Mrs. Zhao is not someone easy to deal with. Now with evidence favoring her side, combined with her bottled-up anger, she seized on Qian the fourth and wouldn't let go.
No matter how Qian the fourth tried to argue that the compensation shouldn't be too much, Mrs. Zhao clung to her demand of ten thousand taels and refused to budge.
Before leaving, the County Magistrate, following the hints from the County Magistrate's Wife, also intended to penalize Miss Qian.
In the end, he made a judgment, requiring the Qian Family to pay ten thousand taels.
As for Miss Qian, soliciting with a man in a place where the coffin was laid, she should have been detained and severely punished.
Considering she had young children to care for, a severe punishment was spared, and she was only punished with ten strokes of the killing rod.
Yet even so, it scared Miss Qian out of her wits, and she collapsed to the ground.
The County Magistrate asked his secretary, "Has the record been noted, secretary?"
