Chapter 206: Using family law
The little girl put on her clothes and came out of the inner room. She was so frightened by the scene in front of her that she couldn't help but gasp.
In the spacious outer room, two large rows of people were standing in a row. They were all strong women, each holding a shiny sandalwood board that was half a foot thick.
In the middle of the ground, there was a spring stool, and on the stool were ropes for tying people up.
Those old women were probably specially employed by the mansion to punish people who made mistakes, because their job was to beat people with sticks. These people all had a face full of flesh and white skin, which made people scared just by looking at them.
When the leading maid saw Qin Xiaoning, she first stepped forward and bowed slightly, then introduced herself with a pale face: "Miss Qin, my surname is Kong, and I am the Jingqi Madam of the violence room. Today, Miss Qin broke the family rules, and I am very sorry for the offense."
This is the legendary Grandma Kong from the Lu family.
Specially used to deal with female relatives who have made mistakes.
From the wife to the concubines, as long as they broke the family rules, she would be the one to execute them.
The Lu family has a strict family tradition. Qin Xiaoning had only heard of Nanny Kong before, but she had always been honest and dutiful, so naturally she had never personally experienced this kind of person.
This Lu Ji, in order to punish her, actually made such a big scene.
Although the little girl was frightened, she still managed to keep her composure. After hearing what Madam Kong said, she didn't respond, but just turned her head to look at Lu Ji who was sitting next to her.
The man still had a cold face. He knew she was looking at him, but he pretended not to see her.
She looked like she was going to handle the matter impartially and impartially and she would be taught a lesson today.
The little girl was angry, but she also understood that if she confronted him forcefully in this situation, she would be the only one who would suffer.
She suppressed her temper and replied to Madam Kong, "Madam, please allow me to have a few words with the prince."
After Nanny Kong left politely, the little girl walked up to Lu Ji. She had just come out of the bath, and her body was filled with the faint fragrance of the fresh flower petals she used for bathing.
Seeing that the man still refused to look at her, the girl said calmly: "Are you really going to use family rules on me? Are you going to beat me with a stick?"
The tone was very gentle, as if he was asking him about a trivial matter.
Lu Ji turned his head, looked at her with deep eyes, and opened his thin lips slightly: "You are so reckless, aren't you just bullying my Lu family for having no rules? Today, this prince will let you know how powerful I am."
"Don't you want to hear my explanation?" she asked.
The man replied coldly: "I don't want to."
As he said this, he winked at Nanny Kong over there. Seeing this, the Nanny called two strong women to come over and take the man away.
Are you really going to do this for real?
The little girl couldn't help feeling a little unsure.
She immediately put on a smile, walked up to the man and pulled his clothes, pouting and saying, "I know I was wrong."
Faced with her coquettishness, the man just looked on coldly.
The little girl would cry when she felt wronged.
The man sneered: "It's too early to cry now. You will cry when you are beaten with a stick later."
"Miss Qin, please come in." Madam Kong stepped forward and politely gestured to her.
Seeing that she refused, the two maids following her were about to come and take her away. The little girl hurriedly grabbed the man's sleeve and pulled it tightly: "I really know I'm wrong."
She hurriedly explained: "I also have my own difficulties, otherwise, how could I bear to leave you."
In order to make the man soften his heart, she shed tears.
Facing the girl's crying, the man's heart was cold and hard. He just asked Madam Kong beside him, "If a concubine runs away, how should we deal with her according to the family rules? Madam, explain it to her clearly."
Upon hearing this, Madam Kong bowed slightly to Lu Ji, then turned to look at Qin Xiaoning, and said in a calm voice with a pale old face: "According to the house rules of the mansion, if a concubine escapes without permission, the serious penalty is that all her property will be confiscated and she will be expelled from the family, or the lightest penalty is fifty strokes of the cane and imprisonment in the courtyard." Fifty strokes of the cane?
Huh! With such a beating, let alone fifty, two or three would probably cripple her.
Hearing this, Lu Ji turned his head to look at the little girl and said calmly, "Did you hear that clearly? Beating you with fifty boards is already a light punishment."
We really have to do our job impartially.
The girl narrowed her eyes and smiled at the man: "Then can I choose the heavier one, um. Expelled from the house."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ji's face immediately turned cold. He was so angry that he grabbed the man and brought him to him. He gritted his teeth and was unable to utter a word for a long time.
Seeing that she had touched the man's reverse scale again, the girl immediately changed her words: "I was joking."
The man ordered Madam Kong, "Go tie her up and give her sixty strokes of the board, not a single one less."
Additional penalties?
As soon as the prince finished speaking, a maid came to grab her. The girl was so scared that she quickly grabbed Lu Ji, but he pushed her away. She rushed forward and grabbed the man again, holding him tightly with both hands, and simply buried her body in his arms, begging for mercy and apologizing to him one after another.
But the man had a heart of stone. Seeing that the old woman did not dare to take the little girl in his arms, he simply picked her up and threw her on the stool, then took the board from the old woman.
Punish her personally.
Seeing this, the little girl jumped up at lightning speed, snatched the board from Lu Ji's hand, and threw it out of the window swiftly.
The whole set of movements is smooth and completed in one go.
Everyone in the room was stunned.
Lu Ji gritted his teeth, glared at her, his face turned ashen with anger.
After doing all this, the little girl jumped up in front of everyone, her legs firmly clasped around his waist, her slender arms tightly hugged the man's neck, and said to him coquettishly: "If you really know you are wrong, just scare me, do you really want to hit me?"
Lu Ji didn't hug her back, but the little thing could cling on tightly like a gecko.
The man looked at her coldly for a long time, and said coldly: "Qin Xiaoning, I am not playing with you, nor am I trying to scare you. Today, I must teach you a lesson and let you understand the rules."
"I understand everything." The little girl clung to the man tightly. She was no longer shy in front of everyone. She just used her soft lips to kiss the man's cold face again and again.
After a long while, the man spoke again in a cold voice: "Do you really know your mistake?"
She kissed him and nodded seriously.
The man said, "Since you know you are wrong, come down and accept the punishment."
Why do we have to fight again?
The little girl clung even tighter upon hearing that.
"Qin Xiaoning, I'm not kidding you. Today I'm going to spank you until your butt is bruised and you never dare to do anything stupid again."
"Qin Xiaoning, let go of my hand, come down, come down!"
The more he shouted, the tighter the little girl clung to his arm, as if she was grown together with him, and no matter how hard the man tried, he couldn't pull her apart.
Things have come to this, why bother with family rules?
The room full of executioners were at a loss as to what to do. Seeing this, Amber secretly winked at everyone.
Madam Kong then led everyone downstairs.
The boards were taken away, and the spring stools were carried away.
The crowd of people disappeared in a moment.