Yan Shifang saw that his servants didn't dare to beat Yan Shaoting, so he became more and more annoyed, and said sharply: "Okay, then it's up to me, the uncle, to do it myself-drag him for me, can't you even do this little thing?" ”

The two servants just didn't dare to hit Yan Shaoting, but they still dared to hold Yan Shaoting, and then they dragged Yan Shaoting's hands left and right, and tied Yan Shaoting to the pillar, with their fat buttocks facing outward-

Yan Shifang snatched the bamboo strip in the hand of a servant, tore off Yan Shaoting's underwear, and whipped Yan Shaoting's fat white ass with the bamboo strip in his hand.

Yan Shaoting cried and shouted: "This is Zeng Yu framing me, Zeng Yu ran to Maple Bay at night to have an affair with Aunt Thirteen and Yingzi, and I broke it, so he designed to frame me, Yan Shaoqing is also an accomplice, ah, it hurts to death"

Yan Shifang was furious and scolded: "Unrepentant evil obstacles, you still dare to talk nonsense, what if I beat you to death today." The bamboo strip in his hand slapped Yan Shaoting desperately, causing Yan Shaoting's body to twist wildly, and the scars on his buttocks began to bleed-

Seeing that the fight was almost over, Zeng Yu stepped forward and stopped: "Mr. Fang Tang, stop the anger, stop the anger, the young son of Shaoting is young, just punish it lightly." ”

After all, he is not his own son, and he is too heavy to confess to his cousin and sister-in-law, seeing Zeng Yu's dissuasion, Yan Shifang also took the step to step down, threw the bamboo strip in his hand on the ground, and pulled Yan Shaoting's ear and said: "If it weren't for Mr. Zeng's intercession for you today, I would have beaten you to death, and I would not apologize to Mr. Zeng." ”

Yan Shaoting's fat white ass has now become a blood-red buttocks, how could this rich and noble son have suffered so much, snot and tears are all down, the two servants put down his hands, and he still pouted with a bloodstained ass and hugged the pillar and cried, so pitiful and ridiculous.

Yan Shifang said angrily: "I don't know if I apologize for the wrong way, do you still want to be beaten?" ”

Yan Shaoting cried and shouted: "I know my mistake, I know my mistake, uncle, I know my mistake, Mr. Zeng, I know my mistake, I will remember this lesson and never make such a fool again." When he said this, Yan Shaoting's head hit the wooden pillar again and again, and he gritted his teeth.

Yan Shifang ordered the servant to pull Yan Shaoting back to the bedroom and rub his buttocks with wound medicine, and said to the steward and servant of the Qishan Hall: "From today onwards, Yan Shaoting is not allowed to go out of the hall for half a step, and whoever dares to let him out of the hall without permission will give me a roll out of Jieqiao Village." ”

Yan Shifang sighed, paced in front of the hall, thought about it, and wrote a letter to his uncle Yan Song in Zeng Yu's room, it was his uncle Yan Song who told him to discipline Yan Shaoqing and Yan Shaoting on his behalf, but now Yan Shaoting is so bad that Yan Shifang is very disappointed-

Yan Shaoting was in pain in the house, and Yan Shaoqing, who had been watching the excitement, whispered to Zeng Yu: "My brother Shaoting has not really repented, just now I saw that he was still gritting his teeth and showing hatred." ”

Zeng Yu shook his head and said: "Whatever he does, I can't be the companion of your mansion, because of my arrival, I will make your two brothers more disrespectful, I am really ashamed." ”

Yan Shaoqing hurriedly said: "What did Mr. Zeng say, Shaoqing benefited a lot from Mr. Zeng, before Mr. Zeng came, my relationship with Shaoting was already like this, he always wanted to suppress me everywhere, because Mr. Zeng treated me and him equally, did not look down on him, he was dissatisfied with Mr. Zeng, last time he wanted to blackmail Mr. Zeng to humiliate me, Mr. Zeng did not comply, he was even more resentful, this punishment is also his own fault, Mr. Zeng must not blame himself." ”

