Noticing the malicious gaze, Xing Zhaozhao turned her head curiously and saw an unfamiliar old woman staring straight at her, which made her frown.
Who is it? That's a bit rude.
"What's wrong?" Gao Yang noticed Xing Zhaozhao's expression and turned to look at her. Upon seeing the old lady, he immediately stood up. "Mom? What are you doing here?"
Ying Rongrong smiled and walked up to him: "You came out shopping with your Aunt Zou. You must be tired. Come and sit for a while."
"I didn't expect to run into you here. I thought you were at the company." Ying Rongrong said, glancing at Xing Zhaozhao casually. "And this is?"
She disliked Xing Zhaozhao's face, and coupled with her tacky clothes, she looked down on her even more. When she saw Xing Zhaozhao casually holding the money in her hand and counting it, her expression turned even more unpleasant.
"This is Sister Xing," Gao Yang introduced to Ying Rongrong.
“Miss Xing.” Ying Rongrong nodded slightly to Xing Zhaozhao.
Xing Zhaozhao was surprised to find that the old lady was Gao Yang's mother. Although she didn't know why the old lady was hostile towards her, she still politely replied, "Hello," out of respect for Gao Yang.
Then he continued counting the money in his hand with a "clatter, clatter" sound.
Another 5000 yuan.
Since she happened to have paper and pen on hand, Xing Zhaozhao quickly wrote a receipt for Gao Yang, since the money and goods hadn't been settled yet.
It was only 5,000 yuan, which Gao Yang didn't care about. But since Xing Zhaozhao had written it, he accepted it and casually stuffed it into his pocket.
Watching them work together seamlessly, one handing over money and the other taking it, Ying Rongrong frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Oh, I ordered some wild game from Sister Xing," Gao Yang explained to her.
"Wild game?"
Gao Yang nodded: "Yesterday I brought some wild game home, right? I bought it from Sister Xing. Grandpa saw it and said it was good, and told me to buy some more if I come across it again. I just happened to come across it, so I ordered some more from Sister Xing. This is the deposit."
"So that's how it is." Ying Rongrong knew about this, but looking at Xing Zhaozhao's face, she inexplicably felt that things were not so simple.
"It's just ordering some wild game, why did you come all the way to a coffee shop?" she asked.
"Sister Xing needed my help with something, so we just found a place to talk," Gao Yang said.
Ying Rongrong immediately sensed something was wrong.
If he were just an ordinary vendor selling wild game, would he have been so eager to help personally?
Ying Rongrong didn't believe it.
Although he wasn't her biological son, she raised him single-handedly, and he was never such a pushover.
Ying Rongrong couldn't help but turn her head and glance at Xing Zhaozhao again.
She definitely had a problem.
Noticing Ying Rongrong's gaze, Xing Zhaozhao also looked up.
When she met those eyes that were eight or nine parts similar to those in her memory, Ying Rongrong instinctively felt nauseous. A surge of intense disgust welled up inside her, and she almost couldn't hold it in and let it spill out instantly.
She quickly looked away, exhaled a long breath, and felt a little better.
Turning to Gao Yang, Ying Rongrong smiled faintly and asked, "What's wrong? Tell me, maybe I can help."
Gao Yang shook his head: "No need, it's already been resolved."
Ying Rongrong's smile froze instantly: "Has it been resolved, or are you unwilling to tell me?"
Gao Yang was stunned: "What?"
He didn't quite understand what she meant by that.
"Don't play dumb with me." Ying Rongrong said with a stern face, "I'm your mother, after all. Can't I even tell her this to me?"
Gao Yang shook his head and said, "I really don't understand, Mom, what do you mean by that..."
"If you don't want to talk about it, then forget it." Ying Rongrong looked at him, her face revealing undisguised disappointment and dejection.
After saying that, she turned around, took her best friend's arm, and left: "Let's go, Ying."
As Gao Yang watched Ying Rongrong leave, thinking of the disappointment on her face, he felt a dull ache in his heart.
After a moment of silence, he quickly chased after them.
This is so bizarre; he has to find out exactly what happened.
Xing Zhaozhao watched Gao Yang leave, blinked, and lowered her head to start eating her unfinished cheesecake.
It's none of her business.
Cheesecake is still the best.
The cheesecake was finished, but Gao Yang still hadn't returned.
Xing Zhaozhao's gaze fell on her unfinished latte.
It didn't taste very good, but I'd already spent the money.
She took a deep breath, mustered her courage, pinched her nose, and quickly drank the rest of her coffee in one gulp. Her face was all scrunched up after drinking it, and it took her a while to recover.
It's like paying money to suffer.
Fortunately, it wasn't her money that was spent.
Xing Zhaozhao sat there and waited for a while longer.
Gao Yang never returned.
Xing Zhaozhao: "..."
Xing Zhaozhao looked at the empty plates and cups in front of her and suddenly had a bad feeling.
He won't just leave and never come back, will he?
The bill hasn't been settled yet.
Xing Zhaozhao couldn't help but crane her neck to look outside the coffee shop, but she still couldn't see Gao Yang's figure, and she became a little restless.
Is he really not coming back?
Such a beautiful store, you can tell at a glance that the items won't be cheap.
Xing Zhaozhao clutched the pocket that had just contained 5,000 yuan, feeling a sharp pain in her heart.
It looks like there's no way to avoid it.
What you fear most is what happens.
However, after a chance eye contact, the waiter understood and walked over to her: "Miss, would you like to settle the bill?"
Xing Zhaozhao hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Let's...let's get married."
The waiter went back to get the bill: "Hello, this is 250."
Xing Zhaozhao: "..."
She knew it would be expensive, but she didn't expect it to be this expensive. She only ordered two cups of coffee and three pieces of cake, averaging 50 yuan each. Although the cakes were delicious, the coffee was clearly awful, yet they still dared to charge 50 yuan. It was practically robbery, and in the end, she ended up with such an exorbitant price.
"250 sounds awful, can you give me a discount of one yuan?" she tried to communicate with the waiter.
The waiter looked at her with a smile: "How about you leave an extra dollar as a tip?"
Xing Zhaozhao: "...Then let's keep it at 250."
When she paid, her hands were trembling. 250! How much rice could that buy? She's such a fool.
Outside the coffee shop, Gao Yang quickly caught up with Ying Rongrong and asked, "Mom, if you're going to sentence me to death, at least tell me the charges, right? I really don't understand what you mean by all that."
Ying Rongrong looked at him seriously: "You and that Sister Xing should have known each other for a long time, not just yesterday when you were buying wild game, right?"
"Yes." Gao Yang nodded, wanting to explain, "We..."
But before he could finish speaking, Ying Rongrong looked at him with a pained expression and said, "Although you're not my biological child, I raised you single-handedly. I thought it was no different from having a biological child, but I never expected that there's still a barrier between us..."
As if struck by lightning, Gao Yang's face turned deathly pale.
He originally thought that they were no different from his own children.
Unexpectedly, there really was still a layer separating them.
She didn't believe him...
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