Beneath the weak appearance lay a terrifying edge.
Robin squinted at the man. There was no doubt that this old and gray man was one of John’s brothers in arms. His name was Hinds.
When Robin was looking at Hinds, the latter was doing the same thing. However, there was confusion when Hinds turned his eyes on Robin.
“Who are you?”
“Uncle Hinds, I am Robin.” Smiling slightly, Robin felt that Hinds seemed not to be as outrageous as his wife.
“You are Robin?” With a smile on his face at once, Hinds continued to ask, “you are John’s son-in-law, right?”
“Come on up! Come on! Eveline, take Robin up!” Hinds was so hospitable that his family members here were all puzzled.
“Hinds, this bastard teased me! How can you…?” With grievance on her face, Eveline wanted to continue blaming on what Robin had done. But Hinds interrupted her immediately,’ shut up!’
“Robin just came here from City C. He was not familiar with everything here. Why would he tease you? … Cough.” Hinds seemed to be riled. He couldn’t help coughing when he was still talking. As a result, his face flushed.
Seeing that, Eveline was shocked, saying, “Hinds, don’t be angry. I’ll ask him to come in right now!”
Turning her eyes on Robin, Eveline became rude again, saying, “Come on! Why do you still not move?”
Squinting at her, Robin followed her without any words.
But Hinds had already come down, and he waved to Robin with a smile, saying, “Robin, come and sit down! come on!”
Robin smiled gently, replying, “Uncle Hinds. There is still a misunderstanding between your family and me. I am not going to sit down.”
“Misunderstanding? Which one?” Hinds raised his head and gazed at Robin with a puzzle.
But Hinds only found that Robin shut his mouth and didn’t mean to talk.
Getting some information from Robin’s words, Hinds turned his eyes on Eveline and Stefan. At once, he noticed that both of them were awkward.
“Eveline!” Hinds said in disappointment.
Being completely resolute, Eveline repeated what Stefan had said to continue discrediting Robin.
Eveline expected Hinds to glare at Robin when hearing what she had said. Instead, Hinds became much angrier. What’s more, the source of his anger was exactly Stefan and her.
Eveline was extremely terrified, saying, “Hinds…”
“I gave you 300, 000 yuan, but you only gave 100, 000 yuan to Robin!” Hinds looked at Eveline coldly.
“300, 000 yuan?” Stefan shouted surprisedly. When Eveline asked him to redeem that jade, she told him that Hinds had only given her 100, 000 yuan. As a result, he could only pay Robin 100, 000 yuan at most for that jade.
But now…
300, 000 yuan? There was some confusion in Robin’s eyes. What a fun family! One is bolder than the other!
At first, Robin thought that it was quite greedy of Stefan to embezzle his deserving 100, 000 yuan. But out of his imagination, Eveline was much more greedy that she had even embezzled 200, 000 yuan.
Seeing Eveline lower her head without any words, Hinds shouted furiously, “Tell me the truth!”
“what should… should I tell you?” Getting extremely angry at once, Eveline raised her head and replied aggressively, “I indeed just gave 100, 000 yuan to this bumpkin! So what?”
“Previously, John only lent 100, 000 yuan to you, right?”
“Therefore, it is quite reasonable for us to pay the same amount back!”
“Shut up!” Hinds blurted, stopping Eveline from talking.
“Eveline, bills are not calculated in this way!”
“First, John lent that 100, 000 yuan to me ten years ago. You must know what it means!”
“Second, I would have never weathered the trouble in my business if John didn’t lend me that 100, 000 yuan. Moreover, our affluent family would never exist!”
“Therefore, not to mention the 300, 000 yuan, that even I paid 3, 000, 000 yuan back was something that I should give to him. He deserves it!” Hinds said convincingly. What Hinds said was so reasonable that Eveline could not make any rebuttals.
Lowering their heads, Stefan and Sonya felt guilty because their father had told them the story of their family more than once.
A dozen years ago, Hinds retired from the army and started his business with John. However, they lost all their capital due to the lack of relevant experience.
Completely discouraged, John returned to City C.
While Hinds was unwilling to give up and decided to go on his business. Back then, however, he was so poor that he even could not take out 100 yuan.
As a result, he had to ask John for help shamelessly. At first, he just intended to borrow one or two thousand yuan from John. But John was so nice to friend that he took great efforts to pool 100, 000 yuan for Hinds.
Getting the money from John, Hinds was moved and appreciated that he swore to pay it back hundreds of times as much as the money he borrowed from Hinds. To remind himself, he even gave the heirloom to John as a pledge.
In a blink of eyes, ten years had passed.
Over the past ten years, Hinds’s commercial company had grown stronger! At the same time, he became much busier. Hinds had planned to visit City C to redeem the heirloom by himself many times but delayed by many affairs.
Nowadays, Hinds got some time, but unfortunately, he came down with a serious disease.
Hearing that Robin would come to City Z, Hinds had planned to pick up Robin on his own. But Eveline stopped him and told him that she would ask Stefan to return the money to Robin.
Hinds adopted Eveline’s advice, but he could have never imagined that his wife would play such a trick.
“Stefan!”
The august voice of Hinds appeared again. Trembling a little, Stefan replied dejectedly, “Daddy…”
“Tell me honestly, what did you do?”
Raising his head, Stefan had intended not to tell the truth. Surrounded by his father’s noble eyes, he felt that he had been disclosed. Then he had to open his mouth, “Daddy, there may be some misunderstanding between Robin and me.”
“Misunderstanding?” Hinds replied coldly, “what’s your misunderstanding?”
“Thud!” Stefan bent his knees on the floor and said in tears, “Daddy, I’m sorry.”
“I have no choice. I didn’t want to cheat you and mommy. I lost a lot of money in the casino, and they threatened, if I don’t pay it back, they will cut my legs…”
“so how much money did you give to Robin?” Hinds took a deep breath and felt some darkness in his eyes. He hadn’t expected that his wife and son would do such a dirty trick without telling him.
“One… one thousand yuan,” Stefan replied gently.
“Snapped!”
Hinds raised his hand and slapped his son.
“Asshole! Asshole!” Hinds’s complexion became pale with anger.