Zeng Yu doesn't blame himself, among Yan Shaoqing and Yan Shaoting, he can't please the eight sides of the two, although Yan Shaoting is only fourteen years old, but his temperament is arrogant and vicious, these days with the little guy Liu'er and Yan Erhu are staring at him almost all the time, if you don't sell a flaw and let Yan Shaoting pounce on and bite, then it is impossible to prevent it, he has never been so soft-hearted that he blames himself when he sees Yan Shaoting's buttocks bleeding, and said: "No matter what, it's my responsibility, I'll go see Mr. Fang Tang." ”

Yan Shifang had already written a letter, and was instructing the servant to hand over the letter to Xu Zhixian County in Fenyi County, and Xu Zhixian would send it to Beijing through the official post express shop, Zeng Yu came in and said: "Mr. Fang Tang, the late student has the trust of Mr. Negative and Yan Shilang, this companion is derelict in his duty, and the late student has no shame to stay here." ”

Yan Shifang hurriedly said: "What does this have to do with Zeng Sheng, Zeng Sheng is at ease here, Shaoting has been too spoiled since he was a child, and it is good to suffer some setbacks." ”

Yan Shaoqing followed up and said: "Please uncle must keep Mr. Zeng, Mr. Zeng was wronged because of his nephew, the court brother is so ridiculous, and it is not unrelated to the nephew's failure to be a good example of a brother, please uncle punish the nephew."

Yan Shifang knows that the relationship between Yan Shaoqing and Yan Shaoting's brothers is not harmonious, relatively speaking, he likes Yan Shaoqing more, because Yan Shaoqing is more like his uncle Yan Song, and he usually does not have as many habits as Yan Shaoting, and he is more willing to listen to teaching, Yan Shaoting is very similar to his cousin Yan Shifan, Yan Shifang is actually very disgusted with his cousin Yan Shifan, not to mention anything else, just drinking and having fun as usual during the funeral makes Yan Shifang, who adheres to the traditional etiquette of Confucianism, extremely dissatisfied. He couldn't argue with Yan Shifan, and Yan Shifan said the most: "Brother Fang, you and I are people on the two paths, the Tao is different and does not conspire with each other, you just live in the countryside and keep to yourself, don't mind my business, since my father instructed you to discipline my two sons on your behalf, then you can teach him well." ”

Yan Shifang reads a little pedantic, and he can't figure out the complex and subtle relationship between his brother and sister, he can teach, but how can he make Yan Shaoqing and Yan Shaoting close and harmonious, except for a few lessons, he has no other good plan, at the moment he can only tell Yan Shaoqing to be more close to his younger brother, and cite the example of Shun, how unvirtuous Shun's younger brother is, he assassinated Shun several times, but was finally influenced by Shun's virtue, Yan Shifang encouraged Yan Shaoqing to take the sage as a model and guide his younger brother Yan Shaoting to reform himself-

Yan Shaoqing only said yes in his mouth, and said in his heart: "Emperor Shun's life is great, no matter how harmful it is, it can't be killed, how can I compare, if Mr. Zeng was coerced by Shaoting to deliberately humiliate me last time, then I can't bear it." ”

After such a delay, it was already close to noon, and it was still impossible to delay going to Yuanzhou Mansion to study, Yan Shifang told the servant a few words, and rushed to Jichang Garden with Zeng Yu and Yan Shaoqing, preparing to have lunch in Jichang Garden, and then took a boat to Yichun, Yan Shaoqing was temporarily suspended because Yuqingtang was temporarily suspended, and he was going to Jichang Garden to get together with his mother Cao——

Yan Shifang invited Zeng Yu to ride a sedan chair with him, saying that there was something to talk about, Zeng Yu put the book in Yan Shaoqing's sedan chair, and he sat on Yan Shifang's sedan chair, which is relatively wide, and it is not cramped to take two adult men, and the sedan chair man has also increased from two to four, which is considered a four-carrying sedan chair.

