The Road to Becoming a Son-in-Law

Chapter 336 Settlement of Accounts

Chapter 336 Settling Accounts

Her companion retorted angrily. As the two argued, the footsteps outside grew closer. The woman swallowed and asked, "Who is it?"

No one answered the woman's question; instead, a shrill female voice rang out, saying, "Kick the door open!"

Then, the woman and her accomplices saw the tightly closed door collapse straight down, kicking up a cloud of dust as it fell.

The two men were startled, and then they saw a group of people walk in. They recognized the person at the head of the group; it was their former employer, the madam of Chunxianglou.

Upon seeing the madam, the woman's face immediately lit up with a fawning smile, and she said, "Good sister, what brings you here?"

The madam was seething with hatred at the sight of the woman's smile. The woman noticed the madam's expression and felt uneasy. She didn't know anything about the Chunxiang Pavilion, but the madam's expression made her feel that the madam's purpose in coming today was not simple.

The madam remained silent. "Good sister, why aren't you saying anything?" the woman asked, her voice filled with worry.

After the woman finished speaking, the madam's face darkened even more, and she gritted her teeth and said, "How dare you say such things to me?"

The madam had come today to settle scores with the woman and her accomplices. Seeing the madam's increasingly dark face, the woman couldn't help but take a few steps back. Then she saw Stone next to the madam and quickly asked, "Stone, what's going on?"

Stone's face was no less ugly than the madam's. It was because of these two people that Chunxiang Pavilion suffered heavy losses, but now they were asking them these questions as if nothing had happened. Afterwards, even he was scolded and beaten by the madam. Now that he saw the culprits who caused all this, it was no wonder that his expression was not good.

"Hmph, we're here today to settle accounts with you."

The woman tried hard to recall if she had done anything recently to offend the two men. As she thought, she suddenly slapped her forehead and exclaimed, "I remember now!"

"Dear sister, you come to me from time to time about those few goods from before?"

Upon hearing the word "goods," the madam lost her temper and slapped the woman across the face.

"Ouch!" The woman was dizzy from the slap and couldn't help but cry out. Then, seeing the madam's ugly face, she immediately shut her mouth and said, "Good sister, you can vent your anger by slapping me, so please slap me a few more times."

"Ha." After hearing the woman's words, the madam slapped her several more times without any politeness, until her hand was red, before stopping and angrily cursing with her hands on her hips: "You bitch, were you doing that on purpose before?"

The woman had only spoken casually, but she hadn't expected the madam to actually slap her. She was completely stunned by the slap, but dared not speak out against it. Only after the madam stopped slapping her and she heard the madam's words again did she feel a burning hatred in her heart, but she put on an even more fawning and ingratiating smile and said, "Good sister, you can't say that. How could I have done it on purpose?"

The woman thought the madam was referring to her not sending Lin Shao and the others over, and said, "I really didn't mean to, and I didn't expect things to turn out that way."

“I originally intended to deliver them to you, dear sister, but I didn’t expect them to escape on their own and even beat me up,” the woman said. “Look at these injuries on my body, they were the ones who did this to me.”

The woman deliberately showed the madam the wounds on her body that hadn't healed yet. However, the madam's ugly expression didn't lessen at all after seeing the woman's injuries. She sneered and said, "So you let them go to Chunxiang Pavilion to harm us?"

The woman was taken aback. "Good sister, what are you saying?"

"Are you really stupid or just pretending?" The madam felt a dull ache in her body when she thought about how she had been whipped dozens of times. What was the matter of being whipped dozens of times? The important thing was that the indentures of all the people in Chunxiang Pavilion had been torn up by those people. More than half of the people in Chunxiang Pavilion had run away. Although some people were still left, the loss of those people was a huge blow to Chunxiang Pavilion.

That's not all; all her assets from all these years were gone. However, the madam was always a bully who preyed on the weak and dared not do anything to them. She didn't want to be whipped dozens of times again, so when she saw the culprit, she couldn't help but lash out.

She couldn't do anything about those seven people, but this woman and her accomplices were the ones who caused all of this.

If it weren't for them, those people wouldn't have gone to Chunxiang Pavilion. If they hadn't gone to Chunxiang Pavilion, they wouldn't have been beaten up, and Chunxiang Pavilion wouldn't have suffered such a direct loss.

The woman suspected that things were not as simple as she knew, and that there must be something she didn't know, otherwise the madam wouldn't have reacted so strongly.

Despite the pain from the swelling on her face, the woman said, "Good sister, how am I supposed to know what happened if you don't tell me?"

"Fine, fine, fine!" The madam was furious and said "fine" three times in a row: "Did you deliberately lure them to Chunxiang Brothel and have them tear up the indentures of all the people in Chunxiang Brothel?"

"What?!" The woman's eyes widened. "What, a contract of servitude?"

Seeing the woman's puzzled expression, the madam sneered. She didn't believe that the woman would be completely unaware of such a major incident at Chunxiang Pavilion. Even now, she was still trying to play dumb with her.

The madam looked at the woman coldly and said, "Didn't you say you didn't know? Fine, I'll tell you."

"The contracts of indenture for everyone at Chunxiang Pavilion have been torn up, and more than half of them have run away, including the dozen or so you sent over last month that weren't properly trained. Do you understand now?" The madam's voice was filled with a heavy sense of malice, as if she wanted to tear the woman to pieces.

But the woman paid no attention to any of this; her eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets, and she kept saying, "Impossible."

"Good sister, you must have made a mistake," the woman said anxiously. "How dare those people do such a thing? And even if they did, what does it have to do with me?" The woman now realized that the madam was blaming her for everything, but she didn't know anything about it.

The woman said, "Good sister, we've been working together for so long. No matter what good stuff I have, I always save it for you. Don't you trust me?"

The woman tried to persuade the madam, but little did she know that the more she tried, the angrier the madam became.

She was overjoyed when she first learned about this batch of fine goods, but she never expected the woman to suddenly raise the price. However, after hearing Shi Tou's description, she knew that the goods were all very attractive, so although she was dissatisfied, she agreed to the price increase.

To her surprise, after the price was raised, those women were indeed very attractive, but they were even more terrifying than man-eating flowers. Chunxiang Pavilion was the culmination of her years of hard work, but now it was all ruined. The current Chunxiang Pavilion wasn't even an empty shell.