Chapter 1229 - 138 Truth (Third Update)
Liang Shiyou had his dumb acupoint pressed and struggled to speak, but from the disdainful look in his eyes, it was clear what he meant: "Son? Is it really yours? Or did you pay to raise someone else’s?"
"Enough, enough," Xia Zheng impatiently interjected, frowning, "We’re not interested in hearing your domestic issues any further. Shopkeeper Xiao, when do you plan on returning the silver? Speak up!"
Shopkeeper Xiao’s eyes darted around, and his mind began to wander. Return the silver? Where would he find it? Half of the seven hundred taels of silver had been spent on buying a house and land for his mistress, and the other half had already been spent on living expenses over the past three years. Where would he find any leftover silver?
"I, I..." After hemming and hawing for a long time, Shopkeeper Xiao finally lifted his head with difficulty and ventured, "Could I have a few days’ extension to sell the house and land? Then I will return the silver."
Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow, "Sell a house? Sell land? Whose wife’s house and land are you planning to sell?"
She had seen through the true face of Shopkeeper Xiao, keeping a mistress behind his wife’s back, and it seemed he even had a son. If he were to say he was selling his wife’s house and land, she felt like going over and slapping him a few times herself, without even needing Liang Shiyou to lift a finger!
But, clearly, Shopkeeper Xiao did not disappoint her.
"No no, don’t let my wife find out about this at all! You must not tell her!" Shopkeeper Xiao waved his hands frantically in fear, more terrified than when Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng had just exposed his greed for silver.