Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 1737 - 1744: Universe in the Sleeve, Sun and Moon in the Pot (1)
After being fed, Nangong Yi left with a satisfied expression. The extreme joy and satisfaction his wife brought him made him forget to pursue her for investigating the male prisoners, and he left almost in a daze.
Ah, men, thinking with the lower part of their bodies, are indeed animals.
Cai Wei sighed, dragging her exhausted body to get up. She opened the file and began to examine the cases of these death row prisoners.
After checking for half a day, she selected a man named Lu Wu. Lu Wu was a person from the Capital, and at just twenty-two years old, he had been sentenced to execution after autumn by the Ying Tianfu for the crime of murder and fraud.
Lu Wu was originally a butcher, and his mother, Madam Lu, was a matchmaker who wandered from house to house. When she had no matchmaking to do, she would carry a bamboo basket to visit homes, under the guise of selling silk flowers, and secretly helped people engage in shady dealings, earning some unscrupulous money. She was a notorious character known as Ma Bo Liu and a female Lu Jia.
Last year, this Madam Lu, under the commission of a young master from a wealthy family in the city, was to seduce the daughter of the Pan family in the west of the city. When Lu Wu heard this from his old lady, he couldn’t help but become infatuated with the Pan family’s daughter. He urged his mother to trick the Pan family’s daughter into leaving her window open every night so he could impersonate the young master and have an affair with her.
The daughter of the Pan family had been interested in that young master for a long time but was hindered by the tight control of her family, unable to meet her lover. Now with Madam Lu as the matchmaker, the affair naturally proceeded smoothly.
Lu Wu spent several nights having affairs with the Pan family’s daughter. The Pan family couple gradually began to hear noises and grew suspicious. They interrogated their daughter several times, but she stubbornly refused to admit anything. In the evening, when Lu Wu came for a secret meeting, the Pan daughter told him that her parents had noticed and warned him not to come again.
Lu Wu had tasted the sweetness and was reluctant to stop. Although he agreed verbally, he was very dissatisfied in his heart. After four or five nights, one night, overwhelmed by lust, he couldn’t resist the temptation and quietly sneaked into the Pan family daughter’s boudoir again.
Unexpectedly, the Pan family couple, suspecting their daughter of having done something shameful, had already switched bedrooms with her, intending to catch the adulterer. When Lu Wu snuck in, the couple had already gone to sleep. Before sleeping, the couple had done something improper, and perhaps they were too exhausted afterward; they hadn’t even put on clothes and had fallen asleep embracing each other.
After sneaking in, Lu Wu, under the moonlight, saw the naked couple in bed, thinking the Pan family daughter had seduced someone else to break it off with him. Furious, he went to the kitchen, grabbed a vegetable knife, and killed the naked couple in bed.
The next day, the Pan daughter waited a long time for her parents to get up. When she went to their room, she found they had been murdered.
Later, after much effort, the Prefect of Ying Tianfu finally captured the real culprit, Lu Wu. However, the Pan daughter, due to her parents’ deaths for her sake, committed suicide by banging her head onto a hard object after the case was solved. The rich young master, initially mistaken for the murderer, was truly tortured. Although he escaped danger in the end, after such a fright, he fell ill upon returning home and not long after, he also died.
Therefore, although Lu Wu killed two people, four people actually died because of him. He had been sentenced with an unforgivable death penalty and was to be executed after autumn.
Cai Wei chose him because, for a criminal who had multiple lives on his hands, killing him with just one knife was too lenient. He could just be used to help Liu Xi.
Having made up her mind, Cai Wei called over Jia Yanhui, the newly appointed Chief Eunuch by her side, instructing him to go to the prison and explain that these days, good care is to be taken of Lu Wu’s body. The Imperial Physician was to diagnose his pulse regularly, and when his body was conditioned to be sturdy and free of problems, they were to report to her.
She knew the rules in the prison, a death row convict like Lu Wu, who had no money, was surely not treated kindly by the prison guards and must have suffered during the interrogations of his love affairs, resulting in his body being quite poor. At this time, it was not suitable to cut anything off his body...
