Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Now he even instigated his eldest son to help the Wei family escape. It would have been fine if he had failed, but he was caught and beaten with forty lashes.

Not only that, the little girl of the Wei family was so shameless that she jumped out and cried for mercy. As a result, his eldest son took the ten beatings for her.

When he just finished the stick attack, his eldest son was breathing out but not in, and he was almost beaten to death on the spot.

But that vixen from the Wei family not only didn't say a word of thanks, she also kept chattering, rolling her eyes and scolding his son for being so useless, saying that he couldn't even withstand ten strokes of the cane and was simply a waste.

The old couple of the Gao family were so angry that their eyes turned black and they almost suffocated...

To be honest, Madam Gao is not without responsibility. When she first met her husband, she was attracted by Wei Bizhi, the daughter of the Shangshu family.

Although he had the idea of ​​climbing up the social ladder and thinking that through marriage, the Shangshu would at least help his eldest son.

Besides, Wei Bizhi had a good reputation in the imperial city. Whenever she went out, everyone would say that Wei Bizhi of the Wei family was dignified, beautiful and intelligent.

Who would have thought that those flattering words were nothing but false rumors spread by the outside world in an attempt to curry favor with the Wei family.

It was only after the emperor was furious and his property was confiscated and he was exiled that Madam Gao saw clearly that Wei Bizhi, the third daughter of the Wei family who was well-known throughout the world, was actually such a despicable and unscrupulous person.

Fortunately, the person he married was not Wei Bizhi from the Wei family, although his eldest son was forced to marry a merchant girl, which was not satisfactory.

But marrying a merchant's daughter is better than marrying a troublemaker.

There is no harm without comparison.

Seeing her eldest daughter-in-law acting crazy for her son, her eyes bloodshot, and looking around for help like a headless fly, Mrs. Gao felt a little softened.

Someone among the chaotic prisoners murmured, "Isn't there a female doctor over there at the entrance? Why bother with them? It's exhausting."

"That's right. Even with the female doctor here, they still make a fuss. A merchant's daughter is a merchant's daughter. Even if she marries into a wealthy family, she still can't be presentable. No wonder Madam Gao has never liked her eldest daughter-in-law."

"Hey, keep your voice down. She's very anxious right now. If her husband dies, it will be even harder for this merchant girl to survive in her husband's family."

"That's right, you should stop talking too much. I think your man is not that good either."

"Bah, what do you mean, if the fire burns on my head, you will die."

……

The exiles were already extremely annoyed by the series of events that had happened today. They finally got a chance to take a break, but were woken up again. It would be strange if they were in a good mood right now.

Mrs. Gao originally thought that her eldest daughter-in-law was concerned about her son, but after hearing everyone's gossip, the slight change in her mind was shattered.

The eldest lady of the Gao family didn't care about what others were saying at this moment. She just grabbed the "female doctor" that everyone was talking about, and ran towards the cave entrance in a hurry, like a drowning person grabbing the last piece of driftwood.

"Hey, hey, what are you doing? Go back, go back to me." The night watchman found that some exiles were not following the rules and running around, so he hurriedly shouted at them and stepped forward to stop them.

But at this moment, Mrs. Gao could no longer care about many things. When she was stopped by the yamen runners, she simply knelt on the ground and kowtowed to them, crying and howling, "Sir, sir, please let me find a doctor to save my husband. My husband has a severe fever. If he is not saved, he will die. Please, sir, please be flexible, please be flexible."

The eldest lady of the Gao family was really anxious to save people. The "bang bang bang" sound of her head hitting the ground hit people's hearts so hard that those women who were gossiping about others behind their backs and talking loudly or laughing softly couldn't help but stop laughing when they saw this.

The eldest lady of the Gao family hit her head hard, and blood started to seep out of her forehead after a few hits. The blood flowed along her high nose bridge into two streams and flowed straight down.

The two yamen runners who stepped forward to stop the man were a little confused by his sudden kneeling and begging for mercy.

An older man hardened his heart and shouted at her to go back, otherwise she should not blame him for being merciless with the stick.

His many years of experience in escorting exiles told him that if he opened this loophole tonight, the other exiles would follow suit and find ways to cause trouble for them on the way. Would this team still be able to be managed?

Moreover, since they set out on the journey, each of their yamen runners had obtained the basic information of the three exiled prisoners they were escorting, and they had a certain understanding of the prisoners, including the merchant daughter-in-law of the Gao family, who they also knew a little bit about.

To be honest, it is a very common way of concluding marriages, to raise your head to marry your daughter and lower your head to marry your wife.

A merchant's daughter who married into an official family would definitely suffer a lot. They also understood the difficulties of the Gao family's daughter-in-law, but sympathy is sympathy, and management is management, and the two cannot be confused.

Therefore, no matter how pitiful and sympathetic Gao's daughter-in-law was, he couldn't open the door to this.

When Gao's daughter-in-law heard the yamen runner's cold and unquestioning words asking her to go back, her heart suddenly sank as if she had fallen into an ice cave, feeling so cold.

Go back? How?

If her husband didn't survive and died on the way to exile, then she and her two children would not be able to reach their destination alive. They might be quietly killed by their mother-in-law on the way.

She knew that her mother-in-law looked down on her family background and only married her because rumors were rampant, forcing her father-in-law to open his mouth and allow the eldest son to marry her.

As a daughter of a merchant, she could not help her husband in the officialdom. Because of her, her parents-in-law were very unhappy with their children, but what could she do?

The accident caused him and the eldest son to fall into the water together, and they had physical contact in front of everyone.

Afterwards, the news of their romantic accident spread throughout the imperial city.

If she didn't marry the eldest son, her fate would be to be forced by her stepmother to have her hair cut off and become a nun, or to hang herself with a white silk thread.

No matter what, even though she knew that the eldest son of the Shangshu Shilang family had someone in his heart, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and marry into the Shangshu Shilang's mansion with the generous dowry her mother left for her.

Even though her husband had sex with her on their wedding night, and she was very lucky to have twins, her husband never touched her again after that. The couple lived in peace and harmony for several years.

But now, she put aside the last bit of her dignity and knelt down to beg the bailiff, not only for her husband's life, but also for her own children.

The eldest lady of the Gao family not only did not stop kowtowing, but she kowtowed even harder. She was probably really afraid that her children would have no future before they even grew up.

The eldest lady was really begging the yamen runners to be flexible and allow her to find a doctor to save her husband. If the doctor also said that her husband could not be saved, she would give up completely and would not bother him any more.