Do you know: I have a different surname: Wang, uncle Minglan.

Chapter 341 The Mature Young Man
The next day.

Wei Yuan asked Gu Tingye to come to Guanjun Hou's Mansion, and the two had another competition.

As expected, Gu Tingye was defeated again, and the skin injuries he suffered this time were far more serious than the last time.

While Wei Yuan was beating Gu Tingye, Jing Jieer, who was sitting next to Zhang Guifen, kept pointing at Gu Tingye and said with a smile:

"Mom, I've seen him. Why is he here to get beaten again?"

Zhang Guifen laughed and said, "He offended your sister Minglan, so of course he should be beaten."

Sister Jing said thoughtfully, "Sister Minglan cried so hard yesterday. Was it because of him?"

Zhang Guifen nodded.

Jing Jie'er, who was originally quiet, suddenly stood up angrily after seeing her mother's response and shouted at Wei Yuan:

"Daddy, beat him! Beat him hard!"

Wei Yuan responded seriously: "Okay, Sister Jing, just watch and see how your father beats him!"

Gu Tingye has always been in a passive situation of being beaten.

After a while, Gu Tingye, who had been beaten like a pig, finally couldn't bear it anymore and begged for mercy.

After hearing this, Wei Yuan stopped.

He took the towel from Baozhu and wiped the sweat off his face. He then slowly walked to Zhang Guifen and Jing Jie'er, picked up the tea that Zhang Guifen had not finished and drank it all. He said:

"I haven't used force for a long time, so I feel a little rusty."

Gu Tingye, who didn't have a single piece of good flesh on his body, was startled when he heard these "tiger and wolf words".

Is this still a little unfamiliar?

If I wasn't unfamiliar with it, would I really beat myself to death?
"Lord Wei, Madam, please listen to my explanation. What I said yesterday when I went to look for Minglan was not the truth. I just... I..."

Gu Tingye endured the pain in his body and explained to the two of them.

Sister Jing snorted and said, "My sister Minglan is so nice. It must be your fault that you made her angry."

Gu Tingye said, "Jing Jie'er, have you forgotten? The last time I came to your house, I brought you a gift."

Sister Jing said, "I don't want the gift anymore, you can take it back."

Gu Tingye said, "I was wrong, Sister Jing, I will never bully Sister Minglan again, okay?"

Only then did Sister Jing calm down.

As he was talking, Wei Yuan asked the servant to bring something, which was the emperor's handwritten letter. He handed the letter to Gu Tingye and said earnestly:
"The day after tomorrow, you will leave for the Jingji camp. As for the imperial decree, you will have to wait a little longer."

Gu Tingye took the imperial edict with both hands, bowed and said, "Thank you, Lord Wei."

Wei Yuan nodded and looked at Zhang Guifen, "I have to go to the palace. Today, officials from the six ministries will discuss reforms with the emperor."

After that, he once again said to Gu Tingye earnestly:

"If I hear that Ming girl has been wronged by you again, it won't be as simple as beating you up."

Gu Tingye was startled and bowed quickly, saying, "My Lord, I understand."

Wei Yuan ignored him. With Baozhu's help, he put on his official uniform and left.

Gu Tingye is still here.

Zhang Guifen held Sister Jing'er's hand and said slowly:

"We were good friends when we were young. I know what kind of person you are, but I know what kind of person Ming is even better."

"You've always been domineering, but don't use your ways on Ming girl."

"Ming girl is not a domineering person, but her uncle and I will never sit idly by and watch her being wronged."

Gu Tingye bowed deeply again.

At this moment, Brother Chang came over and waved to Sister Jing:

"Jingjie, I have to go to school."

Sister Jing nodded, "Mom, I'm going."

Gu Tingye also said goodbye, "Madam, I will leave for the time being."
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The place where Chang Ge'er taught Jing Jie'er and Zhuang Ge'er to read was in Chunyi Pavilion.

Because Chang Ge'er was so "impartial and impartial", when he was in school, if he heard his younger brothers and sisters read words incorrectly or played truant in class, the stick would fall on their hands.

Therefore, whenever Chang Ge'er was studying, Zhang Guifen would sit not far away and accompany him.

If Chang Ge'er wanted to punish Zhuang Ge'er and Jing Jie'er, Zhang Guifen would appear to plead for them.

Even so, the two children were often scolded by Changger.

As a result, the two little girls, Jingjie'er and Zhuangge'er, felt a kind of fear in their hearts when they saw Changge'er.

Therefore, Zhang Guifen complained to Wei Yuan a lot.
"Chang Ge'er is really serious about teaching the children to read. If they read a word wrong, they will be beaten with a stick. When I was first starting school, my teacher was not so strict."

Wei Yuan said: "If we invite a great scholar to teach the children, that's fine, but who among the great scholars of the time would dare to treat Zhuang and Jing harshly?"

"I let Chang Ge'er teach them because he is my nephew. We will not be afraid to treat him harshly just because of our status."

As a result, Zhang Guifen never complained to Wei Yuan about such things again.

