It's all Jiang Hua's fault. I could have escaped, but she kicked me and I was bitten by a wolf.
With so many wolves, why didn't they just kill them? Instead, they brought him to the yamen. Don't they care about sibling affection at all? If he passes the imperial examinations in the future, he can at least share some good things with her.
"Xu Yaozu! Do you admit it or not?" Bai Heng recounted what he had done, looking at him with a serious expression.
Did they even have a choice between acknowledging him or not? They witnessed it with their own eyes last night.
Xu Yaozu looked around and, finding that neither the teacher nor the dean of Shifang Academy were there, breathed a sigh of relief. He glared at Jiang Hua resentfully, then gritted his teeth and reluctantly accepted the offer.
Bai Heng nodded, finding him to be a man of principle, and immediately delivered his verdict, stripping him of his status as a student, deeming him unworthy of his position.
"No way! My family is stripped of our family's status as a descendant of a scholar who has achieved great success!" Xu Dagui and Madam Xu shouted loudly in dissatisfaction.
"Anyway, they're all fine, they didn't die. It was my Yaozu who was injured, and we haven't even asked her family for money for medicine!" Madam Xu retorted shamelessly.
"You stole our Yaozu's spot as the dean's closed-door disciple at Shifang Academy, and now you're trying to harm him like this? How can you be so vicious at such a young age!"
"Ah, I'm going to beat you to death, you motherless bastard!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Madam Xu was about to pounce on Jiang Jingyi, but Jiang Hua reacted quickly and kicked her away.
Her body was still a bit weak, otherwise she would have been kicked several meters away long ago. Jiang Hua brushed off the hem of Da Xu's skirt that had just touched her.
“Even if our Ayi had no mother, he would never do such a vicious thing. For his own selfish desires, he treats the lives of the entire village like weeds.”
"On the contrary, Xu Yaozu, who was raised by his mother, how could he do such a thing? Now that things have turned out like this, if he becomes an official in the future, how are we common people supposed to live? He is truly unworthy of being a scholar."
Jiang Hua met Xu Yaozu's deep eyes, and looking at his disheveled appearance, she made no attempt to hide her mockery.
"Sister..." After thinking for a while, Xu Yaozu suppressed the overwhelming hatred in his heart.
"I'm your younger brother. Wouldn't it be better for me to pass the imperial examinations and become an official than for you to raise this stepson?"
"Don't get involved. What kind of sister am I to you? The government has its own rules, and everyone has to take responsibility for their mistakes."
Bai Heng didn't give Xu Yaozu a chance to continue speaking. He slammed the gavel down and pronounced the verdict in the case.
"Ah—! My Yaozu, how pitiful he is!" Madam Xu scrambled to her feet and hugged Xu Yaozu tightly.
Xu Yaozu, who was being held by Madam Xu, stared blankly at Jiang Hua and Jiang Jingyi. It wasn't that he didn't want to move, but that he couldn't. His whole body ached, especially his hands, which he couldn't move.
"Gone, all gone..." Xu Wanli muttered to himself, walking heavily out of the government office, not even knowing how he got back to the village.
"Stop crying, aren't you ashamed? Hurry up and leave!" Xu Dagui roared, picked up Xu Yaozu from Da Xu's arms and carried him home, his expression dark and unreadable.
No one paid any attention to Xu, who was leaning against the pillar. In the end, it was the officials who found an oxcart to take her back.
After leaving the yamen, Jiang Hua led Jiang Jingyi towards Shifang Academy. The holiday was over, and it was time to send him back.
“Stepmother, I don’t want to go back to the academy. I want to stay at home and take care of you.”
Jiang Jing was also a little worried. His stepmother's complexion was still so bad this morning, and she hadn't been as nimble as usual when she kicked Madam Xu.
The injury must have been too serious. He was a man, and he couldn't personally apply medicine to his stepmother. He didn't know where she was injured. For the first time, Jiang Jingyi felt so frustrated that he was born a man.
"Your task now is to study hard and take care of me. There are Granny Luo and the others at home, so we don't need you." Jiang Hua poked his head.
"I'll come pick you up again during your next day off."
"Stepmother!" Jiang Jingyi kept turning back to look at her, still worried, before finally rushing to Jiang Hua and hugging her tightly.
"mother!"
"good!"
Hearing him suddenly call out "Mother," it would be a lie to say Jiang Hua didn't feel anything. She rubbed his head.
"Go on, your mother will be waiting for you at home."
Okay, okay, painless mommy!
The emotion came quickly and went quickly. Jiang Hua watched him enter the academy and then turned and left.
...
"Da Gui, what should we do!" Madam Xu looked at Xu Yaozu on the bed with tears in her eyes.
The family had worked so hard to support a scholar, but before he could even pass the imperial examination with top honors, he lost his status as a student in the preliminary examination.
"You ask me? How would I know!" Xu Dagui stared at Xu Yaozu on the bed, feeling a sense of unfamiliarity, but after all, he was his son.
Thinking about his son who was already useless, he felt a pang of heartache for all the money he had spent on him over the years.
Fortunately, Xu was pregnant with another child. If Xu Dagui could give birth to a scholar, he could certainly give birth to a second one.
"Mother, take good care of Xu Shi's belly from now on." After saying this, Xu Dagui didn't even glance at Xu Yaozu, and turned to leave. He still had to give an explanation to the clan elders.
Xu Yaozu sat on the bed without saying a word, watching Xu Dagui leave. Back when he was still a student, everyone fawned over him, but now that he had fallen from grace, they looked down on him.
As she looked at her grandson's increasingly gloomy face and the hatred in his eyes, Madam Xu felt a chill run down her spine and quietly took a few steps back.
"Grandma, are you also complaining that I'm useless?" Xu Yaozu asked in a deep voice, looking at Madam Xu.
"No, how could Grandma dislike you? Just focus on healing your injuries and come back to the academy once you've recovered."
"Your mother is back. I'm going to see her." With that, Madam Xu quickly left.
The hasty escape of the Xu family added another thorn to Xu Yaozu's heart, darkening and twisting his mind...
A few days later, Lin Shuyan finally woke up slowly, and the first thing she did was hug Zhou Yingxuan by the bedside.
"Brother Xuan, our fate is ordained by heaven!"
"Yan Yan?"
Zhou Yingxuan was somewhat confused, but still responded to Lin Shuyan.
"You've been sleeping for several days now, are you feeling unwell anywhere?"
You must not reveal my existence.
Just as Lin Shuyan was about to explain to Zhou Yingxuan, a mechanical voice came from her mind.
It turns out that the dog system that was separated from Jiang Hua has returned to Lin Shuyan, the main female character.
However, because of that forced separation, the dog system was left with nothing but its mouth, having exhausted its energy while controlling the wolf.
Of course, Lin Shuyan knew nothing about all this, nor did the dog system tell her.
“Brother Xuan, I had a dream. I dreamt that you were making great achievements on the battlefield and killing many enemies.”
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