Xia Lanlan was just about to say that she had given the money to Xu Yang for his business, but her mother's words made her feel like she was struck by lightning, and she was stunned for a moment.
"Lanlan, I saw Xu Yang this afternoon. He has returned from another province."
In fact, Mrs. Xia deliberately framed Xia Lanlan just to see her reaction, because she knew that Xu Yang had not come back at all.
But she never expected that after hearing these words, Xia Lanlan's face turned pale...
"Yes, really? He's back so soon?" Xia Lanlan's voice trembled slightly.
She tried desperately to calm herself down, but found that she could not hide her inner uneasiness.
My mind is in a mess.
She didn't know how much her mother knew, or maybe her mother just heard it from others and had no actual evidence...
In short, at this moment, countless questions were intertwined in Xia Lanlan's mind.
Especially when he thought about being caught lying by his mother, a feeling of suffocation swept over his body.
Xia Lanlan looked at her mother in panic, her lips slightly opened, wanting to explain, "Mom, I actually gave the money to... gave it to..."
"Xia Lanlan!"
When Mrs. Xia saw that Xia Lanlan was still trying to find excuses to put her off even after she had said so much, she got so angry that she slammed the coffee table.
She glared at Xia Lanlan angrily, her tone even sharper than before, "How did I teach you? I raised you with great difficulty, paid for your education, and sent you to learn talents, all in the hope that you would marry into a good family in the future, but what happened..."
"How dare you lie to me now! Have you read all those years of books and have they all gone to waste?"
Mother Xia's voice was filled with sorrow and reproach.
She suddenly felt that all her hard work over the years had been in vain!
Although Xia Lanlan was not born from her womb, when she decided to take Xia Lanlan home to raise her, she treated Xia Lanlan as her own daughter.
Over the years, she and Lao Xia have always held Lanlan in their hands, giving her whatever she wanted and never treating her unfairly in the slightest.
But now, the daughter is unwilling to confide in her mother.
How could she not be angry? How could she not be annoyed?
“I…I…”
Xia Lanlan's voice was stuttering badly. She clearly wanted to find an excuse to cover it up, but her thoughts were so confused that she couldn't organize a complete sentence.
Especially when she saw that her mother's eyes were getting colder and colder, as if she was very disappointed in her, and her eyes were full of coldness and anger.
Suddenly, a panic came over me.
Xia Lanlan panicked and threw herself into Mrs. Xia's arms, crying and admitting her mistake, "Mom, I'm sorry, I know I was wrong, I shouldn't have lied to you!"
"Since you know it's wrong to lie to your parents, then just tell me honestly, where is the 20,000 yuan?" Mrs. Xia was obviously not easy to deceive. She stared at her daughter closely, as if she wanted to see the truth through Xia Lanlan's eyes.
Then, she pulled Xia Lanlan up from her arms, put her hands on her shoulders and asked her, "Lanlan, I want to hear the truth!"
Instead of telling her another lie!
Hearing this, Xia Lanlan's body suddenly stiffened and her voice began to stutter again.
"Money... I gave the money..."
Her eyes kept flickering and she didn't dare to look her mother in the eye.
Do we have to ask her to say that the 20,000 yuan was transferred to her biological parents?
How dare she tell the truth...
"Is it so difficult to start talking? So difficult that you can't even tell me, your mother?" Mrs. Xia continued to press, her voice becoming increasingly sharp, and even the look in her eyes as she stared at Xia Lanlan was full of disappointment and annoyance.
She really couldn't understand why her daughter kept it from her, which made her very angry!
"No, Mom." Xia Lanlan quickly shook her head to deny it. She was extremely panicked and didn't know what to do.
She held Mother Xia's hand tightly, organizing her words in her mind, bit her lips, and finally spoke in a low voice, "Actually... I used the 20,000 yuan to buy jewelry."
"I was afraid you wouldn't agree, so I lied and said it was for Brother Xu Yang's business. I will never lie to you again, Mom, can you forgive me?"
My heart was in a panic the moment the words fell.
This was the first time in her life that her mother looked at her with such eyes, which made her feel scared and even a little panicked.
just in case......
So what should she do?
After hearing her daughter's explanation, Xia's mother did not immediately believe it, but pressed on, "What about the jewelry you bought? Why aren't you wearing it?"
The diamond necklace that Xia Lanlan was wearing around her neck was a gift from herself on her birthday last year. Lanlan loved it so much the moment she got it that she never wanted to take it off.
Given Lanlan's love of beauty since she was young, if she really bought new jewelry, it is impossible for her not to wear it and ask her if it looks good on her. So, how true her daughter's explanation is remains to be seen.
Hearing this, Xia Lanlan's face instantly turned a little paler, and she quickly tried to make an excuse, "I left the things at Qin Xue's house and forgot to take them back."
Mrs. Xia looked at her daughter's panic-stricken appearance and a flash of disappointment flashed across her eyes.
She took a deep breath and tried to make her voice gentler. "Well, since you forgot the jewelry at Qin Xue's house, go to her house and get it back tomorrow."
"It's a good opportunity for me to take a look at the new jewelry my daughter bought!"
After saying that, she let go of Xia Lanlan and stood up from the sofa.
Mrs. Xia glanced at the stunned Xia Lanlan, picked up her backpack, and then left the Xia family with a gloomy face.
She wanted to find someone to check Lanlan's situation in the past few months to see who she had been in contact with. She actually let her daughter learn to lie to her again and again!
At this moment, Xia Lanlan in the living room was completely dumbfounded.
She stared blankly at Xia's mother as she walked out of the living room without looking back, then got in the car and left the Xia family.
Xia Lanlan collapsed on the carpet in an instant, her face as pale as paper, knowing that she was finished.
Since the mother has become suspicious, she will definitely get to the bottom of the whereabouts of the 20,000 yuan, otherwise she will not give up.
Thinking of this, Xia Lanlan quickly stood up with the help of the coffee table, then ran out of the Xia family in a hurry to ask her good friend Qin Xue for help.
For now, she could only ask Qin Xue for help.
The mother and daughter left the Xia family one after another and headed in opposite directions.
However--
Just when Madam Xia arrived at the city center, she accidentally saw someone who shouldn't be here...
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