Jiang Wei nodded, "Since you just told me that you don't want to go to school anymore, then don't go!"
Jiang Yang was a wicked man who was punished by the scholars at the academy every day. If it weren't for the large sums of money the Chen family gave him, he would probably have been sent back long ago. Now there would be no possibility of spending money on him anymore.
As for the tuition fees, they came from the family's public accounts and had nothing to do with her.
"Really?" Jiang Yang was so excited when he heard that Jiang Wei wouldn't let him go to school.
"You're going to give me all the tuition money?" Jiang Yang was overjoyed. This meant he'd have tons of money! Before, whenever he caused trouble at the academy, his family would send money to the academy. If he got all that money now, wouldn't he be richer than before?
Jiang Yang was surrounded by piles of gleaming silver.
“Since you don’t want to study, I will naturally grant your wish,” Jiang Wei said, seemingly considering his best interests.
Jiang Yang's obsequious nature was further amplified by Jiang Wei's offer to give him all the money, and he was afraid Jiang Wei wouldn't feel his flattery, "Thank you, elder sister. No matter what others say, in my heart, elder sister is the best..."
He praised Jiang Wei from head to toe.
Jiang Rou was furious when she saw her good-for-nothing brother running to Jiang Wei to curry favor with her. She wanted to scold him, but there were too many people around, and he was her own brother after all, and she would definitely have to rely on him in the future.
She decided to hold back for now.
When Aunt Liu heard Jiang Wei say that Jiang Yang would not be allowed to study, she could no longer remain silent. This was her only son, and she was counting on him.
She took a deep breath, and with her hands supporting her weight, she shakily sat up from the wooden plank. She had used all her strength to try to stand up, but she failed several times.
Leaning against the wooden plank, he seemed resigned to his fate. "Young lady, please let him go to school! I have already atoned for the mistakes I made. Please, for the sake of him being your own brother, let him go to school."
Jiang Rou was dumbfounded. Her mother had actually started begging Jiang Wei. So what was she just now?
“Mother…” Jiang Rou shouted, “Why did you bow down to her? Who does she think she is?”
Aunt Liu has been imprisoned by Jiang Wei for so long, and no one has ever visited her. It's normal that Rou'er and Yang'er can't get in, so Jiang Wei doesn't visit her. But even Jiang Zaishui, who has shared a bed with her for so many years, hasn't visited her. He is the head of the family. If he wanted to visit her, could Jiang Wei stop him? But he didn't go.
Aunt Liu was already disheartened. Now, her only hope was Jiang Rou and Jiang Yang. But Jiang Wei was preventing Jiang Yang from going to school, which was cutting off her escape route. How could he possibly get out of there and save her?
She had no choice but to feign compliance with Jiang Wei, pretending that she was already completely submissive to her.
Jiang Rou didn't understand. She felt that her sincerity had been trampled on by her own mother and brother. "So you're all family and I'm the only outsider?"
Jiang Wei wore a meaningful smile and did not answer Aunt Liu's question.
She glanced at everyone standing below her, and the servants' souls trembled. They stood obediently with their heads bowed, waiting for Jiang Wei to speak. The scene was so similar to the first time, but their attitude was completely different.
"Who is on duty at the gate today? Step forward." As soon as Jiang Wei finished speaking, the gatekeeper couldn't help but tremble. They said that even when the family needed to discipline the servants, it was never their job to guard the gate.
Today, the young lady actually asked them to be replaced.
The two men exchanged a glance, and, suppressing their fear, stepped forward. "Reporting to you, miss, it's the two of us guarding the gate today. Is there some problem?"
The person answering asked, feigning ignorance.
"Did you leave at any point? Or did you stay at the door the whole time?" Jiang Wei asked them casually.
The two exchanged a glance and said that they would definitely be punished, and it was good that neither of them disliked the other. If they hadn't said anything, they might have been able to get away with it.
If the young lady knew that he knew she was at the gate and heard the fighting outside, yet still followed the second young lady's orders and pretended to be busy, not guarding the gate...
The young lady punished people so harshly.
One of them, gritting his teeth, said, "I was guarding the door the whole time, but when the eldest daughter came back, I had to go to the outhouse because I needed to relieve myself. That's all I know."
Another servant, seeing that he was completely shirking responsibility, hurriedly said, "He Li hasn't come back yet. I was afraid something had happened to him, so I went to look for him for a while. When I couldn't find him, I came back to guard the gate. When I came back, the young lady had already returned to the mansion."
"Are you telling the truth? You're not lying?" Jiang Wei asked them expressionlessly.
The two nodded vigorously, "No, no."
"Are you sure?"
"No." The two of them refused to admit it no matter what.
Jiang Wei nodded, "I'm afraid something might happen to him in the manor. But what could possibly happen in the manor? In that case, let's just give him thirty lashes and sell him!"
The two were stunned, as if struck by lightning. The young woman didn't seem suspicious at all, so why was it time to betray them?
The two men kowtowed and begged for mercy, but Jiang Wei waved her hand and someone took them away.
"Please spare us, young lady! Don't betray us! We promise it will never happen again, and we won't leave on our own!" The two men pleaded as they were dragged away.
Seeing that Jiang Wei had no intention of letting them off, they said, "We were only gone for a short while, and you're going to betray us? How can you be so heartless and cruel..."
Everyone remained silent, afraid to make a sound, lest they be betrayed.
"What a mess! What are you doing causing trouble again? You've turned this house into a complete disaster." Jiang Zai Shui walked in angrily.
"They're just two gatekeepers. Why are you selling them off? They've been with the Jiang family for so many years, and all they did was not greet you in time when you came back today. Are you going to sell them off?" As soon as Jiang Zai Shui entered the house, he heard the two servants crying and begging for mercy. He knew that Jiang Wei was making a scene again.
His first words were to accuse Jiang Wei, as if Jiang Wei were the one who was utterly wicked.
Aunt Liu looked at him as if she had seen a savior, tears streaming down her face, "Master, you've gotten so thin, it breaks my heart to see you like this."
She then tearfully accused Jiang Zaishui, "How cruel you are, you won't even look at me." She tried to evoke Jiang Zaishui's past affection for her.
When Jiang Zai Shui came in, he glanced at the person lying on the ground and assumed that it was another beggar that Jiang Wei had picked up somewhere.
When Aunt Liu spoke, he noticed that the person on the ground was Aunt Liu. The charming, graceful, and radiant woman was gone, and she looked like a beggar on the street, devoid of any vitality.
Jiang Zai Shui frowned. "Why did you make it like this?"
Aunt Liu glanced at Jiang Wei with tears in her eyes, biting her lip without saying a word.
However, she is no longer as beautiful as before, and can no longer arouse Jiang Zai Shui's pity.
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