Huating retreat garden, ten thousand pine wind hall.

In the open main hall, eight servants of the Xu family stood in two rows.

Xu Ge's old beard was all open, and he slammed his crutches on the ground and shouted.

"Don't get down on your knees!"

Xu Ying had to reluctantly kneel down.

Looking at Xu Fan, who was standing beside his father, he suddenly remembered, isn't this the scene when his eldest brother was beaten last month?

That's unlucky, isn't it?

"Third child, on the day of Yuanchun's letter, what did my father say to you and your eldest brother?" Xu Jie's emotions calmed down, but those eyes were terrifyingly bright.

"The father said that his sons don't have to worry about Kunshan's affairs." Xu Ying replied stubbornly.

"Then why are you worried about it again?" Xu Jie looked at him fixedly and asked lightly.

"Father......" Xu Ying swallowed and said, "I don't." ”

"Huh." Xu Jie smiled, stood up on crutches, and said lightly: "You always disobey your eldest brother, but your eldest brother at least dares to act." What about you, you don't even have a little responsibility, and you still want to support the Xu family like this? ”

Xu Ying's head was buzzing, and beads of sweat were dripping from her forehead, but she still said stiffly: "My son really hasn't done anything." ”

"So, you don't know anything about Xu Bangning?" Xu Jie laughed teasingly.

"I really don't know, what did he do?" Xu Ying continued to pretend to be stupid in fear.

"San'er, you're still a little tender." Xu Jie stood in front of his youngest son, gently tapped his shoulder with a cane and said:

"Think that if you don't get your hands dirty, others won't blame you? If Xiao Zhao Gongzi is so easy to deal with, can your eldest brother make him like this? ”

"......" Xu Ying lowered her head, her heart pounding.

"Don't you look down on your eldest brother?" Xu Jie picked his chin with a cane and looked at him coldly.

"No, my son doesn't dare." Xu Ying hurriedly shook her head and denied it.

"Your eldest brother is in Beijing, and when you are playing with those court officials, you still wet the bed." I only heard Xu Jie sneer:

"Do you know why he never lied to me? Because first, he knew, he couldn't fool me at all. Second, my father hates my own flesh and blood for deceiving me. ”

Saying that, he stroked the top of Xu Ying's head and said, "You have been in Huating all these years, and your father has neglected to discipline you, so I should be more tolerant of you than your eldest brother." Now for my father, I will give you one last chance, and tell me the truth - did you instigate Xu Bangning's destruction of the embankment? ”

Xu Ying thought quickly in her heart, did she show the slightest slight? But I couldn't think of it at all.

But he didn't dare to be stubborn anymore. Father said it so seriously, obviously he denied it, and he could only completely arouse his father's disgust.

He had no choice but to nod in humiliation, and said with red eyes: "When my son drank with him, he said jokingly, who knows that he will ......take it seriously."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a snort, and Xu Jie's crutches slapped on his cheek.

Xu Yingden was knocked out of two teeth, and the whole person fell to the ground.

"Stupid pig! Unattainable stupid pig! Xu Jie roared, slapped his body with his cane and said:

"Xu Bangning lives in your house, how can you make people believe that he will not consult you when he does such a thing?!"

Xu Ying held her head, her body twisted and dodged, and hurriedly explained:

"The kid surnamed Zhao is useless to suspect, he has no evidence at all! Even if Xu Bangning confronts me, he is not afraid! ”

"The fool still doesn't understand why the old man doesn't want to mess with him!"

Xu Jie was old and weak after all, and he was tired after a few beatings, so he asked people to move the spring stool and press Xu Ying on it.

"Because Zhao Hao is connected to the sky, His Majesty is likely to give him the right to play the secret music of the silver medal, do you understand!"

"Impossible!" Xu Ying was dumbfounded, and she couldn't care about her pants being ripped off.

The right to play the silver medal secretly, that is the authority given to officials above the fourth rank, and only some of the cronies and courtiers can obtain it.

Zhao Hao is a kid with an eight-grade false title, 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 the old man?" Xu Jie snorted angrily and said, "Without His Majesty's support for him, how could your eldest brother lose to him?!" ”

Xu Fan, who had been beaten to a great understanding and was much calmer, couldn't help but nod heavily when he heard the words.

He was very convinced of his father's conclusion, after all, even if Zhao Hao did not have the right to play the secret music of the silver medal, his relationship with the eldest princess alone was enough to reach the heavens.

~~

"Governing the family is like governing the country, and rewards and punishments should be fair." I heard Xu Jie shout in a deep voice: "San'er, because your eldest brother acted without authorization, the old man beat him up. This time, you knowingly committed a crime, which is worse than your eldest brother's behavior. The old man punished you, do you accept it? ”

"Serve ......" what else Xu Ying could say. Defy? Isn't that a lantern in a pit looking for death?

"Okay, flogging forty, go back and be grounded for a month!" Xu Jie waved his hand, glanced at the slaves coldly and said, "How did you beat the uncle that day, the old man still remembers." ”

"Yes." The slaves shrunk their necks, in fact, they had been suppressed by the old lady, and they completely recognized who was the real master of the old Xu family.

They don't have the ability of those professional players in the yamen to cheat, so they can only fight with each other.

After forty boards, Xu Sanye also had open skin and flesh, and there was no good meat on his cheek.

But after all, he was young and in good health, and he didn't faint.

"Go back to your garden and reflect on it." Xu Jie waved his hand and asked people to lift him down with the door panel. "Get rid of that scourge and let him go wherever he likes!"

"Yes......" Xu Sanye's face was like white paper, and his voice was weak.

"By the way, who gave Afangyuan's broken name? Isn't it enough to show off? Xu Jie said coldly again: "Go back and shovel it quickly, it's better to be empty than now!" ”

"Yes......" Xu Sanye was already dizzy, and could only say yes.

When Xu Ying was carried out, Xu Jiefang's expression was a little gloomy, and he said to Xu Fan: "You reply to Zhao Gongzi for the old man, just say that the matter has nothing to do with Xu Ying, but he and Xu Bangning fool around together all day, which is very hateful." The old man had been severely punished and grounded. ”

After a pause, Xu Jie said with some distress: "With two thousand taels of silver, it can be regarded as the old man's donation to Kunshan to repair the embankment." ”

"Yes, father." Xu Fan responded softly and helped Xu Jie to go to the inner bed to rest.

When Xu Jie lay down, he said to Xu Fan as if gossiping: "You are also concerned about the affairs of the family, and you are also a big brother no matter what you say, so you can't ignore it." ”

"Yes, father." Xu Fan's heart moved, and he suddenly understood why his father wanted to take the opportunity to beat the third child and confine him for a month.

This is clearly creating an opportunity for himself to take charge of the family business again.

It's just that when you're a father, you can't say this kind of thing explicitly.

~~

In that room, Xu Ying was pulled back to Afang Garden by the carriage.

When the subordinates carried him out of the car, Xu Bangning saw it.

"Yo, what's wrong with this?"

"I don't have time to talk to you, Zhao Hao already knows what you have done, hurry up and go back and find a way......" After Xu Ying finished speaking, she finally couldn't support it, and tilted her head and fainted.

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