Chapter 70: They caused trouble

June 26, 2023Ai Hrist

Xiao Laoda puffed out his chest when he heard the other party’s question.

He looked very arrogant as he said: “I am the elder brother of General Weiyuan. If you have the ability, arrest me, and let’s see who will be in prison in the end.”

The guard looked at him and sneered: “Don’t be ridiculous, General Weiyuan will have a beggar elder brother?”

These words hit the lungs of the main Xiao Family: “We were robbed by bandits on the way here, so we look like beggars.”

“But we are indeed relatives of General Weiyuan. If you don’t believe me, you can go and call Xiao Yuanshi here at the gate of the city.”

Xiao Laoda turned around and helped Old Man Xiao: “This is his father. If he dares to deny his parents, he will be unfilial.”

Xiao Dalang on the side pointed to the road: “I am the nephew of General Weiyuan, you can go and ask, this is the place where my second uncle was born.”

The guard looked at the group of people who looked like beggars, but they looked confident, so he was a little hesitant.

If they were the family of General Weiyuan, but they stop them from entering the city, it would be bad to offend the general’s mansion.

But if these people were lying, and they just come to the capital to beg, that would also be bad.

So the two guards got together and muttered together.

One of them looked at the main Xiao Family and said: “Do you know where General Weiyuan’s Mansion is?”

Xiao Laoda shook his head: “I don’t know, this is our first visit to the capital.”

“Didn’t you ask General Xiao to send someone to pick you up? Or wait for you at the gate of the city?” One of the guards asked.

Xiao Laoda scolded Xiao Yuanshi in his heart. How could that bastard be so kind and send people to pick them up?

If he knew they wanted to go to the capital, he would block them directly.

But of course, this cannot be said: “We have already written a letter before we set off. Who would have thought that we will encounter bandits on the road, which delayed us for several days.”

The guard stood up and said: “Okay, then I’ll take you to the General’s Mansion.”

If these people were family members of the General’s Mansion, he could gain a favor by taking them there.

If not, he will send these people to jail for a few days.

The group of people scolded them for being blind just now, but they remembered it.

Old Man Xiao coughed lightly: “Then I’ll trouble you, Little Brother.”

Now what was more important was to find the general’s mansion first.

So a group of people, led by the guard, walked to Jingcheng South Street.

South Street was full of dignitaries who have risen in recent years.

The city gate was not close to South Street, it takes nearly half an hour to walk.

The main Xiao Family was all dressed in rags. There were more than a dozen people, old and young, and among them were a few children who couldn’t move and cried.

Therefore, wherever you go, it was an attractive scene.

Someone was curious and asked, the main Xiao Family proudly said that they were family members of General Weiyuan’s Mansion.

Especially when the old lady met someone who asked her, she cried and complained, implying in her words that after her second son became prosperous, he only thought about his beloved wife, but ignored their relatives in the village.

This was Shi Qinglou’s teaching to them. After arriving in the capital, they should intentionally or unintentionally publicize Xiao Yuanshi’s unfilial behavior.

She said it was necessary to use public opinion to put pressure on Xiao Yuanshi first and to preemptively strike.

As long as the other party doesn’t want to be checked by the censor, he has to take care of them on the surface and doesn’t dare to kick them out.

But if they arrive in the capital and there was no movement. No one will know if her second son suddenly sends them away secretly, and they can’t do anything about it.

Originally, Old Lady Xiao thought that telling others that her second son was unfilial, was bad and digging pit to her son.

But after meeting bandits, she suffered a hardship she had never experienced in her entire life, was suffocated, and was looked at with strange eyes. She couldn’t bear this grievance.

So she couldn’t hold back and used what Shi Qingluo taught to add fuel and vinegar.

Xiao Yuanshi was an unfilial bastard, so it was just right to scold him.

Sure enough, the people on the road were all amazed. They really didn’t expect that this was the family of General Weiyuan, and General Xiao was indeed a little unfilial, otherwise, how could he let his parents beg to come to the capital?

When it was almost time to arrive, several teenagers in brocade robes were walking around the street with their servants.

They saw a group of beggars walking towards South Street.

One of them pinched his nose in disgust: “Where did you come from, South Street is not the place for you to beg for food, stay away.”

Several other people also looked at it with disgust.

It was very heartbreaking for the members of the Xiao Family to be regarded as beggars again.

Xiao Dalang was about to collapse.

Thinking of what Shi Qingluo told them, his second uncle was a newly promoted powerful general who was deeply favored by the Holy One.

So he bluffed and glared at the boys: “We are the family of General Weiyuan, and we cannot tolerate your slander.”

“Believe it or not, I will ask my second uncle to send you all to prison.”

He learned what the city guard said before and put it into practice.

The faces of the teenagers changed when they heard this.

It was not that they were afraid of the so-called thing ‘going to jail’, but by the words ‘we cannot tolerate this insult’.

A young man sneered, “What a general air, I’ll see if General Weiyuan dares to send us to jail.”

Their family was also either a new dignitary or a big family, not much worse than the general.

Their elders were not vegetarians.

A young man sneered: “That’s right, he’s just a general, does he treats himself like a special dish.”

This young man was a son of a famous family from East Street, the son of the Duke’s Mansion.

When Xiao Dalang heard that he humiliated his second uncle: “Don’t be too arrogant, just wait, I will let my second uncle fix you, so that you can’t eat and walk around.”

He was used to domineering in the village, and the main Xiao Family favored him. Since Xiao Yuanshi became a general, many people went to the county to support him.

His young spirit, coupled with suffering so much along the way, broke out.

Anyway, Shi Qingluo said, even if they caused trouble, his second uncle will clean up the mess.

The young man was very angry: “I’ll let you go for now.”

So he waved his hand and asked the servant to go up and beat people.

This young man was a well-known dandy in the capital. Especially, his aunt was the Empress Dowager, so everyone walked sideways in the capital when they see him.

He can’t bear to meet a beggar who was more arrogant than him.

So the servant rushed forward without hesitation and beat Xiao Dalang.

Old Man Xiao and Old Ladt Xiao were so distressed to death when they saw their eldest grandson being beaten.

Old Man Xiao asked his two sons and other grandsons to go up, while Old Lady Xiao also took the female relatives to tear up the servants.

Soon, there was chaos nearby.

Xiao Erlang even took advantage of everyone’s inattention to rush up and punched the leader.

Although he hasn’t eaten enough recently and his punch was not heavy, the young man was beaten by him.

A group of teenagers and servants went straight up to fight.

Even the people in the yamen made a fuss.

No way, the person who caused the trouble was the most favored playboy in the Duke’s Mansion.

At the General Weiyuan’s Mansion.

Xiao Yuanshi has just returned home and was talking to his lovely wife.

When suddenly, the housekeeper came to report.

“General, someone from the Government came to report something.”