Chapter 1902 The Lively Scene Shu Yu Watched
All eyes immediately fell on Shu Yu. Did she know?
Shu Yu nodded. "Chen He went to the prison." The commotion she witnessed at the government office was about Chen He.
Lu Sanzhu asked curiously, "What is Chen He doing in prison at this critical juncture? Could it be that he has suddenly become a filial son and is going to see his parents?"
"It's true that he met his parents, but he's such a filial son..." Shu Yu scoffed lightly.
Chen He went to prison because of the Chen family's assets.
Now that Chen Bing and Pan Shi are both imprisoned, their family is facing a large debt, which only Chen He can currently raise.
However, since Pan Shi manages all the family's finances, he will definitely ask her questions.
When Pan heard Chen He say that he would visit her often in the future and that he would use the money to bribe officials so that she could have a better life in prison, Pan told him where she had hidden the silver.
Subsequently, Chen He went to find Chen Bing again; the house and shop were still registered under Chen Bing's name.
Chen He had thought it over. He would sell the house and shop, and with the savings Pan had told him about, he should have a total of one thousand taels of silver. After repaying Granny Fang, Zhou Tiedong, and Guo Zheng, the rest would be his.
However, Chen Bing hated Chen He to the core at this time, and was unwilling to hand over the house and shop to him.
Chen He said that if he didn't give it to him, the government would take the house away and sell it at a low price.
But that was exactly what Chen Bing wanted. He would rather let the government take it than let Chen He and his sister Chen Qiu benefit from it. Not only that, he also told the officials that even selling the house and shop might not be enough to pay off the debts, and that there was still some silver in the family savings that he couldn't let Chen He steal.
Even without Chen Bing saying anything, the government had already sent people to temporarily seal off the Chen family's house and shops. If Chen He wanted to enter the house to get money, he would have to pay off his debts first.
Chen He was furious and left the prison cursing.
Shu Yu felt that the dog-eat-dog drama in the Chen family was getting more and more interesting. Chen Bing should thank her, otherwise he would have to wear this green hat for decades, and in the end all his family property would have gone to someone else.
After listening, Lu Sanzhu suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. I knew it. Why did he look so grim when he came back? He started fighting with someone as soon as he walked in."
"Who did you fight with?"
"The steward's son."
The man who committed adultery with Pan was the Pan family's steward. As soon as the case was closed, the yamen officials came and took the steward away. He would also have to serve two years in prison.
The butler was about the same age as Chen Bing and naturally had his own family long ago. However, his wife had passed away two years ago, leaving him with only a son in his twenties who was not yet married and was now working for the second young master of the Pan family.
The son was completely stunned when he heard the news. His father had not only committed adultery with the aunt of the Pan family, but had also given him a pair of siblings. What a ridiculous joke!
But as a servant, there was nothing he could do; he could only clench his fists and stand aside, enduring the strange looks from the other servants.
This look made him very uncomfortable, and when Chen He returned and couldn't find the steward to settle accounts, he turned to him instead.
Both of them were seething with anger. Before, the steward's son had to treat Chen He with utmost respect, but now that the other man was just like them, the son of a servant, what right did he have to be arrogant?
They started fighting fiercely at the slightest disagreement.
(End of this chapter)
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