"Lu Yitong, you dare to hit me?!"
Xiao Qintang covered her hot face in disbelief.
"Hit, what's wrong with hitting you!"
Lu Yitong felt guilty when he hit someone for the first time.
But the servants around him were quietly watching, and his mother was still crying beside him. As a man, Lu Yitong did not allow himself to back down.
He even raised his palm and threatened further, "Xiao Qintang! My patience has limits!
I've tolerated you for long enough these days, don't worry about it!
You usually just have a little temper, but now you dare to contradict and insult my mother. You are too arrogant! "
"You tolerate me?"
Xiao Qintang couldn't believe it.
After being married for so long, she was obviously the one who endured everything, but now that Lu Yitong said it, why was it the other way around?
He also said she was rampant...
Ah.
Xiao Qintang sneered, thinking that since things had reached this point, there was no need to pretend.
It's better to be arrogant than to be bullied!
With this in mind, Xiao Qintang looked at Baoyue and said, "Go and bring me the whip."
"yes!"
Baoyue nodded heavily.
She had long seen enough of her young lady being humble and depressed, and now seeing Xiao Qintang becoming more assertive again, she felt happier than anyone else.
So she immediately opened the camphor wood box of the dowry, took out the whip from the bottom of the box, handed it to Xiao Qintang with both hands, "Miss, here it is!"
"you……"
Seeing Xiao Qintang pick up the whip with a cold face, Lu Yitong's heart tightened, and his legs involuntarily wanted to retreat.
But his mother was blocking him from behind, so he couldn't run away.
So suppressing his instinct to escape, he asked dissatisfiedly, "Xiao Qintang, what are you doing with a whip hidden in your clothes box?!"
"What is hiding?"
Baoyue retorted eloquently, "Our lady comes from a family of military generals. Is it unusual to be given a whip when she gets married? If it weren't for the fear of someone's life, my lady would still want to bring a sword..."
"Shut up!"
Hearing that a mere maid in Baoyue dared to refute him, Lu Yitong felt unhappy, "I'm talking to your lady, when will it be your turn to interrupt! There are no rules!"
"Just shut up!"
Seeing that at this point, Lu Yitong still dared to show off his power to his own people, Xiao Qintang couldn't bear it.
She whipped Lu Yitong hard and started to set rules for him, "Lu Yitong, I'm warning you, don't act like the head of the family! Don't forget who you are today because of." !”
Xiao Qintang's heart bled when he thought of all the money he had thrown at Lu Yitong.
Before Lu Yitong came to his senses, she whipped him again and said angrily: "I have spent tens of thousands of taels of silver on you! Tens of thousands of taels of silver. If I hit a dog with it, it would shake it." The tail is off, but I can't even hear a sound when I hit you! Your mother has been dreaming of stepping on my head and setting rules for me all day long, and she won't let you accompany me back to her parents' house!
What use do I need from you? "
"enough!"
Lu Yitong was furious.
He endured the pain and quickly grabbed the tail of the whip.
Staring at Xiao Qintang, he threatened: "Xiao Qintang, please stop it! You..."
"Why are you still talking so much nonsense!"
Mrs. Zhao was so angry that she interrupted Lu Yitong.
Thinking that the son she had worked so hard to raise was beaten by a woman, she felt itchy with hatred.
Seeing that Xiao Qintang's whip had been grabbed by her son, she immediately rolled up her sleeves, shouted, "I'll fight you, bitch," and stretched out her hand to pounce on Xiao Qintang...
However, before she could meet Xiao Qintang, she was pushed away by Baoyue and several maids accompanying her.
As the saying goes, maids follow their master. They have been with Xiao Qintang for so many years. In the general's mansion since they were young, if not arrogant, they are at least domineering.
Ever since he came to the Lu family, seeing his master being ignored by the Lu family didn't count. Even they themselves were treated as rough girls by Mrs. Zhao all day long, and they had already been holding back a lot of resentment in their hearts.
Now that they saw that Mrs. Zhao actually wanted to beat their master, they were half protecting the master and half venting their anger, so they started to fight with Mrs. Zhao.
"mother!"
Seeing his mother being pulled by the hair and beaten by the maids, Lu Yitong's eyes were about to burst.
He quickly stepped forward and tried to pull the maids away...
At this time, Xiao Qintang flicked his whip and threw him aside.
Then he waved his whip and slapped him.
At this time, the entire Lu residence was completely in chaos.
Those who cracked whips, those who pulled their hair, those who cried and cursed, those who rolled in pain... the servants were stunned to see them.
"What are you still waiting for?"
Lu Yitong shouted angrily.
He ran to the main room, rolling and crawling to avoid Xiao Qintang's whip, while looking anxiously at the boys and maids huddled outside the door.
He pointed at Xiao Qintang and ordered, "Come in quickly! If anyone can take the whip away from her hand, I will reward you heavily!"
"Let's see who dares!"
Xiao Qintang glanced at the servants huddled outside the door while holding the whip, then swung the whip hard...
"Snapped!"
A sound broke through the air.
The servants' teeth ached when they heard this, and they quickly shrank their bodies and knelt down.
Different from the children of wealthy families, they are all newly purchased servants after the Lu family became prosperous. They have no relationship with the Lu family and have not received much training, so naturally they will not have much loyalty.
It would be fine if Xiao Qintang was just an ordinary shrew with no background, everyone would just pounce on her and take her down.
But who told her that her surname was Xiao, and she was General Xiao's sister.
Nowadays, although Xiao Chongjing has been dismissed from his post, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. After all, it is not something that people like them can offend.
What if they make a comeback again?
Moreover, they also know in their hearts that Lu Yitong is currently a freeloader with little money.
In the final analysis, their monthly income still depends on Xiao Qintang's dowry.
I offended Xiao Qintang, what if the money is deducted?
Therefore, no matter how Lu Yitong tried to coerce and induce them, they trembled and turned their five points of fear into ten points, and they still refused to step forward.
Being slapped next to each other made Lu Yitong secretly resentful.
Just when he couldn't get off the stage and didn't know how to change his situation, Xiao Qintang suddenly felt a pain in his lower abdomen and felt sick in his stomach.
She staggered and held on to the chair, unable to help but retching——
"啕——"
