Red Mansion: Picking up a Lin Daiyu

Chapter 24 Beating Baoyu
"Jia Baoyu, won't you explain it to me?"

Yue Ling threw the tomboy he was holding out, and then he heard a cry of "ouch", and a group of young men came forward to help.

"Brother Ai, who is he?"

The tomboy was still a little unconvinced and wanted the brothers around her to seek justice for her.

The people around him were also indignant, and they provoked Baoyu, saying, "This must be Yue Ling. Second Brother Bao, we are all here to support you, so please don't lose face. Think about our backgrounds. Why does he, a personal guard of the royal palace, show off in front of us?"

"Yes, Brother Bao, cheer up!"

Baoyu was very afraid of Yue Ling, but since everyone was here, he was unwilling to lose face, so he raised his head, straightened his body, and said, "Yue Ling, I was ordered by my ancestor to come to see my cousin, what's wrong with that? Everyone has heard that His Royal Highness Prince Kang won a great victory at the border, and you, a servant of the Prince of Qin's mansion, won't be able to be so arrogant for a few days!"

The idiot was so stupid that it really made Yue Ling laugh.

"Jia Baoyu, don't forget how your ancestors started. The old dukes of the Rong and Ning mansions were all servants of Emperor Gaozu and his guards. According to what you said, the old duke Rong is now guarding the nine borders, so he is a watchdog?"

"Today, I must teach you a lesson on behalf of your ancestors!"

Yue Ling kicked the two servants of the Jia family who were trying to stop him, knocked them to the ground, drew out the scabbard of his sword, and hit Baoyu hard on the butt. In an instant, Baoyu was unable to stand steadily and spun like a top.

How could Baoyu, with his delicate skin and tender flesh, endure the blow? He could only hold his head and cry bitterly after being hit by the scabbard. After being hit a few more times, he didn't even have the strength to cry.

Yue Ling looked at the group of playboys again, and just a glance made them gasp.

One of them retreated repeatedly under Yue Ling's gaze, choking with sobs, "How dare you hit me? My father is Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding!"

Another boy who was about his age immediately gave him a slap on the head, "Are you stupid? What's the point of bringing up your father? Baoyu's grandfather is a duke, won't he still get beaten?"

"Ah, what should I do?" The frightened young man cried, holding his head.

"What else can we do? Run!"

Seeing the group of playboys, they fled the courtyard as fast as they could, completely ignoring the tomboy who was sitting on the ground among them and couldn't stand up.

"Eh?! Big brother, second brother, wait for me!"

The situation took a turn for the worse, and before the tomboy could react, she looked at Jia Baoyu, who was crying and holding his butt beside her, and swallowed her saliva, begging for mercy with a red face, "Can you not spank me?"

Yue Ling was in no mood to pay attention to her. He said to the Jia family servants who were not daring to move, "What are you looking at? Why don't you get out of here?"

At this moment, everyone felt as if they had been pardoned. They took Baoyu and the tomboy out of the door and disappeared in a moment.

After everyone had left, Lin Daiyu tentatively walked out of the room, and said with a worried look on her face: "The old lady dotes on him very much. Brother Yue beat him, and Rongguo Mansion will not hold him accountable, right?"

When they broke into the house today, Yue Ling did not draw his sword and attack them directly. It was because he had accepted the King of Qin's mission and did not want to create any more trouble, otherwise how could he let them get away so easily.

If they really got in the way of Lin Daiyu, even if their respective fathers came, it would not be so easy for them to leave.

"No problem. Right and wrong are on our side. Even if we go to court, there is no reason to break into an empty house."

Lin Daiyu adjusted her swing and was delighted to see that no one had touched her. She sat on it happily and waved to Yue Ling, "Brother Yue, give me a push."

Yue Ling nodded, came behind Lin Daiyu and accompanied her on the swing.

Lin Daiyu unconsciously raised the corners of her mouth, "Fortunately, I haven't been touched by other men."

Yue Ling smiled and said, "That one just now was a girl."

"Girls?"

Lin Daiyu paused, looked back at Yue Ling, and asked in confusion: "Why is a girl wearing the same clothes as a boy and running around on the street?"

Yue Ling shook his head, "Maybe she likes it."

Lin Daiyu nodded, "Maybe." Seeing that Lin Daiyu looked a little worried, Yue Ling guessed, "You want to go out too?"

Lin Daiyu shook her head repeatedly, "No, I don't want to yet. Going out now will only cause trouble for Brother Yue."

Yue Ling thought about it. When Lin Daiyu entered the capital, she looked around curiously along the way. A little girl who never left the house would naturally be curious about what the outside world was like. "There will be a chance to go out."

Lin Daiyu nodded silently, and started swinging on the swing again, enjoying the momentary comfort.

And what happened today also gave Yue Ling a thorough wake-up call.

He had to accomplish something, seek a high position, and set up a residence in the capital. Otherwise, he would have to worry about Lin Daiyu's safety every time he left the house.

"Brother Yue, are you worried?"

"No, I was just thinking about you."

The two of them were as warm as a painting, but the parrot standing alone at the side was feeling uneasy and clutching the corner of his clothes tightly.

She followed Lady Jia's instructions and came here to look after Lin Daiyu's daily life. Now she was suppressed by Yue Ling and dared not breathe. Rather than worrying about her future life, she still wanted to be kicked out by Yue Ling and return to the Jia Mansion safely...

“Is this the place I should be…?”

……

Rongguo Mansion,
Upon hearing the news that Baoyu was beaten outside, everyone in the house was alarmed.

Everyone carried the immobile Jia Baoyu through the Chuihua Gate, where Grandmother Jia, Mrs. Wang and others came out crying to greet them.

When she lifted up Baoyu's trousers, she saw a swelling about a finger high on his buttocks, which felt like a knife cutting into Grandmother Jia's heart.

"Beast, beast! Someone, come here, what's going on?"

The Shi family, the Wang family's children, and the Jia family's servants, who had just followed Baoyu to cause trouble, walked in with their eyes watching their noses and their noses watching their hearts.

Seeing everyone acting like frightened quails made Grandmother Jia even more angry.

"Speak, are you all mute?"

Baoyu's foster brother Li Gui knelt down first, choking with sobs, and said, "We were ordered by our ancestors to deliver something to Miss Lin. General Yue was not at home at the time, so we broke in. When General Yue came back, he had an argument with us, and then we started fighting."

"General Yue is the commander of the guards in the palace. It is well known that he has the courage to fight against a hundred people alone. We are really no match for him."

Jia Zheng, who had hurried over, heard what Li Gui had said and sighed, "This, this can only be blamed on ourselves. We can't go through the door of the host's house to deliver something."

Grandmother Jia doted on Baoyu, but she was not stupid. She glanced at the dandies and angrily said, "How could Baoyu be so uneducated as to break into someone else's house? Who of you instigated him?"

As for the historian, none of the Wang family members dared to speak.

Grandmother Jia said angrily: "Take them all out and give them ten lashes!"

When they saw that the real attack was about to begin, they knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Grandfather, we know we were wrong. Who knew that Yue was so difficult to deal with?"

"Grandfather, please stay here, ah! Aunt, please save us!"

At that moment, screams spread outside the second gate. Grandmother Jia's anger eased a little, and then she glared at Shi Xiangyun, "You are always naughty and fooling around with them. Go to the warehouse to get the medicine, and you will be responsible for taking good care of Baoyu and applying medicine to him every day!"

Shi Xiangyun, with tears in her eyes and her hands in her pockets, replied in a low voice: "Yes, ancestor..."

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