The son is responsible

The small utility room was still slightly lit, and only a small candle was lit at the door.

The window was open, Ye Feng was blowing the shadow of the candle in panic, Xue Muji was looking at the window, the room was pitch black, nothing could be seen.

Xue Muji moved a few bricks from the side, propped his feet, climbed up the window, poked his head and stared wide-eyed, and then he could see a person in the corner of the room. He was kneeling in the corner of the ancestral hall, with a Buddhist scripture in one hand and a pen in his hand His hands didn't shake at all, the paper was spread on the ground, and he copied stroke by stroke.

In the dark environment, where can the words on the book be seen?It must be the servant of the second room, seeing the master's face as black as charcoal when he came back, he speculated that the master was angry with the old lady again because of this broom star, and punished him severely, knowing that Xue Huaijiu couldn't read the handwriting clearly in the dark, and deliberately put The only candle, placed very far away.

The window was open all the time, and the cool night breeze blew in. Xue Huaijiu was stripped of his outer shirt when he was facing the board in the punishment hall, and now only a thin inner lining was left. No sound, only shrank body slightly.After he had finished copying a line, he held up the Buddhist scriptures higher, and read the next line with his upper eyes.

It's too awful.

This is the future Minister of Dali Temple, second uncle, second uncle, you are looking for death, do you know that!

Xue Muji quickly turned over from the window and entered the room. The 12-year-old body was too short, and when he landed, he accidentally made a noise.

Xue Huaijiu thought it was Ke Yu who came back, and the maid who was ordered to watch him write silently always picked all kinds of mistakes on him.Kneeling is not straight, holding the pen is not solid, and the writing is not good-looking... The maid who copied the volume before was splashed with ink, and said that he blasphemed the Buddhist scriptures, and he did not have the attitude of admitting his mistakes. A whip is inevitable.

Although being beaten is commonplace, he is only a 12-year-old boy after all. Fear is instinctive. His body trembled subconsciously, and the pen fell to the ground without holding it.

He lowered his head to pick it up, but his hands didn't touch the ground, but he touched ten soft, white and tender little fingers.

Xue Muji was stroking that bruised and blood-stained hand with his small fleshy hand, which could kill his entire family with a single tick.

The fingers are very thin, as cold as the stones at the door.Xue Muji firmly believed that physical contact could convey his sincere apology to the other party, and he confessed his mistake while touching, "Brother, I know it wasn't you who let the dog bite me, you were wronged. Parents age Don't blame them for being too old to be deceived. Just wait a few more days, and I will definitely find out the real culprit."

Xue Muji said while taking out a small bundle from his bosom, it was still warm, Miaoyin even tied a small bow, he spread the bundle on the ground, opened it, and there was a snack box inside.

There are ten sticky taro dumplings in the box, and each dumpling owes a few medlars. It is purple and red, and the red bean paste is wrapped too much, oozing from the dumplings. Glutinous rice with red bean paste is really satisfying.

He specially asked Fuyun to go to the kitchen to steal it. He knew that Xue Huaijiu must be hungry after being punished, so he came to visit the small room at night with food.As the saying goes, people are iron and rice is steel, and it is very painful to be hungry. When Xue Huaijiu wants to take revenge on Xue's family in the future, he may remember that he, the eldest son of the eldest son, once gave him food at night, so he will be a little merciful.

He didn't know what Xue Huaijiu liked to eat, so he described the characteristics of it being beautiful, delicious, filling and occupying a small space. Unexpectedly, what Fu Yun stole back was glutinous rice dessert, and Xue Muji wanted to eat it too.In his previous life, his life was far less luxurious than Xuehou's Mansion, and he could only eat a few mouthfuls of cold cakes like this kind of exquisite pastry with delicious color and fragrance when he accompanied his father to the palace for banquets.

He ate five in a row and still wanted to eat, but he was too full for dinner, and he burped countless times before the next one was stuffed in his mouth.

This is for Xue Huaijiu, he is still hungry, how can he eat it all.

He thought for a while, pushed the food box forward, and said to Xue Huaijiu who bowed his head, "Brother, I know you haven't eaten, I brought you something, it's really sweet, eat it while it's hot."

Xue Huaijiu knelt and did not move.

Xue Muji thought that Xue Huaijiu was embarrassed, so he picked up a dumpling and fed it with his fingers, "Brother, don't be polite to me. We are brothers, aren't we? I am also responsible for your punishment. I will ask for it tomorrow morning. Second Uncle let you out. In fact, we were born in one year, and our birthdays are two months apart. We are very destined, right? Daquan, forgive my ignorant and cute little brother, okay?"

Xue Huaijiu tilted his face, and the dumpling slid past the corner of his mouth.

Sure enough, Xue Huaijiu didn't intend to forgive him!In fact, it is not Xue Huaijiu's fault, Xue Muji counted from his memories, the souls before, sorry for this brother, there are as many as a woman's hair.

Xue Muji was dejected for a while, but he quickly lifted his spirits, the future is long, Xue Huaijiu is still six years away from saving the regent, take it slowly.

After repeated defeats and repeated battles, Fang is a hero.Xue Muji stood up, condescending, picked up the food box, and dangled it in front of Xue Huaijiu's nose, he couldn't believe that a person who hadn't eaten all day could stand still in front of such delicious sticky taro dumplings.

Xue Huaijiu moved back.

Xue Muji made up his mind to want Xue Huaijiu to accept his favor, thinking that he is a prince after all, he does not sleep in the dead of night, sneaks through the window to deliver meals, only one person can enjoy this kind of treatment in Xuehou's mansion!This person doesn't appreciate it, what's the matter with being so embarrassing?It's so annoying.

