Chapter 1173 — The Boss Has a Way
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"Phew... then how do we find your Boss?" Yu Yuanyuan had not cared much before about the person Er Goudan was looking for, but now she had grown anxious.
"I don't know either. It's all that woman swindler's fault — if not for her, I wouldn't have lost that note!" Er Goudan said helplessly.
"Then we'll just look slowly. We're bound to find him. As long as there's hope, that's enough!" At least now Yu Yuanyuan was full of hope. When the doctor had finished speaking earlier, she had been turning over in her mind how the days ahead were to be endured; now that there was a chance for things to change, she was naturally all the happier.
"Then I'll go look for that overbearing family first, and demand justice!" Er Goudan nodded and said.
"No rush on that for now..." Yu Yuanyuan knew Er Goudan was formidable, but some things could not be hurried. Who knew, maybe they would come to visit tomorrow? So Yu Yuanyuan said: "Let's wait a bit. If that family never shows their face again, then we'll go look for them, but try not to get into a conflict — all we want is an explanation..."
"Fine by me! I'll give them three days. If they don't come give us an explanation in three days, I'll go to their door!" Er Goudan nodded. These past days, having spent so much time with Yu Yuanyuan, Er Goudan had grown a little more refined in his speech, and in front of her he did his best not to fall back into his old rough country way of talking.
For a time, everyone in the villa compound began to live in fear.
Wei Zhao and the others had been out for two days, and ordinarily left early and returned late for school, so naturally they had no idea what had happened in the compound; they did not yet know that a lion had appeared there.
As for Gou Huli, she still took a lion out every day, strutting through the compound on her walks, and the residents all knew how domineering Gou Huli was, and knew her backing ran deep, so none of them dared provoke her.
If you can't afford to offend them, can't you at least keep out of their way? So wherever Gou Huli appeared, people made way, and gave the lion she led an especially wide berth.
Of course, throwing her weight around in front of ordinary people no longer gave Gou Huli any sense of accomplishment. What she wanted most was to throw her weight around in front of Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu and Wei Zhao. The Xiao family had after all been snubbed at the Gu family's place, and had yet to win back their ground since.
So these past two days Gou Huli had been searching for a chance to go make trouble for the Gu family, but each time she walked to the gate of Gu Mengyao's villa, she saw the courtyard gate locked tight and the villa dark — evidently no one was home.
This left Gou Huli thoroughly depressed: she had finally gotten herself a chance to show off and trample on someone, and yet she simply could not put it to use! It was like a cultivator obtaining a supreme treasure only to find he cannot open it — that gloom of heart was known to Gou Huli alone.
Today, Gou Huli once more walked, still unwilling to give up, to the gate of Gu Mengyao's villa, and looked inside — and her heart leapt with joy!