Xia Houyi said he couldn't help this time, but he really couldn't help, and he didn't intend to hide it for her anymore.
The next day, Zhong Zan came to the door with a heavy face. Without waiting for the steward to report, he went straight to Xia Houyuan's study room and complained to his brother-in-law: "You really raised a good daughter. If Yi'er hadn't taken the initiative to confess, I would have
I didn’t know she could be so bold..."
When Xia Houshu followed the maid who came to deliver the message and rushed to the study, he saw that in addition to Xia Houyuan and Zhong Zan, there were also his mother and Xia Houyi. They all looked solemn, as if they had just had a fierce argument. Xia Houyi was kneeling on his knees.
In the nave.
When they saw her, everyone's faces became more solemn.
If you were still a little doubtful before coming here, when you entered the study and saw the few people in front of you, Xia Houshu understood everything. It seems that Xia Houyi has already explained clearly what should be said, and maybe he also said what should not be said.
After a few words. Thinking of this, she secretly glanced at Xia Houyi, thinking that his brother was really selfless. In order to clear her identity, he would even sell himself.
Xiahou Shu couldn't help but respect his brother for such a righteous act of annihilating relatives, injuring a thousand enemies and damaging himself eight hundred. If you want to be the successor of the Evergreen Clan, how can you not be ruthless?
With my uncle's character, he might even be happy to have such a successor!
Xia Houyuan couldn't help but feel funny when he saw his daughter walking slowly and looking around the house with a wary face, as if she might escape from the scene at any time. He turned his hand into a fist, slowly raised it to the tip of his nose, and coughed lightly.
Zhong Yuqing immediately gave him a sideways glance.
Xia Houyuan pretended that his nose was uncomfortable and pretended to cough several times in succession, which naturally earned him a series of eye rolls from Zhong Yuqing.
Xia Houshu immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly walked up to greet the three elders. Seeing that everyone still had cold faces, he wisely knelt down next to Xia Houyi.
Xia Houyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He put his hand on his forehead and said, "You're very happy. You knelt down before we asked anything. Your mother always says that you are difficult to control. It turns out that's the case."
Xia Houshu felt quite dissatisfied. With so many pairs of eyes at home staring at her, how could she act without looking at them? And it was clear that she was going to be charged with this matter today. If she didn't lower her profile first, was she going to stand up and confront them head-on?
? Even if she is really stupid and ignorant, how can she, a junior, stand up to three elders who are both authoritative and reasonable?
She still has this bit of self-awareness.
One of Xia Houshu's strengths is that she admits her mistakes quickly and has a correct attitude. Seeing this, she immediately raised her head and said: "This time Shu'er really knows that he was wrong. Please don't get angry because of me."
body, otherwise Shu'er's sin would be great."
As a mother, Zhong Yuqing is also the person who pays the most attention to Xia Houshu's daily life. If her brother hadn't told her in person and her second son had testified with conclusive evidence, she would never have imagined that under her nose every day, he seemed to be following the rules and occasionally acted stupidly.
My daughter actually did such a thing secretly.
She snorted coldly and said angrily: "Why didn't I see you were so careful when you were misbehaving outside? Now that you know we are going to punish you, you understand that your sin is too serious?"
Xia Houshu didn't dare to contradict him, so he had to lower his head even lower.
Her attitude couldn't help but remind Zhong Yuqing of the past times when she made mistakes, but there was never a time when she really knew she had made a mistake and corrected it, and she would never make it again. Zhong Yuqing was even more angry and said again: "You said you were wrong.
Okay, why don't you tell me where you went wrong?"
Xia Houshu quickly turned to Xia Houyi for help. She didn't know what exactly this guy said or to what extent he said it!
Xia Houyi didn't seem to notice it, and deliberately turned his face to the side, ignoring it.
Zhong Zan looked at the small movements between the two nephews who were kneeling below, and was so angry that his beard stood up. He had been spying on other people's privacy under the emperor's orders all his life, and he thought that his hands and eyes were all powerful, but he didn't expect that he would be raped by his own nephew when he was old.
Taking advantage of the loophole. Isn't this a slap in his face?
The man in the palace was already quite wary of him. If he was caught in this way again, wouldn't the more than 100-year-old foundation of Prince Gong's palace be destroyed in one fell swoop?
Zhong Zan took a deep breath, tried his best to suppress the shock and anger in his heart, took a few steps forward, and said to Xia Houshu: "Hand over the things."
Xia Houshu naturally knew what her uncle was talking about. But that ring was the only thing that could prove her identity as the secret envoy of the Evergreen Sect. For it, she spent no amount of time, energy, and money at all, and the number of bleeding and injuries was even more incalculable.
If you hand it over today, you will never come back again in the future.
"Why are you still standing there?" Zhong Yuqing suddenly raised his voice, hinting anger, "If Yi'er hadn't taken the initiative to confess to us, I wouldn't have known that you still had such thoughts and courage. Now your uncle asked you to hand over the things,
I just want to settle this matter privately, but you still think the fuss is not big enough?"
Xia Houshu knew that he couldn't hide, so he took out a chain from his neck, and there was a small and exquisite ring hanging on it. The silver ring setting was inlaid with a rice-sized white Hetian jade.
