Chapter 808: Chapter 808: Death by Misadventure Chapter 808: Chapter 808: Death by Misadventure “Old Master, don’t be angry. Little Young Master is still young and doesn’t understand. Perhaps in a couple more years, he will better. Let’s not hit him, his body is already frail; if anything serious happens, how are we going to explain to Old Madam when she returns?” Uncle Zhong stood without moving, earnestly persuading.

Situ Zhi is the only scion of the General’s Mansion. Since birth, Old Madam has doted on him enormously. As the saying goes, she treated him like a treasure she feared might fall from her hands and like something so precious she feared it might melt in her mouth. If she found out that Situ Yongjie was whipping him, wouldn’t that turn the heavens upside down?

Hearing this, Situ Yongjie hesitated for a moment, uncertain whether to rescind his command.

“Situ Yongjie, dare to hit me, and grandmother will not let you off when she returns.”

Despite his young age, Situ Zhi knew very well that within the General’s Mansion, the person with the most authority was Old Madam. Sometimes, even Situ Yongjie, the head of the family, didn’t dare to disobey her orders. Hearing Uncle Zhong’s words, he felt like he found a powerful backer, raised his chin, and looked disdainfully at Situ Yongjie, acting extremely arrogantly.

The anger that Situ Yongjie had just suppressed flared up again.

This little brat actually dared to address his father by his full name, he was really asking for trouble. Today if he did not teach him a lesson, the boy wouldn’t know that his father was named Situ Yongjie.

“Uncle Zhong, go, bring me the whip. Today, if I don’t whip him to death, he won’t know his father is named Situ Yongjie.” Situ Yongjie, born a Military General, had a naturally explosive temper. Provoked by this unbearable child, he was aflame with rage and was determined to beat him.

Uncle Zhong was in a dilemma: “This… ”
Little Young Master really had no sense of situation, the Old Master had just relented, but he courted disaster on himself by adding fuel to the fire.

“What are you standing around for? Hurry up and fetch it!” Situ Yongjie roared again at Uncle Zhong.

Situ Zhi glared fiercely at him, and with a voice clear and crisp, yet with threatening undertone, said, “You old servant, dare to fetch the whip, when grandmother returns, I will have her sell you off.”

This only infuriated Situ Yongjie further, and he yelled again, “Go fetch it now!”

“Yes.”

This time, Uncle Zhong didn’t try to shield him. This unbearable child indeed lacked discipline and did not treat the servants as human beings.

“You old servant, if you dare to bring the whip, I will have grandmother flay your skin and extract your tendons.” Seeing Uncle Zhong actually walking away to get the whip, Situ Zhi panicked, standing there shouting at the top of his lungs.

Thinking of slipping away but surrounded by several guards who were watching him like hawks, he had no chance at all.

Quickly, Uncle Zhong returned, holding a pitch-black whip in his hand.

“Old Master.” Uncle Zhong presented the whip to Situ Yongjie with both hands.

Situ Zhi stood there cursing at him: “You dog of a servant, when grandmother comes back, she definitely won’t spare you.”

Uncle Zhong stood next to Situ Yongjie, as if turning a deaf ear, silent.

“Someone! Hold him down for me.” Situ Yongjie was too angry for words.

Xuexue sat leisurely to the side, stroking the fur on the tiger’s head.

Situ Zhi deserved a beating. If it weren’t for her timely discovery, Qi Miao would have been poisoned.

In her previous life, at the age of nine, Situ Zhi was a person of twisted soul, not yet of age but already keeping a chambermaid.

Of course, nobody outside knew of these matters, as Lady Tang kept it tightly under wraps; many maids who knew about it died unnatural deaths.

Even more, once, she accidentally heard from Lady Tang’s closest Maid, that Situ Zhi had even killed several maids.

In her previous life, Xuexue, having learned this shocking news, dared not to spread the word, for fear of displeasing Lady Tang.