Chapter 22: Punishment for kneeling
Hong teased and walked to the door of the Hong Mansion, the carriage of the old lady of the Hong family just stopped at the door, the carriage door opened quickly, and Mrs. Hong hurriedly asked the personal maid to help her get out of the car.
At the moment when she saw Hong Tea, who was standing at the door, Mrs. Hong instantly shed tears, cried "my son", and ran away to Hong Tea.
Hong Tuo grabbed his mother with both hands, but his eyes looked at his father, who was getting out of the car, and his father's face was as usual, and he couldn't see the slightest mood swing.
"My son, I must have been wronged these days! Let my mother take a good look at you!"
Mrs. Hong took Hong's hand and looked him up and down again, and her tears couldn't stop flowing: "My son, you have lost weight, and you don't have the energy you used to have......"
Hong Tuo didn't think that he could lose weight in just a few days, but after experiencing these things, he had a mind, and the whole person didn't look very energetic, and his mother was really exaggerated.
Master Hong walked over, glanced at Hong Tease lightly, and scolded Mrs. Hong for "crying and crying out of place", and when he saw Hong Shu who was following him, his face was a little softer.
"What's going to say first!"
Everyone responded "yes", and Hong Shu first saluted his father, turned around and walked in with his parents and younger brother.
After a few people returned to the hall together, Master Hong immediately waved his hand to let the maids and maids retreat, sat down on the main seat, and stared at Hong Tuo without saying a word.
Mrs. Hong looked at Mr. Hong and then at Mr. Hong, and after hesitating, she sat down next to Mr. Hong.
Hong Shu did not sit, but chose to stand beside Mrs. Hong, leaving Hong Shu alone in the center of the hall.
Seeing this interrogation-like posture, Hong Tuo consciously knelt down directly to his parents, bowed his head and said, "Father and mother, the child is at fault, and I am here to ask for guilt." ”
"This ......"
Mrs. Hong was a little surprised, and subconsciously wanted to get up to help Hong tease, but Master Hong coughed at the right time, and she had to sit back again.
Old Man Hong asked him without changing his face: "What mistakes did you say?"
The father really noticed something, Hong Tuo's heart tightened, and a little remorse appeared on his face: "My son has been reflecting on the past recently, and he is ashamed and regretful in his heart, ashamed of his parents' upbringing, and regrets what he has done......"
Although the expression on Master Hong's face did not change, his eyes softened a lot, and Hong teased and continued: "I went back to the house today to make up for the mistakes I made, so as not to cause greater mistakes in the future, and I just hope that it will not be too late to make amends......
"Then tell me what mistakes you made?" asked Master Hong.
Hong Tuo's face was even more remorseful, and he wanted to tell everything about it, but when he thought of his friendship with Yang Chongjiang for many years, he finally decided to erase their existence after careful consideration.
"This so-called kidnapping...... At first, it was planned by the son himself, but he was afraid that his father would not let his son go back to the house, so he was blindsided for a while. At first, he just wanted to fake kidnapping, but he had an accident on the way, and his son was kidnapped by others. After inquiry, I found out that they thought that their son was kidnapped by thieves and wanted to save their son, but at that time, my son did not stop because of this and asked them to cooperate with me, and the people who were with him before did not stop because of this, so there will be two ridiculous things like extortion letters, and my son wants to ask his former friends to stop who knows...... He was reluctant to offer a large ransom, and it was then that his son realized his mistake......"
Speaking of this, Hong Tuo even shed tears, covered his face with his sleeves and cried: "Even if my son didn't know how unreasonable he was before, he also knew that he couldn't harm his family, and after returning home, he heard Doujiao talk about the recent situation, and he was even more annoyed in his heart, because he was so frightened and afraid of his selfish intentions to harm his father and mother, he was really ashamed to be a son of man." ”
As Hong Tuo said what he had done word by word, Mrs. Hong's face stopped crying, and she secretly went to see Master Hong's reaction, and saw that Master Hong was still staring at the kneeling Hong Tuo with an expressionless face, and she didn't know how to speak for a while.
There was a deathly silence in the hall, and Hong Shu almost didn't dare to look at his father's expression, but Hong Shu opened his mouth first, and asked Mr. Hong inquiringly: "Father, the second brother has been kneeling for a short time......
Master Hong let out an "um" and said sternly: "You said you knew where you were wrong, do you really know?"
Hong teased himself and nodded, and said calmly: "The son should not have evil thoughts, no matter how the father punishes him, the son has no complaints." ”
Master Hong didn't say anything more, stood up and looked at the kneeling Hong Tease, and said coldly: "In this way, I will go to the ancestral hall and kneel for three days first." ”
After speaking, Master Hong walked out of the lobby, called a small servant, asked what he was, and walked towards Xiyuan.
After seeing Master Hong leave, Mrs. Hong quickly got up from her seat and helped Hong Tuo up, she didn't care what Hong Tuo did wrong, as long as her son was well.
"Don't be afraid, my son, mother will intercede for you......"
Mrs. Hong helped Hong and said with pity on her face.
Hong Tuo shook his head, surprised that his father didn't ask too much, and he was even more guilty: "No need for mother, my son has been punished and kneeled in the ancestral hall." ”
After speaking, Hong got up and saluted Mrs. Hong and Hong Shu, and walked towards the ancestral hall without looking back.
Mrs. Hong looked at the back of Hong Tease's departure with a complicated expression, and behind her, Hong Shu patted Mrs. Hong's shoulder comfortingly, and said softly: "Mother, you can't see it, you can't take care of him for the rest of your life, it's time to let go, don't put him in ...... for the rest of your life."
Mrs. Hong wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, shook her head and said, "I just want to stay for a while......"
Hong Shu sighed: "The Taoist chief also said that it is time for my mother to let go." ”
Hearing this, Mrs. Hong's eyes were sour, and her heart became even more sad, and Hong Shu had to accompany her back to her room while comforting her.
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The Hong family ancestral hall is located in the northernmost part of the Hong Mansion, near the mountain, in the shade, and this place to worship the spiritual seat has always been to avoid the light, even if the lamp is always bright, the whole room always looks gloomy and cold.
Hong Tuo stared at the layers of spiritual positions, knelt down calmly, and began to think about all the things in his heart recently, and suddenly felt that his mind was clear.
"Who's next?"
In the deep ancestral hall, an old voice sounded, Hong Tuo raised his head and swept his gaze from the spiritual seat one by one, and exhaled: "Don't make trouble, Ah Lu girl!"
The cigarette on the incense table suddenly spread into a ball, and gradually turned into a green appearance.
Ah Lu jumped lightly, landed silently, squatted in front of Hong Tuo, and looked at him with a smile on his head with one hand: "How about my fairy appearance?"
If he didn't know that she was an immortal cultivator, he was afraid that he would be frightened, and he suddenly felt that Hong Tease, who was a profound person in Ah Ludao, laughed uncooperatively: "It's like in a monster novel, ghosts and goblins appear." ”
"Humph!"
Ah Lu turned over and sat down on the futon next to Hong Tuo, looking at the spiritual seats that did not have the slightest soul to live in, and sat very casually.
"This Immortal Guguan Young Master has doubts on his face, you might as well say it, I can solve your doubts for free. ”