Chapter 83: Impressive might, different degrees of punishment (1) (2/2)

Han Yunxi laughed. “Second Madame still means to say that I’m being disobedient right now?” Lady Xu was speechless again. She didn’t even know what to say as her elbow knocked against Official Ouyang.

“Esteemed wangfei…” Official Ouyang was about to plead, when Han Yunxi raised a hand to stop him.

“Official Ouyang, you said just then that offending a superior was 50 beatings. You weren’t lying to this wangfei, were you?”

Shocked, Official Ouyang saw her seriousness and feared that he’d be blamed. He quickly shook her head. “I wouldn’t dare, wouldn’t dare. It really is 50 beatings.”

“Then when Han Yuqi cursed wangfei as a slutty woman, this should count as offending one’s superiors, right?” Han Yunxi asked again.

Official Ouyang could only nod his head. “It does count.”

“Since it does and he did it twice, shouldn’t he be caned 100 times?” Han Yunxi said severely.

Han Yuqi felt paralyzed by the words, his energy leaving his body as his mind turned blank. Lady Xu was so terrified that her face turned ghastly pale, eyes looking towards Official Ouyang with a warning! But so what if she warned him? Official Ouyang didn’t dare displease Han Yunxi and refused to meet Lady Xu’s eyes.

“Official Ouyang, take the man outside and carry out the punishment!” Han Yunxi didn’t give them time to catch their breaths. 100 beatings could kill a person. Compared to a caning, slapping was nothing. They only had two choices: to slap, or to accept 100 beatings.

“Slap him!” With no choice, Lady Xu abruptly rose to her feet and spoke in a rush. “Esteemed wangfei, this brat should be slapped! Soundly slapped!”

Before Han Yunxi could insist on the caning, she went forward and grabbed little Chen Xiang’s hands. “Girl, you go slap! Slap him!”

Chen Xiang abhorred this mother and son pair and immediately wrested her hands free. Slowly and calmly, she spoke. “As a girl, I have small hands, while the eldest young master has thick skin. There’s no telling whether my hands will swell up before his face does.”

Han Yunxi laughed in secret. So this little Chen Xiang had a poisonous tongue, too!

After hearing that Chen Xiang wouldn’t slap him, Han Yuqi was scared witless and sat on the ground without moving. Lady Xu couldn’t stop her eyes from looking gloomy as she mentally calculated in her head. Her eyes turned red with tears from the conclusion.

“Yunxi, just spare your little brother this once, I’m begging you…”

Beg? Pretending to be pitiful?

Han Yunxi’s lips curled up into a sneer as she turned towards Helian Zuixiang, who was still unconscious. If begging actually worked, then this poor mother wouldn’t have been threatened with a strip search. If begging actually worked, then she wouldn’t have suffered so much from childhood to adulthood.

Han Yunxi viciously flung Lady Xu’s hand aside and renounced all pity. “Official Ouyang, take the man away!”

“No! Don’t!” Lady Xu shouted, blocking Official Ouyang. “I’ll slap him! I’ll slap him myself! Yunxi, I’ll punish him with my own hands!”

Afraid that Han Yunxi wouldn’t give her the chance, she gave a ferocious slap to Han Yuqi’s cheek without the slightest hesitation. Pah! What a loud, bright sound.

This slap fully woke up Han Yuqi, who tried to cover his face. But Lady Xu said coldly, “Someone hold him.”

The surrounding servants were completely stupefied, but hearing Lady Xu’s words, two of them came to hold Han Yuqi in place.

“Mother…”

As soon as Han Yuqi opened his mouth, Lady Xu slapped him again.

Pah!

Such a loud sound made the surrounding servants shake with fright. Official Ouyang didn’t dare to even look and turned his head aside. These two slaps made left red palm prints on Han Yuqi’s face that slowly started to swell. Lady Xu’s hands hurt, but her heart hurt even more. She treasured her son! She had never let herself, much less Han Congan, slap her son like this. But today she had to do it with her own hands. They were trembling from the impact, but her heart had long shattered into pieces. Han Yuqi only felt like his face was on fire, so pained that he didn’t even dare to touch the skin.

This is enough, right?

“Esteemed wangfei, it’s swollen. Completely swollen,” Lady Xu said, choked with sobs. She wanted to walk up and slap Han Yunxi!

It really was swollen, but compared to the wounds on Han Yunyi’s back, they paled in significance. Did Lady Xu really want to settle accounts by using two slaps to replace 100 beatings?

Han Yunxi glanced at her and spoke, “This wangfei already said, you’re not the ones to say whether or not his face is swollen!”

What?

Han Yuqi almost wanted to cry at these words. Lady Xu had started crying long beforehand, but she didn’t dare argue. She could only grit her teeth and continue. Left slap, right slap, on and on it went.

Pah! PAH! PAH!

The sounds of impact were sharp and intense against the skin. Lady Xu’s hands ached and Han Yuqi’s face hurt as mother and son devolved into a crying mess. But Han Yunxi still didn’t tell them to stop. In the end, none of the surrounding servants could look at them anymore as their hearts filled with dread. This eldest young Miss…no, to be exact, this Qin Wangfei wasn’t someone to be pushed around. They’d all made an error in judgment!