Chapter 1171 — The Arrogant Gou Huli, Part Two

"Ms. Gou, look — everyone who lives in the villa district has money to spare. Isn't what you're doing a bit... inappropriate? And besides, that lion dog of yours is dangerous. What if it bites a child?" the security captain asked cautiously.

"Bites? It hasn't bitten anyone yet, has it? Aren't you being an alarmist? Why don't you worry about the sky falling in?" Gou Huli rolled her eyes and cursed, "Get lost, go stand somewhere else, don't come here making trouble! Name your price, I'm busy!"

"That's a bit tyrannical, isn't it?"

"Exactly, this woman has no sense of reason!"

"She's really bullying people!"

The homeowners who had come to demand justice could hardly stand it any longer, and one after another they began to denounce Gou Huli.

But Gou Huli only gave a contemptuous sneer, and glaring at the homeowners who had come to make trouble, she said, "What's the matter? Not convinced? That's right, I'm tyrannical, I have no sense of reason, I bully people! That's how the Xiao family is — so what are you going to do about it?"

"This..." Hearing Gou Huli's arrogant, overbearing words, everyone felt somewhat sullen and resentful. This woman was utterly unreasonable — how could she be like this? But her words had also reminded them: the Xiao family — Gou Huli was the wife of the Xiao family's head!

Previously, few people had known of the Xiao family; one could say that when the Xiao family moved into the neighborhood, no one paid them any attention.

But these past few days had been different. These people all moved in business circles — and even if they didn't, they had their own connections — and they knew of the Xiao family. Lately the Xiao family's name had been thundering in the business world! What was more, everyone had vaguely learned the Xiao family's true standing: one of the great clans — an existence of colossal power!

Having heard all sorts of legends about how formidable the great clans were, these people were somewhat inclined to back down. But after all, it was only hearsay; they had never experienced it firsthand — and their pets couldn't have died for nothing, could they? So they decided to wait and see a little longer.

Seeing that these people still would not leave, Gou Huli flew into a rage. Pointing at the lion in her hand, she said to them, "Lion dog, go drive them off! Let's see who dares make a racket at my door!"

"Roar—" The lion ran two steps toward the gate and let out a roar at the *** at the gate.

The people who had come to denounce Gou Huli were frightened now — after all, who would dare contend with a lion? Thinking of the Xiao family's vast wealth and overreaching power, they could only sigh, count themselves unlucky, and leave the gate of the Xiao family villa.

And with the homeowners gone, the security captain naturally had no reason to stay. Though he very much wanted to try once more to dissuade Gou Huli, she was so arrogant that she clearly would not heed anyone's advice easily; so the security captain shook his head and left as well.

Gou Huli gave a smug humph and proudly led the lion as she shut the gate! These days she felt magnificent every day, like the big boss lady of the neighborhood — wherever she went she led a lion, and no one dared provoke her!

"Mm, this villa ought to be cleaned too!" Gou Huli said, looking at the dust in the corners of the villa.

Earlier, when Gou Huli had first moved into the villa, she had wanted to find someone to clean it. She had meant to hire a housekeeping service, but then she saw Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu and decided to seize them for hard labor — and that was how this whole series of disasters had begun!

Ever since Gou Huli stirred up trouble, no one in the Xiao family had had the heart to find anyone to clean the villa; and in this recent period, with the Xiao family turning things around and rising again, busy every day entertaining guests, no one had thought to find someone to clean it either.

And only now did Gou Huli remember the matter!

...

These past two days, Ergoudan had been eating and sleeping at Yu Yuanyuan's home. He had been waiting all along for Yu Xiaoke to bring him the money — and even if not the money, she should at least have sent the address. But of Yu Xiaoke there was no word at all.

These past two days after work, Ergoudan had even gone to wander around near the train station, but still he saw no sign of Yu Xiaoke.

While brooding, Ergoudan also realized that he had truly been cheated!

That little swindler — she really was infuriating! Ergoudan thought that the next time he saw her, he would give her a proper lesson!

But for now, anxious as he was, Ergoudan was utterly helpless! For one thing, he did not know Wei Zhao's address; for another, he did not know Wei Zhao's phone number. He wanted to call back to the village, but he did not know the number of Widow Wang's grocery store, still less Old Man Wei's number!

For a youth who had never left his village, this was sheer blindness! In the past, when he never left the village, there was no need to memorize any phone numbers — when you wanted to find someone you just shouted, and once the loudspeaker called out, who could fail to find whom? But now, Ergoudan thought, even the biggest loudspeaker could never make the whole city hear; Songshan City was simply too big!

So Ergoudan could only help out at Yu Ren's grocery store, doing odd jobs. Fortunately, the Yu family took good care of him — Yu Yuanyuan in particular treated him well — which made Ergoudan somewhat reluctant to leave!

Although they had gotten a sum of money from Xiao Luozi, the Yu family had not given up working. They were diligent, honest people by nature, and this money was still needed to buy a house and expand the shop — it was a mere drop in the bucket!

So Yu Yuanyuan still worked at the burger shop, Yu Ren still ran a grocery store, Mother Yu still did housekeeping, and Ergoudan still helped out at the grocery store.

Today Mother Yu was very happy: the housekeeping company had connected her with a big job — cleaning a villa! If she did this job well, she reckoned she would earn several thousand yuan, and naturally she was delighted! So happily she gathered up all her tools and, following the address from the housekeeping company, went off to that villa to clean...

Before going to work, Mother Yu had made a point of calling Yu Ren and Yu Yuanyuan. Father and daughter were delighted to hear the news, and Yu Ren, stingy as he was, even bought some pork ribs from the market that evening to reward his wife, telling Yu Yuanyuan to stew them to nourish Mother Yu — and incidentally to improve Ergoudan's meals too!

Lately, with Ergoudan making deliveries, the turnover of Yu Ren's grocery store had shot up — from a few hundred yuan a day before to three thousand yuan a day now! The key was that no matter what people bought, Ergoudan delivered it to their door!

Toilet bowls, washbasins, sand, cement — whatever you bought, no matter how many floors up you lived, even if the elevator in a high-rise was broken, Ergoudan would speed the goods to your door, and he charged no delivery fee!

In this way, Yu Ren's business was naturally doing wonderfully!

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