Chapter 51: Chapter 051 Too Much_1
Upon seeing her attitude, Huo Jinlan instantly went on defense, asking, “What are you up to?”
“No…nothing.” Wu Shanshan’s face flushed shyly, “Then we shall wait for your brother together! We don’t even know when he would be back.”
Admiration was etched across Wu Shanshan’s face: “Your brother has graduated for so long, yet he has never once returned to school! My God! If he does, everyone will be so thrilled. Huo Jinlan, I am so envious of you for having such a wonderful brother.”
Up until now, many teachers liked to use Huo Beijiang as an example in their classes.
The school’s only student who made it to Imperial City National Security University was a lifetime pride of many teachers.
Hearing anyone lavish praise on Huo Beijiang, Huo Jinlan responded with pride, “Of course!”
“By the way! We couldn’t get in touch with Jiang Nanfei, so she won’t be able to attend the reunion.” Wu Shanshan’s face was filled with regret, “Such a shame. We had planned to grasp this opportunity to make her lose face, to let her know the consequences of offending you.”
Mentioning Jiang Nanfei, the smile on Huo Jinlan’s face faded, she spoke with a stern tone, “She must have done something wrong and now she’s feeling guilty.”
“Ha, ha, ha…you’re right! That kind of pauper would make me embarrassed to step out.” Wu Shanshan started laughing loudly, “Did you see that? She goes to school in her uniform every day, she probably can’t even afford a single piece of clothing.”
“Right!” Huo Jinlan nodded with a smile, “Her family really is poor, with an entire household squeezing together, I heard her grandmother still wears clothes with patches on them!”
Wu Shanshan exaggeratedly covered her mouth, “What era is this? She’s actually still wearing patched clothes? How poor can one be?”
“Yeah! Shh, quiet down, Granny is in the courtyard!”
“It’s okay! Old people are deaf, she can’t hear us even if we are loud.”
As the two chattered away inside, Zhou Yongxian who sat in the courtyard was seething, her entire body shaking with anger. Humph! Although she was an old lady, her hearing was perfectly fine!
She had really misunderstood Jinlan in the past, thinking her to be a good friend of Nan Fei’s. She did not expect Jinlan would gossip behind others’ backs.
“Grandson, you’re home!” Zhou Yongxian deliberately shouted loudly.
The chatter inside the room instantly ceased. Excitedly, Huo Jinlan rushed out only to find nobody there. She was so infuriated that her eyes turned red.
“Grandma, didn’t you say my brother is home?”
“Oh! I must have mistaken.” Zhou Yongxian said icily: “Jinlan! You mustn’t speak ill of people behind their backs in the future. Is that what a fine young lady should do?”
Huo Jinlan’s face instantly turned pale, her eyes icy and lowered. This old woman, she is purposefully trying to pick a fight with me, isn’t she?
Following closely behind her, Wu Shanshan awkwardly did not know where to place her hands, “Granny Huo, I have to go, I have other matters to attend to.”
Zhou Yongxian didn’t want to hold a grudge against a child. If the conversation hadn’t been too disrespectful, she wouldn’t have exposed them.
Just as Wu Shanshan reached the door, a motorcycle zoomed up from a distance on the road and screeched to a halt right at the entrance. Startled, Wu Shanshan quickly backed away.
The voice of Jiang Nanfei, filled with rage, came from the back seat of the motorcycle, “Huo Beijiang, you’ve gone too far.”
“You did it on purpose, you’re simply overbearing.” On the way here, the speed of the motorcycle had scared Jiang Nanfei so much that her heart was pounding. The country road is already bumpy enough with its countless pebbles, the ride made her tremble with fear.
And this guy did it with the intention to scare her.
She had already told him that she could go home by herself, but he insisted on stopping by home to notify his family before driving her home.
Thinking about the ride back to the village on his motorcycle, Jiang Nanfei felt frightened.