Chapter 128 Teaching Children
"There's still a lot in the pot. I'll eat some later."
"How can that be? Give the first bite to my aunt. Thank you for raising me all these years." Chen Liang picked up a piece of fat and handed it over.
Yu's face turned pale, and she waved her hands quickly, saying, "You eat yours, Auntie, go back and eat."
Just as she was about to leave, she found Chen Liang blocking the door, still holding the piece of fat meat in his hand, and his tone became much tougher: "Eat the meat before you leave."
"I told you I won't eat it. Don't you understand what I'm saying?" Yu looked stern but was actually weak. She thought to herself why this kid suddenly became a different person today? Could it be that he knew the meat was poisonous?
Just when she was in doubt, Chen Liang suddenly stuffed the meat in his hand into her mouth. The fat and tender meat went down her throat and was swallowed.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Yu was so frightened that she grabbed her throat and tried to spit out the meat.
Chen Liang's eyes were red and he asked with tears in his eyes: "Such delicious meat, why don't you eat it?"
Yu wanted to escape, but Chen Liang was blocking the door of the woodshed like a mountain and could not be moved no matter how hard she pushed.
"I can't eat... Help! Chen Laoer, come and save me!" Yu screamed at the top of her voice, like a hen about to be slaughtered giving its last roar.
The toxicity of the arsenic quickly took effect, and white foam came out of Yu's mouth. She pulled Chen Liang's trouser legs and begged for mercy: "Auntie knows you are wrong... Please forgive me..."
Chen Liang wiped away his tears and asked, "How did my mother die?"
Yu shook her head: "It's not me... It's not me, it's your second uncle..."
"Don't worry, no one can escape!"
Chen Laoer woke up from the kang with a start and seemed to hear vaguely his wife's screams.
He put on his shoes and went downstairs. He smelled the aroma of meat in the pot and couldn't help but pick up two pieces.
"Is it tasty?"
"Delicious." Chen Laoer heard Chen Liang's voice behind him. He was about to turn around when suddenly his eyes went dark and he passed out.
*
It turned out that last night Chen Liang went to discuss with his uncle and aunt that if he won the prize, he would give half of the money to them. Who would have thought that he would hear the two of them discussing how to murder him!
Chen Liang was shocked, and then he heard something that made him even more angry. It was his second uncle who forced his mother to commit suicide by jumping into the well!
Chen Liang was only six or seven years old at that time. He remembered that his mother had hugged him the day before and said that she wanted to wait for him to grow up and get married.
As a result, when he came back from playing outside the next day, he found his mother lying in the yard, wet and dead.
At that time, Yu cried and said that her sister-in-law jumped into the well because she was depressed, and Chen Liang never doubted it. Thinking of how he had served the enemy who killed his mother with all his heart over the years, Chen Liang gritted his teeth in hatred.
He tied up the unconscious Chen Laoer and the dying Yu together, and soon Yu died of the poison. Chen Laoer woke up in the middle of the night and found that his hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was stuffed with rags. His dead wife was lying beside him. He screamed in fear, but he couldn't break free.
In the next few days, Chen Liang worked in the shop as usual. Except for his ugly face, he looked no different from usual, and his neighbors did not notice anything unusual about him.
It was not until this morning that Chen Liang stepped into his uncle's house again. By this time, Yu's body had begun to rot and the house was filled with a foul smell. Chen Laoer was still alive, but he was scared crazy.
Chen Liang untied the ropes on the two men, and Chen Laoer was so hungry that he actually held his wife's body and ate it. Chen Liang was terrified, he turned around and ran out, holding onto the door frame and vomiting all over the floor.
He was not a vicious person, and his conscience was strongly condemned by doing such a thing. Hearing that the emperor was going back for the sports meeting today, he wanted to confess the matter.
"I am guilty, please punish me, Your Majesty." Chen Liang kowtowed, and blood flowed from his forehead.
After listening to this, Song Yuzhu sighed and said, "Pull him up."
The guards helped Chen Liang up. Song Yuzhu said, "Your uncle forced your mother to death first, and your aunt murdered you later. What you did is not a crime punishable by death, but it is unacceptable by law."
