"Father-in-law Lu, can you ...... For my sake, let her go? How can you say that she is also the housewife of our Rui family, how can she live when she enters that kind of place, and when she comes out? You can teach her a little lesson, how about it?"

"Since Her Royal Highness the princess has spoken...... Let's put it in the flail for a day, and the location will be here. The old eunuch who was called Father-in-law Lu by Yunxi easily agreed to Yunxi's proposal, and the power that had just erupted was like half of the ice and snow in summer.

Lu Tao watched from the side, Yunxi's father looked dumbfounded, but the keen Lu Tao found that just as Yunxi opened his mouth to plead, the corner of the middle-aged man's eyes jumped fiercely, and then he quickly returned to calm.

After that, Lu Tao knew what kind of punishment the old eunuch called being in the flail.

The obedient soldier unloaded a heavy plank of one meter in length and one meter in width from the back of the carriage, and then split it in half from the middle, and the next moment the weeping woman was put in a wooden flail, and the old eunuch was kind enough to let the woman kneel under the shade of the tree, and he did not bother with her again.

From then on, the woman had only said one word, and had time to say one word, and then she could no longer speak. Facing the old eunuch from the palace, she couldn't even say words begging for mercy.

After doing this, Father-in-law Lu regained his previous appearance of not saying a word, standing aside like a clay puppet, but Lu Tao no longer regarded him as a dispensable person.

The entire courtyard of the Rui family was silent, and the young man and the woman kneeling there did not dare to make even a little more sound, for fear that he would also be tied to his neck with a wooden flail by the old eunuch who had just broken out of the cruelty, and at this moment, the woman who was in the wooden flail there could no longer cry, and her face was pale as if she was about to die.

Yunxi's father also saw the woman's painful expression, and he stopped talking, as if he wanted to say something.

"Father, let's go to the backyard, let the family get up, let's go to the backyard to talk. ”

“...... Okay, do you hear me? Get up, go to the backyard, don't kneel here......" Compared to just now, Yunxi's father's voice lacked some neutrality, and it sounded a little weak, but Yunxi didn't say anything.

Listening to the words of the head of the family, the remaining Rui family members who were still kneeling there stood up one after another, Yunxi signaled, and the family walked towards the back of the courtyard.

The princess's guard of honor remained in place, whether it was the old eunuch Lu Gonggong or the soldiers standing with knives, they had no intention of keeping up, and only Lu Tao, the little eunuch, and Xiao Rou, the little palace maid, followed by Yunxi.

When she arrived in the backyard, Xiao Rou, who was following behind, breathed a sigh of relief, and then pulled Lu Tao's sleeve: "Anyway, Xiao Taozi, will you become like the father-in-law just now in the future? It's really scared to death! Fortunately, I was reminded by you, otherwise I would have to be punished, so I wouldn't have to kneel there wearing such a thing! It's really a shame!"

Lu Tao: "......"

It's too late to admit that he's a liar?!

Lu Tao didn't expect that he would say it casually, but he said most of Lu's responsibilities correctly, he still remembered that when Yunxi set off by car today, Lu Gonggong also looked at him twice, just hoping that those two eyes were curious, and there was nothing else.

"Huh, why don't you speak?" Xiao Rou poked Lu Tao's arm: "Could it be that you are envious of the old eunuch just now?"

"How is it possible!" Lu Tao shook his head fiercely: "I'm just looking at the layout of your house......"

"Hmph!" Before Lu Tao could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Rou's cold snort: "This is not my home and Miss! Since Miss was forced to leave this home, Miss and I have no home anymore!"

After a pause, Xiao Rou continued angrily: "And we didn't live here at all, this is my first time here, it's tattered, it's not good at all!"

As she spoke, Xiao Rou flattened her mouth and looked at the surrounding scenery with a disgusted expression.

Xiao Rou is indeed qualified to say so, not to mention that compared to the palace, even compared to the small courtyard full of flowers and plants of the peony, the ground is a bluestone slab I don't know how long it hasn't been cleaned up, and I don't know when the black mud has accumulated.

The red tiles of the roof were scattered one by one, and in the rubble on the ground, there were not a few of these rough surface tiles scattered among them, and the front was full of potholes, and the part close to the ground was already full of a layer of miserable green moss.

