After saying that, Chen Cuiping forcefully grabbed Zhou Wanqiu's hair, forced her to raise her head, and slapped her hard across the face without even blinking.
"I told you not to eat things you shouldn't have. I'll teach you to eat! Are you a reincarnated starving ghost? You'll eat anything you see!"
"You may not feel ashamed, but I do! How could I have given birth to such a shameless thing like you!"
Chen Cuiping cursed and hit Zhou Wanqiu repeatedly, slapping her more than a dozen times.
The crisp sound of the slap and the humiliation pierced Zhou Wanqiu's eardrums. She stared blankly at her mother's ferocious face, tears gradually blurring her vision and streaming down her swollen cheeks.
Qian Rushan listened for a while, then lazily opened his eyes, looked at the cunning Chen Cuiping, and spoke contemptuously:
That's enough.
Chen Cuiping secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but fearing that Qian Rushan was not satisfied, she switched hands and slapped Zhou Wanqiu's other cheek. "Second Master, this brat ate such valuable things from you. Even if you beat her to death, she deserves it!"
Zhou Wanqiu knelt on the ground, her hands hanging limply at her sides. Her hair was pulled and scattered everywhere by Chen Cuiping, and clear, bloody handprints appeared on her originally thin cheeks.
Qian Rushan looked at her thin, monkey-like body and saw that she offered no resistance. However, Chen Cuiping still refused to stop and beat her mercilessly.
He couldn't stand it anymore and said disdainfully, "I'm not an unreasonable person, nor am I cold-blooded. Now that this little girl has learned her lesson, you should stop."
He repeated himself twice, and Chen Cuiping was about to lose her temper. She quickly withdrew her hand and pressed Zhou Wanqiu's head to the ground again, saying, "Hurry up and thank Second Master!"
Zhou Wanqiu trembled as she cried, her face so swollen she couldn't speak, and she mumbled, "Thank you... thank you... Second Master."
Although the matter was over, Chen Cuiping felt that he had not done a satisfactory job in handling the tasks Qian Rushan had instructed him to do.
To show her loyalty, she smiled obsequiously and said, "Second Master, I'm sorry I haven't taught my daughter well. I'm at fault as her mother. Don't worry, I will personally do everything you ask me to do until you are satisfied."
Qian Rushan glanced at the old woman who was obsessed with climbing the social ladder and then looked at the person beside him, "Have you caught the person who caused trouble at the gambling den because of debts?"
Chen Cuiping knelt on the ground, the pebbles digging into her skin and causing her pain, but Qian Rushan didn't answer, so she didn't dare to make any rash moves.
"Yes, Second Master, we've caught him and are detaining him in the backyard."
Qian Rushan looked at the anxious Chen Cuiping and smiled contemptuously, "According to the rules of the gambling den, if someone owes money and can't pay it back, you have to chop off their hands to pay it back. It just so happens that I've run out of fish food and I'm very hungry, so I'll chop off that person's hands and use them to feed my fish."
"yes!"
I'm going to cut off my hand...
Chen Cuiping thought she had misheard and was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, she heard a man's miserable howl coming from the next yard, and instantly a chill ran from head to toe.
She had heard rumors before that Qian Rushan was cruel and ruthless, and that he had taken several lives.
Rumors are just rumors; without firsthand experience, who can truly discern the truth from falsehood?
But seeing it with my own eyes today, I realized that those rumors really weren't unfounded.
A moment later, the servant passed by her carrying two bloody hands. The bright red blood dripped onto her clothes, which frightened Chen Cuiping so much that she collapsed to the ground.
Zhou Wanqiu banged her head against the ground, closed her eyes tightly, and her teeth chattered in terror.
Qian Rushan looked at Chen Cuiping's flustered appearance with great interest, stood up and walked to her side, and said with a smile, "I was so busy cutting off that beast's hand that I forgot you were still kneeling here, Auntie. Get up quickly."
Chen Cuiping was terrified by the two bloody severed hands. She watched Qian Rushan approach in panic, wishing she could stay at least ten feet away from him.
But now that she's already on this man's pirate ship, can she really get away cleanly?
At this moment, Chen Cuiping's smile was more like a grimace. "Second...Second Master, you're really too kind of me. How could I let you help me up? I can stand up by myself."
Chen Cuiping clutched her knees, stood for a while, then her legs gave way and she stumbled and fell.
Qian Rushan stepped forward considerately, "My good fortune with Chen Yu will depend on you to play matchmaker. After it's all settled, I'll have to call you 'Auntie' just like she does. You're my elder, so how can I, as a junior, not help you?"
Qian Rushan pretended to help Chen Cuiping up, then touched her cold hand and said with self-reproach:
"Why are your hands so cold, Auntie? Are you not dressed warmly enough?"
"No, no?!" Chen Cuiping pulled her hand back with lightning speed, pointing to her thick cotton-padded coat, her hand trembling uncontrollably, "I have plenty of clothes on, plenty of clothes."
Qian Rushan glanced at his dangling hand, raised an eyebrow and sneered, "Although it's late autumn, it's not yet the cold of winter. Isn't Auntie feeling cold? Oh dear, Auntie, were you frightened by that severed hand just now?"
The bloody scene from earlier flooded Chen Cuiping's mind again. Clutching her churning stomach, she could no longer contain her fear and pleaded, "Second Master, I'm just a country woman, I've never seen anything like this before, I'm terrified. I still have a lot of housework waiting for me at home, so I'll go back first."
Qian Rushan stared at Chen Cuiping's terrified face and laughed arrogantly, "Auntie, you can rest assured about that. I only use the method of chopping off people's hands and feet on those who are disobedient, and I would never use it on those who are loyal to me."
“If Auntie can help me arrange the wedding for your niece, I will not only help my uncle get a good job, but I will also bring you all to live a good life in my mansion.”
Hearing Qian Rushan's words, Chen Cuiping realized that she had made a terrible mistake and was heartbroken, but it was too late.
She knelt down humbly, "Second Master, please rest assured. It is a great blessing for Shen Yu to marry you, and it is also an honor for our Zhou family. From now on, I, this old woman, will do my best to complete the tasks you assign me."
Seeing that the intimidation had been achieved, Qian Rushan put on a harmless smile and said, "Then I'll have to trouble you, Auntie."
Afterwards, Qian Rushan sent someone to escort the mother and daughter out of the villa. After Qian Rushan's men left, Chen Cuiping could no longer hold it in and vomited up everything she had eaten that morning.
She leaned weakly against the wall and yelled at Zhou Wanqiu behind her, "You brat, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and hand me a clean handkerchief!"
Zhou Wanqiu stepped forward with tears in her eyes. Chen Cuiping snatched the handkerchief from her. Seeing Zhou Wanqiu's crying and bewildered state, which annoyed her, she burst into a tirade:
"What are you crying for? You're all useless! You've made me, an old woman, have to plan for you! If things don't work out in the future, you and I will both be slaughtered by Qian Rushan and thrown into the fishpond to feed the fish!"
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