Ask the Nine Ministers

Chapter 7: Jealous Woman Runs Wild
Xue Ji was shocked, as if she had seen the most terrifying thing in the world. Her eyes were full of fear and despair, and she hurriedly offered the ginseng.

"Madam, please spare me! Sixth sister would never dare to steal. There must be some misunderstanding..."

"Misunderstanding? I gave you face, didn't I? How can a whore from a gang raise a daughter who knows manners and knows how to behave?"

"It's my fault, Madam, please punish me... I stole it, it was me who stole it, it has nothing to do with Sixth Sister..."

Xue Ji was so panicked that she kowtowed and admitted her mistake in a hurry, trying to take the blame for Xue Sui. It was too late for Xue Sui to stop her.

Fu sneered, "You can't bear to see your daughter get beaten? I'm going to beat your daughter. Even if I beat her to death, it's nothing more than a straw mat. Bitch, this is the fate of you killing my daughter, so bear it!"

After she finished speaking, she turned her head with a cold face and shouted:
"Someone, take this unpresentable little bitch down here and give him twenty slaps before he can answer."

Upon hearing this, Xue Ji fell to the ground with a pale face, and grabbed Xue Sui's sleeve tightly, her lips trembling, "Hurry up and kowtow, Sixth Sister kowtow, I kowtow... No, I kowtow to the Madam, Madam, please spare my life, spare Sixth Sister..."

The two old women fiercely pulled Xue Ji away and came over to take people away.

Xue Sui gently dodged, firmly supported Xue Ji's trembling shoulders, and stared at Fu Shi motionlessly.

"Before Madam wanted to punish me, didn't she ask the Master's opinion?"

Fu was incredulous when he heard this.

After not seeing him for ten years, this little bitch has become so rebellious?
Fu sneered and said, "I, the mistress of the Xue Mansion, have always had the final say in the backyard. Xue Liu, you don't think that I came back to find you because I want to be the daughter of the Xue Mansion, do you?"

She signaled to the maids on her left and right, "What are you standing there for? Take him out!"

"Yes, Madam." The two old women, their faces trembling with flesh, grabbed Xue Sui's arms and pulled her.

Xue Ji cried loudly.

Fu looked at the lowly mother and daughter and asked Xiu Gu to bring a chair and sit by the door.

"Beat him! Beat him to death! Beat him until this little bastard admits his mistake!"

"What are you making noise for so late at night?" A stern shout came from outside the door, and Mrs. Fu's expression changed slightly.

For more than ten years, Xue Qingzhi never set foot in the lower house of the compound where Xue Ji lived. Why did he suddenly come here so late at night?
"master."

Everyone greeted and looked at the tall man who slowly walked across the threshold and stood with his hands behind his back.

Xiao Zhao then silently unclenched his fists, lowered his head and curled his lips.

If the master had come a little later, she could have stretched her muscles and punched him a few times, or even killed two of them accidentally. That would have been great...

Xue Qingzhi served in the military in his early years. He was born with a majestic appearance. When he stroked his beautiful beard, he looked intimidating without even being angry.

"Since Sixth Sister is going to be carried into Prince Duan's Mansion, she should not be hurt." He looked around the shabby little house where Xue Ji lived, then at the moldy bedding, and frowned.

"Before they leave, they should find a new place to live, buy them some clothes, and pack them up properly, so as not to humiliate the prince."

Fu was already furious, and when she saw this old man standing up for Xue Ji and her daughter, she became even more furious.

"Master, are you drunk? A servant is a servant. Can you serve like a master? Do you still want to follow the rules of the Xue Mansion?"

Fu was the legitimate daughter of the Yongding Marquisate and had always been very arrogant. Even though Xue Qingzhi was the Minister of Justice, he had to give her some respect.

But today he actually frowned in public and asserted his authority as a man.

"My words are the rules!"

Fu sneered, "Master, are you showing off your power today to support this unknown mother and daughter?"

Xue Qingzhi: "You - Fu, you are so presumptuous! You keep saying how to be a good wife, but you act like a jealous woman. Is this the family education you received at the Yongding Marquis' Mansion?"

Fu rarely saw Xue Qingzhi lose his temper, and it was all for this humble mother and daughter. Her throat was slightly blocked and she pointed at the ginseng.

"As the mistress, am I unable to control these sneaky and sneaky things in the mansion?"

Xue Qingzhi frowned and looked at Xue Sui with dissatisfaction.

"Why don't you hand over the old ginseng and kowtow to your mother to apologize?"

Xue Sui smiled.

"This is not something from the mansion."

Mrs. Fu said sarcastically, "This is clearly the century-old ginseng that my elder sister brought back as a gift to me on my birthday yesterday! Do you really think I'm blind and can't even recognize my own things? Or can you and your daughter afford ginseng of this age?"

Xue Sui slowly picked up the cloth bag and box on the ground.

"Madam, open your eyes."

Fu was choked.

She slowly opened the blue cloth bag and the box layer by layer. Unexpectedly, although the appearance was similar, the inside was completely different.

