Chapter 055 The Fifty-fifth Melon
The police car that arrived at the scene took away the human trafficker and Liu Meixian.
Zhang Jiali felt scared at this moment. She grabbed the corner of Zhang Jianjie's clothes and said with a pale face, "Dad..."
Zhang Jianjie touched her head and said, "Don't be afraid, Daddy will protect you."
"Hmm." Zhang Jiali sniffed.
Zhang Jianjie looked at Gu Xicao gratefully: "Master Gu, thank you so much this time. If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't dare to imagine what the situation would be like now."
"You're welcome. Jiali is Ayuan's friend. For both public and private reasons, I will not sit idly by." Gu Xicao touched Lin Yuan's head and said with a smile.
Lin Yuan and Zhang Jiali looked at each other, and both children smiled.
"Master Gu, hello, you are in the newspaper again."
Wang Mingqiang came over with a newspaper and teased Gu Xicao.
Gu Xicao took a look and raised her eyebrows, "Master of Breaking Up Marriages, you wrote the newspaper headline, are you so insulting to me?"
"That's right!" Wang Laoshi heard this and came over to watch the fun, jokingly saying, "Who said our boss is a master of breaking up marriages? He has only broken up seven or eight couples so far."
Gu Xicao gave Wang Laoshi a glare.
Wang Laoshi shrank his head and quickly changed his words, "But we masters all have our reasons. For example, the stepmother who colluded with the human traffickers yesterday, we can't just ask them not to divorce, we are just helping others!"
"Hey, hey, hey, look carefully, both of you. This is not our newspaper."
Wang Mingqiang tapped the name on the newspaper helplessly.
Gu Xicao and Wang Laoshi looked at it carefully and felt a little embarrassed.
Wang said honestly, "Didn't your newspaper say that those tabloids are foul-mouthed? Everyone knows that. Why did you bring this newspaper here for no reason?"
Wang Mingqiang coughed and asked awkwardly, "Well, our boss wants to ask a fortune teller to tell his fortune. Is it convenient for the fortune teller?"
"Your boss?" Gu Xicao looked at the schedule and said, "It's not possible these two days. How about the day after tomorrow?"
"Okay, of course. I tell you, don't be polite to our boss. This guy is very rich. Let's rip him off." Wang Mingqiang sold out his boss without any hesitation. "He has three luxury cars at home. It's not too much for you to charge him hundreds of thousands for fortune-telling this time."
"From the tone of your words, you and your boss have a lot of conflicts."
Wang Laoshi joked as he wrote down the itinerary.
Wang Mingqiang snorted, "Which subordinate can have a good relationship with the boss? Our boss is very stingy. He only gave us one mooncake each on Mid-Autumn Festival. Do you think I can be happy?"
Wang Mingqiang chatted with Wang Laoshi for a while and then left.
Today's Times is not an old newspaper. On the contrary, it has only been established for about ten years. However, thanks to the means of its owner, Huang Shiren, it has successfully established a foothold in the Hong Kong newspaper industry and makes at least several million in profits a year.
Although there is some gap compared to the wealthy family like the Gu family, the people of Huangshi also live in villas in good locations.
"Master Gu, I have long admired you."
Unlike the stingy image described by Wang Mingqiang, the people of Huangshi looked very generous and came out to greet him in person. Wang Laoshi was a little surprised and whispered to Gu Xicao: "Boss Huang is quite a good person."
"If someone is showing kindness to you innocently, he is either a traitor or a thief." Gu Xicao said in a low voice.
The Huangshi man was leading the way and turned back to ask, "What?"
Gu Xicao smiled and said, "Nothing. We were just admiring how approachable Mr. Huang is. He actually came out to greet us in person. This kind of thing can actually be done by the people below."
"How can that be possible? You are a master."
The man from Huangshi slowed down his pace, with a look of wanting to say something but stopping himself as he walked, and glanced at Wang Laoshi.
Gu Xicao understood and said directly: "Boss Huang, just say whatever you want to say."
The man from Huangshi hesitated for a moment, but still said, "It's like this, I want you to help me calculate whether my wife has cheated on me."
Wang Laoshi suddenly understood.
