Chapter 18 Making an Example of Someone Else

Only then did Madam Xu realize that Xu Qingyi and her party had actually stayed in two second-class rooms!

Xu Yiyuan was immediately angered.

"Brother, Mother is staying in the communal dormitory, yet you're paying a bunch of strangers to stay in second-class rooms. You've gone too far!"

"Fourth Uncle, you're mistaken. Zhaozhao knows Uncle Wei; they're not strangers. Besides..."

Grandma said that Zhao Zhao couldn't live with her younger brother, so she had to give her room to her older brother Jing Chen!

Yun Zhao tilted her head innocently and hugged Xu Yifei's neck.

"Uncle, isn't Zhaozhao right?"

The money was given by Yun Zhao, and she could let whoever she wanted stay there.

Xu Yifei nodded as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"certainly!"

"Alright, Xu Yifei, I've raised you all, and now you siblings have grown up and are all grown up."

Seeing the Xu family fall into misfortune, they bully your elderly mother and younger siblings like this! I've raised a bunch of ungrateful wretches!

Old Madam Xu pounded her chest, crying and shouting.

"Xu Zhenbang! Look at your good children, taking advantage of your absence to humiliate your old wife!"

Xu siblings, Yun Zhao: ...

Before Yun Zhao could speak, Luo Qing pulled out his whip and lashed it across Old Madam Xu's calf!

"Ahh!"

"What are you howling about! If you want to go down and wait for the old general, just say so. I'll take you down!"

"Stop hitting! Stop hitting!"

With unprecedented agility, Madam Xu leaped up behind her son in an instant.

"Get the hell inside!"

Luo Qing pointed at the large communal sleeping area, his eyes fierce.

Xu Yiyuan swallowed hard and hurriedly pushed his mother into the house.

"Mother, please go inside quickly!"

"Husband, that doctor..."

"What doctor! I'll call you when the person arrives. Or just send my men back now."

It's not uncommon for one or two people to die on the road, let alone a young child!

Seeing that Luo Qing was really angry, Xu Yiyuan hurriedly pushed his wife inside as well.

Luo Hao looked up and saw that the expressions of the four siblings from the Xu family were completely different from before.

"And you too, it's your business who gets to live in the house, stop making a scene here!"

"Okay, Zhao Zhao will be very good!"

Yun Zhaoxing responded excitedly.

"Wow, this little kid is really energetic."

The officials smiled and shook their heads.

Wei Mingde and his group went up to the second floor and bowed to Xu Qingyi.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

“Lord Wei, we have now been demoted to commoners. You are older than my husband. If you don’t mind, you can call me sister-in-law.”

Wei Mingde was renowned throughout the Great Zhou for his talent and political achievements, and it was no exaggeration to respectfully address him as "Lord Wei".

"Okay, sister-in-law, our family doesn't have much money, but we do have things like cooking..."

"The Wei family will definitely help with anything that requires our help, like starting a fire!"

"Brother Wei, you flatter us. We're all so tall, yet we can't even kill a fish."

The mountains and rivers of Lingnan are high and the journey is long. If our two families can work together, the journey will surely be much easier!

Xu Yinan set out the food, took out two eggs, and stuffed them into Wei Jingchen's hand.

"Here, there aren't many eggs, so you kids can share them!"

Wei Jingchen wanted to decline, but Yun Zhao nodded vigorously.

"Yes, yes, it's good for children's health to eat more eggs!"

"Jingchen, please don't stand on ceremony. Consider this your way of repaying us for helping my mother and me earlier. There aren't many people left who can offer help in times of need these days."

Xu Qingyi also joined in the persuasion.

They all say so, so to refuse would be pretentious.

Wei Jingchen readily agreed and gave the eggs to his younger brother, who then distributed them to the other children.

There were two rooms, one for the man and one for the woman, while the younger children slept with their mothers.

Wei Jingchen and his cousin Wei Jingxiang were both ten years old, so they lived with their father in the room with the men.

After dinner, Xu Yifei went to get some hot water. On his way back, he saw officials leading a doctor in from outside.

"Big brother, you go back first!"

Xu Yinan stacked the water basin on top of his older brother's water basin and ran happily to the door of the dormitory to look around.

After taking the pulse, the doctor spoke with some displeasure.

"You're alright, kid. Really, you made this old man run this whole way in the middle of the night for nothing!"

"How could nothing be wrong? My son has been unconscious all day, and I can't wake him up no matter what I do!"

Wu Lianzhen pinched her son's little face in disbelief, but there was indeed no reaction at all.

Xu Yiyuan was anxious, and coupled with the setback he had suffered today, he instantly flew into a rage.

He rushed forward and grabbed the doctor by the collar.

"You quack! Let me tell you, if anything happens to my son, I'll kill you!"

"Help! Sir, the prisoner has committed murder!"

The doctor was startled and let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.

Hearing the commotion, the officers rushed in.

Looking at the messy room, he took out a whip and lashed it across Xu Yiyuan's body.

"Ouch! Mother, Mother, save me!"

This startled Xu Zhiqian awake, and he burst into tears.

"Mother, Qian'er is awake!"

Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to it.

At this moment, Yun Zhao suddenly appeared out of nowhere, tilting her little head up.

"Fourth Aunt, my cousin is perfectly fine, why do we need to call a doctor?"

The doctor was quite frightened, and upon hearing Yun Zhao's words, he immediately flew into a rage.

"Outrageous! I may not be a famous doctor, but I am not to be insulted like this!"

The doctor stormed off in anger.

The officials' faces darkened.

Even so, you still have to pay the doctor's consultation fee!

"What? He didn't even examine the child, the child woke up on his own! This quack doctor wants us to pay him?"

Upon hearing that she had to pay money, Xu Qingshi immediately exploded.

"You were the ones who begged our boss to call the doctor, and now that the doctor's here, you expect me to pay for it?"

The officer sneered and then looked Xu Qingshi up and down.

After all, she was a pampered young lady raised in her boudoir, with fair skin and a beautiful face.

Even though she was wearing prison clothes and was only fifteen years old, she was still very pretty.

"If you don't want to pay, I'll reluctantly accept you as payment!"

Xu Qingshi turned pale and hurriedly hid behind Old Madam Xu.

"mother!"

"You, you're delusional! This is utterly absurd!"

Startled, Madam Xu hurriedly shielded her daughter behind her and began to curse in a panic.

The officer's face darkened, and disregarding Madam Xu's age, he dragged her out.

Yun Zhao, who was leaning against the door, was so frightened that he quickly stepped aside.

Old Madam Xu was thrown to the ground in the yard like a rag!

"Not only do you refuse to pay, but you also insult the officials! I bet you nobles don't even know what exile means! Today I'll make an example of you!"

After saying that, the officer picked up a wooden stick from the courtyard and smashed it down on Old Madam Xu!

"ah!"

Then, a woman's agonizing screams, like those of a ghost, rang out in the courtyard.

It's terrifying in the pitch-black night!

"Zhaozhao, come here quickly!"

Xu Qingyi was startled and quickly called her daughter to her side.

"What happened?!"

Xu Yifei put down the water and rushed over, only to see his mother lying on the ground, being repeatedly beaten with sticks by the officials.

He instinctively wanted to step forward to stop him, but Yun Zhao's heart skipped a beat, and she rushed over to grab him, looking frightened.

"Waaaaah, Uncle, Zhao Zhao is so scared!"