Sun Sanlang's face changed color completely.
His previous fawning vanished completely. He glanced at Lin with disdain, his gaze as if he were looking at a beggar. He leaned back slightly, quickly distancing himself from Lin in an instant.
“Aunt Lin, you’ve schemed your whole life, how could you have come out empty-handed? You’re a concubine of the Minister’s family!” Sun Sanlang’s tone became extremely distant in that instant.
Lin seemed oblivious to the subtle change in Sun Sanlang's attitude. She was worried that Sun Sanlang would choose to run away after learning about her situation, so she quickly grabbed Sun Sanlang's wrist.
"That's why I came to find you! Sanlang, where are all those gold and silver jewelry and banknotes that I've had people bring out and stored with you over the years? Give them to me quickly! I urgently need the money!"
A greedy glint, like a venomous snake, flashed in Lin's eyes. Sun Sanlang reacted as if he had been burned, forcefully shaking off Lin's bird claws, and his voice suddenly turned cold.
To everyone's utter astonishment, Sun Sanlang said in a pitiful tone, "Oh, my dear Aunt Lin! What are you talking about?! It's right here with me! I swear to God! I, Sun Sanlang, have never handled any of your large sums of money! Those things you mentioned, weren't they all confiscated by Young Master Zheng's men long ago? You couldn't possibly not know that?"
[Keep pretending! Keep pretending! Hahaha!]
[Copied it? No way!]
[A legendary battle scene! I'm just a country bumpkin, but I enjoy watching it. Keep watching!]
Sun Sanlang would never give Lin a single penny.
Upon hearing this, Madam Lin was struck dumb and raised her voice as well: "They took it?! Impossible! No matter how capable Zheng Yu is, he could only have taken a small part, how could it be all of it? Sun Sanlang, don't break your promise, give it to me."
Lin was terrified at the thought that Sun Sanlang was going to deny it, and at the same time a chill suddenly rose from the soles of her feet.
She stared intently at Sun San: "You're lying! You must have embezzled all of those things! Sun Sanlang, how dare you!"
Lin's sharp voice questioned her, and at this moment she could no longer maintain her composure. She immediately pounced on Sun Sanlang, wanting to tear him apart.
Sun Sanlang nimbly dodged, his face immediately revealing a ruthless and mercenary expression.
"Aunt Lin! I only gave you face because you used to be the wife of a high-ranking official. Don't be so stubborn! Stop making baseless accusations! Your things are of dubious origin, and I took a huge risk by keeping them safe for you! Now that you're in trouble, you want to blame me?"
"It's all because you weren't careful enough, and Zheng Yu found out. That Zheng Yu has all-powerful connections; he's the one who took everything from you! I, Sun San, didn't keep a single penny from you! If you don't believe me, go ahead and report it to the authorities! Let's see who the government will believe!"
Report to the authorities?
He was already feeling guilty, so he told the magistrate of Yingtian Prefecture that he had transferred the silver to Sun Sanlang while the magistrate was half-dead.
Now, Sun Sanlang was unwilling to admit it. Lin stared at Sun Sanlang's face, her hand clenching into a fist, "We've been together for so many years, and you..."
Sun Sanlang was eager to sever ties with Lin Shi, especially since Lin Shi was now impoverished and Sun Sanlang really had no need to get entangled with her.
So Sun Sanlang pointed sharply at the doorway, "For the sake of our past friendship, I won't make things difficult for you. I only have one hundred taels of silver here, consider it my generous donation to you!"
Having said that, Sun Sanlang quickly took out a silver note and threw it into Lin's hand as if he were giving money to a beggar.
"Aunt Lin, take this and leave quickly! Don't come looking for me again. The Red Beauty Gambling House is too small to accommodate someone as important as you!"
One hundred taels?
They were just giving away money to a beggar. The Lin family had probably given him more than ten thousand taels of gold back then. It's true that Sun Sanlang changes his mind faster than flipping through a book. He's really figured out the trick of living off a woman.
Looking at the flimsy silver note on the ground, and then at Sun Sanlang's ruthless and furious face, Lin trembled all over.
She almost fainted, and her vision went black in waves.
The immense shame and anger of betrayal overwhelmed Aunt Lin like a tidal wave.
She pointed fiercely at Sun Sanlang, her lips trembling, but she couldn't utter a single word of curse for a long time.
"Fine, fine, you Sun Sanlang! You just wait and see!"
Lin cursed through gritted teeth, bent down quickly to pick up the silver note, and turned to leave.
Sun Sanlang was glared at; Lin's eyes were as sharp as knives. In the end, Lin could only turn around and stagger away.
But behind him came Sun Sanlang's disdainful snort.
[Tsk tsk, it's a complete disaster.]
Back at the Fulai Inn, Lin was like a furious wild beast, pacing back and forth in the room.
Seeing her mother's angry expression, Zheng Yutang was terrified and cowered in the corner, not daring to make a sound. Lin Shoucai rushed over upon hearing the news and saw his sister's ashen face and the hundred-tael silver note in her hand.
He immediately understood.
He cautiously looked at Madam Lin: "Elder sister! This was given to you by Sun Sanlang?" In fact, Lin Shoucai had known about Madam Lin's affair with Sun Sanlang for many years.
She also knew that the money Lin had given to Sun Sanlang was unbelievably large, but now he had received a hundred taels of silver in return, which was certainly not a small amount.
But considering the amount of money given at the time, it was a drop in the ocean and insignificant.
"That damned, ungrateful bastard!"
Lin squeezed out these words through gritted teeth, then slammed the silver notes hard on the table.
“He actually dared to say that Zheng Yu had confiscated all my things and only gave me this little bit of silver.”
Lin Shoucai's eyes darted around fiercely, and he stepped forward, saying, "Big sister, calm down. Don't get angry and ruin your health. It's not worth it. That Sun San is a ruthless scoundrel in the gambling den, the most heartless and ungrateful."
"Big sister, did Sun Sanlang really not give you a single thing?"
He said they were all confiscated!
Lin said bitterly.
At this moment, a sinister glint flashed in Lin's eyes, as if she were talking to herself: "Hmph! They took it?! You're kidding me! Don't I know him? Sun Sanlang has a secret basement in the backyard of the Red Beauty Gambling House! That place is very well hidden!"
"It's crammed with all the riches he's made over the years, all unique and precious items! My jewelry and ornaments are definitely in there too! Does he think I don't know?"
The speaker may not have meant anything by it, but the listener may have taken it to heart.
Lin Shouchai's body trembled, and a greedy glint instantly flashed in his vicious triangular eyes. He stared intently at Lin Shi, probing her with his question.
"A basement? Ma'am, are you sure? There are really a lot of good stuff in there?"
Lin was fuming. It was Lin Shoucai who had let it slip when he was drunk. As for whether the basement was real or not, and whether there was any gold or silver jewelry inside, Lin herself had no idea.
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