After Ruan Ruan went upstairs, the old man asked Huo Haocheng about his trip to the military base that day. The gist of his message was that Huo Haocheng should train hard, as opportunities are for those who are prepared.
After Ruan Chuanji returned, Ruan Ruan gave him the translated content and ignored the rest. They were going back to Yuncheng after tomorrow, and Ruan Ruan wanted to see if there were any good things to buy for her elders.
The next morning, after breakfast, Huo Haocheng and Ruan Ruan went to the photo studio first. The photos from the previous episode were ready, and after picking them up, they went straight to the Overseas Chinese Store. Once inside, they went to the second floor first, where Ruan Ruan thought they would each buy a set of clothes, which would be convenient and affordable.
"Haocheng, what do you think of this outfit? Does it suit Grandpa perfectly?" Ruan Ruan looked at the black Zhongshan suit.
“Sure, Grandpa will be very happy with what you bought.” Huo Haocheng could imagine the old man showing off his clothes in the courtyard.
"Hello, do you have any other colors for this garment?" Black absorbs too much heat; wearing it out in this weather would make me sweat all over, which is inconvenient.
"Yes, we also have military green, blue, and white. Would you like me to bring them over for you to see?" The sales clerk on the second floor noticed Ruan Ruan and Huo Haocheng as soon as they came up. The reason was simple: it was a combination of a tough guy and his beautiful wife. The key was that both of them were very good-looking. Who wouldn't take a second look?
"Yes, thank you."
In the end, Ruan Ruan bought military green and blue, one for each of her two grandfathers.
"This dress is beautiful, I'll buy it for Grandma."
"This dress is pretty, I'll buy it for Mom. These two outfits are pretty, I'll buy them for both of you." When buying clothes for her mothers, Ruan Ruan considered practicality, so she bought a dress for Gu Wenzhen and a top and pants for Zhao Hongmei and Wang Qun.
"These shoes are nice, for Dad; and two more pairs of these too."
“Brother, this shirt looks good, it suits you very well,” Ruan Ruan said, pointing to a white shirt. But Huo Haocheng didn’t answer her. She turned around and looked at the shirt. Huo Haocheng was staring at the women’s shirt in a daze.
"What's wrong?" Ruan Ruan stepped back to his side, tugged at his sleeve, and followed his gaze.
"Ruan Ruan, this dress looks great on you, why don't you try it on!" Huo Haocheng had his eye on a white dress with a pleated skirt and dark green bamboo accents that echoed the orchids on the cuffs.
"I"
"I'll take this dress."
Just as Ruan Ruan was about to say that she already had a lot of clothes and that she also wanted to go to Yuncheng to see the costumes of the ethnic minorities there, she heard a woman's voice behind her.
Ruan Ruan turned around and, after seeing the woman clearly, genuinely felt that the clothes didn't suit her. Her skin was dark, and wearing such white clothes made her look really ugly, so she shook her head. However, the woman felt that Ruan Ruan was looking down on her.
"What do you mean by shaking your head? Do you think I can't afford it?" the woman said fiercely to Ruan Ruan.
When Ruan Ruan looked at her, she kept looking at Ruan Ruan, and seeing Ruan Ruan's radiant face, the woman became insanely jealous.
"Didn't you hear me? I told you to pack up the clothes!" the woman yelled at the sales clerk.
Huo Haocheng and his group saw the dress first, and now this woman is trying to snatch it. The saleswoman doesn't know what to do. In her heart, she still thinks Ruan Ruan looks better in the dress than the woman.
"Miss, there's an order to things, we saw this dress first." Huo Haocheng was already imagining what Ruan Ruan would look like in this dress. Seeing Ruan Ruan's hesitant expression just now, he thought she was frightened by this unruly woman.
"First come, first served? You're talking to me about first come, first served? Do you even know who I am? I've lived here for 18 years, and you've only been here a short time. And you're telling me about first come, first served?"
Hearing the woman being unreasonable, Ruan Ruan didn't want to see Huo Haocheng, a grown man, arguing with her, which would only make him look bad if he accused her of bullying her.
"We don't need to know who you are, we just need to know that reason prevails everywhere," Ruan Ruan said to the woman, pulling Huo Haocheng aside and standing in front of him. Having never argued in her entire life, Ruan Ruan couldn't utter a single curse word.
"You don't know who I am? You actually say you don't know?" The woman looked at Ruan Ruan in disbelief. In such a large city as the capital, there was actually someone who didn't recognize her.
"Do I need to know?" Ruan Ruan turned around and asked Huo Haocheng, wondering if it was from one of their relatives that she didn't remember.
"No need," Huo Haocheng saw Ruan Ruan's confusion, but in the past few days he had met with everyone who had dealings with the Ruan and Gu families, and he had never met this person before.
"Oh," Ruan Ruan nodded.
“We don’t need to know who you are. If you like this shirt, just buy it.” Ruan Ruan didn’t want to argue with the woman any further. After saying that, she pulled Huo Haocheng and prepared to buy the shirt they had just seen.
"You're not allowed to leave! Let me tell you, my surname is Cui, the Cui from the Cui family in the capital. Now you know, right? Kneel down and admit your mistakes, and I might let you go. Otherwise, I will definitely not let you off easily." The woman's name was Cui Yingying, Cui Ziqi's daughter.
"What did you say?" Hearing her tell Ruan Ruan to kneel down and apologize, Huo Haocheng's anger flared up, and he glared at her unfriendly.
"Your surname is Cui? Fine, my surname is Ruan, the Ruan from the Ruan family. I'd like to see how you're going to make things difficult for us."
The prominent families in the capital all knew that the Ruan family had found their long-lost daughter. However, because Ruan Ruan was lazy and didn't like to go out, only the families in the compound and a few families with good relations with the Ruan family had seen her. Therefore, Cui Yingying had never met Ruan Ruan. She had previously mocked Ruan Ruan many times, saying that Ruan Ruan grew up in the countryside and must be a dark-skinned and rustic country girl. But now that Ruan Ruan was standing right in front of her, she was proven wrong. Those who had met Ruan Ruan probably laughed at her behind her back!
"You, you, you're that village girl from the Ruan family? Impossible, impossible!" Cui Yingying couldn't believe what she was seeing. Her family had just made a fool of themselves, and if the Cui family patriarch found out she had offended the Ruan family again, she would definitely be in big trouble. But apologizing to her like this was out of the question.
"Country girl! What you said isn't wrong." She herself grew up in the village, so it didn't matter if they called her that. Every family, if you go back three generations, was a poor peasant.
Cui Yingying was surprised that Ruan Ruan didn't get angry when she called her a country bumpkin. It was as if she had hit a cotton ball. She knew that if she continued to argue with Ruan Ruan, she would not get the better of her, so she turned around and ran away.
After what happened with Cui Yingying, Ruan Ruan stopped shopping. She bought the clothes she liked, went to the first floor to buy some nutritional supplements, and then went to the post office to mail the things she bought for the Huo family. After that, the two returned to the Ruan family home.
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