Chapter 10

TRANSLATED BY MYPEN_22

"No wonder you don't understand, you're a fool who can't understand anything!" A young woman's voice rang out in the garden. Yan Shi looked in the direction of the voice and saw a young declining girl leading a boy of about seven or eight years old, followed by two maids and two old mothers, slowly walking in from the entrance of the garden.

    This should be the eldest Miss Hua Luyao and the third young master Hua Wei of the Kangle Mansion.

    Hua Ling lowered his head and muttered in a low voice, "Why do you say that about me too, sister."

    "You have disgraced your aunt and our Kang Le Mansion, how come I can't say that?" Hua Luyao looked arrogantly dominant as she walked step by step, getting closer and closer to Hua Ling, "Also, how many times have I said, don't call me sister, I don't have a brother like you."

    Yan Shi frowned, his wangfei situation in his mother's house seemed to be more difficult than he had imagined, ah.

    "You fool! Big idiot! Beat you to death, you big idiot!" Hua Wei, who had been following Hua Luyao honestly, suddenly stepped on his short legs and raised his little fist to strike at Hua Ling's body. Although he was only eight years old this year, he had been raised round and fat, and his fists made a thumping sound on his body, which made him feel painful just by looking at him.

    Yan Shi clenched his fist, but finally held back.

    Hua Ling shouted as he dodged, "Third brother, what are you doing hitting me!"

    "I'm hitting you! I'll hit you!" Hua Wei was short and all these punches landed solidly on Hua Ling's waist, "Who made you a fool!"

    "Alright, alright, go and get your brother back," Yang said falsely.

    Hua Luyao waved towards Hua Wei, "Little brother!"

    Hua Ling, who was an adult at any rate, had just been punched a few times by Hua Wei without defending himself, and was now running to put a little distance between him and Hua Wei, who was unable to catch up and was furiously stomping his hands and feet, or to hit Hua Ling again, naturally refusing to listen to his sister.

    When Hua Wei was unable to catch up with Hua Ling, he started to bawl. When Yang saw her baby crying, she was so distressed that she winked at the maids, who ran over and took Hua Wei in their arms and brought her to Yang.

 Yang took Hua Wei in her arms and ordered the maids to bring over a bowl of soup to relieve the heat before she stared at Hua Ling, who was standing at a distance, and said, "Are you such an elder brother? You've learned to bully your younger brother after not seeing him for a few days!"

    "I didn't ..." Hua Ling dawdled over little by little, "He hit me first, and I didn't hit back."

    "You actually tried to fight back!" Hua Luyao seemed to have heard some big joke, "Mother, do you see, this is the good son you have raised. Have you read all those rules you were taught in the past into your dog's stomach? It's only natural for an older brother to be considerate of his younger brother, but what if he gets heatstroke after running after you for so long in this heat? What if he gets sick? And look at how you've made him angry, what if he gets sick? He's so young, what would he do if he hit you a few times? You've grown so old for nothing, but you're not as smart as an eight-year-old. If you hadn't made a mistake, would little brother have beaten you?"

    Yan Shi narrowed his eyes, this ability to turn black and white upside down was really impressive. This theory sounded reasonable at first, but no one with any judgement would be convinced by this sophistry.

    But Hua Ling had been listening to this kind of sophistry since he was a child, so naturally he did not think there was anything wrong with what Hua Luyao had said, and he was desperately trying to put the blame on himself. As Yan Shi had predicted, Hua Ling's face was immediately filled with guilt as he slowly walked over, "Then, I'll let my little brother beat me up a few times to get out of it."

    When Hua Wei heard Hua Ling say this he twisted his fat body to get out of Yang's arms, Yang naturally wouldn't let go. Hua Wei ran to Hua Ling's side and raised his two little fists and punched him several times in the stomach. Hua Ling didn't move, but when Yan Shi saw his furrowed brow, he knew he must be in pain.

    When Hua Wei had finished punching him, he giggled and ran to Yang's side.

    "Don't blame Mother and your siblings," Yang spoke up at this point, "we're all doing this for your own good. Now that you're married, it's not like being in this house. You must be careful in what you say and do, so as not to displease anyone."

    Hua Ling bowed his head and said respectfully, "I know that you are all doing this for my own good, and I remember it in my heart. If I were really angry, then I would really be too insensitive and let down Mother's kindness."

    Yang smiled in satisfaction, "It's good that you know that."

    Yan Shi laughed coldly, finding Yang's face more and more repulsive, and feeling more and more sad for Hua Ling. Someone who always tried hard to escape from the devil's cave, but failed repeatedly, was not the saddest. What was saddest was someone who didn't even know that the place he was in was the Devil's Cave.

    Yan Shi mused in his mind that he should be kinder to his Wangfei.

