271. The old man who practices Taoism (2) (1/2)

271. The old man who practices Taoism (2) (1/2)

Mr. Wei, who was feeling aggrieved and suffocated, was covered with a piece of cloth on his face by his own father. He could still smell the smell of blood on the tip of his nose. He grabbed the cloth off his face and saw a man with a beard. His face was full of anger but he dared not speak.

However, he wanted to settle the matter, but Wei Mingyan directly threw the remaining cloth on Mr. Wei's head again, with a very dissatisfied expression, "If you take it off again, you don't have to be my son."

As he said that, the white-faced old man who refused to grow a beard even though he was fifty years old snorted coldly, "Why did I give birth to a son like you? It's not enough to have your wife at home, and I have to provoke women outside. It's really embarrassing." "

Master Wei had a thought in his mind. He was thirty years old, and his eyes were almost red with grievance.

He is different from his biological father because he has witnessed those Yingying Yanyans in his biological father's courtyard who like to use various methods but are suppressed by his biological mother since he was a child. In addition, he has been forced to take on the responsibility of supporting the family since he was young, and he has always been trembling with fear. Now Mr. Wei has no intention of taking a concubine.

In order to accuse him, he actually made up such an unfounded crime, which made Master Wei feel even more sad.

Besides, even if he really took a concubine, his father who brought women into his home one by one has no right to say such things to him!

Grievance is a grievance, Mr. Wei did not dare to take off the cloth from his head. If the old man really said in anger that he would leave without his son, his official position would be over.

It's sad to think about it. In other people's families, even if there is no loving father and filial piety, the father will inevitably have to plan for the children. When it comes to him, not only can he rely on himself, but he also has to devote his attention to taking care of the family.

"If father has nothing else to do, I will leave now."

Holding the cloth on his head, Mr. Wei tried his best to calmly pretend to be "I'm obedient, dad, please don't make trouble." He was planning to ask his wife to call a doctor as soon as he got out of the yard.

Wei Mingyan said coldly again, "You can leave if you want and leave this woman behind."

woman? Where are the women?

Mr. Wei was stunned and subconsciously looked back to his left and right.

Because the old man wanted to avoid women when he was cultivating immortality, all the servants in the courtyard were young boys, and there were not even any maids. Where could he find women?

He looked carefully and saw that his father's eyes were clearly staring at his side.

It was full of "contempt that the bad son actually brought a woman into his home."

When Mr. Wei came back, his servants reported that something had been wrong with the old man since the death of the warlock. He originally thought that his father and the warlock had a master-disciple relationship, and he should be somewhat sad.

Unexpectedly, I was so sad that I started talking nonsense.

The old man who was crazy in the eyes of Mr. Wei was still angrily scolding his son, "Your wife has taken care of the housework for you since she got married, gave birth to a child, and is still pregnant with one. Have you ever thought about what would happen if she knew about it?" How sad!”

Mr. Wei: "...Father, Madam, she gave birth last month and gave birth to a daughter, named Zaoniang."

The old man, whose face was full of righteous anger, paused, then calmly retracted the hand that pointed at his son angrily, "As a father, of course I know, I just said it deliberately to see if you knew."

After saying that, seeing that Mr. Wei was still arguing, Wei Mingyan rolled his sleeves and said, "Kneel here and get up whenever you are willing to tell the story about that woman."

Mr. Wei looked at his father with an expression of anger but did not dare to speak, which made him raise his eyebrows in displeasure.

In the end, he knelt on the ground in frustration.

Wei Mingyan frowned, "Don't kneel in the shade, go under the sun."

Today's weather is already hot. Mr. Wei has been afraid of the heat since he was a child. He walked along specially selected shady paths. Now after listening to his father's words, he could only move reluctantly and kneel under the sun.

Fortunately, since he was his biological son after all, his father still sent someone to give him a futon to put under his knees.

Feeling the soft futon under his knees, Mr. Wei was moved for a moment.

Even if he is crazy, he is still worried that he will break his knees.

The father really still has his son in his heart.

***

The news that the old man, who always stayed in the courtyard and did nothing, punished Mr. Wei, who went to greet Mr. Wei, to kneel down quickly spread to the ears of the mistress of the house.

Mrs. Wei had just finished her confinement and was smiling and teasing her infant daughter when the news came. When she found out about it, she suddenly became anxious.

"Hurry up and change my clothes. I want to go to the old lady's place."

