When I returned to the house, I saw the housekeeper walking anxiously at the door from a distance.

"Ah! How did you come back alone? The housekeeper pulled me and asked.

"What, hasn't Si'er come back yet?"

"The head of the family just returned home after seeing the monarch, and heard Si'er say that there was a strong man who wanted to kill you, so he resigned from the visiting guest, and took her to save you without changing his clothes."

As soon as the family leader said this, I knew that I had made a big mistake today. I thought I would go to the market to look for them, but I was afraid that they would not see me when they returned to the house, so I could only kneel at the gate of the house and wait for the general to return.

I waited from daylight until dusk, and they did not appear until it was completely dark.

"Ah! Are you okay? When did you get back? The general searched the entire West Market and didn't find you, afraid that you would be taken captive outside the city, so he went out of the city to find it, and later met Qin Lishi who sent the bad guy out of the city, only to know that you were back. You're in such a hurry! Did he beat you that wicked man? Can it hurt? Si'er rushed up and touched me.

I grabbed her hand, cautiously glanced at the general's expression, and pretended to be relaxed: "I'm fine, not hurt at all." ”

"Let's go inside!" The general glanced at me, and although his face was ugly, there was no look of anger.

Thinking I had passed, I got up with a grin, rubbed my numb legs, and followed him all the way into the study.

"You stand for me!" After the general threw a sentence at me, he instructed Si'er, "You wait at the door, and when I let you in, you come in again!" ”

Si'er glanced at me and withdrew with a worried face. I was worried at this point, and I didn't know how the general was going to punish me.

"Hands or legs?" He pulled a freshly made bamboo slip from the desk, walked up to me, and asked in a cold voice.

I was stunned for a moment, and after I understood, I replied in a muffled voice: "Legs." Then he pulled up his shirt slightly, revealing a thin white calf.

With a snap, a bamboo slip more than a foot long hit my leg hard, causing me to scream in pain.

The general did not stop, and then another heavy blow followed.

When the bamboo slips were hit, the legs and stomachs were like being burned, and as soon as they left, they seemed to have taken off a layer of skin. I screamed, but the general struck me hard.

I was usually pampered in the house, and he didn't even say a word to me. Although I was wrong today, I was the one who was frightened! I felt aggrieved, and tears couldn't stop falling.

"Do you know why I hit you today?" The general stopped, and every word that came out of his mouth seemed to come out of a crack in the ice.

"Because I shouldn't ...... Don't let ...... The head of the house couldn't find me. I sniffled and snorted back.

It was another hard blow, and the pain was so painful that I hung in one breath, and I couldn't cry, I only felt that my legs were damp and hot, and the skin must have been broken.

I finally relieved my breath, and when I saw that the general was still going to start, I simply let go of my voice and cried, only feeling that I was the most wronged person in the world at this moment.

"Today's beating, you suffered for the deceased Master Cai. The Master has taught you for four years, and every time he sees me, he is full of praise for you, saying that you are amazingly intelligent and have good manners. Today it seems to be all nonsense, he is simply an old puppet who can only deceive people! ”

"No—Master is not a liar! It's not a puff! No! No! No! ”

"And where did your intellect go? Where did the liturgy go? Blatantly playing sex in the market, fighting and making trouble, that's how he taught you? The general suddenly raised his voice, it was clear that I was the one who was beaten, but there was a deep pain on his face.

My mind was dizzy, and I couldn't even breathe, and I couldn't find the words to refute it for a while.

"The warrior is better than the sword, mistakenly thinking that it is Xiaoxiao, you hold him and hint at him, if you wantonly entangle, you will think that Xiaoxiao. Are the little boy who said these words and the person who fought fiercely really alone? Mr. Cai tried his best to teach you how to be a man, but you only made a skin, and the etiquette on weekdays is thorough, who is it for! After he finished speaking, he threw down the bloody bamboo slip in his hand and walked away without looking back.

I sat down on the ground, buried my head and cried, "Master, I'm sorry ......"

After being beaten, my calf was broken in several places, and the unbroken areas were swollen and bruised and purple, which was scary to look at. In the past, whenever I was sick, the general would seek medical treatment for me, but this time he was completely indifferent, and in the end, the housekeeper secretly got me some herbs to stop bleeding and heal wounds.

In fact, I understand the general's hard work, is it just a man, or is it a skin? This may seem like a simple question, but it's hard to do. I was not born a daughter of a noble family, and in my heart, when I encounter something that cannot be solved, fighting and playing ruthless is my first reaction.

This is a world where the weak eat the strong, and this is the case between countries, and how can people be the same.

For a beggar, if there is no one to protect himself, then he can only protect himself; If you don't want to be the one who gets beaten under your fist, you have to stretch out your fist and be the one who hits someone.

Before I met the Master, this was the secret of my survival that I had figured out in my blood and tears.

Now, what the general wants me to do is to completely abandon the original self in my bones and become a new Ah Shi, a learned and courteous Ah Shi that he and his master hoped.

I thought about it for three days and three nights, and finally decided to give up on my hard shell, covered in spikes. Now that I have a home and someone to protect me, maybe it's time to forget about the past.

I figured it out, but the general refused to see me. I went to wait for him at the door of the study, and he stayed in the front hall every day to discuss matters with the retainers; If I stand at the door of my dormitory, he will send his servant to drive me away. Two days later, even the Mu Sect, who had taught me for four years, was sent away by him.

"Si'er, what should I do? The general won't even see me now. "I sighed in my room, and I couldn't do anything about it.

"Why don't you go find the girl who lives in the courtyard of East Point?" Si'er poured me a bowl of water, and then said, "I heard that she has been accompanying the general for the past two days. Why don't you go and beg her to say something nice for you in front of the general? ”

"Girl? Is it the concubine of the Yue Kingdom sent by the Baili doctor the year before last? "I have a vague impression of this name, that day the Baili doctor sent ten female musicians into the house, and in the past two years, the general has sent several out, and there is probably only this one left in the house.

"Yes, that's her. I heard my grandfather say that since the death of the housewife, the girl has stayed with the general for the longest time. Tomorrow after the morning eclipse, we can go and beg her together. ”

"Well, that's all there is to it."