Huating retreats to the Garden of Thoughts, and the Ten Thousand Valleys Pine Wind Hall.
In the spacious main hall, eight Xu family servants stood in two rows.
Old Xu Ge¡¯s beard and hair were spread out, he slammed his crutch on the ground and shouted loudly.
"You beast, why don't you kneel down!"
Xu Ying had no choice but to kneel down reluctantly.
Looking at Xu Fan standing next to his father, he suddenly remembered, wasn't this the scene when his eldest brother was beaten last month?
Isn¡¯t this too unlucky?
"Lao San, what did my father say to you and your eldest brother on the day Yuanchun wrote?" Xu Jie's mood calmed down, but his eyes were so bright that it was scary.
"Father said that the sons don't need to worry about Kunshan." Xu Ying replied bravely.
"Then why are you worried again?" Xu Jie looked at him and asked lightly.
"Father" Xu Ying swallowed and said, "I don't have one."
"Haha." Xu Jie smiled, stood up on crutches, and said calmly: "You always disobey your elder brother, but your elder brother at least dares to take responsibility. As for you, you don't even have the slightest responsibility, and you still want to support Xu. Home?"
Xu Ying's head was buzzing, and big beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, but she still said sternly: "My son has really never done anything."
"So, you don't know anything about Xu Bangning?" Xu Jie said with a teasing smile.
¡°I really don¡¯t know, what did he do?¡± Xu Ying was frightened and continued to pretend to be stupid.
"San'er, you're still a little young." Xu Jie stood in front of his youngest son, lightly tapping his shoulder with his crutch and saying:
"You think that if you don't get involved, others won't blame you? Then if Young Master Zhao is so easy to deal with, how can your elder brother make him behave like this?"
"" Xu Ying lowered her head, her heart pounding.
"Do you look down on your elder brother?" Xu Jie lifted his chin with a cane and looked at him coldly.
"No, my son doesn't dare." Xu Ying quickly shook her head in denial.
"When your eldest brother was in Beijing, playing tricks with those imperial officials, you wet the bed." Xu Jie sneered:
"Do you know why he never lies to me? Because first, he knows that he can't lie to me at all. Second, as a father, I hate it when my own flesh and blood deceives me."
As he spoke, he caressed Xu Ying's head and said: "You have been in Huating all these years, and my father has neglected to discipline you, so I am more tolerant to you than I am to your elder brother. Now, my father will give you one last chance, Tell me the truth - was it you who instigated Xu Bangning to destroy the embankment?"
Xu Ying thought quickly in her heart, did she reveal any clues? But I couldn't think of it at the moment.
But he didn¡¯t dare to be harsh anymore. His father had taken what he said seriously, and it was obvious that no matter how much he denied it, he would only completely arouse his disgust.
He could only nod in humiliation, and said with red eyes: "My son said it as a joke when he was drinking with him, but who knew he would take it seriously"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a roar and Xu Jie hit him hard on the cheek with the cane.
Xu Ying was immediately knocked out of two of her teeth and fell to the ground.
"Stupid pig! You stupid pig!" Xu Jie roared and hit his body hard with his cane:
"Xu Bangning lives in your home, how can you make people believe that he would do such a thing without consulting you?!"
Xu Ying held her head, twisted and dodged, and hurriedly explained:
"It's no use even if the boy named Zhao is suspicious, he has no evidence at all! Even if Xu Bangning confronts me, I'm not afraid!"
"The idiot still doesn't understand why I don't want to mess with him!"
After all, Xu Jie was old and frail. After a few beatings, he was tired, so someone brought a spring stool and put Xu Ying on it.
"Because Zhao Hao has access to the sky, His Majesty probably gave him the right to secretly report with the silver seal. Do you understand?"
"It's impossible!" Xu Ying was stunned and couldn't even care that her pants were taken off.
The right to secretly report the silver seal is given to officials of the fourth rank and above, and only a few trusted ministers can obtain it.
Zhao Hao is just a boy with an empty title of eighth grade, how can He De get a seal?
"Otherwise, why would Your Majesty send his father and son to Suzhou? Isn't it just to keep an eye on me?" Xu Jie snorted angrily: "Without Your Majesty's support for him, how could your eldest brother lose to him?!"
Xu Fan, who had been beaten to great enlightenment and was much calmer, couldn't help but nod heavily when he heard this.
He was very convinced by his father's conclusion. After all, even if Zhao Hao did not have the right to secretly report the silver seal, his relationship with the eldest princess alone would be enough.Datian listened.
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"Ruling a family is like running a country. Rewards and punishments must be fair." Then Xu Jie shouted in a deep voice: "San'er, I gave your eldest brother a slap in the face before because he acted without permission. This time you knowingly committed the crime and violated it secretly. It's even worse than your eldest brother's behavior. .I punish you, will you accept it?"
"I'm convinced" What else could Xu Ying say. Not convinced? Why don't you hang a lantern in a latrine and seek death?
"Okay, forty whippings, then go back and be grounded for a month!" Xu Jie waved his hand, looked at the slaves coldly and said, "I still remember how you beat the uncle that day."
"Yes." The servants shrank their necks. In fact, they had been calmed down by the old man, and they fully understood who was the real master of the old Xu family.
They don¡¯t have the ability to deceive like the professional players in the yamen, so they can only fight hard.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Mr. Xu¡¯s skin and flesh were also torn apart, and there was no good meat on his buttocks.
But after all, he was young and in good health, so he didn¡¯t faint.
"Go back to your garden and reflect on it." Xu Jie waved his hand and asked someone to carry him down using the door panel. "Drive that scourge away quickly and let him go wherever he pleases!"
"Yes" Mr. Xu's face was as white as a piece of paper and his voice was weak.
"By the way, who came up with that bad name of Afangyuan? Don't you think it's not ostentatious enough?" Xu Jie said coldly: "Go back and shovel it out quickly. It's better to leave it empty than now!"
"Yes" Mr. Xu was already dizzy and could only say yes.
When Xu Ying was carried out, Xu Jiefang's expression brightened slightly and he said to Xu Fan: "You should reply to Mr. Zhao on my behalf and say that the matter has nothing to do with Xu Ying, but that he and Xu Bangning have been fooling around together all day long, which is very disgusting. I have already He was severely punished and grounded.¡±
After a pause, Xu Jie said with some distress: "I will attach another two thousand taels of silver, which I will donate to Kunshan for embankment construction."
"Yes, father." Xu Fan agreed softly and helped Xu Jie to go to bed to rest.
When Xu Jie lay down, he said to Xu Fan as if gossiping: "You are also concerned about family affairs. After all, you are the eldest brother. You can't ignore it."
"Yes, father." Xu Fan's heart moved, and he suddenly understood why his father took the opportunity to beat the third child and ground him for a month.
This is obviously giving yourself an opportunity to take charge of the family business again.
"As a father, I can't explain this kind of thing clearly.
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In that compartment, Xu Ying was pulled back to Afangyuan by a carriage.
When the servants were carrying him out of the car, Xu Bangning saw it.
"Hey, what's going on?"
"I don't have time to talk to you. Zhao Hao already knows about the good things you did, so go back and find a solution" After Xu Ying finished speaking, she finally couldn't hold on anymore and tilted her head and fainted.
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