The Lady's Code for Raising Her Husband

Punish Xue Fu? That was the former number one scholar and the current Minister of Household Affairs! In other words, if Xue Fu really committed a crime, even Jing Zhaoyin would not be qualified to interrogate him!

Jing Zhaoyin looked at Ye Yuxiao, feeling very embarrassed.

Xue Jingyu probably saw that Jing Zhaoyin didn't dare to do anything to Xue Fu, so she was not in a hurry at all and didn't even say a word of defense.

Over there, Ye Yuxiao also looked at Jing Zhaoyin and asked, "Do you know that I have a nickname?"

What a shame, why are you mentioning this all of a sudden? But Jing Zhaoyin really knew. He coughed dryly and said, "The female overlord of the capital?" When she went to the capital, surrounded Ouyang Sheng, and made a fuss, he, as the capital's parent official, gave her no less. Cleaning up the place, how could he not know her "good name"?

It seems that she is quite famous. Ye Yuxiao smiled: "Since you know that I am the female overlord of the capital, are you not afraid that I will bring trouble to the emperor?"

Is this necessary? Jing Zhaoyin looked at her expression carefully and judged how true or false her words were.

"It seems that you are not afraid anymore." Ye Yuxiao waved to Gu Changping, turned and left, "Second cousin, I want to enter the palace, will you come with me?"

Without saying a word, Gu Changping raised his foot and followed.

This is Mrs. Ning Hui, this is an uncle!

The emperor handed over this case to him, but if anything happened, he was incompetent and how could he withstand her troubles! Jing Zhaoyin got up anxiously and said: "Xue Fu's lax management of the family and his inability to govern his subordinates caused great mistakes among the servants in the family. He should be punished with ten sticks to serve as a warning to others!"

There were laws in the Xi Dynasty, and the power of local government offices to punish officials was limited to cane punishment and flogging, so Jing Zhaoyin chose to beat Xue Fu ten times.

Ye Yuxiao was finally satisfied. After Xue Fu was beaten, it was time to beat Xue Jingyu when he got home. Although Xue Jingyu was not punished on the surface, in fact the punishment she had to suffer should not be light.

Xue Jingyu was stunned: "My brother is the Minister of Household Affairs and a third-rank official in the imperial court. How dare you hit him?!"

Jing Zhaoyin was actually very frightened, but how could he let Xue Jingyu question it? He immediately lowered his face and said, "The emperor broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people. Why can't I slap him?"

"But my brother didn't break the law!" Xue Jingyu was really panicked, completely losing the composure she had used to strategize before, "The person who made the mistake is my maid, you punish me, punish me!"

Jing Zhaoyin was even more surprised than when she heard that Xue Fu was going to be punished: "Miss Xue, are you...serious? Being slapped in the court is not like being punished in your woodshed, where you have to take off your skirt and pants in public."

Take off your skirt and take off your pants in public? If she goes down ten boards, she can hang herself from the beam. Xue Jingyu's face turned pale, her legs went weak, and she no longer dared to take the punishment on Xue Fu's behalf.

Now that Jing Zhaoyin had made the verdict, he acted vigorously and immediately ordered people to take Xue Fu away.

Xue Jingyu did not dare to meet Xue Fu and panicked: "Sir, can I leave?"

Jing Zhaoyin thought for a while and nodded: "You can go, Qiuyue stays."

Before he finished speaking, Xue Jingyu jumped out like a rabbit, not even caring about the manners of a wealthy official.

Ye Yuxiao didn't want to see Xue Fu being punished, so she gave Gu Changping a look. Gu Changping told Jing Zhaoyin and took her away first.

Xue Jingyu climbed into the carriage in despair, but did not dare to go home, not even to Jishi Hall. She asked the coachman to circle along the secluded road until the sun set and the sky gradually became dark, and then she slowly moved back home.

The reaction at home was more intense than she imagined. Yan's roommate, Mama, was actually guarding the door.

When Xue Jingyu saw the formation, her legs were already weak before she even got off the carriage.

Mama Ma pulled her out of the car mercilessly with a bluff, grabbed her arm and pulled her toward the door.

There were many servants inside and outside the door. Xue Jingyu looked at her face and begged her mother for mercy in a low voice: "Mom, I am the eldest lady of the Xue family, can you save some face for me?"

"Face?" Mother Ma really hated Xue Jingyu, and every word seemed to be squeezed out through her teeth. "You have hurt the young master like this, and you still want face?"

No matter how noble Xue Jingyu is, once she gets married, she will have nothing to do with her. Their whole family will have to live off Xue Fu! If Xue Fu had a shortcoming, let alone saving face, she would even think of eating Xue Jingyu alive!

Of course, what's more important is that Xue Jingyu has offended the Yan family today, otherwise no matter how angry she is, she would not dare to push around the serious young lady.

Xue Jingyu was not stupid, she immediately realized that Mama Ma's actions depended on Yan's attitude. Her heart suddenly panicked: "Mom, I, mother, she, she..."

Mother Ma snorted, not bothering to answer her, and dragged her directly to the ancestral hall.

Mrs. Yan was actually waiting for her in the ancestral hall. Needless to say, she must have had some family troubles. Xue Jingyu's legs were really weak now. Before she could climb up the steps in front of the ancestral hall, she was already paralyzed.

Mother Ma tried to help her a few times, but she couldn't help her, so she had to ask Yan for instructions: "Madam, the eldest lady..."

"Drag it in." Mrs. Yan stood at the door of the ancestral hall, already holding a shiny black wooden stick passed down from her ancestors in her hand.

Xue Jingyu has never seen Mrs. Yan behave like this in her whole life. She was so frightened that her face turned pale: "Mom, it's all my fault that Qiuyue Nizi made her own decisions and harmed my brother. I -"

"You can just keep your nonsense to fool outsiders, don't say it in front of me!" Yan didn't wait for her to finish speaking, and hit her head and face with a stick.

Xue Jingyu screamed, holding her head and lying on the ground.

Mother Ma quickly dragged her up and into the ancestral hall.

Yan ordered people to close the door, slapped her with a stick several times, and scolded her at the same time: "You are not as good as others, so you are honest, why do you want to provoke Ye Yuxiao?! Did I tell you, If you want to marry Marquis Yingchuan, just concentrate on Marquis Yingchuan and don’t waste time dealing with his ex-wife??”

If she could please Ouyang Sheng, why bother with all this effort? Xue Jingyu couldn't explain it to Yan, and her body hurt so much that she lay on the ground, thrashing and almost suffocating.

"You hurt your brother this time, do you know that?!" Yan became angrier as she scolded her, and hit her with a stick several more times.

Until now, Xue Jingyu has no intention of repenting. She only blames Jing Zhaoyin: "Brother was seriously injured? Jing Zhaoyin didn't give him any face?"

"Is this a question of whether the injury is serious?!" Mrs. Yan felt that she was too confused and wanted to hit her again, "Your brother is an official of the imperial court, but he was called to the Yamen and got slapped. How will he see anyone in the future? ?? The news about his inability to control his servants will soon spread. Do you think those censors will not impeach him?!"

After losing face and being impeached, Xue Fu's performance appraisal for the past three years was over, and it might even affect his future career. The more Yan thought about it, the angrier she became. Regardless of the beating Xue Jingyu had just received, she was punished by making her kneel in the ancestral hall.

When Xue Jingyu was beaten and punished to kneel, Ye Yuxiao was in the hermitage, crossing her legs and yelling at Ouyang Sheng: "It doesn't matter if you are trying to show off, I still know what's going on."