Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from the last time, I finally found the evidence that someone from the old house murdered Chengcheng. I did it for Chengcheng, but I did it for myself.

It would be great if I could be reincarnated and know that I am not a poor child without a father or a mother.

I stared at the old man for a long time, but he remained silent and avoided my eyes. Maybe he thought I would give up, but I won't. I really need a family affection in the world, even if I die, I admitted it too.

"Mr. Sheng, should you say it yourself, or should I hit you?" I looked back at Sheng Xiaofei, who was lying on the ground behind me, trembling and praying, and said solemnly.

Sheng Xiaofei shuddered. He looked as if I had shocked him with an electric shock. When he slowly raised his head, there were tears in the corners of his eyes. What Yun Jin told me during his lifetime was indeed true. Most of the stewards in the old house were bullying and bullying. Yes, whenever they meet someone who is a little taller than them, they will hug their legs and cry on the spot, and their psychological defenses will directly turn into ashes.

But I am "arrogant and unreasonable", so why are Second Mistress and Qi Cheng the same? Sheng Xiaofei didn't dare to offend me, and naturally he didn't dare to challenge the second grandma's authority, but now he was on the edge of a knife, and he had to tell the story of the cause and effect.

Sheng Xiaofei clenched his fists, veins popped up on the back of his hands, bit his lip nervously and said: "Next... In the afternoon, I received instructions that a beast had thrown the young master, and he wanted me to take care of him for a while. When the family gave the order, I had to kill the beast. Then I tied the beast to the backyard. I went back to drink tea. When I came out again, the beast had fallen to the ground and died. I didn’t know that I really had nothing to do with it. I don’t know!” After saying that, Sheng Xiaofei shook his head like a rattle.

I knew that when we got to the hall, Sheng Xiaofei's words would never be the same as what he just told me. I supported the railing, took a sip of tea with one hand, and secretly fed myself another pill. Liang He was worried for me.

"No! Why are you saying this different from just now? Who are you lying to?" Liang He said anxiously.

I watched in silence as the second grandma's face softened slightly, but soon she saw the bitter look of the second uncle and cousin again, and her heart couldn't help but twitch. The third grandma was originally calm, because this matter was not hers. He didn't even know what he was doing, and he thought it was some relative in the family who was bold enough to take action first, but after taking a closer look at the second grandma's expression, she suddenly lost her smile.

The two of them simply looked at each other, the second grandma looked a little guilty, and the third grandma was surprised, as if they were asking each other:

"Did you do it?"

"Who else but me."

The third grandma took a deep breath and lamented that the elder sisters are no longer worried now, but complaining is not the answer now. The first thing to do is to deal with me, the foreign enemy. The third grandma sat upright, calmed her breath and said: "Liang He, this is Hongtang, don’t mess around.”

"Third Madam, I am not fooling around! He is clearly..."

"Girl Shi, are the people under you so unruly? Are you used to it? I know you are soft-hearted. This is in our own home. Of course we can tolerate you, but what if you go out in the future? Wouldn't it be wrong? Do you want outsiders to see our Fu family’s jokes and say that our Fu family are all reckless?”

Liang He was interrupted before he could finish his words. The third grandma no longer wants to be a living Bodhisattva. For the sake of the second grandma, she is so anxious that she can no longer even pretend, but this is just right.

"Article 37 of the Fu family rules. No loud noises are allowed in the Hong Hall. Violators will be punished with ten strokes of the cane. I failed to manage my subordinates well. I will accept the punishment for him. My granddaughter will go to receive the punishment immediately after filing this complaint." I said calmly.

"Sister!" Liang He lowered his voice and said unconvinced, but I didn't look back. Liang He jumped to his feet in a hurry. He had no choice but to go to the third grandmother: "Third wife, my fault has nothing to do with my sister, how should I be punished? No one has any objections. I just want the matter to be explained clearly before being punished again! Sheng Xiaofei is simply lying! That's not what he told me outside just now! He clearly said that he saw someone leaving the backyard in a hurry, although he couldn't see it His appearance is unclear, but he is definitely the one who poisoned the horse!"

"We were just passing by the backyard. Why do you think it was that person who fed the horses yew leaves?" Second Grandma asked back.

"The backyard he went to was where the horse hay was piled. It was very far away, and the smell of swill was overwhelming. Normally no one would go there! Even the horse feeders could only go there in the morning and evening, and it was not an important passage. , the possibility of passing by is ridiculously small! Besides, even if he passed by, why would he run when Sheng Xiaofei called him!" Liang He's face turned red with anger.

"It's also possible that it's just an emergency, and the yew leaves... Butler Liang, you also said that the backyard was filled with horse hay. Maybe the horse grass was mixed with yew leaves and was eaten by the horses... "Sheng Xiaofei interrupted, laughing with a shy face.

