Xiao Minghui wanted to make excuses, but remembering the consequences of his previous attempts to do so, he simply admitted his mistake, "It's all my fault, Mother, could you please hit me less?"
Xiao Minghui knew very well that he hadn't paid much attention to Yu Die in recent years. Yu Die was always getting into trouble, didn't like studying, and often bullied her younger sister. He was very disappointed and hadn't visited her often.
“Tell me what you did wrong, and express your thoughts. You know I don’t like to force people, so don’t say I’m bullying you.”
Xiao Minghui: "..." This isn't bullying, this is a beating! This is forced admission of wrongdoing.
"Mother, your son is busy with official duties and can't always keep an eye on our daughter." He always knows how to make excuses.
"Yes, so you let your concubine manage the household, making yourself a laughingstock, and in the end, you even let your concubine bully your daughter."
After saying that, Mo Yan started kicking without any hesitation.
"Mother! I was wrong!"
Xiao Yufei, who was standing next to her, trembled with fear. This grandmother was so fierce. She shrank back to the side.
"So what if I'm wrong? What can I change?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Xiao Minghui quickly said, "Son was wrong, son can make up for it. I will make up for everything I lacked for Yu Die before, I will hire a doctor for her, and from now on I will cherish her like the apple of my eye, okay?"
He looked at Xiao Yudie with anticipation, "Yudie, what do you say?"
"No need anymore. Father, your daughter is past the age where she needs your protection. Long ago, when Father refused to believe in her, her daughter stopped having any expectations."
She doesn't need that kind of fatherly love.
Xiao Minghui: "..."
Just as Xiao Minghui was about to say something, Mo Yan spoke up, "It's her business if she doesn't need it, but you have to make up for it all. As for your concubine, she can either chant sutras in the Buddhist hall for me from now on, or you can sell her."
Xiao Minghui: "..."
Xiao Yufei trembled with fear; her grandmother was going to sell the girl.
“Mother, you can punish Lin Ling for her mistake, but you can’t sell her off.”
Xiao Minghui still couldn't bear to part with Lin Ling; after all these years, he still had some feelings for her.
"Xiao Minghui, what's in your head? Tell me yourself, is what she did inhuman? She raised two girls to be like this, can't you see that?"
Mo Yan didn't quite understand how this person could be so blind. "Don't you think there's anything wrong with Xiao Yufei?"
Xiao Minghui was a little confused and didn't quite understand. "What's the problem?"
Mo Yan: "..."
Mo Yan slapped him on the forehead. "What do you think!"
Xiao Minghui looked at Xiao Yufei beside him and thought his daughter was well-behaved and sensible.
"Mother, Yufei is still very well-behaved and studies diligently. She is also involved in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. It's just that she will become a princess in the future..."
Mo Yan kicked him away, "Be your head, a concubine's daughter becoming a princess? Don't you know your own status? And what is she? How could she possibly be favored by the prince?"
When two families arrange a marriage, they believe in matching social status and economic conditions. Do you think you and the other family are well-matched?
"Xiao Minghui, I see you've become arrogant and ignorant after being an official for a few years. You've even lost your brain. Today, I'll just beat you to death!"
Mo Yan was truly furious now; Xiao Minghui had lost his mind.
The harder Xiao Minghui was beaten, the clearer his mind became. He began to think... to think about the teachings his parents had given him when he was a child.
After the fight ended and Xiao Minghui passed out, Mo Yan left with Yu Die, leaving people to guard them and prevent them from leaving.
Xiao Yufei was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak, and even more so, she didn't dare to look at her unconscious father.
Lin Ling was still lying on the ground, waiting for Xiao Minghui to come and see her, thinking that she would definitely make that old woman jealous.
In this family, Xiao Minghui is in charge, and she will be in charge from now on. That old woman is too old to meddle in other people's business anymore. Can't she just live a quiet and peaceful life?
She waited for a very long time, but no one came. Her buttocks were in excruciating pain, and she couldn't move at all. She would remember this grudge forever.
She will never forget, never!
Time passed slowly, and Lin Ling, in unbearable pain, kept calling for help, "Help! Help!"
The maids came in and looked at Lin Ling. "Madam, please stop calling. It will disturb other people's rest. The old lady said that if you keep calling, she will pour you some wine to wash up."
Lin Ling's face turned pale, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Where is the master?"
"Master and Miss are together, so don't worry..."
Lin Ling: "..."
Where is my daughter?
Lin Ling then remembered her daughter and quickly asked.
"It's in the ancestral hall."
Lin Ling: "..."
“Please calm down, Auntie. I’m right at the door. If I call again, I’ll be pouring the wine.”
Lin Ling was furious. These girls the old woman brought back were really annoying. She would deal with them properly later.
Lin Ling could only endure the pain and wait for time to pass.
Xu Youran wasn't feeling well at this time either. She ate vegetables and rice for dinner, with not a trace of oil in them.
Her meals used to be very exquisite, but now the house is empty and looks uncomfortable.
She looked at her mother, Yang, with a wronged expression, and said, "Mom, how could a mother do this? I don't even know what I did wrong."
Madam Yang sighed. Her young mistress had made many mistakes, but as a servant, she couldn't say much.
“Miss, the old lady only hopes that you can take on the responsibilities of being a legal wife and protect the eldest young lady well.”
"I'm not going. Why should I watch them being all lovey-dovey? What's the point of meddling in their family life?"
As for Yudie, she's such a grown woman, does she still need me to take care of her?
Mrs. Yang: "..."
Many people couldn't sleep that night.
Even Xiao Yudie was reflecting on everything that had happened that day, slowly recalling and thinking about it.
Grandma said that you don't need to have many insights, just think carefully about the questions she raised.
She once thought that she would just be arrogant, and if others saw her, she would say that she was taught by Lin Ling, that she was just throwing caution to the wind and that no one would have a good time.
But her grandmother's words today gave her a different perspective. She shouldn't have hurt herself to do all this; she should have made herself completely safe, yet she ended up making Lin Ling suffer.
...
Early in the morning, Mo Yan got up, went to the ancestral hall, and kicked Xiao Minghui awake.
Xiao Minghui was in so much pain that he didn't want to move.
"Get up and go to the government office right now. What, you think you don't have to go?"
Xiao Minghui then got up, and as soon as he moved his butt...
"Mother...son..." It's so embarrassing if someone sees me like this. "Could you please put some medicine on me?"
"Let's go!"
Xiao Minghui: "..."
"When you get back, explain clearly exactly what you did wrong."
Xiao Minghui: "..."
"Mother, in two days Prince Xuan will be coming to our house to discuss the marriage..."
Mo Yan kicked him again, this time right in the butt.
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