Chapter 13. In Chapter 13, Jiang Bainian fell heavily to the ground...
Thump!
Jiang Bainian fell heavily to the ground, tumbling twice before stopping. Then he remained motionless in that position.
This time, some of the maids' rooms, which lacked soundproofing, finally came out. They looked at Jiang Bainian lying motionless on the ground, then turned to Jiang Miaomiao in fear.
Jiang Miaomiao glanced at her female companion and asked, "Who are you to him?"
“Friend, friend,” the female companion hurriedly replied, “This is a society governed by law. I’m warning you, don’t even think about hitting me! I, I… it’s not my fault. I just wanted to get some money out of Young Master Jiang. I only met him tonight. We’re just friends with benefits at most.”
Jiang Miaomiao waved her hand: "Then the sex partner can leave."
"Thank you!" The female companion nodded, decisively abandoning Jiang Bainian's life or death, picked up her handbag and ran. On the way, she even stepped on Jiang Bainian lying flat in her way, her high heels stomping all over him.
Jiang Bainian, who had been kicked and passed out drunk, was suddenly stomped hard on the back and woke up while vomiting and groaning in pain.
His appearance was so repulsive that Jiang Miaomiao's right hand couldn't help but itch to punch him a few more times.
But the soiled trouser legs were even dirtier and more disgusting, and she couldn't stand it for a second longer. She immediately ordered the servants to throw Jiang Bainian into the room and rushed upstairs to wash herself. Whatever the score, they could settle it tomorrow!
But the vengeful housekeeper, fearing things weren't serious enough, simply called an ambulance to take Jiang Bainian to the hospital.
He secretly doubled the bill, planning to wait for the master to settle accounts with Jiang Miaomiao tomorrow!
It can be said that Jiang Miaomiao's first night back in Hong Kong was terrible.
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The next day, Jiang Miaomiao didn't go downstairs until 10 o'clock.
The villa was empty, though the servants were still silently busy, but the masters were nowhere to be seen. After the terrifying night, all the servants were now filled with fear and dread towards Jiang Miaomiao, so much so that wherever she went, they would immediately call out "Young Miss."
She asked, "Is there any food left?"
Servant A: "No, no! But I'll do it right away!"
Jiang Miaomiao then asked, "Did the others go to work?"
Servant B: "Master and the second young master haven't gotten up yet."
Jiang Miaomiao: "What about Jiang Bainian?"
Servant C: "You beat me so badly I ended up in the hospital."
"By me?" Jiang Miaomiao thought for a moment, was it really necessary? She only moved her foot, she didn't use her hands!
Jiang Miaomiao: "How is he?"
Servant Ding: "Butler Lin just called from the hospital and said that the second young master is still drunk."
Jiang Miaomiao sighed: "What a waste of national resources."
Servants A, B, C, and D: "..." Is he really your biological brother, born of the same father and mother?
Half an hour later.
Jiang Miaomiao stared blankly at the salad on the table.
A, B, C, and D said that Jiang Zhengye recently started pursuing a certain female celebrity and learned from her to eat vegetarian food and do environmental protection, so no meat can be seen in the entire villa.
Jiang Miaomiao's hands, gripping the chopsticks, suddenly made a cracking sound. The younger one is being pretentious, and the older one is even more affected?!
"What time is it? Why aren't they up yet?"
"The master, the second young master, and the third young master have always been late to bed and late to rise, usually sleeping until noon. The youngest young master boards at school and only comes back to stay for two days on weekends, going to bed at midnight and waking up at nine in the morning."
Jiang Miaomiao glanced at her watch: 10:32.
How long does it take to get to the nearest supermarket?
“We usually go to the supermarket on the north side, which is about a thirteen-minute walk away.”
"Okay, find someone to go grocery shopping with me." She pushed the salad aside with a look of disgust and went out to buy meat.
The supermarket the servants were talking about was a high-end supermarket that supplied special goods to this villa complex, and it had all kinds of things.
Of course, the price is also quite high.
Jiang Miaomiao, in particular, was seriously suspicious when she saw a bag of organic baby bok choy priced at 99 yuan. She wondered if the decimal point had been moved one place to the right.
