The rain kept falling, even getting heavier. The rain flowed down along with the straw on the top of the pavilion, and the curtains of the pavilion were raised in an instant.
It was gray outside the pavilion, and air-conditioning blew in from time to time, making it a bit cold.
Compared to the low pressure outside, the atmosphere in the pavilion continued to drop.
Xiao Ming and Zhou Lianrong sat in front of each other. Neither of them wanted to speak first. Zhou Lianrong didn't like to see Xiao Ming because of the previous incident, but Xiao Ming was too lazy to pay attention to her.
Zhou Lianrong held her head high, her back straight, and tried her best to maintain a proud posture in front of Xiao Ming. She always kept the meaning of "stay away from strangers, and I will never be familiar with you".
Although this gesture seemed to Xiao Ming to be bluffing, should such an arrogant girl get along harmoniously with her?
No, she didn't want to at all.
The carriage could not be pulled out for a long time, and even if she wanted to leave, she could not leave. Zhou Lianrong resisted the urge to lose her temper and sat there. The more calm Xiao Ming became, the more unhappy Zhou Lianrong became.
'snort! She can't leave either, so she pretends to be calm, and a country girl pretends to be noble. Zhou Lianrong snorted secretly and was very dissatisfied with Xiao Ming. It's amazing to refuse! Don't come in to take shelter from the rain if you can!
Zhou Lianrong was full of thoughts. She didn't like Xiao Ming from any angle, so she simply turned her face away. How could she know Xiao Ming's state of mind at this time? She lowered her head and said nothing. Xiao Ming was thinking about the past few days in her heart. It's unusual. Yesterday, during the consultation at Guangji Hall, I discovered two men with thick calluses on their tiger's mouth.
I was busy that day and didn't think much about it. But when I thought about it carefully today, I suddenly realized that the two men had practiced. Only the man who never left his body with the sword had thick calluses on his hands after holding the sword.
Moreover, the two men were strong and powerful, especially with sharp eyes. They stared at her as if they were prey, their eyes were fierce and bloody.
She originally thought that man was a hunter in the mountains, but now that she thought about it, that was not necessarily the case.
I'm afraid it's aimed at her.
Come to your door to find out the truth?
Has the enemy finally arrived?
Xiao Ming moved her fingers little by little, and her heart couldn't stop beating. She was not afraid. This hatred came too late.
I looked around secretly from the corner of my eye. There was no one on the muddy road. This kind of weather is not conducive to going out, right? Of course, it is also not suitable for running away.
Xiao Ming was secretly worried in her heart. In the wilderness, the few moves she learned to raise her fist were really not good enough. She hoped the rain would stop soon. As for Zhou Lianrong, she didn't want to pay attention to it, and she couldn't get involved.
The Zhou family's coachman wanted to pull the carriage out, but in the end, besides being showered with rainwater, the carriage wheels were still firmly stuck in the ditch. The coachman wiped the rainwater from his face and gave up. With the thought in mind, he quickly ran into the pavilion.
"Girl, I really can't pull this carriage out by myself. Why don't I go to the nearby villages to find some people to help. I don't know when the rain will stop. It won't be safe until dark."
The coachman is from the Zhou family, and he has always used the name he used to address his girl before she came out of the palace. Not only him, but also the servants and ladies in the family still respectfully call Zhou Lianrong girl, not Mrs. Liu.
This title is common in the Zhou family.
"Go back quickly." Zhou Lianrong nodded feebly. If she hadn't believed that the driver was an old man who had been with the Zhou family for decades, she would have suspected that he deliberately pulled the car into a ditch.
If something like this had happened before, Zhou Lianrong would have had an attack early in the morning, but today she endured it. Although she was unhappy, she did not have an attack. In the past two years, Father Zhou has taken her to manage the business and taught her a lot. She is no longer the arrogant and domineering daughter of the Zhou family who beat and scolded her servants at will before she got married.
After receiving his master's nod, the coachman did not dare to delay and ran away in the rain. He had to come back before the rain turned into a downpour.
