Zhao Lihua was so angry with Liang Yun that she couldn't speak. She had heard before that Liang Yun was not someone to be trifled with and that his words could drive people crazy. Now that she had met him herself, she finally understood what it was like.
The girl standing next to Du Shulan walked over and said, "Aunt Gu, Baozhu really likes these shoes. In her haste, she did something she shouldn't have. Baozhu is just young and doesn't know any better, she was too impulsive. Comrade Xiao shouldn't hold a grudge against someone so much younger than herself, right?"
"This woman even threw the pearl on the ground. Comrade Xiao was not hurt. In fact, the one who threw it on the ground was the one who suffered."
Su Xingran's brow twitched slightly. This woman's words had a distinctly manipulative, tea-like quality. Right, the terms used to describe this type of girl in the modern era are "green tea bitch" and "white lotus."
Before Liang Yun could speak, Gu Moyue interrupted, "Du Juan, aren't you tired of pretending? We're tired just watching you. What do you mean Wei Baozhu is young and doesn't know any better? Wei Baozhu is an adult now, isn't she? What are you pretending to be young and doesn't know any better? Even a three-year-old knows to queue up when buying things. Isn't snatching things and hitting people the kind of thing bandits do?"
"Let me tell you, Wei Baozhu, you're lucky my sister-in-law wasn't hurt, otherwise you'd see if my mother and I would tear you apart today. And you, Du Juan, we all know what you're up to. You dragged your cousin into this mess, and you're all left unscathed behind."
Ignoring Wei Baozhu and Du Juan's dark faces, Gu Moyue turned to Xiao Xue and said, "Sister-in-law, we don't want these shoes anymore. You can choose other ones. It's disgusting to buy shoes that have been touched by people like that."
When Xiao Xue heard the girl's name was Du Juan, she glanced at Du Juan. To be honest, she was alright looking, the kind of girl who seemed delicate and fragile. Girls like that would probably evoke a protective instinct in men.
Remembering the phone call from Gu Moting, he said that Du Juan and Li Juan had nothing to do with him. Before he met her, all he cared about was his mission; after he met her, besides his family, all he cared about was himself.
Xiao Xue felt a pang of emotion at this thought; she missed Gu Moting. She smiled and said to Gu Moyue, "Okay, I'll choose another pair. That pair will go to Comrade Wei Baozhu, who likes to snatch things."
Looking at Xiao Xue, Zhao Lihua increasingly felt that Xiao Xue resembled the dead woman. Zhao Lihua wondered if Xiao Xue might not be Wei Ziming's daughter.
As if possessed, Zhao Lihua asked Xiao Xue, "What's your father's name? Do you take your mother's surname, Xiao?"
Xiao Xue frowned, unable to understand what this woman meant. What did her father's name have to do with this woman? Xiao Xue didn't want to answer the woman's question, so she remained silent.
Zhao Lihua's words left everyone present somewhat puzzled. Su Xingran glanced at Zhao Lihua; she hadn't heard her master mention anyone with that name. Liang Yun, upon hearing Zhao Lihua's words, paused, then turned to look at Xiao Xue, her mind racing with thoughts.
No wonder Liang Yun felt she looked familiar when she first met Xiao Xue. Now, hearing Zhao Lihua's words, she finally understood why Xiao Xue looked familiar—because Xiao Xue resembled the deceased Xiao Baiyu. And Xiao Baiyu looked very much like her biological mother.
Liang Yun remembered that Xiao Baiyu had a son named Wei Ziming, who disappeared from Beijing not long after Xiao Baiyu's death. She recalled that Xiaoxue's father's age matched Wei Ziming's, and Xiaoxue looked somewhat like her father. Xiaoxue's father clearly resembled Xiao Baiyu.
Liang Yun didn't want his daughter-in-law to get involved in these grudges of the previous generation. "Zhao Lihua, my daughter-in-law takes her father's surname, Xiao. Make your daughter apologize to my Xiaoxue for what happened today, or I'll go directly to the Wei family to find Old Master Wei and ask him if he can't control his younger generation."
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