No wonder he came out to pick them up in person. He said he wanted to tell fortunes for the whole family, but actually he had other intentions.
Gu Xicao said: "That's it, now I understand, I can..."
"Brother, why are you guys talking outside? Come in quickly, it's so hot today."
Huang Fugui waited in the living room for a long time for Huang Shiren to come back with his people, so he came out to urge them, interrupting Gu Xicao's words.
Huangshiren agreed to Huang Fugui and whispered to Gu Xicao, "Please tell me about this later and don't tell anyone else."
"I understand." Gu Xicao nodded.
There are only two brothers in the Huang family, and they have been married for a long time. Huang Shiren and his wife have a son who is five years old and a little fat. Huang Fugui and his wife have a daughter who is also five years old. The little girl is not talkative. When she saw Gu Xicao and others come in, she opened her mouth for a long time, her face flushed, and she didn't say hello.
Her mother Tang Chu got anxious and slapped Huang Miaoyun on the head with great force, knocking the child's head sideways. "What did I teach you at home? You must call people when you see them. Hurry up and call sister, hello uncle."
"Sister, sister..."
The little girl had tears in her eyes, but she didn't know whether to cry or not.
Huangshi's wife Lan Lianxin couldn't bear to see this and said hurriedly, "Xiaoyun has always been timid. Why did you hit her? The child is not impolite."
"Sister-in-law, that's not what I meant. You keep nagging her at home. Look at how stupid she is. It's so embarrassing. If she could be as smart as Dabao, I would feel at ease."
Tang Chu complained, looking at his daughter with disdain in his eyes.
Grandpa and grandma tried to smooth things over, "Okay, okay, the master doesn't care, why are you scolding the child? Anyway, our family doesn't expect Xiaoyun to do anything big in the future. She just needs to marry a good man and help her family."
Lan Lianxin frowned, not very satisfied with the remarks of the two elders.
The man from Huangshi pushed her arm and whispered, "Say less, she's not our daughter. If you say too much, the second son's wife will still take it out on the child when she gets home."
When Lan Lianxin heard the previous words, she did not agree. Unlike her sister-in-law who had only received a few years of education and got married early, she was a returnee from studying abroad and had her own career, so she did not agree with the ideas of the older generation at all.
But when he heard the following words, Lan Lianxin didn't know what to say.
Even though she is Miaoyun's aunt, she is not her biological mother after all and cannot interfere in other people's family affairs.
"Brother, aren't we here today to have the master tell our fortunes? All this nonsense is interrupting our business."
Huang Fugui urged.
Huangshi didn't want his family to quarrel in front of outsiders, so he smiled and said, "Yes, Dad and Mom, you probably don't know that this is the recently famous Master Gu. A few days ago, the master helped someone catch a human trafficker."
"Human trafficker? How did you catch him?" Huang's mother immediately became interested.
Wang Laoshi knew Gu Xicao's temper, so he smiled and helped to tell the story of Zhang Jiali and her daughter, which made everyone marvel at what they heard.
Lan Lianxin was a little surprised and looked at Gu Xicao: "Is it true? Master, you really calculated so much with just one look? I heard that to tell fortunes, you have to look at the eight characters, and some people even have to touch the bones and read the characters. In short, it's very troublesome."
"This is someone else. Our boss doesn't need so many tricks."
Wang Laoshi said this with his chest puffed out with great pride, as if the person who used to touch people's bones and tell fortunes was not him.
Gu Xicao smiled and said, "Ms. Lan, do you want to try it?"
Lan Lianxin was curious and nodded, "All good, but I don't have much to calculate. I feel my marriage is very happy, and my career is also pretty good."
Wang Laoshi looked at Lan Lianxin with complicated eyes.
Is your marriage still happy?
Your husband suspects you of cheating?
Generally, for things like this, people would ask fortune tellers to tell their fortunes, which means it is not just hearsay.
Gu Xicao noticed that Tang Chu curled her lips obviously, and her body posture was one that kept a distance from Lan Lianxin. It was obvious that the relationship between the two sisters-in-law was average.
"Ms. Lan's marriage is indeed very happy. You and Mr. Huang were high school classmates and went abroad together. You have been together for more than ten years and are still in love with each other. This is really rare."
