"Nothing." She played with the beads in her hand. "I won't tell you. You'll know it sooner or later anyway."
At this time, someone beside Pei Jian came in and reported, "Madam, the master will not be home for dinner tonight. He asked you to eat first and not wait for him."
After saying that, he opened another food box and said, "This is the freshly braised meat that the master personally bought from Shuwei Temple. Please try it."
The braised meat at Shuweiguan has a strong flavor, and the fragrance fills the room as soon as you open it.
"Where is he now? Is he hungry?"
"My Lord is currently in the Ministry of Justice, handling some matters, and has already had his meal."
"Okay, let's set the table."
Xu Ying tactfully added, "The daughter-in-law serves the mother-in-law at dinner."
"Yeah." Tu Qingyu nodded as a matter of course, "Be smarter this time."
"yes."
Xu Ying washed her hands and stood behind Tu Qingyu. She picked up whatever Tu Qingyu saw.
Unfortunately, Tu Qingyu never eats the dishes she picks for him.
After standing for an hour or two, she was already very hungry. Now, smelling the delicious food, she felt a little dizzy.
When she saw that Tu Qingyu didn't eat the food she picked up, she slowed down her movements.
At this time, Tu Qingyu knocked the dishes with his chopsticks, "What are you thinking about?"
She quickly bent down and picked up a piece. Perhaps because she was too hungry, she didn't hold the piece firmly with her chopsticks and it fell into the bowl of soup in front of Tu Qingyu.
The soup in the bowl splashed, and one or two drops splashed onto Tu Qingyu's wrist.
"Hey, what are you doing?" She slammed her chopsticks down. "I told you if you don't want to serve me, then don't serve me. Why are you throwing a tantrum in front of me?"
Xu Ying quickly shook her head, "No, mother-in-law, I didn't."
"What do you mean you didn't? I won't listen." She waved her hand, "Come here, take him away, slap him five times in the face, and make him kneel for another hour."
Xu Ying couldn't believe what she heard.
"Slap?!" She widened her eyes and raised her voice, "Tu Qingyu, I'm the daughter of the Minister of Rites, how dare you hit me?!"
Tu Qingyu rubbed his ears lazily, "Ten times."
"How dare you! Let me go! What have I done wrong? Tu Qingyu, no one is as cruel as you!" She struggled and screamed, "What reincarnation of a goddess? Bullshit! You are such a vicious woman! You are torturing me because of an old grudge. Let me go! Let me go!!!"
No matter how she screamed and yelled, Tu Qingyu remained motionless. He then said calmly, "Twenty strokes, keep going. The more you say, the more I'll hit you. I want to see if your face can withstand it."
"Oh, don't let your feet become useless and your face become unbearable."
"That foot is already ugly enough, and now his appearance is ruined, tsk tsk tsk..."
She spoke sarcastically and calmly, and Xu Ying, who was being held, immediately fell silent.
She had no doubt that the man who had dared to torture her with needles on the futon on the second day of their wedding would now really dare to have someone slap her in the face.
"You're not going to talk anymore?" Tu Qingyu glanced at her and waved his hand. "Since you're not going to talk anymore, then drag me away. Fight right at the door. I want to hear the sound."
Nanny Rui brought people and dragged Xu Ying out.
He forced her to kneel at the main room door, and then had two people hold down her arms. Then he raised his hands and shouted, "Pa--!"
"ah--!"
“Pah, pah, pah—!”
Although Nanny Rui is old, she suffered a lot when she was young. Even though she has been the head nanny of the main courtyard for many years and does not have to do any heavy work, the strength in her hands is not comparable to that of an ordinary little girl.
If there hadn't been someone holding Xu Ying down, her body would have been slapped sideways in just one blow.
“Bang!”
“Hmm…”
Again and again, the humiliation in Xu Ying's heart continued to deepen.
Twenty strokes were quickly completed, and her face was already bruised, red, and swollen, looking no better than a pig's head.
After beating her, they dragged her into the yard. Madam Rui stood beside her and spoke condescendingly, "Grandma, you can kneel here for an hour and then you can go back."
"It's Madam's mercy today. If it were another daughter-in-law who dared to speak so arrogantly to her own mother-in-law, it wouldn't be over in an hour."
Xu Ying raised her head, her eyes full of hatred. She almost squeezed out two words from between her teeth, "Really?"
Rui Ma frowned, "Grandma, it's better for you to be obedient, so as to avoid physical pain."
"Well-behaved? Ha." Wasn't she well-behaved enough after she got married?
Still showing mercy?
I have never seen a family where a daughter-in-law was slapped twenty times and made to kneel for an hour just because she dropped a dish with her chopsticks while serving food.
At this time, Tu Qingyu's voice came from the room, "Mammy, are you still not well?"
Aunt Rui responded from inside, "Madam, she is well now."
"Come in quickly, it looks like it's going to rain soon."
As she walked inside, Aunt Rui said, "Yes, the summer weather is always so changeable."
"So, tell me, should I go and give Jian an umbrella?"
"Oh, you are in the Ministry of Justice, how could you possibly need an umbrella? If it rains heavily and you get wet, then you will really be worried."
"Okay, then when will he be back?"
"It should be soon, don't worry."
The rain started to fall before Pei Jian came back.
She had a rocking chair moved to the porch, saying that she was going to enjoy the rain, and she brought a group of servants and stood in the porch.
In fact, I was just watching Xu Ying swaying in the rain.
The rain poured down heavily, and Xu Ying's clothes were soaked in no time.
Through the heavy rain, she could still feel the burning gazes of others on her.
Those looks were so sarcastic that even a proud girl like her wished she could die right away.
But she knew in her heart that it was not her who should die, but Tu Qingyu.
It was Aunt Rui, and all the people watching the fun in the corridor.
The rain was so heavy that she could hardly breathe. She hadn't had dinner and was very hungry.
But compared to the pain in my cheeks and calves, this hunger seemed insignificant.
Seeing that she was about to faint, Tu Qingyu quickly asked Madam Rui to go out and say a few words to her.
"Grandma, please don't faint. Madam said that we must kneel for the entire hour. If we can't kneel today, we have to do it tomorrow."
Hearing this, Xu Ying, who had wanted to pretend to faint, immediately knelt up a little more.
Half an hour later, Pei Jian came back.
He walked into the main courtyard holding an umbrella, and when he saw the person kneeling in the yard, he didn't even stop.
However, when he passed by her, Xu Ying said loudly, "Daughter-in-law greets father and wishes him well."
While speaking, she raised her head, trying to let Pei Jian see the injuries on her face.
She is the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites. No other family in the capital can be so cruel to others.
Pei Jian dotes on Tu Qingyu, but after knowing that Tu Qingyu is so vicious and willful, can he still dote on her like this?
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