Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 144

The notice on the letter pavilion read: "Recently, a man named Pei was caught in a lawsuit. The case has been verified and reported to the court. He will be executed in the autumn. He will be executed in Hangzhou City."

Then there was a date written next to it, and she saw that the date was actually two months ago.

The information was written very vaguely. Ye Xi only knew that the information came from Hangzhou City and the man's surname was Pei. It did not say what case it was, but it said that it had been verified and reported to the court, and would be executed in the autumn.

Could it be such a coincidence? Ye Xi didn't know if it was a coincidence or human nature. She looked around with a pale face and saw a bun shop next to Xinting.

Although she had never seen Xinting before, she remembered that the shop seemed to have always been here because she had bought buns from it before.

She stepped forward and asked, "Brother, when was this news posted in the letter booth?"

“Well, it’s been almost a month. It’s strange, in the past, once the news of other cities was posted, how long it would stay was a matter of fate.

If there is a new one, they will just stick it on top of the old one. If the old one that is not covered breaks, no one will care.

This time it is fresh, the new one cannot be pasted on top, and the old one will have to be re-pasted if it is broken.

Look, this one was just put up this morning."

The eldest brother shook his head and continued, "Is it necessary to pay so much attention to a death row prisoner? Do you want his family to go back and collect his body?"

Ye Xi's face was already very bad when she heard her eldest brother's words, and it became even paler after hearing the last sentence.

The purpose of this message booth to publish news from other cities was initially to make it easier for people related to them to know.

If the crime does not extend to the family members, it is equivalent to notifying the family members to see their loved ones for the last time; if it is a collective crime, it is to notify the people of the world to pay attention so that they can catch the relevant people and receive the reward.

It's vicious, but it suits the interests of the current rulers.

After listening to the explanation of the boss of the bun shop, Ye Xi's original suspicions were completely resolved. This must be what Wei Jue meant.

It was all her fault that she never paid attention to the letter booth, so she only found out about the news so late. If it had been any later, the person might have been gone.

She didn't even have the heart to buy anything. She went back to the house and sat there for a long time. Her hands and feet had been cold since she heard the news.

She would be executed in the autumn. She didn't know when the autumn would be. She only knew that she didn't have much time left. If she didn't hurry back, Pei Zhu might not be able to be saved.

But she was not sure if it was what she thought. She still held a glimmer of hope, hoping very much that it was just a coincidence.

She thought about going back to check first. If not, she still had a chance to leave.

Thinking about how difficult it was for her to travel to Yuezhou alone, she didn't want to go through it again, so she found the shopkeeper who had helped her before.

She remembered a saying that if you want to ask for help, don't ask for help from people you have helped, but ask for help from people who have helped you, because the latter has a greater chance of success.

She told the shopkeeper that her mother had written to say that her condition had worsened, and since she couldn't find any relatives, he asked her to return to Hangzhou.

She thought of the danger she had experienced when she traveled to Yuezhou alone before, and she didn't dare to travel alone again. She wanted to ask the shopkeeper to help her find a reliable escort agency and hire a few people to take her there, and she would pay the money.

However, she hoped that the shopkeeper would tell the escort agency that she was sending a relative, so that the escort agency would not have any bad intentions towards her.

The shopkeeper naturally agreed, and he felt very sorry for the girl. He went back and forth but still couldn't find her, and her mother was seriously ill.

Ye Xi privately found a broker and spent a large sum of money to buy two blank travel passes.

She thought that if Pei Zhu was safe and sound, she would use another blank pass to return to Yuezhou.