"Comrade, would you like a ride? Mazda, we'll give you a discount."
"Motorcycle taxi, you can leave at any time."
"Comrade, this is your first time in Beijing. Stay at the guesthouse, right? It's near the train station."
"Comrades, lesbians..."
"No, we're locals," Guan Wanwan said, speaking with a genuine local accent, deftly rejecting the crowd. After walking around the train station square, they couldn't find the Aunt Luo Guan Wanwan had mentioned, so they had no choice but to wait by the roadside.
"Strange, I told your Aunt Luo in the telegram that you would arrive at 8 a.m., why hasn't she come yet?" Guan Wanwan muttered to herself, and when she turned around, she saw her daughter sitting on the big luggage bag in a very ungraceful manner.
Guan Wanwan, who always paid attention to her decent image, frowned subconsciously and wanted to say something, but her daughter's disgusted attitude made her shut up and change the subject.
"When you see your aunt Luo Juan's sister, remember to be polite. Don't be like you did in the countryside and don't know how to greet people."
"Is it Liang Wenjing?" Guan Jibai couldn't help but grit his teeth when he mentioned this name.
It was this Liang Wenjing who caused the original owner to be isolated and bullied in the workplace, and to say one thing to your face and another behind your back.
"Yes, her name is Liang Wenjing, two years older than you. When we left, she already knew how to call me Auntie. She's a very clever girl."
A trace of nostalgia flashed in Guan Wanwan's eyes. After all, she was born into a prominent family and was the apple of everyone's eye.
If we hadn't suffered a series of setbacks, we wouldn't have come to this.
The mother and daughter came back this time to stay with Luo Juan. Back then, when Guan Wanwan was still the mainstay of the city's song and dance troupe, Luo Juan was just a temporary worker who got in through her introduction, doing odd jobs like moving things.
Later, Guan Wanwan got into trouble, and before leaving Beijing, she gave many things she couldn't take away to Luo Juan.
He also helped Luo Juan's lover get a job in the factory, and lent her the only courtyard house he had left, also asking her to help take care of it.
After all, it’s not good to leave the house unoccupied for a long time.
Guan Wanwan hadn't thought of leaving a way out at the time; she was simply generous. The reason she came back this time to find Luo Juan was because the house was hers.
Guan Jibai pretended to be the original owner, being indifferent. In fact, she had already been complaining in her heart. Because of the original owner's memories of her past life, she had a general idea of what would happen next. Luo Juan, as her mother had said, was not a good person.
Luo Juan and her family of three have long regarded the house as their own.
"Guan... Wanwan?" A sharp voice came from the side, the tone full of disbelief.
They turned around and immediately recognized Luo Juan, wearing a Dacron dress and poorly made-up. She was about forty, with noticeable crow's feet and nasolabial folds. Standing next to Guan Wanwan, she looked more like mother and daughter than her peer.
A pair of narrow eyes were filled with jealousy and panic that could not be concealed.
"You, you...how come you..." Not old at all?
Luo Juan gritted her teeth and swallowed back the rest of her words. She'd spent an hour carefully dressing up before coming here, even wearing her most expensive clothes. The thought of herself now being a teacher in a dance troupe's class, a respectable city dweller, made her feel a bit nauseous.
The once proud young lady had become an old and haggard village woman after more than ten years of hardship in the countryside, and she felt very happy.
But Guan Wanwan's look gave her a hard slap in the face.
Fifteen years have passed, and Guan Wanwan has not changed at all. She is still as slim and fair as a girl.
Luo Juan's eyes were red with hatred, and her teeth were almost broken. If she hadn't been so eager to crush Guan Wanwan into dust, she wouldn't have asked for leave to pick her up.
Luo Juan wanted to turn around and leave, pretending she had never been there. But when she remembered that the property ownership certificate was still with Guan Wanwan, she couldn't turn her back on him until she got the property.
She could only suppress the resentment in her heart, put on a happy smile, and excitedly talked and laughed with Guan Wanwan, just like good sisters who had reunited after a long separation.
Guan Jibai was almost blinded by what he saw. Luo Juan’s acting was so bad, how could her own mother not notice it?
It's really worrying.
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