"Unfilial son! You unfilial son!"
In the main hall, Xue Dingyi knelt on the floor with his eyes lowered, not daring to make a sound.
The entire Xue Residence was silent as cicadas in winter, with only Master Xue Chengquan's roaring voice echoing through it.
"If someone else hadn't told me, I wouldn't even know you'd caused such a huge disaster outside! Four months, and tuition alone cost a hundred taels of silver. I even paid another fifty taels for your medicinal materials! And what have you trained? Huh? Loitering around outside, refusing to make progress, stirring up trouble, defiling servant girls at home, defying your elders and dishonoring your parents, indulging without restraint in wine and women—how did I give birth to such an unfilial son?!"
Xue Dingyi craned his neck. "How did I defile a servant girl? Qiu Hua seduced me first. She even coquettishly told me to drink brown sugar water."
"You—you!"
Xue Chengquan pointed at Xue Dingyi's nose with a trembling finger, so enraged that his face turned the color of gold paper and his features twisted out of shape.
"Oh, my son, please stop talking." Mother Xue cried out anxiously from the side.
"You shut up too! If you hadn't helped hide it from me, how would I only be finding out now? Two days, a full two days! Going out every day to fool around—I thought you were going to the Martial Arts School! Turns out you were going to brothels!" Xue Chengquan turned to the servants around him and bellowed, "Stuff his mouth and beat him half to death!"
The servants trembled like quails, but they did not dare disobey. After all, the master of the household was still Master Xue.
They could only pin Xue Dingyi to a bench and raise the