At this time, Zhao Zhibai's wariness gradually disappeared and he could not help but feel pity for Su Xiaoguan's situation.
"Actually, brother, why should you care about him? Even if he is kind to you, you don't have to threaten him and ask for repayment. Don't you hear the words of the sages, 'Give kindness without asking for repayment and don't regret it?' This Master Bao makes everyone laugh when he says one thing and does another."
Already."
Su Jin said with a sad face: "How dare I disobey an official who is just a common man? As a punishment officer, my brother, the eunuchs can naturally stand upright while the common people can only bow their heads and listen to me."
Zhao Zhibai said: "Brother, please don't envy me. This is fate. Everyone is destined to fate. You were born into a merchant's family and I was born into an official's family. This is all dictated by fate."
Su Jin cursed in his heart: **You just say that you have a good life and I have a bad life, and it’s over. You actually talk about fate in front of me. I am a red student with a good education in dialectical materialism. It’s strange that you will brainwash me.
"Yeah, that's true. But actually, I was quite worried about you just now, so I took it upon myself to bring my brother here to talk." Su Jin began to deceive you step by step.
"Brother, are you kidding? What do I have to worry about? What else can Bao Zheng do to me? It's really a big joke that he wants to teach me a lesson."
"Hey, what do you say? Logically speaking, my father is the punishment officer, and his rank should be Bao Zhengzhi?"
"They are both in the fourth rank, but in some aspects they have greater powers and responsibilities than the prefect." Zhao Zhibai said with a smile on his face.
"Oh, he is such a big official and has no subordinate relationship with other officials, so there is no need to be afraid of him. But I seem to hear a little hidden information from other people's words. I wonder if I can analyze it for my brother?" Su Jin said sincerely.
"Come to think of it, I really want to know why I am afraid of him, Bao Zheng."
Su Jin spoke eloquently: "I just heard that some students were talking privately about Brother Tai, saying that Brother Tai was brought by the executioner himself and handed over to Mr. Lu to prepare for the imperial examination. I don't know whether it is true or not.
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"Yes, that's right. My father sent me to see Mr. Lu in person. Does this have anything to do with it?"
"According to my inference, your father must have high expectations for your brother. Otherwise, why would you come and write a note in person during your busy schedule? I can just ask you to bring it yourself. This shows that your father must be extremely concerned about your brother's examination."
I hope Xiongtai can have a good future, right?"
"This... you guessed it right." Zhao Zhibai hesitated and admitted, feeling slightly frightened.
It turned out that Zhao Zhibai’s old man almost chased him with a knife and chopped him in the back because of his book. He was tutored by famous teachers at home, but Zhao Zhibai punished them all and quit the library. Mr. Zhao, who came from a poor background and worked hard to become an official, had an unlucky child.
I am already extremely distressed. In addition, Mr. Zhao behaves badly on a daily basis and he does not go out to do anything. At home, he has been messing with the maid in the Gougou Mansion. Recently, he even flirted with the concubine Xin Na, the executioner of Zhao Ti.
Master Zhao was really cruel. The family scandal could not be publicized and he could not be punished publicly, so he locked Zhao Zhibai in a room and beat him severely with a hemp rope for two days. Zhao Zhibai almost became an idiot Zhao. Several empresses (mothers) in Zhao's family begged to do this.
I released him because I remembered Mr. Lu, a highly respected scholar among the students in Luzhou City, so I personally sent him here to ask Mr. Lu to discipline him and stay away from home to prevent him from returning to his old ways and doing something scandalous.
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So Su Jin's heart trembled when he mentioned his father, Zhao Zhibai, and the scars on his body that had healed began to ache faintly again. Although he was his only son, the old man was unambiguous in his actions.
Su Jin saw him admitting that the punishment officer had high expectations for him and then said: "Since the expectations are high, the discipline must be very strict."
Zhao Zhibai trembled and nodded in agreement.
Su Jin said mysteriously: "Do you know the relationship between Master Bao and Master Tixue?"
"Isn't it a teacher-student relationship? Didn't Master Bao once worship Master Lu like me?"
"You don't know something." Su Jin said scornfully: "These two people are not only teachers and students, but also relatives. Bao Zheng's aunt's sister-in-law is Master Lu's maternal niece. This is true.
A relative of Tao."
Before Zhao Zhibai could wrap his mind around the relationship between "Bao Zheng's aunt's sister-in-law is Master Lu's maternal niece," Su Jin said: "You think that with this relationship, you and Master Bao would fall out, wouldn't it?
