Chapter 376 An unexpected scene
Duan Yinghe sternly scolded, "No matter what, he is your aunt's child. If you call him a dog, what will become of your aunt?"
"I was wrong..."
"If anyone wants to scold, I'll be the one to do it!"
Duan Yi opened his mouth, turned his face away and tightened his cloak helplessly.
Indeed, Duan Yinghe had the status to curse, and it was justified. He was of the same generation as Emperor Mingde, so cursing Emperor Mingde would be like slapping his aunt in the face.
"I'll go to the study first, and have someone report it as soon as I arrive."
Duan Yinghe left in a hurry, and Duan Yi took a deep breath to calm down his mood.
On the other side, Qi Minghe and Ran Qingxuan took a carriage and drove for nearly an hour before arriving at the Zhao family in the northwest corner of Hancheng.
Although Mr. Zhao was a good doctor, there were few wealthy families in Hancheng. He usually only treated and changed the dressings for the soldiers who came back to recuperate, or treated the headaches and fevers of some civilians. Otherwise, he was invited to other cities to treat people.
Unfortunately today, Mr. Zhao was invited to Fengwu City earlier, and Mrs. Zhao was not at home. Mr. Zhao was seeing patients in the family medicine shop. Only Qi Huan and the child who had returned from her mother's home were there.
Of course, there is also the third room's people, Bao Mama...
The person who opened the door was the servant that Qi Huan brought from her mother's home to the Zhao family. When he saw Qi Minghe, the servant was stunned and almost didn't recognize his master.
"Second Young Master?"
Qi Minghe looked at the Qi family's backyard, which was not even as big as his own, and his face instantly darkened.
"Go inform the young lady..."
The servant stood there stupidly. Qi Minghe waited for two seconds and seeing no movement, he angrily pushed the man away and walked towards the front hall.
The Zhao family was not very big, and Gu Yanchen, who had just walked into the front hall and was about to sit down, had amazing hearing. When he heard what seemed to be crying coming from the backyard, he immediately grabbed Qi Minghe.
"Go to the backyard."
However, when the three of them walked around the small garden and entered the courtyard in the north corner and saw the scene in front of them clearly, Qi Minghe's eyes instantly widened.
"What are you doing, you bold slave?"
Qi Huan was seen standing barefoot on the cold floor tiles, shivering all over. Aunt Bao was whipping her calves with a rattan stick, while Qi Minghe's little nephew Zhao Qingsheng was sitting on the ground crying heartbreakingly.
The sudden loud roar frightened Bao Ma so much that her hand trembled, and the cane in her hand fell to the ground with a "clack".
"Second...Second Young Master..."
Nanny Bao opened her mouth halfway, with a look of panic in her eyes.
Ran Qingxuan hurried forward and was about to pick up the child, but he didn't expect that the cunning servant Bao Ma Ma wanted to snatch the child away.
"roll!"
A fierce kick came out at the heart, and Aunt Bao immediately let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.
"You dare...kick me..."
Nanny Bao pointed at Ran Qingxuan with a trembling finger, her eyes revealing a fierce look.
The fierceness he had pretended to be in front of the Qi family disappeared completely, and he seemed like a different person when facing Ran Qingxuan.
Ran Qingxuan looked around and didn't see the maid, so he handed the child to Gu Yanchen and punched her in the throat.
In an instant, Aunt Bao was like a chicken with its neck cut off. She covered her neck while struggling, and a hoarse sound came from her throat.
Then he couldn't catch his breath, his eyes rolled back and he fainted in front of everyone.
"Big sister? Big sister?"
Qi Huan had already collapsed, and when Qi Minghe stepped forward to support her, she felt her eyes go dark.
His legs went weak and he fell to the ground, only to be supported by Ran Qingxuan.
"Where is the bedroom?"
The servant who opened the door looked pale, pointed to the bedroom in the middle and said, "This is..."
Ran Qingxuan helped the person into the room, spread out the quilt and covered the person. Seeing that the maid was nowhere to be seen, she had no choice but to buy a hot water bottle used by the ancients from the space tablet, filled it with hot water and placed it around the quilt.
The cane was thin and strong, and every time it was whipped, a blood mark was left.
Even so, Qi Huan gritted his teeth and held on, not uttering a single scream.
Zhao Qingsheng watched the whole process. After crying, he kept struggling to get up. Gu Yanchen couldn't go in, so he left him at the door.
The child was young, but seemed to have experienced something like this before. The first thing she did when she came in was to find a bottle of medicine under the dressing table. After running to the bed, she even lifted the quilt under her feet to signal her mother to turn over.
Qi Minghe stood not far away and watched the whole process, his eyes were bloodshot and he was burning with anger.
Not long after he left, the screams of Aunt Bao were heard from the courtyard.
"Tell me, who told you to do this?"
"Master, I don't know what you are talking about... Madam made a mistake, and it was the old lady who ordered the punishment..."
Upon hearing this, Qi Minghe's chest heaved with anger. Just as he was about to ask someone to go back and invite his uncle and aunt, he heard a woman's voice coming from outside.
"Come quickly, daughter-in-law. I made a big deal today. I asked someone to bring some fashionable fabrics and picked out two pieces to make new clothes for you and the children..."
When Mrs. Zhao looked up, she happened to meet a pair of eyes that were furious. Then she looked at the man who was standing at the bedroom door with his back to her, and her footsteps suddenly stopped.
"Go and report to the police quickly, and call the young master back, quickly..." Madam Zhao's voice was trembling, and the maid ran away as soon as she saw the sight.
After seeing clearly that it was Nanny Bao who was beaten black and blue on the ground, Madam Zhao dropped the cloth in her hand and ran towards the master bedroom in panic.
"Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, how are you?"
A shout was heard outside, and Ran Qingxuan, who was applying medicine to Qi Huan, paused. He felt that the voice was so familiar.
As soon as I turned around, I saw the person rushing in.
"Is it you?"
"Is it you?"
Two doubtful voices sounded at the same time. Ran Qingxuan looked at the woman who had just sold him clothes and shoes, his mouth half open in shock.
When Mrs. Zhao saw that the person sitting next to the bed was the girl who had bought out all the stock in her shop, she was completely dumbfounded.
"Who are you? What are you doing in my house? What did you do to my daughter-in-law?"
Mrs. Zhao took a few steps forward and pulled her grandson behind her. Ran Qingxuan put down the ointment and covered Qi Huan with a quilt, then stood up and saluted.
"I didn't expect you to be Mrs. Zhao. I'm sorry."
Ran Qingxuan was very polite and did not make people feel nervous or scared.
Mrs. Zhao looked towards the bed with a wary look on her face.
“Who are you and what did you do to my daughter-in-law?”
Mrs. Zhao's reaction was beyond Ran Qingxuan's expectations. Judging from the reaction on her face, it seemed that she really didn't know what was going on.
Ran Qingxuan took a deep breath, with doubt in his eyes.
“Mrs. Zhao, you really don’t know what happened?”
"I...don't know!"
"Just now, Aunt Bao said that Sister Qi made a mistake, and it was you who asked her to punish her..."
Madam Zhao was startled, and then immediately revealed an angry expression: "Nonsense, when did I ask her to punish Qi?"
"But we saw with our own eyes that Sister Qi was punished to stand barefoot on the brick floor and was whipped with a cane by that cunning slave. Could it be that this wound appeared out of thin air?"
As he spoke, Ran Qingxuan lifted the quilt on the bed, revealing the bloody wound on Qi Huan's calf.
Mrs. Zhao took a closer look and was immediately shocked.
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