Xing'anbo Mansion, which has changed its owner, has been quiet these days. Aunt Dai, who once made a farce about taking poison, said she wanted to go to the nunnery to eat vegetarian food, and Xu Liang politely sent her out: no one wanted to marry the other concubines.
They stayed to guard, and each took thirty or forty taels of silver and left the house. As for the housekeeper Liu An and the accountant Xu Wen, they originally wanted to tamper with those fields, but in the end, Xu Liang directly took charge of Beizhen Fusi one day.
Li Yifeng, a member of the Xingqian household, was invited to his home. The two of them immediately put aside their petty thoughts and honestly handed over the detailed account books of the fields: and when the tenant rent was paid at the end of the year, the originally stretched accounts were immediately flat, and Xu
Liang Ming said that he would be given an extra month of money during the Chinese New Year, and that the reward would be in addition to the money, which made everyone happy for a while.
With money in his pocket, the concierges at the door were no less lax than before, and they were all energetic. At this time, Xu Liang, who had returned from the previous court and had been ordered by the Military Governor's Mansion, came in, and the two of them stood there.
There was a lot of chatting at Xijiaomen, but the biggest topic revolved around Xu Xun, who had been staying in Xiyuan for more than half a month. As he was talking, the mature man suddenly lowered his voice.
"Speaking of which, the master is not yet fifty. It is said that the former wife has been dead for many years. Now that she has been promoted to a noble title, her marriage must be continued? Speaking of which, the eldest young master's marriage seems to have not been decided, let alone the young lady.
Let’s go in together...,,
"Shh, you haven't heard that. The few useful girls in the inner courtyard were sent by Shouning Houfu, but the master doesn't need them to serve him in daily life. It seems that he is afraid of people gossiping. If this is the case, there is no need to renew the string or not.
I can't tell, I guess the eldest young master doesn't want to have a stepmother weighing down his head." The two of them just went back and forth over whether Xu Liang would continue their relationship in the future, and in the end they almost made a bet. At this moment, that
The experienced concierge noticed that the car in front of him passed by the Marquis Wu'an Mansion on the other side, and came straight here. He quickly grabbed his companions. Seeing that the car was driving slowly and stopped at the west corner gate, they naturally hurried to greet it.
But before they could ask questions, the coachman opened the door and pulled up the curtain. A young man who looked to be no more than thirteen or fourteen jumped out of the car, even holding a thorn stick in his hand.
"Go and report that Qi Jiliang, the son of the eldest princess Renhe, has come to plead guilty!"
Seeing this situation and hearing these words, both porters were stunned. You looked at me for a while. The mature porter immediately dropped his companion and ran back. The young porter who was left behind saw the elder porter.
The princess's son had a very bad expression on his face and couldn't help but look around. Although he saw that there were no pedestrians, carriages or horses in Wu'anhou Hutong at this time, he still carefully invited people in after a moment.
Forget about why this person came to plead guilty. If people hate this embarrassing situation, he will be in trouble.
When Xu Liang heard the report from his head that Qi Jiliang was pleading guilty outside, he was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but laugh. He had been discussing for most of his life, and he was still a little worried about Huitong's plan of pretending to be powerful, and originally planned to have no news for another two days.
So he went to settle the accounts with the monk, but who knew that Qi Jiliang would be here now. Even though the eldest son of Princess Renhe had done one stupid thing after another, he still didn't know how to repent, and he was filled with hatred for him in his heart.
, but when he walked into the main hall and saw that Qi Jiliang had taken off his outer clothes at some point and was kneeling naked with the thorn stick on his back, he was immediately stunned.
"I regret that I listened to the instigation of the villain and made a big mistake. Today I have come here to apologize. I am very grateful to Mr. Anbo. He has forgiven me for my previous rudeness and recklessness. No, he has forgiven my stupidity and boldness!" Look.
Seeing such a half-grown boy kowtow to himself a few times, he felt like he could cry anytime and anywhere. Thinking about this boy's age, most of his sullenness and anger disappeared without realizing it, and he sighed.
He stretched out his hand to help Qi Jiliang up.
However, when he exerted force, Qi Jiliang did not follow his efforts at all. Looking at the little guy's face, he immediately understood that he had deliberately delayed for a while before coming over. This person was probably kneeling for a while.
After meeting, he hurriedly held Qi Jiliang's arm and exerted a little more force, and finally helped him up. However, Qi Jiliang had obviously been kneeling for a long time. After he stood up, his blood was obviously stiff and inactive, and he was actually a little unsteady on his feet.
"Calling this silly boy..."
Xu Liang carefully untied the thorn stick from Qi Jiliang and threw it aside. Only then did he realize that there were many sharp thorns on the little guy's back and shoulders. He couldn't help but sigh again and pushed him to a chair.
After sitting down, he quickly went out, stood in front of the door and said, "Go to the back and ask Zhu Ying to come and ask her to bring the box on top of the cabinet in the main room!"
Seeing the boy waiting in front of him leave in response, Xu Liang stood at the door but did not go in.
