Chapter 138 The Truth

Hearing this, Qin Hanyan became angry, "Master, are you going to help us?"

Shen Fangcheng also bowed to the Grand Tutor repeatedly, "Grand Tutor, our Second House family is truly grateful for your great kindness!"

The Taifu sighed, he really couldn't bear it!

He emptied out all his savings and bought a house in the suburbs of Beijing.

When Shen Fangcheng moved to the house with the second branch, he looked at the small yard with a bit of disdain in his eyes.

"This is too small." He muttered softly.

Qin Hanyan glared at him after hearing this and said, "Shut up and stop talking nonsense."

"I'm telling the truth. Our family could have lived in a house as big as this in the center of the capital, but now..." Shen Fangcheng kept muttering.

After hearing this, Shen Bolin pretended to be unhappy and slapped him on the back of the head, "What are you talking about? Your master is so helpful to our family, but you don't know how to be grateful. What's the matter? It's good if someone is willing to help."

The Master listened to their conversation and always felt that something was odd.

But he didn't know what to say, so he said nothing.

As he was preparing to leave the capital, he went to the most famous temple in the capital the next day to burn incense and pray for a smooth journey back home.

But just as he reached the gate of the temple, he saw a few familiar-looking men on the side of the road.

Those people were squatting on the side of the road with gloomy faces, whispering something to each other.

The more the Taifu looked at him, the more familiar he felt. He couldn't help but pull his straw hat down and move closer to them.

"Hey, didn't Shen Bailin from the second branch of the Shen family incur the emperor's wrath and have his property confiscated? How come he still has money to invite us out and ask us to help him do something?"

"Who knows? Anyway, I felt I lost money when I helped him stage a kidnapping scene at the foot of the mountain outside Beijing last time."

"Yes, he said at the time that he was just a small merchant. Who knew that he was actually the emperor's tutor? Fortunately, the emperor did not really pursue the matter, otherwise if the truth was found out, we would be finished."

"Yes, we are just thugs, and we do some debt collection work. There is no need to do such dangerous things."

…

The Grand Tutor was an intelligent man. After just listening to a few simple sentences, he had already guessed the whole story.

It turned out that the time when he was deeply grateful to the second wife for her kind act of saving people was actually just a drama set up by Shen Bailin long ago.

It was Shen Bailin who hired someone to kidnap him on the street and rob him of his money, and then pretended to be a kind-hearted passerby who saved him from danger so that he would be grateful.

Before that, every day he lived in the second wife's house, all the kindness they showed him was fake, and was it all for their own benefit?

Thinking of this, the Taifu felt a chill.

How could someone set up such a scheme and have such deep and evil intentions?

I did so many things just to take advantage of him.

And he really thought that the Second House was a good person, and spoke for them in front of the Emperor under such great pressure.

No wonder when the first and second branches of the Shen family had a dispute, everyone clearly favored the first branch.

At that time, he only thought that those people were afraid of the power of the eldest branch of the Shen family. Now it seems that he was just being stupid because of his age. Those people in the capital city knew the character of the Shen Bailin family long ago, so they looked down on them.

He was the only one who was deceived by the second wife's family and spoke for them like a little idiot.

He thought of how he had taken out the jade pendant that the emperor had bestowed upon him in order to prevent the second wife's family from being exiled.

Now the emperor was dissatisfied with him and no longer came to see him or greet him.

The Grand Tutor was feeling as depressed as he could be.

He was so angry that he was shaking and turned around and walked back.

He wanted to pack his bags and leave immediately, as he was ashamed to be associated with such a person.

When he returned to the small house with a gloomy face to pack his luggage, Shen Bailin came up to him with a smile.

"What's wrong with you, Dad? You're so unhappy."

"We discussed it today and we're worried about you going back alone. How about this, our whole family will escort you back to your hometown."

Shen Bailin's eyes rolled around.

It is a bit difficult for him to continue to survive in the capital now.

It would be better to follow the Taifu back to his hometown. According to the Taifu's reputation, he will definitely have a place in his hometown.

Besides, that is a small place and they don’t know about the things happening in the capital.

When he returns with the Grand Tutor, he will be returning from such a prosperous area as the capital city. He is also the Grand Tutor's adopted son. If he brings up the Yongyi Marquis' Mansion, those people there will surely try their best to please him.

By then, let alone a small courtyard like this, even a big house might be given to you by a wealthy businessman.

Thinking of this, Shen Bailin felt that leaving with the tutor was the best choice.

But to his surprise, the master said three words with a cold face after a long while, "No need."

"Father, of course we don't need it. Although we have both old and young people, we have the advantage of being in large numbers. Plus, I know the owner of the shipping company, so I can ask him to take care of us along the way."

"I'm just worried about you. I'm thinking about what you would do if something like the previous robbery happened again. You were lucky that time, I happened to rescue you. What if I wasn't there?" Shen Bailin looked as if he wanted to say something but stopped.

He knew that the Grand Tutor was still frightened by the robbery, so he mentioned it from time to time, just to make the Grand Tutor always remember the kindness of their Second Branch. This time he used the same trick, hoping that the Grand Tutor would agree to let the Second Branch escort him all the way out of fear.

As long as they escort him back to his hometown and find a reason not to leave, they can stay there naturally.

But who knew that the Grand Tutor not only did not nod in agreement as usual, praising the Second House for being there, otherwise his life would be in danger, but he also suddenly threw the inkstone in his hand.

"Don't mention this matter again!" The tutor turned around and glared at Shen Bailin fiercely.

Shen Bailin was stunned by his attitude, "Fuck, what's wrong? Why are you so angry?"

"Did someone bully you on the way to the temple just now? Tell me who it was and I will beat him up." Shen Bailin deliberately waved his fist and pretended to stretch the wounds on his body from being beaten with a stick, grinning and pretending to be pitiful.

The Grand Tutor used to be the one who fell for his tricks the most. After hearing what he said, he was so angry that he picked up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table and threw them at Shen Bailin, "How can there be such a black-hearted person like you!"

"It was you who hired someone to set me up and caused me to get hurt, yet you still pretended to be a good person who saved me and made me feel so grateful to your family!"

"You really made a fool of me. You saw how I was deceived and how I spoke for you and did things for you. Aren't you very proud of yourself?" The Taifu cursed angrily.

"You shameless fellow, you still want to deceive me!" The Grand Tutor sneered, "You even said you would escort me back. You can't make it in the capital anymore, so you want to go to my hometown and continue to cheat people in my name!"

Shen Bailin was stunned when he saw that the tutor had revealed his plan in one sentence.

How did this damn old man know the truth?

Who told him that the kidnapping was actually planned and prepared in advance by the second wife?

But he immediately pretended to be pitiful, "Father, what are you talking about? How could we do such a rebellious thing!"

"Whether such a thing has been done or not, I will report it to the Emperor and he will investigate it thoroughly and everything will be clear!"

As soon as the tutor finished speaking, murderous intent flashed in Shen Bailin's eyes.