Two sedan chairs, five entourage out of Jieqiao Village, walked on the road to the county seat, the weather is cloudy this day, look at it, the grass withered leaves, the mountains are cold and thin, the maple leaves of Maple Bay are also withered and most of them, looking from afar, only dense branches, Yan Shifang in the sedan chair rubbed his hands and said: "This year is cold early, and it must snow in the winter moon." ”

After saying this, Yan Shifang was silent again, and the old showman, who was nearly fifty years old, had a worried face, and said for a while: "Zeng Sheng, in your opinion, what kind of person is my uncle?" Please be blunt, I will not pass it on. ”

Zeng Yu originally thought that Yan Shifang was going to talk to him about the rumors that Yan Shaoting had just said about Maple Bay, but he didn't expect Yan Shifang to talk about his uncle Yan Song, and said busily: "Late life is short-sighted, how dare you comment on Yan Ge Lao." ”

Yan Shifang sighed, although Zeng Yu is studious and talented, but after all, he is young, and it is not easy to understand his worries, his uncle and cousin have a bad reputation in Shilin, and now his uncle is old, and his cousin is still ridiculous, when can this wealth and glory be guaranteed, I am afraid that he Yan Shifang did not benefit because his uncle was the head of the court, but he was implicated because of his uncle's loss of power, and furthermore, his son Yan Hu passed on to his cousin Yan Shifan as an adopted son-

But I heard Zeng Yu say: "Dare to say a word in his later life, Yan Ge is famous for his modesty and courtesy, and he is eighty this year, why not retreat bravely and return to his hometown to recuperate?" ”

Zeng Yu heard Zheng Shi tell this story, when Xia Yan was the first assistant, he didn't eat the official offering every time he dined in the cabinet, the so-called official offering was the meal prepared by Guanglu Temple for the ministers, the official offering must not be in line with the taste of Xia Yan of Guixi people, Xia Yan asked the servants to bring food from the house, the utensils were exquisite, the dishes were rich, Yan Song was also a cabinet minister at that time, and Xia Yan dined at the same table with Xia Yan, Yan Song always ate the official offering, and Xia Yan and the cabinet did not say a polite word for two years to let Yan Song taste his dishes, so Yan Song held a grudge and plotted to harm Xia Yan, Because of course, it is a joke to hurt people if you don't eat delicious food, and the dispute between Yan Song and Xia Yan has a deeper and broader background and reasons, but it can also be seen from the matter of eating official offerings that Yan Song is more humble-

Yan Shifang heard Zeng Yu say this, and became interested, and said: "My uncle has written several times to ask for Zhishi, but the emperor refused, and my cousin also tried to stop it, saying that once he left the court, he would be framed. ”

Zeng Yuxin said: "Yan Song's father and son are now riding a tiger, like a pawn crossing the river, only to the end." Said: "Don't hide it from Mr. Fang Tang, in his later life in the countryside or during his travels, he occasionally heard people talking about the government, and he had a lot of complaints about Yan Shilang, Mr. Fang Tang is a close relative, so he should be strongly admonished." ”

Yan Shifang sighed: "My brother didn't listen to me. ”

Zeng Yu said: "Some things are not easy to say in person, you can write a letter to talk about them." ”

Yan Shifang nodded and said: "Zeng Sheng is right, wait until I get to Jichang Garden and then write letters to my uncle and cousin separately, whether I listen to the advice or not, it is always my painstaking work." ”

Zeng Yu also knew that Yan Shifang's letter of advice was useless now, but such a family letter might be useful when copying the family.

Had lunch in Jichang Garden, Yan Shifang wrote two letters to the county government in person to hand over to Xu Zhixian, and then took a boat with Zeng Yu to Yichun, and arrived at the Zhuangyuanzhou Wharf in the north of Yichun City in the evening, Yan Shifang has a daughter married in Yichun, he wants to go to his son-in-law's house to stay, invite Zeng Yu to go with him, Zeng Yu politely resigned, he still lives in the small inn where he lived last time, just by the Yuan River, not far from the Zhuangyuanzhou Wharf. ————