The rural doctor bought a husband who was very treacherous

Duke Cao's Mansion.

At the same time when Prime Minister Xie received the imperial edict, Duke Cao also met the eunuch who came to deliver the edict. Of course, there were two more people on their side.

Emperor Jing actually ordered people to bring Cao Ze and Xie Simin directly to Duke Cao's mansion.

After hearing Emperor Jing's order, Duke Cao picked up the wooden stick standing at the gate, turned around and hit Cao Ze with it.

When Cao Ze and Xie Simin were brought back, they were still in disarray, with their clothes loose and barely hanging on their bodies.

Cao Ze was hit on the back by Duke Cao with a stick. The sound of flesh hitting the stick frightened everyone present. Cao Ze even fell to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and fainted.

Cao Ze's mother, Zhang, cried and ran to Duke Cao, kneeled down, raised her hand and grabbed Duke Cao's arm, "Duke, please don't be so harsh because Ze'er has been weak and sick since childhood."

"You spoiled him so much. If I had known he would cause such a big disaster today, I should have strangled him to death when he was born!!"

Duke Cao pointed his stick at Cao Ze, his face still showing anger. "Listen to what the imperial edict says. The honor that our ancestors paid for with their blood has finally been ruined by him. It's all gone!!"

"Mother, you are still protecting him! He dared to do such a thing in the palace. Even if he had a brain, he would never do it!"

Cao Ze's elder brother, the eldest son of Duke Cao, looked at his mother and younger brother with nothing but disgust.

The imperial edict just issued not only demoted the Duke's Mansion's title, but also destroyed his hope of inheriting the title.

How could he not hate it at this moment!

Normally, this younger brother would rely on his mother's favor and often get into trouble in Kyoto, but every time he got into trouble, his mother would dotingly help him to settle it.

He would remind his mother before that his brother was so unscrupulous that he would always cause trouble that she would not be able to deal with.

But after hearing his reminder, his mother would always ask him to think about how weak his younger brother was when he was a child.

Now what he said before has finally come true, but why should he and the entire Cao family bear the consequences of this disaster!

He was unwilling to give up, seeing that his mother was still begging his father to let his brother go.

He could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and looked at his mother who was still crying on the ground, then closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, his tightly pursed lips moved, "Mother is old, she should rest in the Buddhist temple on weekdays, and she won't have to worry about the family affairs anymore."

Zhang suddenly looked up, with touching tears still on her face. She looked at her eldest son in front of her in disbelief.

Even though she didn't pay much attention to her eldest son on weekdays, she still showed the care she should give to him.

But I didn’t expect that the eldest son just said such words!

A woman came up to Zhang and asked her to go to the Buddhist temple.

Zhang looked at Duke Cao with tears in her eyes, only to find that Duke Cao didn't even look at her at this moment.

In the end, Zhang was carried away by the old women, and she didn't cry or make a fuss.

"Dad, what should we do with these two people?" Cao Hao, the eldest son of the Cao family, walked up to Duke Cao and asked.

"His Majesty has issued an order to let them get married and send the two to a farm in the countryside. Cao Ze will no longer be the young master of the manor. When he and that bitch go to the farm, they will have to earn their own food, clothing and other expenses!"

Duke Cao just glanced at Cao Ze, turned around, took the imperial edict from the eunuch, thanked him, and then turned and left.

Xie Simin shrank in place the whole time. She had not yet recovered from the shock of being granted marriage to Cao Ze. When she heard what Duke Cao called her, only sadness remained in her tear-swollen eyes.

She crawled up from the ground and wanted to talk to Duke Cao to ask her to go back to Xie’s house first. She wanted to ask her father what was going on.

She didn't want to marry Cao Ze, and she didn't want to go to the Cao family's farm in the countryside. "I am the legitimate daughter of Prime Minister Xie, and I want to go back to the Xie Mansion!"

The moment the Cao family's servants saw Xie Simin stand up, someone reached out to stop her.

Those servants grabbed Xie Simin's arms without any mercy. Xie Simin felt as if her arms were about to be strangled by these people.

But before she could even cry out in pain, another thunderclap sounded beside her. "Oh, what is Prime Minister Xie? Prime Minister Xie has been demoted to a commoner, and he has probably been kicked out of the Prime Minister's Mansion now."

The person who spoke was the eunuch who was delivering the imperial edict and had been staying at the Cao family. He knew the content of the other imperial edict targeting the Xie family.

"What! How could this happen? Aunt Queen, Aunt Queen will not ignore the Xie family. I am obviously the one who was hurt..." Xie Simin was still pretending to be a victim and said miserably.

"Humph, now that the imperial edict has been delivered, it's time for me to go back and report."

Even though Duke Cao was demoted to a marquis, he was still above the third rank. Moreover, the courtyard of the Duke's Mansion was a reward given to the Cao family by the late emperor when the Cao family was conferred the title of Duke.

Therefore, the Cao family did not ask the people to clear out the yard and leave. After the eunuch who delivered the order finished speaking, he took the palace guards who came with him and left the Cao Mansion.

Cao Hao personally went out of the house and sent the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict away. He also gave a purse filled with silver to each of the eunuch and the several guards who came to deliver the imperial edict.

After returning, Cao Hao looked at Cao Ze and Xie Simin who were still unconscious and said, "Send them to a farm in the countryside, as far away as possible."

After Cao Hao finished speaking, he also entered the inner courtyard.

A servant immediately came forward, carried Cao Ze and Xie Simin and walked out.

"Don't touch me, I am the eldest daughter of the Xie family, you slaves, don't touch me..."

Xie Simin struggled hard, and one servant thought she was too noisy, so he made her struggle even harder and simply slapped Xie Simin on the neck.

Xie Simin immediately collapsed.

"Is this a bad thing?" a servant asked worriedly.

"What's wrong with it? How is she different from us now?" said the servant who had just knocked Xie Simin unconscious nonchalantly.

"Oh, that's right."

The servant who was holding Xie Simin's other arm lifted her up, and his hands were pinching Xie Simin's arm repeatedly.

"I heard that this woman did that kind of thing with the second young master in the palace. This noble lady is the same as those women in the brothels."

"Hey, I just need a man..."

Now Xie Simin is no longer a noble lady in front of these servants. They have all heard the imperial edict just now.

Soon Xie Simin and Cao Ze were sent to a place far away from Kyoto.

When Su Tang woke up the next day, she also heard about what happened in the Xie and Cao mansions.

The Cao family was also unlucky in yesterday's incident, but she had also asked Chunmei and the others, and they knew that Cao Ze was not a good person either, and it was not unfair for him to be dragged down as a scapegoat.

"Where did the people from the Xie family move to?" Su Tang picked up the small spoon on the table and stirred the lean meat porridge in front of her.

"The Xie family is in a farm outside the city." Chunmei picked up some side dishes and placed them on the small plate in front of Su Tang.

"Well, they took all the stuff away? So the Xie Mansion is empty now and no one lives there?"

"It's been sealed." Chunmei replied.