He put the food box in front of the people, pouted and said, "Eat it, if you don't eat it, I will tell the old lady that the incense burner that was broken the day before yesterday was broken by you."

Threat.

He saw Xue Huaijiu's shoulders tremble.

It depends on whether you eat or not.

The old lady has moved to the Buddhist hall since the death of her third son. The incense burner in the center of the Buddhist hall is said to have been passed down for thousands of years and has existed since the Pingjiang Hou Mansion was built.The incense in the incense burner is always uninterrupted, just like the wealth and power of the Xue family, which has been passed down for thousands of years.

However, just the day before yesterday, the incense burner cracked and could not be repaired.

The old lady called her sons away, fearing that this was a bad omen.A good incense burner, how can it crack?Do you want to ask a mage to calculate your fortune?

Xue Hou couldn't stand his mother's superstitious old age the most, so what to do with a mage at home, the whole mess was not enough for others to laugh at.He held up the censer to look carefully, and soon came to the conclusion that the crack in the censer was man-made and had nothing to do with astronomical fortune.

As for who did it?Master Xue Hou promised in front of the old matriarch that he would investigate strictly.Xue Muji was following Lord Hou at that time, and really thought that his father wanted to investigate.As a result, Xue Hou hooked his son's nose, hugged Xue Muji in his arms, and said, "Let's go, I'll buy you candied haws."

In the final analysis, Yan Cha's rhetoric is nothing more than a prevarication.People's incense burners are thousands of years old, so they are not allowed to crack?Several Fang knew it in their hearts, but no one really did a thorough investigation.

Sure enough, the threat was effective, Xue Mu looked at Xue Huaijiu with satisfaction, after a fierce inner struggle, he slowly reached out and ate the dumplings in the food box one by one.

"Is it delicious?" Xue Muji asked.

Xue Huaijiu didn't speak.

It’s delicious, so what’s the embarrassment to say?

At the end of Xue Mu's end, he took out a handkerchief and wiped the bean paste on Xue Huaijiu's mouth.

Xue Huaijiu's fingers tightly grasped the fabric on his knee, his nails almost got embedded in it.

His hair was a little disheveled, and he was tortured with a stick, and then he was dragged to kneel and copy the scriptures. His back was in burning pain, and he had no time to comb his hair. Half of it was draped over his shoulders, and the ends of his hair were covered by his father's two hands. The slapped and swollen side face.If you look closely, you can also see the corner of his mouth, almost bruised from his bite.

Of course Xue Muji didn't look carefully, he quickly put away the food box, Fuyun was lying on the tree at the door, and gave him a signal gesture, which meant that someone just wandered outside the utility room, and he found it and put it away.

There must be something weird about being sneaky.

Xue Muji jumped out of the window, threw the food box to Fufeng, and said to Fuyun, "Take me there."

Fu Yun brought the master there, and a person was fainted under the tree, and the back of the neck was split neatly.

Xue Mu is very funny, isn't this his good friend, Xue Huaidi, the second son's third son?

Fu Yun said, "The second bedroom and the third son were wandering around outside the small utility room. I tried to lure him away. He thought someone was there, so he ran away in fright, and came back soon. He seemed afraid to approach him, and wanted to climb up on it." The tree looked at it from a distance, and I followed Shizi's order and directly knocked him out."

Very good, Xue Muji gave a thumbs up.

Windfall.

Originally, he thought it would take a few days to find the evidence by following the clue of the maid who gave the apple according to Miao Yin's witty words, but he was so lucky that the evidence ran to him with long legs.

When Xue Huaidi woke up, he found himself in Xue Muji's room, a room he often came to play, and the picture of Asking the Wine to the Blue Sky hung on the front wall, and he took the original painting and asked his brother to copy it.He was clearly going to the small room just now, why did he come here in a blink of an eye?Could it be that he has a problem with sleepwalking and he doesn't know it?

He rubbed his neck, it hurt, it seemed like he had been stabbed in the back, and it was bulging.

Xue Muji hugged a heater, and looked at him thoughtfully.

"Shizi...Fifth Brother? How did I get here?"

The relationship between Xue Huaidi and Xue Muji is very good, they are three years apart, they both have rich clothes and good food since they were young, and Xue Huaidi is the second wife's son, after the family is separated in the future, he will also inherit the second bedroom's property.

The master of the second bedroom is not at home, and hangs around Yingying Yanyan who is raised outside all day. After Miss Xiao fell out of favor, she is even less interested in educating her children.So Lord Xue invited the master, and also brought a share to Xue Huaidi, who often went to eat and live in the courtyard of the big house. The two were together from playing to studying, and they naturally cultivated friendship.

Xue Muji used to like to follow Xue Huaidi, the more reason is that this brother can always buy some weird things, like the multicolored parrot that can talk and eat melon seeds before, and the white cricket the size of a palm, with more than 30 holes The blue glazed beads... Xue Huaidi is quick-witted, and knows how to coax the most noble child of the entire Pingjiang family to go to his sixth aunt's uncle's house on a foreign merchant ship on time to see if there are any novel gadgets to search for. Come.

Xue Huaidi wanted to leave, but he was stopped by Fufeng Fuyun when he opened the door.When he turned around, Xue Muji made a gesture of asking to sit down, as if he wanted to talk to him.

Could it be that Xue Muji did this?If he wanted to talk to him, wouldn't it be enough to send a servant to talk to him?

Xue Muji and the others sat down and cut straight to the point, "Third brother, why did you let the dog bite me? I asked myself if I didn't offend you recently!"