Chapter 8: The Family Law

 After Xie Shi'an finished asking for peace, he still had to go to the academy for classes.

He would go over there every day more than half an hour earlier than the prescribed time, and read and practiced calligraphy with great diligence.

 He was about to go.

 At that moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the yard.

 Yun Chou's brow furrowed.

Listening to the wind hurriedly walked in from outside: "Madam, the second young master has taken a fancy to the crickets in Chen Bo's hands, what can we do about this?"

At the mention of crickets, Yunchu's mind drifted to that powdered milk ball from yesterday.

Though the boy had no upbringing manners popping up on her and making a fool of himself, somehow she couldn't muster any disgust.

 She got up and headed for the courtyard.

At daybreak, the aunts brought their brothers and sisters to ask for peace, and the courtyard was quite lively.

It so happened that Chen Defu came with a cricket cage, and the two groups of people bumped into each other, so Xie Shiyuan saw the cricket.

 Eight year old Sheshiwan lifted his chin and commanded, "Bring me the crickets!"

Chen Defu was full of difficulties: "Back to the words of the second young master, this cricket is specially ordered by madam to find the old slave to give ..."

"Bring it when I tell you to, where's all this nonsense!" Xie Shiyuan hummed out a breath from his nose, "Mother has always been the most generous, how could she not spare a cricket!"

"Wow, this cricket looks awesome!" Four-year-old Xie Shiyun's eyes opened wide, "Second brother, can I play cricket with you?"

 Xie Shiyuan was a bit displeased.

Mother has always loved her third brother the most, and he has everything he wants, but he even came to snatch a small cricket from him ...

 "You're a little kid who knows how to play, step aside!"

 He glared at Xie Shiyun and walked towards Chen Defu.

In the end, Chen Defu was only a subordinate, and he knew that Madam had always favored these young masters.

He wasn't sure that the lady would give this cricket to the second young master and then ask him to hunt for another one ...

 As he hesitated, the cage in his hand was snatched away by Xie Shiyuan.

As soon as Xie Shiyuan opened the cage, the cricket jumped out of the cage and ran towards the grass on the side.

 "How dare you run!"

 Sheshi Butt throws down the cage and heads for the top.

The eight-year-old boy was at his most dexterous, and he lunged upward, crushing the cricket under his palm.

He got up from the ground, and as soon as he raised his eyes, he saw Yun Chou standing on the steps not far away.

 He saluted quickly, "Mother."

Only then did the others in the courtyard notice that Yun Chou had come out, and they bowed their heads in greeting.

 Yun Chou's gaze fell on Xie Shiyuan.

Xie's second youngest did not inherit Xie Jingyu's smart and hardworking, stubborn by nature, do not like to read, eight years old and still do not want to go to school.

He sleeps until sunrise every day, and it's not bad if he comes to ask for peace three or four days in a half-month.

Although Xie Shiyuan was not her favorite child, she was never biased, and she did her best to raise and educate each child ...

Xie Shiyi reading no good, she let her elder brother use the power of the Yun family to send this son into the barracks ... It is also because of this wrong decision, so that Xie Shiyi has the right to freely enter and exit the Yun family barracks, that sit in the Yun family rebel evidence is hidden by Xie Shiyi personally in her father's letters to and fro ...

 Thoughts tumbled, and the aura around Yun Chou was a bit appalled.

 Xie Shi'an, who was standing behind her, was keenly aware of the change in her mood.

"Shiwei." Xie Shi An stepped forward and spoke in the posture of an elder brother, "Taking away the crickets without permission is not what a gentleman would do, my Xie House has a family of books, your behavior like this will bring shame to the Xie House, if grandfather and father knew, they would definitely punish you for facing the wall, don't be quick to put the crickets back in the cage and apologize to mother!"

 Xie Shiyuan first glanced at Yunchu.

Usually at this point, the mother would say it's just a cricket, no big deal, and let him take it and play with it.

 But now, the mother had a sullen face and a somewhat frightening look in her eyes.

 He had to loosen his grip.

"Huh, why isn't the cricket moving?" Xie Shiyun on the side exclaimed, "Oh no, the cricket seems to have been muffled by Second Brother!"

 Sheshi Butt fiddled with it, and the cricket didn't move a muscle.

 He frowned, "How can you die so easily ..."

 "On your knees!"

 Yun Chou coldly spat out two words.

 Xie Shiyuan couldn't believe it, "Why?"

"Over the years, it is because I have been too indulgent to you that you have developed this lawless nature!" Yun Chu's voice was stern, "Taking without asking is stealing, the law of our dynasty is written clearly, those who steal will be tattooed on their foreheads, this is the shame of a lifetime, how do you let your father get a foothold in the officialdom, how do you let your elder brother read to go on the career path ..."

 "I didn't steal anything!"

Xie Shiyuan was a little flustered, and as stubborn as he was, he knew he couldn't press a theft charge on himself.

 "Mother, I was just being playful, I was wrong and I will never do it again ..."

Obviously, he had taken his mother's things like this before, and she just smiled and let him take them.

 Why so much hustle this time ...

But he didn't dare to ask more questions, and could only obediently admit his mistake, hoping that his mother wouldn't take this matter any further.

Yun Chu slightly sidled her head and looked at Xie Shi An at her side: "Brother An, what do you think, what should be done about this?"

Xie Shi An hung his head and said, "Knowing one's mistake and being able to change it is a good thing, since Shi Wei knows it's wrong, let him compensate for one at the original price."

 Xie Shiyuan had a bitter face.

How could the elder brother, who shares the same mother with him, not help him plead for mercy and even offer to let him compensate for one.

How can he have money to compensate his mother when all his money goes to food and drink? Isn't it difficult for him?

Yunchu smiled, "Ange, do you know who I brought this cricket to?"

 Xie Shi'an shook his head.

"It's for the youngest son of the Pingxi King's residence." Yun Chu's smile suddenly disappeared, and said in a cold voice, "My things, but brother's son took it, we are all family, I will not care! But, what is the status of the King of Pingxi, you should have heard of it, the young son of the King of Pingxi's residence, can our Xie family afford to mess with it? If you don't punish him properly, do you think he'll learn to remember?"

 Xie Shi'an was staggered to the core.

Mother even hitched her wagon to such a gentry as the Pingxi Wangfu, I'm afraid that she has gone through a lot of trouble.

The crickets that had been so hard to find to please the young Seiji had died at the hands of Seiwei, so it was no wonder that his mother was so furious.

 Xie Shi'an spoke slowly, "Then let's dispose of it by family law."

Yunchu curved her lips, "It's true that it's still Ange'er who recognizes the big picture, come on people, on the family law."

"Don't!" Xie Shiyuan's eyes widened in horror, "I don't want the cricket, I don't want it! I'll pay for the crickets, can't I ..."

When the Xie family opened the house, they set up a rule that if you make a big mistake, you must go to the family law and start with twenty big boards.

Before a granny colluded with the outside boy to embezzle the Xie family silver, was directly disabled by the old lady, never get out of bed.

 This incident left a huge psychological shadow in Xie Shiyuan's mind.

 He's afraid he'll be beaten to a pulp and that he'll never get out of bed again ...