The Reborn Wife Returns

Chapter 131: Jealousy (3)
The old lady's face turned red, and she said angrily: "If you can't produce evidence to get rid of the crime, you will pay for Heng'er's life!"

A sneer appeared on the corner of Gong Qinglan's mouth, and she said to Xiao Xiao gently and amiably: "What a coincidence, I just received the news from the shopkeeper of the pawnshop in the mansion that someone took the old lady's land deed to mortgage money. After all, the shopkeeper is from the Qi mansion I thought there was something wrong with the origin of the land deed, so I asked someone to check it. I was quite surprised by this investigation, because it was the second aunt’s younger brother Xiao Sheng’s mortgage. It involved Xiao Sheng and his brother-in-law gambling together in the gambling house. The brother-in-law lost the land deed to Xiao Sheng and owed a lot of gambling debts, which were forfeited and sold to the market for silver to pay off the gambling debts. The news said that I would listen to the old lady, and I was summoned by you, and I forgot about it for a while."

The last sentence blocked the old lady's sophistry: "Why didn't you say it just now?"

Xiao Xiao's downhearted heart suddenly picked up. The two younger brothers are worthless, but they are more important than her life.Unexpectedly, Gong Qinglan would attack her younger brother, hating and fearing her.

"You are talking nonsense! Although the son is an idler, he has never done such a cruel thing." Xiao Xiao's face turned pale, and he only hoped that the old lady would believe her words and not be fooled by Gong Qinglan's eloquent tongue!
The old lady heard Gong Qinglan's words clearly and logically, and wanted to refute, but she couldn't find the fault. "Do you have evidence?"

"The old lady can tell the shopkeeper, he is waiting outside." Gong Qinglan signaled Hongyu beside him to call for shopkeeper Qian.

Although Xiao Xiao knew that Gong Qinglan had said this, he would definitely make complete preparations.Hearing her calling for the money shopkeeper, my heart still felt a 'thump', and my palms were sweating nervously.

Can't help but start to wonder if this letter was given to her by Gong Qinglan, killing two birds with one stone!
But it felt ridiculous, Gong Qinglan didn't seem like a troublemaker.

Then why did she predict that there would be such a farce and come up with a countermeasure?
Shopkeeper Qian is a thin middle-aged man with a long mustache, a pair of narrow eyes, shining brightly, and a feather fan in his hand.As soon as he entered the room, he bowed to him and said, "The young one is Qian Desheng, the shopkeeper of the Qi Zihao pawnshop in Beiyuan Lane."

"Someone went to the pawnshop today to mortgage the land deed in my name?" The old lady's eyes were as sharp as a sword, as if the money shopkeeper nodded and was about to pierce his throat.

Shopkeeper Qian took out two land deeds from his cuff, handed them to the old lady and said, "Old lady, please have a look."

The old lady took over the title deed and was so angry that she almost lost her breath.These two land deeds were clearly given to Qi Shaoheng by her, so let him take care of them carefully. The money on these two villages is enough for them to spend.Never thought that he would take this title deed to gamble!
Qi Chan's eyelids twitched when he saw it, thinking that Qi Shaoheng was sincerely repenting that day, but he didn't know that he was trying to cheat his mother's private house.

"Bring Xiao Sheng!" The old lady tightly held the two land deeds in her hand, she couldn't believe it no matter what, Qi Shaoheng, who was crying that day, was completely acting!
She wanted to torture Xiao Sheng, but it was a trap set by Gong Qinglan!

"Mother—" Xiao Xiao exclaimed, Xiao Sheng likes to gamble, but no one was killed.This time it was Qi Shaoheng who had the accident, it must have happened after she married into the Qi family, as long as Xiao Sheng and Qi Shaoheng had gambled together, it would be hard to tell anyway!Others will say that she ordered Xiao Sheng to secretly lay hands on Qi Shaoheng!
"What are you afraid of? As long as I haven't done it before, I won't blame him. After all, he is also my nephew." The old lady glared at Xiao Xiao, there is such a worrying brother!

Xiao Xiao's face turned pale, and he moved the corners of his mouth, trying to say something, but stopped talking.

In less than a moment, Xiao Sheng was brought, and the guard kicked his foot socket.Kneeling staggeringly on the ground.

Xiao Xiao's heart tightened, seeing the panic on his younger brother's face, he closed his eyes.After all, I don't know whether my choice is right or wrong!To live a good life for my younger brother, but drag them into the muddy water!
"Sister..." Xiao Shengsheng's lips were red and his teeth were white, and his appearance was clear.Seeing Xiao Xiao who was kneeling on the ground, eyes red and swollen from crying, Xiao Xiao felt even more panicked.

"Where did you get these two land deeds?" The old lady threw the land deeds in front of Xiao Sheng.

Xiao Sheng identified it carefully, and said: "This is what my nephew won in the gambling shop."

The old lady's face darkened, was it really like Gong Qinglan said, was she abolished in a gambling shop?
"What about this person?"

"The hands and feet were broken by the people in the gambling shop, and they were sold to the market." Everything Xiao Sheng said was consistent with what Gong Qinglan said just now.

Xiao Xiao and the old lady looked at each other, holding the hem of the skirt tightly, feeling increasingly uneasy.

"It was you who broke Heng'er's hands and feet?" The old lady's complexion turned pale, her chest heaved rapidly, and she made a wheezing sound, wanting to have Xiao Sheng beaten to death with a random stick, but when she saw Xiao Xiao's begging eyes, The old lady tried her best to suppress her anger.

"The old lady was wronged. I have the courage to interrupt the hands and feet of the second young master!" Xiao Sheng came to his senses, his whole body was covered in cold sweat, and he felt a burst of fear.

"Old madam, Sheng'er is gambler by nature, but he is timid and cowardly. He definitely doesn't have the guts to beat up the second young master." Xiao Xiao kowtowed to plead for Xiao Sheng.

"My uncle only has two land deeds, and if he loses them all, he will definitely not stay in the gambling house. Why was he beaten up? When I checked just now, my uncle owed Mr. Xiao 500 taels of silver, right?" Gong Qinglan's mouth slightly raised, He sneered and said: "My uncle only gambled with Mr. Xiao in the whole gambling shop, and only owed Mr. Xiao money. Why did others beat and disable my uncle?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xiao Xiao scolded angrily!

Gong Qinglan was unmoved, and said with a faint smile: "Do you want people from the gambling house to testify?"

"No, don't—" Xiao Sheng's face turned pale, he knew he had fallen into a trap.He is bound to lose every bet, but if he won today, he will naturally want to show off.Later, he heard that the person who gambled with him was maimed by the villains in the gambling shop, but he didn't take it to heart.Now, if the people from the Chuan Gambling Workshop testify, they will naturally shirk responsibility and call him a scapegoat when they see that a disaster has happened. Who wants to offend the Qi family?

"Are you pleading guilty?" Gong Qinglan glanced at Xiao Xiao, who slumped on the ground limply.I can't help but sneer in my heart, I have no grievances or enmities with you, if you want to attack me, don't blame me for being cruel and merciless, pulling the person you care most about to the bottom.

Xiao Xiao seemed to see what Gong Qinglan was thinking, and regretted for a while, she shouldn't have dealt with Gong Qinglan...no...she shouldn't have married into the Qi family for petty gains.

"I...I...I..." Xiao Sheng stammered, he didn't beat Qi Shaoheng, but no one believed him when he said that.But he couldn't produce evidence!For a moment, he was bewildered and asked Xiao Xiao for help: "Sister, I didn't beat the disabled, you have to save the little brother."

(End of this chapter)