Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 668: Chapter 668: Setting Up a Private Court Room

The medicine pageboy glanced at the crowd: “My Old Master said, Miss YingEr’s condition is dangerous and needs someone to help and protect her at all times. Who is willing to come?”

“Me!” “I’ll come!” “Let me go!”

The crowd suddenly squeezed together.

The medicine pageboy impatiently shook his head: “This is a delicate task, and there is no room for mistakes. We need someone who can read and knows acupoints. Those who are clumsy and prone to mistakes need not apply. Don’t blame our Old Master for his poor medical skills if something goes wrong!”

Who could read and knew acupoints?

The crowd unconsciously took a step back, realizing that causing the death of a person wasn’t a joking matter.

Only Liu Sisi didn’t back down and instead stepped forward: “Pageboy, although I don’t know acupoints, I can read. Can I go in and take care of YingEr?”

The medicine pageboy hesitated, but finally reluctantly nodded: “Fine! You come in quickly!”

When Liu Sisi entered, Old He was administering needles. She was arranged to wait quietly at the desk outside. Through the screen, she could see only a limited view. She could clearly see Old He sitting in front of YingEr, and the medicine pageboy’s figure shuttling between them, handing over various items as needed when instructed by Old He.

There was a knock on the door, and Liu Sisi rushed to answer it. The soup medicine was just right, neither cold nor hot.

“Old He, the soup medicine is here.” She reported quietly.

“Bring it in.” Old He’s voice came.

Liu Sisi hurriedly brought the soup medicine in, and the medicine pageboy took it.

Although it was just a moment, Liu Sisi still clearly saw the situation inside. YingEr’s upper body dress had been removed, and her body was covered with densely-packed silver needles. Old He’s actions did not stop because the soup medicine was delivered, but rather quickened.

Before Liu Sisi could figure out what was going on, the medicine pageboy had already turned and handed her an empty bowl. She was dumbfounded; this was half a bowl of soup medicine, how did he feed it into YingEr’s stomach?

“Don’t just stand there, go and write the prescription. Old man said you write.” Old He’s voice came, filled with exhaustion.

“Okay… Okay, Old He, you say.”

Even if she had many questions, she couldn’t spare the time to ask them at the moment. She hastily wrote down the prescription, brought it out the door, and ordered the medicine to be decocted…

On one side, Old He was still doing his best to save YingEr, while on the other side, Di Yelei had already begun the interrogation.

Di Yelei was temporarily acting as the County Magistrate since the original Su County Magistrate had been transferred. However, Di Yelei did not intend to hold court and try the case, after all, this matter was related to his own YingEr, and a girl’s reputation was of utmost importance. Therefore, today’s trial was a closed-door internal trial, and civilians were not allowed to watch.

Naturally, the first person brought in was Old Man Li.

One couldn’t help but say that the proverb “good people don’t live long, while disasters last for a thousand years” was very accurate, just like Old Man Li, who should have died a thousand times, but was still alive and well. It was a great irony of life!

At the moment, Old Man Li was being pushed and brought into the hall. Due to his lame leg, he was constantly jostled by the person behind him, causing him to stumble and fall to the ground. After falling, he didn’t hurry to get up, but instead looked up at Di Yelei sitting above him, and began to sneer, which soon turned into laughter!

Di Yelei was so angry that his face turned pale.

“Old Man Li, YingEr is only six years old, and you dared to do this. Where is your conscience? Was it eaten by a dog?”

“Di Yelei, do you know the pain of losing your child now? Have you tasted the pain of having no grandchildren?”

Old Man Li showed no signs of remorse: “Hahaha… My Big Mouth is dead, and I don’t want to live anymore! I said long ago that I would pay back this blood debt manyfold! What a pity, what a pity that it has failed in the end. I spit!”

“You!…Old Man Li, initially Sun Ergou was fed up with Big Mouth Li’s constant extortion and intended to frame me and then kill Big Mouth Li and the prostitute Little Taohong. Although this matter had something to do with me, I was actually the one who was wronged.”

Di Yelei became more and more angry: “You only bully the weak and fear the strong. You don’t dare to ask the real culprits, Sun Ergou and his family, for compensation. Instead, you extort me. Out of benevolence, I gave you silver, but you treat me as a money tree. Old Man Li, you are more despicable than Sun Ergou and Diao Sanbiao. You are beyond redemption!” Nôv(el)B\\jnn

“So what? As long as you have money, what does it matter if I cling to you?”

Old Man Li laughed proudly, his laughter filling the entire black prison outside.

“Fine! Very good! Couldn’t be better!”

Di Yelei’s face turned pale with anger, and with a fierce punch, he slammed the table: “So, you admit to kidnapping Di Ying and extorting me, right?”

“Bullshit! I just hate that my luck is bad, and my plan was discovered as soon as it was implemented. I didn’t kill all of your dog-eyed family. Even if I die, I won’t rest in peace…!” Old Man Li raised his face and wailed.

Di Yelei was so angry that he couldn’t speak: “Foolish! Unbelievably foolish! Come on, give me 20 hits of boards and wait for orders!”

He grabbed a token and threw it down at Old Man Li’s feet.

Only then did Old Man Li react, hastily struggling to his feet: “You, surnamed Di, dare to set up a private court? Who gave you such authority? And, I, I, I have confessed, according to the imperial edict, you can’t use torture on me! Let go of me! You surnamed Di, you know the law and break it, let go of me… ah…uhh…”

Although Old Man Li struggled desperately, how could he resist the bailiffs who had been holding their breath for a long time?

Two men came forward, one on the left and one on the right, and directly pushed Old Man Li onto the torture bench. They pulled down his pants, raised the killing rod high, and began to beat him.

Everyone’s hearts were filled with suffocated anger. The two patches of bailiffs were even more cunning and understood the intention of Di Yelei, who sat above them. They showed no mercy in their beating. After twenty boards, Old Man Li’s buttocks were already split open, and he had nearly died many times.

After the execution was completed, they lifted Old Man Li from the torture bench, dragged him to the bottom of the hall, and casually threw him to the ground before acknowledging Di Yelei’s orders.

“Your Honor, twenty boards have been completed.”

“Very well, return to your posts.”

Looking at the unconscious Old Man Li and thinking of YingEr, who was inside with serious injuries and hanging on by a thread, the anger in Di Yelei’s heart did not subside, but increased instead.

“Call someone to wake him up. Send Jiang Xiaocai to the court!”