Chang Ge'er also started his children's enlightenment with the Three Character Classic.

Two days before, he assigned homework to the two children, asking them to recite the first 200 words of the Three Character Classic.

Since Wei Yuan has always been very strict with Zhuangge'er, after all, Zhuangge'er will have heavy responsibilities in the future, so Zhuangge'er dare not fall behind in things like homework.

If I didn't finish my homework, my cousin's teachings would be secondary. I was afraid that Wei Yuan would beat me when he found out.

By then, Zhang Guifen won't be able to stop her.

Therefore, Zhuang Ge'er studied very seriously and memorized the first 200 words of the Three Character Classic immediately.

But when it was Sister Jing's turn, she could only barely memorize the first ninety words.

Later on, it became a little difficult.

Chang Geer couldn't help but frown as he listened, "Jing Jie, have you been slacking off these past two days?"

Sister Jing pouted her lips in grievance and said, "Brother Chang, my mother is teaching me flower arrangement recently. It's too difficult to do both flower arrangement and memorize."

Chang Ge'er shook his head, "No excuses allowed."

Jingjie had no choice but to stretch out her white and tender little hand and look at Changgeer with a pleading look.
"Good brother, hit me lightly"

Chang Ge'er looked at Jing Jie'er's pitiful expression, frowned suddenly, and said:
"Jingjie, you must always remember your identity. You are the eldest daughter of the Guanjun Marquisate, the elder sister of Zhuangge'er, and the daughter of a general. You must not be so delicate and artificial."

Sister Jing sighed, "The student knows he is wrong, please punish me, teacher."

Chang Ge'er said "hmm" and raised the ruler high. With a "snap" sound, it landed on Jing Jie'er's palm.

The originally white and tender little hands have now turned red.

Sister Jing gritted her teeth, tears welling up in her eyes.

Chang Ge'er might have felt a little bit reluctant, so he originally wanted to hit him three times, but in the end he only hit him twice, saying:

"Since this is your first offense, I will spare you the third offense."

Although it was only two hits, the palms of Jingjie'er, who had been spoiled since childhood, had already become red and swollen. Although Zhang Guifen treated Jingjie'er more strictly than Zhuangge'er, she was her own daughter after all.

She couldn't bear it, so she took the ointment and went over to apply it on Jingjie'er's wound to prevent swelling and also to relieve pain.

Seeing this, Chang Ge'er frowned slightly, "Aunt, if you don't remember the pain, then you can't change it."

Zhang Guifen said: "Good Chang'er, your sister is still young."

Chang Ge'er shook his head and said, "Jing Jie, you are young and unlearnable. What's the next sentence?"

Sister Jing held back her tears and said, "What are you doing, old man?"

Chang Ge'er nodded and said nothing more.

Zhang Guifen sighed and didn't care anymore.

When Wei Yuan came back in the evening, the family was having dinner.

Sister Jing's movements when she picked up the chopsticks were slightly trembling.

Wei Yuan saw it and frowned, "What's wrong?"

Sister Jing glanced at Zhang Guifen's eyes, didn't dare to say anything, and just shook her head.

Wei Yuan immediately spread out Jing Jie'er's palm and found that the hand that was hit by Chang Ge'er was already red and swollen.

"what happened?"

Wei Yuan seemed very angry.

Zhang Guifen had no choice but to explain the whole story.

Wei Yuan was so angry that he threw his chopsticks onto the table.

In an instant, the maids who were responsible for serving meals to everyone knelt down on the ground.

Even Xie Yuying, who was allowed to sit at the table and eat, was startled. She stood up suddenly, lowered her head, and did not dare to speak.

Zhang Guifen asked Baozhu, who was kneeling beside her, to fetch another set of bowls and chopsticks, and then said earnestly:
"Jing Jie'er did make a mistake. Being beaten up will teach her a lesson. It's not a bad thing."

Sister Jing was actually trying to persuade Wei Yuan, "Daddy, my daughter is fine, don't be angry."

Wei Yuan said with a serious face: "I asked Chang Ge'er to teach them to read because I wanted to be strict with Zhuang Ge'er and not let him do this to my daughter!"

After hearing these words, Zhuang Ge'er, who was concentrating on eating at the side, suddenly shook his head and sighed.

Wei Yuan glared at him and said, "Just eat, why are you sighing?"

Zhuang Ge'er said helplessly: "I just think that what my father said makes sense. I feel sorry for my sister, so I sighed."

After saying that, Wei Yuan held Sister Jing in his arms and said, "Sister Jing, tomorrow your father will help you vent your anger and beat up Brother Chang, okay?"

Unexpectedly, Sister Jing suddenly shook her head and said, "Brother Chang's words make sense. I am willing to be punished. If my father teaches Brother Chang a lesson, how will I deal with it?"

Hearing this, Wei Yuan was surprised, "Who taught you this?"

Zhang Guifen lowered her head.

Wei Yuan understood instantly, "Forget it, our sister Jing has been wronged."

After the meal, Wei Yuan told Zhang Guifen something.

