Chapter 41: A Nest of Wolf Hearts and Dog Lungs
Han Qiongyue gave the order, and in the afternoon, Nanny Dou went to supervise Deng Zheng's punishment according to the family rules.
Thirty lashes is not a light punishment.
What's more, Deng Zheng is not a young man. Thirty lashes will definitely make him lose a layer of skin.
"My Lord, don't blame me, this is the punishment ordered by the old lady herself!"
Nanny Dou was holding a rattan whip, ready to whip him.
If this kind of criminal was her son, she would have beaten him to death.
She felt that the punishment given by the old lady was not severe enough.
Deng Zheng took off his shirt, looking ready to die.
Madam Dou showed no mercy. She enjoyed the beating, but she only regretted that the whip did not fall on Deng Yi, who really wanted to poison the old lady.
Deng Youning stood aside and watched the execution.
Three whips struck, leaving his skin and flesh torn apart.
After being beaten about ten times, Deng Zheng's entire back turned blood red.
He clenched his fists and beads of sweat kept dripping from his forehead.
The burning pain on his back almost made him bite his back teeth off.
"Oh, it's only ten lashes, and father can't bear it anymore?"
Deng Youning asked softly, with a hint of teasing in her tone.
In his previous life, when he was ordered to be beaten to death by the prince, he was also sarcastic like this.
"Deng Youning, you are such a wicked girl!"
Deng Zheng was so angry at her that his whole body was shaking.
She was quite pleased with herself.
“Pah—”
Another whip broke through the air and landed on Deng Zheng's back.
"Madame Dou, please stop hitting me."
Deng Xuelian's voice crying and begging for mercy came from not far away, the voice arrived before the person arrived.
Deng Zheng's body was shocked. Why did Lian'er come?
She ran over quickly, but because she was too anxious, she fell when she reached Deng Zheng, which made Deng Zheng feel heartbroken.
"Lian'er, Lian'er, get up quickly."
Deng Zheng, however, was still being punished, so he stepped forward and helped Deng Xuelian up.
Looking at the wound on her father's back, Deng Xueling frowned, and she squeezed out a tear, not knowing whether it was true or false.
"Daddy, woo woo woo~"
The pain in her eyes almost took shape.
"Madame Dou, please beat me. I am willing to take the rest of the lashes for my father."
Deng Xuelian asked sensibly.
After hearing her words, Deng Zheng felt a sudden warmth in his heart, and his nose felt sore. Turbid tears and cold sweat flowed down his face, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
The father and daughter were almost crying.
"Lian'er, what nonsense are you talking about? Go back quickly, Daddy doesn't love you!"
Deng Zheng stretched out his rough hands and wiped away Deng Xuelian's tears.
Deng Xuelian had already cried until she was out of breath, and her tears were like the surging river, seemingly endless.
What a great drama of deep love between father and daughter!
Deng Youning walked forward unconsciously and applauded them.
"Madam Dou, since Sister Lian'er is willing to take the punishment for her father, why not use the remaining twenty lashes on her."
They all deserve to be beaten!
Nanny Dou and Deng Youning exchanged glances.
"Hurry up and hold the young lady down. Since she wants to take the blame for her father, we will grant her wish!"
Two strong and sturdy old women stepped forward and grabbed Deng Xuelian's hands. Nanny Dou swung the whip and with a "snap" sound, a section of Deng Xuelian's beautiful hair was broken.
The barbed whip hit her back hard, tearing her gauze dress, and blood quickly seeped out of her clothes.
"Lian'er——"
When Madam Dou was about to swing the whip for the second time, Deng Zheng immediately rushed forward and snatched the whip.
If Madam Dou's martial arts skills were not better than his, she would have been knocked down by his attack just now.
Deng Xuelian grew up in their care and had never suffered such pain.
The pain in her back made her curl up and tremble continuously.
The two lines of tears on her face made her look particularly pitiful.
"Madame Dou, Deng Youning, please don't go too far!"
Deng Zheng felt that the two of them were just taking advantage of someone else's power. Since their mother had delegated power to them, they wanted to kill him and Lian'er.
