Chapter 20 Mother needs to apologize to Pei.
In that long wooden box, there was a ruler as long as a forearm!
As if realizing something, Zhang Zheng suddenly looked up and met the man's gaze in panic!
"Master, Master, what do you mean?"
Rong Jianxue didn't explain anything. He still lowered his head to read the book and uttered one word: "Fight."
Before Zhang Zheng could react, Jiang Hui on the side responded, then picked up the three-finger-wide ruler, spread out Zhang Zheng's hand with one hand, raised the ruler with the other hand, and slapped it down!
“Ahhhhhh—”
This blow was quite severe!
Jiang Hui was a martial artist, and he was naturally very strong. He had deliberately used a lot of strength in that strike just now. With a strike of one foot, Zhang Zheng's palm instantly swelled up half a finger high!
Sweat rolled down his forehead, Zhang Zheng grimaced in pain, and such a man was forced to cry!
"Master, Master! Please spare my life! Please spare my life!"
Not caring about the pain in his hands, Zhang Zheng kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Rong Jianxue turned a page of the book in his hand without looking up, but said indifferently: "Continue."
“Pah pah pah——”
What followed was the sound of a thick and hard ruler falling!
One after another, it seemed like the sound of breaking through the wind and hit Zhang Zheng's hand heavily!
Every hit seemed to make people faint!
After twenty blows of the ruler, Rong Jianxue made Jiang Hui stop.
At this time, Zhang Zheng's palms were red and swollen, bloody and his lips were pale. He knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
Rong Jianxue seemed unaware, her tone as calm as usual: "I heard that when the master was teaching Pei, he hit her palms many times."
Zhang Zheng lowered his head in panic, enduring the intense pain. He spoke tremblingly, "Mrs. Pei, Mrs. Pei is truly difficult to discipline. I had no choice but to spank her with a ruler as a punishment."
Rong Jianxue rolled her eyes. "I remember telling you from the beginning that Pei is a slow learner. You should be more patient and it's okay to teach more slowly and in a more superficial way."
Her fingertips tightened slightly, and Rong Jianxue's voice was as cold as a pond: "Zhang Zheng, who gave you the courage?"
Zhang Zheng's legs trembled as he kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Master Master, please forgive me! It's my fault for not teaching me well enough! It's my fault for not educating me well enough!"
"In three days, you made her copy the Women's Virtues and Instructions no less than a hundred times, but you never taught her the art of accounting. Zhang Zheng, you dare to call yourself sir?"
Zhang Zheng kowtowed vigorously, "Please forgive me, my lord! Please forgive me, my lord! It was the old lady who asked me to teach Second Lady these things. She said that as a woman, she couldn't learn the work of checking accounts and auditing. She said that she was disrespectful and unfilial, and should first learn the Three Obediences and Four Virtues!"
"I didn't hire you, the accountant, to teach her the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, and to obey her husband and children!"
Zhang Zheng was so frightened that he couldn't utter a complete sentence. His hands were shaking and his forehead was covered with sweat.
Rong Jianxue took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Copy the Women's Virtues and Instructions a hundred times. You are not allowed to leave until you have finished copying them."
Under Zhang Zheng's astonished gaze, Rong Jianxue stood up and walked out of the room: "Jiang Hui, look at him."
"yes."
Rong Jianxue left the East Courtyard and walked towards Rong's courtyard.
When he arrived at the house, Mrs. Rong was having dinner.
Rong was still angry about Rong Jianxue taking Pei away last night. Now when she saw Rong Jianxue, she just thought he came to apologize.
"Meet mother."
When he arrived in front of Rong, Rong Jianxue bowed and saluted with full etiquette.
Rong snorted coldly, put down the ivory chopsticks in her hand, and said coldly: "If you come to admit your mistake, then take Pei to the ancestral hall and make her kneel for three days. No other discussion."
Rong Jianxue stood there, with a handsome appearance and clear eyes.
"Within three days, mother must apologize to Pei."
For a moment, Rong thought she had misheard. Her cloudy eyes suddenly widened and her voice was sharp: "I apologized to her!? What nonsense are you talking about? Pei offended me first, how can I apologize to her!?"
Rong Jianxue spoke calmly, unconcerned with Rong's hysterics. "My mother coveted Pei's dowry. She first tricked her into signing a document to study accounting, and then bribed the accountant to disrupt her progress."
With every word he spoke, Rong's face turned paler, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were filled with astonishment and panic.
He looked at his mother and said in a calm and indifferent voice, "Mother, you should know that attempting to steal your daughter-in-law's dowry is considered stealing according to the laws of our dynasty."
"You don't have to tell me this!" Rong shouted. "Pei is a jinx! Not only did she destroy the Pei family, but after coming to the Rong family, she also killed Xuan Zhou! If it weren't for our Rong family taking her in, people like her would have died on the streets long ago!"
Rong Jianxue said coldly, "The dowry Pei brought was enough to provide her with food and clothing for the rest of her life. Mother has embezzled her dowry many times to supplement her own expenses, and then said that the Rong family took her in out of kindness. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
"How dare you! It's true that she bumped into me, and it's also true that she attended a wedding banquet during her mourning period! What she did was wrong, so why can't I punish her!?"
"Is my mother punishing her to uphold family traditions or for her own selfish gain? You should know better than I do."
"Rong Jianxue!" Rong slammed the table and stood up, pointing at Rong Jianxue's nose and saying, "You and I are family, why are you siding with an outsider?"
Rong Jianxue's eyes were heavy, and his gaze fell on Rong's face without fail: "Everyone in the Rong family is helping mother. If I don't do anything, I will be abandoning etiquette and integrity."
Rong was so angry that she kept beating her chest.
Seeing this, the maid beside her hurried forward and helped Rong to calm down while saying, "Young Master, please don't be angry with the old lady. The old lady has always been in poor health and can't bear it!"
Rong Jianxue looked at Rong Shi, then bowed and said, "Within three days, mother will go and apologize to Pei Shi. Otherwise, Jianxue will report the situation to the Dali Temple and handle it impartially."
After saying that, he turned and left without saying anything else.
Behind him was Rong's scolding and crying, but he did not look back and left the house.
Rong Jianxue admitted that he was indeed a little cold towards feelings.
He has never believed that emotions can be used to handle official business or govern the country. In his opinion, wrong is wrong, even if it is his mother, it is wrong.
At the fork between the East and West Courtyards, Rong Jianxue glanced towards the West Courtyard.
Inexplicably, he recalled the words she said while kneeling in the courtyard and kowtowing to him.
[Please, sir, please be merciful and let me go, considering me to be ignorant.]
She said, let me go.
Unconsciously stroking the Buddhist beads on his wrist, Rong Jianxue frowned slightly and turned back to the East Courtyard.
In the courtyard, Jiang Hui stood beside Zhang Zheng. Seeing his young master return, he clasped his fists and saluted: "Young Master."
As he said this, he glanced at Zhang Zheng, who had fainted on the ground: "He copied it more than ten times and passed out."
Rong Jianxue said coldly, "Wake him up with mint water and continue copying."
Jiang Hui shuddered unconsciously and replied "yes" with his head down.
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