Until dark, Nangong Pu called a small sedan chair to send Nangong Jin back to the mansion from the side door of the ancestral hall. As soon as I entered the door, there was a small servant who passed the word and asked a few people to go to Qiming Hall first.

Only Zhou Tang waited anxiously in Qiming Hall. Not long ago, she almost fainted when she heard the news, if it weren't for the fact that the woman in the ancestral hall couldn't enter, she would really rush in. After that, she received a message from Nangong Dingkang and asked her to wait in Qiming Hall, leaving no one except for the two brothers. At the same time, the mansion activated the access control and was temporarily closed to entering and leaving. Although I was in a hurry, I still did it one by one, and I always felt a little unusual.

As soon as the sedan chair entered, the door of Qimingtang was closed. Zhou Tang was stunned when he saw Nangong Jin coming out of the sedan chair, rushed up, and saw that there were still some blood stains on his clothes, and tears came out of his eyes. "Ah Jin, you ......." Hurriedly helped him.

Nangong Jin took Zhou Tang's hand and said with a smile: "Mother, I'm fine, I'm not injured." It's true. ”

Zhou Tang looked at the blood stains on his clothes, and he was still a little unconvinced. Nangong Jin looked at Nangong Pu and said helplessly: "I said I was going to change my clothes, but you refused." ”

Nangong glanced at him, "If you're really injured, how can you still think about changing your clothes?" He comforted Zhou Tang and said, "Mother, Ah Jin is really fine." Today Yuyan has gone too far, and our brother wants to teach him a lesson. Seeing that Zhou Tang didn't know the whole thing, he asked, "Dad hasn't come back yet?" ”

"Y-You're not hurt?" Zhou Tang looked at Nangong Jin and confirmed again.

"Nope." Nangong Jin nodded affirmatively.

"Then why do they say you vomit blood and are unconscious?"

Nangong Jin laughed, "It means that I pretend to be like." ”

"You're pretending?" Zhou Tang still didn't believe it.

Nangong Jin nodded affirmatively again.

Zhou Tang slapped him and said angrily: "You pretend!" I don't want my family to be worried! We can't enter the ancestral hall again! Do you know that the whole family is in a hurry, and even Cheng Jun and Cheng Rui ran back! You....... Zhou Tang cried.

"Mother, mother, I was wrong, I won't dare in the future." Nangong Jin didn't expect her to cry, and she didn't know what to do except admit her mistake for a while.

"Mother has seen you like that......." Zhou Tang's tears couldn't be stopped, and he choked up and said, "Don't do that again, you promise!" ”

"Mother, no. Really, I promise. Nangong Jin simply took her into his arms and hugged her comfortingly.

Zhou Tang cried for a while, finally stopped, and hit him again, "Go and change your clothes." ”

"Yes!"

As he was talking, the courtyard door opened, and Nangong Dingkang strode in with a cold expression. As he walked past his brother, he said, "Come in." ”

Nangong Pu followed, Nangong Jin looked at Zhou Tang, and also bowed his head and followed into the main hall. Nangong Pu turned around and closed the door, and when he saw Zhou Tang's face full of worry, he gave a comforting smile and shut Zhou Tang out of the door.

"Yuyan was punished for breaking the tendon of his right hand." Nangong Dingkang said as he sat down in the right position. After speaking, he looked at Nangong Jin, "You kneel." ”

Nangong Jin was stunned, still standing and looking at Nangong Dingkang, not understanding why for a while. Nangong Pu hurriedly knelt down in front of him. "Dad, this matter was instructed by the child, and Ah Jin just obeyed orders. Moreover, after that, Dr. Du also meant a child, and it had nothing to do with Ah Jin. Dad, this matter is the child's fault, not Ah Jin's business. ”

Nangong Jin looked at Nangong Pu in confusion, not knowing why Nangong Pu said this.

Nangong Dingkang looked at Nangong Pu and said, "I'm also here." Then he looked at Nangong Jin and said seriously: "Don't you think you're wrong?" ”

Nangong Pu stretched out his hand and pulled him, and Nangong Jin knelt down hesitantly.

"I'll give you a chance to explain." Nangong Dingkang always looked at Nangong Jin.

Nangong Jin looked at Nangong Pu, and Nangong Pu hurriedly said: "Dad, this matter really has nothing to do with Ah Jin...... ”

"Shut up." Nangong Dingkang drank lightly.

Nangong Jin thought about it and asked uncertainly, "Isn't it, shouldn't I pretend to be injured?" ”

"You should know the consequences!"