There was a golden skull with a knife engraved in the box.

Xue Sui said, "It's true that these are stolen goods from the Old Mausoleum Marsh Grass Market. But I didn't know that the Shangshu Mansion... no, the eldest lady said it was the Prince Duan Mansion, would also buy such shady stolen goods as gifts? Is the world going downhill, or is the Prince Duan Mansion unable to make ends meet?"

She made a light-hearted rebuke, and made Fu blush.

Xue Liu can shamelessly buy stolen goods.

But the Xue family and Prince Duan's Mansion have to save face. Everyone knows where the Old Mausoleum Swamp is. How can they have anything to do with it? How can they buy stolen goods?

Xue Qingzhi snorted, "Making trouble out of nothing."

Fu was embarrassed and agreed with a forced smile.

"Yes, Master is right. I was so angry that I was confused and shortsighted that I made a mistake. It's all a small matter. Sixth sister doesn't know the rules. As the mistress, I should teach her slowly. I shouldn't beat or scold her."

After that, she winked at Xiu Gu and said, "Knowing that Sixth Sister was coming back, I had already sent people to clean up Lixiang Courtyard."

Xiu Gu quickly lowered her head and responded, "Yes, Master, the eldest lady was afraid that the Sixth Miss would not be used to living here, so she specially arranged for the quieter Lixiang Courtyard..."

Xue Qingzhi glanced at her and said nothing more.

Xue Sui handed the old ginseng to Xiao Zhao expressionlessly, sneering in her heart. How could she not be on guard against Xue Yueying? Did she really think she was kind?

The losses I suffered in childhood were enough to teach me a long lesson.

Xue Ji heaved a sigh of relief and looked at Xue Qingzhi with a genuine look of joy in her eyes.

"Master, please have mercy on me. Sixth sister, why don't you kneel down and thank the master and the mistress..."

Xue Sui curled her lips slightly and bowed, "Thank you, father, for taking care of your daughter."

Xue Qingzhi was slightly surprised.

When the sixth sister was a child, she only called him "Master" and never called him "Father".

It seems that being stranded outside and suffering some hardships has straightened out her character.

"Pack up and move in tonight."

If they don't move there, Xue Ji's palm-sized place will not be big enough for them to live in.

Xue Ji's tears welled up in her eyes and she kept thanking him, but Fu Shi just smiled in a sarcastic way.

Xue Qingzhi looked at all this and felt inexplicably upset.

He had enough to worry about at court, and he didn't want to spend any more time on the trivial matters in the rear house.

He looked at Fu with his hands behind his back, "It's getting late, Madam, go back and rest."

Fu sneered and glanced at Xue Sui and her daughter, then knelt down to salute, snorted and turned her head, "Yes, Master. I am leaving now."

Xue Qingzhi watched her leave, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something to Xue Sui, but in the end he didn't say anything and walked away.

The room fell silent, and Xue Ji held Xue Sui's hand with emotion.

"Sixth sister, did you hear that? Your father spoke for us. Your father, he knows how to cherish you."

Xue Sui heard her sobbing with excitement, raised his eyebrows slightly, and smiled without reaching his eyes.

"Yeah, he can be a good guy, too."

When she left Youhuangju that day, she told Li Zhao that if he was not dead, he would let her take advantage of his power, and she was not joking.

The assassination at the winter relieving party happened just as she said.

Two dancers took advantage of the prince's drunkenness, danced in front of him, and attacked him with poisoned sleeve arrows.

The attendants of the Eastern Palace ambushed on the side and captured two of the assassins alive, while the rest committed suicide by drinking poison on the spot.

In a rage, the prince took away all the officials and musicians who were at the party, beat them like pigs without any trial, and then sent them back, which caused an uproar in Shangjing...

Afterwards, the prince fulfilled his promise and impeached Xue Qingzhi at the court meeting.

It is said that Minister Xue abused and abandoned his own daughter, disregarding moral principles and being worse than pigs and dogs.

The current Emperor Chongzhao favors Concubine Xiao, and he loves Prince Duan and Princess Pingle, the two children born to Concubine Xiao, even more.

Everyone knew about this, but the emperor was most afraid of being accused of being biased.

The emperor needs face.

The emperor was upset by the prince's insinuations. He could not find a reason to be angry with the prince, so he took it out on Xue Qingzhi. He not only scolded him in front of all the civil and military officials, but also fined him a year's salary.

Xue Qingzhi was Prince Duan's father-in-law, so no one was surprised that the prince picked on him. No one would think that he was standing up for a little dancer's daughter.

Xue Sui did not expect that Li Zhao would go crazy and come to the court, giving her father and his father a heavy blow.

But she really benefited from it.

No matter how reluctant Xue Qingzhi was, he had to swallow his pride and try to "care" for his lost and found daughter.

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　　Li Zhao: Xue Ping'an, did you see that? The prince is the prince. The author has tried so hard to add drama to me.

　　Xue Sui: Why be so narcissistic? Is there no mirror in the East Palace?
　　Li Zhao: I’ve taken the photo. He’s very handsome!
　　
　
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