After becoming a widow, I raised my traitor brother

Can't do it?
The Chen family was stunned on the spot.

The county magistrate Chen was furious, and grabbed the doctor by the collar: "My son was just frightened, so why not?! You quack doctor, are you trying to kill my son on purpose?!"

The doctor shivered and pulled away his hand: "Caomin has been practicing medicine for decades, and he has never made a mistake. The young master was seriously injured, but this time he was frightened and his mind was damaged. Due to extreme fear, his blood breath flowed backwards, causing a short period of time. Suffocation and convulsions. If it is a skin trauma, there is still a possibility of healing, but if the heart is damaged, even Hua Tuo is still alive, and there is no way to recover!"

After all, he picked up the medicine box, not even daring to ask for medical expenses, and left in a panic.

The hand of County Magistrate Chen was powerlessly frozen in mid-air.

He was admitted to Juren when he was in his 30s, and he has never been a Jinshi in his life. He was able to become a county magistrate because of the donation of money.

His son is better than him, and he was admitted to Juren at the age of 24. It is only a matter of time before he is admitted to Jinshi.

but……

However, before he could be named on the gold list, he was about to die...

He is the hope of their family!
Two lines of old tears rolled down my cheeks, and County Magistrate Chen thumped the wall unwillingly.

Chen Ruixiang knelt down beside the bed.

She stared blankly at the man on the bed who looked like gold paper. She remembered that on the day when the results were released, her elder brother was so happy when he learned that he was in the middle school. The women on both sides peeped out of the windows one after another, it can be said that the spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease.

But it has only been a long time, and he has become what he is now.

His future is gone, and now even his life is gone.

His face was familiar yet unfamiliar, Chen Ruixiang's eyes were red with tears, and he could no longer call out the "brother" in the past.

She frowned, and suddenly heard Chen Zijing whispering something in a coma.

She quickly moved closer and listened carefully——

"Wei...Wei Zi..."

"Wei Zi... Zhen Guogong's mansion..."

His voice was choppy.

Chen Ruixiang laughed while crying: "You are going to die, and you still remember the culprit. If it weren't for her, you might already be in Shangjing to prepare for the Chunwei Exam. Is it worth it to make such a fuss?"

Chen Zijing could no longer hear outside voices.

He murmured for a moment, then sat up suddenly, and stretched out his hand unconsciously, as if trying to grab something.

"Wei Zi! Wei Zi!"

His voice was hoarse, and gradually changed from whispering to yelling.

The people around were startled and moved away from him one after another.

"Wei Zi! Hahaha! I'm going to marry Wei Zi! I'm going to be the son-in-law of the Duke of Zhenguo! Dad, Dad! Did you see that I'm going to marry Wei Zi! I'll be admitted to Jinshi and become an official in the capital soon, my son!" Soon, we will be able to rise to the top! Our whole family, our whole family will soon be able to leave this ghostly place of Shanyin County!"

Blood seeped out from the white gauze, and two lines of blood and tears rolled down Chen Zijing's face.

"Wei Zi—"

He suddenly yelled.

Immediately, the voice was like truncated running water, and as soon as the last word came out of his throat, he fell straight down.

Chen Zijing died.

"Jing'er!" County magistrate Chen held Chen Zijing's hand with tears streaming down his face.

Weeping sounded from inside and outside the house.

Chen Ruixiang kept wiping away tears: "Father, it was all Wei Zi's fault. Wei Zi killed my brother! We have to avenge this revenge! No matter what her status is, even if she is really from the Duke of Zhen Miss, Duke Zhen doesn’t even know about her existence, so what if we kill her? Don’t you have the heart to watch your brother die like this?!”

The county magistrate Chen still held Chen Zijing's hand tightly.

The old tears dripped down on the bed.

"son……"

He stared at Chen Zijing with distress, the son he had worked so hard to put high hopes on, just disappeared.

Not even an heir was left behind.

"Wei Zi..."

He pronounced the name slowly, with some kind of distorted viciousness hiding deep in his eyes, "Don't worry, son, I won't let you go on the road alone, I will send Wei Zi to accompany you, and let you stay together Under the Nine Springs, you can also be a couple!"

Chen Ruixiang immediately said: "Father, I know where Wei Zi is."

……

Rock House.

The old lady briefly introduced the women in the building.

Only then did Wei Zi know that most of the women were forced to live here.

The husband they depended on for survival died, and these women were delicate and weak and had no one to rely on, so they could only be mermaids. For the reward of the 20 taels of silver, the family did not hesitate to sacrifice the rest of their lives and forced them to be sent here.

Among them, the youngest one was only 15 years old when he was sent in, so he was obviously only half a child.

The first batch to come in was tricked by County Magistrate Chen.

At that time, the imperial court rewarded chaste women wantonly, and women were proud of their husbands' obedience to the festival. Each county had to select several chaste women. For the sake of political achievements, the county magistrate Chen coaxed and deceived widows into the rock tower, which was called the inside of the rock tower. There is enough food and clothing, and you can go to the county to play and breathe regularly every month. In fact, after you trick people into it, you will leave it alone and go to jail, and the meals delivered by the yamen servants every day are not fresh.

When it came to the food, the women around couldn't help scolding: "Those meals are not only not fresh, but there are few dishes. Every meal of green vegetables and tofu, the only meat is the lard residue left by other people's cooking oil! In the winter At that time, the food was delivered cold and frozen!"

"I'm afraid the magistrate Chen has embezzled all the money allocated by the imperial court to support chaste women! That dog official cheated us of our youth for more than ten years, it's really hateful!"

After hearing this, Wei Zi said, "It's been so many years, haven't you guys thought about running away?"

"Run?" The old woman sneered, "Look at this stone building, the walls are thick, the doors and windows are locked, and we don't have any tools, how are we going to escape?"

Wei Zi looked around, this ghostly place was even more closed than a prison, and there really was no place to escape.

Her eyes suddenly fell on the iron window. There were two wooden barrels under the window, and there were leftover food residues in them.

She said: "Does the yamen servant deliver food every day through the window?"

The old woman nodded, unable to hide her indignation: "They opened the iron window from the outside, poured the food into the two wooden barrels, and didn't give us bowls and chopsticks, but let us eat with our hands. They didn't treat us as food. People look at it! These years, this is how we survived!"

Wei Zi was speechless.

The imperial court rewarded chaste women, and the status of chaste women seemed to be honorable, but they didn't expect that they didn't even have human dignity.

She frowned slightly: "We have to escape."

"You said it lightly, so can you take us away?" A woman asked.

Wei Zi stared at the iron window and smiled: "It's too simple."

At noon, two yamen servants, one old and one young, came to deliver meals.

As the iron window opened, two women ambushing under the window suddenly grabbed the hand of the yamen servant.

Wei Zi pressed the hairpin against the servant's neck, threatening coldly: "Open the door."

The yamen servant was stunned and stared at them in disbelief.

The women, who were usually quiet and dull and never resisted, stood there unanimously at this moment, staring at him with strangely unanimous eyes.

Although embarrassed and dirty, every face is full of rebellion.