The Fierce Illegitimate Miss - Chapter 109

... another sentence: “Hit him for real!”

Everyone present knew that there were unspoken rules for being hit with the board. If the officials in the hall just order to “hit,” that meant to not take it seriously, just fake it.”Hit him for real” meant hit him for real, however much you want. Whether you could hold it or not depended on your own personal luck. The most powerful one was “hit him hard,” which meant beat him close to death, not to kill him but to not stop beating him either!