Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The young couple was taken aback and looked up.
Then they heard Mei Feng berating a housekeeper, “Our family has always treated you well, but to think you’re actually a thief!”
The housekeeper was sobbing and saying, “Madam, I really did not take the money! Please believe me!”
When Xia Nuannuan heard these words, for some reason, she thought of the money that Mei Feng had so casually placed on the bedside table.
She knitted her brow.
When she turned and saw that Shen Zihao was about to put aside his bowl and chopsticks, she said, “Continue eating. I’ll go take a look.”
Shen Zihao nodded.
Xia Nuannuan stood up and slowly walked up the stairs. She arrived at the second floor.
In the second floor’s corridor, Mei Feng, who was trembling with anger, was pointing at a young housekeeper and rebuking her, “We pay you a higher wage than other places for working in our household. Why are you still not satisfied?”
The young housekeeper cried pitifully and tried to explain, “Madam, I wouldn’t steal. It really wasn’t me!”
Hearing the noise, Shen Xiu stood up and walked out of the study.
Frowning and looking at the scene that greeted him, he shouted angrily, “What’s going on?”
Mei Feng pointed at the young housekeeper and said, “She stole the 50 thousand that you just gave me and now she’s denying it!”
Shen Xiu spoke impatiently, “Just send her to the police station then. Why create a scene?”
At these words, the young housekeeper panicked. Her legs grew weak and she dropped to the ground on her knees begging, “Sir, Madam, it really wasn’t me! I didn’t steal!”
She wiped her tears with her sleeves as she cried, looking extremely pitiful.
Looking at the young housekeeper, she was suddenly reminded of a time in her life where she had had to work.
She glanced at the young housekeeper again. The girl looked simple and honest, certainly not like someone who would steal.
Besides… even if she had stolen money, why did Mei Feng need to create such a din? All she needed was to find the evidence and then send the girl to the police station. Wouldn’t that do?
Very insightfully, she had pinpointed the oddity of the situation and stood there in silence.
Mei Feng’s pupils shrank when she noticed Xia Nuannuan.
Humph.
Hypocrite!
If she was such a kind-hearted person, why wasn’t she speaking up for the young housekeeper by now?
Obviously, Xia Nuannuan was no kind soul.
She turned back to stare at the young housekeeper and said, “Sir had just given me the money and I left it on my bedside table. I didn’t even have the time to put it away! From then till now, you’ve been the only outsider who entered my room. Who else could it be if it isn’t you?”
The young housekeeper was still crying pitifully. “It really wasn’t me. I don’t know how the money disappeared. When I went in, there was no money on the bedside table! Madam, why don’t search? You can search me.”
Mei Feng laughed icily. “From the time you took the money till now, more than ten minutes have passed. How could the money still be on you!? It must have been transferred elsewhere.”
The young housekeeper was sobbing uncontrollably now and said, “It really wasn’t me.”
Mei Feng said, “I’ll still say the same. Only you came into my room. I’ve just looked through the room carefully and I can’t find the money! If it isn’t you, who else could it be?!”
The young housekeeper was really panicking by now.
She had to think of who else might have entered Mei Feng’s room, so that she could prove her own innocence. After thinking very hard, her eyes suddenly lit up. “Madam, besides me, Young Madam has also been in your room!”
As soon as these words were spoken, all eyes simultaneously shifted onto Xia Nuannuan.
Xia Nuannuan’s pupils shrank immediately.
Of course. Here it came.