Chapter 284: Rong Zhi’s Past 1
Qin Wanwan’s full-force shove directly knocked Rong Linzhong down.
Any normal adult would not have been easily knocked down by a small child, but Rong Linzhong had been lacking in exercise for a long time, and the Dark Guards were also helping from the shadows.
As Qin Wanwan collided with him, several inconspicuous pebbles flew out and hit Rong Linzhong’s leg.
“Ouch!”
He fell heavily to the ground, seeing stars from the pain.
Before he could awkwardly get up, Qin Wanwan jumped and stepped on his belly, her little paws viciously scratching his face.
“Bad guy, bad guy, bad guy!”
Keke also stepped forward to help: “You scumbag, you still want to be Rong Zhi’s father? Go be a beast, why were you even born as a human? You should have turned into a ***!”
Qin Wanwan also used her mouth, biting Rong Linzhong’s wrist.
“Ah!!!”
Rong Linzhong cried out in pain, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was unlucky. A lump of bird droppings fell from the sky, landing precisely in his mouth.
Rong Linzhong clutched his neck and rolled his eyes.
He was so angry that he passed out.
The butler quickly picked Qin Wanwan up: “Master, Master, your body is not well, why are you making such a fuss in this heat? Look, you’ve had heatstroke and fainted. Someone, quickly carry him to the inn to rest.”
It was impossible for them to enter the mansion.
“You… you…”
Yuan Qingfang and her children’s faces turned red with anger, looking as pathetic as could be. Their expressions were very embarrassed.
But before they could finish speaking, they were forcibly taken to an inn by people from the Prime Minister’s Mansion.
Qin Wanwan, being held, kicked her short legs and continued to glare at them indignantly.
The group also looked at her with resentment in their eyes.
Keke: “What are you looking at? Look again and I’ll dig your eyeballs out!”
Qin Wanwan: “Hit you, bad guys!”
After this commotion, Qin Wanwan’s hair and clothes were also messy. She was escorted into the mansion by the Prime Minister’s Mansion’s people.
A maid quickly came to tidy her clothes and comb her hair, her movements extremely gentle.
The kitchen sent over delicious pastries of all kinds, as well as her favorite milk tea.
A servant brought a basin of ice and fanned her with a fan.
The little one was truly well taken care of.
Keke received the same treatment.
Even the An Dark Guard, with his face covered, came out to gently rub Keke’s little paws and tidy his feathers.
Keke slumped onto a chair, acting like a master.
“Lord Keke, your mouth is truly formidable. You scolded them so well today.”
“Lord Keke, you spoke so much today, you must be thirsty. Here, have some water.”
As servants, they dared not scold the masters, but Keke had today uttered all the words they had longed to say.
Keke said proudly: “It’s nothing. If I see them again, I’ll still scold them. A bunch of shameless wretches!”
Everyone nodded in unison.
“However, if today’s events get out, it might harm the reputations of Master and Miss. Those who are at odds with Master will surely spread it far and wide.”
Commoners love to join in the excitement. If they are fed a one-sided propaganda that paints the Rong family in a bad light without knowing the truth, they will surely believe it.
Keke sneered: “Isn’t that simple? They can control public opinion, and so can we.”
“Let’s publicize how those people treated Rong Zhi in the past. I believe that by then, more people will sympathize with Rong Zhi.”
Although people in ancient times valued filial piety, Tianqi’s emphasis on filial piety was not to such an extreme that no matter what parents did, it was right, and a child disobeying parents was a crime.
Everyone still had the ability to discern right from wrong.
“Ah? This, without Master’s permission…”
Keke: “Just write it down first.”
Qin Wanwan nodded while eating pastries: “I’ll listen to Keke.”
Then, the butler took up his brush, and Keke dictated, writing down Rong Zhi’s tragic early experiences in the form of a story.
To be honest, Rong Zhi’s experiences could indeed fill a book.
The Rong family and the Zhou family were allied through marriage. At that time, the Rong family was just a small noble family, while the Zhou family was a merchant family.
Noble families sounded very prestigious, but at that time, the Rong family was only supported by the grandfather. There was no one capable below him, and the entire family was on the decline. Outwardly it appeared luxurious, but internally it was rotten.
They chose to marry into the Zhou family, a merchant family, because the large family could not make ends meet.
Rong Linzhong was the third son of the main branch of the Rong family at that time. He was simply a dandy who only cared about eating, drinking, and having fun.
He was extremely dissatisfied with being forced to marry a merchant’s daughter. Therefore, after bringing her home, he often neglected her and took concubines one after another.
Later, he was infatuated with Yuan Qingfang, who was a courtesan at the time, and took her into his mansion, doting on her greatly.
Yuan Qingfang, who was still a concubine at the time, was very restless, and became even more so after becoming pregnant.
What was unfortunate was that the Zhou family’s daughter and Yuan Qingfang were pregnant at the same time. During her pregnancy, the Zhou family’s daughter was drugged, and she barely managed to give birth to her child during labor, thus injuring her health. Not only could she no longer bear children, but her body also became weaker day by day.
Later, Yuan Qingfang gave birth to a son right after, becoming even more arrogant and overbearing.
The Zhou family’s young lady passed away when Rong Zhi was five years old, and from then on, Rong Zhi became a pitiful child without a mother.
However, with the Rong family’s Old Master presiding, and discovering his talent for studying, he kept the boy by his side and educated him for a period, which was quite good. No matter how arrogant Yuan Qingfang was, she dared not act up in front of the Rong Old Master.
But the Rong Old Master was too old, and he passed away when Rong Zhi was eight years old.
From then on, the only person protecting him was gone, and his life took a sharp downturn.
The dowry left by his mother was seized. He didn’t get enough to eat, didn’t have warm enough clothes, and was bullied by Yuan Qingfang and her children.
Especially after Rong Linzhong, against everyone’s opposition, elevated her to the position of main wife, Rong Zhi’s life became even more difficult.
The Zhou family did provide him with some assistance, but he was, after all, a Rong family member.
Later, at the age of ten, he participated in the Imperial Examination and successfully passed the preliminary examination for a scholar.
However, his status as a scholar did not lead Rong Linzhong to show him any regard or care. Instead, Yuan Qingfang and her son became even more harsh towards him.
This included not letting him eat enough, not providing him with warm clothes in winter, and often finding excuses to punish him, and so on…
Hearing this, everyone present clenched their fists.
Keke continued: “In order to continue his studies, he endured all of this. With the help of the Zhou family, he was still able to continue learning, but without a tutor. Yuan Qingfang, that bitch, would not allow anyone to teach him.
Rong Zhi could only self-study. At the age of thirteen, with the help of the Zhou family, he was preparing to take the examination again. It was also at that time that Yuan Qingfang’s idiot son pushed him into the water and refused to find a doctor for him.
Fortunately, he was lucky to escape. After a hasty treatment at the Zhou family’s, he took the exam the next day while still sick. After the exam, he completely collapsed.”
At this moment, Qin Wanwan’s eyes were red, and large tears were streaming down her face.
Everyone else’s eyes also turned red.
“Wuwuwu… So, so our Master had such a miserable childhood!”
“I regret not joining Miss in beating them up before. How dare they still come to find Master!”
