nycdaug Chapter 174 Education
Chapter 174 Education
Su Rudong was not intimidated by Zhou Ning, but spoke with the attitude of a superior: "It seems that you really need to learn the rules."
"After all, I am also your elder. Who taught you to talk to your elders like this?"
Shen You put down his chopsticks, suppressed his anger, and said, "A Ning grew up in my family, so naturally she was brought up by my family."
"Miss Su implied that Ah Ning was uneducated. Ultimately, she looked down on me, the county lady."
Shen You rarely regards herself as a county lord, and never uses her power to oppress others.
Because in her concept, everyone is equal. She has always kept her distance from such feudal hierarchical concepts, and she does not agree with or respect them. However, because of her life here, she never says anything against it in public.
It's not like she would use her status to oppress others so coldly as she is doing now.
Su Er, who had been silent just now, spoke up at this moment, saying, "Rudong, how did you learn the rules in your daily life? You have completely forgotten the hierarchy. Hurry up and apologize to the county lady."
Shen You snorted coldly and said, "No, the one you should apologize to is not me, but Ah Ning."
Su Rudong apologized to Shen You, which could be said to be an apology to the county lord, but if he apologized to Aning, it would be an elder apologizing to a younger person, and Su Rudong would be somewhat embarrassed.
Zhou Ning looked at Su Rudong indifferently, wondering how she would react.
Moreover, young ladies like this are generally very shrewd. Even if someone dislikes me, they will treat me a little better because of their reputation and will never rashly make things difficult for me.
So why was she targeting me so obviously?
"Father, I am Aning's elder..." Su Rudong resisted stubbornly.
Su Er slapped Su Rudong in the face and said sternly, "Rebellious girl, I asked you to apologize, so you apologized. How dare you talk back to your father?!"
Chunlai, who was standing by, immediately knelt down between Su Er and Su Rudong, and cried bitterly, "Master, please don't hit the young lady. She just cares too much about the order of seniority."
After saying that, she quickly pulled Su Rudong's dress and cried, "Miss, just apologize to the master."
Zhou Wan couldn't bear to see the little girl kneeling on the ground crying, so she wanted to go up and pull her up.
After Chun said this, he kowtowed to Zhou Ning again, shouting, "Cousin, please forgive my young lady."
This series of actions happened so fast that everyone present was stunned.
Even Zhou Wan, who was about to help Chun Lai up, stood there in a daze, unable to think straight.
Only Su Er and Su Rudong were still acting.
Su Rudong quickly stopped Chunlai and wiped Chunlai's wound with a handkerchief. Then, as if he was holding back great grief, he said to Zhou Ning: "A Ning, I beg you, please forgive me."
Zhou Ning and Shen You exchanged glances, looked at Su Rudong, pointed at his brain, and said silently: Is there something wrong with your brain?
Shen You looked at Su Rudong who was unconvinced but submissive, Chunlai who was kneeling down, and Su Er who was full of anger, and an idea gradually formed in his head.
No way?
Just as I was thinking about it, a male voice came from outside. The voice was seven parts arrogance and three parts concern.
"Your Su family is really lively. I haven't seen such tormenting methods for a long time."
Shen You looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man wearing a golden crown and purple robe striding towards him. He held a folding fan in his hand, opening and closing it, opening and closing it, looking very pretentious.
Situ Dai closed his folding fan and watched the beautiful Su Rudong crying.
To be honest, the Su sisters are all very pretty.
Su Mingxia is bright and charming, while Su Zhiqiu is gentle and quiet.
Su Rudong is different from the previous two. She has a plump figure and skin as white as cream. She is usually steady and dignified like a lady from a noble family, but at this moment she is so delicate that people feel a little pity for her for no reason.
Moreover, unlike other delicate and pretty ladies who were weak and frail, and who were obviously trying to please men, Su Rudong was dignified and did not look like a lady who would go out of her way to please men. Her crying at this moment seemed more genuine.
This stubborn look of not wanting to cry really hurt Situ Dai's heart. He imagined the scene of his legitimate daughter being bullied by outside relatives and wanted to wipe her tears.
Su Rudong stepped back slightly, her voice calm but with a hint of tears in it: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
For this escape, Situ Dai not only did not blame her, but felt a little more pity for her.
Yes, she is a proper lady from a noble family. Different from the singers I usually order, she is very particular about etiquette. I should understand.
Su Da and Su Er both nodded slightly to Situ Dai and said, "I pay my respects to His Majesty."
Situ Dai was a member of the royal family of the previous dynasty. After the current emperor ascended the throne, he did not kill all the masters of the previous dynasty. Instead, he kept the talented ones in the court as officials, and demoted those who lived off of free food and drink to various places, and gave them a sum of money to ensure that they would have no worries about food and drink for the rest of their lives.
Situ Dai is one of those people who just eat and drink for free. He doesn't like gambling or having fun, but only likes all kinds of beauties.
It is difficult to judge whether this person is a good person or not.
He lingered in brothels and took advantage of the situation to seduce many girls from good families with money, but he would never marry them and would just stop having fun with them.
But he never took anything by force, which was reasonable. When facing Su Rudong who had been keeping him hanging, he would try to take advantage of him from time to time, but he would give up if Su Rudong showed any sign of rejection.
Is this a bad person? It's hard to say.
Seeing the fairy he usually held in high esteem being bullied like this, Situ Dai's desire to protect her suddenly came up, and he said, "Old Su, your family has always been very well educated and I admire you very much. I understand that you are happy to have found your granddaughter, but no matter how happy you are, you can't let a junior make the elder apologize on the spot. If you do this, how can your Su family gain a foothold in Qingzhou?"
"You talk too much nonsense. If you want to take sides, just say so. Why are you talking nonsense here?" Zhou Ning said in a low voice that everyone could hear.
Although Situ Dai was a master of the previous dynasty, everyone usually showed some respect to him. Even if there were people who disliked him, at most they would secretly ridicule him, and no one would say it directly like Zhou Ning did.
Su Rudong thought: She is indeed a country girl, who is as fearless as a newborn calf. She does not know how to conceal her edge and only knows how to be sarcastic in her words. It seems that she is not as difficult to deal with as imagined.
Su Er and Su Rudong have been feeling uneasy ever since they learned that Su Mingxia's two children had returned.
Su Rudong had no male offspring in his generation, and his only son was adopted.
As early as when Su Mingxia was still alive, Su Da expressed his desire to pass the position of head of the family to her.
Now that Zhou Wan and Zhou Ning are back, I wonder if he will miss his daughters and pass the position of head of the family to these two unrelated women.