The Double 墨雨云间 Episode 21

Early in the morning, Xue Fangfei took Xue Huaiyuan into the carriage and prepared to take him to the capital to redress his grievances, but he happened to encounter the carriage of Wei Shilang of the Ministry of Justice on the way. Regardless of the Jiang family's face, Wei Shilang angrily accused them of taking away prisoners on death row. The purpose of his coming here was to execute Xue Huaiyuan, and he did not listen to Xue Fangfei's appeal at all. Xue Fangfei admitted that she was presumptuous and scolded Wei Shilang for being indifferent. She knelt down and asked to be arrested and taken to Dali Temple. She hoped that Dali Temple would put her prisoner robbery and Xue Huaiyuan's corruption charges together for trial.

Wei Shilang remained indifferent and mocked them for not ignoring the law. Xue Huaiyuan's old subordinates offered to testify. Wei Shilang refused to listen to the explanation and arrested everyone present and insisted on taking Xue Huaiyuan away for execution. Suddenly, Butcher Zhang appeared with a knife. He was awakened by Uncle Liu's scolding, and he wanted to avenge Xue Huaiyuan. Wei Shilang was angered and wanted to take him down as well. Aunt Chunfang and Uncle Liu also came. They were thinking about Xue Huaiyuan's kindness and hoped that Wei Shilang would be aware of it. Then, the villagers came, and they all clamored to testify for Xue Huaiyuan's justice. Seeing the large number of people, Wei Shilang had no choice but to give up and leave first.

Wen Ji reported the investigation situation to Xiao Heng. Xiao Heng knew that someone would not let Xue Fangfei off easily, so he wrote two confidential letters and sent them back to the capital. Xue Fangfei wrote a letter to Ye Shijie, informing him of the situation in Huaixiang and asking him to send the letter to Jiang Yunbai. Jiang Yunbai was furious after reading the letter. Ji Shuran added fuel to the fire and said a few more words. Jiang Yunbai was worried that Xue Fangfei's behavior would bring harm to the Jiang family, and he preferred that Xue Fangfei not come back smoothly. Ye Shijie happened to be going to Dingzhou to provide disaster relief, and Jiang Jingrui shouted to go with him, crying and acting stupid in front of everyone. Ye Shijie had no choice but to agree to let him stay with him.

Under the imperial court, Li Zhongnan reported the situation in the disaster area to the Holy Emperor, who reassured him and left the victims' issues to him. Jiang Yunbai was uneasy. The Holy Father heard that Xue Fangfei was redressing Xue Huaiyuan's injustice and wanted to see her in person to understand the situation before handling it. Li Jin knelt at Wanning's door to plead guilty. Li Zhongnan beat him severely and begged Wanning for forgiveness.

Wan Ning blamed Li Zhongnan for not doing things well, deliberately scalding him with boiling water when serving him tea, accusing him of exposing the gold mine incident, and threatening him with becoming a king. Li Zhongnan begged for mercy. He had a plan to bring down the Jiang family. He wanted to personally prevent Xue Fangfei from returning to Beijing. Shen Yurong didn't come to see Wan Ning recently. Wan Ning was angry and wanted to see when he would come.

Xue Fangfei and others came to Dingzhou, but could not buy food and learned that there was a famine here. Xue Huaiyuan had a seizure, and Xue Fangfei sang songs from her childhood to stabilize Xue Huaiyuan. Xue Fangfei proposed to separate from the people in Huaixiang, and they would meet again after leaving Dingzhou. On the way, Xue Fangfei happened to meet Liuxu and learned that she had come to Dingzhou to distribute food. Liuxu reminded her to be careful of unrest among the victims.

In the evening, a group of disaster victims went to Xue Fangfei's accommodation to cause trouble and asked her to give them food. Ye Mingyu didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but seeing how pitiful the young children were, he relented and gave them steamed buns to satisfy their hunger. Xue Fangfei later learned about this and blamed him for not giving food, fearing that they would be unable to leave because they were gathered here. Xue Fangfei packed up her luggage and left overnight, but when she walked on the road, she met the victims again. The victims were incited to grab their food from the car.

Fortunately, Jiang Jingrui and Ye Shijie appeared and tempted the victims with steamed buns, so the victims did not snatch Xue Fangfei's carriage. Xue Huaiyuan ran out of the car and saw them grabbing food, and became excited again. Xue Fangfei suspected that someone had deliberately exposed their whereabouts and did not want them to leave Dingzhou. He did not intend to leave Dingzhou and planned to stay to rescue the victims.

Ye Shijie advised her to leave and planned to find the Ye family to alleviate the disaster first, while Xue Fangfei wanted to stay and find the person behind it. When the Sage learned that the victims had gathered in Dingzhou, Li Zhongnan deliberately made it difficult, but actually asked Jiang Yunbai to persuade her not to take Xue Huaiyuan back to Beijing. Li Zhongnan used storytellers to publicize Xue Fangfei's name, hoping that she would reveal her true identity.