"I will take back your gold medal and punish you with thirty strokes of the cane. Never do such a thing again!"
Chen Liang thought he was doomed to die, but he did not expect the emperor to pardon his death. He wept and lay on the ground, shouting, "Your Majesty, long live the emperor!"
Song Yuzhu had Chen Liang taken to the Dali Temple for trial first. After all, this was a case in which he had stated his own story and it was difficult to tell whether it was true or false, so the case could only be decided after verification by the Dali Temple.
The weightlifting champion was denied the gold medal, and Du Zhanzhou, who was ranked second, was almost grinning from ear to ear. He didn't expect that after all the twists and turns, the gold medal would still fall into his hands.
He went up to the podium to receive the award, but unexpectedly several guards came and held him down.
"Let me go, what are you doing!?"
Du Chong, who was standing nearby, was also shocked. He thought that his son had just beaten someone and angered the emperor, so he quickly stepped forward and kowtowed to apologize.
"My son is so rude and offended His Majesty. I hope the Emperor will forgive me. I will discipline him when I return!"
Song Yuzhu said: "You should be disciplined. I don't want to publicize this matter because of your contribution. Ask your precious son what he did!"
Du Chong was stunned, walked to his son and asked in a deep voice: "What did you do?"
"No...didn't do anything?"
Du Chong grabbed his son's collar and shouted angrily, "How dare you lie in front of the emperor?!"
Du Zhanzhou was so frightened that his legs went limp. He knelt on the ground and stammered, "No...it wasn't me, it was my mother..."
Du Chong's heart skipped a beat and he said in a stern voice, "What did your mother do? Tell me now!"
"Mother said she would help me win first place, and gave a lot of money to people so that they would not participate in the competition."
These words seemed to overturn a dyeing factory. General Du's face turned red and purple. He never expected that his wife would do such a thing!
"His Majesty……"
"Go ahead, you are a good kid, but don't go astray."
"Alas!" Du Chong knew that the emperor was giving him face by not allowing him to teach the child in front of outsiders.
"Why are you still standing there? Come home with me!"
Du Zhanzhou got up, and with shaking legs, he followed his father out of the training ground.
As soon as he got on the carriage, Du Chong slapped him in the face, making Du Zhanzhou see stars and taste a fishy-sweet taste in his mouth.
"What a shame! You have made me lose face!"
Du Zhanzhou knew he was in the wrong, so he knelt in the car and dared not refute. He had also advised his mother at the beginning, but his mother was determined to help him. Without telling his father, he coerced and bribed more than a dozen people to prevent them from participating in the competition.
"I'll settle the score with you when I get back!"
The carriage soon arrived at the door of the house, and Mrs. Du came out happily to greet them: "Did my son win the championship?"
Du Zhanzhou got out of the car and scared his mother.
"Hey, what's wrong with your face?" I saw that one side of his son's face was swollen and there were five fingerprints on it.
Du Chongping dismissed the servants and said, "Go and close the door! Uncle Guang, bring the whip!"
"What happened..." Mrs. Du asked in panic.
Du Zhanzhou tugged at his mother's sleeve: "Dad knows everything."
Soon the butler came over with a whip, which was made of old cowhide and had been used by Du Chong for many years. Now that the war had stopped, the whip had been kept in the study as a tool for him to discipline his son.
When Du Zhanzhou saw the whip, he felt cold all over. His father had only beaten him twice in his life.
Once when he was ten years old, he bullied a servant's child and was beaten twice by his father. There is still a scar on his back.
The second time was last year when he secretly went to a brothel with someone, and his father whipped him ten times, his buttocks were broken and he was confined to the bed for half a month and couldn't get out of bed.
The pain went deep into his bones, and he trembled at the sight of the whip.
"Dad... Dad, I know I was wrong..."
"Master, you can't fight!"
Du Chong pushed his wife away and whipped his husband on the back with such force that his clothes were torn.
Du Zhanzhou rolled on the ground in pain, and Mrs. Du was so scared that she knelt beside him and begged for mercy.
"Master, if you want to hit me, just hit me. I gave the money to someone else and it has nothing to do with my son!"
