"What happened later?"

"Later, both sisters were rescued, but the bandits directly confessed to the girl beside Cao Shilan and had also seen Cao Shilan." Xu Yu said.

"If the emperor really believes it, the Cao family will inevitably be imprisoned, or even die." It is a death sentence to deceive the emperor and the emperor.

Xu Yu nodded, "So you can't let the emperor know that it was Cao Shilan, but the bandits had already identified the girl at that time. Even if Cao Shilan firmly denied it, the emperor would not believe it. So someone must come out to take the blame."

"This person is Aunt Cao?"

"That's right, although Cao Shilan and Cao Xuelan are three years apart, they look very similar."

So in order to protect Cao Shilan and the Cao family, one Cao Xuelan had to be sacrificed.

Tang Shu probably guessed what happened afterwards.

"The Cao family asked Cao Xuelan to confess her guilt and promised to save her. After Cao Shilan's pleading, Cao Xuelan was indeed exempted from the death penalty, but was expelled from the capital." Xu Yu said, "It was about three months later. That day, my second brother and I went out for a walk outside the city. We saw Cao Xuelan alone hiding in the dilapidated temple, bleeding from her body. After looking for a doctor, I realized that she had a miscarriage. She was defiled by those bandits in order to protect Cao Shilan's innocence."

Tang Shu looked at Xu Yu in shock.

"What about the Cao family?" Tang Shu said, "Didn't the Tang family care about her?"

"Cao Dexin sent someone to find her, but she avoided it. She said that the Cao family promised to clear her injustice. She was waiting, but how should she wash away such a thing?" Xu Yu sighed, "Besides, the old lady of the Cao family believed those words at that time, and knew that she had no innocence, so she could not care about Cao Xuelan after giving the death order. Cao Dexin still secretly sent someone out of the city to find her."

Unfortunately, Cao Xuelan intentionally avoided him, so how could he find him?

"The old lady of the Cao family is too speechless." Tang Shu had no idea that the dead were the most important thing. If he did something wrong, he would do it wrong. If the old lady had a little IQ, she would find that there were many flaws in this matter. "According to the third uncle, what bad things should Aunt Cao do, wouldn't she call the girl around her and insist on finding her sister? I think she knows there is something wrong with it."

Seeing her angry look, Chu Xun patted her hands and comforted her.

Xu Yu saw his actions in his eyes, with satisfaction in his eyes.

"Maybe she believed in Cao Xuelan in her heart, but they must let people know that the one who made the mistake was Cao Xuelan. Only if she believed it like this would the emperor believe it." Xu Yu said, "A year after Cao Xuelan was expelled from the capital, the old lady went crazy, and she often talked about Cao Xuelan's name."

Tang Shu snorted coldly, not feeling pitiful at all, and being crazy was also a consequence of his own fault.

In order to save the Cao family, it was fine if it was sacrificed alone. It didn't do what it originally promised, and even refused to let the family go to find Cao Xuelan. What it originally did was very shameless and cold-blooded.

"What happened later?" Chu Xun asked.

"I didn't know very well later. Something happened to the Xu family, so I didn't have time to care about this." Xu Yu said, "But Cao Shilan died not long after. It seemed that someone helped Cao Xuelan expose the truth from that year. Later I heard that everyone in the capital knew that Cao Xuelan was wronged. The Cao family had a very poor reputation at that time, and Cao Dexin's father was also affected."

The Xu family was stolen, and the Cao family was full of stains and scolded by thousands of people. The capital was still quite lively at that time.

"This is also worthy. They are sorry for Aunt Cao." Tang Shu said.

"So the Cao family owes her so much. Over the years, Cao Dexin has still sent people to look for Cao Xuelan, but he didn't expect that she had been in the northwest."

"Aunt Cao seems to have lived in Xiaoyang Village for more than ten years. Her husband passed away when Zhang Wenhuo was still young." Tang Shu said, "But I have never heard Aunt Cao talk about her husband. You said, is it Aunt Cao's husband who helped Aunt Cao clear the grievances?"

Chu Xun shook his head.

Xu Yu said, "That depends on who Cao Xuelan's husband is."

Anyone who can do that should not be an ordinary person no matter how you say it.

He had never seen Zhang Wenhuo, but he thought that Zhang Wenhuo was able to get the first place in the second grade, so his father should be quite good.

To be honest, Tang Shu has a good impression of the Cao family, but now it is a little bad.

"Does Zhang Wenhuo know his life experience?" Tang Shu was very curious whether Aunt Cao would tell Zhang Wenhuo these things.

"Even if you don't know now, you will know in the future." Chu Xun said, "He has many opportunities to contact Cao Dexin in the capital."

"This has nothing to do with you," said Xu Yu, "but you helped him, Cao Dexin will naturally repay this love in the future. The situation in the capital is a bit complicated now. If you have more favors, you will benefit you."

They have been on the road these two months and have not paid attention to the situation in the capital, so they don’t know what the capital is like now.

"Uncle Third, has my cousin sent you a message?"

Xu Yu smiled and then looked at Chu Xun, "After you left, the emperor issued an order to marry. The eldest prince and the second prince were not interesting. What is interesting is that the third prince and the fourth prince were also married, but the one who was given to the fourth prince was the lord of Qingping, and the granddaughter of the Grand Tutor was married to the third prince."

The county lord of Qingping has nothing, but there is only one county lord with no one behind him. But the Taifu is different.

"I believe now that the emperor favored the third prince the most at the beginning." As soon as he came back, he arranged such a big card for the third prince.

Chu Xun smiled, "It is not necessarily a bad thing for the emperor to give the granddaughter of the Grand Tutor to the third prince." He said, "Although the emperor values ​​the fourth prince now, after giving such a marriage, the eldest prince and the second prince will still shift their attention to the third prince."

"Why?"

"You all know that this marriage granting is the emperor's favor of the third prince." Xu Yu said, "Compared with the county lord of Qingping, the one who threatens them the most is the Taifu Mansion, so they will not pay attention to the fourth prince. However, the emperor's attitude towards the fourth prince can be seen from the imperial edict of marriage granting."

"That's right." Chu Xun said, "Since the emperor still favors the third prince, the one who is favored is their opponent. The fourth prince's marriage to the county lord of Qingping has no effect on them."

Tang Shu thought about it and it seemed like this was the case.

If the emperor gave a marriage like this, she would think that the emperor only valued the fourth prince on the surface, but in fact he was not very optimistic about the fourth prince, so he gave him an orphan county lord. Anyway, the fourth prince didn't have any chance in the end, and the emperor could praise the loyal ministers, why not do it?
Chapter completed!