Chapter 164 Whining
Jinguan thought for a moment and shook his head, "I don’t know, I didn’t see anyone enter our house! What’s wrong, Mother, did something really get stolen from our house?"
As he spoke, he felt somewhat guilty.
He remembered searching in the cabinet the day he came back and finding a handful of peanuts.
Could it be that Mother knew all about it?
The more Jinguan thought about it, the less he dared to look at Lady Lin.
As the saying goes, a mother knows her child best. Seeing Jinguan’s guilty appearance, a nasty thought came to Lady Lin’s mind, "Was it you who took it?"
Jinguan really wanted to deny it, but he couldn’t hide such thing, even if he were to stubbornly deny it now. Wouldn’t everything be clear once Mother asked Eldest Brother and Second Brother?
Because he couldn’t keep denying it, he honestly nodded, "It was me! I took it!"
Lady Lin was so angry she couldn’t contain it and picked up a broom to thrash Jinguan, "I’ll beat you to death, you worthless wretch! You’ve even learned to steal? Who taught you? To pick up this dirty habit? You worthless thing, I should just beat you to death!"
She beat him furiously. Jinguan howled in pain and tried to run away, but Lady Lin blocked the side door as well, so he had no choice but to jump around the house, begging, "Mother, I was wrong! I was wrong! Please stop beating me, I won’t dare do it again!"
Lady Lin, still full of resentment, thrashed him a couple more times, but her heart ultimately ached for him. She threw down the broom and, with a cold face, asked, "Where did you take the things?"