County Magistrate Zheng looked exasperated: "You woman, you can't even bother to lie properly, you just pick up stupid excuses. Mrs. Gao Hong was drugged, so you make up such a lie. But you are Mrs. Gao Huang's daughter-in-law, how could she drug you and cut off her own son's descendants?"
Chang Taohua was stunned, then cried out: "My lord, Gao's second son has four maids, and keeps two widows outside, he doesn't lack women to bear him children. Mrs. Gao Huang must have drugged me to threaten a civilian woman like me, I truly..."
"Enough, the evidence is conclusive, no need to say more." County Magistrate Zheng said impatiently: "Gag her, then have them thumbprint the confession."
"My lord, please, I was forced!" Chang Taohua cried out, but no sooner had she started shouting than a Government Official gagged her, pressed her handprint, and dragged her away to the women's prison.
