Bastard's Counterattack [Rebirth]

"Go away!" Zhou Renlin yelled anxiously, leading people to rush in desperately.

"Hey, you, you guys, don't mess around."

"This is the residence of the right servant of the household department, please do not trespass!"

"Stop! What do you want?"

……

The servants at the porter of the Rong's mansion argued with reason and tried their best to stop him, but the opponent was so numerous that they tried every means to dissuade him but to no avail.

After a while, a group of people who pushed and shoved flocked to the banquet hall, and surrounded the not-so-spacious hall.

Zhou Renlin was out of breath and hadn't stood still yet, just in time to hear the concubine say, "Zhou Mingjie...you beat a large number of court officials into foxes and dogs in one breath", he was shocked, glanced hurriedly, and immediately explained loudly :

"Misunderstand!"

"Everything is a misunderstanding!"

"Gouzi is drunk and unwell, and his words are useless. I hope you will forgive me."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Renlin hurried to face the eldest son. Without saying a word, he raised his hand and slapped him heavily!

There was a crisp and loud "pop".

Zhou Mingjie cried out in pain: "Ah!" He was woken up instantly, but he was still in a daze. He opened his blood red eyes and stared at his father, and asked with his tongue out, "You, you hit me?"

"What's wrong with beating you? I can't beat you because of my father?" Zhou Renlin spoke harshly, glanced at Rong Youtang from the corner of his eye, gritted his teeth, raised his hand and slapped him again, and angrily said: "You rebellious son! You won't return when you're drunk Lying at home, running to Mr. Rong’s house to play drunk and crazy? Talking nonsense, because father must kill you today!" After speaking, he was furious and beat his son until he begged for mercy .

"Ah! Oh, Dad, Dad! Don't hit me, don't, don't hit me!" Zhou Mingjie screamed again and again, with tears and fingers on his cheeks, and he was extremely embarrassed.

He mainly called me.

Rong Youtang knew it well, as the actual head of the family, he calmly ordered his servant: "Zhang Dong, why don't you let go of Young Master Zhou?"

"Yes." Zhang Dong and the other servants let go at this moment, watching the troublemaker being beaten, they were extremely happy in their hearts, and suppressed their laughter.

While Zhou Renlin was ruthlessly teaching his eldest son a lesson, he took the time to say to Rong Youtang: "The dog is rude, I'm really sorry, when he wakes up later, I will make him take the blame!"

"Don't dare." Rong Youtang said in a calm tone, "Young Master Ling is so majestic, even if you are drunk, you can charge all the officials of the Imperial Academy with 'negligence of duty and unfairness', let alone sober?"

"Misunderstanding! It's really just a misunderstanding. The dog is so drunk that he doesn't know what he's talking about!" Zhou Renlin hurriedly defended, annoyed, wishing he could beat his hopeless and trouble-prone son to death on the spot.

Zhou Mingjie's hands and feet were weak and he was unable to dodge. He was beaten so hard that he covered his head and yelled for mercy.

When Rong Zhengqing saw this, he was extremely contemptuous, and asked coldly: "Master Zhou, today is the wedding banquet of my nephew, are you going to beat my son to death in front of all the guests?"

"Zhengqing," Zhou Renlin was always afraid of his concubine brother. When facing the son of his mentor, he lacked confidence and replied awkwardly: "Zhengqing, Mingjie is your nephew. He made a mistake——"

"Hey, don't!" Rong Zhengqing waved his hands, turned his face away, and said solemnly: "My sister has a poor life and no luck. She committed herself to you as a concubine. She has passed away for many years. I dare not marry your eldest son."

"Brother, calm down." Rong Kaiji stepped forward and pulled Rong Zhengqing back, Lu Nan also persuaded: "Lord Rong, don't worry."

Recalling the experience of going to school when he was young, Zhou Renlin blushed, upset and irritable, and became more aggressive, kicking the eldest son!

Rong Youtang couldn't bear it anymore, strode forward, stretched out his hand to stop him, and asked in a deep voice: "Master Zhou, do you insist on using family law in public in the humble house? If you kill someone, how can you let the bystanders deal with it?"

Little bastard, I finally stopped it!

Zhou Renlin cursed secretly, then stopped, panted, put one hand on his hip, and said with a frowning face: "Oh, my family is unfortunate, my family is unfortunate! I am really ashamed of my discipline. I just offended you rudely. Zhou is here to make amends." , I'm really sorry." As he spoke, he bowed slightly and cupped his hands in a circle.

