Liu's hysteria did not allow her to see Du Shichu. Instead, because of her forced entry into the Princess's Mansion, Du Shichu sent her to Jingzhao Mansion with guards.
When Mrs. Liu heard this order coming from the mouth of the servant who gave the message, she was so frightened that cold sweat suddenly broke out from her body, and her heart almost jumped out of her chest. Going to Jingzhao Mansion? How does this work? She had a guilty conscience to begin with, how could she dare to go there? !
"I won't go to Jingzhao Mansion! I don't see the princess anymore, don't send me to Jingzhao Mansion..." Ms. Liu had a typical guilty conscience. Because she was afraid of being sent to Jingzhao Mansion, her rationality suddenly disappeared and she refused to live or die. Go to see the official.
The person who sent the message felt confused and said: "Mrs. Zhou, didn't you say before that you knew about the robbers and wanted to tell our princess? You went to Jingzhao Mansion to tell the adults who were investigating the case. Why did you Are you so resistant?"
Mrs. Liu suddenly choked up when she heard his question. Could she say that she had a guilty conscience?
So she had nothing to say and was taken away by the guards without mercy, including several of her servants.
As for how Liu would cover up his lies after being sent to Jingzhao Mansion, Du Shichu didn't know.
This matter is actually very simple. The plan of Zhou Yizhu and Liu's mother and son was too crude and simple. As soon as the people from Jingzhao Mansion interrogated the "robbers", the "robbers" hurriedly sold Zhou Yizhu. If Zhou Yizhu had been more cautious before and asked other people to act instead of asking these fake robbers to act, then this case might still require a lot of effort. However, Zhou Yizhu was smart enough to meet the fake robbers directly. He didn't even think about concealing his identity in front of him. Didn't he just let people ask him about it?
He probably thought that after he successfully "hero rescued the beauty", no one would care about the whereabouts of the "robber", so he didn't bother to think about the aftermath at all.
So Zhou Yizhu, who was still recovering from his injuries in Huguo Temple, was escorted back to Beijing for trial that day.
Originally, he wanted to grit his teeth and refuse to admit it, and maybe even deny it, but the person who was investigating the case would not be polite to him, so he slapped him three times before he confessed very spinelessly. He had no choice but to do so. He was injured himself, and he was not a person who could bear hardships. He was beaten a few times, the wound burst, and there was severe pain in his back. He immediately admitted with tears in his eyes that the so-called robbery incident was actually written and directed by him. .
When the facts of this case were presented to the emperor by the Jingzhao Mansion, the emperor was almost furious. He cursed a few times, "How unreasonable" and "How unreasonable". Then he severely punished Zhou Yizhu for daring to scheme against Du Shichu. Of course, this also meant to scare the monkeys, and to warn some people that there would be a price to pay for scheming against Du Shichu.
In the end, Zhou Yizhu was deprived of his honors and was not allowed to take the imperial examination again for life. He was also sentenced to five years in prison. After he came out, he was basically a useless person.
As an accomplice, Ms. Liu was forced to deprive herself of her imperial edict and was sentenced to two years in prison.
As for Zhou Zhen, although he did not know in advance what his wife and children were doing, as a family member, he did not strictly discipline his family and taught his children poorly. The emperor felt that he was not good at running a family, so what could he do to help govern the world? So his official position was demoted three levels in a row and he was demoted to a remote and impoverished area as a county magistrate. This was considered to be lenient to him, and he was not removed from his post after all.
However, this result is not very good for Zhou Zhen who has been obsessed with climbing all his life. After all, he is already in his forties. At this age, he was relegated to a remote area. It is almost impossible to return to the capital in this life, and his The other sons are not outstanding either. It can be said that the entire Zhou family has regressed overnight to the time when he had not yet passed the imperial examination more than 20 years ago. For this reason, he deeply hates Zhou Yizhu, the culprit, and feels that It was because of him that the Zhou family could not gain a foothold in the capital, let alone develop.
No matter how resentful, upset, and regretful the Zhou family was, the matter was a foregone conclusion. Du Shichu finally got rid of the Zhou family who had been staring at her and trying to climb up by stepping on her, and he felt extremely happy.
As another cousin of Du Shichu, Liu Wei'an broke into a cold sweat after knowing what happened to the Zhou family. If he hadn't given up before and thought about how to gradually get closer to Du Shichu, then now he is I have no idea at all. I just want to maintain a polite and distant relationship with Du Shichu.
In fact, in the past two years, Liu Wei'an has also passed the Jinshi examination through his own efforts, but his ranking was very low, so even if he was awarded an official, he was only a very inconspicuous minor official. Although the Liu family has some reputation among literati, the Liu family is free to do so. The business in his hometown in the city was good, and no one was an official in the government, so Liu Wei'an was alone in the capital and had no help in his official career. He had only thought about trying to get Du Shichu before, but he didn't dare to do so after this time.
It's not that the Liu family didn't write to Du Shichu, asking her to help Liu Wei'an, but relationships need to be maintained. In the past ten years, the Liu family had never contacted Du Shichu. When they wanted to take advantage of her, They just sent her letters, how could Du Shichu pay attention to them? So even if the Liu family later became angry and wrote letters to reprimand her as an elder, Du Shichu turned a blind eye to them all, and later even stopped reading their letters.
"Zhou Zhen removed Zhou Yizhu from the family and disowned his son and the Liu family. He directly gave the Liu family a letter of divorce and then left the capital with his remaining children and concubines. "Wu Xiaoran came to the princess's mansion to tell Du Shichu about the follow-up situation of the Zhou family.
Du Shichu nodded indifferently after hearing this. What happened to the Zhou family had nothing to do with her.
"Sister, you won't feel sad because of them, right?" Wu Xiaoran carefully observed Du Shichu's expression for a while and asked hesitantly.
After Du Shichu heard what he said, his eyes widened in surprise. She asked Wu Xiaoran in confusion: "Brother, why do you think I would feel sorry for the Zhou family? I have no contact with them at all, but they have always been You just want to have a relationship with me, how could I feel sad for someone who has nothing to do with me? You really think too much."
"...After all, they are somewhat related to your mother and concubine?" Wu Xiaoran said.
"I don't care about the Liu family anymore, why should I care about a distant relative who is separated by who knows how many generations?" Du Shichu sneered.
"By the way, you don't think that I am cold and heartless, and that I don't recognize my relatives, which is contrary to filial piety, right?" Du Shichu suddenly remembered that today is not the indifferent society of later generations. In this era, relatives are still valued very much. She is so She is deviant and rebellious. Will her brother have any objections to her?
Wu Xiaoran looked at her with his dark phoenix eyes: "You asked me this question?"