A young couple dressed in designer brands walked towards her. The man tentatively asked, "Excuse me, are you... Ah! You are Jiang Miaomiao! I knew I hadn't mistaken you for someone else. I didn't expect that after six or seven years, you are still as beautiful as ever."
He excitedly nudged the girl's arm beside him, but she was clearly not interested. Her eyes, glancing at Jiang Miaomiao, were filled with jealousy and resentment: "So what if we are? Were we that close to a poor slut like her before?"
"Ahem!" The boy coughed awkwardly and quickly nodded to Jiang Miaomiao apologetically, "Sorry."
Jiang Miaomiao composed herself and roughly recognized the two people in front of her.
In her senior year of high school, she transferred from a public school to a well-known private school in the port city.
Schools that cater to the children of wealthy families typically have strong faculty and advanced facilities. However, in order to enhance the school's reputation and status, they typically reserve a few spots each year to recruit outstanding students from outside the school by offering tuition waivers and scholarships. Jiang Miaomiao was one of those few.
However, many of her classmates were spoiled and arrogant second-generation rich kids. In an atmosphere where everyone was just going through the motions of studying and getting into prestigious foreign universities, the diligent and hardworking Jiang Miaomiao became an outcast and suffered various forms of exclusion from her, both openly and secretly.
The two people in front of her were Xue Shaoyuan, whom she rarely interacted with, and Tu Jiaojiao, a member of a clique who ostracized her.
Tu Jiaojiao was free today, so she dragged her neighbor Xue Shaoyuan out to buy some things.
She was the one who first spotted Jiang Miaomiao because of her sharp eyes, but she had always disliked Jiang Miaomiao both physically and mentally, so she simply pretended not to see her. Who knew that Xue Shaoyuan would see her anyway, and despite her wishes, he insisted on pulling her over to say hello.
Jiang Miaomiao saw through Tu Jiaojiao's thoughts and smiled politely, "Hello."
Xue Shaoyuan scratched the back of his head and laughed, "You're all better now, it's been so many years. By the way, do you live here?"
Tu Jiaojiao interrupted, disdainfully saying, "Hmph, how could that be? This supermarket caters exclusively to the wealthy people in this villa area. If she lived here, would she have needed to work herself to the bone for those few thousand yuan a month in scholarships before?"
She looked Jiang Miaomiao up and down, and noticed a smartly dressed middle-aged man in a suit pushing a shopping cart behind her. Thinking she had discovered something, she pointed at Jiang Miaomiao and said smugly, "I didn't know, Jiang Miaomiao, did you only live in this villa area by marrying that old man behind you?"
The person standing behind Jiang Miaomiao quickly waved his hand and explained, "No, no, I'm just a driver."
Tu Jiaojiao maliciously speculated, "Judging from your ordinary and cheap clothes, you don't look like a mistress. Are you working as a servant here?"
"Jiaojiao!" Xue Shaoyuan finally sensed the tension and repeatedly pulled Tu Jiaojiao to signal her not to go too far.
Tu Jiaojiao reluctantly gave him some face, and then snorted at Jiang Miaomiao before shutting up.
“I always speak the truth,” Tu Jiaojiao added, seizing the opportunity.
Xue Shaoyuan slapped his head in exasperation.
Finally, Jiang Miaomiao spoke up, but she said to Xue Shaoyuan, "Since you can't expect anything good from a dog, don't take it out for a walk next time. After all, it's illegal to walk a dog without a muzzle!"
Tu Jiaojiao heard the sarcasm in her voice and roared, "Jiang Miaomiao, do you believe I can crush you with just one finger!"
Jiang Miaomiao glanced at her lazily and smiled, "Don't believe me? So, we're going to have a fight?"
Tu Jiaojiao rolled up her sleeves and said, "Fine, I'll fight then," but Xue Shaoyuan quickly grabbed her waist and pulled her back, saying, "Are you stupid? She beat several boys to a pulp in her senior year PE class! How can you beat her?"
"I...I...I'll bite her to death!"
"Didn't you just have your wisdom tooth extracted? How are you going to bite down?"
Xue Shaoyuan desperately tried to stop the aggressive Tu Jiaojiao.
Jiang Miaomiao looked at them expressionlessly and led the cart driver away.
She picked out her things, paid, and left.
They saw Tu Jiaojiao and Xue Shaoyuan sneaking around behind them.
She asked, "What else do you want to do?"
