Snow in Midsummer 453-455 [12-20-2011]

Today I read pages 453 - 455 of Snow in Midsummer. Dou E is led on in a cangue for her execution. She yells for people to hear her say that shes not a criminal. She then asks the executioner for a favor. She asks him to take her the back way so her mother in law doesn't see her. This is because if her mother in law saw her in chains being led to her death it would very well be the death of her mother in law. However it was to late for that as her mother in law saw her. Dou E then told her mother in law about how donkey told her he put some more salt and vinegar in the soup and that he put the poison in it but didn't think his father would drink it and intended for Mrs. Cai to drink it so Dou E would be forced to marry him. But after Donkeys father died from the soup he wanted revenge so he dragged Dou E down to court and to keep her mother in law from suffering she confessed to a murder that she didn't commit. It begins to snow and Dou E compares it to when the prince of Yan was imprisoned on the strength of an enemys accusation, Zou Yan cried to heaven, which showed displeasure by bringing frost in midsummer. The snow that is falling now will supposedly show the injustice done to Dou E.

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