Without the sound of the coachman shouting at the horses, in addition to the sound of raindrops overhead, there was only the cool breeze blowing in the thatched pavilion.
"Girl, are you cold? My maid will go to the car and get you a cloak to wear." Cuiping, the close girl, stood aside and asked cautiously.
"Why is it cold? Don't bother me." Zhou Lianrong glared at her angrily, "Don't cause trouble in such a heavy rain and just stay alone."
For a long time, Zhou Lianrong looked at Xiao Ming, who had always been as calm as water, and decided that she could no longer let her have such an easy time, so she said, "I heard that Xiao Ming got into a lawsuit."
Xiao Ming raised his eyes and glanced at her, not sure what Zhou Lianrong meant: "It doesn't count, it's just that someone pretended to be the Xiao family's fruit wine and caused trouble."
"That's right! The big tree attracts the wind, and there will definitely be a lot of people who want a share of the pie, so those who eat alone will always get choked." Zhou Lianrong looked at Xiao Ming and made up her mind not to make it easy for her.
"All these good and bad things are brought out to harm people. People don't know if they are from the Xiao family. They believe it as soon as they hear that it is the Xiao family's manager. In the end, not all the people who suffer are those who gave money."
"Not everyone can be like our family, destroying it when they know it's broken, but unlike other people, many people now think it was sold by the Xiao family themselves." Zhou Lianrong smiled, with a bit of pride in her eyes.
There are rumors in the market now that the Xiao family sells fakes themselves!
This news gave her some comfort after losing a lot of money. Why was Xiao Ming so arrogant?
She had fully supported Liu Fushun's brewing, and even gave her dowry to support it. She just wanted to compete with Xiao Ming. As both women, she couldn't believe that she was worse than Xiao Ming.
But now, their fruit wine failed, so she had no choice but to endure the pain and destroy it. Xiao Ming didn't get anything good, and she was involved in lawsuits, so she was somewhat balanced.
My father once said that this is the shopping mall, this is competition, it has nothing to do with human relationships, defeat your opponents in everything, and establish yourself.
There is no room for sand in her eyes, and everything she eats and uses is of the finest quality. The same applies to her work. Either she doesn't do it, or she has to do her best when she does it. If it doesn't work, she would rather destroy it.
Xiao Ming glanced at Zhou Lianrong who was gloating about his misfortune, what happened to this girl? Don’t you know what good things her husband has done?
Girl! You are too naive!
Although the fact that Mo Xingyu was deceived had a great impact on Xiao's fruit wine, she didn't take it to heart. When everything comes to light, the truth will be revealed.
"Silver! Who doesn't want to have more, but the ways to get it are different. Some people use their own labor to get it, but some people want to get something for nothing, and even take shortcuts to get something that shouldn't be theirs. This is wishful thinking. . The Xiao family’s fruit wine has always been imitated and never surpassed. The Xiao family has never stopped others from following suit, so they have this kind of tolerance.”
Xiao Ming glanced at Zhou Lianrong and said slowly: "Doing business is like being a human being. Don't cheat, don't cheat, don't do harm, be truthful, sincere, and trustworthy. Of course, this is just my personal opinion. I only hope that the world is beautiful." , Everyone has kind thoughts in their hearts, so that there will be no deception and no pain in the world. But some people always like to ride alone thousands of miles, build plank roads openly, cross Chencang secretly, and do some things that are harmful to nature."
Zhou Lianrong's beautiful eyes stood up. She built a plank road openly but crossed Chencang secretly? What do you mean, who are you talking about?
It always felt like Xiao Ming was targeting them.
In an instant, Zhou Lianrong was about to retort, but found that Xiao Ming was staring into the distance. Zhou Lianrong turned around, followed Xiao Ming's gaze, and saw three people walking on the road.
Under the rain, the three of them were wearing bamboo hats and raincoats, their heads lowered so that no one could see their faces.
"Girl, Uncle Wu is back with someone..." Cuiping pointed at the visitor and shouted happily, but the second half of the sentence was stuck in her throat by Zhou Lianrong's cold look.
The direction Uncle Wu walked in when he left, and no one among the three looked like Uncle Wu.
