3362 Foolish with Money

After returning that day, Mu Jingyang had dealt with his wife. Thinking it was the Old Master's birthday banquet today, he had still given Madam Hua some face and didn't hit her in the face...

Now, he was filled with regret. He wished he had just slapped her face rotten and made her stay in her room. That way, he wouldn't be shaming the family and losing so much face under everyone's gaze right now.

"Fifth Sister-in-law, aren't you going to tell the truth??" Mu Dongni grumbled, "Where did you take my one million?"

Madam Hua covered her face and sobbed, looking quite pathetic.

Mu Dongni angrily slammed the table, then pouted and whispered, "What are you crying about? Will crying solve anything? Quickly explain everything. Why is this steward from Pink Pavilion saying you owe them money? How much do you owe?"

"I, I..." Madam Hua stammered, her lips quivering, as she haltingly explained the situation.

It turned out that the two boys from the Fifth Branch had previously run up a debt of hundreds of thousands of spiritual coins at the Pink Pavilion while frequenting pleasure houses. The Fifth Madam, already struggling financially, was thunderstruck upon learning of this.

To repay the debt, she gritted her teeth and tightened her belt, paying off half of it. However, she couldn't manage to pay the other half.

If she paid that half too, the Fifth Branch would have nothing to eat for half a year...

So, left with no choice, Madam Hua reluctantly borrowed money from the Pink Pavilion to pay off the previous debt, planning to slowly repay the new one.

As a result, the interest compounded... snowballing, the principal and interest grew larger and larger, and the hole couldn't be filled anymore.

Mu Jingyang was dumbfounded. He turned his head, glaring furiously at his two shrinking sons.

So the root of the problem was with these two illegitimate sons?

Since the Fifth Madam herself had no children of her own, she had always raised these two illegitimate sons as if they were her own.

Madam Hua had always doted on the children, so when trouble arose, her first reaction wasn't to seek out Mu Jingyang for a solution, but to find a way to patch up the mess her two children had made...

No wonder those two rascals cried so much clinging to their mother yesterday; it was guilt at work!

Mu Jingyang now felt a little guilty himself. He hadn't held back when he hit his wife yesterday, and now he regretted it.

These two restless brats, he'd beat them to death!

Seeing Mu Jingyang about to lash out, Madam Hua quickly stepped forward to restrain him.

Mu Jingyang shook off Madam Hua's hand and rushed to the two brats, ready to give them a good beating.

Mu Wuzi hugged his younger brother, and the two boys dodged and darted, wishing they could crawl under the table.

Old Master Mu watched this family drama speechlessly and couldn't help but shout, "Stop it, all of you!"

Madam Hua also hurried forward at this point, grabbing Mu Jingyang's hand and whispering, "Master, don't hit the children here."

Steward Li of the Pink Pavilion chuckled twice, saying with a smile, "Yes, yes, Fifth Master, if you want to discipline your children, you can do it however you like once you go back. But for now, let's settle the bill, so you don't make things difficult for us."

Qiao Mu looked at Madam Hua with an expression of disbelief, "Was the money for the mahjong game that day borrowed from this Pink Pavilion?"

Madam Hua nodded with a tear-streaked face. If she hadn't borrowed it, where would she have gotten the money to pay the Little Crown Princess?

Mu Dongni's one million spiritual coins were just a fraction of the debt.

She wasn't even sure if the thirty million Steward Li was here to collect was the total amount.