As a result, it was inconvenient for the low-ranking officials among the guests to accept the gift, so they avoided or returned the gift one after another, saying vaguely that they "did not dare to be" and looked at Rong Youtang one after another.

Seeing that the happy banquet was messed up, Rong Youtang couldn't help being angry, bursting into bursts of anger, and solemnly pointed out: "As the saying goes, there is an injustice and a debtor. It’s useless to actually solve the trouble.” After a pause, he said righteously:

"Just now, Mr. Zhou kept accusing me of cooperating with others and secretly obstructing his selection of Shu Jishi. His words seemed to be true, which not only disturbed people's hearts, but also smeared the Hanlin Academy! In order to find the truth, I will go to the Hanlin later. Let’s go to the court, read the files of Young Master Ling, and investigate to find out why he failed the election many times.”

good!Hong Lei and the others applauded silently and dismissed Zhou Mingjie.

"No, no, no! Don't!" Zhou Renlin was in a state of desperation, and in desperation, he hurriedly pulled the concubine's arm to coax him: "Youtang, don't be impulsive, Mingjie is drunk and talking nonsense, why are you more serious than a drunkard? What? Today he disturbed your banquet, it is all his fault, it is obvious to all, I will punish you severely, your lord has a lot, please spare him once, huh?"

——Hmph, Zhou Mingjie has repeatedly picked quarrels and provoked troubles, and he is very annoying. I am in the capital, how can I allow him to retreat completely again?

Rong Youtang struggled without any trace, and the father and son faced each other. He had already made up his mind, shook his head, and eloquently explained: "If the young master only slanders me, there may be room for negotiation, but he actually said it in one breath. Climbed the entire Hanlin Academy! As a bachelor of attendant lecturer, how can I turn a deaf ear, turn a blind eye, and live up to His Majesty's appointment by Long En?"

"You——" Zhou Renlin was at a loss for words, and there was nothing to refute, sweating from his brow.

Rong Youtang was upright, and said politely: "Didn't Mr. Zhou just promise 'severe punishment'? Then I just follow your wishes in trying to carry out an investigation, so you don't need to thank me."

"Puff cough cough!" Hong Lei and other young and vigorous young men almost couldn't hold back their laughter, they raised their fists to cover their mouths, and pretended to be coughing.

Unfilial evil!Zhou Renlin almost fell backward in anger, his eyes widened and he couldn't speak.

Rong Youtang's posture was straight, his eyes were fixed, and he showed no sign of flinching and forbearance.

"My little disciple is right. Mr. Zhou, after all, Young Master Ling has accused a large number of imperial court officials. If you don't investigate clearly and spread rumors, what's the face of the Imperial Academy? Where is the dignity of the imperial court?" Lu Nan, who had been watching silently for a long time, finally spoke, He patted his apprentice on the shoulder and taught meaningfully: "Youtang, you are highly valued by His Majesty at such a young age, you must be upright and honest as an official, and do your best for the public and the people, so as to live up to the grace of the saint. Otherwise, don't talk about it in secret. You are a peeper, and I will never let you off as a teacher!"

"Yes." Rong Youtang cupped his hands respectfully: "This disciple respectfully obeys Master's instruction."

Zhou Renlin was instantly questioned, his old face was hot, and he stood firm.At this moment, Zhou Mingjie was mostly sober, he knew he had made a joke, he was humiliated and angry, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, he was being supported by his confidants, he gritted his teeth and bowed his head, pretending to be dizzy, without saying a word.

However, misfortunes never come singly, and the Zhou family father and son did not stop making a fool of themselves.

Just when Rong Youtang imagined driving away the uninvited guests first, and then serving tea to the guests to apologize one by one, the Seventh Prince, who had been listening for a long time, ran out of patience, led two guards to show up, and said loudly:

"Rong Youtang, you don't have to go back to the Hanlin Academy to review the files. Lord Wu knows the reason why Zhou Mingjie has repeatedly failed the election!"

God!

His Highness the Seventh Prince has appeared!

Rong Youtang turned around quickly, couldn't stop having a headache, and quietly observed Zhuo Kai:

I saw Zhuo Kai standing beside Lu Nan, carefully separating the elderly from the crowd, without looking sideways.

"Your Majesty, see His Highness the Seventh Prince." Rong Youtang saluted first, followed by the Rong family who knew about it, and the rest—especially the Zhou family, were shocked and terrified. In an instant, a group of people knelt down in the banquet hall.