If you don’t give Mr. Lu face, of course you are the son of the executioner, so you don’t need to give them face. But if Mr. Lu listens to Mr. Bao’s instigation and informs your father about this matter, I wonder what your father will think?”
Silk~! Zhao Zhibai took a breath and the scar on his body began to itch again.
"What makes me even more worried about you is that if Mr. Lu turns against you and cancels your imperial examination quota without giving you the qualification to take the imperial examination in Luzhou Prefecture, haven't you learned all your poetry and economics in vain?"
"He dares!" Zhao Zhibai stormed off.
"Why don't you dare?" Su Jin sneered: "Just now you were rude to the two adults. This is what everyone has seen with your own eyes. What Bao Zheng just accused you of is the first of the six arts. If you are not respectful, it violates the most important etiquette of this dynasty.
Being a civil servant but having no authority and no respect for teachers, it is considered a light thing to be deprived of the qualifications for the imperial examination."
Zhao Zhibai was dumbfounded. They did not expect that the matter would be so serious when it came to Mr. Su's mouth, and he would argue: "Master Lu, really dare to do this? He is not afraid of my father..."
"Don't talk about these useless things. Let's not talk about the current official. Why don't you take a step back and say, how do you know that Mr. Bao and Mr. Lu will have no backstage when they meet each other? Would your father be so stupid that he would fall out with each other over this matter?
Besides, you are rude, Mr. Lu and Mr. Bao are taking the blame. When the time comes, your father will probably knock out his teeth and swallow them. You may have a chance to deal with them, but haven't all the anger at the moment been spread on you? I'm really sorry for you, brother.
I'm so sweaty." Su Jin shook his head and sighed, looking extremely helpless.
"This..." Zhao Zhibai was dumbfounded. It seemed that this matter was going to get serious. He could completely imagine that if the consequences Su Jin said happened, his father would not be able to get around him. The first time he was beaten with a hemp rope for two days, and this time it might be a whip or a knife.
None of these are terrible. What is terrible is that if my father locks him up for a year and a half and is not allowed to leave the room and stuffs a lot of stuff into him, it will really cost him his life.
"This... what should we do?" Zhao Zhibai muttered, with big beads of sweat rolling down his face.
"Actually, it's easy to solve." Su Jin reached out and grabbed a small yellow flower and twisted it around in his hand without even looking at him.
"Please... Mr. Su, teach me." Zhao Zhibai grabbed Su Jin's sleeves and shook them as if grasping a life-saving straw.
"Why are you pulling so hard?" Su Jin scolded.
"This..." Zhao Zhibai scolded the villain in his heart! He immediately returned it to me after I just said this; but at this moment, he doesn't care much about his requests.
"If I ask for some advice from you, I will definitely repay you."
Su Jin reached out and put the small yellow flower on the brim of Zhao Zhibai's hat, looked at it for a while and sighed: "People are thinner than yellow flowers..."
Zhao Zhibai didn't dare to move because he was afraid of offending Su Jin. Even Su Jin's ancestors had scolded him for eighteen generations.
"There is only one way to apologize." Su Jin looked at Zhao Zhibai and said.
"What? You want me to apologize to them? No, absolutely no." Zhao Zhibai didn't expect such a bad idea, his face turned red and he shook his head as if he had taken an ecstasy pill.
Su Jin said: "Why not? If you are rude and apologize first to make up for the fact that you are an official and a master, what impact will it have on you?"
"This is too shameless, no, no, no." Zhao Zhibai firmly disagreed.
"Then you have to find a way to deal with your father and say goodbye!" Su Jin packed his fists and walked away.
"Hey, hey, hey! Master Su, stay here while we discuss it." Zhao Zhibai said anxiously.
Su Jin stopped on the trail: "If there is something to discuss, this is the best way."
Zhao Zhibai argued strongly: "How do I know if they will forget about it after apologizing? What if they still want to plot against me, then I will lose everything?"
Su Jindao: "Do you think they are all shameless people? No matter how bad they are, they are still official figures. Since you have apologized and they plot against you, they are causing trouble for no reason. Do you think they are fools? They offended your fourth-rank official for no reason.
Are you talking about the executioner dad? Don’t worry, I guarantee they won’t pursue it again.”
"You guarantee it?" Zhao Zhibai asked.
"I guarantee it!" Su Jin said with a smile: Do I have such a big face? This guy is completely confused.
Zhao Zhibai finally gave in and said dejectedly: "Then just follow what Brother Su said..."
Seeing his sad smile, Su Jin's stomach almost turned. She sighed and pulled his arm, saying, "Unsatisfactory things happen in life. Brother Zhao, this is your fate." dd