Chapter 37 Tong Jia - Forgetting Worries (15)
Chapter 37 Tong Jia - Forgetting Worries (15)
Disheartened, Emperor Kangxi returned to the palace early. After looking around the Shuqing Palace, he ultimately suppressed all his thoughts.
Meanwhile, Wangyou escorted Longkodo back to the Tong residence and immediately summoned her father and second uncle.
"Second Uncle, if you don't know how to manage, then don't have a child. What kind of child is this? Harassing respectable girls on the street, and what's worse, harassing me too!"
"What? This brat bullied you? Don't worry, your father will get revenge for you!" Tong Guogang immediately pulled out his ruler, ready to hit the boy, but was stopped halfway.
“Father, let me do it. The eldest brother is like a father. Although Longkodo and I are from different rooms, how can I trouble you? I will do it for you!” Orondai gently snatched the ruler from Tong Guogang’s hand, then looked at Longkodo, who had sobered up, with a gloomy expression.
"Um, brother, nephew, let's ask what happened first?" Tong Guowei swallowed hard. Of all people to mess with, this rebellious son had to pick on Wangyou.
"Master, Second Master, Eldest Young Master, this is what happened..." Ting Shuang eloquently explained the cause and effect of the matter.
"Father, Second Uncle, what are your thoughts after hearing this, Eldest Brother?"
"Ting Shuang did a good job beating him!" After a long while, Tong Guowei finally managed to say this. The servants around Wang You were all top-notch in appearance, and the steward was skilled in accounting, martial arts, and medicine. Looking at his son, who was beaten like a dog, he was indeed unworthy of her.
"Don't worry, Father will have someone screen the Tongjia clan!" Tong Guogang quickly grasped the key point. Tong Guogang, who didn't want another emperor to emerge from the Tongjia clan, was exceptionally clear-headed.
“Father, I’ll investigate myself!” Orondai quickly figured out the obstacles involved.
"Then I hope Father, Second Uncle, and Eldest Brother will thoroughly investigate the family. Our daughter doesn't want to get married but is still worrying about family matters. You should know that a thousand-mile dike can be breached by an ant hole!" Wangyou breathed a slight sigh of relief when she saw that everyone had figured it out.
Although given Tongjia's current status, Longkodo's harassment of respectable women wouldn't even cause a ripple, the issues it reveals are far from simple.
"Then I'll take Xixuan to find Mother!" Wangyou pulled her beloved son to Tangdi Courtyard.
"grandmother!"
"Mother!"
"Oh my, my dear grandson!" Jue Luo was overjoyed to see the mother and son arrive and immediately gave them a series of instructions.
"Now that Mother has a grandson, she can't see her daughter anymore!" Wangyou pouted and said jealously.
"You silly girl, you're jealous over this!" Jue Luo Shi tapped Wang You's forehead and said affectionately.
"Mother, please prepare the meal quickly, I'm starving!"
"Good good!"
Before long, the eldest sister-in-law, Wanyan, arrived with her nephews and nieces. The family had a lively lunch together, and no one mentioned those unpleasant things.
After lunch, Wangyou looked at her nephew and niece, who were about the same age as Xixuan, and thought about choosing people to serve Xixuan. So she asked, "I need to choose a few people to serve Xixuan. Do my two little nephews need any?"
"Yes, Wangyou, just send it over!" Before Wanyan could finish speaking, Orondai, who had rushed over from outside the door, quickly said.
"Okay, I'll have someone send it over in a couple of days!"
“Alright, little sister, your nephew is getting on in years, but he needs someone to take care of him. Why don’t you send one too?” Orondai said shamelessly.
"Alright!" Wangyou nodded. Her nephew seemed to be almost ten years old. "Then Xixuan and I will go first. We'll come to see you another day!"
Wangyou took Xixuan's hand and quickly left the Tong family.
"After this commotion, I have no desire to go shopping anymore. Son, let's go straight home and find your father. How can you not speak up after being wronged!"
“Yes, tell Father!” Xi Xuan thought it was fine. As the head of the family, he had to step up when necessary, even though Father might not be the head of their family!
The group came out with great enthusiasm but returned with little enthusiasm. By dusk, Erhe, who had been busy all day, sensed an unusual atmosphere.
For the first time ever, neither mother nor son slept, and Erhe almost thought he had gone to the wrong place.
"You're back! Eat something, you must be starving!" Wangyou told Erhe to wash up and eat as soon as he returned. Since Erhe was promoted to Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, he had been extremely busy.
"Oh!" Although Erhe was puzzled, seeing his beautiful wife and young child as soon as he returned home made all the fatigue of the day disappear.
Wangyou didn't tell him anything, since everything was resolved and Erhe was like that, so she didn't want to talk to him about it for now.
After dinner, Xi Xuan went back home, and the couple fell asleep in each other's arms. Let's leave that aside for now!
The next day, Wangyou slept until late morning, and naturally forgot about what happened yesterday. Fortunately, Xixuan remembered and secretly complained to his father during their meal. Erhe also kept this in mind.
Then those families started to have bad luck. One day they discovered that this aunt's brother-in-law was lending money at exorbitant interest rates, another family was seizing fertile land and abducting women, and so on. They didn't let any of them go unpunished.
As for Longkodo, considering he was his wife's cousin, Erhe, along with several guards, beat Longkodo up again in the middle of the night on his way home from work.
Poor Longkodo received thirty strokes of the family punishment and now has to stay home to recover.
The next day, after arranging everything at home, Wangyou took Xixuan to Peach Blossom Manor to escape the summer heat. Poor Erhe, who had just vented his anger for his wife and was preparing to ask for a reward, returned home to find his house empty and immediately headed to Peach Blossom Manor.
Upon arriving at Peach Blossom Manor, seeing Wangyou enjoying the cool evening air and his own son struggling to read the account books, Erhe decisively picked up Wangyou and carried her into the room.
"What are you doing? In front of our son! Don't I have any dignity?"
"Qingqing, you're being unfair! You brought our son with you to escape the summer heat but not me!"
"Aren't you busy with official duties?" Wangyou felt a little guilty; she seemed to have indeed forgotten Erhe.
"You couldn't have left me uninformed!" Erhe said, sounding aggrieved. This guy's green tea tactics are getting more and more sophisticated.
If you didn't know better, you'd think their souls had been swapped.
"You really should let your colleagues see what the incorruptible and impartial Jade-Faced Gentleman is like in private!" Wangyou skillfully patted Erhe's head, the action of which looked just like petting a dog!
"Of course, it's only for you to see!" Even the ruthless Wangyou couldn't withstand the evolved version of Erhe, so Wangyou's back didn't get any rest all night.
Xi Xuan had grown quite used to his father and mother, who hadn't come out since he entered the house. He now fully understood what his mother meant when she said his parents were true love and the child was an accident—he was that accident!
The next day, Erhe got up early as usual and went to court.
After Wangyou woke up, she took Xixuan through the secret passage to select people.
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