Chapter 95 Paying Gambling Debts

"Hit me, hit me hard!"

Inside the ancestral temple, Chen Huaiqian was so angry that his face turned red, veins on his forehead were throbbing, and he was directing the servants to carry out the execution.

"Beat this unfilial thing to death!"

Chen Jin knelt on the ground and couldn't stop crying and begging for mercy. From childhood to adulthood, he had never suffered such physical pain. The whipping of the executioner's stick on his body seemed to take his life.

"Mother, save me! Mother! I'm going to be beaten to death. I won't dare to do it again. Mother - it hurts so much. Mother, save me!"

When Chen Jin saw Feng coming in, he felt like he had found a life-saving straw and kept calling for help.

No matter how useless Chen Jin was, he was still Feng's biological son, her own flesh and blood.

Seeing that Chen Jin's clothes on his back were torn, the flesh inside was torn and bleeding, it was so heartbreaking.

He gritted his teeth and knelt down beside Chen Jin.

"Master, if you want to hit me, hit me. It's my fault for not disciplining Jin'er and causing him to make such a big mistake. Although Jin'er has been a useless person for all these years, he has never been involved in bad habits such as gambling. Now that he has suddenly been involved, I'm afraid someone has kidnapped him maliciously. You beat him to death, which is a relief, but you should at least give the child a chance to explain himself. If it's really his fault, you should punish me as well!"

Feng was an expert at pretending to be pitiful.

Having been with Chen Huaiqian for many years, she knew what kind of tricks Chen Huaiqian was most susceptible to, so even though Chen Huaiqian was angry at her for cooking the books and Chen Jin's gambling, his anger had at least subsided a little.

Seeing this, Li Mingzhu also knelt down and begged for mercy.

Only then did Chen Huaiqian stop the executioner.

"Okay, I'll give you this chance. Tell me when you started gambling, who brought you there, and how much money you have lost now!"

Taking a look at Feng and Li Mingzhu beside him, Chen Jin swallowed his saliva, avoided his gaze, and was about to lie.

At this time, Chen Huaiqian said, "You'd better tell me the truth about how much money you owe in the casino. When Lao San caught you, he checked it and told me."

Chen Jin was originally planning to make excuses, but after hearing these words, his face immediately turned bad.

She cried, "A few months ago, a friend I just met took me to the gambling house. I made money at that time, but later, I don't know why, my luck turned bad, and now I owe a total of 10,000 taels."

"Ten thousand taels?!" Li Mingzhu screamed, "Didn't you say you only owed three thousand taels? I gave you the silver and asked you to fill in the bill, how come it became ten thousand taels again!"

When Feng heard this, she immediately looked at Li Mingzhu with poisonous eyes.

"You knew Jin'er had developed a bad habit of gambling, but you didn't tell the elders at home and indulged him like this. What did I teach you?!"

"Mother-in-law, I..." Li Mingzhu felt angry and aggrieved.

I was still worried about the money at the moment and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Chen Jin lowered his head and said, "I thought I could turn the tables now that I had the capital, but I lost again today. I owe a total of 10,000 taels."

Having said this, he burst into tears again and kowtowed to Chen Huaiqian.

"Dad, I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. I won't do it again. But if I can't pay the money back, the people in the gambling house said they would chop off my hands and feet to pay off the debt. Dad, please save your son. I will definitely turn over a new leaf and learn how to do business from you. I won't dare to fool around anymore!"

"You still have the nerve to ask me for money to pay off your debt!" Chen Huaiqian kicked Chen Jin on the shoulder angrily, "I'm going to beat you to death right now, chop off your hands and feet and send them to the gambling house to settle the debt!"

As he spoke, he ordered the servant to come forward again and enforce the family rules.

When the whip was pulled down, Chen Jin started howling like a ghost again.

Feng felt sorry for her son, so she rushed over, hugged him, and took a few blows for him.

"Master, Jin'er is your biological son after all. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. Please forgive him this time. I will keep a close eye on him in the future and will not let him make mistakes again!"

As he was speaking, he seemed to be too weak to withstand the beatings, and he fainted with his eyes closed.

At this time, the fourth son, Chen Xun, also heard the news and rushed over. He happened to see Feng fainting, exclaimed, and hurried forward to support her.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you?"

After calling out twice and hearing no movement from Feng, he turned to look at Chen Huaiqian.

"Dad, what on earth is going on?"

Chen Huaiqian has always valued his son Chen Xun, who has the potential to become an official, so although his face was still gloomy at this moment, he did not continue to lose his temper.

After sending the servants away, he ordered people to take the unconscious Feng away. Only then did he close the family ancestral hall and talk as a family.

After all, Chen Xun is smarter and is valued by Chen Huaiqian, so his words are more effective than Feng's now.

I pleaded for Chen Jin, and at least he didn't have to be beaten, but he was still punished to kneel in the ancestral temple for ten days.

But what about the gambling debt that Chen Jin owed?

Chen Zhi, who was standing by, also secretly reminded Chen Huaiqian that he should not pay for Chen Jin.

Although ten thousand taels is not a small amount, my second sister-in-law Li Mingzhu can still afford it. If all else fails, there is still Feng.

If he really cleaned up Chen Jin's mess, Chen Jin would not have learned his lesson, and Feng and Li Mingzhu, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, would not have known that they had not taken good care of Chen Jin's pain, and they might have slacked off in the future.

In addition, Li Mingzhu had known about Chen Jin's gambling for a long time, but not only did she not stop it, she even participated in it. She only regretted it after losing money. She should also be taught a lesson.

Chen Huaiqian also thought it made sense, so he didn't mention paying off Chen Jin's debt, leaving him to figure it out himself.

Chen Xun didn't say anything about this.

He also felt that Chen Jin should be taught a lesson.

Otherwise, if this second brother gets into bigger trouble in the future and involves him, it will be bad.

But Chen Xun also felt more and more that his third brother Chen Zhi was different from before.

In the end, it was Feng who paid off the bulk of Chen Jin's gambling debt.

Li Mingzhu said that she had given Chen Jin three thousand taels before, and now she only had two thousand taels in cash. If she wanted more, she would have to sell her land and shops, which were all her dowry. If she moved them, her mother's family would know, and that would be bad.

There was nothing Feng could do even though she was unhappy. She could see that Li Mingzhu was holding a grudge, and she was afraid that if she angered others, Li Mingzhu's family would come to support her. If the news of forcing the daughter-in-law to use her dowry to pay off her husband's gambling debts got out, the entire Chen family would be embarrassed.

Then Chen Huaiqian will become even more annoyed with her.

Helpless, Feng had to hold her nose and take out eight thousand taels.

You can't not pay it back. Those people in the gambling house will really come to your door to collect the debt. If you make trouble again, there will be another trouble.

In short, this time Feng suffered a heavy loss.

At the same time, Feng hated Chen Zhi and Xu Shuhe even more.

After all, in her opinion, it was just a coincidence that Chen Jin made a mistake and was caught by Chen Zhi. She was afraid that Chen Zhi was setting a trap for Chen Jin.

Chen Jin also hated Chen Zhi to the core in his heart, thinking that Chen Zhi had harmed him, but his hatred was different from Feng's.

He didn't think that this was a trap set by Chen Zhi. In fact, he felt that if Chen Zhi didn't kidnap him back, he would definitely be able to turn the tables in the next round.

By then, he will not only be able to pay back the ten thousand taels, but also earn some money.

How could it be so embarrassing!
In fact, when it comes down to it, how could someone like Chen Jin repent?

But no matter whether he changes it or not, Chen Zhi's business will not be affected and it will still be booming.