Chapter 129 Don’t Touch My Sister

"I..." Xie Wanyin's eyes were a little evasive, but she soon said confidently, "Isn't it because of Huicui Building and you that I was temporarily bewildered and took the wrong path?"

"Minglang, it's all because of you that I've become what I am now. You can't just ignore me!"

She grabbed Xie Minglang's hand tightly through the cell bars, as if she was grabbing a life-saving straw.

But Xie Minglang smiled self-deprecatingly and pried open her fingers one by one.

"For me? Sister Wanyin, are you really doing this for me?"

For some reason, Xie Wanyin suddenly felt a little panicked. She said in a daze, "Of course, you are my brother. If I don't do this for you, who else can I do this for?"

“Haha…hahahaha…”

Xie Minglang burst into laughter, but tears rolled down his eyes.

He looked at the face in front of him that was so familiar it couldn't be more familiar, as if he had never seen it before.

"Sister Wanyin, do you know what I have been doing during this period? I went around looking for people and checking the accounts one by one."

He is not stupid, he just has never experienced betrayal and setbacks. He is too naive and puts all his trust in the people closest to him.

Yet, it was the person he trusted the most who stabbed him in the back.

"Huicuilou is the most famous restaurant in the capital. Even with the competition from Baiweixuan, it can still do a prosperous business. It is because you want more profits and more money that you allow others to pass off inferior products as good ones and sell cheap ingredients at high prices, which is why there are fewer and fewer customers..."

But in the end, she blamed all the poor business on Baiweixuan, and even resorted to such means as hiring someone to poison the customers!

"I didn't do that...I didn't do that just to make more money for you?" Xie Wanyin was exposed, but she was still looking for excuses to defend herself.

Xie Minglang raised his lips bitterly, "Earn some more money for me? Sister Wanyin, there is no money left in the accounts of Huicuilou and Yunjinxuan. The two shopkeepers have already confessed everything. It was you who took all the money away one by one."

She was like an insatiable glutton who wanted to devour everything she saw.

In the end, after eating and drinking his fill, all that was left was a pile of shabby, dilapidated food.

If he didn't get suspicious and investigate, he would probably continue to be kept in the dark by her, right?

Xie Wanyin rolled her eyes and tried to coax him further, "I've saved all that money for you. When you rescue me, I'll return it all to you."

"Really?" Xie Minglang looked at her steadily.

"Of course!" Xie Wanyin said firmly.

The disappointment and grief in Xie Minglang's eyes were beyond words. "Sister Wanyin, do you still want to comfort me?"

Xie Wanyin raised the corners of her mouth stiffly and smiled at him tenderly, "How can I coax you?"

Xie Minglang didn't look at her, but kept talking, "Sister Wanyin, do you know? I made a bet with my elder sister. She gave me three months. If I could keep this half of the family property, she would give me all the family property of Zhenyang Marquis Mansion without taking a single cent."

"vice versa."

He was too confident at the time and thought it was a simple matter.

After all, when his elder sister was his age, she had already started helping the family run the shop.

He is a man, how could he be inferior to a woman?

But he was proven to be wrong, terribly wrong.

When Xie Wanyin heard this, her facial features twisted and she screamed, "Why didn't you say it earlier? Why didn't you say it earlier?"

How much is the total property of the Zhenyang Marquis Mansion?

The little bit of money she embezzled was probably less than one thousandth of it!

If she had known that he had made such a bet with Xie Zhuoning, she would have helped him win even if she had to do everything she could!

Xie Minglang looked at Xie Wanyin's crazy look and finally understood why his elder sister didn't allow him to tell anyone else about the bet.

Because only in this way can we see people's hearts clearly.

He took out a medicine bottle from his pocket and placed it on the ground. "Sister Wanyin, this is the medicine for treating golden sores that I brought you. You will be on your own here from now on. Take care of yourself."

Having said that, he turned and left.

Regardless of Xie Wanyin's desperate pleading behind him, "Minglang, Minglang, I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. Please save me because I have been so good to you since we were young and I treat you like my own brother..."

Unfortunately, it was too late for her to express her regrets, as Xie Minglang left the prison without looking back.

Seeing this, her expression immediately changed again, and she began to curse sarcastically, "Bah, ungrateful bastard, bastard! Xie Zhuoning's brother is really not a good person either!"

"It's okay," she comforted herself, "It doesn't matter if Xie Minglang doesn't save me. Daddy won't ignore me, grandma won't ignore me, and my brother won't ignore me. When I get out, I will make them regret it!"

"How pitiful! She actually still thinks she can get out." Several prison guards clicked their tongues and shook their heads when they heard Xie Wanyin's words.

"Yes, she probably doesn't know that Master Xie has already expelled her from the family tree."

"The Xie family is a noble family, how could they tolerate a stain like her?"

"Alas, a good young lady has put herself in jail. What do you think she wants?"

"Why else? Because I'm just too greedy!"

Xie Wanyin was incredulous. "Impossible, impossible... How could Daddy and the others not care about me? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouths apart!"

“Pah—”

A stick hit her.

The jailer looked disgusted. "You still want to tear our mouths apart? Now I want you to know who has the final say here!"

Sticks, fists and kicks came down on her, and Xie Wanyin screamed in pain.

Only when she was almost out of breath did the jailers let her go.

Tears mixed with blood flowed down the corners of her eyes. She grasped the straw beneath her and closed her eyes in despair...

Zhenyang Marquis Mansion.

Xie Minglang stood at the door of his home, but he felt homesick.

He hesitated for a long time before he finally made up his mind to go in.

The servants in the mansion were startled when they saw him, "Young Master, why are you back?"

Xie Minglang's face darkened. "This is my home. Can't I come back?"

The servant quickly apologized, "Young Master, please forgive me, that was not what I meant."

"Forget it," Xie Minglang waved his hands, "Where is my sister? Where is she?"

The servant replied: "The young lady should be in Zhixingyuan at this moment."

Hearing this, Xie Minglang's face lightened up a little and he showed a hint of smile.

Zhixingyuan, that was the courtyard where he lived.

It seems that my sister still misses him in her heart, but is too embarrassed to say it out loud, so she goes to his yard to see the things that remind her of him.

When he thought of this, he quickened his pace and felt so happy that he felt like flying.

"Sister..." As soon as he entered the room and saw Xie Zhuoning, he called out anxiously.

But there was another person who spoke at the same time as him——

"Sister, how was my sword practice today?"

Wen Yan had just performed a set of sword skills, and after he had recovered, he looked at Xie Zhuoning expectantly, waiting for her praise.

Xie Zhuoning picked up a handkerchief and gently wiped the sweat off his face. He nodded appreciatively, "Not bad, you've made a lot of progress compared to before."

Hearing this, Wen Yan's eyes instantly brightened, like a starlight that never extinguishes in the sky, "Really?"

But Xie Zhuoning did not let him become complacent. “But there is still room for improvement. You must not slack off.”

"I know," Wen Yan said seriously, "I won't let my sister down!"

As soon as the words fell, a sword energy filled with murderous intent came straight at him.

Xie Minglang shouted angrily, "Get out! Don't touch my sister!"