Ma Ye's tears did not arouse Qiao Chu's sympathy or soft-heartedness.
Qiao Chu just looked at him, waiting for him to calm down.
In fact, it didn't take long for Mr. Ma to control his emotions. He straightened his clothes and asked Qiao Chu: "I don't know what kind of result Mrs. Chen wants."
"The result will be whatever the prefect decides." Qiao Chu said solemnly, "I will not take special care of you, and I will also tell others not to take special care of you."
Mr. Ma breathed a sigh of relief and started thinking again: As long as Qiao Chu didn't deliberately want to kill his mother-in-law...
"But..." Qiao Chu looked at Mr. Ma, his expression gradually becoming grim.
Mr. Ma then became nervous: he was afraid of failure in everything.
Qiao Chu stared at Mr. Ma: "I also need fairness. Therefore, you can't take care of anything, no matter how you use it... Otherwise, I will ask for fairness."
Master Ma was sweating all over the floor.
"Ma Tengyun, I want to remind you that I, Qiao Chu, have never been a Bodhisattva. I don't care because I haven't reached my bottom line." After Qiao Chu finished speaking, he looked at Mr. Ma.
"..." Mr. Ma's knees softened and he almost knelt down.
When Mr. Ma came back to his senses, he realized that Qiao Chu had left the hall, leaving him alone, and his back was already soaked.
Mr. Ma left the yard in despair.
When Mrs. Ma first went to the magistrate's office, she was still lucky: now in Ningyuan City, Boss Sun has not shown up for a long time, but her husband's career is at its peak.
No matter who talks about Ma Teng Yun and Boss Ma, they must give a thumbs up.
I don't think there will be any serious consequences. The relationship between my man and Qiao Chu is also quite good, so it shouldn't be anything bad.
However, after the prefect's Yamen brought Mrs. Ma over, they immediately asked her to kneel down and started questioning her, asking if it was what the man said.
Mrs. Ma naturally refused to admit it.
The prefect's Yamen also called Mrs. Ma's personal mother-in-law over for questioning.
The mother-in-law didn't admit it at first, so the prefect's Yamen immediately punished her.
Where has the mother-in-law ever seen such a posture? She didn't even hit the board twice before she admitted it with a howling voice. Not only did she admit it, she also added many details.
Now Mrs. Ma couldn't admit it anymore: "I had such thoughts...but nothing happened to Mrs. Chen. I can apologize to her."
The new prefect did not give up: "Mrs. Chen is the head of the county personally consecrated by His Majesty the Emperor. How can you get away with murdering the head of the county by just apologizing? According to the law, you will be punished with twenty sticks and be exiled for three thousand miles!"
Twenty sticks?
Are you going to be exiled for three thousand miles?!
"No, no, no...it doesn't matter...the snake is dead too, and Mrs. Chen doesn't do anything either...why is it so important?" Mrs. Ma became anxious.
"Ignorant woman!" the prefect snorted contemptuously, and immediately asked the Yamen servant to get on the board.
The twenty sticks crackled and began to beat. On the long bench, one of the women who was doing it held down Mrs. Ma, and the other began to count.
Playing on the board is a real personal experience.
Mrs. Ma, who had been pampered for more than ten years, immediately began to cry and howl.
"Ouch! Ma Tengyun! You are a murderer! Come and save me..."
"Ma Tengyun! You spoil your concubine and destroy your wife. You are nothing!"
"Ma Tengyun, do you want to watch me be beaten to death?"
Later, I was probably confused by the pain and resentful in my heart, so I started scolding Qiao Chu.
"Qiao Chu, you are a black-hearted person! I don't care about you at all, how can you be so cruel!"
"You actually asked the prefect to hit me?! You are bullying others..."
Mrs. Ma cursed, the board stopped, and a pair of official boots came to stand in front of her.
Huh?
Apparently we just counted fifteen boards?
Aren’t you going to hit twenty?
What does the prefect want to do?
Was he scolded to the core of his heart and made him feel guilty?!
Mrs. Ma howled and looked up. In her tearful eyes, she saw the prefect with a serious and stern look on his face. He was standing on the steps condescendingly looking at her. His eyes were full of indifference and...pity.
Mrs. Ma was inexplicably made to feel guilty by such a look, and then she was so frightened that she dared not say anything anymore.
The Lord Magistrate looked at the embarrassed and stupid woman in front of him and said in a deep voice: "Mrs. Ma Wu, you are ignorant, but I need to follow the court's laws."
"You said the county mistress asked me to slap you, but in fact she didn't."
"I have never seen the county mistress since I came to Ningyuan City, and she has not asked anyone to express or imply that I will beat you or exile you."
"Today you slandered the imperial officials. According to the law, you can be sentenced to more than three years in prison."
"If you are punished for several crimes today, I will not imprison you. I will sentence you to be executed and exiled to Qiongzhou. You will not be able to leave for the rest of your life. You will not be pardoned."
Mrs. Ma looked at the prefect blankly. Before she could realize how serious the matter was, the board came down again!
"eighteen!"
"nineteen!"
"Twenty! Report to the magistrate, the execution is over!"
"Exiled immediately!" The official boots turned and the footsteps faded away. A woman stepped forward, lifted Mrs. Ma's arms and threw her on a cart. Two government servants stepped forward and hitched a horse.
Just walked outside.
The carriage was traveling on the streets of Ningyuan City, and there was a lot of people and bustle. When they saw Mrs. Ma lying on the cart with her clothes stained with blood on her waist and hips, people immediately started pointing and talking.
Madam Ma was ashamed and angry, but also panicked. She looked up hard to find the familiar figure.
But it didn't.
There was no familiar figure among those who were pointing and talking around.
"Ma Tengyun!"
"Old horse..."
The city gate was getting closer and closer, and as she was about to leave the city, Mrs. Ma shouted in despair.
"Mother! Mother..." A frightened and sad call came from behind, it was his daughters Xiaoyu and Houde.
Ma Xiaoyu was reminded by the government servant's mother-in-law and hurried home to pack her mother's luggage and send it over, but she didn't catch up with her until the cart was about to leave the city.
"Xiao Yu! Where is your father? Tell your father to come and save me!" Mrs. Ma called out urgently as if she had seen a life-saving straw.
Ma Xiaoyu stuffed the baggage into Mrs. Ma's arms on the carriage, and stuffed two silver notes into the escorting officer.
The government officials probably got orders and didn't dare to accept the banknotes. They looked left and right and said, "Just a few words, finish quickly and leave!"
Ma Xiaoyu was panicking. Thinking of her father's advice, she could only hold back her tears and keep the story short: "My dad went to beg Mrs. Chen, but Mrs. Chen said that what she wants is fairness."
"If my father wants to use money to save you, she will also use her connections to ask the prefect to give you a harsh sentence to see who is more powerful. My father will not dare to use money anymore."
"Mom, I'm just living a good life, why are you doing this?!"
Mrs. Ma was shocked by the complaint in her daughter's words. She didn't know what to say for a moment: "I... I'm not doing this for you..."
"But mother, I didn't ask you to kill people... Then if Mrs. Chen is really dead, you will be beheaded!" Ma Xiaoyu's eyes were filled with tears, "When you go to Qiongzhou, you will be all over the world.
……I……"
My biological children, I don’t know if I will ever have the chance to meet again in this life!