Chapter 77 Is she a stepmother?
Xu Youyou frowned slightly and asked, "Who is making trouble in the Gu family? Is it Gu Fengchuan again?"
Aunt Wang quickly said, "It's not Gu Fengchuan, it's an elderly lady, her last name is Zhao."
As soon as Xu Youyou said this, she heard a sharp and familiar voice from the other end of the phone: "Who are you talking about? I'm not old. I'm only in my early thirties!"
Aunt Wang immediately slammed back: "You are obviously in your forties, and you don't even know if you are already fifty. What did I say wrong? Do you think you have a lot of people? If my family members were not at work, they would have come to beat you up a long time ago!"
"I don't care, you have to apologize to me! And give me Xu Youyou's phone number!"
Aunt Wang's voice was full of annoyance: "How can I give it to you if they don't agree?"
Xu Youyou didn't want to hurt Aunt Wang, so she said directly: "Aunt Wang, give me her number and I will contact her."
Xu Youyou’s phone has a whitelist set up, so numbers that she has no contact with cannot call in at all.
Aunt Wang was indeed fed up with Zhao Menglian pestering her every other day, but she still explained to Xu Youyou again and again: "Xiao Xu, Auntie wanted to help you stop it, but this shrew is too annoying, Auntie has no choice..."
Xu Youyou said: "Auntie Wang, don't worry, I understand. I also want to thank you for helping me stop it for so long."
Soon, a number was sent.
Xu Youyou asked Xu Fang to contact the other party and make an appointment to meet outside.
After Xu Fang finished the call, she was speechless and said, "Boss, the person on the other end of the phone is not very easy to talk to. Do you really want to meet her?"
Xu Youyou nodded.
The meeting time was arranged in the afternoon. After Xu Youyou took a nap, she slowly got up. However, Xu Fang's phone had been ringing several times and the other party kept urging her.
Xu Youyou got into the car slowly and went to a high-end tea house 3 kilometers away from her home.
Before entering the tea room, I saw from afar a middle-aged woman with heavy makeup and gold ornaments on her neck and ears, craning her neck to look outside.
Xu Youyou walked over surrounded by bodyguards.
Zhao Menglian looked at Xu Youyou with eyes wide open, her face full of disbelief. She couldn't understand, wasn't Xu Youyou an orphan? Why were all her clothes and accessories so expensive, and she also brought four bodyguards and a female assistant with her, looking even more impressive than the Gu family.
"Don't you insist on seeing me? Come in and sit down first." Xu Youyou said.
There were not many people in this high-end teahouse. Xu Youyou rejected the waiter's suggestion to take them to a private room and chose to sit in the hall.
Soothing and lyrical music was playing in the tea room, and the aroma of tea was lingering around, but Zhao Menglian's face was still uneasy.
She glanced at the two nephews she was carrying behind her, gritted her teeth, and said, "The Gu family sent me here to take you back to recognize your relatives. This great opportunity has fallen upon you, you must cherish it."
Zhao Menglian is not a member of the Gu family. She is a distant relative of the Gu family and one of the flatterers surrounding Mrs. Gu. Zhao Menglian's husband runs a small business and the family's assets are worth only tens of millions of yuan. They live on the leftovers that the Gu family squeezes out of their mouths.
When Mrs. Gu needed to deal with some not-so-dignity matters, she would hand it over to Zhao Menglian, such as going to the urban village to quarrel or throwing a tantrum at the landlord.
For example, like now, he is threatening his own daughter on behalf of Mrs. Gu.
Xu Youyou has always known that Madam Gu is partial to her, but at this moment she still feels mixed emotions. It turns out that from the very beginning, she has been an indecent existence in Madam Gu's heart.
Xu Youyou said casually: "Whoever wants this blessing can have it. If you like, you can also go back and call Madam Gu mom."
Zhao Menglian was so angry that she slammed the table and said, "I'm talking to you nicely, don't refuse my toast and drink a forfeit."
Xu Youyou turned around and gave the bodyguard a look.
The 1.9-meter-tall bodyguard, who had served in the military, directly scolded: "Talk to our boss properly and don't slam the table at every turn."
The other three bodyguards also stared at her fiercely.
Zhao Menglian had never seen such a scene before and she shrank her neck in fear, but she soon remembered that she also brought her two nephews with her.
But her two nephews, after just one look at the bodyguards, immediately shrank their necks in fear, looking as if they wanted to find a corner to hide in.
Zhao Menglian cursed the two useless people in her heart. She couldn't understand why Xu Youyou suddenly became rich. The data from the Gu family's investigation showed that this orphan had been poor for a long time.
Zhao Menglian thought about what she had seen frequently on short videos recently: some people clearly had no money but liked to act cool, hiring a bunch of people to flatter them and pretending to be rich ladies in order to become internet celebrities.
She felt that Xu Youyou must be pretending, and now there was a little more disdain in her eyes: "Xu Youyou, if you go back to the Gu family and win the favor of my cousin and cousin's wife, maybe you can really show off your wealth as a young lady, and you don't have to pretend like you are now when you have no money."
Xu Youyou:?
Xu Youyou didn't understand Zhao Menglian's train of thought, and frowned and said, "If this is all you have to say, then don't waste my time."
The bodyguard behind him also gave him a fierce look.
Zhao Menglian was so frightened that she could only repeat in her heart that it was all a bluff. She mustered up the courage to convey Mrs. Gu's intention: "I accept you on behalf of the Gu family, but you don't understand the etiquette of the upper class, so you can only go back as the adopted daughter of the Gu family."
Xu Youyou looked at her with an even stranger look in her eyes: "I seem to have rejected you more than once. Whether it's your biological daughter or your adopted daughter, I don't care."
"The Gu family has 50 billion in assets. If they just pluck out a strand of their hair, they'd be richer than you are now... and you're willing to do that!"
Xu Youyou felt a little regretful. She didn't want to see Zhao Menglian throwing a tantrum, so she chose to meet in a high-end teahouse. But who would have thought that it was she, Xu Youyou, who wanted to throw a tantrum and hit someone more now? "You're anxious. Why do you seem to care more about the Gu family's money than I do? Didn't I say that I'm willing to give you this chance to be my daughter?" Xu Youyou said.
"Who doesn't want to go home? Your blood relatives are there! The Gu family is a top wealthy family..." Zhao Menglian said in a rambling manner.
Xu Youyou felt sick to her stomach when she heard this, "Aren't my blood relatives coming to pick me up in person? Where's Madam Gu?"
Zhao Menglian didn't know how to explain. Should she say that Madam Gu had mysophobia and refused to step into the village in the city? When Xu Youyou saw her expression, Madam Gu's face almost appeared in front of her.
The Gu family hadn't come to bother anyone for a while, but now they suddenly showed up. Could something have happened? She thought about it for a moment, thinking about what happened at this time in her previous life, and a gleam of light flashed in her eyes.
"Your mother is busy with something, so she asked me to pick you up..." Zhao Menglian said with difficulty.
Xu Youyou deliberately asked: "She sent someone like you to pick me up, is she actually my stepmother?"
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