He instinctively wanted to help Lin Ling up and comfort her, but Mo Yan's cough brought him back to reality.
"Cough cough."
Mo Yan coughed twice, and only then did Xiao Minghui notice that his mother was there too.
"Mother, you're here. What happened? Lin Ling, why are you on the ground? Get up quickly."
Mo Yan sneered and slammed her hand on the table, shattering it instantly.
Xiao Minghui was stunned, a chill ran down his spine, and he instinctively wanted to run away. Who had angered his mother?
"Mother, who made you angry? Your son will get revenge for you."
Mo Yan looked at him coldly and uttered a sentence.
"I thought you thought I was dead."
Xiao Minghui could only laugh awkwardly and quickly apologized, "Mother, what do you mean? You are the person I respect most. Tell me, if anyone makes you angry, I will definitely not let them off easily."
Mo Yan raised an eyebrow. "Is that so? Then slap yourself twice. And give Lin Ling four slaps too."
Xiao Minghui: "???"
Xiao Minghui was stunned. Why was he being hit? He glanced at Lin Ling, whose eyes were full of grievance and fear. Seeing him was like seeing her only salvation. Afraid of implicating him, she quickly lowered her head.
"My lord, it's all my fault. I didn't know how to speak properly and angered Mother."
Xiao Minghui thought it was unlikely; Lin Ling was the most sensible person and would never talk back to her mother.
"If you know you can't speak properly, then shut up. Xiao Minghui, why don't you hurry up and do it, or do you want me to do it myself?"
Xiao Minghui swallowed hard, recalling how his mother had chased him with a butcher knife when he was disobedient in the past. "Mother, I can handle this myself."
Xiao Minghui hardened his heart, gritted his teeth, and struck himself hard on the face, lightly hitting himself in the face.
With two sharp cracks, Xiao Minghui stopped, pretending that his cheek hurt as he spoke.
"Mother, your son was wrong."
Mo Yan doesn't even want to watch it; it's so damn fake.
"Beat your concubine."
Lin Ling's eyes reddened at those two words. No one in this mansion ever called her a concubine; you always called her Second Madam. This lecherous cousin must be doing this on purpose!
Was deliberately calling her a concubine an attempt to teach her a lesson, or...? Lin Ling wasn't quite sure.
Xiao Minghui turned to look at Lin Ling, feeling a pang of heartache, but could only grit his teeth and slap her twice.
Lin Ling couldn't believe it; her large eyes were filled with disbelief and pain.
Xiao Minghui turned his head away from Lin Ling and looked at Mo Yan instead. "Mother, I don't know what Lin Ling did to upset you, and what's going on with the two maids on the ground?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yudie didn't say anything; she knew she didn't need to.
Sure enough, Xiao Yufei spoke up first, "Father, today Mother took us to wait for Grandmother to return, but when we passed the pond, my sister pushed me into the pond."
Before Xiao Yufei could finish speaking, Xiao Minghui looked at her with concern, then glanced coldly at Xiao Yudie, "Yudie, what's wrong with you? You're the older sister, you should protect your younger sister. How could you push her like that..."
Another teacup came flying at Xiao Minghui, hitting him squarely on the forehead.
Just as Xiao Minghui was about to explode in anger, he turned around and saw Mo Yan holding a feather duster, and all his anger was instantly extinguished...
"Mother, you..."
Mo Yan stood up and walked over, kicking him so he was forced to kneel on the ground.
"You've only been an official for a few years, and you've already forgotten what I told you?"
Is your brain just filled with water?
You believe everything they say? Don't you have a brain? Someone like you should go back to farming; I'm afraid you'll drag your whole family down with you!
Xiao Minghui: "..."
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