Chapter 250 My biased mother wants me to adopt my younger brother’s son!
While Ning Rong was in prison, the other traps that Si Yuan had set for the second house gradually took effect.
Ning Yucheng made an unforgivable mistake at work, and was directly dismissed from his official position by the emperor and told to go home and eat his own food.
This mistake was not that serious and could be covered up. However, Ning Yucheng had offended too many people, including his superiors, subordinates and colleagues. No one was willing to cover up for him, and they even worked together to put all the blame on him. As a result, he was the only one in the entire department who was dismissed from his position, and the furious emperor said he would never re-employ him.
Ning Yucheng was struck by lightning, he felt that he was being plotted against. He just made a small mistake, and he had made similar small mistakes before. How come they were covered up before, but now he was stripped of his official position by the emperor?
As for why, of course it was because he had his good elder brother who protected him and covered up for him, so nothing happened.
And now Si Yuan certainly would not protect him. Instead, he used Ning Yucheng to create a good image in front of the emperor that he was a man who would sacrifice his own brother for the sake of justice.
Ning Yucheng was only stripped of his official position instead of being imprisoned or exiled, thanks to his current identity as Si Yuan's younger brother. Si Yuan was worried that if Ning Yucheng committed a serious crime, it would implicate himself. After all, in ancient times, if one person committed a crime, the whole family would be punished. No matter what, in the eyes of outsiders, Ning Yucheng and he are brothers and family.
Therefore, Si Yuan's method of dealing with Ning Yucheng cannot be too drastic. If Ning Yucheng commits a serious crime that will implicate the entire clan, Si Yuan might have to rebel and ascend the throne in order to save his own life and the life of the original owner's wife and children.
Si Yuan would first let Ning Yucheng lose his job and go home to eat his own food, and he would settle the subsequent accounts later.
Ning Yucheng was not a man with strong ability to withstand pressure. After being dismissed from his official position, he completely collapsed. He drank to drown his sorrows every day and numbed himself with alcoholism. Because he had no hope for himself, he even placed all his hopes on his son Ning Chi. When he sobered up, he scolded Ning Chi and demanded that Ning Chi study hard, make a name for himself, take the imperial examination, and become an official through the examination.
There are too many parents in this world who want their children to be successful, and Ning Yucheng is just one of them. However, Ning Yucheng became extremely paranoid because he lost his official position and could not hold his head up when he went out.
Ning Chi was not a student by any means, but he was forced into this by Ning Yucheng. Especially since Ning Yucheng himself had given up on himself, drinking heavily every day and reeking of alcohol, yet he still asked Ning Chi to work hard to improve himself, Ning Chi felt very unbalanced.
However, in an era where filial piety is paramount, if he were to contradict his biological father, he would definitely be at a disadvantage.
So Ning Chi deliberately or unintentionally guided Ning Yucheng to drink more, because when Ning Yucheng was drunk he would no longer scold him and ask him to study hard.
Ning Chi simply hoped that Ning Yucheng would remain drunk forever and never wake up to urge him to study hard.
Li had long been extremely disappointed with Ning Yucheng. Now that Ning Yucheng was addicted to drunkenness and numbing himself, she could completely take charge of the power of the family. Even the property that Ning Yucheng had once held tightly in his hands fell into her hands. This was an irresistible temptation for Li, who had exhausted her dowry.
Therefore, Li never advised Ning Yucheng to quit drinking. Instead, he intentionally or unintentionally led Ning Yucheng to become addicted to alcohol. As long as Ning Yucheng was drunk, he would not remember these properties.
Even though the alcohol content of ancient wine was not that high, Ning Yucheng was drunk almost every twelve hours a day. The amount of wine he consumed was too much, so much that his originally healthy body was deteriorating.
The battle for the throne between the third prince and the sixth prince in the court has entered a white-hot stage, and his daughter Ning Fu has been diagnosed with pregnancy, so Si Yuan's attention is inevitably diverted, and he temporarily forgets about Ning Yucheng's family.
After all, Ning Yucheng has lost his job, Ning Chi can't even pass the exam to become a scholar, and Ning Rong is fighting wits and courage with her mother-in-law in the Yong'an Marquis Mansion. None of them can achieve anything significant, so Si Yuan doesn't think he needs to keep an eye on them all the time.
However, although Si Yuan shifted his attention to the court and Ning Fu, the servants he sent to keep an eye on Ning Yucheng's family were still watching their movements diligently.
On this day, Si Yuan came back from court and had just changed out of his court robes when he heard the servant he had sent to keep an eye on Ning Yucheng's family coming to ask for a meeting.
Si Yuan knew that unless something happened, the servant would not come to disturb him on purpose, so he went to meet him.
"My Lord, the Second Master...he had a stroke!"
Si Yuan almost laughed when he heard the bad news. He asked seriously, "What happened?"
The servant who was responsible for keeping an eye on Ning Yucheng's family knew the cause of Ning Yucheng's stroke very well, and explained the whole story to Si Yuan with a somewhat subtle expression.
