Chapter 268
Chapter 268
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Early in the morning, before the sun had even risen, Matthew and Anthony were dragged out of bed by Gabriel.
Matthew said, “What’s wrong, Father? It’s freezing! Father, at least let me get dressed!”
“Get dressed? What for? You’ve brought shame upon our family!” Gabriel replied.
With that, Gabriel shoved both Matthew and Anthony out the door.
When they reached the gate of the Duke’s estate, they saw Benedict standing there.
“Benedict, what are you doing here? What in the world is going on?” Matthew, still clueless, asked.
Benedict looked at the two of them and said indifferently, “Come out and see for yourselves.”
As he spoke, Matthew and Anthony faintly smelled a foul odor.
“What’s that smell?” Matthew covered his nose and walked outside.
As soon as Matthew looked up, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he was enraged. “Who did this?! Who would dare to splash this kind of thing in our place?”
Matthew almost vomited. He cursed while covering his nose, not yet recovered.
When Anthony also went out and saw the scene outside, his face darkened.
The entire gate of the Duke’s estate had been splashed with excrement.
The stench was overwhelming, and even the commoners passing by couldn’t help but avoid it.
Most importantly, there were five large characters written on the ground, like a provocation from the murderer–‘What goes around comes around!
Gabriel almost immediately knew who did it when he saw this sentence.
Gabriel knew even more clearly who had provoked that unfilial daughter, who had only just returned to Hasen City and had already slapped him in the face!
“I know it!” Matthew finally reacted at that moment, his teeth gritted in anger. “It was her, it must have been that wretched Eliza!”
“Slap!” In full view of the crowd watching from afar, Gabriel slapped Matthew hard across the face without mercy. Gabriel snapped, “You worthless piece of trash, I already warned you not to provoke her again. It’s only been a short while, and you’re already causing trouble for me again!
“Just how long do you want to keep embarrassing the entire family?”
Although Gabriel only hit Matthew, his sinister gaze also swept over Anthony.
“You should be grateful that you are not well, otherwise you would have gotten a slap too,” Gabriel said.
Matthew, with half of his face red from the slap, still wanted to argue, “Father, how can you be so sure that we were the ones who provoked her? Couldn’t it be Eliza Stonor who came to find fault?”
“Slap!” In full view of the crowd watching from afar, Gabriel slapped Matthew hard across the face without mercy,
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Gabriel said as if looking at a fool, “No one else would be as idle as you two good–for–nothings all day long.”
And Gabriel was no fool either. Even if he didn’t like that unfilial daughter, he wouldn’t be so blind.
Gabriel thought, ‘Eliza had just returned from Kingston and came all the way to the Duke’s estate to throw feces for no reason. Is Eliza out of her mind?
Matthew pursed his lips. Although he lowered his head, he still looked unconvinced.
Matthew even muttered, “It was Eliza who provoked her in the first place and made Sophie suffer so much.”
Matthew and Anthony were helping Sophie deal with that wretch, so what was wrong with that?
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“Shut up” Gabriel raised his hand again, and was about to give Matthew a third slap in the face when Benedict reached out to stop him.
Benedict said, “That’s enough, Father.”
Benedict pushed Matthew aside, glanced at Gabriel, and said indifferently, “No matter how you pretend, the reputation of Duke’s estate is already as filthy as the sewage on the steps of this gate.”
After saying this, Benedict stepped over the sewage, got into the carriage, and showed no expression.
Matthew didn’t expect Benedict to say that. This was even worse than his rebuttal and sophistry just now.
In the end, Gabriel, like Benedict before him, endured the faint stench of manure and went to court.
As for Matthew and Anthony, Gabriel placed them under house arrest for the time being, waiting until he returned to deal with the two bastards.
Early in the morning, news of what happened at the gate of the Duke’s estate quickly spread throughout Hasen City.
It provided another amusing anecdote for the idle people of Hasen City.
It wasn’t long before the news reached the Prince Regent’s estate.
Nolan raised an eyebrow slightly. “What have those fools from the Stonor family done this time to provoke that girl to such an extent?”
No matter how they retaliated before, it never reached such a damaging level.
One could only imagine how wonderful Gabriel’s face must have looked when he saw that scene as he left the house.
Nolan laughed, but when Ross heard the news, he couldn’t laugh anymore. “Destroy the medicine field?”
Nolan instantly recalled Eliza’s words to him on their way back to Hasen City.
Nolan asked, “Whose medicinal fields did they destroy?”
Seeing Nolan’s expression change, Ross hurriedly said, “I heard it was the medicinal fields at Solacecrest Manor. Most of the herbs planted earlier were destroyed. They even poisoned the fields, wanting to completely ruin Your Grace’s ten thousand acres of land at Solacecrest Manor.”
Boom! As soon as Ross finished speaking, Nolan smashed the table beside him with one palm, his face full of anger.
Nolan said, “Send someone to splash more on the gate of the Duke’s estate. Splash it until no one dares to come out of the Duke’s estate!”
Ross’s eyes widened in shock, unable to react for a moment. “Splash what?”
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Nolan shot him a cold glance and spat out the word through gritted teeth. “Manure
So, for the next ten days, the gate of the Duke’s estate was repeatedly splashed.
No matter how thoroughly it was cleaned during the day, by the next morning, the gate of the Duke’s estate would reek of manure again.
Except for Benedict, everyone in the Duke’s estate was effectively trapped inside.
Boom! As soon as Ross finished speaking, Nolan smashed the table beside him with one palm, his face full of anger.
Gabriel shouted, “How long does Eliza think she can keep this up? Does she think I won’t dare to teach her a lesson??
At this time, neither Gabriel nor Matthew knew what was going on.
They thought Eliza was relentless and determined to make life difficult for the Duke’s estate.
But at this moment, someone swaggered in and delivered a letter.
Gabriel took the letter from the housekeeper, and the moment he opened it, he tore it to shreds.
Gabriel muttered, “Nolan Bennett! Just wait. I will repay this humiliation in full!”
The letter was indeed from Nolan, a mocking letter delivered specifically to provoke Gabriel.
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