Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade

Qian Sangui waved his hand with a laugh, "Why bother giving any silver, my household doesn’t lack these funds. I was already thinking of not collecting the thousand taels of silver I lent you. Let’s use this silver to take care of things now, and give the rest to Ting Gu for her dowry."

Qian Manting’s marriage into the Marquis Mansion was certainly grand, and Qian Sigui was not foolish enough to drain his entire estate to provide a dowry for Qian Manting. They decided to give her a dowry of a hundred acres of farmland and more than two hundred taels of silver for her dowry box, plus furniture, jewelry, and other items, totaling over twelve hundred taels of silver, which was half of their entire family fortune.

With less financial pressure, everyone’s spirits improved quite a bit.

While Qian Sigui’s family was busy preparing the dowry, the Liang Family and the Qian family also began their hustle and bustle. Even though the marriage was decreed by the Emperor, except for the betrothal, all other rites were to be observed.

In May, the Capital City also experienced its most brutal moment, when the entire faction of the Fifth Prince dispersed into smoke and clouds.

The Fifth Prince’s Consort, Lady Wong, had a heart like a viper’s and persecuted the Royal Family’s descendants; she incited the Fifth Prince to rebel, was sentenced to die by poisoned wine, and after death, her bones were crushed and scattered to ensure she would never find peace. A few days later, after the death of the Fifth Prince’s last son from illness, the Fifth Prince also hanged himself. The news of his death was not announced immediately but the following year. Of course, that’s a story for later.

And the Wongs, Cuis, Jins, Xies and others involved with the Fifth Prince who were definitely proven guilty of treason and persecution of the Royal descendants numbered over a thousand people, including infants, and were beheaded outside the Wu Gate from the fifteenth to the twentieth of May.

Many ministers pleaded for clemency, arguing the infants were innocent and suggesting, as in the time of the previous emperor, that male offenders over the age of eight be executed and the children and women be exiled or consigned to be government slaves. Prince Consort Pan penned an appeal tens of thousands of words long, requesting the Emperor’s leniency. But Emperor Qianwu stood firm, and even when the Imperial Censor splattered his blood in the Golden Hall, it could not change the Emperor’s decision.

It was said that during those days, blood flowed like a river outside the Wu Gate, and a heavy gloom hung in the air. The entire Capital City seemed enshrouded in dark clouds, and many people dared not leave their homes.

The corpses of the Wong, Jin, and Xie families were left unclaimed, all buried at the Mass Graves. But Liang Jinzhao still led people to claim the corpses of the Cui family and buried them where Old Great-grandpa and Old Madam Cui lay.