Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 481 Maybe, but I don’t understand
Perhaps the child's father had figured out the character of that group of people. The next day, not only did Liu not wait for her parents-in-law to arrive, but even her sister-in-law Xiaotian did not come to visit.

She was not surprised that other people did not come to her for help, but she was deeply puzzled that Oda was the only one who did not come to her for help on behalf of her own brother.

Lust is the root of all evil.

Since ancient times, adultery has been regarded as an immoral act and has been despised by people, and both men and women will be severely punished.

Which is more important, face or your brother's life?
According to her thinking, the Tian family is not only Xiaotian's maternal family, but also the maternal family of her child's father. The old lady cannot afford to lose face, and Xiaotian should not do that either.

No matter what, the Tian family will do their best to make the two generations of Tian family aunts come to her house for help no matter what the reason is, and they will at least give money if they don't show up.

To this end, Liu found an excuse to go to her eldest son's study and look through the criminal laws and punishments for adultery in the Daliang Law Code.

She remembered it correctly.

The earliest punishment for adultery can be found in the Book of Documents, which states, "If a man and a woman do not have sexual intercourse in a righteous manner, they shall be punished with castration." This shows that adultery has been severely punished since the Zhou Dynasty.

After several dynasties changed, when Daliang was established, the laws of Daliang restored the crime of adultery to the Han Dynasty, which generally divided it into adultery with a woman, rape of a woman, and rape of a woman during mourning.

There is no doubt that the beast Tian Ergouzi and the woman were in a consensual relationship, and the former's adultery was still within the scope of punishment.

According to the criminal law of Daliang, women who raped women were required to be stripped naked and punished with 50 strokes of the cane. After that, they were imprisoned for two years. If the women had a husband, their punishment would be increased by one level.

The so-called "taking off clothes for punishment" means stripping off the clothes and beating with a stick in front of the county government office in front of everyone. It's okay for men, but what about women?

After being beaten with a stick, the woman was basically too ashamed to live.

Why bother? Nowadays, there is no rule that a woman must remain faithful to her lost husband for her entire life, and she can still remarry. Why bother having an affair with a man outside her?

Liu really couldn't understand how there could be such a stupid woman. At the same time, she couldn't help but wonder if this woman had some leverage in the hands of others and was being controlled by them.

Otherwise, what was so good about that beast Tian Ergou that was worthy of the woman's willingness? As for these "others", were there other people besides that beast Tian Ergou?
Those who are on good terms with that beast Tian Ergouzi and who have a place to stay in the city are undoubtedly the hypocrite Gu Yangwen and the ungrateful Dalang.

But that hypocrite is the brother-in-law of that beast after all, so he should have some dignity and should not collude with his uncle to hold the woman's handle and do whatever they want.

In this case, if that ungrateful Dalang gets hold of something against that woman and lets his own uncle take advantage of him, that would be terrifying. But what does he want?
silver?

It's possible.

But could their uncle and nephew's actions be hidden from that hypocrite Gu Yangwen?
Liu really didn't dare to think about it any further. She hoped that she was overthinking it and that the woman was just not very pretty and was fickle-minded and had an affair with that beast Tian Ergouzi.

I heard that the woman has a young son. Maybe she doesn't want to remarry and take her son with her. What kind of promise did that beast Tian Ergou make?

But, didn't the child's father say that the woman's husband's brother-in-law was going to file a complaint with the police? Regardless of whether it was a threat or a real threat, Tian Ergouzi would definitely not be able to escape this time.

According to the annotations of the criminal law, there is another clause that if the husband does not pursue the matter, or wants to deal with it privately, the government will not enforce it.

As for her husband, he and her father-in-law are no longer alive, but as the only brother-in-law of the woman's husband's family, he can exercise such power on behalf of his brother. How will the other party exercise such power on behalf of his brother?
His widowed sister-in-law has a bad reputation, but she should have some property left by her eldest brother to her nephew. If she is not confused, the brother-in-law should not report it to the police.

After all, in addition to reporting to the police and filing a case for trial after being caught, if a woman is caught committing adultery after marriage, she can still be lynched without violating the law.

If the case is reported to the police, the whole family will be disgraced. It would be better to hold the nephew in check and make the woman obey him to join forces with the Tian family to make trouble, and then take Tian Ergou's life and give him a hard bite.

Liu thought about it over and over again, but she couldn't think of any chance that Tian Ergou could have to escape. She was more inclined to believe that the Tian family had to spend money to avoid disaster.

If this matter needs to be solved with silver, and it's not in the countryside, it probably cannot be solved without two or three hundred taels of silver. But does the Tian family have so much wealth?

Even if the whole family worked together to raise enough money, they would definitely not sell their land just for Tian Ergouzi. They would naturally have to borrow from relatives.

Who can I borrow from?
Will the eldest wife sell the shop, or will Liulang's mother-in-law help her cousin?
Not to mention.

It doesn't matter who dies, but it's pitiful for the mother and the young child.

"Sister-in-law, that uncle really doesn't have a son yet."

When Gu Qingyang's wife, Gu Zhou Chunniang, hurried over after receiving the latest news today, she immediately gave Liu an answer.

Liu's eyes lit up and she clasped her hands together, "Fortunately, fortunately, the child is innocent. No matter whether the uncle has a son in the future, he is the only bloodline left by his eldest brother."

"Yes, there is something else here. Let me tell you first. I heard from the neighbors that the woman's brother-in-law and his wife did not try to persuade her to remarry.

She was still being stubborn, and kept crying to people that her brother-in-law and his wife had no son and wanted to take her son away so they could drive her away and take over the family property.

I also asked around, and found out that the woman's sister-in-law is a very kind person. She took the child to her parents' home yesterday and said that the child was not that woman's.

It was said that the woman was infertile and her uncle was deceived. Fortunately, with the blessing of her ancestors, one of the concubines became pregnant before her uncle passed away.

When the concubine suffered heavy bleeding after giving birth and could not be saved, her uncle was kind enough to ask her and her husband to swear to tell everyone that the child was the woman's biological child.

Before she died, she did not forget to hold her husband's hand and asked her husband to promise that if the woman wanted to remarry in the future, he would not force her to stay, but his son could not be taken away.

Before, her eldest sister-in-law refused to remarry and even said that she and her husband wanted to take over the family property or something. She also thought that maybe because her eldest brother was no longer around and was not her biological son, she was afraid that she and her husband would change their minds.

So in the past two years, she has been persuading her husband to follow what her eldest sister-in-law says, as long as her eldest sister-in-law treats the child as her own son and does not sell the things left by her eldest brother for the child.

Unexpectedly, the shop was sold without even notifying her husband in advance. After it was sold and moved to the back, they said that she, a woman, could not take care of the shop.

That was fine, it had already been sold. Fortunately, when her eldest uncle was seriously ill, he asked the neighborhood chief and several elders to sign a deed, which stated everything that was left behind.

If her eldest sister-in-law sold a shop for cash flow one day, the remaining shop and land would have to wait until the children grew up and her husband put his fingerprints on it before they could be sold.

But it also annoyed her husband. She said that her uncle left a lot of cash before he died, but her sister-in-law insisted that it had been spent long ago..."