Chapter 1146 Two Choices

The next moment, Yao Bo brought out a rattan whip. This rattan whip was made of two rattan strips as thick as a thumb tied together, and it was more than a meter long. It looked frightening.

Yao An's face turned pale as he struggled to glare at Yao Tianqin, who was sitting in the main seat. "You can't hit me! I'm not family. Why are you using family discipline on me? Who do you think you are?"

He panicked, and seeing that Yao Bo had already stood up and was standing behind him, he tried even harder to break free from the servant's grip.

Yao Hong screamed desperately, trying to rush forward to save her brother, but the servants of the Yao family held her back tightly, and she couldn't move at all.

Not to mention Wang Jiayi, whose face was already deathly pale. She hid in a corner, wishing she didn't exist, for fear that she would also be whipped.

"Yao Tianqin, you're just my cousin from several generations removed. You dare hit me? I'll go back and tell my father, and he won't let you get away with it. Stop! I'm a guest. Aren't you afraid people will laugh at you if word gets out that you treat your guests like this?"

The rattan whip was already raised high, and hearing Yao An's shouts, Yao Tianqin became even more disappointed in him.

He said slowly, “I’ll give you two choices. Either I, as an elder of the Yao family, will use family discipline on you, or you, as a guest, will plot against your host family and I will send you to the Jingzhao Prefecture. You can decide for yourself.”

Yao An's shouting stopped abruptly, and Yao Hong's yelling also ceased.

Along with Wang Jiayi and the other two, they all turned to look at Yao Tianqin.

Yao Bo said detachedly from the side, "If you go to the government office, given what you did today, you'll probably get a beating."

Yao An suddenly shuddered. He knew, of course he knew.

Leaving aside Yao Bo, let's talk about Lu Shuyu, who is the village head.

He's a powerful local magistrate; if Lord Qi and Lord Jing found out, they could easily put pressure on the Prefect of the Capital and cost him half his life.

Therefore, he stopped speaking.

Seeing his silence, Yao Tianqin snorted coldly, "It seems you're willing to accept family discipline."

As he spoke, he raised the rattan whip in his hand high and swung it down heavily without saying a word.

"Ah..." Yao An thought he could bear it, but he didn't expect it to hurt so much. It hurt so much that he couldn't even make a sound. He wished he could just faint and die.

But the second lash followed immediately, no less severe than the first. Even if he fainted, he would likely be jolted awake by the pain.

Yao Tianqin showed no mercy. Although he was the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, he dealt with wooden tools more often and was used to rough work. He was also physically strong and his strength was naturally unquestionable.

The clothes for late summer and early autumn were not thick, and Yao An was a pampered young master. Soon, blood seeped from his back, and the whip marks on his back were crisscrossed, a shocking sight.

Yao Hong cried until her voice became hoarse, and Yao An could no longer bear it; he began to sway precariously.

Seeing this, Yao Tianqin increased the speed of the next few lashes, and after striking twenty lashes, he let out a heavy breath, stopped, and handed the rattan whip to Yao Bo, who was standing to the side.

Yao An swayed, fell to the ground, and completely lost consciousness.

Zhao Xi, who had been standing aside waiting with a cold eye, suddenly stepped forward very eagerly to help the man up. "I'm a doctor, let me take a look at him. Come on, let's get him to his room first."

Shu Yu looked at him suspiciously, feeling that he was...overly enthusiastic.

Yao Hong stumbled after her, now behaving as obediently as could be, not daring to utter a single word.

(End of this chapter)