Chapter 180 Do I need her to support me?

"Brother-in-law?" Zhou Lin asked coldly.

Xie Hongchao forced a smile and said, "Zhizhi has been calling me 'Big Brother' for the past twenty years!"

"You don't know why your mother went to jail?" Zhou Lin asked directly.

Xie Lanlan jumped up from the ground. "Why are you in jail? It's all your fault. Just because you're all officials, you think you can harm people?"

"Let me tell you, if you don't give us an explanation for what happened today, we're not leaving."

Because it was almost Chinese New Year, many people were staying at home, so soon a lot of people gathered around to watch.

Wei Guihua clapped her hands and shouted to the crowd, "Everyone, please be the judge! My mother-in-law adopted Xie Zhizhi and raised her with great care until she was eighteen. She even found her a good family and arranged for her to marry an official. But as soon as she found her biological parents, she turned her back on them!"

"Not only did they have my mother-in-law arrested and put in jail, but they also forced us to pay compensation!"

"Two thousand yuan! Good heavens, where are we going to get so much? If you don't give it to us, we'll arrest you!"

"We borrowed from all our relatives to finally satisfy her appetite, and now we can't even afford to celebrate the New Year!"

"Is it true?" The neighbors who had gathered around became curious.

Before Wei Guihua could finish her spiel, Zhizhi had already strode over in her leather boots, exuding an aura of confidence.

Zhizhi wore leather boots, a light gray fur coat, and flared jeans. Her long, jet-black hair was casually tied behind her back. Now pregnant, her features were round and elegant, and her face was radiant with red lips and white teeth, exuding a noble air of vitality.

As Zhizhi walked over with her hands in her pockets, Xie Lanlan and Wei Guihua both fell silent.

Even Xie Hongchao was stunned.

“…This, this is…” Xie Hongchao stammered.

Zhang Fenfen followed behind, and then said in a cheeky tone, "This is your sister!"

"Zhizhi?" Xie Hongchao couldn't believe it.

Zhizhi glanced at him from head to toe. "Xie Hongchao?"

Xie Hongchao immediately rubbed his hands together, smiled and nodded, "It's me, Big Brother."

"Tsk," Zhizhi couldn't help but laugh, "Big brother?"

She pointed to herself with her slender fingers. "Me?"

Before Xie Hongchao could get any closer, Zhizhi's face turned cold. "You don't deserve it!"

After Zhang Fenfen said that this person with an imposing presence and who looked like an important figure was none other than the former Xie Zhizhi, Xie Lanlan couldn't sit still on the ground.

She got up from the ground and looked at Zhizhi, who now had fair skin, red lips, and glossy black hair, her eyes filled with jealousy and hatred.

This...this is Xie Zhizhi?

No...impossible, she didn't believe it.

How could Xie Zhizhi be like this?

She...she was pretty, but...but her hair was dry and brittle, her face was thin and dull, even...even her hands were like dried ginger, like chicken feet. That was her, how...how could she be like this now, like...like a rich young lady...

Zhizhi's words, "You don't deserve it," froze Xie Hongchao's ingratiating smile.

He didn't smile, but Zhizhi did. "My older brother works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. He's only twenty-seven years old this year. He's younger than you, but he's much more successful than you."

"Of course, most importantly, my older brother is much better looking than you."

Zhizhi pointed a finger mockingly, "Look at you, tsk tsk..."

"Moreover, my older brother is not only good-looking and has a good job, but he is also a good person. They only give me money to spend and never ask me for money."

Wei Guihua couldn't hold back any longer and got up from the ground. "Didn't you take that money back?"

Zhizhi found it funny: "What's wrong with me wanting my man's money back?"

Wei Guihua looked around and saw that everyone in the crowd was from Zhanghoutun Village. She opened her mouth as if to say something but then closed it again. Finally, she started to act pitiful, saying, "Fine, you don't care about us, but Mom raised you, didn't she?"

"You said you'd have her arrested and imprisoned, fine, but why are you trying to extort us?"

"Two thousand yuan! We borrowed money from all over the place to scrape together this money. Are you trying to drive our whole family to our deaths?"

"Raise me?" Zhizhi laughed again.

"My biological father is the commander of the Beijing Military Region. Do I need her to support me?"

"manage……"

Everyone around, except for Zhou Lin who knew the truth, gasped in shock.

"Is that the commander?"

"Isn't that a super-high-ranking official?" The surrounding neighbors began to whisper among themselves.

Someone responded, "Yes, a family like that would never abandon their own daughter. Where did the Xie family come from to have the wrong baby?"

"Besides, they live in Beijing, which is so far away from us."

"Could someone have stolen the child and given him to the Xie family?"

Once this speculation came out, the people around Xie Lanlan and her group started looking at them with displeasure.

Zhang Fenfen was also dumbfounded; she never expected that her sister-in-law's father was such a high-ranking official.

Wu Caifeng was also quite shocked.

No wonder... no wonder she thought the clothes were the best, but Zhizhi said her mother didn't like them.

Xie Hongchao and Wei Guihua, a married couple, looked at each other and fell silent.

This... is someone you really shouldn't mess with.

So, Xie Zhizhi really is a rich heiress... Xie Lanlan thought, staring at Zhizhi's bright and beautiful face.

After Zhizhi revealed that her biological father was a commander, the surrounding neighbors whispered among themselves and then began to criticize Xie Hongchao and his two companions, saying, "Zhizhi has suffered so much in your family; it's good enough that they haven't caused you any trouble."

"Exactly, how dare they cause trouble here?"

Xie Lanlan, who was already jealous of Zhizhi, started yelling like a madwoman when she heard this, "Why are you causing trouble for us? Why are you causing trouble for us?"

"Is her father a commander? Did he start out as a commander?"

"Maybe the soldier abandoned the child at the beginning, and now that he's found him, he's trying to shift the blame, right?"

“I’ll sue you,” she said bitterly, looking at the bright branches.

Zhizhi glanced at her and said, "Go ahead and sue her. You'd better make your mother deny those mistakes and not return the embezzled funds. See if that will make her guilty even more severely."

“I look forward to your visit, after all, your family is in such a state now,” Zhizhi shook her head, “compared to the suffering I’ve endured in your family all these years, I’m really not satisfied.”

“You’ll get your comeuppance,” Xie Lanlan suddenly shouted at her.

“Not having children is your retribution,” Xie Lanlan said with a malicious laugh, as if she had suddenly touched a sore spot.

But Zhizhi gently lifted her outer clothes, revealing her protruding belly. "Not having children?"

Why don't I have children?

"I'm young and healthy, and my husband is young and healthy too, so why shouldn't I have children?"

Xie Lanlan stared at her protruding belly, her eyes reddening with jealousy, and she opened her mouth but couldn't make a sound.

Zhizhi put down the clothes and continued to expose Tian Fang's despicable deeds: "If your mother hadn't been there to watch me and prevent me from being with my own man, why wouldn't I have gotten pregnant?"

"ah?"

Zhizhi's words were like throwing a boulder into an already turbulent lake, causing the waves to surge even higher.

"No...no way to let a couple be together?"

Not only were the onlookers dumbfounded, but even Wu Caifeng was stunned.