Chapter 821 — The Xiao Family
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Fine! Just you remember this! All of you, just you wait!" There was nothing Gou Huli could do now. To stay any longer would only heap more ridicule upon herself—what if Wei Zhao and the others paid up in a moment and demanded she perform the head-pulling trick?
How could Gou Huli wait around for such a thing to happen? So she flung down one last vicious threat, turned on her heel, and made to leave.
"Hold on. We still haven't compensated you for the clothes," Wei Zhao called out, stopping her in her tracks.
"Forget the clothes! Consider it a gift to you! But you mark my words—I will not let this matter rest!" Gou Huli said through gritted teeth.
"Forget it? Forgetting it is fine. But you have seen for yourself that we are quite capable of buying the very same clothes as yours. Don't you still owe us something?" Wei Zhao said mildly.
"Oh! Oh! Go on, do the head-pulling trick! Everyone come and watch! This old lady is going to pull her own head off in public—better than the clowns in the zoo circus!" Shen Yushu shouted.
"I didn't take the clothes, so what would I perform for?" Gou Huli glared at Shen Yushu. "And I'll remember you too. You just wait! We'll settle accounts slowly next time!"
With that, Gou Huli ignored Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu alike and strode off toward the elevators.
"Just let her go?" Wei Zhao looked at Gu Mengyao.
"Let it be. A person like that isn't worth quarreling with," Gu Mengyao said, shaking her head. She plainly had no intention of pressing the matter.
Wei Zhao shrugged. Since the eldest daughter had spoken, he would say no more. In his eyes Gou Huli was nothing but a buffoon. Still, from what she had let slip, it seemed her man carried some weight. Whether that was boasting or the truth, he could not tell.
"How boring. Some old women are just shameless, throwing their weight around because of their age. She clearly agreed to do the head-pulling trick, and now she's going back on it," Shen Yushu grumbled, disappointed that she would not get to see the spectacle.
Gou Huli stumbled and nearly fell flat, and even so she twisted her ankle. She ground her teeth in fury. Originally she had meant to bide her time, but at this moment she could endure it no longer—she absolutely had to vent this foul temper!
Once inside the elevator, Gou Huli took out her phone and dialed her husband's number.
"Darling, I've only just arrived in Songshan City and I've already been bullied! They soaked me from head to toe with water guns, refused to pay for my clothes, and even humiliated me, demanding I pull my own head off for them to see!" Gou Huli complained, playing the victim first. "And one of them called me an old lady. Your wife is so young and pretty—how could I be an old lady?"
"What exactly happened? Who were they?" The man on the other end frowned. He knew well enough what sort of person his wife was, and did not take her words at face value. "If you hadn't provoked them, why would they bully you? What really happened? Tell me the truth! Don't twist your words—I know you."
"Hmph! Just two little housemaids and a gardener. They were fooling around with water guns in a villa, and since I'd just bought us a villa and was on my way to look at it, the moment I drove into the villa district they soaked me from head to face..." Seeing that her husband did not believe her, Gou Huli had no choice but to recount it truthfully, weeping as she complained. "I thought, doesn't our new house need some workers to clean it? So I meant to make them work as free cleaners for a month, and I frightened them into compensating me for the clothes—but they actually agreed..."
"Then why did you say they humiliated you?" the man snorted.