Chapter 10 Coveting the Young Master's Beauty
The fact that Huo Gannian ordered people to take his place showed that he already fully understood the whole story.
Ye Yan originally planned to make up a careful excuse to cover up the fight between Yun Chen and Hua Jue.
It seems impossible at the moment.
"Oh!" Ye Yan sighed helplessly and had to take the person to Beining Hall.
The main hall was completely silent. Before he even walked in, Ye Yan felt an extremely strong sense of oppression.
He glanced quickly at Huo Gannian.
I didn't see clearly.
It was as if I saw a black cloud that was about to be destroyed by thunder and lightning.
Huo Gannian sat there drinking tea with an expressionless face, and eight burly military chiefs stood beside him.
The chief military officer of the mansion is usually responsible for the martial arts training, assessment, weapons, etc. of the guards, and is also responsible for imposing punishments in accordance with the rules of the Huo mansion.
The fact that they appear here means that Yun Chen and Hua Jue will inevitably be punished in this fight.
There is no way. Internal strife and fighting are not good no matter where you talk about them, let alone in a wealthy family with strict rules like the Huo family. Moreover, this is the first time in the history of the Huo family.
Not only does it have a bad impact, but it also happens to be on the eve of an important Qingyuzhou banquet.
This is just like Sun Wukong causing trouble at the Queen Mother's Peach Banquet.
Chang'e was getting ready to dance when Zhu Bajie stole her dancing clothes and put them on himself.
Ye Yan felt that the two of them might have to pay half their lives here today.
Then he looked at Yun Chen and Hua Jue who walked into the main hall without saying a word and knelt down without waiting for Huo Gannian to say anything. Both of them had their necks stiff, looking like "I did it, so what?"
Ye Yan feels that sometimes people should not be too brave.
He silently prayed for the two of them in his heart.
Sitting on the high seat, Huo Gannian lowered his eyes to look at the two "bear bags" who were kneeling upright. Their faces and noses were bruised, and their clothes were covered with knife marks and dust.
Hua Jue even had blood on his forehead, and looked a little disfigured.
Huo Gannian didn't say a word, just looked at the two of them with cold and angry eyes.
The main hall was so quiet that Ye Yan didn't even dare to swallow.
This silence is often more frightening than direct anger.
After a long silence, Huo Gannian said coldly:
"Fifty each."
When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked.
The torture instruments in the Huo Mansion were either iron whips covered with tiny burrs, or two hard and heavy iron birch boards that could make a person vomit blood.
Fifty hits?
I'm afraid the punishment will be at 2:15 pm and the person will die at 3:15 pm.
When Hua Jue heard that he was going to be severely punished, he became anxious and pointed at Yun Chen and shouted:
"Young Master! This kid is a jerk! I saw him go to Yaoxiang with my own eyes! He was tugging and tugging at a man, and even gave him a belt! Young Master! Such a filthy fellow doesn't deserve to stay in the Huo family!"
What does that mean? Rabbit? Men like men?
Everyone in the hall was stunned and couldn't help but look at Yun Chen.
Although Hua Jue behaves a little eccentrically, his character is impeccable and he would never lie.
Looking at Yun Chen again, her hair was slightly disheveled, her eyes were downcast, and two scars on her cheeks, as red as a woman's lip balm, made her skin look even whiter, like jade.
She looked like she was about to break, with her lips tightly pursed, looking stubborn but unwilling to explain. She looked so pitiful.
Thinking about the sensational incident of "Yun Chen peeping at Huo Gannian taking a bath" that had been circulating a few days ago, everyone immediately believed Hua Jue's words subconsciously and looked at Huo Gannian.
There was nothing special on Huo Gannian's face. He never revealed his emotions easily, and everyone was used to it.
But Ye Yan still caught a flash of surprise and depression in his eyes.
There are many men in the Huo Gang, and they are most afraid of homosexuality, commonly known as "Tuye".
If Yun Chen is really as Hua Jue said, then according to the rules, she must be expelled from the Huo Mansion.
"Yun Chen." Huo Gannian called her name but did not ask any questions.
Yun Chen raised his head and didn't say a word. He just looked at Huo Gannian with his big eyes. Facing the scrutinizing and suspicious gaze, he looked at him without fear, without a trace of cowardice in his eyes.
Not knowing what he saw in Yun Chen's big eyes that looked aggrieved, stubborn and pitiful, Huo Gannian's brows furrowed and then relaxed, and he finally spoke:
"The rumor is nonsense, no need to elaborate. If you drag it out, we'll each get fifty hits."
Several military officers stepped forward, dragging Hua Jue and Yun Chen out respectively. They looked at each other and wondered in their hearts:
It said to hit fifty times, but didn’t say what to use?
