Chapter 1531: You Really Hit Her?

“Stop talking nonsense. Don’t think just because someone can protect you now, you can act recklessly. What needs to be dealt with can’t be spared!”

Xu Tingting ignored him, too afraid to talk back, but with Xu Shu around, she indeed could be a bit more arrogant.

Xu Shu shielded her, glanced at her ear, and his face instantly turned cold as he questioned Xu Qingbo, “Did you really hit her?”

“Where did I hit her!”

Xu Qingbo angrily retorted, “I just tugged at her ear, and she started wailing. Look at what she’s done, coming to a place like this to race. She not only hid it from me but you too. This girl’s ideas are getting bigger and bigger!”

Xu Tingting was stunned by the yelling. She kept leaning into Xu Shu’s chest. The more she got scolded, the more aggrieved she felt, speaking with a crying tone, “Brother Shu, look how fierce Second Brother is. Why didn’t you come earlier?”

“If I had come earlier, do you think your Second Brother would have been able to control you?”

“Hmm?” Xu Tingting looked up at him, unable to see clearly. Her eyes were brimming with tears, watery, and she suddenly sniffled, “Did you come earlier?”

“Yes.”

Had it not been because he couldn’t bear it, he wouldn’t have stood far away waiting. He would have protected her from Xu Qingbo’s first scolding.

But how could she learn a lesson this way?

He didn’t even plan to let her see him. If it weren’t for Xu Qingbo being too harsh, almost tearing her ear off, he felt sorry and came over even before he could think it through.

“Alright, if you’re going to cry, do it at home. Crying out here is embarrassing. Xu Tingting, I’m warning you, no one can save you today. When you get home, kneel in the ancestral hall!”

The Xu Family’s ancestral hall has been around for hundreds of years. From a young age, whenever Xu Tingting made a mistake, her Second Brother would punish her by making her kneel there, leaving no one around her. Especially in the middle of the night, even wrapped in a blanket, she felt chilled, hallucinating hearing scolding and crying, so she feared the ancestral hall the most. During annual ancestor worship, she would follow behind the elders, leave immediately after offering incense, and not linger.

“I don’t want to…”

Xu Tingting clutched Xu Shu’s clothes tightly, crying softly, “I don’t want to kneel in the ancestral hall. It’s too scary. Brother Shu, please talk to Second Brother for me, I don’t want to go home tonight.”

Xu Shu sighed, “Your Second Brother’s punishment, you can’t avoid it. One night more or less, what’s the difference.”

“There is!”

Xu Tingting glanced up at him, her tears finally falling, and she pouted, whining, “If I drag it out for a night, Second Brother won’t be as angry.”

Xu Shu quietly looked at the spot on his shirt stained by her tears, his dark eyes briefly glancing over her pitiful, tear-streaked face.

Sighing, “Let her come to my place.”

Xu Qingbo’s eyebrows twitched, “No way!”

“It’s too late. If you go back, there’ll be more fuss. Mom and Dad have long fallen asleep. If you wake them up, you’ll have to explain again. Even if I’m not home and Mom protects her, you can’t punish her tonight.”

Xu Qingbo’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Xu Shu continued, “Let her come with me first. I’ll bring her back tomorrow when I go to work. Let the family watch over her. If you still want to punish her in the evening, then go ahead.”

“Brother Shu…”

Why doesn’t he just plead for her and get her out of the punishment?

Xu Shu knew exactly what she was thinking but didn’t respond, just patted her back for comfort.