Du Chong pointed at his wife and said, "A loving mother often spoils her son! You are trying to kill us both!"
Mrs. Du slumped on the ground and said aggrievedly, "I...I never thought of harming you. I just wanted my son to win face for you."
"Fighting for face? If it weren't for His Majesty giving me face today, you would have committed such a deceitful act that would have cost him his life!" As he said that, he started to beat him again.
He was beaten with more than thirty whips, leaving Du Zhanzhou with skin and flesh torn apart, and fainting from the pain. The official and the servant nearby rushed over to hold General Du back, saying that if he continued to be beaten, he would die.
Mrs. Du regretted her decision very much. She never thought that her cleverness almost harmed her son.
Everyone worked together to carry the young master back to the backyard and called the imperial physician to treat his injuries.
Du Chong sat on the steps exhaustedly and ordered: "From now on, Madam is not allowed to go to the accounting office to withdraw money, and her dowry must be locked up for me."
"yes."
After everyone had left, he covered his face with his hands and burst into tears. The pain was felt by the father, because that was his eldest son, whom he had held in his arms since he was just the size of a palm and till he was running around. How could he not feel heartbroken?
But if you don't discipline them strictly, someone will come to teach them a lesson in the future, and then it won't be solved by a few whips.
Fortunately, the emperor did not blame me for this matter, otherwise it would be too late to regret it.
*
Having said that, after Du Chong took his son away, Song Yuzhu returned to the viewing platform.
The first round of the long-distance race has ended and the final will begin soon.
Among these nine contestants, there is actually an old acquaintance, Tian Xiaobo, who came from Xuzhou with Song Yuzhu.
Although Xiaobo is the shortest among these people, his endurance is amazing and he won first place in the group in the first round.
Among the other eight contestants, four are from the military and four are from the civilian population. Each of them has great strength that should not be underestimated.
With a whistle, nine people ran out at the same time. Man No. 39 ran in the front, leaving the people behind him two meters away.
Bai Xiu patted the black knife beside him and said, "Who do you think will win the championship?"
Heidao pointed at the first place and said, "Number 39 is tall and a fast runner, he will definitely win first place."
Bai Xiu covered his mouth and smiled: "I guess he is the last one."
"How is that possible! Can the short guy behind him run faster than him?"
"If you don't agree, let's make a bet." Bai Xiu took out some silver from his waist.
Heidao also took out thirty taels of silver, and the two of them put the money in front of Song Yuzhu.
"Your Majesty, please help us be a witness."
Song Yuzhu said, "Okay." Although he didn't know much about long-distance running, he knew that the person in the lead was under a lot of pressure because the people behind could overtake him at any time.
The greater the pressure, the faster the body gets tired, so the chances of No. 39 winning the championship are very low, unless he is gifted and has some extraordinary perseverance.
As time passed, the sun rose higher and higher, and the runners became more and more tired. Three thousand meters may not seem long, but it is really very tiring to run.
Gradually, No. 39 slowed down his pace. He had almost used up all his strength. His legs seemed to be weighed down by a thousand pounds, and he could not run any faster. He was soon caught up by the people behind him.
Heidao was so anxious that he kept stamping his feet: "Run, run faster!"
Gradually everyone surpassed No. 39. When there was still one lap to the end, Tian Xiaobo suddenly exerted force!
"Look at that little dwarf!" Heidao's eyes widened.
Tian Xiaobo ran faster and faster, his two legs leaving afterimages, and he overtook others one by one, until finally only one person, No. 67, was left in front of him.
Bai Xiu was also fascinated by the scene, and cheered him on with clenched fists.
As they were about to reach the finish line, Song Yuzhu stood up excitedly.
"Bang!" With the sound of a gong, Tian Xiaobo lived up to everyone's expectations and won the first place!
"Good!" Song Yuzhu clapped his hands excitedly.
The number 39 that Hei Dao favored was the last one to reach the finish line. Bai Xiu happily took Hei Dao's purse and made another profit from this idiot.
After the long-distance run, there is the 4X400m relay race, which is one of the highlights of today.
(End of this chapter)
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