Gu Xicao sighed a little.
Wang Laoshi, who was standing nearby, had his eyes wide open like bells and turned to glance at Gu Xicao.
No way?
Love?
Is this called love?
Lan Lianxin showed a look of surprise on her face. She sat up straight and said, "Yes, you really calculated this? It's amazing!"
The Huangshi man was also somewhat surprised, with a complicated look in his eyes. He nodded and said, "I haven't told Master Gu, but Master Gu didn't make a mistake, did he?"
Gu Xicao said firmly, "I am not wrong about this. Logically speaking, rich people like you two who are successful in their careers and good-looking are bound to be surrounded by flirtatious men, but you two are very self-disciplined and cherish this relationship, so I said it is rare."
Lan Lianxin blushed, "Although Ah Shi has many flaws, his love for others is one of the reasons why I fell in love with him in the first place."
The man from Huangshi looked at his wife, not knowing what to say.
Huang Fugui was too lazy to listen to their love story. He stroked his double chin and looked at Gu Xicao: "Master, Master, what about us? How is my career? How is my marriage?"
Gu Xicao glanced at Huang Fugui and said, "Mr. Huang, you don't have much luck in your career. You have never earned money on your own in your life. It was all your father and brother who gave you money."
Huang Fugui's expression darkened: "Nonsense, I opened an advertising company, isn't this a career?"
Gu Xicao propped up his chin, "But your company has been losing money all the time. It's fine if you don't open it, but once you open it, you lose money. Is this called a business?"
"Ahem."
The man from Huangshi coughed a few times. Although he knew that the master was outspoken and said whatever he wanted to say, the truth was too much. "Master, can you talk about something else? How is my brother's marriage?"
Gu Xicao was silent for a moment and looked at the Huangshi people. "Do you want me to tell the truth or lie?"
Hearing these words, the Huang family felt something was wrong.
Huang Fugui was very angry. He pointed at Gu Xicao and said, "Just say whatever you want to say. I still don't believe in evil. So I am not good at anything?"
"Then I said, don't blame me."
Gu Xicao looked at the Huangshi couple.
Lan Lianxin smiled and nodded: "Just tell me the truth. Although our uncle is reckless, he won't do anything reckless."
Huang Fugui sneered angrily, "You don't have to say it, I know, you just want to say that my marriage luck is bad, right?"
"Just keep it to yourself."
Not only did Gu Xicao not restrain herself, she even added fuel to the fire by nodding, "Your marriage luck is extremely bad. You've been divorced at least three times in your life. Your current wife is a mistress, your second wife, right?"
This time it was Tang Chu's turn to be upset.
Although Lan Lianxin didn't like her, she was a family member after all, so she defended her. "Master, you must have made a mistake. My sister-in-law and my uncle are the original couple."
"Impossible." Gu Xicao shook her head. "You don't know about this, but their family members must know about it."
Lan Lianxin then looked at the Yellowstone people and others.
The man from Huangshi looked embarrassed, touched his nose, and whispered, "The second son was married once when he was young, but divorced after two months, and then married his ex-wife's cousin."
What? !
Lan Lianxin opened his mouth slightly, and slapped the Yellowstone man in embarrassment, "Such a big thing, why didn't you tell me?"
"How can I tell you? When I found out, he had already married this second woman." The man from Huangshi also felt ashamed. To him, getting a divorce and remarrying was not a big deal, but marrying his ex-wife's cousin was too embarrassing, not to mention cheating on his wife.
Huang Fugui and Tang Chu's faces were as pale as a sauce shop, with all kinds of emotions including embarrassment, shame, nervousness and fear.
Tang Chu was particularly excited, but she was not excited about the revelation that she was the mistress, but about the fact that she would be divorced.
She couldn't help but ask: "Master, you said my husband would divorce me three times, then who is the mistress? Who dares to steal my husband?"
Huang Fugui's face suddenly turned red from his neck to his ears, and he said angrily, "What do you mean by that? Why would I definitely cheat again?"
"Then you know yourself. I know. It must be the secretary of the company, right? I saw her dressed up like a seductress every day. She must be trying to seduce you. You are so rich, Huang Fugui. No wonder you go to the company every day. There is something strange about you!"
