noffsinger Chapter 220 Zhou Yihong blames Han Nian'an
Chapter 220 Zhou Yihong blames Han Nian'an
Zhou Yihong's face was empty, and he avoided Qin's gaze and said, "There's no reason, I just think it's a good opportunity."
"Tell me the truth!" Qin said sternly.
Seeing that Zhou Yihong didn't speak, Qin looked at Han Nian'an again, "Did you bewitch Hong'er?"
"No!" Han Nian'an denied it immediately.
Qin looked at Zhou Yihong again, and under her questioning, Zhou Yihong finally told her about the gambling debt.
Qin was so angry that her vision went dark again.
"I told you not to gamble anymore, but you ignored my words."
"Mother, I know I was wrong. I went because Nian An said I would definitely win." Zhou Yihong lowered his head and spoke.
Han Nian'an was stunned when she was directly blamed. Before she could open her mouth to explain, Qin's angry eyes shot over, "Bitch, it turned out that you instigated Hong'er!"
Han Nian'an looked unhappy. It wasn't her who asked Zhou Yihong to gamble all day, so why should he blame her for everything?
But before she could speak, Qin said, "I'll settle the score with you later," and then looked at Zhou Yihong again, "The most urgent thing now is for you to quickly get the 150,000 taels of silver back. If the middleman you mentioned embezzled the money and refused to admit it, it will be troublesome."
"Mother, no, when I gave the money to Wang Lang today, he said the amount was too large, and he signed a contract with me just in case. It clearly stated that he had received 150,000 taels of silver from me to lend at interest. If he wanted to embezzle the money, why would he take the initiative to leave a receipt?"
"You signed this kind of contract?"
Qin's face changed drastically. When she saw Zhou Yihong nod, she stood up and cursed.
"You idiot, you are just trying to hand over the evidence of lending interest to others!"
Without caring about anything else, Qin immediately summoned the servants and asked them to follow Zhou Yihong to find someone. At the same time, she also instructed them to make sure to get back the deed in Wang Lang's hands.
Zhou Yihong was somewhat reluctant, but facing his own mother, he had no choice but to agree.
However, when he brought people to Wang Lang's house, he found that the door was closed and no one opened it no matter how he knocked.
Finally, after asking around, I found out that the owner of the house didn't believe in Wang at all. It had been empty before and was only rented out recently.
Zhou Yihong went to the casino again, but not only did he still not find out any news about Wang Lang, even the other two people who gambled with him disappeared without a trace.
When Qin heard all this when she returned to the Marquis' Mansion, she immediately realized that her guess had come true.
"What interest, what winning every time you gamble? Now it seems that they have set you up from the beginning!"
"How is it possible? They know I'm the eldest son of a marquis. How could they be so brave?" Although Zhou Yihong protested, he was already panicking in his heart.
Qin was so disappointed with Zhou Yihong that her face turned blue with anger at his stupidity.
"It's because you are the son of the Marquis that they deceived you. The contract you signed is irrefutable evidence. If you dare to report it to the authorities, the Marquis will also be charged with violating the law. Not to mention the title, you may even be severely punished by the law."
In an instant, Zhou Yihong's face turned pale.
Qin's words made him break out in a cold sweat, and he asked hurriedly, "Mother, what should we do now?"
"What can we do? What else can we do? We can only send someone to look for him secretly, but I'm afraid he has already escaped without a trace." Qin looked at Zhou Yihong disappointedly, "How could I give birth to such a stupid son like you!"
Zhou Yihong lowered his head after hearing what Qin said.
At this moment, he finally came to his senses from the huge emotional ups and downs during this period, and realized belatedly that something was wrong with the three people.
So, he was really fooled from the beginning?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Zhou Yihong suddenly looked at Han Nian'an again.
"You can predict why things will turn out like this!"
Han Nian'an's dream of becoming rich and powerful was shattered. Before he could recover from Zhou Yihong's deception, he was frightened by the sudden questioning.
"Husband, this matter is not my fault, I also..."
"Why not blame you? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have trusted them so easily and kept gambling, and finally fell into someone else's trap." Zhou Yihong interrupted Han Nian'an directly.
The fact that all the money in the Marquis's account was cheated away at once was beyond Zhou Yihong's tolerance. At this moment, he couldn't wait to find a culprit and then throw everything out. It seemed that in this way, he could hide himself in the whole thing and then leave everything to others with peace of mind.
Han Nian'an stared at Zhou Yihong in a daze, and her perception of her husband was once again refreshed.
Even if she was the one who said she could win the bet, it was Zhou Yihong who gambled, and it was also Zhou Yihong who gave so much money to others. Why should everything be blamed on her?
"Husband, I really didn't know things would turn out like this. And I've said before, I can't predict everything. You can't blame me if you were deceived."
"You always said before that I would definitely win!"
Han Nian'an was flustered and was about to continue explaining, but suddenly she realized, "Husband, my prediction was not wrong. You did win before. But you never asked me to predict whether the other party was a liar."
"You..." Zhou Yihong choked, looking at the arguing Han Nian'an, his eyes no longer had the tenderness he had before, "You still dare to quibble, if it weren't for you, how could we have lost so much money!"
"this matter……"
"Shut up!" Qin interrupted Han Nian'an and looked at the two of them coldly.
Of course she knew that her son was trying to shirk responsibility, but she really couldn't feel any sympathy for Han Nian'an in her heart. In the current situation, she had no intention of saying a fair word for him.
"The most urgent thing is to find someone and solve the shortfall in the account." Qin looked at the accountant standing beside her with a gloomy face, "How much money is left in the account?"
"Madam, apart from the things in the storehouse, the young master has withdrawn three times, a total of 150,000 taels of silver. Now there is not much cash left in the account."
Qin frowned deeply, her anger rising again, and she glared at Zhou Yihong and Han Nian'an.
"You have put all the savings of the Marquisate into this!"
This is an exaggeration. After all, for the magnificent Changning Marquisate, if you count carefully, it is not just a few hundred thousand taels.
However, when Zhou Yihong's father was alive, he was a spendthrift. Later, he became even more extravagant for his beloved concubine, whose food, clothing, and housing were even more luxurious than those of Qin, the principal wife.
Even the family and relatives of the concubine benefited greatly from her success. It was not known how much they had gained from the affair. There were even cases where he gave away a few shops on a whim.
Later, Qin brought down the concubine, but Marquis Changning became depressed because of this. He was ill for several years and then died, leaving Qin with a lot of bad debts on his head.
Since the death of Marquis Changning, the income of the Marquis' Mansion has been much less than before, but the annual expenses plus the social interactions are still considerable. After taking power, Qin used her dowry to fill the gaps and maintain the glory of the Marquis' Mansion.
In addition, I have sorted out the business of my shop in recent years and gradually have money in my account.
These hundreds of thousands of taels, if given to those wealthy families who have accumulated wealth for generations, may not be considered a big deal. However, for the Changning Marquisate, although it is not all their savings, it is still a huge loss.
Looking at her own son with his head lowered like a quail, Qin was furious, but she couldn't find the heart to scold or punish him. Her eyes fixed on Han Nian'an who was standing beside her.
"You always say you can predict the future, so tell me what the Marquis' Mansion is going to do now!"