It stands to reason that it is not easy for a daughter-in-law to see her father-in-law, but there is no elder in the house who can persuade her, and the old man does not know why he is angry. In addition, in the eyes of Mrs. Wei, this father-in-law does not seem to be measured. If Wei is allowed to The master broke his knees...

She rushed to plead for her husband in a hurry, but the mother-in-law who brought the news came to Mrs. Wei's ear with a worried look and whispered something to her.

The expression on Mrs. Wei's face suddenly became strange. She glanced at the nanny beside her suspiciously. After getting her affirmative nod, her expression changed several times, and finally she drove away the servants around her, leaving only one person behind. This grandma.

"Are you telling the truth?" When only the two of them were left, Mrs. Wei frowned and asked, "Did the old man really punish him because he had a woman outside?"

"It's true, madam. The old slave heard what the old lady's waiter Lu Zi said. He really heard it. The old lady also said, I'm sorry for you, madam!"

Mrs. Wei had just given birth to her child for only a month, and it was a time when she was easily sentimental. After hearing these words from her grandmother, her eye circles immediately turned red. She took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes, then choked and said, "I really didn't expect that. It was the old man who protected me after such a thing happened.”

"Did you hear the story about the family background of the woman who is away from home? Did she have any children outside?"

Grandma shook her head, "The old man was angry at that time. He only said that he was sorry for his wife and provoked the women outside. He didn't say anything else."

After she finished speaking, seeing the sadness in Mrs. Wei's eyes, she quickly advised, "Madam, please don't be too sad. The master was released before, and there was no one around him. He didn't blame him for being taken advantage of by those little prodigals. He just looked at him since then." After your wife married into the Hou family, you can see that the master has always treated you the same."

Mrs. Wei also knew that it was normal to have three wives and four concubines. When she first married, she did not expect that Mr. Wei would not want other women. It was just that he refused to take concubines for so many years, even though she had just married three wives. Nian was childless and never blamed her. The two of them supported each other until now. They thought it would be like this in the future. Who would have thought that this would happen.

She was a little flustered. It would have been okay if she had made such a fuss when she first entered the house. After all, she was young and beautiful at that time. But now, Mrs. Wei looked down at her belly that had not yet been emptied due to her previous pregnancy, and felt full of worry. It's uneasiness.

What's more, she was pregnant when Mr. Wei was sent out before, and the sister-in-law in the house was about to get married and couldn't leave her, so she didn't go with him. Even the birth was arranged by herself. Now she has been with her husband for such a long time No, it's a bit bloated. It can't compare to the vixen he raised outside.

After all, Mammy was old. She could tell at a glance that Mrs. Wei was panicking. She was afraid that she might not think straight and make a mistake, so she quickly comforted her and said, "Madam, let me see, that woman can't achieve anything. Just look at our old man's attitude." Well, the old man had such a good relationship with the old lady. After she passed away, he never set foot in the backyard again, so he must not like the women outside. "

Mrs. Wei hesitated, "But before I entered the house, I heard that the old man fell in love with the elixir..."

"Just listen to these words." Mammy said categorically, "The old man fell in love with elixirs before the old lady passed away. If he said that he was not close to women in order to practice Taoism, he had brought many women into the house before."

"I'm afraid that the old lady will be too sad when the old lady goes away. Madam only looks at it. After you enter the door, you can catch a glimpse of the old lady only a handful of times when he steps out of the yard. If you look at it again, the old slave will say nothing. What I heard is that the master is an official outside and raising a woman is nothing. Why does the master need to be so angry? I guess..."

Mammy looked around carefully, then leaned into Mrs. Wei's ear again and told her her guess.

Mrs. Wei was even more shocked. She covered her mouth with a look of disbelief on her face, "Is this really true?"

Mammy nodded affirmatively, "Nine times out of ten, that's the case."

Her guess was also very simple. It was just that when the old lady was there, the master didn't know how to cherish it, and carried women to the room one by one. As a result, when the concubine left, he began to regret it, and then he made the decision to let the concubine go home. Wait for me to get married.

"If this is really the case, madam should be happy. Even though the old man has been silent, it is probably because he has never done anything extraordinary before. Isn't it because he has raised a woman outside that he is angry this time? Isn't it because he has raised a woman outside? It’s because of the old lady that I protect you, my wife.”

Mrs. Wei originally didn't think much about it, but after being reminded by her grandma, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that she was right.

She had been childless for three years after she got married. If this were other people's families, even if the parents-in-law were not in a hurry, they would send women to the house one by one. But in the Marquis Mansion, there was only one elder like the old man, but he never said a word to Mrs. Wei. , so that she could spend those three years peacefully.