The more Tang Chu spoke, the angrier he became. The more he spoke, the more he felt that his guess was right. He was so angry that he reached out and hit Huang Fugui a few times.
Huang Fugui is not good at hitting women, but being hit by his own wife in public and scolded for no reason made him angry. He pushed Tang Chu away and said, "That's enough. I'm your man, how dare you hit me? Even if I cheated on you, it doesn't matter. You didn't ask for it yourself in the first place!"
Tang Chu was filled with anger and shame at his words.
Their daughter Huang Miaoyun stood by, biting her lips and trembling slightly.
"You misunderstood," Gu Xicao said, "I only said that Mr. Huang would get divorced three times, but I didn't say that they were all due to cheating."
"Hey, you heard it all. She said that!"
Huang Fugui tugged at his clothes angrily and said.
Tang Chu wiped her tears and stamped her feet, saying, "She was invited by your Huang family, so of course she is on your side. If she hadn't cheated on you, how could we get divorced?"
"That's because the good deed you two did was exposed."
Gu Xicao said, his eyes sweeping from the fat boy beside Lan Lianxin who kept asking for this and that and was very domineering, to the trembling, quail-like Huang Miaoyun.
Huang Fugui and Tang Chu both froze. The couple looked at each other and their hearts trembled.
Huang Fugui stiffened his neck, frowning so hard that a fly could be pinched to death. "Stop talking nonsense, big brother. I think we should stop here today and let her go. If she stays a little longer, she might really cause Ah Chu and I to divorce!"
"That's right, fortune-telling is meaningless. I thought I was so powerful. Let's go." Tang Chu followed his wife's lead and stood up, pulling Huang Miaoyun and picking up the bag to leave.
The Huangshi couple didn't even have time to react before they were about to leave.
Gu Xicao said, "Wait a minute, are you in a hurry to leave because you're afraid that I'll say something shameful? For example, how you treated your brother and sister-in-law unfairly."
Huang Fugui clenched his fists, suppressing his shock and anger. Seeing that Huang Miaoyun was dragging her feet and still wanted to take the doll, he was so anxious that he pulled Huang Miaoyun, causing her to cry in pain.
"Uncle, what are you doing!"
Lan Lianxin couldn't bear to see this, so she went over and snatched the child away. She looked at Huang Miaoyun's arm, which was covered with a circle of red marks. She said dissatisfiedly, "Even if Xiaoyun is a girl, she is your biological child. You hit her so hard that you're worse than a stepfather!"
Huang Fugui's pupils contracted and sweat oozed from the tip of his nose.
"What stepfather, sister-in-law? You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want! Xiaoyun looks exactly like our mother. If she's not my daughter, then whose biological daughter is she?"
Huang's father was also dissatisfied, "Yeah, you can't say such things casually!"
"You can't talk nonsense? But what if this is the truth?"
Gu Xicao stood up. She looked at Huang Miaoyun and then at the fat boy Huang Jiaye.
"What do you mean by that?" Huang Fugui was so nervous that he stuttered. He stepped forward, snatched the sobbing Huang Miaoyun from Lan Lianxin's hands, and pulled her behind him.
Gu Xicao ignored him and looked at the man from Huangshi. After all, he was the one who paid the money today. "Boss Huang, have you ever noticed that your son doesn't look like you and your wife at all?"
The Huangshi man's smoking fingers froze in mid-air, the ash fell to the ground and burned a hole in the carpet. He subconsciously looked at Huang Jiaye.
Father Huang stood up and pointed at Gu Xicao: "Why are you saying this? My grandson doesn't look like his parents, so why not look like me?"
"Is it like you, or like your little son?"
Gu Xicao crossed his arms and said, "Some say nephews look like their uncles, but I've never heard of a son looking like his uncle. Compared to the two similarities, Huang Miaoyun looks more like the child of Boss Huang and his son."
Lan Lianxin and Huang Shiren felt like their brains were a mess. Lan Lianxin subconsciously looked at the two children. She didn't know if it was because of what Gu Xicao said, but she felt that it was just as Gu Xicao said. The more she looked at Huang Jiaye, the more he looked like Huang Fugui. On the contrary, Huang Miaoyun's eyes looked especially like her husband's.
