TSBFL Chapter 79.2

TSBFL Chapter 79

Chapter 79.2: 下場

Bad End

(Sorry State/ Downfall) 

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Old Master Chen looked at Butler Zhou who was kneeling on the ground, raised his eyelids, and said with a bit of sarcasm in his tone, “So you still know me as your Master ah?”

 

Butler Zhou’s sweat that had been hanging on his forehead immediately came down as he looked at the man in front of him and hurriedly said, “Master, what are you talking about? Even if I don’t know who am I anymore, I still recognise you as my Master ah! My heartfelt love for you can be seen in heaven and earth!”

 

Old Master Chen looked at Butler Zhou’s tense face, a few moments of mockery suddenly surfaced on his originally expressionless face, lightly snorted a laugh. He did not respond to his confession just now, but instead asked a totally unrelated question, “Old Zhou, how many years have you been here in my mansion?”

 

Butler Zhou didn’t know why he suddenly asked like this, but still answered cautiously, “Thanks to the Master’s favor, this little one has been in the residence for almost twenty-five years now.”

 

Master Chen looked at Butler Zhou as he continued, “In these twenty years, has the Chen family ever treated you badly?”

 

Hearing these words as if he was about to settle the score, Butler Zhou had a few bad feelings in his heart, but he didn’t dare not to answer after all, so he braced himself and said, “Never before, not only they didn’t treat me badly or unfairly, they even gave me a place to stay, let me settle down and start my career, as if he were my second parent [said with gratitude of a person who has saved one’s life].”

 

Hearing his words, Old Master Chen, as if suddenly struck by an unknown anger, suddenly threw a piece of ink stone in his hand toward the direction of Housekeeper Zhou, and smashed it on his forehead with a grunt, and looking at the awkwardness of his hasty dodging, he yelled loudly, “Since my Chen family has treated you well, why are you bite the hand that feeds you? (return kindness with enmity)”

 

Butler Zhou, that dodge just now is also a subconscious action. Wait until the dodge is over and he hears the old master Chen’s loud shouts, only then he realizes the matter is far from good, he should not hide that one move and let the old master Chen have a vent out is also good ah!

 

This idea also only flashed for a moment in Butler Zhou’s mind; he looked at the gloomy and sullen face of Old master Chen. He also could not care that much, and hastily kneeled several steps, came to the old master Chen, looked at him desperately as he said: “Lao Ye (Master), you have wronged me ah! I have never done anything unfavorable (harmful) to the Chen family ah!”

 

Chen Old master laughed coldly, looking at the person in front of him, Steward Zhou who was still cunningly making excuses, simply also did not circle, he then directly said: “Wrongly accused? You frame that small restaurant for your nephew, was it a lie? Or is it a lie that you forced the grocery’s shopkeeper to collaborate with you, causing the reputation of my Chen family to be dragged in the dust?”

 

Although Housekeeper Zhou guessed that Old master Chen already knew about this matter, he did not expect him to know so quickly, so detailed, and now facing the old master Chen’s cross-examination,he can no longer find excuses for sophistry, without a word, kneeling there.

 

Chen Lao Ye, however, became more and more angry as he said, seizing the book in his hands, he threw it in the direction of Housekeeper Zhou. Everytime he smashed a book, he scolded a sentence, “I used to look at you as my family’s old man and be more tolerant of you. The things that you did in the past, I would turn a blind eye to it but you really should not have…have gambled with the name of my Chen family, for the sake of your bastard nephew, do you know how badly my Chen family has lost this time? Do you know?”

 

Butler Zhou knelt on the ground and listened to the Chen family’s growing roar, not daring to say anything back. He knew that Old Master Chen was still furious at the moment and if he spoke back now, it would only cause the scene to completely go out of control.

 

Butler Zhou’s silence was not replaced by the old man’s understanding, he smashed all the things in his hands toward Butler Zhou’s body before he stopped the action in his hand and as if he was tired, he then sat on the chair, directly gasping for breath.

 

When the Old master Chen’s breath stabilized a bit, he looked forward, even if he was smashed in the head and bleeding (badly beaten) yet housekeeper Zhou did not say a word, since getting the news that there is an accident in the shop, the fire (anger) hat had been suppressed finally disappeared most of the half. He quickly calmed his mood and looked at Butler Zhou in front of him, saying in a cold tone, “Since you made such a slip (careless mistake) in order to help your nephew vent out his anger, then I, the Chen Family Clan, can’t keep you anymore.”

 

The steward Zhou who always did not react, after hearing these words of Chen Lao Ye (Old Master Chen), suddenly raised his head and eagerly interrupted the words he had not yet finished. He wanted to try to defend himself, “Lao Ye, no, Lao Ye, I am not doing this for my nephew, I am doing this for you, Lao Ye!”

 

Chen Lao Ye (Old Master Chen) who had already calmed down was not as easy to fool as he was just now, and when he heard Butler Zhou’s words, he only lifted his eyelids, and looked at him with a sarcastic smile, “Butler Zhou, you’re a big old man, and you still naively think that these words can fool me? Don’t you have a guilty conscience when you say those words?”

 

Butler Zhou heard Master Chen say it like that, he felt that if he didn’t do something, he would have to leave the Chen family. If he left the Chen family, not only would his years of business be ruined, but he would also end up with nothing. No, he can’t leave this place, he absolutely can’t leave the Chen family!

 

Thinking of this, Butler Zhou looked at the expressionless Chen Lao Ye, staring at him, shouting, blue in the face: “Lao Ye, I did not lie, I really did not lie. I really did it for Master’s sake; that’s why I had the guts to do so many bold and reckless things. If it wasn’t for the sake of Master, I wouldn’t have done so many things, I still hope that Master will make a clear judgment about it!”

 

When Butler Zhou said this, he was still crying with a handful of snot and tears. If a wonderful young girl made this gesture, then the old master Chen felt that he can still pity a bit, but when this picture appeared of a nearly forty year old man, this picture is particularly not pleasant to eyes.

 

Chen Lao Ye frowned as he saw Butler Zhou’s ugly state, but did not continue to open his mouth to call the people outside to come in, just look at him in the eyes, with few points of scrutiny and suspicion and with a few points of doubt as he asked: “What do you mean by what you just said now?”

 

Butler Zhou heard the old master Chen’s words, his eyes immediately lit up, he understood that if he wanted to continue to stay in the Chen family, then this time is his last chance, so he no longer has to hide what he knows, as well as the corresponding plan from beginning to the end.

 

“Lao Ye, do you know who the owner of that small restaurant is?”

 

Chen Lao Ye listen to him to tell the original story, not to guess the riddle, so when he heard him not answer the question but asked a question instead, his face immediately turned ugly, looking at him with a bit of impatience as he said: “If you have something to say, say it quickly, spit it out. Do not delay my time.”

 

Hearing the impatience in Chen Lao Ye’s tone, Zhou Lao Ye also no longer sells secrets, straight to the point: “The owner of that small restaurant is exactly Chen Xing and his husband.”

 

Chen Lao Ye heard this name, he only felt somewhat familiar. For a moment, he also can not remember who it is. He can only frown, staring at Steward Zhou, waiting for him to finish his words.

 

Butler Zhou served at the side of Master Chen for so long, also used to be able to carefully weigh a person’s words and closely watch his expression. By looking at the expression of the old master Chen, he knew that he must not be able to remember who that Chen Xing was, so he immediately said: “Master, that Chen Xing was originally your concubine’s son, and his husband, Gu Lang is a toad lusting after a swan’s flesh—aspiring after your daughter, a poor sick ghost!”

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