Chapter 239: The Rich Old Lady (20)
"Miss Zhou, I bought some dishes from the Fuguilinmen Restaurant. Please take a look and see if they suit you..."
Driver Jiahao walked into the mansion carrying several full plastic bags, but heard a heated argument.
So he put the lunch box on the table and hesitantly followed the sound towards the small living room of the house.
The door was ajar, and Jiahao looked inside furtively.
"You begged me to cooperate with you in the first place, and now that you've tasted the sweetness, you're quitting?!" Shi Sui almost screamed out in frustration, "I invested so much money in the early stages to bring the brand back, and helped your store increase its sales so much. Now you want to return the products? Aren't you just destroying the bridge after crossing it?!"
The woman who was arguing with her was no less aggressive: "If you weren't meddling so much, I wouldn't want to get to this point! Old woman, you're already half buried in the earth. Just make some money for your retirement, and you still want to control my vote on the board of directors?! If you have the guts, join the board yourself! Whether Zhou Xiaofeng is the future heir to the Dahe Group is not important to me at all. I just want my second uncle to ascend to heaven and reunite with my father!"
The two people were trying to sabotage each other with harsh words.
Shi Sui arranged for Zhou Shiya and her to act out this scene of falling out in front of Jia Hao, in order to use him to pass on information to Zhou Xiaofeng, paralyzing his vigilance and making him think that these two women, one old and one young, are not to be feared and he can let go and have a go.
Only when he lets go will he reveal more of his cards.
In order to find out what was going on inside, Jiahao scratched the door frame with his fingers, stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck to look.
"Zhou...Zhou Shiya?! So she's the distinguished guest that Old Lady Zhou wanted to entertain today... Why did they start arguing?"
Jiahao hid behind the crack of the door and watched with fascination.
Shi Sui was so angry that his veins bulged. He picked up a jade paperweight and threw it at Zhou Shiya.
Zhou Shiya quickly dodged backwards.
The jade paperweight hit the door squarely, pushing the half-open door back.
As luck would have it, Jiahao's finger was stuck in the crack of the door...
"ah--!!!!"
Jiahao couldn't help but wail in pain as his fingers were connected to his heart.
"Who's hiding behind the door?! Come out! They're really rebelling!" Shisui shouted, knowing the answer.
“Eh??!!”
Jiahao was shocked and scared, and he weakly showed his face from behind the door.
"Miss Zhou...! Please listen to my explanation! I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation! I've already bought the food and I just wanted to come over to let you know!"
He tried his best to defend himself, fearing that he would be the next person to be hit by the jade paperweight.
"Get out of here!" Tokiho played the role of a grumpy old lady, "Everyone, get out of here!!"
"That's ridiculous! I feel like I've lost my value every time I say one more word to you!"
Zhou Shiya picked up her bag and left angrily.
Before leaving, she glared at Jiahao fiercely.
It was not until she got into her own car and drove out of Shihui's mansion that Zhou Shiya slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
She really wasn't very good at acting, so she hoped she hadn't revealed any flaws just now...
She frowned slightly, looked at the street lights flying past outside the car window, and thought rapidly.
After an in-depth communication with Shi Sui tonight, she seemed to have a new understanding of Zhou Xiaofeng.
He is her cousin, only a few years older than her, and the two of them can be said to have grown up together.
She had known him before as a top student, a business genius, and a wealthy bachelor in the entertainment industry. She also knew he was ruthless, but she had never felt such a chill running down her spine like today...
Zhou Shiya recalled how her father died suddenly from anger...
She had always stubbornly believed that it was her second uncle Zhou Xin who did it on purpose, but now thinking back, on the day of the incident, her fourth uncle Zhou Wenhua had actually had a closed-door conversation with her father.
Fourth Uncle has poor business skills and is a day-to-day person. He has little presence in the group and is suppressed by Zhou Xin in the board of directors, so Zhou Shiya almost ignores his big mouth that can kill people at critical moments.
In fact, the fight between Second Uncle Zhou Xin and himself for control of the "department store retail business" was, apart from venting his anger, actually a war of attrition that did not benefit either side much.
While the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits... In the end, the one who benefits in the end is actually Zhou Xiaofeng!
Although Zhou Shiya didn't like her second uncle being told what to do, she hated being schemed against even more.
Zhou Shiya took a deep breath and narrowed her eyes.
If you don't let your emotions carry you, you can see things more clearly.
…
Faced with the furious Shi Sui, Jiahao certainly wanted to take this opportunity to get closer to her and complete the task assigned to him by Zhou Xiaofeng.
However, he had long been frightened by Shisui's capricious temper, and knew that he was not capable enough, so he could only take one step at a time and obey her orders.
"Ms. Zhou...don't be angry. I'll go heat up the food now. If you eat something good, maybe you'll feel better."
Jiahao carried the dishes into the kitchen, took out expensive dishes such as abalone, sea cucumber, and grouper from the plastic boxes, arranged them on exquisite plates, and placed them on the steamer to heat them.
He was quite efficient and in just over ten minutes he had heated up all the dishes and filled the table.
He tentatively picked up a piece of food with chopsticks for Shi Sui.
"Miss Zhou, this is your favorite goose feet in abalone sauce. Have a bite..."
"I have no appetite and no mood."
Shi Sui pushed the bowl away.
Jiahao thought about it for a moment, then gritted his teeth and scooped her a bowl of soup.
"If you think meat is too greasy, try some soup... This is tea tree mushroom, fig and old duck soup. It nourishes yin and blood and is very good for your body."
"Money is really a good thing..." Shi Sui suddenly said sarcastically, "For money, you, a 25-year-old fair-skinned, tall and handsome young man, can also be so attentive to me, a 60-year-old old man with white hair."
"Ms. Zhou, please don't say that. This is just my job..."
Jiahao put down the bowl of soup he was about to hand to Shisui with some embarrassment.
"What? I said a few words to you, and you won't even give me a sip of soup?" Shi Sui reached out and placed the soup bowl in front of herself. "There's nothing wrong with taking money to do things. I'm not blaming you. It's just that you have a grandmother and a great-grandmother who are about my age, right? You have to be ten times better to them. I can fire me at any time, but they are the ones who truly love you without any regrets."
Jiahao nodded woodenly.
Shisui's temper was so hot and cold that he couldn't figure it out.
But her words reminded him of his family.
He had poor academic performance and when he was young and ignorant, he relied on his good looks to stir up trouble everywhere, making his parents and elders worry without realizing it.
Later, with his dream of becoming a star, he tried every possible means to get into Zhou Xiaofeng's Lei Ting Entertainment to film, but he was tricked by them and ended up owing them a large loan shark. He was forced to follow their orders and was sent undercover...
Not only did Jiahao fail to become a big star and was threatened, he realized how complicated this society is and how naive he was.
Until now, he didn't dare to tell his family what kind of work he was doing.
...Tokiho looked at his blue and red face and guessed something.
She asked him to sit down and eat with her, and said meaningfully, "You are still young and have a bright future. It's better not to do this job as a driver... After you follow me this time, you should find another job."
Shi Sui advised others to stop after this time, but she herself was ready to draw her sword against Zhou Xiaofeng.
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