A military officer whispered:
"Young Master, what should we use to hit you, and where should we hit you?"
Just as Huo Gannian was about to speak, he heard Hua Jue cry out in grievance:
"Young Master! Why do you trust this pretty boy and not me? I'm thinking about you! He must be driven away! He covets your beauty!"
Beauty...sex?
Ye Yan looked at Huo Gannian blankly.
Before Huo Gannian's leg was broken, he was tall and had superb martial arts skills.
After his leg injury, he was no longer as handsome as before due to long periods of sitting and lying down and rarely going out. He became thinner and his appearance changed from sharp to gloomy and handsome.
But what about beauty?
Ye Yan felt that Hua Jue seemed to be using a very sophisticated way to curse his master in a roundabout way.
As expected, the martial artist asked, "What do you want to hit? Where do you want to hit?"
Huo Gannian said coldly: "Use salt water willow branches! Slap your mouth!"
On the other side, the chief military officer who was dragging Yun Chen also looked at Huo Gannian tentatively.
Huo Gannian glanced at Yun Chen, who still looked like he was neither willing to explain nor afraid of punishment.
Long before Yun Chen and Hua Jue arrived, Huo Gannian already had a general understanding of the situation.
Hua Jue started the fight, and Yun Chen was the first to attack. It's that simple.
After thinking for a while, Huo Gan read:
"Use the bamboo ruler to hit your hands!"
The chief military officer was stunned.
The guards were punished with either whips or willow branches, sticks or boards. What was a bamboo ruler?
Seeing that the military chief did not respond, Huo Gannian said unhappily:
"Runhe, go look in my private vault!"
The chief military officer quickly retreated and followed Runhe to search in the private storeroom for a long time before they found a tailor's ruler made of a thin piece of bamboo, half a palm wide and one foot long.
Runhe smiled at the confused military chief and said:
"Please use it carefully. This is the one Young Master used to smack you on the palm when you made a mistake when you were a child."
"Did you get slapped on the palm when you were a kid?"
"Yes, I think it was when I was seven or eight years old."
“Tsk…”
The chief military officer smacked his lips twice, not sure what Huo Gannian meant. Thinking that this small bamboo board couldn't do anything to anyone, he used all his strength to hit Yun Chen's palm hard.
However, he didn't expect that after just a few hits, he hit the place where Yun Chen was scratched by the Hidden Moon Sword last night. In an instant, blood beads appeared all over his hand, staining the bamboo ruler with blood, which looked quite scary.
"No, I have to report to the young master, they're bleeding!" Run He completely ignored the stunned expression of the military chief, hurried back to the main hall, and ran back again, saying:
"The young master said, let's just beat these today. The rest will be recorded and beaten next time."
"Keep accounts?" This time, the chief military officer was even more surprised.
After all these years in the Huo Mansion, this was the first time he heard that punishments could be recorded, but he did not dare to say much and quickly brought Yun Chen back to the main hall.
Hua Jue was still being beaten outside. The sound of willow branches rustled through the air, and there was no sign of stopping, making him scream and groan.
Yun Chen knelt in the hall, gently clenched her bloody palms, and stared at the wound caused by the Hidden Moon Sword, completely unaware that Huo Gannian on the high seat was looking at her.
At this time, Runhe took out the Hidden Moon Sword that Hua Jue had hidden, and was about to give it to Yun Chen, but Huo Gannian raised his hand to stop him.
He threw the handkerchief he was carrying on the hilt of the sword, and then Runhe handed it to Yunchen.
Yun Chen was in a daze, and subconsciously took the sword, holding the handkerchief on the hilt with his palm, slightly stopping the bleeding.
When he saw Jian coming back, Yun Chen's eyes turned red instantly.
It seemed as if this humiliation had only begun to taste bitter at this moment.
The corners of Huo Gannian's lips curled up into a smile that he himself hadn't noticed, and his voice was also a bit teasing:
"A sword is meant to be used, not displayed. If you never leave your sword, how could it be stolen?"
Yun Chen nodded, then shook his head, his voice a little hoarse:
"I am unworthy of such a fine sword."
She had never received any favor from Huo Gannian, her identity was unknown, her words were unpleasant, she was a woman disguised as a man secretly, and she was the "cat-carrying assassin" that the entire Huo Gang was trying to catch.
Yun Chen knew that she was indeed not worthy of accepting this sword.
Huo Gannian said, "But I, the young master, have the right—the right to ask you to use this fine sword to protect me, don't I?"
Yun Chen's heart moved slightly and he looked at Huo Gannian.
He had already straightened his expression and said in a tone that brooked no argument:
"This sword is in your hands, so you won't lose it and waste its best years."
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