"I plan to renovate Chunyi Pavilion and build a large garden. I also plan to level the land on the back hill and build a place where we can enjoy flowers and cruise the lake. What do you think?"

Wei Yuan's casual words could mean the loss of millions of taels of silver.

Zhang Guifen frowned and said, "It's too extravagant. Chunyi Pavilion is not bad now."

Wei Yuan said: "What our family lacks the least right now is money. If we don't build a big garden, why would we save so much money?"

Zhang Guifen said: "This is not a long-term plan for the family."

Wei Yuan said: "I am the Grand Tutor and the pillar of the country. I have great power and prestige. People in the royal family, such as the Eighth King, have to be polite and respectful to me. I just want to build a garden. Even if it is a little against the rules, it is nothing."

At this point, Zhang Guifen knew that it would be difficult to persuade him, so she moved the elders in her family out.
"In half a month, it will be mother's birthday. Then, you can ask mother and father what they think, okay?"

Wei Yuan said nothing more.

Later, he went to Xie Yuying to rest.

Zhang Guifen wanted to go to bed, but she heard the sound of Zhuangge'er reading aloud coming from his room. Curious, she went to Zhuangge'er's room and saw that Zhuangge'er was really studying hard.

She said with a little distress: "It's so late, I'll study tomorrow, you'd better get some rest."

Zhuang Ge'er shook his head and said, "When we were having dinner today, my father told me that he would examine my homework in two days. If I don't pay attention, I'm afraid I will be punished by my father."

Zhang Guifen said dissatisfiedly: "When your father was young, he didn't study as hard as you do."

Zhuang Ge'er said seriously: "Compared to my father fighting in the battlefield, studying is already an easy job for me."

"That day, my father was shirtless and practicing martial arts in the martial arts arena. I saw dozens of scars on his body, big and small."

"No matter how hard a child studies, it is nothing compared to his father."

Zhang Guifen said earnestly, "Your father is so harsh on you on a daily basis, do you feel wronged?"

Hearing this, Zhuang Ge'er shook his head in surprise.

She was puzzled and asked, "Why?"

Zhuang Geer explained:

"When my father went to war, he would bring me gifts every month. When I was young, I liked the Liao Dynasty's scimitars. I heard from Uncle Daniu that my father once put on armor and went into battle to kill the enemy because he saw a Liao Dynasty general with an exquisite scimitar hanging around his waist."

"In order to seize the knife, my father went deep behind enemy lines. In about a cup of tea, he was surrounded by no less than thirty enemy generals. At that time, Uncle Daniu said that all the soldiers of our three armies were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats."

"Once, I told Uncle Daniu and the others that I wanted to ride a horse. My father scolded me for wanting to ride a horse when I was so young and couldn't even walk properly. But afterwards, my father still asked Uncle Liangda to get a purebred Arabian horse for me in Daizhou."

"Father loves me, but he never says it. He is worried that I will become a playboy and will not be able to shoulder the responsibility of the Guanjun Marquis's Mansion in the future."

Zhang Guifen was very surprised to hear Zhuang Ge'er say so much.

She touched Zhuang Ge'er's little head and said kindly, "My Zhuang Ge has really grown up."

Suddenly, Zhuang Ge'er took out a bottle of ointment from the wooden box and said:
"Mother, please give this to father."

Zhang Guifen asked curiously again: "What is this?"

Zhuang Ge'er said, "The last time I saw father practicing martial arts, his arm was in great pain. I guess it was a relapse of an old injury. The pain of scraping bones is unbearable for ordinary people. Father's arm was injured and his martial arts strength was no longer at its peak. Didn't mother notice that father always looked unhappy after practicing martial arts?"

"My father is the greatest hero in the world, comparable to Xiang Yu in ancient times. Now that his arm is injured and his martial arts are not as strong as before, I'm afraid anyone would feel bad if they were in his shoes."

"Uncle Daniu and the others also know that recently, when Uncle Daniu and the others were fighting with father, once they saw father using his injured arm to exert strength, they would avoid him and not dare to fight back. I'm afraid they also felt that father's arm was injured and he was not as good as before."

Zhang Guifen took the bottle of ointment, thinking about something in her heart, and suddenly asked, "Brother Zhuang, would you like to learn martial arts?"

Zhuang Ge thought for a moment and said, "Our Guanjun Marquis Mansion is a military family, so we must not fall behind in martial arts. I am willing to learn."

Zhang Guifen smiled and said, "How about I let Ning Yuanhou teach you martial arts some other day? Your father also learned martial arts from the previous Ning Yuanhou. You can learn the Gu family spear and your father's skills and defeat your father, okay?"

Zhuang Ge'er frowned and said, "Father is a hero, he is arrogant. If one day I defeat him, how can he be happy?"

Zhang Guifen said earnestly: "Silly child, in this world, anyone who defeats your father may be a blow to your father, but only you, if you defeat your father, your father will not be sad, but happy."

"Moreover, mother firmly believes that if there is someone in this world who can surpass your father, it can only be you, because you are my child, your father's child, and the legitimate son of the Champion Marquis's Mansion."

(End of this chapter)