Walking out of the gate, Master Zhang arched towards the Dean, “I wonder what is it that requires the Dean to make a personal trip?”
The other party was after all a dignified person, the dean did not say directly at the door, “It’s about Song Si, let’s find a quiet place to talk about it.”
The matter of Song Si?
One was about his theft of the Zhang family’s jade pendant; the other was about his having someone come to his door to propose a marriage.
Looking at the faces of the dean and Song Si, it was obvious that it was not the latter, so it could only be the former.
Master Zhang narrowed his eyes and made a gesture of invitation, “Please, Dean.”
The dean lifted his feet and entered the Zhang mansion, Song Si followed behind, Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi were just about to follow them in, but they were stopped by a servant, “The two of you just wait outside.”
The servant looked disdainful, letting Song Si in was already for the sake of the dean. As for other cats and dogs, don’t even think about following them in.
Song Si stopped in her tracks at the words and turned back, “She is my sister.”
If it wasn’t in front of the dean, the underlings would have laughed out loud, you were only let in for the dean’s sake, what’s wrong with your sister, just about to dislike Song Si.
“Unbridled!”
The sound of Master Zhang’s reprimand came.
The subordinate immediately collected his look of contempt and lowered his head noisily, retracting the stopper.
Song Wangyue and Gu Yi followed them inside.
It was probably because the threshold of the Zhang family was too high that Gu Yi’s lifted foot hit the threshold and his body stumbled, bumping right into the subordinate who had stopped him, and his panicked foot landed on the subordinate’s foot.
The servant’s scream almost came out, but he hurriedly reached out to cover his mouth and held it in his throat.
Song Wangyue was quick to grab Gu Yi, but after all, she was still young and not only did she fail to hold him steady, she herself stumbled and her foot “happened” to step on the servant’s other foot.
“Ow ……”
The scream came out of the servant’s fingers, and then stopped abruptly.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
Song Wangyue scrambled to apologise, but there was no sincerity in her eyes.
The subordinate was in so much pain that he was completely unable to speak.
Master Zhang and the dean were walking ahead, so they naturally did not see their actions, but they heard the subordinate’s dull screams and could not help but stop and look back, just in time to see Song Wangyue apologising to the subordinate, and the dean’s face sank.
The dean’s face sank. Master Zhang could see clearly and could not wait for someone to drag this ungrateful servant down and beat him up.
“Master Zhang is so disciplined.”
The dean said coldly.
Master Zhang could only accompany a smile, “I am usually busy running business and neglected to discipline the people in the house, so I have made the dean laugh. I will definitely discipline them properly when I return, and you will definitely not have such a thing happen when you come again in the future.”
After saying that, he immediately ordered, “Drag this ungrateful thing down to me and teach it a good lesson.”
The butler hurriedly answered and waved for the subordinate to be taken down.
The master didn’t see it, but he could see clearly just now that it was Song Wangyue’s two things that didn’t know how high the sky was that had kicked out first.
A few people went to the parlour and took their seats.
The dean’s face was unsightly as he took out the key mould and placed it on the table, “Master Zhang, this was handed to me by Zhang Huai’s boy himself, saying that Zhang Huai had instructed them to carve it down secretly the night Song Si came to the house to copy the books ……”
“This can’t be!”
Before he finished his words, Master Zhang immediately denied it.
“Those two boys were caned long ago for not protecting their master well, how could they have handed you this, Dean couldn’t have been tricked, could he?”
The dean held out the two servants’ deeds of sale and placed them in front of Master Zhang.
Master Zhang only took one look at them and his face changed dramatically, “How is this possible? This, this must be a forgery!”
Even if they died and were thrown into a mass grave, the deeds of sale would still be with them.
“Does Master Zhang mean that I lied?”
“No, no, no, that’s not what I meant.”
Sweat broke out on Master Zhang’s forehead.
“Then what does Master Zhang mean?”
The dean pressed.
The evidence was overwhelming, but Master Zhang still denied it, and the dean no longer showed him any mercy.
“Housekeeper! Housekeeper!”
The butler quickly lifted the curtain of the door and entered.
“You go to the young master’s house and bring the deeds of sale of those two boys!”
The housekeeper answered and hurriedly went to Zhang Huai’s courtyard.
It was a hot day, his whole body was wrapped up, and he had to avoid eating, Zhang Huai had been lying down for the past few days, and his fire was not ordinary.
The housekeeper came in a hurry, even though he sensed that the atmosphere in his house was not right, he couldn’t care less, “Young master, the master said for me to come and get the deeds of sale of those two servants.”
“What’s the point of taking their deeds of sale for no reason at all?”
Zhang Huai did not know that the two servants had been caned, and thought that they had been punished and would not come to serve him for the time being.
“Yes ……”
The butler walked up to his bed and lowered his voice, “They told the dean about you framing Song Si.”
“What?”
Zhang Huai forgot about his injury for a moment and jerked to sit up, pulling the wound on his body and falling back with a painful scream.
“Young master, young master!”
The butler hurriedly went to help.
Zhang Huai was in pain and wanted to punch someone, “Quickly
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Say, what the hell is going on?”
The housekeeper told the story of the Dean taking the key mould and the deed of sale.
“That can’t be right.”
Zhang Huai’s reaction was exactly the same as Master Zhang’s, the deed of sale was something important that he never just left lying around, it was all in the box.
“Go and open the cupboard and take out the box inside.”
The steward did as he was told and took out the box and opened it. He searched and searched but could not find the deeds of sale of the two boys, and his clothes were sweating through with anxiety.
“Young master, think again, did you leave the deeds of sale somewhere else and forget them.”
The deeds of sale of all the servants in his courtyard were all here, Zhang Huai gritted his teeth, “Who is it? Who stole their deeds of sale?”
The butler looked out in a panic, “Young master, keep your voice down.”
“Keep your voice down, my ass! The deeds of sale have been stolen, what’s the point of whispering? Go, gather all the people in my courtyard and ask them who stole it, if no one admits it, they will all be killed!”
The last words came out of Zhang Huai’s mouth in a roar.
If he hadn’t been unable to move, he would have had to personally flay these eaters alive.
“Young master, this is not a matter of pursuing who stole the deed of sale, if we can’t get the deed of sale and the dean determines that you have falsely accused Song Si, your future will be ruined ah.”
“You help me up, I want to see the dean myself!”
“If you can’t get the deed of sale, it’s useless even if you go there, the dean won’t believe your story.”
“Then what should I do, what should I do? I can’t be expelled from the academy just like that!”
“I do have a solution.”
The butler’s eyes were gloomy.
