Chapter 87: Framed!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Smack. Peony suddenly slammed the table and glared at Clarence. “How dare you, Clarence? Forget about the fact that you devised a plan to steal Master Williams, but you even had someone put on a show at Humanity Hall? You asked them to pretend to be dead!
“You ungrateful thing!
“What did the Murphy family ever do to wrong you?”
Clarence knew Peony was talking about Thompson and Leanne’s incident this morning.
He had no idea how Belle and Melody could have twisted the truth.
“Huh? Mom?
“What happened?” Miranda looked puzzled.
Melody cried out strangely, “Yo, Miranda, don’t you know what happened?”
“Melody, what on earth happened?” Miranda asked quickly.
“Haha.”
Melody exaggeratingly explained Thompson and Leanne’s incident again.
She specifically said that the two were shills that Clarence had hired to defame Humanity Hall.
Then, Clarence’s Thirteen Hall could profit off them by stealing Humanity Hall’s patients.
Miranda was furious after hearing that. “Clarence, what are you trying to do?
“How could you do that?
“Asking people to go to pretend that they’ve died in Humanity Hall?
“Do you have any idea how much this will smear Humanity Hall’s name?
“This is my mom’s life’s work!”
Slap!
Miranda got so mad she rushed over and slapped Clarence.
Clarence quickly explained, “Mom, Miranda, it’s not what you think.
“The father and daughter are Thompson and Leanne, from the Wright family of Mediterranean City. How could they be people I hired to go to Humanity Hall?”
He had just finished speaking.
A middle-aged man at the table shook his head in amusement. “You’re Clarence? What you’ve just said was disgraceful.
“Thompson’s the patriarch of the Wright family, one of the top three families in Mediterranean City!
“Do you know what we’re doing here in Mediterranean City? We came here to cure the Wright family’s patriarch.
“Thompson is seriously ill and probably doesn’t have many years to live.
“He has invited dozens of famous local and foreign doctors over just to consult them, hoping to extend his life.
“Judging by Thompson’s status, does he have time to go to Humanity Hall?
“Even if you’re making up lies, can’t you use someone else in your stories?” The middle-aged man shook his head, his face full of amusement.
Peony looked embarrassed. “Yosef, sorry about that.”
He was her eldest brother Yosef Wanda from the Wanda family of Beth City.
The Wanda family was a family of traditional medicine practitioners and had quite a good reputation in Beth City.
After marrying into the Murphy family in Mediterranean City, Peony had opened a Humanity Hall branch in Mediterranean City, with the Humanity Hall in Beth City still remaining as the main branch.
Peony had to pay the Beth City main branch one hundred million every year.
Although they still had an elderly father, Yosef had an absolute say in the Wanda family.
Yosef shook his head slightly and gave Clarence a dismissive glance. “It doesn’t matter. Why didn’t you check before you chose a son-in-law?
“How dare you recruit such a talker?”
“Oh, it’s what the Old Master wanted.” Peony sighed helplessly.
She was a little resentful that Armstrong’s dead father had to have chosen a loser like Clarence to be her son-in-law.
She glared at Clarence. “What are you looking at?
“You can never do anything right!
“You’re an unappreciative ingrate who will never be grateful for everything he’s gotten!”
“Yo, so this is the Murphy family’s good son-in-law! He even made Johnson fire my son when we were at Johnson’s company.” Chantelle looked eccentric and haughty. “Luckily, we can no longer be threatened. My son has resigned from Johnson’s company and is now officially a financial analyst at Wright Consortium.”
Tony looked amused. “Clarence, aren’t you tough? You even know Johnson.
“You should tell Johnson to be careful.
“There seems to be something wrong with his company’s accounts.”
“Mom, hear me out.” Clarence ignored Chantelle and Tony.
Peony slammed the table again, as she could not help feeling mad. “What else do you have to explain?”
Clarence wanted to continue speaking, but Miranda grabbed his hand and shook her head. “Stop. Sit down and eat.”
“Sit? Don’t you see there are no more seats?
“Stand aside!
“The sight of you upsets me!” Peony waved impatiently.
Clarence quietly stepped aside.
Shirley Wanda pouted. “What a loser. I don’t want to marry someone like that.”
Samuel Wanda smiled. “Of course my little sister won’t marry someone like that. Let me introduce you to some of Beth City’s young masters.”
Yosef glanced at his son and daughter. “What’s there to care about when it comes to people like him? Eat!”
During the feast, Armstrong took out the premium imperial jade and showed it to the crowd.
He boasted about it.
“Is this really premium imperial jade?” Yosef’s hand trembled a little, knowing the value of such a jade.
Armstrong looked proud. “Of course. I didn’t even sell it when the owner of First Pavilion, Carrie, offered me one hundred million.
“With this imperial jade’s raw material, I can easily sell it for two hundred million once I find a top jade master to process it.
“I chose it at a glance in First Pavilion’s stone garden…”
Armstrong told the stone gambling process dramatically, like he was telling a story.
He described himself as a stone gambling master, picking out the premium imperial jade among hundreds and even thousands of gambling stones at merely a glance.
He had gambled with three hundred thousand and had gotten two hundred million back in return, stunning everyone in First Pavilion!
Many rich people offered to buy it, but Armstrong refused.
“Dad, that’s so impressive of you!”
“Go back and choose a few more. Maybe you’ll get another jade worth tens or hundreds of millions!”
Belle and Melody had unrealistic ideas.
Yosef’s eyes were popping out of their sockets. Earning two hundred million in one breath was too exciting.
Taking credit, Armstrong asked, “Dear, did I do okay?”
Peony was in a good mood. “Hmph! You’ve passed this time.
“You’re better than some losers!
“All they know how to do is to give their people trouble!”
Clarence felt bitter when he heard this.
He had worked all morning to help Humanity Hall, save Thompson, and prevent Humanity Hall from being destroyed.
He had also helped Armstrong settle a ten million compensation with the warring states jade pendant with a cross.
He had found a premium imperial jade worth one hundred million, but it had now become something that Armstrong could boast about for himself.
Behind all of Clarence’s efforts was him being framed by Belle and Melody, and being misunderstood by Peony and Miranda. Clarence had not even gotten to eat his lunch yet.
“Hahaha!”
There were gales of laughter at the dining table.
No one looked at Clarence, who was standing in the corner.
No one cared whether Clarence ate or not.
Suddenly, the waiter’s voice came from outside the private room.
“Mr. Hill, don’t barge into the private room. The private room is being occupied.”
“F*ck you! I want to eat today, yet you’re telling me there’s no private room?” A middle-aged man’s voice rang out. He sounded furious. “I don’t care who’s inside. Just f*ck off!”
There was a bang.
The private room door was kicked open, and a tall man of 5 feet and 11 inches stormed in with a group of his men.
“Tiger… Tiger Hill?”
The Murphy family instantly rose to their feet.