Chapter 159: It Is Hard to Guard Against a House Thief

Just as Old Xie was watching the excitement, another pig-slaughtering-like scream suddenly came from outside, then, a fat woman still wearing pajamas ran in rolling and crawling, exactly Pretty Boy’s mother, the Emperor’s sister, the nominal official wife of the wretched Fatty. Obviously, she had heard about her son’s tragic experience and ran over desperately without even having time to change her clothes.

Then when she saw her son covered in blood, she almost fainted, then she pounced over like a sow protecting her calf, blocking in front of her son, stunning everyone else, no one expected that with her obese body, she could still be so agile. It seems that even the most shameless and despicable woman has a natural maternal glory when treating her own child.

“If you have the guts, just beat me to death!” The Duchess hugged her son and wailed at Fatty.

Seeing this woman suddenly block in front, Fatty was first stunned, but immediately became furious, directly whipping over, at the same time cursing, “You bitch, still think I don’t dare to whip you?”

“Ah!” The Duchess had never suffered such a beating in her life, her whole body shuddered from the whip on the spot, then a clear blood mark appeared on her chest, causing her to scream in pain, then the scream turned into a shriek, then she directly fell to the ground, crying and shouting, “Murder, murder! Brother, where are you? Your sister is going to be killed, come save me quickly!” The guards from the Imperial Palace beside her saw this and anxiously rushed over to block in front of her, afraid that Fatty would continue the violence.

However, Fatty obviously didn’t have the mood and strength anymore, he was a Mage to begin with, not known for physical strength, after whipping so many times continuously, he was already tired and covered in sweat, and reminded by this woman’s crazy crying, he remembered her identity, dare not continue whipping, after all, this was the Emperor’s only biological sister? He had to throw away the whip, spat fiercely, then cursed, “What are you crying for, I’m not dead yet!” After saying that, he kept panting there, obviously tired badly.

Seeing Fatty throw away the whip, the Duchess regained her courage, scrambled up, and cursed at Fatty, “You bastard who deserves a thousand cuts, how did your son provoke you, that you beat him so cruelly, if something happens to him, I won’t live either!”

“Ask him what he did?” Fatty shouted angrily, “This prodigal bastard! I fucking want to slaughter him!”

“Huh?” The Duchess heard this, hurriedly enduring the severe pain, turned around and asked, “Son, what did you do?”

“I, I just played with friends all night yesterday and didn’t come back, that’s all!” That kid cried aggrievedly, “This morning as soon as I got home, I was tied up and whipped severely, Mother, is this any way to act?”

“Dead Fatty!” The Duchess heard this, immediately furiously said, “Just for this little thing? You dare to beat my son? And even hit me? What exactly do you want to do?”

“Fuck off!” Fatty roared, “It would be best if this bastard died outside, I can’t be bothered to care. I whipped him because, because~”

Fatty obviously had some unspeakable secret, he didn’t say it directly, but first waved his hand, sending all the servants away, only the steward beside him remained. The Duchess wasn’t stupid either, seeing this posture, she also dispersed her people, only leaving one steward there. Only Old Xie didn’t care about this, not only did he not leave, but he also happily moved closer.

Seeing this, the Duchess got angry, because Old Xie was obviously here to watch the joke. Immediately she angrily said, “This is for adults to talk, children go play on the side!”

Old Xie heard this and got angry, immediately sneered, “Family management is a man’s business, women should get lost!”

“You~” The Duchess heard this, her face turned green with anger, just about to say something.

Fatty directly spoke, “Little Stephen is now an Imperial Earl, he who captured Tianfeng Fourteen Lang is fully qualified to participate in any family internal affairs! Stop arguing both of you, come in with me!” Saying that, Fatty entered his residence’s living room with the support of the steward.

Seeing this, the Duchess could only helplessly follow. Old Xie looked at her with disdain, then slowly walked in.

After entering, Fatty signaled the Duchess and Old Xie to sit down, then ordered the steward, “Bring that beast in for me!”

“Yes, My Lord!” The Chief Steward agreed, then hurriedly went out, carried the bloody Pretty Boy in, and placed him directly on the ground. Seeing his miserable state, the Duchess felt a burst of heartache.

But Fatty didn’t care about this at all, instead asked gnashing his teeth, “I ask you! What have you done recently?”

“Didn’t do anything?” That guy said aggrievedly, “Just the same as usual? Just hanging out with friends!”

