Chapter 88: One Word, One Slap

Chapter 88: One Word, One Slap

The tall maid approached the living room, seeing Gong Xinli with a cold expression sitting on the sofa, she felt a chill.

"Mr. Gong..."

"One word, one slap!" Gong Xinli, his face cold as frost, declared, "Starting from when the housekeeper served the children."

"Mr. Gong..."

"Slap!"

The tall maid froze, utterly clueless as to why Gong Xinli was treating her this way.

"What, don't remember what you've said?" Gong Xinli picked up his phone, replaying the surveillance footage.

The video instantly played back the tall maid's own words:

"Just a housekeeper, and she dares act as the head of the household? Mr. Gong hasn’t said a word, and she dares invite that wrongdoer to eat? Good thing she knew her place and didn’t dare come, or else, once Mr. Gong appeared, she’d be even more embarrassed."

The footage paused there, Gong Xinli spoke coldly, "Not counting spaces and punctuation, sixty-five words!"

The tall maid's face turned bright red, knowing she was in the wrong, and didn’t dare to retort. She obediently extended her hand, slapping her own face sixty-five times.

After those sixty-five slaps, her face swelled up like a steamed bun.

"The second sentence!" Gong Xinli coldly uttered three words, continuing the surveillance playback.

"This was made for Mr. Gong. You wouldn’t take it for that wrongdoer to eat, would you? Does she deserve it?"

"Twenty-seven characters, keep going, the previous effort was too light!"

The tall maid glared fiercely and slapped her own face harder.

After twenty-seven slaps, her face was burning with pain.

Thinking she was finally off the hook, she was shocked to see Gong Xin Yi playing back the surveillance footage.

This time, she had said quite a bit.

"Listen to what our new housekeeper said just now? She said that the wrongdoer is Mr. Gong's wife. I've been at the Gong family for not ten years, then at least eight, how come I didn't know Mr. Gong got married? A wild chicken from the backwoods dreaming of becoming a phoenix, not even considering her own weight!

And you, born with a look of poverty, knowing nothing about the rules, yet wanting to manage us, not even considering if your backing is reliable? We are all talents meticulously selected by the old madame..."

After hearing this segment, the tall maid internally bemoaned her fate. With so many slaps, was she going to disfigure her face?

"Two hundred and fifty words!" Gong Xin Yi's expression was stern.

"Mr. Gong!" The tall maid immediately knelt down to beg for mercy, "Please spare me, I realize my mistake..."

"That's thirteen words."

"What?" The tall maid didn't expect that this sentence would also count.

"Add another one!"

“……”

Gong Xinli continued, "Almost forgot, your earlier demand for an explanation, one hundred seventeen words, plus 'Mr. Gong' twice, six words, adding up to this round's two hundred and fifty, makes a total of three hundred eighty-seven words!"

"So many..." The tall maid was on the verge of breaking down.

"Now three hundred and ninety, starting now, punctuation counts too!"

"Ah... this... even punctuation..." The tall maid collapsed to the ground right then.

"Broke four hundred!" Gong Xinli's eyes were cold.

The tall maid quickly clamped her mouth shut, daring not to say another word.

Moments later.

The living room echoed with the sound of slaps, a decision the tall maid made after weighing her options.

Gong Xinli stood up and returned to the dining room, warning all the household staff, "If you want to last in the Gong household, do more work and talk less! If you think the old lady is better, then stay at her place, but don't take the salary I give you and work for someone else!"

The dining room fell silent, every servant standing cautiously, barely daring to breathe.