HCB Chapter 278 Arabian Nights
Chapter 278 Arabian Nights
"No, I wanted to lend it to her myself." Si Chengyi was originally lying on the bed, and while speaking, his body unconsciously moved inside the bed.
There was a moment of deathly silence in the air. Wang Qiuhe secretly glanced at Si Wei Zhong and saw that the veins on his forehead were throbbing. She was so scared that she breathed cautiously, afraid that she would accidentally offend him.
"You evil creature." Si Wei Zhong was standing in front of the bed. In a rage, he stepped forward, grabbed Si Chengyi's clothes in front of his chest, lifted up his upper body, and with his other hand, he attacked his face left and right.
Si Chengyi tried to dodge in panic, but there was nowhere to hide, and he was slapped several times by Si Wei Zhong.
"Oh, master, please calm down. Chengyi has just been seriously injured. Please don't beat him again." Wang Qiuhuo hurried over to pull Si Wei Zhong, and she felt so distressed when she saw her son like that.
"You actually dare to come here to stop the fight? I'll beat you too. What have you done to my good son?" Si Wei Zhong suddenly turned his head and looked at Wang Qiuhuo with a sinister look.
Before Wang Qiuhuo could react, he grabbed her hair, slapped her several times, and then pushed her hard. Wang Qiuhuo realized that she was unstable and fell straight backwards.
The sound of something heavy falling to the ground with a bang was extremely clear in the room. There were maids and servants at the door. They heard the noise and looked inside. When they saw the situation inside, they were too scared to come over, but they just stared at it blankly, at a loss as to what to do. The smart ones immediately ran out to find Tang Xiuwen.
Seeing Wang Qiuhe fall to the ground, Si Wei Zhong was still not satisfied. He stepped forward and kicked her a few more times, blaming all the responsibility on her.
"Master, I was wrong. Please calm down. I will discipline Chengyi well in the future and will never let him do such a stupid thing again." Wang Qiuhe cried and begged for mercy. She did not resist Si Wei Zhong at all.
Si Wei Zhong had beaten her before. At first she resisted and argued, but later she just begged for mercy because Si Wei Zhong was a male chauvinist.
The more you resist, the harder he hits you, and he would hit you to death. So later she learned her lesson and only by admitting her mistakes and apologizing could she suppress his anger.
But this time was obviously different from the past. Even though she apologized and admitted her mistake, Si Wei Zhong still showed no mercy to her and seemed to beat her even harder.
Si Chengyi was so scared that he didn't dare to say a word. It was the first time he saw Si Wei Zhong so furious. Hearing Wang Qiuhuo's cries, he couldn't help but move closer to the bed.
"That bitch has been against me in every way, and your son even stole things to lend her money. Isn't that a bitch? I will beat you to death, bitch."
"My mansion provides you with delicious food and drinks every day, and you also teach my son to be a person who cannot distinguish right from wrong. If you do this again, I will tear your head off."
Si Weizhong acted ruthlessly, totally disregarding their years of relationship. He directed all his anger at Wang Qiuhe. He caught a glimpse of the maid at the door and shouted angrily, "Get out!"
Suddenly the person at the door ran away. The maid who had gone to call Tang Xiuwen just came back. When she heard the noise in the house, she was too scared to go in. She looked back anxiously. She had told Tang Xiuwen the situation was so serious, so why didn't she come over?
"Master, it's all my fault for not keeping a good eye on him. I swear to you, I will keep a close eye on him in the future and will never let him do anything wrong again." Wang Qiuhuo was beaten so badly that she hid in a corner of the house, crying inconsolably.
Si Wei Zhong then glared at her with satisfaction, turned around and went to the bed again. Seeing the embarrassed look of Si Chengyi hiding in the innermost part, his anger subsided by half.
"Tell me clearly, what is going on?"
"I'm sorry, Dad. I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again." Si Chengyi spoke tremblingly, holding the quilt tightly to his chest with both hands, and his eyes were full of fear when he looked at Si Wei Zhong.
"Li Xiaoxiao came to the Marquis' Mansion a few days ago. I saw her by chance and talked to her for a few words. I learned that she was short of money, so I took the initiative to offer to lend it to her."
"How much do you agree to lend her?" Si Wei Zhong exhaled heavily, slowly closed his eyes, and opened them again after a while.
"Borrow..." When the amount of silver was mentioned, Si Chengyi began to hesitate again. Should he tell the truth? If he told the truth, would he be beaten again?
Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Wang Qiuhuo who was still sobbing in the corner, and saw that there was no healthy spot on her face.
I swallowed the words back. Maybe telling the truth would be better, but lying would have serious consequences, very serious.
"Three. Thousand. Two." The voice was as light as a mosquito, so small that it was almost inaudible.
But Si Wei Zhong was very close to him and heard it clearly: "three thousand taels". When he heard these words, he didn't know what words to use to describe his current mood.
It was like hearing a fairy tale. For the first time, he began to doubt whether his son was stupid. That was three thousand taels of silver, not thirty taels or three hundred taels.
"Say it again."
When Si Chengyi saw Si Wei Zhong's expression, he knew that he was very angry, but the words had already been said and he couldn't take them back.
"Three thousand taels." He had no choice but to say it again.
Instead of the rage he had imagined, he heard Si Wei Zhong's chuckling. Si Chengyi lowered his head even more.
"How do you plan to raise these three thousand taels of silver? And how much have you raised now?" After his rage, Si Wei Zhong calmed down, but his heart was blocked and he was suppressed and couldn't breathe.
"I originally had 800 taels of silver. I borrowed 500 taels from my grandmother, 800 taels from my mother, and 200 taels from a few friends. Now I have this much." Si Chengyi explained in detail the sources of the silver.
When he heard that he had received eight hundred taels from Wang Qiuhuo, Si Wei Zhong's gaze once again slowly turned to Wang Qiuhuo lying on the ground.
Wang Qiuhuo obviously heard it as well. The moment she looked up, her eyes met Si Wei Zhong's. She was so scared that she didn't even dare to cry.
"That's not the case. Yesterday, Chengyi told me that he had beaten up the son of the Marquis of Dingguo Mansion in a restaurant. The son of the Marquis of Dingguo Mansion wanted eight hundred taels of silver, otherwise he would make a big fuss about it. I was afraid that they would make things difficult for the master in the court, so I took the silver on my own initiative."
"Stupid woman." Si Wei Zhong snorted coldly and ignored her.
"So you thought of robbing the silver shop with the remaining silver." Si Wei Zhong said affirmatively.
"Dad, I was wrong. I will never lend money to Li Xiaoxiao again, not even a penny." Si Chengyi also began to feel that he had done something wrong, but what could he do if he regretted it? Everything had already happened.