"Some time ago, I accompanied my husband, Lao Lin, to meet with a partner in Haicheng. Something very interesting happened that day."
"What's the matter? Tell me about it."
The lady who was speaking glanced at Lu Zhaoning before she smiled and said, "The party A that Lao Lin was working with, because his wife had given birth to several sons, wanted a daughter, so he adopted a girl from an orphanage. The girl looked well-behaved when she was little, but who knew what kind of personality she would have when she grew up..."
"We were invited to a banquet hosted by Party A's family that day. The girl was making a scene in public, and it angered Party A's wife so much that she had an asthma attack. The girl even hid the medicine in advance."
"If this isn't murder, what is it?"
None of the ladies here are naive.
For a moment, everyone looked at each other in confusion.
But one person was a bit clueless and didn't understand what the lady meant. He kept asking, "What happened next? Was the lady saved? Asthma can be fatal."
"Of course she was saved. The girl was in love with one of the brothers in the family. However, the party A is also a prominent family in Haicheng. How could they allow such a scandal to happen in their family? Especially since the adoptive mother was the most strongly opposed."
[It's not easy to lay so much groundwork. You just directly call me, Lu Zhaoning, an ungrateful person. I can still admire you.]
Shen Qinghe widened her eyes.
The niece didn't say anything.
She heard the sound again.
[Is this the quality of a wealthy lady? She's no different from a common gossip.]
Shen Qinghe really felt like she was seeing a ghost.
She didn't care about the lady who had made provocative remarks for a moment and grabbed Lu Zhaoning's hand.
"Zhao Ning, are you okay?"
Lu Zhaoning didn't understand what was going on. He glanced at his tightly grasped hand and whispered, "Aunt San, what's wrong?"
"Are you really okay?"
Lu Zhaoning thought Shen Qinghe was referring to those people who were indirectly saying that she was ungrateful, so he said calmly, "It's okay. Apart from making them look uncultured, what can I do?"
Several ladies who were called out looked a little embarrassed.
Shen Qinghe almost couldn't help laughing out loud.
In daily social interactions between ladies, even if they dislike each other, they will remain polite and no one will directly embarrass the other.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Lin, Zhaoning was talking about those people with no quality, not you."
Mrs. Lin didn't take it to heart at first. It would be wrong if Shen Qinghe called on her to apologize, but it made her angry. If she didn't get angry, she would feel aggrieved.
"Miss Lu is quite eloquent."
It seemed that the sister-in-law of Zhao Yanyun's cousin was determined to get a result.
Lu Zhaoning smiled and looked at the lady who was speaking, his eyes showing a serious scrutiny.
"So it's Mrs. Du. I was saying you looked very familiar to me the first time I saw you."
Wang Jingyu smiled and tried to smooth things over: "Zhao Ning, you and Madam Du know each other?"
"Yes, Madam Du has been to the Jiang family before, but she doesn't like me and even scolded me to my face."
"When did I ever scold you? What nonsense are you talking about?"
Lu Zhaoning looked bewildered. "When the Jiang family's daughter returned, didn't you come to congratulate her? At that time, you even scolded me for being a crow that had usurped the magpie's nest, and said that country people are cunning."
"Oh, Mrs. Du, I really didn't realize that you have such a mean face."
"Whose family hasn't been from the countryside for three generations? If you look down on country people, aren't you forgetting your roots?"
"From now on, when we have gatherings in our circle, we should not invite some people. This will prevent them from being friendly with us on the surface but secretly complaining about us."
As soon as Lu Zhaoning finished speaking, those who disliked Mrs. Du began to mock her.
"Mrs. Du, you've been saying both openly and covertly that Miss Lu is ungrateful. Before you said that, I'm afraid you didn't know what Miss Lu's life was like in the Jiang family, did you?"
The husband of the lady who was speaking was a senior executive of Luming Group, so naturally she had to speak for Lu Zhaoning.
Mrs. Du was annoyed by your constant barrage of words, and she kept a sullen face and said nothing.
"From what you said, Miss Lu is not living well in the Jiang family?"
"It's more than just bad. My daughter is Miss Lu's high school classmate. She said Miss Lu doesn't have much pocket money. If she wants to buy something she likes, she has to do odd jobs.
Girls born in families like ours are all spoiled and pampered. Even if we really want to raise a child to be independent, we don’t do it in this way.”
As soon as the lady finished speaking, everyone looked at Mrs. Du.
Mrs. Du was extremely angry, but she just couldn't resist Mrs. Jiang's pleading and helped to find out more.
It's none of her business, why are they all looking at her?
The other lady smiled at Lu Zhaoning and said, "I felt that Miss Lu looked familiar. It turns out we met at the hot pot restaurant that day."
Lu Zhaoning raised his eyebrows. It was such a coincidence that someone had witnessed what happened at the hot pot restaurant.
"What hot pot restaurant?"
"Just a few days ago, I was eating hotpot with my children at the hotpot restaurant run by Mr. Lu, and I saw a mother and daughter aggressively questioning Ms. Lu. I didn't know Ms. Lu at the time, and it was my daughter who noticed something was wrong first.
At the time, we were afraid that the mother and daughter might start beating people up, so my daughter even took a video. Here, this is it..."
The lady projected the video directly onto the big screen.
Because it was taken secretly, the picture is not very clear, but because it was close, the sound can be heard clearly.
"Giving away thirty or fifty thousand to my adopted daughter, I'm afraid people will laugh their heads off when I tell them about it!"
"...This child is our Jiang family's adopted daughter. She has a very strange personality..."
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In the video, Lu Zhaoning was enjoying his hotpot when the Jiang family mother and daughter suddenly made provocative remarks.
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