Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 1761: Chapter 1762: He Deserves a Beating!

An Yiqing still didn’t speak, but shot a complex glance at Tobanya.

Tobanya didn’t understand what that glance meant and just looked at Meng Zhuqing. Meng Zhuqing sighed and said, ”I asked him on the way, but he still wouldn’t say.”

Finally, Xiao Changyi, sitting in the main seat, spoke up: ”Qinger, he says that because he didn’t pay you his respects in time, you immediately beat him up. Is that true?”

”Bullshit!” An Yiqing rarely cursed. Of course, these words weren’t directed at Xiao Changyi but at Young Master Shen.

Xiao Changyi barely noticeable frowned; he didn’t like his son speaking so crudely, but this wasn’t the time to worry about it. He only asked, ”Then why?”

An Yiqing fell silent again, glaring fiercely at Young Master Shen.

”Qinger, speak up!” An Jing was anxious seeing An Yiqing like this.

Tobanya was anxious as well.

Xiao Changyi didn’t expect An Yiqing to remain stubbornly silent, but he knew his son at least a little; his son wouldn’t hit someone for no reason. The problem was, without his son speaking up, how could he clear his son’s name?

With these thoughts, Xiao Changyi decided to steel his heart: ”An Yiqing, I’ll ask you one more time, why did you hit him?”

An Yiqing immediately said, ”He deserved it!”

”Why did he deserve it?” Xiao Changyi asked right away.

An Yiqing fell silent again.

”An Yiqing, if you don’t speak up, I will have to deal with you with family discipline,” Xiao Changyi threatened.

He had never hit his children. He just wanted to use this method to get his third son to explain the situation.

The Minister of Revenue is an important position and can’t be handled carelessly.

An Yiqing, already furious, was now even more aggrieved at the thought of his father using family discipline on him, his eyes reddening. Then, angrily pointing at Young Master Shen, he shouted at Xiao Changyi, ”It’s clearly his fault! Why are you disciplining me?! If he and his companions hadn’t been gossiping, saying that my godmother is a chicken that can’t lay eggs, would I have hit him?!”

Upon hearing this, Tobanya burst into tears, tightly embracing An Yiqing, too upset to say a word.

Meng Zhuqing was also deeply distressed.

An Jing and Xiao Changyi felt equally uncomfortable.

Young Master Shen began to tremble, looking extremely terrified.

Minister Shen was greatly alarmed and hurriedly kowtowed again, saying, ”Your Highness, Third Prince, please be careful with your words. My son was beaten because he failed to greet His Highness in time; he never said anything about the Commandery Princess.”

Xiao Changyi’s eyes were as cold and sharp as an icy sword, and his voice was even colder: ”Be careful with my words? How could a dignified Third Prince possibly make false accusations?”

Minister Shen was instantly too frightened to say another word, fearing for his life.

An Yiqing again shouted angrily, ”It was indeed him who said it! He was gossiping! I stopped him, told him not to speak, and he claimed that his parents said it themselves, that it was true, so why couldn’t he say it? Then I hit him! Miao Miao was with me at the time; he heard it too. I’m not lying. You can ask Miao Miao! It was him gossiping with others!”

Miao Miao is Li Wuyu and Wang Youbao’s eldest son, Wang Haomiao, six years old.

Minister Shen turned white. He hadn’t expected things to be this way. He initially thought it was indeed because his son failed to greet An Yiqing in a timely manner. And now, this even involved him and his wife...

”Absurd,” Xiao Changyi said in fury, ”A dignified Commandery Princess, gossiped about in private like this by you all!”