to spend a moment with her.
Among the guests who came, some were gentle, while others were happy to humiliate the woman. Su Yiyi thought that this was the case in this life, but the development of the story always fell into clichés. The scholar passed by the brothel and heard the sound of the piano. When he stopped, he accidentally saw the courtesan lady and fell in love with her at first sight.
He saved up money for a long time and was able to get together overnight, but he sat upright without touching his hands.
The two talked all night, and Su Yiyi was also attracted by his talent.
She once cruelly revealed the facts, hoping that he could forget to marry a good girl: "Don't you dislike my identity? When you are not here, I am under someone else's body every night. Do you understand?"
But the scholar had a serious face: "The world is difficult, and it is not what the girl wants to fall into the world. If I hadn't met a girl, I might have been confused for the rest of my life, but when I met you, I knew I had only one idea, which was to redeem you and give you a place to live."
Su Yiyi was made of crying and laughing by his words: "You don't have money, how can you redeem me for you?"
"I can save it. Of course, the young actor knows that his status is low. If a girl has a better choice, she can leave this place, as long as the girl can be happy."
"You are just greedy for my face. When I get old and my face no longer exists, you will regret wasting your time today."
"How could I regret it?" The scholar chuckled: "If the girl's face is no longer, it will be cheaper for me, and the ransom will probably be lower."
Su Yiyi was moved by him and finally made a decision.
She likes to go to the suburbs to hike the mountains and enjoy the scenery. She takes this opportunity to bury the gold, silver and wealth she had secretly saved in the mountains. She originally planned to get old and Chunlou didn't want her anymore, so she could dig out the money and find a place to spend her late child.
Now, she has entrusted all this to the scholar, betting on him with sincerity.
The scholar was extremely serious: "Yiyi, when I come back, I will redeem you for you, and I will marry you in the eight-carrying sedan chair!"
After the scholar left, he never came back.
Su Yiyi firmly believed that he would come to redeem her. In order not to accept customers, she scratched her face with her own hands.
Her face turned bad. A year after that, no customers looked for her. The madam held a grudge in her heart, beat her up, threw her out of the brothel, and laughed at her for her delusions.
When Su Yiyi arrived on the mountain, she found that her belongings were still buried there.
When she heard that there were bandits on the mountain, she became suspicious and pretended to be captured, worked as a laborer in the mountain village, and endured humiliation. It was not until the court sent someone to investigate again that the bandit leader became alert and pieced together the truth from their conversation.
Su Yiyi knelt on the ground, crying: "Your Majesty, when the imperial court came to suppress the bandits, but the officials and bandits colluded with each other. Those who died were not bandits at all, but innocent people in the villages in the mountains outside Pingde County!"
All the people in that entire village were massacred, including scholars.
His parents died early, and only his grandmother still lives in the village. When he went back this time, he wanted to tell his grandmother that he was about to marry and that he would set up a wedding hall at home.
Su Yiyi would know this because the bandits were looking for him, afraid that his wife who had not passed the door would become suspicious.
But the people from the county government said that no one went to Pingde County to report the case, so they felt at ease.
Not only that, according to the bandit leader, there are also big men in Kyoto who are protecting them, so there is no need to be afraid.
So, after Su Yiyi escaped, she chose to go directly to Kyoto. Someone told her that she could meet the emperor as long as she beat the Dengyin drum!
After hearing her words, the Golden Palace fell silent for a moment, leaving only Su Yiyi's sorrowful crying.
Killing good people and taking credit for it is a serious crime!
If the crime of killing the people and using the heads of good people as their own credit, if such a crime is verified, then Sun Desheng's family will not even be exiled and will be executed directly.
Is Sun Desheng, the big shot in Kyoto mentioned by the bandits? Or is it the third prince...
Chapter completed!