Chapter 397: Chapter 397 Ironclad Evidence
At this moment, the most nervous person is Sheng Zhang.
Sheng Zhang personally went to the monitoring room, turned off the surveillance, and then deleted some videos.
He wasn’t solely a hedonist; he had a bit of cleverness. For instance, deleting a video was something he could do with ease.
But he was too nervous at the time and didn’t notice that Sheng Tang had left her phone there.
Who could have thought of that?
If he had been lured to the front building by Sheng Qiao and noticed that something was wrong, he might have cursed Sheng Qiao for playing tricks on him. He wouldn’t have thought to leave his phone to record a video.
This Sheng Tang, she was simply hateful!
But Grandpa still wanted to watch the video.
The video was cast onto the television, large sections of it were blank, and Sheng Tang fast-forwarded it.
At first, it was only her and Sheng Zong, then the two of them left; after speeding up, Sheng Zhang appeared.
He looked around sneakily, then used a key to open the door to the monitoring room.
He went in and closed the door.
"This process lasted for ten minutes before he came out," Sheng Tang said.
She continued to fast-forward.
Sheng Zhang indeed appeared after ten minutes, just as she had said.
When he reappeared, he had a smug smile on his face, glanced at the direction of the camera provocatively, tossed the key in a showy manner, and happily went downstairs.
Everyone watching fell silent.
Sheng Qiao didn’t expect his eldest brother to be so foolish, caught by Sheng Tang’s hidden camera so plainly.
Sheng Zhang’s face was completely ashen.
The patriarch rubbed his forehead weakly: a pair of children, both stupid and bad!
He didn’t hate them for being bad, because in this world, ’those who build bridges and pave roads are blind, those who kill and set fires have many sons,’ it’s a world where bad people benefit more.
To him, the children’s badness was a kind of shrewdness and efficiency.
But they weren’t efficient, they were also stupid.
They did bad things and got caught red-handed, all the evidence laid out, and they had no way to argue.
The matriarch also panicked: "Dad..."
The patriarch waved his hand to stop her from speaking.
He looked at this family and felt chilled to the bone.
The second wife and second master stepped back, afraid that the burning of the city gates would affect the fish in the moat.
The old man glanced at everyone and finally spoke: "Without a doubt, it was the conspiracy of these siblings to steal my pocket watch. I’m afraid Rong was also involved."
After speaking, he turned his gaze to Sheng Rong.
He knew Sheng Rong was even more foolish. If he scared her, she would reveal more.
Sure enough, Sheng Rong’s legs turned weak, and she immediately cried: "No, Grandpa, I wasn’t involved! It was Sister. She said Sheng Tang... Sister Tang hit big brother, and she wanted to avenge him.
She stole your pocket watch, and big brother turned off the surveillance. I didn’t do anything, I really didn’t do anything, Grandpa."
Sheng Qiao and Sheng Zhang almost spat blood.
The patriarch and matriarch’s faces were both bleak.
The second wife wanted to cover her daughter’s mouth, but it was too late; Sheng Rong had spilled everything.
"How were you not involved?" Sheng Qiao was also flustered, "You distracted Sheng Tang and played cards with us, have you forgotten?"
"But it was you who personally stole the watch, and you said you’d put it in Sheng Zong’s pocket, but you forgot yourself. Don’t drag me down!" Sheng Rong loudly retorted.
The servant, Sister-in-law Qian, silently stepped back a few paces upon hearing this.
It turned out to be just as she thought.
These young misses were really too much.
The old man, however, let out a cold laugh.
Good, not only were they easily probed, but they also turned on each other after the fact, utterly hopeless.
In affluent families, there were many wastrels, and the old man was not particularly disappointed in his own.
After all, this was inevitable.
In his youth, he was too busy and neglected to educate his sons properly. They all turned out unreliable; how could he expect his grandchildren to have any accomplishments? They were only getting worse with each generation.
He had always been pragmatic, was Sheng Sidong not still there?
"Someone come," he called out, ready to mete out punishment to Sheng Qiao and the others.