The seventh prince, Zhao Zewu, held his hands proudly, looked at Zhuo Kai quietly, tried his best to calm down, especially helped Lu Nan and Rong Youtang, and glanced at Zhuo Kai who was beside Lu Nan, and said solemnly: "Get up, there is no need to be formal. Mr. Lu, please rise."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Rong Youtang subconsciously glanced behind the Seventh Prince: Is there no one there?

"Fourth brother agreed to Master Wu's appearance." Zhao Zewu whispered.

Rong Youtang nodded inconspicuously, frowned and thoughtfully, cupped his hands and said apologetically: "The humble house hosted a thin banquet, thank you His Highness the Seventh Highness for condescending to come here, but you see... oh, I'm really sorry, I have bothered you. "

"How can I blame you?" Zhao Zewu sighed, waved his hand sympathetically, and said in disgust: "There are some people in the world who don't think about making progress but think highly of themselves, and always mistakenly think that they are unappreciated, such as Zhou Mingjie."

Zhou Mingjie cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to face it, so he could only continue to pretend to be dizzy.Zhou Renlin's face turned pale, he hesitated, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, calm down."

Zhao Zewu didn't even look at Zhou's family, and faced the guests, he said in a confident manner: "Rong Youtang was a magistrate a few years ago, and missed many times in a row in the selection of Shujishi, but my highness is holding a post in the Imperial Academy and was invited to attend the selection Of course, His Royal Highness does not know about the Jinshi candidates, so he is just watching from the sidelines, but he probably remembers Zhou Mingjie. Zhou Mingjie was admitted to the hospital for three or four years, and he ran for the election every year. Everyone in the Imperial Academy knows about such things as Shangfeng and other mistakes, it is your own fault if you are not selected, if you are selected, it will be called unfair."

Oh ~

Everyone at the scene suddenly realized, Qiqi looked at Zhou Mingjie who was hanging his head and shrank behind his father: Tsk tsk, what a dude!In comparison, even His Highness the Seventh Prince has become reasonable.

"Zhou has no way to teach his son, and you are laughing at me." Zhou Renlin forced out a sentence dryly, losing all face, and was utterly disappointed in his eldest son.

"It's useless to talk too much. Take him home and discipline him, and order him to be self-improving. What's the use of being jealous? If Zhou Mingjie can be as steadfast and capable as Rong Youtang, His Highness will definitely ask for credit for him!" Zhao Zewu generously promised.

I haven't seen him for a few years, and he has changed a lot... Zhuo Kai was extremely astonished, and couldn't help but look at him suspiciously. He almost suspected that there was a new core in the opponent's shell!

Zhao Zewu was keenly aware of it, and couldn't help holding his head high.

Rong Youtang was a little worried, so he made a quick decision, ignorantly stepped sideways, and said gratefully: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your generous rescue, I am very grateful."

Hey, you boy blocked people!Zhao Zewu frowned in annoyance, but he still had to hold it up on the surface, and said reservedly: "It's just a little effort, not worth mentioning."

A few days later · Prince Qing's Mansion

"Hahaha~" Guo Da laughed heartily, slapped his thigh vigorously, and said cheerfully, "So, it was you who asked to expel Zhou Mingjie from the Imperial Academy?"

Rong Youtang nodded, and said helplessly: "He deceived people too much, he actually broke into my house and caused trouble, and offended a large number of court officials. If he hadn't tried his best to explain that he was innocent after drinking, then it would not be as simple as getting rid of his reputation and being expelled from the Imperial Academy. "

"Zhou Mingjie is arrogant and impetuous, and has repeatedly caused troubles in the Imperial Academy. If he hadn't relied on the Pingnanhou Mansion, he would have been taught a lesson early in the morning." King Qing commented bluntly.

"Let him be expelled this time, if there is another time, I will be merciless!" Rong Youtang said with a sullen face.

"You don't need to mention that kind of person." King Qing comforted him, paused for a while, and said carefully, "King Guangping and his party arrived in the capital yesterday. With your grade, you should be able to attend—”

"Huh?" Rong Youtang was puzzled and waited for the next sentence.

King Qing frowned, glanced at his cousin, Guo Da cleared his throat, and asked in a low voice: "You know, the third princess hasn't left the cabinet yet, and His Majesty may visit her son-in-law by then, she, oh no! Do you... know her? "