"The consequences?" Nangong Jin really didn't know what Nangong Dingkang wanted to do, so he asked rhetorically: "He hit someone, he should have been punished." Could it be that I didn't hide at that time, and I was really injured? ”

Nangong Dingkang sighed and said patiently: "The fact is that you are not injured, but everyone thinks that you are seriously injured, and what you do is to punish Yuyan heavily." ”

"However, whether to punish or not, and how to punish is up to you, and I don't have any requirements." Nangong Jin was angry and wanted to hold back and not say it, but he felt that what Nangong Dingkang said was unreasonable, and retorted.

Nangong Pu pulled Nangong Jin and whispered, "Don't speak." Turning to Nangong Dingkang, "Dad, the matter has come to this, and the child is willing to be punished." ”

"Big brother, what are you talking about?" Nangong Jin looked at him puzzled.

Nangong Pu ignored him, and seeing that Nangong Dingkang was silent, he further said: "Dad, Ah Jin doesn't know the relationship, the child is knowingly guilty, and he is willing to accept the family law." ”

"What?!" Nangong Jin was even more angry. Even if the eldest brother is trying to calm things, there is no need to ask for guilt again and again.

Nangong Dingkang smiled helplessly, and said to Nangong Jin: "Your eldest brother wants to take all the faults, and you don't know where you are wrong." ”

"If he hadn't made a move, it wouldn't have happened." Nangong Jin had long felt that Nangong Dingkang was simply unreasonable, and said bluntly in annoyance, "I don't think he broke his tendons and we hurt him." If he must be investigated, it is also he who has harmed himself. I knew I shouldn't reason with him, but I still couldn't help it.

"It's not that you have repeatedly provoked, and he will make a move?" Nangong Dingkang was also a little annoyed when he saw his attitude.

"To put it that way, they weren't friendly from the start." Nangong Jin asked rhetorically: "I don't know them, can you use them like this on that occasion?" ”

"Now, Nangong Yuyan has been heavily punished for something that doesn't exist at all, what do you think should be done with the initiator?"

The word 'deal with' made Nangong Jin really feel angry in his heart, and said in a cold tone: "Then you mean, let me also break my hand to compensate him?" ”

"Ah Jin, don't say it!" Nangong Pu grabbed him again.

Nangong Dingkang repeatedly held back the anger in his heart, "Nangong Yuyan is at fault, none of us deny it." The treatment of him is based on your situation at the time. But your situation is false, he has been punished severely, and it has been unfair to him. ”

"Fair?" Nangong Jin sneered slightly, "Then do you want to gather all the clansmen together and let everyone see that the patriarch is fair?" "I moved my body and wanted to stand up.

Nangong Pu grabbed him tightly, "Ah Jin! "I was also a little annoyed by Nangong Jin's disobedience.

Nangong Dingkang was even more angry, but gritted his teeth and continued to endure, "Yes, I am the patriarch, but I am your father!" In this case, you won't have anything but maintenance. But fairness is not for people to see, but for people's hearts. Now behind closed doors, I don't want you to pay for anything, but you must understand that the harm of this matter is not that he broke his tendons, but that you have made an enemy for yourself for no reason, and you have no idea when and what will make you pay for it! Seeing that Nangong Jin didn't speak, he said as gently as possible: "You may think it doesn't matter, but that kind of person is not enough to achieve and more than to lose." If you want to let them, it's not that you're afraid of them, but it's not worth it. No matter how unpleasant it is, I only see it once or twice a year. Now, they wish they were cursing Ah Jin to death. Nangong Dingkang paused and looked at the two brothers, "Let's lead the family law." Each person was given twenty canes, and went to the study to kneel until dawn. Starting tomorrow, Ah Jin will be grounded in the West Courtyard for a month. ”

Nangong Pu was anxious, "Dad, this is unfair." At that time, I was in the side court, and it was I who wanted Yuyan to be punished, so that Du Ling could have such an effect, and my fault in this matter was greater than Ah Jin, and such punishment was unfair to Ah Jin. ”

"Big brother, forget it." Nangong Jin pulled him.

"And what do you want to do with it?" Nangong Dingkang asked.

"Ah Jin was confined to the West Courtyard for a month. The child is willing to give forty strokes with a rod, and go and think about it. ”

Nangong Dingkang sighed and took a step back, "Then according to what you said." However, you don't have to think about it, just go to the study of Qiming Hall. ”