In the past, Mrs. Wei only thought that her father-in-law was addicted to monasticism and was not interested in these worldly things, so she didn't interfere. But from the sudden punishment of Mr. Wei today, it seems that she has always been aware of the goings-on in the house, but she has never reprimanded her childless daughter-in-law. That’s all.

She also always felt that the old man didn't care about the family too much, leaving the younger generation to shoulder the responsibility...

Mrs. Wei felt grateful and guilty at the same time. She was full of complex emotions. She was angry that her husband was raising a woman outside the home, but she was also distressed that he was kneeling in pain. After hesitating for a while, she asked hesitantly, "In your opinion, should I go?" Begging for mercy from the old man? "

Mammy thought for a while and replied, "Madam, please wait until later. The old man is supporting you. If you go to plead for mercy, aren't you going to slap him in the face?"

"If it's later, the old man has calmed down, and he has learned a lesson and doesn't dare to mess around. If you go there again, by then, he will naturally know that you are the best for him."

While the master and the servant were discussing, Master Wei was sweating from his forehead.

He knelt straight, with the remnants of the cloth his father had thrown up hanging above his head. As the sun grew brighter, the sweat on his head was pouring out like water.

Looking at Wei Mingyan again, he asked someone to move a deck chair and put it under the tree. He was lying on it leisurely with his eyes closed and dozing off. A boy beside him was holding a cattail leaf fan and drying it for him unhurriedly.

Mr. Wei's knees didn't hurt, they were just hot. He took a careful look at his father, who seemed to be asleep, and relaxed his back a little.

"Kneel down."

The old man, whose eyes were obviously closed, suddenly shouted loudly. Mr. Wei was startled, straightened his back quickly, and continued to watch with sweating profusely.

It’s evil.

The father clearly didn't open his eyes, so how could we know that he didn't kneel properly.

On the recliner, the old man, who looked younger than his son with a long beard even though he was over fifty, yawned, opened his eyes slightly, and tilted his head to look at Master Wei who was kneeling in the sun.

Behind him, who was sweating profusely, was the shadow of a woman, with a pair of blood-red eyes full of hatred.

As the sun became stronger and stronger, the woman's eyes gradually became more sober.

Sensing something was wrong, she slowly got up in confusion, walked lightly to the front of Master Wei and looked at his face.

Not her enemy...

Then why did she follow him.

Looking at Master Wei again in great confusion, the woman endured the stinging pain of the sun shining on her body, and hid under the shade of the tree with a confused face.

"That's enough."

Wei Mingyan yawned again, stood up and stretched, "Get up, go cover the pinch marks on your neck, and then change into my clothes, it's embarrassing to be dirty."

Master Wei stood up with a confused and aggrieved face.

He was sweating all over because he was punished to kneel.

What pinch marks?

My father is really crazy.

It was not until he entered the house and stood in front of the bronze mirror that Master Wei was shocked to see the purple pinch marks on his neck.

He had his father's fair skin, and he would feel pain for a long time after any injury on weekdays, but the large patches of horrible marks on his neck did not hurt at all.

Just at this moment, Wei Mingyan pushed the door open.

Master Wei immediately looked like a tadpole who had found its mother. He looked up at his neck in panic and said to his father, "Father, here, here..."

"Hmm?" The old man squinted and looked at it for a while, as if he was a little disgusted with his son's fussing, "What are you making a fuss about?"

"Here, here..." Master Wei was shocked and stammered for a long time before he said a word, "It doesn't hurt here..."

"Oh..." Wei Mingyan nodded in understanding, "Take off the talisman on your head and try."

Master Wei obediently reached out and took off the piece of cloth that had been hanging on his head.

Instantly, his neck shrank in pain. A 30-year-old man, he shed a few tears in pain.

It hurts, it hurts so much——

"Really, I've never seen such a request."

Because he didn't have a beard and was well maintained, the old man, who looked younger than Master Wei, shook his head in confusion.

"How can anyone like pain?"

Master Wei hung the piece of cloth on his head again with shaking hands.

"Father...Father..."

The old man looked unfathomable, "You are an ordinary person, you don't need to know so much."

Master Wei was frightened for a moment.

He is an ordinary person...

In other words, father is not an ordinary person? ?

"But because you are my son, I can still tell you a lot of things."

Master Wei's pupils suddenly contracted and his heart beat rapidly.

He was ready to accept this big secret——

"The premise is that you have to give me money."

The author has something to say: The last chapter was revised again after midnight, and some plots were added at the end. The little angels who bought it before midnight can take a look.