As soon as she took it off, Zhong Yuqing snatched it away, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and then passed it to Zhong Zan after confirming that it was correct.
Zhong Zan put the ring into his pocket, stood with his hands behind his hands, and said solemnly: "Shur, if you are a man and you have such thoughts, I will definitely use you. But you are a daughter and my niece, so I can't
Just leave it alone. Don’t blame your brother, he did it entirely for your own good."
After Zhong Zan finished speaking, he looked at Xia Houyi and said: "Yier, it was you who intentionally deceived this matter, which led to the current situation. Now that you have returned from your own way, I will no longer argue with you about this matter.
As for the previous matter of letting you command the Qingyin Division, let’s take it easy for the time being.”
"Thank you uncle for your forgiveness!"
Xia Houyi solemnly saluted Zhong Zan. Before he decided to do this, he had already foreseen such a result. In fact, this was not too bad, and it was in line with the emperor's opinion when he secretly summoned him.
The above is killing two birds with one stone.
Xia Houshu didn't know there was any other inside story, so he immediately retorted: "Uncle, I was the one who forced my second brother to do this because I begged for nothing. If you take back my token, I will accept it, and I won't be happy to sit still."
!Second brother has been with you for so many years, and you recognize his abilities. You have already decided to let him lead the Qingyin Division. How can you regret it just because of this matter? "
Zhong Zan frowned slightly, pointed at Xia Houshu and said to Xia Houyuan: "Look at your daughter, she... what's wrong with her? Are you still not convinced?"
Xia Houyuan quickly comforted him: "Uncle, don't be anxious, calm down, Shu'er is not sensible. As a child, don't argue with her." Then he turned to Xia Houshu and said, "Look, you made your uncle angry.
Come on, why don’t you apologize quickly!”
Xia Houshu could tell that her father was speaking for her. She glanced at him gratefully, kowtowed to Zhong Zan and said, "Uncle, I made a mistake. You have a lot of money, don't argue with me!"
"Then he looked at the teacups on the table next to him and said, "How about... you take a sip of tea first to feel better?"
Zhong Zan was so angry that his eyebrows were not eyebrows, and his eyes were not eyes. He looked at his sister and brother-in-law each, and then said: "This is not a good thing worth publicizing. I have no intention of making a fuss, so I came here specifically to explain to you and your wife. But
Shu'er is a child with really big ideas. She dares to do such a thing, and she might cause some trouble in the future. None of the daughters in my family have done anything as bold as her. You guys deserve it.
Keep an eye on her!"
"Don't worry, uncle, we will never tolerate this matter." Xia Houyuan comforted him again.
Zhong Zan asked: "Then what do you plan to do with Shu'er?"
Xia Houyuan really didn't think about how to deal with it. She looked at her wife, then at her daughter, and finally looked at Zhong Zan and said, "This daughter's family affairs... should I leave it to her mother to take care of it?"
Everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Zhong Yuqing.
Zhong Yuqing looked at her husband who seemed to be relieved, and couldn't help but be stunned. Although his daughter was older and it was inconvenient for him as a father to intervene in many things, but he just openly put the responsibility on her, wasn't this just asking her to do it?
Be a bad guy?
Zhong Yuqing frowned and said: "Since you don't want to make things worse, then let her copy the "Female Commandments" fifty times and ban her for another month."
Zhong Zan listened carefully, but felt that the punishment was too light, so he immediately asked: "That's it?"
Zhong Yuqing spread his hands and said: "You think this matter shouldn't be a big deal, so I can't punish you with a heavy punishment or a light punishment. Why don't you teach me how to punish me?"
Zhong Zan didn't expect that his sister, who had always been very strict with her children, would say such a thing. He didn't know how to answer for a moment. He was a man who even left his own daughter to be disciplined by his wife and didn't care about anything. How could he know what to do?
How to discipline your niece?
He thought for a moment, stamped his feet and said: "This is your daughter. You can punish her as you like. I don't care. Since I have got the token, I will leave first."
After saying that, he waved his sleeves and walked out.
Xia Houyuan was worried that his uncle was really angry, so he quickly followed him to see him out.
There were only three of them, mother and son, left in the study.
Zhong Yuqing sat down on the chair, then picked up the teacup on the coffee table and shook it gently. The half-cup of warm tea filled the cup with her movements. She was thoughtful, and occasionally glanced at the kneeling figure.
A pair of children.
After a long while, she said: "Get up. Since you all know that you were wrong, you can each receive your punishment."
Xia Houshu and his brother quickly kowtowed to their mother again before standing up.
Then a thought flashed in Xia Houshu's mind, wait, let's each receive their punishment?
She looked at Xia Houyi. Apart from her uncle telling him to postpone the arrangement for him to take over the Qingyin Department of Evergreen Clan, what other punishment did he have?
Zhong Yuqing seemed to have read through her mind and looked at her with sharp eyes and said: "Since your brother helped you deceive everyone, he deserves to be punished. Before you do anything in the future, you'd better think clearly about whether it will affect your parents, brothers and...
My dear, Shu'er, some of my words are unpleasant, and I don't want to repeat them all the time. I hope you will remember the lesson and take care of yourself."