Xue Shaoyuan scratched his head awkwardly. He couldn't very well admit that Tu Jiaojiao wanted to follow and investigate him, could he?
Tu Jiaojiao had come up with an excuse this time, saying, "I forgot to tell you earlier that I'm planning to hold a high school reunion in a few days. Give me your contact information and I'll let you know to come."
Jiang Miaomiao refused on the spot.
Tu Jiaojiao crossed her arms and sneered, "We've been classmates, yet you didn't come? What, are you afraid of us old classmates who are inherently more noble than you, or are you afraid of seeing Young Master Han who dumped you back then?"
Jiang Miaomiao stared at her: "If you want to use reverse psychology on me, I suggest you don't get the subject, verb, and object wrong."
Tu Jiaojiao frowned: "What?"
Jiang Miaomiao laughed and said, "It's because you, who are born noble, have always been afraid of me, who am born intelligent, and it's also because I dumped Young Master Han, the leader of your little group."
Tu Jiaojiao didn't care. "Anyway, if you don't go, I'll assume you're scared! If you don't go, we'll see each other all the time in this villa area. From now on, you should stay at home and not wander around. Don't come out and get in our way!"
Jiang Miaomiao carefully considered her words and the forces behind the Tu family. It seemed there was something to be gained.
"Jiang Miaomiao, I called you here to give you face, don't be ungrateful!"
"And what gives you the right to make me contact a driver?"
"I am the eldest daughter of the Tu family!"
Jiang Miaomiao scoffed, "If you want to see me make a fool of myself, it has to be on the condition that I'm even there. If I don't participate, will you even be able to laugh?"
Tu Jiaojiao: "..."
Tu Jiaojiao pointed to Xue Shaoyuan next to her, "Go add her driver's contact information, and the two of you can communicate."
She could not lower herself to a lower rank, so she demoted Xue Shaoyuan.
Xue Shaoyuan, used to being a pawn, didn't mind. He took out his phone, added the driver as a friend, and then quickly dragged Tu Jiaojiao away.
Midway through, Tu Jiaojiao couldn't stop grumbling: "Ugh, why do I have to put up with that poor slut's attitude?"
Xue Shaoyuan said helplessly, "Didn't you provoke her first? Besides, you're completely unprepared. What if she actually hits you?"
Tu Jiaojiao was speechless and could only snort, "How annoying! After all this time, this poor slut is still as annoying as ever!"
Xue Shaoyuan comforted her, "She didn't do anything wrong, why are you always targeting her? Besides, didn't I just get her driver's phone number? There's plenty of time. If you're well-prepared, you're not afraid of not being able to handle her."
Tu Jiaojiao thought about it and agreed.
However, she still had a question: "Why is Jiang Miaomiao here? She said that was the driver? But I feel like I've seen this driver before."
Xue Shaoyuan crossed his arms and said, "I also think it looks very familiar."
While he was pondering, Tu Jiaojiao had already posted a message on her WeChat Moments: I just saw Jiang Miaomiao at the supermarket near my house. Does anyone know why she was there?
[Ren Ziwei: Is that the class beauty who's really good at studying?]
[Tu Jiaojiao: You're having memory problems, I was the prettiest girl in our senior year of high school!]
Ren Ziwei: ...
Xu Lingling: ...
Mo Cong: ...
The above N ellipses are ignored.
[Tu Jiaojiao: What kind of attitude is this? I have big eyes, a straight nose, and a small mouth, am I not the prettiest girl in the class?]
[Xue Shaoyuan: @Ren Ziwei, it's her. I just ran into her at the supermarket near my house.]
Ren Ziwei: (﹃) Has he grown up to be less attractive?
[Xue Shaoyuan: I can recognize it at a glance; it's a scaled-up copy from back then.]
Ren Ziwei: (﹃) Please introduce me. I still get really excited looking through my old photo albums!
[Tu Jiaojiao: @Ren Ziwei, if you're going to be a slut, get lost and don't delay my business! No one else is allowed to go off-topic; I just want to know why Jiang Miaomiao is here?]
Ren Ziwei: I don't know.
[Xu Lingling: I don't know +2]
[Mo Cong: I don't know +3]
...I don't know *N.
[Xiao Luolin: Would it be more appropriate to tag @Han Cuo here?]
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