Chapter 158 – Dog Eat Dog (狗咬狗)
Qiao Hong Ye walked towards the door under everyone’s stares, her face fully expressing her shame. When Jing Yun Zhao saw the fawning smile on Qiao Wei Min that was directed towards He Jia Si, she instantly understood everything.
Currently, Qiao Hong Ye and He Jia Si were in a dog-eat-dog relationship.
Just as Qiao Hong Ye reached the door to the classroom however, Qiao Wei Min immediately sent a slap over.
Instantly, Qiao Hong Ye’s face was etched with five distinct red fingerprints, but Qiao Wei Min wasn’t done. He then propped up his leg, and pointed directly at Qiao Hong Ye’s nose and started scolding, “You wastrel! What have you been up to out there, and who have you offended?! My factory’s collapsed because of all this!”
Jing Yun Zhao frowned. Qiao Wei Min’s factory’s collapsed? When did this happen? Was it He Jia Si?
Jing Yun Zhao turned to look at He Jia Si, yet she found that her face also showed hints of surprise. That moment couldn’t have been her pretending, and she also had no reason to do so.
But in her past life, Qiao Wei Min’s factory had been fine. How did it come to this?
“Dad, are you crazy? What people can I offend?!” Qiao Hong Ye started wailing from the accusation, yet in her mind, she had already pinned this whole thing onto He Jia Si’s head. Her intentions to return and get Cao Xing to do something grew stronger. Things that brought them mutual benefits were something that Cao Xing wouldn’t reject!
Qiao Wei Min’s attitude was cold, not believing his daughter’s words at all. When he turned around, he saw Jing Yun Zhao and directly dragged Qiao Hong Ye in front of her and said, “Yun Zhao ah, dad’s factory has collapsed, and we have no more money. If we continue like this, it would be difficult to continue paying for the school fees of your pair of younger siblings. Can you give me that ginseng…”
Jing Yun Zhao scoffed disdainfully. He actually hadn’t given up on the idea of getting his hands on the ginseng?!
Seeing that she wasn’t speaking, Qiao Wei Min continued, “Yun Zhao, even if you’ve cut off familial ties with us, if it weren’t for me, would you have grown up so smoothly and stably? If you’ve eaten the ginseng, then dad won’t insist on it, but dad remembers that there’s a piece of jade around your neck. It’s something dad bought for you when you were young to keep you safe, why don’t you give that to dad to tide us over…?”
The moment Jing Yun Zhao heard these words, she was provoked into laughter by Qiao Wei Min’s shamelessness.
He had bought it to keep her safe? Qiao Wei Min had always been stingy, so how could he have bought this jade just for her?
This jade gourd was her space. Because it was a Jing Family heirloom that had been passed down, so it looked to be somewhat old. Just by looking at it on the surface, it also couldn’t be considered to be worth much. Adding on to the fact that back then, Ye Qin had wanted to use her to help Qiao Hong Ye and her brother to block fiends, so she hadn’t dared to touch anything that was on her. Otherwise, even if this wasn’t a jade gourd or a fake, it still wouldn’t possibly have remained on her till now.
Closing her book, Jing Yun Zho gave him a side-glance, “Are you threatening me right now?”
“How could you speak like that to your dad! Was dad really threatening you? This was something I bought, why can’t I take it back? But jades have spirituality, so if you really don’t want to give it to me, then just take out the ginseng in exchange…” Qiao Wei Min jabbered on.
He didn’t know who was offended, but all the factory’s clients suddenly didn’t dare to show up so they now had a heap of merchandise/product that was suddenly smashed into their hands. He was in charge of investments so he wasn’t sure how the business operated. All he knew was that within a short period of just three days, he had lost everything.
He had gone to look for his partner to get answers, but the other was even more of a scoundrel and insisted that it was he who had offended someone.
But no matter how hard he thought, he couldn’t think of anyone. In the end, he felt that it could have been because Qiao Hong Ye this brat who didn’t serve the He Family’s young miss well enough, that’s why he too had to suffer this unexpected calamity!
Qiao Wei Min was so angry that he couldn’t help but want to strangle Qiao Hong Ye to death, even bringing his already passed wife into this. If it wasn’t because that woman didn’t educate Qiao Hong Ye properly, how would this whole mess have started?!
