Huan'er asked, puzzled, "Sister... what is a brothel?"
"A brothel..." Feng Guang blurted out without thinking, "is a place for picking flowers and chasing butterflies."
After she finished speaking, she realized that everyone's eyes were on her.
"Did I say something wrong?" Feng Guang blinked innocently, then slowly covered her mouth.
Xie Zhan chuckled, "Feng Guang is right."
Picking flowers and chasing butterflies—the flowers that can sing and dance are picked, and the butterflies that can shed their flowery coats are chased. Isn't the brothel a place for picking flowers and chasing butterflies?
Feng Guang had a strange intuition... He understood the hidden meaning in her words.
However, others assumed that the young lady, upon hearing the words "brothel," would interpret it based on the word "flower." After all, how could a sheltered young lady possibly know what a brothel was?
The incident with Feng Guang was just a minor episode. Xie Zhao continued to lash out at Xie Jie, saying, "How many times have I told you? I told you to study properly at the school and not to mess around. You're just letting my words go in one ear and out the other, aren't you?"
"Father... I didn't." Xie Jie was not afraid of his father on ordinary days, but whenever his father got angry, he could only be timid.
Xie Zhao slammed his fist on the table and shouted, "If you didn't have it, then why was your third uncle able to bring you back from the street!"
If we're talking about who in the entire Xie family is least likely to lie, then it's Xie Zhan.
"I...I..." Xie Jie gritted his teeth and said, "I wanted to study hard at the school, but Li Qi said that the brothel was fun, and I was curious...so I couldn't help but go."
Li Qi was a good friend of Xie Jie at school. The Li family was in the silk business and had some business dealings with Xie Zhao.
"Didn't I tell you that Li Qi is an incompetent fool and that you shouldn't associate with him?" Xie Zhao was even angrier and shouted, "Guards, bring him in with the family discipline!"
Upon hearing that family discipline was about to be used, Tan Rou couldn't sit still any longer. She slammed her hand on the table and stood up, saying, "Xie Zhao, that's enough! Jie'er frequents brothels just like you, doesn't he? When you were his age, you were already fooling around with girls in brothels. What are you pretending to be so high and mighty for?"
Xie Zhao's face turned pale and then red. Tan Rou was right. When he was Xie Jie's age, he already knew Xie Yaoyao's mother. That's right, Xie Yaoyao's mother was a brothel worker.
This is also why Tan Rou dislikes men who frequent brothels.
Since it involved family matters, it was even more inappropriate for outsiders to interfere. Xie Xun and Zhao Wan pretended not to see or hear anything and drank their tea, while Huan'er, who couldn't understand, looked around but still couldn't figure it out. Feng Guang, on the other hand, clicked his tongue twice, thinking to himself that this flirtatious ability was indeed hereditary.
Xie Yaoyao suddenly stood up and said, "Dealing with my brother's mistakes is the most important thing. It's probably best not to mention irrelevant people and things."
After all, her mother was mentioned, and Xie Yaoyao has recently become more robust, so of course she would stand up and speak out.
Tan Rou sneered, and Xie Jie said with displeasure, "My father and mother are talking, what right do you, a concubine's daughter, have to interrupt?"
His arrogant attitude was on full display.
Feng Guang suddenly remembered that in this world, apart from illegitimate daughters and sons, and concubines, all other legitimate children are villains. No wonder Xie Jie felt so arrogant.
Undeterred by Xie Jie's threatening words, Xie Yaoyao continued, "Even if I don't go to school, I know that mistakes must be punished. Since my brother has made a mistake, we should discuss a way to punish him."
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