Through the thick curtain, he could vaguely hear a sobbing coming from inside that seemed to be suppressed with all his strength, and he shook his head again. After a while, Zhu Ying was holding a box and walking quickly with the boy.
He came over, knelt down and saluted again.
"Go get a basin of water." Xu Liang nodded to Zhu Ying, and then shouted to the boy, "Go and move a spring stool!"
When the spring stool was moved and the water was brought, Xu Liang waved his hand and told him not to bring it inside. He only asked the boy and Zhu Ying to watch outside and not to tell anyone not to enter the house, so he took it in one hand.
He took the spring stool and returned to the house with water in one hand. At this time, Qi Jiliang, who had just heard the noise outside, had wiped the tears on his face and tried his best to pretend as if nothing had happened and sat there without daring to move.
Xu Liang put the box on the high table next to Qi Jiliang, opened the box and put the porcelain bottles, white cloth and other items inside aside for later use. Then he pressed Qi Jiliang's shoulder and shouted "Don't move" and took out a small handful from the box.
The pliers started working on Qi Jiliang's shoulders.
Ren and the eldest princess were also frightened this time. They actually found a genuine thorn stick for their son. At this time, the thorns embedded in the flesh were pulled out one by one. Qi Jiliang could still finally
He gritted his teeth, but gradually he couldn't help it anymore. Just when he was about to hum, something suddenly came to his mouth. He was stunned, and Xu Liang stuffed the strip of cloth into his mouth.
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"It's almost done on my shoulders, but there's still a lot on my back. I gritted my teeth and went to lie down on the spring bench!" Although it was extremely humiliating to beg for mercy from his enemy this time, Qi Jiliang had already forgotten to start using it after all this tossing.
How much courage did it take for him to agree to his mother coming here to plead guilty? After hesitating for a moment, he stood up and lay down on the bench. However, the next moment he almost jumped up. If Xu Liang hadn't pressed hard, he would have almost jumped up.
The top rolled down.
"The same goes for the eldest princess. You don't even get rid of all the thorns when looking for thorns. Who in the world doesn't know that bearing a thorn to apologize is just a show. How can you let such a young child play with it for real? This thorn pierces deeply. Why don't you do it?
It can only break into the flesh with a little force. Fortunately, the rest is still shallow. Otherwise, if it is not cleaned up, it will fester and how will you be in the future?"
As Xu Liang spoke, his men speeded up and finally cleaned up all the thorns, large and small, and then used a white cloth dipped in water to clean the wound. After doing this twice, Qi Jiliang clenched the cloth and endured it.
He couldn't help but hugged the spring stool tightly with his hands, and tears were already streaming down his face. He couldn't help but sigh again. When he applied the medicine, he only felt that the body under his hands was shaking. In the end, he still
With a heartbeat, he continued to attack.
After finally applying the medicine, he helped Qi Jiliang up, tightly wrapped the broken areas with white cotton cloth, and took over the middle coat, small jacket and outer robe that Qi Jiliang had just thrown aside.
He helped people put them on piece by piece. After all this work, he was sweating a little on his forehead. When he saw the person standing there with his head hanging down, his face darkened.
"You can correct your mistakes and do good. I heard that the eldest princess is an only child like you, and you have lost your father. You are already the head of the family at a young age, so you have to be more cautious. You
Think about it for yourself, if you hadn't been too thoughtful, how could you have mistakenly recognized a bastard like Zheng Wang as a relative of the emperor? Having learned this lesson is not enough, you also vent your anger on others. Think about it.
A man? Let me ask you, what are you going to do when you find the girl who went to your house with His Highness?"
Qi Jiliang lowered his head and was silent for a long time, and then said in a hoarse voice: "I want to lock him up, Xu Xun will definitely get angry, and then I can force him to apologize to me." "Bah, apologize, he
I was trying to save you that time! I know my own face at a young age. Do you know that this matter was originally shocking? If you continue to make trouble like this, the emperor will be angry and the prince will be annoyed, and then involve your mother.
Is this the filial piety of your son?" "I, I..."
"What am I? You are such a big kid and you don't even understand the simplest principles. What have you been reading? If everything in this world can be solved by just asking for forgiveness, how can there be such a provision in the criminal law?
A death sentence!"
Qi Jiliang had never been scolded like this since he was a child, and tears welled up in his eyes for a while.
However, Xu Liang lost his son in the past and later found his son, which was the most worry-free thing in the world. Therefore, he never showed off his elders' airs. Now he started talking and couldn't take it back.
Na started training him with a straight face. As he talked, he gradually felt that something was wrong with the young man opposite him.
Qi Jiliang, who had always lowered his head, slowly squatted down and began to cry. At first, he tried to restrain himself and did not dare to speak too loudly, but then he couldn't hold back his voice. He didn't know how long it took, but he just felt a lump on his head.
He gently rubbed it twice with his hand, and somehow he muttered to himself "Daddy," and a deep-seated sadness filled his heart.
Although my mother was the eldest princess, she could only meet my father once or twice a month, otherwise the mothers from the palace would make irresponsible remarks. And it was difficult for the father to see his mother, and it was not easy to see his son.
Others said that his father did not learn how to indulge his pride, but he clearly remembered,