Chapter 821 — The Xiao Family
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"How could a few servants possibly afford to pay for my clothes? You know I buy all my clothes from the boutiques at Pengzhan Plaza, and when I bought this one, apart from the display piece in the window, there was only the last one left!" Gou Huli explained. "I was sure they could never buy it. So I made a bet with them—if they could buy it, I'd pull my head off; if they couldn't, they'd have to do hard labor for our family for a month..."
"And in the end they bought it, didn't they?" The man was somewhat speechless. How could anyone say such things carelessly? And then offer to pull her head off for them to see?
"Yes! I never imagined a few servants would each have a diamond membership card to Pengzhan Plaza. Their master must treat them well enough!" Gou Huli said sourly. "But what good is a membership card? I thought, even if you had a hundred membership cards, with the goods sold out, they still couldn't buy the same clothes as mine! But who'd have thought—they went there, flashed their cards, and a Manager Wang actually turned up and offered to sell them the display piece from the window! I was furious. Who knows what got into that Manager Wang, siding with a few slaves!"
"Slaves? Servants?" The man was instantly infuriated by Gou Huli. "Do you have any brains at all? How could a few housemaids and a gardener have diamond membership cards? As far as I know, that diamond card of yours was given to us out of friendship only because our family is an old established house—and a few housemaids have diamond cards?"
"Because their master treats them well?" Gou Huli did not quite follow her husband's meaning.
"Master? Did you even look carefully? Those people are plainly no ordinary sort! Could you get a diamond card for your own housemaid? At most an ordinary membership card, and that's the limit!" the man stormed. "They all have diamond cards, and they even know the plaza's manager—it's obvious they are the owners of the villa! You've only just arrived and you're already in a conflict with the neighbors? Those three clearly wield real influence in that area—how could you not see even that?"
"Huh? Surely not?" Gou Huli was startled. "But their clothes were all shabby, and who ever heard of a villa owner cleaning up with his own hands?"
"Maybe she scrubs floors because she wants the exercise, or because she has nothing better to do! When my old man was alive, he still worked the fields and grew vegetables. Why don't you call him a servant too?" the man retorted angrily. "You idiot, you've barely arrived and you're already making enemies!"
"Hmph! So what if they are? At most they're just a few local rich kids, and judging by their ages, none of them are very old! Besides, even if their fathers showed up, they'd be nothing before our Xiao family of Yanjing! Xiao Ji, I've been bullied to this extent, and you won't stand up for me? Then I might as well be dead! I've been with you since I was eighteen, followed you all these years, and only after your wife died did you make me your proper wife. Haven't I suffered enough? And now that I've been bullied, all you can do is scold me. Boo-hoo, I don't want to live anymore!" Gou Huli began to cry with exaggerated drama.