Chapter 2205: Press Charges

Editor: Atlas Studios

Qiao Mei’s words shocked everyone present, especially the Bian family members. They looked at Bian Ke in disbelief. When Old Master Bian was still alive, he was quite nice to Bian Ke. They did not expect Bian Ke to be so vicious!

“Why did you do this? Where did the real ginseng go? What did you do with the real ginseng! You murdered your grandfather for slightly more than 10,000 dollars! Why did you do this to your grandfather! How can you face the Bian family’s ancestors!” Bian Jian pressed Bian Ke to the floor and beat her up.

Qiao Mei waved her hand to ask Da Zhuang and Xiao Zhuang to go forward and pull them apart. Qiao Mei looked at Bian Jian with disdain and said, “This is my house. If you want to teach her a lesson, you can go back to your own house! No one will care even if you kill her there!”

“This is all a misunderstanding! In that case, we’ll go home and teach Bian Ke a lesson! We will definitely come and apologize another day!” Bian Guo said immediately.

By now, it was already very obvious that the problem was within the Bian family. The entire matter had nothing to do with the Xia family! Bian Guo and Bian Jian wanted to muddle through and slip away from the Xia family.

Zou Ming arranged for someone to block the door. Xia Wen patted the dust off his clothes and said, “Now that the truth is out, perhaps it’s time for you to give our Xia family an explanation?”

“It’s all my muddle-headed daughter’s fault! You can do whatever you want to her!” Bian Jian said as he pointed at Bian Ke.

“It’s the father’s fault if the child is not taught properly. You must also bear responsibility for her mistakes,” Xia Wen said.

“Yes! I’m indeed responsible!” Bian Jian immediately bowed to Xia Wen and Qiao Mei and apologized to them. He continued, “I’m really sorry! We wronged you! We definitely won’t do it again!”

“If apologies are useful, then why do we need the police? Just now, you slandered me in front of the neighbors and said that I killed your father. You have to clarify this matter from house to house and also write a self-reflection letter and read it out in front of everyone,” Qiao Mei said.

“Isn’t going from house to house a little… overboard?” Bian Jian asked with a slight frown.

“Overboard? Don’t you think your family asked for it? It’s only a few days after the reunion festival and everyone from your Bian family comes to cry at my door! I haven’t even gone after you for bringing me bad luck!” Qiao Mei said.

“But there’s really a death in our family!” Bian Jian said angrily.

Qiao Mei smiled mockingly and said, “What does a death in your family have to do with my family? Did my family cause the old master’s death? Did my family abuse Old Master Bian? Or did my family poison Old Master Bian? But whatever my family had to go through today was caused by your family!”

“Young girl, your words are really too harsh! We’re all prominent people in the capital! Let’s show each other some respect so that it won’t be too awkward when we meet again in the future!” Bian Guo said as he looked at Qiao Mei.

“It’s our Xia family that’s prominent. Your Bian family… Hmph, I can let your family be unable to raise your heads up high by tomorrow!” Qiao Mei said.

In the Bian family, apart from the fourth child who worked for the government, the rest of the family members worked in various factories. Qiao Mei’s food factory was currently doing very well and many factories had some form of business dealings with Qiao Mei. As long as Qiao Mei put the word out that the Bian family had offended her, these factories would fire the Bian family members in order to curry favor with Qiao Mei.

“You’re going too far!” Bian Jian pointed at Qiao Mei and roared.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to do anything.” Qiao Mei looked at Zou Ming and asked, “The police officers here have all heard very clearly that Bian Ke murdered Old Master Bian. We have both witnesses and physical evidence here. Furthermore, the Bian family members who slandered me refuse to apologize to me or accept my reconciliation proposal. Is it possible for me to press charges?”

“Press charges? What is that?” Bian Jian asked Bian Guo in a panic.

Bian Guo was also very confused by this phrase. It was not just Bian Guo. Among everyone present, only Zou Ming and Xia Wen understood what “press charges” meant.

“No! Not me! All I did was buy this ginseng! I didn’t know that it was poisonous! I didn’t feed this ginseng to my grandfather! It’s my father! It’s him! He personally fed this poisonous ginseng to my grandfather! I’m not the mastermind behind this!” Bian Ke scrambled towards Qiao Mei and said agitatedly.

She did not know what “press charges” meant either but it did not sound like anything good. She was very scared of going to jail. She was currently at the most glorious age of her life. She had heard that the penalty for killing someone was at least 10 years in jail. If she had to spend 10 years in jail, she might as well just die! What was the point of living such a life!

“You unfilial daughter! I’ll beat you to death! Asshole! How did I have a beastly child like you!” Bian Jian scolded as he hit her.