Chapter 202: Starting Over (Part 2)
In Ningguo Mansion, Lan Zhi stayed in Shen Ning's courtyard.
Her parents and brother are all dead, and she is all alone. Now the only thing she can worry about is...
It can be said that there is only the aunt in the entire Jia family.
"Aunt, I plan to go to the West Mansion to look for Jia Zheng and Wang Shi early tomorrow morning."
Shen Ning: “…”
She had been looking forward to this day for a long time.
If I can get this done before the New Year, I can spend the New Year peacefully.
"Aunt, your eyes..."
After Lan Zhi heard that her aunt had killed five men in black with a musket, she went to Shuntian Prefecture with others to see the bodies. "Why do I feel like you want to beat them too?"
"Hmm~"
Shen Ning's throat still hurt, so she could only speak sparingly.
"Then do you...support me in killing them?"
“…”
Shen Ning was silent for a moment.
If she could kill him, she would have done it long ago.
However, what she cannot do, Lan Zhi is different.
She was the only one left in the Lan family.
If she were Lan Zhi, it would actually be considered mercy if she only killed Jia Zheng and his wife.
"…Have you considered this for me?"
Lanzhi is undoubtedly smart.
If my aunt objects, she will shake her head even if she can't speak.
"You've made me feel more confident."
Her uncle Jia She had a special talk with her.
The nickname of that person is Zheng Ershazi.
Tan is a bully in the room. When he is teased by outsiders, he doesn't know which way is east, west or north.
Talking about him ruined his official career, telling the emperor how stupid that person was, and doing things for others, but still being called a fool.
He said that the Wang brothers were treating him like a fool, so Lu the God of Wealth wanted to make amends to his eldest cousin Zhen through Jia Zheng, so he gave the Wang family a silver note of 100,000 taels and gave him... a piece of chicken blood stone.
For a piece of bloodstone, he wanted to force his cousin Zhen to let go of those who might be in the assassin's gang.
In the end, the emperor listened to his foolish words and let him retire at home.
He also talked about living in the ancestral hall, spanking, etc.
Now her good aunt still lives in the small Buddhist temple.
If nothing unexpected happens, I will live in a small Buddhist temple for the rest of my life.
But...is that enough?
In the eyes of the Jia family, the greatest punishment would be to end Jia Zheng's official career and let Wang live in a small Buddhist temple, but she couldn't do that.
Her father died, and her two brothers also died.
Although they died on the battlefield, it was Wang Ziteng who used Jia Zheng to take her brothers' lives as a favor to others.
Jia Zheng: Is that your uncle? He is your enemy.
“They are used to being superior.”
Lan Zhi snorted coldly, "My uncle in the West Mansion said that it is better to let them suffer a living punishment than to kill them directly. But they are imprisoned in Lixiang Courtyard, and there are maids and servants to serve them in everything. Is that what you call suffering a living punishment?"
Shen Ning: “…”
She had always admired this girl, and now she admired her even more, "What do you want to do?"
Although her throat was still sore, she asked anyway.
"Don't they boast of their high status?"
Look down on her mother, look down on her father, look down on her whole family.
"Where are the second master and second wife of the Jia family?"
Lan Zhi smiled and said, "What do you think would happen if they lost their status?"
“Not likely.”
Shen Ning took another sip of salt water, "Yuanchun and Zhu'er can't possibly not help."
Lan Zhi was silent for a moment, "...They are also worried that I will do something to the Second Master and Second Mistress, right?"
This? Really.
Yuanchun and Jia Zhu are both smart children.
Just for the sake of being a child...
Filial piety is important in this world.
"During the war, I received a lot of medicinal herbs from them."
Lanzhi could feel their hearts.
But what can compensate for the lives of my father and brothers?
"As long as I don't do surgery, I think... they are willing to accept any conditions that can be met."
“…”
Shen Ning nodded with relief.
At this moment, the little maid came in hurriedly to report, "Madam, the second master of the West Mansion is here, and he is carrying a bramble on his back."
What? Shen Ning frowned, and Lan Zhi's face darkened, "Is he the only one?"
"yes!"
The little maid nodded quickly.
In fact, Grandmother Jia was very pleased to know that her second son had come to terms with it and was willing to come forward and apologize.
What happened back then was wrong.
What's the point of not admitting it and hiding?
Now the eldest son, Jia She, likes Lan Zhi very much. He even tells her that Lan Zhi saved his life that day and he followed Lan Zhi to the battlefield where the Duke once wanted him to go.
If the second son continues to drag on like this, the old lady is worried that even without Lanzhi's help, her eldest son will go to Lixiangyuan, tie up the man, and then throw him to Lanzhi like a pig.
It is even possible that it happened when she was inconvenient and unable to be rescued.
If that happens...
Grandmother Jia was reluctant.
That was the baby she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy.
Even though I'm useless and stupid, but...
Raising a child for a hundred years means worrying for ninety-nine years.
Grandmother Jia supported her son to go.
He even thought that Shen Ning was in poor health and unable to speak, and as long as her second son could apologize sincerely, Lan Zhi was young and thin-skinned, so she might be able to let him go lightly.
Even if I don't forgive you, even if I still have to beat you... it can be a little lighter.
So, Jia Zheng came over.
He is wearing thick clothes, so if he really needs to be beaten with a stick... the thick clothes can help to block it a little.
"You are Lanzhi?!"
Jia Zheng once saw her from afar outside the mourning hall.
At that time, when he heard that she was Lan Zhi, he was so scared that he turned around and hid.
Now……
"You look a bit like your mother."
Jia Zheng's eyes turned red. "I'm sorry, I'm your second uncle, I... I was wrong."
He fell to his knees with a thud.
"Sister-in-law, we agreed that Lan Zhi can punish me however she wants. I...I am willing to accept the punishment."
Shen Ning: “…”
Lan Zhi: “…”
"I was wrong. I'm sorry to your mother, sorry to your father, sorry... to my two nephews, for causing you to..."
Jia Zheng glanced at the big knife that Lan Zhi placed on the table and said, "Go ahead and hit me!"
Zheng~Lanzhi draws his sword.
You could hear a pin drop in the room.
Jia Zheng was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.
The eldest brother said that she killed three of them by herself that day.
The head of a man in black was split in half diagonally, and white brain matter and blood spurted out.
"beat?"
Lan Zhi sneered, "As expected, the mouth of a scholar is good at talking. You pissed off my mother to death, and made her die in vain. You killed my father and two brothers, and you can solve it with a 'beat'? Second Master, do you think you have such a big face?"
Jia Zheng: “…”
His heart trembled and he looked to Shen Ning for help.
But can Shen Ning help him?
She lay in bed, looking weak without any acting.
Lan Zhi took a few steps forward and lifted Jia Zheng's pale face with the tip of her knife. "It's so cold, it's easy to carry a few thorns on your back! Are you kidding me, or are you kidding a ghost?"
Huh?
Jia Zheng was shaking with panic.
"Do you know what it means to ask for forgiveness while carrying a thorn stick on one's back? That means doing it with bare chest."
Lan Zhi swung her sword and Jia Zheng's thick cotton coat was torn apart, revealing his underwear.
"If you don't want to die, then carry your thorns on your back, bare your arms, and start over again."
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