Seeing their embarrassed expressions and lack of any intention to pay, the waiter's face darkened, and he questioned them sharply, "You two aren't planning to dine and dash, are you?"
Chen Danian's face turned bright red, and he awkwardly explained, "We...we are not..."
"No? Then give me the money!"
After holding back for a while, Chen Yaozu, with his neck stiff, shouted, "Do you know who we are? I'm the owner of this restaurant, his own son!"
The waiter didn't believe it at all. He looked Chen Yaozu up and down, dressed in rags, and sneered:
“The owner doesn’t have a son at all. I think you’re just here to dine and dash! Come on, let’s go see the authorities!” With that, he grabbed Chen Yaozu’s arm and tried to drag him out.
In their desperation, Chen Danian and his son disregarded everything else and shouted at the top of their lungs, "We are Gan Li's husband and son! If you dare to touch us, Gan Li will not let you get away with it!"
Upstairs, Ganli was discussing menu improvements with the manager when she suddenly heard a commotion downstairs, with her name faintly visible in the background.
She frowned and asked the shopkeeper beside her, "What's going on downstairs?"
The shopkeeper hurried downstairs to check, and after a moment, returned to Gan Li's side with a strange expression, and whispered:
"Boss, someone is dining and dashing upstairs... and they're claiming to be your ex-husband and...and son, saying they've come to claim kinship with you. They're arguing with the waiter right now... These days, swindlers are really audacious, they're even swindling people right under the emperor's nose! Don't worry, I've already sent someone to report it to the authorities!"
He didn't believe the two swindlers at all. After all these years, he had never heard of their boss having a husband and son.
When Ganli heard the words "husband" and "son," she paused for a moment, recalling two people from long ago.
Could it be that Chen Danian and Chen Yaozu have come looking for us?
They actually did something so shameless.
Chen Pan'er, who was standing nearby, also thought of this.
The little girl is no longer the pitiful, pale-faced girl she once was. Now, she wears a light, pale yellow summer outfit and moves with a bright and graceful demeanor.
She had recognized the voices from below, and now, hearing the servant's reply, her expression hardened, and she said worriedly, "Could it be them...?"
She looked at her mother, frowned, and said, "Mother, let the shopkeeper handle it."
She didn't want to come forward.
Although the two were her father and brother, their relationship had long since ended. She didn't want to see them at all, and was afraid that if they showed up, she would become even more attached to them.
Ganli understood her daughter's meaning and was reluctant to see the two, but she shook her head at her daughter's suggestion:
"Their sudden appearance in the capital must have a purpose. They won't give up until they see me. Two bedbugs, though they can't cause any real trouble, are still annoying to be jumping around every day."
From the moment Ganli overheard the two men's rant, she knew their purpose in coming all this way. They had come from afar and would not give up until they saw her.
She thought she might as well meet them and put an end to their schemes. Besides, now that they were right in front of her, she was genuinely curious about how they had changed over the years.
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