"Are you crazy? You must be crazy to come to our house and chew maggots!"
Tang Chu's hands were shaking, but he pointed at Gu Xicao and cursed.
Gu Xicao dodged her hand and said, "Whoever is crazy knows, but you want to exchange the child and let your son seize the property of Mr. Huang and his wife. You are the classic example of a ruthless person."
Huangshi looked at Huang Fugui with bloodshot eyes. He threw the cigarette on the ground and asked, "Is what she said true?"
"Dad, Dad, what nonsense is she talking about, I am your son, Dad."
Huang Jiaye was still young, but he understood what they said. After hearing what Gu Xicao said, he panicked and hurriedly grabbed the Huangshi man's hand.
Huang Miaoyun looked at the Huangshi couple with a blank look.
Ever since she was old enough to understand, she has envied her cousin's parents for being so kind to him. No matter what her cousin did wrong, her uncle and aunt would always teach him patiently, and her uncle and aunt would always give her what she wanted.
But at home, she has to be very careful, and even eating one more bite of food depends on her parents' expressions.
She always thought it was because her parents hated her for being a girl, but isn't that the reason?
Facing Huang Miaoyun's pitiful and confused expression and listening to their son's crying, the Huangshi couple felt heartbroken and their minds were in a mess.
“Brother, how can you doubt that the family business is not your son just because of a few words from outsiders?”
Huang Fugui panicked and said quickly: "Think about it, from childhood to adulthood, the family business has been so close to you. How could this happen if they are not father and son?"
"Yes, sister-in-law, you are a top student. You wouldn't think that Ayun is your daughter just because of a few rumors from this woman, right?"
Tang Chu also hurried to explain.
"No, that's not right."
Lan Lianxin's body swayed, with a thoughtful look on her face, "I don't know why I just can't like my family business. Because of this, I feel a little guilty."
"The reason you don't get close to the family business is because you don't like the family business?" The Huangshi man looked at his daughter-in-law in surprise.
Lan Lianxin nodded heavily and said, "I don't know who to tell about this. Generally, mothers should like their own children, but I have disliked Jiaye since he was a child."
"This is the fate that only exists between relatives."
Gu Xicao said: "Even if there is no scientific basis, relatives who have not seen each other for many years will naturally feel close to people who are related by blood. Ms. Lan, you don't know the inside story, but the fate between relatives will tell you who your child is."
"You, what you are saying is all nonsense. What fate is there? Xiaoyun is our child, brother and sister-in-law. We are not being hard on you, it's just that this matter is ridiculous!"
Tang Chu suppressed his panic and spoke calmly.
Don't worry, don't worry.
She had asked her mother to help her with this matter, and no one could find any evidence to prove that she and her husband had swapped their children.
Five years ago.
Tang Chu and Lan Lianxin were pregnant at the same time.
When Lan Lianxin was pregnant, Tang Chu saw that Huang Shiren loved his wife in various ways and even said that no matter whether the baby was a boy or a girl, the family property would be left to the child. Tang Chu was deeply moved. She had originally been attracted by Huang Fugui's well-off family and thought that she would be a superior person after marrying him. However, she never expected that Huang Shiren and his wife lived an even richer life, and that Lan Lianxin's family was a judge. Not to mention herself, even her own children would never be able to catch up with the platform of other people's descendants.
Therefore, Tang Chu and Huang Fugui came up with a crooked idea. While Huangshiren was out of the country handling company affairs, they designed a plan to make Lan Lianxin give birth prematurely at home, while they themselves had surgery and a caesarean section in the hospital in advance. In this way, they switched the child with the child of Huangshiren and his wife.
Because of premature birth, when the Lan family received the news, Lan Lianxin had already given birth to the child. And because Lan Lianxin was in a coma, she didn't even see whether the child was a boy or a girl.
This matter was kept secret for five years. Huang Fugui and his wife thought it was perfect and no one knew about it except them and their mother-in-law. They never expected that the people of Huangshi would suddenly have a whim and invite Gu Xicao to tell their fortunes.
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