"Is this..."
Qin Tian recognized the cane at a glance.
It was the very one he'd swiped from his Good Eldest Son, Qin Feng, only for his father to borrow it last time to beat up his second uncle—and then swipe it himself.
"Brother, what are you doing!?"
Qin Qiang's expression changed. Memories of the last beating came rushing back.
He hurried forward to stop the Tenth Ancestor, trying to awaken the man's fatherly love, vast as a mountain.
"What am I doing!?"
The Tenth Ancestor took the cane and snorted. "I'm giving you a beating to teach you a lesson! Do you have any idea how hard it was for the First Ancestor of the Qin Family to rise to power in those chaotic times!?"
"Dad, I was wrong!!"
Qin Qiang let out a pitiful scream as he jumped this way and that to dodge the blows. ??
But the Tenth Ancestor showed no sign of stopping. Whether the cane simply felt too good in his hands or the warning hadn't hit home, he kept striking his own son mercilessly, again and again.
"Whoa, he's really doing it!"
The Second Ancestor of the Qin Family, who had been looking listless during the meeting, perked right up at the sight of Qin Qiang getting beaten.
"Tenth Ancestor, that's enough!"
The other Qin Family elders watched with their hearts in their throats and hurried forward to urge the Tenth Ancestor to cool off.
"I can't cool off!"
The Tenth Ancestor's face was full of fury. "We've only just started enjoying a few good days, and he's already forgotten his ancestors! I have to teach him a lesson today."
"Grandpa, I was wrong!!"
Seeing that fatherly love wouldn't work, Qin Qiang could only look pleadingly toward the Ninth Ancestor.
"That's enough!"
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