"You..." Liang He almost couldn't breathe. Fortunately, he was young and could hold on to his energy. He calmed down for a while and immediately returned to the battlefield: "Two ladies, bosses, this thing Sheng Xiaofei just needs a beating." ! I’ll give him a good beating and I’ll make sure he spits out everything in a while!”

"Liang He!" I shouted pretending to be nervous, and Liang He turned around and looked at me pretending to be confused.

Soon, there was an answer. The second and third grandmothers thought they had caught my weak spot with this sentence. They thought that this was all the evidence I could show. As long as they could make me stop and endure it, they would naturally jump over the wall.

Now it is the second mistress who is here to be the villain: "Shut up! Sheng Xiaofei's surname is not Fu, and she is not a member of the Fu family. You will beat her whenever you want. Do you want to bring trouble to the Fu family?"

Then the third grandma got angry: "Girl Shi, I know you feel sorry for your brother, but don't go too far. This is Hongtang. Do the whole family have to be here to watch you misbehave? Your father really spoils you." Broken, with him here, you have the confidence to do whatever you want. You just smashed the ancestral hall a few days ago, and today you have to disobey your elders again. Of course you are not afraid. Even if the sky falls, there will be someone to hold you up. If you make a mistake, you will be beaten to death. You are just locked up for a few days. You can come and go at will even before the confinement period is over. Oh, forget it, the child is still young and is still at home. Someone is pampering you, but you If you leave the house in the future, be sure not to take this disease with you."

When the old man saw that I was being called uneducated, he naturally felt uncomfortable, but in order to prevent me from being the one who stood out, he could only suppress his annoyance and say to me in a low voice: "Daughter, dad knows that you mean well, but you If you're still sick, don't tire yourself out here, go back quickly, and we'll talk about it if you need anything."

"Look, look, you're being partial again. Boss, how can you convince the people below? Everyone else gets the same punishment for making mistakes. Just this girl, she basically broke all the family laws. Everyone in the family But I can't even touch her with a finger..." The second grandmother was still shouting.

The old man couldn't bear it anymore and turned around with a hidden smile: "Who is not convinced? I have many ways to convince him."

The second grandmother suddenly fell silent, and the old man looked around the hall: "Thank you second mother and third mother for your concern, but I am really ashamed. I am not very qualified as a boss or an eldest brother. My brothers and nephews don't care much, but my second wife and my third mother-in-law care about me and my daughter's family affairs. I can't bear it."

These words seemed to be spoken to the second grandma and the third grandma, but in fact they were also a warning to everyone in the old house. However, the old man would not get things done.

After seeing the people in the old house, the old man turned his attention back to me, this time with a little anger: "Daughter, if you make trouble again, dad can't protect you. In just one month, you can make any mistakes." I've gone around the old house, you're so delicate and frail, you can't bear to be beaten with a domestic stick."

"Be good, be obedient, and go back." After looking at it for a long time, the uncle basically figured out what the old man meant. At this time, he also came out to persuade me. At the same time, he glanced at the third grandma and sighed. He almost wanted to write the words on the third grandma's head.

"We'll talk about it when we get back." With a look from my second uncle, Cui Yu, who was next to my second grandma, came over to help me. I lost my face on the spot and made the whole family see the situation clearly.

But how can I leave? I haven't been able to satisfy my selfishness yet, and I haven't been able to save Chengcheng yet.

I shook off Cui Yu, calmed down, and walked into the hall with a certain step as I let go of the railing: "Why do the second grandma and the third grandma always interrupt me and not allow me to finish my words? I never said it was you, the second grandma." Chengcheng, who suffered a hand injury, what do you feel guilty about?"

"What do you mean!" The second grandma was furious and squeezed the corner of the table. Her hands, as tender as onions, turned white. It was the third grandma who held her back, preventing her from hitting me with the teacup on the table.

The third grandma twisted her mouth angrily, but soon she looked aggrieved and disappointed: "Shi Yatou, your second grandma and I are much older, why bother to embarrass you juniors? We are just thinking, you are still Being a guilty person, coming to Hongtang is already the biggest disadvantage. What good will it do to offend the whole family if you continue to mess around? You still owe dozens of Taoist French sticks. How can everyone believe what you say? Listen to your father If you want to talk to your uncles, go back quickly. Your second grandma and I will just pretend we didn’t hear what you said today.”

The third grandma really deserves what the old man once said about her. She is sharp-tongued and can reverse right and wrong. Doesn't she mean that her words will make the people in the old house hate me even more, and make the old man's accusation of favoring one thing over another and being unfair? Not only can I no longer tell the truth, but I also have to apologize to everyone, lest the position of the head of our eldest house be unstable. Unless I am willing to make up for all the family law sticks I owed before, I cannot exercise my position as the head of the Fu family. Women's rights.

