Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 567: Chapter 567 Burn This One

Xiao Changyi did not mention how he dealt with Lady Pan Fan, instead, he just sat beside An Jing, watching An Jing play with the four children.

And he, he didn’t know how to play with children, nor how to soothe them.

All he could do was to sit quietly on the side, watching, accompanying, and taking care of them.

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On the other hand, as soon as Meng Zhuqing arrived at the County Government, he ordered the County Magistrate to lock Lady Pan Fan up in jail.

Then, he took the Government Officials with him to Pan Shuangquan’s home, conducting a search and also arresting Pan Shuangquan and the others.

Pan Shuangquan and his family had no idea what was happening when the Government Officials seized them and took them to the County Government.

The people of the County Government and Meng Zhuqing did not explain why.

The arrest of Pan Shuangquan not only startled the people of Pan Family Village but also alarmed the neighboring villages. Unfortunately, nobody dared to oppose the government; at most, they just watched, not daring to ask what had actually happened.

In the end, Meng Zhuqing found six poppets under the bed in the rooms of Lady Pan Fan and Pan Shuangquan, two of which were full of tiny needles, densely packed; the other four were not as densely packed, but they also had quite a few needles stuck in them.

Considering the malicious words previously spoken by Lady Pan Fan, Meng Zhuqing did not have to guess to know that the two poppets filled with needles were made to curse the children while they were still in An Jing’s womb, and the other four were made after An Jing had given birth to curse the children.

How vicious!

Even though Meng Zhuqing was accustomed to the ways of the world, seeing those poppets still made him think that Lady Pan Fan deserved to go to the eighteenth level of hell and never be reincarnated.

After having the Government Officials take Pan Shuangquan and the others back to be locked up in the County Government’s jail, Meng Zhuqing went to find Xiao Changyi with the six poppets, not daring to even enter the courtyard for fear of negatively affecting the four little ones; they were still too young to withstand such a shock.

He even stood at least ten feet away from the courtyard.

It was Meng Lanqing who informed Xiao Changyi.

Xiao Changyi first told An Jing that he would be stepping out for a moment, then he got up, left the house, and exited the courtyard.

When Meng Zhuqing uncovered the cloth from the six poppets, revealing the densely packed needles inserted into the poppets, Xiao Changyi’s eyes turned cold enough to kill in an instant.

He even started to suspect that his youngest son’s congenital insufficiency was because of the curse cast by Lady Pan Fan.

”Death by a thousand cuts,” whether it was those two words or Xiao Changyi’s tone, both were chilling to the bone. ”Execute Lady Pan Fan by death by a thousand cuts.”

Meng Zhuqing also felt that simply killing Lady Pan Fan with a single blow was too merciful for how malicious she was, so when he heard Xiao Changyi ordering death by a thousand cuts for Lady Pan Fan, he immediately responded, ”Yes!”

”Burn these,” without taking another look at the poppets, Xiao Changyi turned and went back into the house.

But fearing the evil spirit on those poppets might cling to him, before going to find An Jing and the four children, Xiao Changyi went to the bathhouse and took a bath with mugwort water.

After Meng Zhuqing had burned the poppets to ashes, he went back to the County Government and informed the County Magistrate of the execution of Lady Pan Fan by death by a thousand cuts.

As for Pan Shuangquan and his people, they were all beheaded.

In the jail, Pan Shuangquan and the others cried out their innocence, but when the County Magistrate informed them that they were accused of plotting against the Emperor’s grandson, their protestations grew even louder, clamoring that they were honest farmers, always reverent towards the Royal Family, and would never plot against the Emperor’s grandson.

As Pan Shuangquan and the others were about to die, the County Magistrate did not hesitate to tell them: ”The current Emperor’s adopted son, the foremost among all the Princes, Prince Yi, his name is Su Changyi. Su Changyi’s original surname is Xiao, and he has been granted the imperial surname.”