Snow in Midsummer 451-452 [12-19-2011]

Today I read pages 451-453 of Snow in Midsummer. Act 3 begins with the Prefect. Donkey takes Dou E to court and accuses her of murdering his father with poisonous soup. Dou E denies poisoning the soup but the court believes that she will confess after being beaten. She, however, still denies poisoning the soup until they threaten to beat Mrs. Cai. Dou E then confesses to murdering Zhang to keep her mother in law from getting beaten. She is thrown into the gaol and the next day she is to be executed. Her mother in law blames herself for Dou E's punishment. Dou E is led of after saying "How could I save you except by dying myself?" She was willing to die for her mother in law to live.

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