She thought I would not dare to pick it up, but she was wrong.

I squeezed the last pill in my hand, looked directly at the three dazzling leaders in the hall, and said, "Am I qualified to tell the truth and punish the murderer if I accept all the punishment for my previous mistakes?"

As soon as these words came out, the old man puffed his beard and glared in anger, and the second uncle also punched the table as hard as iron. I was shocked and could hardly feel my own heartbeat, but I took a step back and stood firm. , staring straight ahead, silently waiting for the storm, both the old man and the second uncle were speechless. They couldn't stop me, because if they tried to cover me up again, it would make me happy to show their favor to me. It makes no difference. They can only pray that I give up when the stick is halfway through, otherwise, no one can protect me.

Only my uncle was different. In addition to the worry he should have, he looked at me with a hint of joy and doubt, as if the person standing in front of him was not his niece, but a dummy with a human skin mask.

My cousin couldn't stand it any longer. He didn't care what the thoughts of the people present were and what their plans were. He just determined that he couldn't let anyone hurt me in the slightest. He got up angrily, pulled me and started to leave. I only stood here after taking medicine. I was pulled by him and almost didn't fly out. Fortunately, Liang He helped me. Even if he caught me, he had no choice but to pretend to be afraid and half-hug me. He didn't let go: "Master Ciao, what do you want to do..."

"What do you mean? How can I hurt her!" My cousin yelled at Liang He and tried to pull me back after he finished speaking, but Liang He had quick eyes and quick hands and took me two steps back decisively.

"Then you said you wanted to protect the young lady! You didn't want her to suffer any injustice. But now..." Liang He's words were like a sharp blade, stabbing straight into his cousin's heart.

"You..." My cousin pointed at Liang He. He was stunned for a long time and couldn't say a word. Perhaps he still felt unwilling to do so. He pushed Liang He away and pointed at me: "Are you leaving! I I don’t know what you’re planning on!”

I can't go.

"Brother, he saved me, just let me finish my words." I looked at him with tears in my eyes.

My cousin was so angry that he almost wanted to wake me up. Seeing his hands stretched out, I was scared, but I couldn't hide. I had to close my eyes tightly and wait, as if I was paying back part of the debt I owed him. .

But my cousin still put his hands down. No matter in the previous life or this life, no matter how angry he was, he would never hit me. But if he didn't, someone would hit me for him.

The second grandma and the third grandma were satisfied. Seeing that no one could take me away, they asked someone to count up all the sticks I owed so that I could remember them. Aunt Zhou who was next to the third grandma did the math for a long time, and finally Come to a terrible number:

Seventy-nine sticks.

I once said that if Yang Yue received one hundred sticks, his lower body would be disabled. That would be if he was healthy. Now if it were me who received seventy-nine sticks, I don't think I might be able to withstand it.

I lowered my head and looked at my watch. It was 7:50. Liang Sen said that he would not be back until after 8 o'clock at the earliest, which meant that I would have to delay it for at least another ten minutes. Can I really bear it?

I secretly glanced at the old man in the hall and thought about Chengcheng in the ward. I smiled softly, took the last pill in my palm, and drank some water.

I should be able to hold on.

The third grandma waved, and two female stewards quickly appeared from behind the barrier. They looked very stern. Fortunately, I was not a child of two or three years old. I had seen some big scenes, so I was not frightened by them. Come on, they asked me to go to the door of the ancestral hall. I thought this was the most cruel thing that the third grandmother could do. Who would have thought that it was not over yet. I knelt in front of the door of the ancestral hall and listened to her softly opening her red lips and saying: " Xiaofei, it’s up to you.”

Xiaofei? Sheng Xiaofei? He is so timid that he can't afford to offend me or my third grandma. If so, he probably only has two choices, right? Beat me to death or mess me up all the way?

I sighed. Actually, this is not something I should consider. I just need to think about how to force myself to wake up and hold on for a while. My hands and feet are a little cold at this time, and I don’t know what will happen soon.

Behind him, Sheng Xiaofei walked over tremblingly. He swallowed his saliva and took the housekeeping stick from the housekeeper's hand fearfully. He trembled violently when he took the stick into his hand. I was still wondering what was going on. But I soon found out.

Sheng Xiaofei hit me on the back with his stick. The force was not heavy, but it still hit me hard. I turned around in shock and saw a tiny thumbtack stuck to the French stick.

When Sheng Xiaofei saw me looking at him, he almost threw the stick away, but when he saw the bright smile of the third grandma, he still held the stick tightly, as if he wanted to grow his own skin and flesh on it.

Only then did I understand why the third grandma was so confident and firmly believed that I would definitely give up.

As the old man said, how could I, a spoiled and pampered girl, endure nearly a hundred sticks? Especially if the thumbtacks were stuck like this, nearly a hundred sticks were bloody.