Xing Zhaozhao winked at Gao Hongfei: "I'll do it."
When his mother spoke up, Gao Hongfei wisely shut his mouth, though his expression remained rather unpleasant.
Xing Zhaozhao looked at Xia Xiaoyue and asked, "I want to know, how did it become my fault that I started this?"
"Isn't that right?" Xia Xiaoyue pointed at Zhong Jingjing beside her and said, "My cousin-in-law Jingjing went to Zhaolan to buy a dress and was scolded by the shop assistant. She was already wronged enough. But you, on the contrary, helped the bad guy and got into a fight with my handsome cousin. Grandpa and Great-Grandpa were also biased towards you and thought you were right to fight. They even wanted to call the police, which is why there was a conflict with my great-uncle's family. Tell me, isn't it your fault?"
Having already reviewed the store's security footage and knowing the truth, Ying Rongrong frowned as she listened.
Zhong Jingjing, the person involved, had a glint in her eye, looking like she had done something wrong.
Xing Zhaozhao laughed, looked at Xia Xiaoyue, shook her head helplessly, and said, "You believe everything she tells you? What a naive and silly child."
Xia Xiaoyue said angrily, "I'm not stupid. I always get 100 points on my exams."
Xing Zhaozhao smiled and nodded: "That's good."
Xing Zhaozhao quickly suppressed her smile, looked at Xia Xiaoyue seriously, and said, "Do you know? Your cousin-in-law Jingjing felt that the shop assistant told her that the dress she was wearing didn't fit her size and asked her to change into another one. She thought that the shop assistant was calling her fat, so your handsome cousin slapped the shop assistant across the face. Her face was all swollen. If I hadn't arrived just in time and thrown her away, they would have continued to fight."
Everyone around was stunned, including Dong Cui, who turned to look at Zhong Jingjing with an incredulous expression. Seriously? This is so bizarre?
Zhong Jingjing quickly shook her head, looked at Xia Xiaoyue, her face full of grievance, tears streaming down her face: "I didn't, I didn't, she's lying, don't believe her."
Xia Xiaoyue looked at Zhong Jingjing, then at Xing Zhaozhao, completely bewildered, unsure of whom to believe.
Ying Rongrong couldn't take it anymore and looked at Xia Xiaoyue with disappointment: "That's Grandma's shop. Xiaoyue, don't you trust Grandma? You've really disappointed Grandma."
Xia Xiaoyue panicked and quickly shook her head: "I didn't, I didn't, but..."
“There are security cameras in the store. If you don’t believe me, Xiaoyue, I can have someone send you the video footage so you can see it.” Xing Zhaozhao said, then looked at Zhong Jingjing and said, “Oh, by the way, the dress you’re wearing costs 3,000 yuan. You haven’t paid for it yet, which is enough to warrant a case. We’ve already called the police.”
Zhong Jingjing panicked upon hearing this: "What? This has nothing to do with me. You didn't ask me for money."
Everyone present: "..."
Xing Zhaozhao stared at Zhong Jingjing speechlessly for a while before saying, "You have to pay for things. I thought that was something even a three-year-old knew."
After saying that, Xing Zhaozhao turned to Ying Rongrong and said, "Call Officer Luo and have him come and arrest them."
Ying Rongrong nodded and took out her phone to make a call.
Seeing that things were going badly, Zhong Jingjing hurriedly looked to Dong Cui for help: "Help me, Auntie, I don't want to go to the police station. My baby is still so young, he can't be without his mother."
"..." Dong Cui didn't want to pay attention to it. She really couldn't handle it. Why didn't she do this earlier?
Dong Yingjun looked at Dong Cui pleadingly, "Auntie..."
Dong Cui continued to feign death.
"Xiao Cui..." Dong Cang suddenly called out.
Dong Cui looked up and met Dong Cang's gloomy face, his cloudy eyes carrying a threat and warning.
Dong Cui's heart sank, and a shadow of gloom quickly flashed in her lowered eyes.
Gritting her teeth in resentment, she looked up at Ying Rongrong and called out, "Wait a minute, mother-in-law..."
Ying Rongrong was still looking through Officer Luo's phone when she heard this. Her fingers paused, and she looked up at Dong Cui.
Dong Cui put on a pitiful look and pleaded, "Please don't call the police, mother-in-law? No matter what, we're family now. Can't we talk things over properly? Why make things so ugly? Jingjing and Yingjun are still children, they don't know any better. I'm here to apologize to you, and we're willing to pay back the 3,000 yuan. Let's just consider this matter over, okay?"
“My brother’s family is all I have left, and I really don’t want to see anything else happen to them. Besides, if this gets out and it spreads, won’t it be your Gao family that loses face? Having such disreputable in-laws is disastrous. Especially for those two young girls, Xiaoyue and Fanxing, who are related to our family by blood, how will they ever face anyone again?”
As Dong Cui spoke, she grabbed Xia Xiaoyue's small hand beside her, looking at her and Xia Fanxing with concern, appearing like a loving grandmother who doted on her granddaughter.
Xia Fanxing ignored her completely; she was surnamed Xia and not familiar with the man surnamed Dong.
Xia Xiaoyue's heart trembled at Dong Cui's words. No, she didn't want to lose face like that.
She then looked pleadingly at Ying Rongrong: "Grandma..."
Ying Rongrong completely disregarded Dong Cui's nonsense. Not only did the Dong family's messy affairs have nothing to do with the Gao family—her two granddaughters were surnamed Xia, not Dong—but also, what era are we living in? It's ridiculous that a grandmother's family affairs could involve two young girls.
However, seeing her granddaughter's pitiful appearance, Ying Rongrong's heart softened. Only a parent truly knows how much they love their own child.
She stared at Dong Cui with a dark look in her eyes. This shameless woman, and she's supposed to be a grandmother, yet she dares to manipulate her own granddaughter.
The Gao family members all looked rather grim.
Even Xia Chen, the son, looked at Dong Cui with hostility in his eyes. Was this how he was going to manipulate his daughter, whom he had cherished and protected since childhood?
Dong Cui sensed something was off about Xia Chen's gaze and shrank back. However, she had no way out now and could only grit her teeth and continue.
Xing Zhaozhao rested her chin on her hand, squinting at Dong Cui: "Is this all your family? That can't be right. Dong Cang is just your second brother. Don't you have an older brother? Your older brother took care of you for so many years, and he worked himself to death to pay off your gambling debts. What? Just because he's dead and gone, you're just going to ignore him, your sister-in-law, niece, and grandniece? That doesn't quite match the image of a loving brother and sister you just created for yourself."
Dong Cui suddenly looked up, staring at Xing Zhaozhao in shock: "Who exactly are you? How do you know so much?"
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