Chapter 617 - Bumped into Someone (2/2)

“Okay.” Qiao Nan sent Zhai Sheng off with her eyes. “Did you go out today?” Once she returned home and sat down, the first thing Qiao Nan did was to glance at s.h.i.+ Qing. Brother Zhai was around earlier. It was thus not convenient to ask about certain things. It was convenient to do so now.

“You’re so sharp. Look.” s.h.i.+ Qing took out the packaging bag and casually poured out the clothing in it “What do you think about this piece of clothing?”

“One word, tawdry. Two words, disgustingly tawdry.” s.h.i.+ Qing’s clothing was too flashy and gaudy. There were too many decorations and the flowery design was complicated. If s.h.i.+ Qing wore this, she would look like a live flower basket. It was really not very nice.

“My auntie gave this to me.” s.h.i.+ Qing used one hand to hook the clothing up with disdain. “This is my auntie’s taste?”

“It must be intentional of her to give you such clothing. The clothing that Qiu Chenxi wears is quite stylish. Even if it’s not, at the very least, it’s pricey. This one, though…” Qiao Nan did not continue further, in case s.h.i.+ Qing’s expression turned uglier.

s.h.i.+ Qing sneered. “Isn’t that so? She treats me as a fool who can be conned. It’s not as if I’ve not seen what Qiu Chenxi wore before. She wants to find out something from me and yet she dared to use this kind of thing to bluff me. I really have such a good auntie. She adopts this kind of att.i.tude when she is pleading others. It’s so rare of her.”

“Pleading? What’s she pleading you for?” What matter could make Qi Minlan so polite to someone?

“What else can it be? But when she opened her mouth today, I realized that I predicted something wrong.” s.h.i.+ Qing sat up and looked at Qiao Nan energetically. “I’ve mentioned to you about the first matter before. It’s because of Feng Wei. She asked me how I know about Feng Wei, who the Feng Wei that I know is, and how old he is. After confirming that I know about Feng Wei’s matter, she then begged me not to reveal the matter to anyone. You guess. Why else did she look for me?”

Initially, the scope of this ‘guess’ was really too wide and it was not easy for Qiao Nan to guess.

But once she came into eye contact with s.h.i.+ Qing, Qiao Nan reached out her hands and pointed at her own nose. “Because of me?”

“What else could it be!” s.h.i.+ Qing slammed the table as she felt both excited and aggravated. “When you’re shopping together with Brother Zhai, she b.u.mped into both of you. But judging from your behavior, Brother Zhai and you definitely did not discover her. She felt odd and specially came here to ask me why you were shopping with Brother Zhai. Brother Zhai not only bought clothing but also carried the shopping bags for you. She asked me what the relations.h.i.+p between the two of you is. Qiao Nan, my auntie is starting to suspect that you’re Brother Zhai’s girlfriend!”

Having said that, s.h.i.+ Qing could not help breaking out in a cold sweat for Qiao Nan.

If her auntie knew about it, there was no difference from Qiu Chenxi knowing about it.

The mother-daughter pair refused to give up on the position of the chief in the Zhai family. Moreover, Zhai Sheng was so strong and outstanding. He also had great contributions. Hence, the probability that he would take on the role of the chief was more than eighty percent.

Hence, once her auntie confirmed that Qiao Nan was the one that Brother Zhai was in a romantic relations.h.i.+p with, given the power of her auntie and Qiu Chenxi, it was not difficult at all for them to create trouble for Qiao Nan such that she could not even remain in Ping Cheng if the Zhai family did not protect her well enough.

Qiao Nan felt fear and trepidation. “Then, how did you reply to her?”

“What’s there to be afraid of? I’ll be here to protect you. Will I let them bully you?” s.h.i.+ Qing patted her own chest hard. “I don’t need to say much. I just needed to casually tell her about the situation in the Zhai family. She should understand then.”

Auntie Miao and Brother Zhai quarreled with each other, and Qiao Nan was the one who persuaded them to reconcile. The Zhai family was grateful to Qiao Nan and wanted to buy her something. There was nothing strange about it. This was also a way they commonly used to express their grat.i.tude. “But with this, my auntie will hate you more. She can’t wait for the relations.h.i.+p between Brother Zhai and Auntie Miao to become worse. Who would have known that when the mother-son pair had issues, you made them reconcile? Of course, compared to the fact that you’re Brother Zhai’s girlfriend, this little grudge is nothing.”