Crossing the junction between the front yard and the back yard, Lu Tao also saw a vegetable garden, the small vegetable garden has been abandoned for I don't know how long, and half of the soil inside is missing.

Looking at it, Lu Tao suddenly found that near the corner of the courtyard, there was a woman who looked a little old beckoning to this side, Lu Tao looked left and right, and found that only Xiao Rou was left in this direction except for himself, and the others were either around Yunxi, or far away from Yunxi, but no one around Lu Tao and Xiao Rou came up to greet him.

Touching Xiaorou's shoulder, Lu Tao asked in a low voice, "Hey, that person over there is looking for you?"

"What person?" Xiao Rou, who was concentrating on dealing with the black mud on the ground, lest she had touched her own foot, then reacted, looked in the direction of Lu Tao's finger, and then said with some excitement: "That's my mother! I haven't seen her for a long time!"

As she spoke, Xiao Rou ran over there with a step, and turned back halfway through: "Tell Miss, just say I'll be back soon!"

Lu Tao nodded, and the next moment, Xiao Rou disappeared, and there were a few big trees in the corner of the yard, which easily covered Xiao Rou and her mother, blocking them tightly.

The further back they went, the fewer people came, until the last time they entered the courtyard, only Yunxi and her father were left, and the others were all sent to other places by Yunxi's father, and finally, when the two were about to walk into a small building, Yunxi waved his hand at Lu Tao and asked him to follow.

Lu Tao looked left and right, and finally followed, he could guess what Yunxi wanted to say to her father.

The last room is a bit of a sight, whether it is the clean floor, or the tables and chairs covered in thick pulp, and finally the shining porcelain, it looks very luxurious, Yunxi's father entered the house, turned around and closed the two wooden doors tightly, and looked at Lu Tao twice.

"Father, don't worry, this is my confidant, there is nothing he can't know. ”

The middle-aged man nodded noncommittally, and the waist that had just been bent by Gonggong Lu straightened up again, he sighed and asked, "Yunxi, why did you come back?" Could it be that something happened in the palace?...... You should know that our family can't afford to change anymore....."

"No, nothing happened in the palace. Yunxi shook his head: "I have something I want to discuss with you, father!"

"Oh, what's the matter......?" Yunxi's father suddenly had a light in his eyes: "Could it be that the emperor has taken a fancy to you? Since I married you to the royal family, I have begun to regret it! If I directly let you choose the emperor's concubine, wouldn't there be no such unfortunate things......

"Father!" Yunxi raised his voice a little, interrupting the middle-aged man's words.

"Oh......" The middle-aged man glanced at Lu Tao, and then arched his hand: "This father-in-law, I don't mean to disrespect the royal family, can I just say those words as if I didn't say it?"

Lu Tao: "......"

He glanced at Yunxi, if this person was not Yunxi's father, Lu Tao felt that he should give him a good punch. However, Yunxi, who was stared at by Lu Tao, shook his head and signaled Lu Tao not to do anything, Lu Tao could only give up, he didn't look at the middle-aged man, but still stood behind Yunxi.

"Father, what I want to discuss with you is the matter of our family leaving here, I am fed up with the palace, so I want to ask my father if he would like to take his family to another place. ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, his expression became a little panicked, he looked left and right, walked in and whispered to Yunxi: "Daughter, how can you have such an idea......? Even if we escape from Wuyang, this is also the responsibility of the Zhujiu clan! Our family is already so miserable, you don't want to see the entire Rui family disappear, right? There are your younger brothers and sisters here!"

"Of course not!" Yunxi shook his head: "The royal family's control over other county governments is very low, as long as we can leave this imperial city, no matter where we go, at least we can survive! Father, you know, our family has nothing to rely on, how can we survive in Wuyang, which is surrounded by wolves?"

"That's not because of you!" Yunxi's father suddenly became angry: "If it weren't for the death of the prince, how could our family have fallen to this point? If the eleventh prince lives well, our Rui family will become the most noble family in the entire Wuyang! Where will it be like this! The family property has been taken away by others, and we can only live in such a dilapidated house!"

"Father?!"

"Ahh

Lu Tao couldn't bear it anymore, and punched directly at that disgusting face, and the middle-aged man let out an "ah", fainted without saying a word, and fell to the ground with a "bang".

Lu Tao: "......"

He looked at his fist and said to Yunxi with some apologies: "I'm really sorry, I didn't hold back." ”