    "There is another thing you did wrong," Yang said, "How could you cry out loud on the day of the wedding without regard to the etiquette?" Yang was referring to the fact that Hua Ling cried when he received his farewell in the main hall but lost the tablet of his birth mother.

    This incident was known to all the dignified people in the court, and there were many people pointing out at once, and until now Yang did not dare to go out of the house to talk to those noble women.

    So ... so ... I later felt that I was a bit impulsive at the time and didn't do enough."

    Yang's full colour sank and she coldly snorted, "Am I not your mother?"

    Hua Luyao also helped at the side, "Mother, you have raised him for so many years, listen to what he just said, really wolf heart and dog lungs, you are worse than a dead man."

    These words were so rude that they were even more unacceptable to Yan Shi than the beating Hua Ling had just received. Hua Ling's mother was the original spouse, and although she was dead, she was still above Yang's status. Even Yang had to kneel and worship the tablet when she entered the house, and she could not forget to make offerings on New Year's and festive occasions. She was just a young lady, how dare she speak like that!

    Perhaps it was the experience of his own mother's death that made Yan Shi's sympathy for Hua Ling deeper. He wanted to rush out and stand up for his wangfei, but his clenched fist loosened again, he still wanted to see how his wangfei resolved the matter.

    Hua Ling was really no longer like he was a moment ago, but he wasn't as tough as he could be: "Sister, how can you say that about my mother? Even Mother can't say that. I will be hurt if you talk like that, but if you apologise to me, I will forgive you." The mother in the first refers to his birth mother, and the mother in the second refers to Yang.

    Hua Luyao snorted a laugh, "What a joke, who am I to apologise to you? Did I say something wrong? You have disgraced the entirety of our House for a dead woman ..."

    "Slap!" A loud slap sounded in the air, interrupting Hua Luyao's next words.

    Hua Luyao covered one side of her face and looked at Hua Ling unbelievably, "You, you're crazy! How dare you hit me!"

    Yang watched with her own eyes as her daughter was beaten, Hua Ling had struck so quickly that by the time she reacted Hua Ling had already finished the blow.

    Yan Shi exhaled in relief.

    "Big brother! Big brother! Big brother you're back!" Almost as soon as the words hit the ground, a young male burst in at the courtyard door in a blaze of glory. This man was about the same age as Hua Ling, and Yan Shi realised that this must be the second teenager, Hua Xu. Now several of Hua Qiancheng's sons and daughters were all here.

    "Second Brother." Hua Ling answered, his voice a little muffled.

    "Big brother! How about you marrying over? Did the king treat you well? But has he suffered any hardship," Hua Xu turned Hua Ling over and over and looked around, "If he dares to bully you, tell me and I'll go and help you take revenge."

    Hua Ling's voice was still muffled, "I'm doing okay."

    Yan Shi raised an eyebrow, this second young master didn't seem to be the same as the others.

    "Second brother!" When Hua Luyao saw that her brother had returned, she covered one side of her face and walked over and pointed at Hua Ling, "He hit me!"

    Hua Xu was also surprised that his elder brother, who usually had the best temper, would hit someone.

    "Second brother, he hit sister, that's him, you quickly help sister out!" Hua Wei also ran over to Hua Xu and pointed at Hua Ling and complained, hating to go and hit him again himself, but was caught by Hua Xu's fat body.

    "You must have done something too out of the ordinary," Hua Xu said with certainty, "otherwise big brother wouldn't have hit you. Even if big brother had hit you by mistake, it wouldn't have mattered. Mother once said that an elder brother is like a father, so if father had hit you, would you still want to hit back?"

    "This ..." Hua Luyao was dumbfounded by Hua Xu's words.

    "Where have you been this time? Why are you only back now?" Yang tried to steer the topic away, "I heard that you weren't at the mansion last night."

    Hua Xu scratched his head and blushed a little, "I just went out to have a drink with some friends and I didn't come back until it was too late."

    Yang's son, who was obviously her own child, was the least like herself. The way she treats Hua Ling, Hua Luyao and Hua Wei understand, and are very good at playing with her, one in the face and one in the other. But Hua Xu defended Hua Ling in every way, as if he was born from the same mother as Hua Ling.

    Yang wanted to raise Hua Ling to be a rich and unscrupulous son, but instead of that, she raised her own son to be a spendthrift and unmotivated flower boy. He is so old that he doesn't even want to take a merit test, and he doesn't want to get involved in the business of the Hua family. But he is still his own son, and he will have to be given the position of Duke of Kangle in the future.

    Yang wanted to say a few more words, but then Hua Xu looked at Hua Ling and said, "Big brother, what just happened? Tell me, I will decide for you."

    If he had drunk less last night, he would have been able to catch up earlier today.

    Hua Ling huffed, "Second brother, my sister, she insulted my birth mother."