Chapter 13

Housekeeper Qin knew the old lady's intention, and of course, she had to listen to the old lady's instructions.

She immediately said with a smile, "Young Mistress, I will learn well."

This—

Qiao Muting looked at Shu Xia with deep eyes, "Then I will trouble Shu..."

Qiao Nainai swept a glance over.

"Sorry to trouble Xia Xia." Qiao Muting omitted the words "Miss Shu".

Shu Xia's pretty, fair little face really couldn't maintain a smile anymore.

Many people called her Xia Xia, but when Qiao Muting called her Xia Xia, she felt a bit awkward.

——

Lin Family.

Chen Xiuyue received a call from the hospital, telling Lin Miao to go to the hospital tomorrow.

They also informed her that the previously stored blood was not enough.

"Mom, could it be that Sister doesn't want to save me anymore? She hates me, so she really wants me to die. I really don't know what I did wrong. Not only did she let me get sick, but I also have to be disliked by Sister, and Dad and Mom have become my adoptive parents."

Lin Miao hugged Chen Xiuyue and cried.

Watching the daughter she raised cry, Chen Xiuyue felt heartbroken.

"I will call her. I've left her alone for three days; she must know she was wrong by now. I won't hold it against her for what she did wrong; I'll have her rush to the hospital to donate blood first."

Lin Miao looked at Chen Xiuyue cautiously, "Will Sister really go? Will she raise any conditions again? I don't want to make things difficult for Dad and Mom."

"If she dares to make any excessive demands, she can forget about coming back ever again! Two days ago, she even had her adoptive mother call me. Maybe she regretted it after leaving the hospital that day, but she's thin-skinned and must be waiting for me to speak first."

Just by saying this, Chen Xiuyue's brows furrowed tightly; she wanted to admit less and less that Shu Xia was born to her!

Everywhere she looked, there was a sense of poverty and lack of class.

Lin Miao smiled secretly; the more Chen Xiuyue disliked Shu Xia, the more she felt that Shu Xia was inferior to her in every way.

Chen Xiuyue took out her phone and dialed.

Over at Laozhai, Shu Xia was massaging Qiao Muting's head under the 'supervision' of Housekeeper Qin.

It was the first time the two had been this close.

Qiao Muting had originally thought that Shu Xia was just fooling his grandmother.

Only his grandmother would fall for her act.

However, when the woman's soft hands landed precisely on every acupoint on his head.

It was as if they carried some kind of magic, giving him a hint of sleepiness when he usually found it hard to fall asleep.

Housekeeper Qin, who was on the side, really wanted to learn at first, since it was the old lady's instruction, but after watching for a long time, she understood that every change in technique was a change in acupoints. Although Shu Xia had told her what each acupoint was one by one, she couldn't remember them!

Forget it, the old lady didn't really want her to learn anyway.

The phone ringtone suddenly rang at an inopportune moment.

Housekeeper Qin saw it was Shu Xia's phone placed on the table to the side, "Young Mistress, it's your phone."

Shu Xia happened to finish the last acupoint, so she went over to answer the call.

"Hello."

"Know how to answer the phone now? Do you know you've caused trouble? Let's just let the matter from a few days ago go. You're ignorant, but I can teach you slowly in the future. Come back now and go to the hospital with us tomorrow morning."

Chen Xiuyue's tone was condescending.

Shu Xia glanced at Qiao Muting, who was dozing on the sofa, and walked out with her phone.

Just after Shu Xia walked out, Qiao Muting, who was dozing on the sofa, opened his eyes, his gaze slightly icy as he looked toward the door.

He vaguely heard the reprimanding words coming from Shu Xia's phone.

The people of the Lin Family treat Shu Xia this badly?

Seeing that the call hadn't been hung up but hearing no sound from Shu Xia on the other end, Chen Xiuyue, who was already in a bad mood, felt even worse.

"When did you become a mute? Speak!"

"Want me to go back and continue being a blood bank for Lin Miao?" Shu Xia asked.

Listening to Shu Xia's lukewarm voice on the phone, Chen Xiuyue frowned, vaguely feeling something was wrong, "What blood bank? Miaomiao is your sister; you're just donating a little blood, why say it so harshly? Come back now, I've changed your room; this time it's a room about the same size as Miaomiao's."

Shu Xia laughed.

The laughter traveled through the phone, giving Chen Xiuyue a misconception.

She thought Shu Xia was happy because she had achieved her goal.

She frowned and didn't have the patience to continue, "After you go to the hospital tomorrow, follow your father to the company. Your father has arranged a clerk job for you at the company."

"Are you done, Ms. Chen?" Shu Xia put away her sarcastic smile.

The true face of this biological mother of hers was truly too ugly.

"What did you call me? I am your mother, and you actually call me Ms. Chen?" Chen Xiuyue was furious.

"Do you have any right to be someone's mother? If people didn't know, they would think I was your enemy." Shu Xia sneered.

In her previous life, she was arranged in the smallest room in the entire villa, and Chen Xiuyue wouldn't be seen for ten days or half a month; when she did see her, she would just despise her for being paralyzed.

Such a good mother, let Lin Miao enjoy her maternal love slowly.

"What did you say! Shu Xia, did you hear something from someone, and now you dare to talk to your mother like this? The money you spend is all given by us; your credit card has already been stopped by your father. If you don't want to have no money to spend and nowhere to live, come back and admit your mistake immediately!" Chen Xiuyue thought she had misheard.

Shu Xia had already moved the phone away.

Only after Chen Xiuyue finished shouting did she put the phone back to her ear.

"You and Mr. Lin are not that old, you shouldn't have reached the stage of dementia yet. After I was picked up by you to the Lin Family, I haven't spent a penny of your money. Let Mr. Lin check the credit card transaction records carefully. You often take Lin Miao to the hospital, have you ever thought about going to the hospital for a CT scan to check your brains?"

Shu Xia hung up the call.

She knew there was a vineyard at Laozhai.

Then she went to the vineyard.

As for Chen Xiuyue, after the phone call was hung up on her, her face was full of disbelief.

Didn't spend a cent of their money?

How is that possible!

People from the countryside are habitual liars; if she didn't spend their money, and she didn't go to work after graduation, how could she not have spent their money!

"What did Shu Xia say? It seems like Mother is very angry." Lin Miao was very good at reading the situation.

Hmph, what does Shu Xia have to compare with her?

Just wait, she might even become Qiao Muting's girlfriend in the future, and by then, Shu Xia will have to look up to her even more.

Chen Xiuyue was so angry she threw her phone onto the sofa, "She refuses to come back, dares to talk back to me, and even says she didn't spend a cent of our money. How on earth did Jiang Ye raise her? Letting her tell barefaced lies without even being grateful!"

Lin Miao's eyes flickered.

She knew Shu Xia wasn't lying; Fu Chenyan had said that Shu Xia worked during winter and summer breaks in high school, and spent her spare time in college working too, so saving money wasn't difficult.

But...

"Sister has the card Father gave her; how can she be so naive to think a lie won't be exposed? Sigh, Mother, please don't be angry with Sister."

Chen Xiuyue became even angrier after hearing Lin Miao's words, "It's simply outrageous!"

——

Laozhai vineyard.

After Shu Xia hung up on Chen Xiuyue, she followed the servant and picked a few bunches of grapes.

Then she went to pick strawberries.

She was squatting down picking strawberries when Qiao Muting arrived.