“Hanging out?” Fatty sneered, “Gambling and playing with women, right?”

“So what if it is?” The Duchess interjected from the side, “Which family’s child doesn’t do that? Besides, his money was given by me, what does it have to do with you?”

“Bullshit!” Fatty stood up angrily and roared, “Lost more than 50,000 Gold Coins in two months, can you afford that?”

“Ah!” The Duchess shuddered when she heard this. You know, although she doted on this son, she only gave him one or two thousand Gold Coins a month to squander, in fact, her money wasn’t very abundant, after all her dowry was limited, and she had no income. If Fatty didn’t need her to help in the upper-class Noble circle, so gave her a fixed fund for socializing, she couldn’t take out so much cash every month.

But the number 50,000 was really too big, that was equivalent to a year’s worth of funds Fatty gave her. Except for proper business, the Duchess could save more than 10,000 a year for her son’s pocket money, which was already very good. But after all, more than a thousand Gold Coins was not a small number, so this kid’s squandering was limited, although he used to spend all his monthly money, it was enough. But unexpectedly, he could lose 50,000 Gold Coins in two months, this of course shocked the Duchess greatly. So she hurriedly asked, “Son, is this true?”

“This~” That kid heard that Fatty even knew the specific number, immediately wilted, had to tremblingly say, “It is true, but, Mother, don’t worry, I guarantee I will pay it back in the future!”

The Duchess also gasped in anger after hearing this, but she quickly calmed down, after all she was the Emperor’s sister, wouldn’t lose her cool over such a small matter, so she immediately said, “My Lord, if you are worried about this gambling debt, you don’t need to worry, just leave it to me to handle, I want to see which bastard dares to ask me for gambling debt!”

The Duchess’s words were very arrogant, but not at all unreasonable, at least no one present thought she was bragging. As the Emperor’s biological sister, who in the Griffin Kingdom wouldn’t give face? Even Great Noble Families like Augustus and Hercules wouldn’t fall out with the Duchess over this little gambling debt. As for other small Nobles, if they dared to come to ask for debt, they might not even be able to keep their lives, this is the power of authority, with power you can be unreasonable!

However, after hearing this, Fatty immediately spat furiously, then cursed, “Bah, do I care about a few ten thousand Gold Coins? My fart is worth more than this, is it worth me making such a big fuss? Ask this son of a bitch what exactly he did!”

The Duchess heard that there was more to it, quickly turned her face and asked, “What else did you do?”

“No, nothing else!” Although that kid’s face was pale, he still kept his mouth shut.

The Duchess also saw something was wrong, she was too lazy to ask him, instead turned her face to Fatty and said, “My Lord, what exactly did he do? Just tell me!”

“This bastard actually sold the family’s secret Formula of the bow and arrow workshop to pay off the debt!” Fatty said filled with indignation.

As soon as this was said, everyone understood why Fatty was so angry. It turned out that although the Stephen Family’s business was big, the real stable income source was still a few workshops passed down from ancestors. Like the business in the City of Chaos, it was not stable, maybe when the Pirates went crazy it would be wiped out, so adding some extra income was okay, but couldn’t completely rely on it.

And because the Stephen Family was an Alchemy family origin, the technology in the manufacturing workshops passed down by the previous few generations was the best in the Griffin Kingdom, almost equivalent to a monopoly operation, the profit was very large. The bow and arrow workshop was one of them, besides the workshops making Magic Wands, Magic Robes and necessary items for Mages, this bow and arrow workshop was the most profitable.

Don’t be deceived by the name workshop, but the scale was actually very large, producing tens of thousands of bows every year, of which 50,000 had to be supplied to the Griffin Kingdom. Of course, this didn’t mean the Griffin Kingdom’s army needed so many bows every year, in fact, the bows consumed by the Griffin Kingdom’s army every year were only more than 10,000. As for the remaining bows and arrows, the Royal Family would sell them to surrounding Small Kingdoms and even the Empire of Light in the name of the country, even the Orcs had a considerable purchase volume.

The reason why the Emperor could easily allow the Stephen Family to obtain two or three times the huge profit was because of this, anyway, the Emperor would resell them and only make profit without loss, naturally he wouldn’t care about the Stephen Family’s little profit anymore. And such handling maximally guaranteed the common interests of the Emperor and the Stephen Family.