It turned out that after Ning Yucheng sobered up one time, his eldest son Ning Chi took the initiative to give him a few jars of wine, asking him to continue drinking and getting drunk.
But this time Ning Yucheng was in no hurry to continue drinking. Instead, he pulled Ning Chi, who came to deliver the wine, to ask him when he could take the imperial examination and get the top score.
Ning Chi was a person who couldn't even pass the exam to become a scholar, but Ning Yucheng had the crazy idea of asking him to pass the exam and become the top scorer.
Ning Chi couldn't hold it in any longer and directly retorted that he didn't have the talent for studying. After all, his father didn't have the talent for studying either.
These sarcastic words to Ning Yucheng, coming from the mouth of Ning Chi, a filial son, made Ning Yucheng feel so filial that he died.
Ning Yucheng was furious and raised his hand to hit his son, but could Ning Chi just stand there and let him hit him? He started running, and Ning Yucheng started chasing him. However, Ning Yucheng's body, which was hollowed out by alcohol, could not catch up with Ning Chi, a healthy young man. He didn't pay attention to his feet and fell down.
Plus, he was pissed off by Ning Chi, and after falling, he couldn't get up again.
Ning Chi just ran away without even looking back at his old father who fell to the ground and couldn't get up. Fortunately, there were servants outside the yard who knew to go in and check, and they discovered Ning Yucheng's condition in time and called a doctor for emergency treatment.
Ning Yucheng managed to save his life, but he also suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. He couldn't move his body, his face was crooked, his mouth was drooling, and he couldn't even speak.
After listening to this, Si Yuan: "..."
This is really a father saying goodbye to his son and laughing!
Before Si Yuan could implement his next plan, Ning Yucheng's plan was already over, and he felt a little bored.
This is probably what it means to bring trouble upon yourself.
If Ning Yucheng had taught Ning Chi well, Ning Chi would not have grown up to be so selfish and cruel. He has no kindness at all towards his closest relatives. Just because he was impatient with his father's urging, he ignored his father's health and forced him to drink until he had a stroke.
Li's wife was also an accomplice.
Ning Yucheng was such a failure as both a father and a husband, no wonder he ended up like this.
Ning Yucheng suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. Li may not be able to take good care of him. I am afraid that Ning Yucheng's future days will be worse than death.
Although Ning Yucheng is incompetent, he was the pillar of the second house before. Now that he has fallen, I am afraid that the remaining people in the second house will be looked down upon even more.
Si Yuan found that he didn't need to do anything more, Ning Yucheng and his family would kill themselves.
So Si Yuan just ordered his servants to spread the news that Ning Chi was unwilling to study and make progress, which made Ning Yucheng so angry that he suffered a stroke and became paralyzed, and he didn't do anything else.
As soon as this news got out, Ning Chi's reputation was completely ruined. Not only could he not continue his studies, he was directly expelled by the dean of the academy, who said that their academy would not accept an unfilial person like Ning Chi.
None of the bad friends Ning Chi had made would continue to hang out with him despite the pressure of public opinion. For a while, Ning Chi felt that wherever he went, he would only see people looking at him with contempt and disgust, making him feel as if he had been abandoned by the whole world.
Even his mother and sister Ning Rong looked at him with disappointment and distance.
Ning Chi really wanted to say that his father’s stroke and paralysis had nothing to do with him!
But he also felt guilty. After all, the doctor said that the reason his father had a stroke and became paralyzed was because he drank too much and the second reason was that he got angry and fell.
Ning Chi knew in his heart exactly how much wine he had given to his father, what he had said that day that had irritated his father, and that his father had fallen because he had been chasing him.
Those outsiders said that my father had a stroke and became paralyzed because of him. Now it seems that what they said is true.
But even if Ning Chi felt guilty, he would not show it. Instead, he acted more like a person who had been wronged. He argued in front of Li and Ning Rong: "My father's alcoholism caused him to have a stroke and paralysis. How can it be my fault? Although it's true that I'm not good at studying and that made my father angry, this is not the first day that I've failed at studying. Why didn't my father have a stroke because of me before? So it must be the result of my father's excessive drinking that caused the stroke and paralysis!" As for the fact that he sent wine to Ning Yucheng, he didn't mention a word about it.
However, Ning Chi did send wine to Ning Yucheng without telling anyone else.
Since the separation of the family, the second branch could not afford to support too many servants, so there were not many servants serving Ning Yucheng. It was easy for Ning Chi to avoid the servants and send wine to Ning Yucheng.
Besides, Ning Yucheng originally drank a lot of wine, and the wine he gave was mixed in and was not conspicuous. No one was free to count the number of wine jars.
Ning Chi bought and delivered the wine himself to avoid being discovered. Otherwise, he would not have been easily caught by Ning Yucheng that day and scolded for not making progress in his studies.
Ning Chi was sure that no one could accuse him of giving alcohol to his father, so he dared to blame alcoholism for his father's stroke and paralysis.
When Ning Chi said this, he didn't notice that his mother Li looked away guiltily.
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