ebookland Chapter 216 Beaten
Chapter 216 Beaten
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Qi Yue woke up to the sound of pattering rain.
Candlelight flickers.
The aroma of medicine filled the entire room.
He struggled to sit up, startling the sleeping cub beside him.
"Father, you're awake."
"Why are you sleeping here, with your maidservant here?"
"I want to stay with my father."
Qi Yue lovingly held her in his arms.
Smelling the unique medicinal fragrance emanating from her father, Qi Si looked up from his embrace.
"Father, that female came over today."
Qi Yue stiffened: "What is she doing here?"
"The Nightbird Clan hoarded offerings, which angered the Great Chieftain, who killed a young female member of the Nightbird Clan. She then came to befriend the Nightbird Clan, not only trespassing on our territory but also injuring many of our chieftains. She even severely injured the Great Chieftain and the elders, and they have not yet regained consciousness."
"Nightbird Clan?"
He thought of the woman who knelt outside the door in the heavy rain that day, saying she would serve him.
"Someone come here!" he called out.
The young slaves outside the door had been reassigned to serve the injured clansmen, leaving only Shennong's young disciple in charge of organizing medicinal herbs.
He came in and politely offered his greetings.
"Sir, what are your orders?"
Qi Yue frowned: "Where are the servants outside?"
"My lord, the tribe has suffered heavy casualties, and the slaves are overwhelmed with the situation."
It really happened!
"May I ask, young friend, what exactly happened to my clan today?"
The young disciple lowered his eyes and told the truth honestly.
"My master sought out the Lady Consort to learn alchemy. She accidentally refined a few Marrow Cleansing Pills, which the Lady Consort gave to the Nightbird Clan. When the clan leader learned of this, he killed the man to uphold clan rules. When the Lady Consort arrived, she didn't want to argue, but those people were rude and attacked first, and the Lady Consort was also injured."
"She's injured?" Qi Yue's heart tightened.
The young disciple looked up at Qi Si in his arms.
"With a talent like that of the young lady, she wouldn't have been injured, but the young clan leader..."
"Si'er?"
Qi Si looked up in a panic.
"Father, I..."
Qi Yue steadied herself and said, "Young friend, please continue."
The underlings said, "The young clan leader approached the concubine and stabbed her directly in the heart. The concubine, despite the injury, took him back, and his fate is currently unknown."
"Father, please listen to me..."
Qi Si didn't expect him to say it, so she deliberately sent the slaves away.
"You hurt your mother?"
Qi Yue looked on in disbelief.
Qi Si panicked: "Father, she killed people, she killed so many people, they were all members of my Qi clan!"
"enough!"
Qi Yue shouted sharply, and the little guy was so frightened that he dared not move.
Qi Yue never expected that the cub could be so vicious at such a young age.
Who taught her that?
He got up and walked straight outside.
"Father!"
"Father, wait for me."
Qi Si quickly chased after her.
Inside the side courtyard.
The maids are keeping watch.
I was startled when I heard the door being pushed open.
"Who is it, making such a startle sound?"
The head maid came out cursing, but when she saw Qi Yue's ashen face, she was so frightened that she immediately prostrated herself on the ground.
"grown ups……"
Qi Yue's face darkened.
Her withered face and jade-like bones appeared as cold as frost under the moonlight.
"Call over all those who serve the young clan leader."
The head maidservant responded timidly.
When Qi Si ran over, she saw all the people who served her kneeling in the courtyard.
"Father!"
She ran over, looking completely lost.
Qi Yue didn't look at her.
His frail figure stood under the eaves, his pale, sickly face revealing his frail appearance; even so, it sent shivers down one's spine.
The air was heavy.
The light drizzle pattered on the maids who were prostrate on the ground.
“The young clan leader has been acting strangely and violently lately, and I’m afraid it’s because of your instigation. I won’t punish you, but pack your things and don’t show your faces in front of the young clan leader again.”
"grown ups!"
The head maid was startled but dared not look up.
She crawled even lower.
"Please forgive us, sir. We have served you with all our might for the past two years and have never overstepped our bounds. We hope you will investigate this matter."
"Without the slightest transgression?"
Qi Yue laughed:
"There was a big commotion outside today. Did any of you advise the young clan leader against going out?"
"This……"
The head maid gritted her teeth and endured it.
"The young clan leader wants to go out and take a look, and we can't persuade him otherwise..."
“That’s dereliction of duty,” Qi Yue interrupted her. “I didn’t want to pursue this to the end, but you’re still full of eloquence and show no remorse.”
He glanced at the crowd.
"Go and spread the word that the Night Heron Clan has disregarded clan rules and arbitrarily used torture. The chieftain has been removed from his post, and from this day forward, the Night Heron Clan is forbidden from setting foot in the clan's territory."
what!
The maids turned pale.
Her heron clan has been loyal to He since their ancestors migrated to Jiangshui.
After the clan leader took over the position of the great clan leader of the Qi clan, he enjoyed even greater prestige.
Later, when the young clan leader was born, the elder clan leader promoted them to serve him.
They are just waiting for the young clan leader to succeed them, and their Night Heron clan will continue to cherish their love.
How could they be driven out of the family?
The head maid crawled a few steps on her knees and grabbed the hem of Qi Si's clothes.
"Young clan leader, please forgive us. We hope you will spare us this time, considering how well we have served you."
The others also quickly kowtowed.
"Young Clan Chief, please forgive me!"
"Young Clan Chief, please forgive me!"
Qi Si's eyes were red.
"Father is so heartless for that female. Why don't you kick me out too?"
She was only a year old when her father fell seriously ill and fell into a coma.
Her wet nurse and maids had been there for her as she grew up; how could she let her father drive them away?
Qi Yue's anger had not subsided.
"Threate your elders? Have you forgotten all the rules I taught you?"
"It was clearly that female who trespassed and indiscriminately killed innocent people. What's wrong with me killing her!"
"How can Father be so unreasonable!"
Unreasonable?
Qi Yue was so angry she almost laughed.
He had no idea that his cub hated her so much that he was completely oblivious to right and wrong.
"Good, good, good."
He said "good" three times in a row, and then turned his gaze to the servants.
"Go and fetch the family law."
"No adults!"
The one speaking was the wet nurse who had served her since childhood.
“The young clan leader is still young, please don’t be angry, it’s all our fault for teaching him. You may punish us as you please, we will not say a word.”
Qi Yue took a deep breath and repeated the sentence.
"Go and fetch the family law."
The wet nurse looked distressed and could only get up to get the family punishment.
This method differs from the traditional method of punishing slaves with a bone rod.
It is a long, thin bamboo board.
It was used to remind the younger members of the clan to act uprightly and honestly.
Qi Yue took the bamboo board with her slender, long hand, then looked at the cub and scolded it.
"Hand out!"
Qi Si gritted her teeth and stretched out her arm unwillingly.
"Smack!"
The bamboo whistled through the air, its muffled sound striking flesh.
"I'm asking you, do you know you're wrong!"
"I'm not wrong. Even if Father asks me a thousand or ten thousand times, I'm still not wrong!"
"Smack!"
Another sound.
"I'm asking you, do you know you're wrong!"
Qi Si bit her lip hard, her face full of stubbornness.