"Although they are not valuable items, they are all my heartfelt wishes. As for that haute couture dress, I had it specially made for Lili. Even if Miss Jiang wanted to wear it, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to fit into it."
“My old man will sit here today and wait for you to sort things out before returning them to Lili intact.”
“If one or two items are missed, your Jiang family may not care, but I will care about my money.”
The room was completely silent.
Xie Li: "..."
She wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she had a feeling that the old man was doing it on purpose.
She couldn't help but whisper, "If you're so worried about the money, why are you giving away so much?"
When she thought of the elderly people in the news who were swindled out of their retirement savings, she couldn't help but feel sorry for Mr. Xu.
Grandpa Xu slowly picked up his teacup and flicked off the tea leaves: "Oh, of course I don't mind giving it to you."
"But it would be heartbreaking if any random cat or dog took it, after all, my family isn't a full-time charity."
The old man had a booming voice, so loud that the servants in the living room could hear him.
Xie Yunqiu and Jiang Baili couldn't possibly have missed it.
Xie Yunqiu, who had been walking upstairs with an elegant posture and straight back, gripped the handrail tightly upon hearing this, her knuckles turning white from the force.
Jiang Baili lowered her head even further, her mind already exploding with a deafening roar.
Only one thought occupied her mind: Xie Li, how dare she?!
They even echoed Old Master Xu, deliberately humiliating her by saying she was a beggar—it was utterly vicious!
She had never been so embarrassed in her entire life.
She could even feel the strange and contemptuous gazes of the servants fixed on her back.
She could no longer maintain her composure, and hurriedly ran upstairs, disappearing at the bottom of the stairs.
Ding Huizhu guessed that, being young and easily embarrassed, she was probably hiding in her room crying right now.
However, she showed no sympathy whatsoever for her husband's niece.
Since Xie Yunqiu and her daughter were capable of forcibly breaking into Xie Li's room that night and silently intending to keep those things for themselves, they should be prepared to be ridiculed.
Xie Yunqiu even boasted that Jiang Baili was a truly well-bred socialite in the capital, but in her opinion, Jiang Baili was nothing special.
With such shallow eyelids, she doesn't seem like the daughter of a prominent family in the capital.
——
Upstairs, in her room, Jiang Baili had just entered when tears she had been holding back all the way began to stream down her face.
Xie Yunqiu's face was ashen as she hissed in a low voice, "What are you crying for? Aren't you ashamed enough?"
"But Mom, Xie Li did it on purpose! She clearly conspired with Grandpa Xu!"
Otherwise, why would Old Master Xu come to our door so early in the morning and speak so rudely?
Since they came from the capital, and the Jiang family is a prominent and influential family there, they should at least give the Jiang family some face. Just now, Old Master Xu looked like he wanted to hurl insults at her.
Xie Yunqiu pulled her shawl tighter and sneered, "It seems we underestimated this village girl."
Turning his head, he saw the tears on Jiang Baili's face and couldn't help but frown: "Stop crying, look at the state you're in!"
"You are a young lady of the Jiang family, a phoenix that flew from the capital. Don't forget your place!"
"Xie Li... Ha, a mere pheasant, gained a little benefit from a moment of flattery, and he thinks that's something to brag about?"
"Your battle with her isn't over with some senile old man!"
Jiang Baili remembered the test papers she had given Xie Li last night and stopped crying: "Yeah, what is Xie Li anyway?"
The entrance exam for Linjiang No. 1 Middle School is in three days; that will be her real battleground.
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