"Mn." Rong Jian made a sound in acknowledgement but didn't spare him a single glance.
The Captain of the guards timidly looked up at his master and asked. "Uh... Wangye... is there anything else...?" His master had ordered everyone in the Wangfu to treat the new woman he brought back as the other master of the Wangfu, which atests to her importance in their Master's heart. Though she wasn't harmed, she was attacked, shouldn't the Master be angry?
"Slack in security, delay in action and rescue, disloyalty to the Madam." Rong Jian recited from the rulebook of the Wangfu.
"Yes! This subordinate will submit to punishment along with my brothers! Please have mercy!" The Captain of the guards banged his head on the ground three times in kowtow before he backed out of the room. The total punishment for the crimes listed were 850 lashes with the discipline whip, one month of cleaning the stables and weeds, and a sixty percent reduction in salary for a whole year.