"But it was just a whipping, and Sister Lian'er couldn't stand it?"
"I'm in the Ten Thousand Snake Valley, but the Valley Master cuts my flesh and drains my blood every day. Look at these scars on my arms. Are they scary?"
Deng Youning rolled up his sleeves and showed the scars on his arms to the father and daughter.
She saw that Deng Zheng didn't feel sorry for her at all.
How could she compare with his pampered daughter?
Deng Xuelian just glanced at it indifferently.
Everyone has their own destiny. So what if Deng Youning is a real daughter?
It's because you were not born to be a rich lady!
Deng Youning shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, with a hint of madness.
She picked up the whip that Deng Zheng had just thrown on the ground and whipped Deng Xuelian again on behalf of Madam Dou.
At this moment, Deng Yi, who heard that Deng Xuelian had also been beaten, rushed out of the ancestral hall and ran here, regardless of the fact that he was still being punished.
As soon as he looked around, he saw the vicious woman Deng Youning holding a whip and trying to beat his sister.
"Deng Youning, stop it!"
He roared angrily, ran to Deng Xuelian, and blocked Deng Youning's whip for her with all his strength.
The clothes covering his entire chest were torn and blood was oozing out.
"Sir, shouldn't you be kneeling in the ancestral hall?"
"It's not time yet, and you actually ran out without permission. Aren't you afraid that the old lady will be angry?"
When Nanny Dou saw him coming, she questioned him angrily.
Deng Yi's blood boiled and he became so angry that he lost his mind.
"If I hadn't come, Lian'er would have been beaten to death by this vicious woman!"
"What right does that biased old hag have to punish me?!"
"She's angry? It would be better if she died of anger!"
What a coincidence, when Deng Xuelian came to make trouble just now, Nanny Dou had already sent someone to invite Han Qiongyue over.
Han Qiongyue happened to walk nearby and heard Deng Yi's outrageous words.
She was so angry that her heart was pounding, but she did not rush forward to see how her good son would deal with his good son.
But Deng Zheng never blamed Deng Yi from beginning to end.
Aren’t Yier’s words also what he really thinks?
Ever since the evil daughter Deng Youning came back, her mother seemed like a different person.
He would rather not have such a mother who cannot distinguish right from wrong!
“Bang!”
Deng Youning couldn't bear it any longer and whipped Deng Yi again.
"Deng Yi, you poisoned my grandmother first, and now you insult her and curse her to die early. You have committed evil deeds repeatedly and have no intention of repenting!"
"If you are such an unfilial person, you will be hanged if you are taken to the government office!"
"Family rules can't control you. I think I'll just send you to the government."
After hearing Deng Youning say that she was going to report the matter to the police, Deng Zheng pretended to scold Deng Yi.
"What are you doing here? Send your sister back quickly and ask the imperial physician to check her wounds."
Deng Zheng kept winking at Deng Yi, asking him to take Deng Xuelian away first.
Look, the son scolded his biological grandmother, but the father did nothing and was even thinking about his precious adopted daughter.
This family is such a bunch of wicked people!
"Doctor, please come back later!"
Han Qiongyue's voice came from the rockery nearby. Deng Zheng and his son Deng Yi then realized that she had been there for a long time, so they hid behind the rockery and listened to their conversation.
Deng Yi was as scared now as he was fiercely cursing just now.
"Ancestor...grandmother...?"
He slumped on the ground, looking at Han Qiongyue's furious face, and realized that he would definitely be punished more severely.
"Grandma, when did you come? What the prince said just now..."
Deng Youning stopped there and waited to see Deng Yi's good show.
Han Qiongyue glanced at Deng Xuelian and Deng Yi, and asked Aunt Dou, "How many lashes do you have left to give Deng Zheng?"
Madam Dou: "Madam, there are still twenty more lashes."
She nodded and praised in a cold tone: "My Lord, you really gave birth to a pair of good children."
Deng Zheng lowered his head and said nothing, looking humble.
"Let the brothers and sisters give you ten lashes each for the remaining twenty."
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