Xia Lan, long time no see, remember me?
When Yu Shaoting received Bai Xiao's call again, he was sitting in the conference room, listening to the person on the partner's side explain the relevant terms of the contract, he took the mobile phone and got up directly, no matter what the other party's expression was at the moment, he said 'sorry' and opened the door and went out.
Walking outside the conference room, Yu Shaoting called Yang Xi who was passing by while answering the phone: "This case has always been in charge of Mr. Xu, let him come to the conference room." Chat"
Yang Xi noticed the non-stop ringing mobile phone in his hand, and nodded knowingly: "I'll ask Mr. Xu to come up and talk to the customer immediately." β
When entering the elevator, Yu Shaoting answered the phone, and on the other end, Bai Xiao was panting slightly: "You are still in a meeting?" When will it end? β
"Where are you?" When Yu Shaoting pressed the number '1', she heard the horn of a car near her.
ββ¦β¦ I was just going to go out, so keep busy, and I'll look for you later. β
Bai Xiao is worried about him, but he is also afraid of disturbing his work. Although she also knew that it was inappropriate for her to call him at this time, she still couldn't stop calling.
Yu Shaoting hung up the phone and came out of the elevator, seeing Bai Xiao standing outside the door with his back to him.
She was wearing a very ordinary set of loungewear, with a ponytail, probably in a hurry, and indoor slippers on her feet.
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Bai Xiao asked Ye Hehuan to send her to the Donglin Gate, but didn't let He Huan accompany her to wait for Yu Shaoting to finish the meeting, standing there and watching the cars come and go, she thought a lot.
When her shoulders were grabbed, Bai Xiao immediately turned around and saw Yu Shaoting standing behind him at some point.
"Why are people who are going to go out standing in front of my company?"
Bai Xiao looked at him coldly, and was a little stunned: "Aren't you in a meeting?" How-"
Yu Shaoting looked at her stunned appearance, stretched out his right index finger and middle finger and pinched her nose: "How can you be like a stupid big sister?" β
Bai Xiao looked at the faint smile in his eyes, as well as the outline of his face that softened the lines, and was in a trance for a moment, and then took his hands and said, "Just now He Huan came to the house and showed me a magazine report, which said a lot of things, including that person's daughter, and what I did with you...... Do you see that? β
Bai Xiao said and became even more worried: "Will it have a bad impact on you?" And on the Yu family's side, will there be reporters to bother them? β
Yu Shaoting pulled her backhand: "What impact can it have, in the current society, who doesn't have one or two bad news behind it." β
He didn't care much about the tone of his speech, but she didn't really feel that those public opinions/opinions didn't matter, Bai Xiao had a lot to say, but he couldn't express it, standing at the door of the company, people came and went, she looked at him, frowned, and opened her mouth: "I-"
Yu Shaoting suddenly stretched out his hand and hugged her into his arms, and his deep voice sounded in her ears: "With me here, what is there to be afraid of." β
"I'm just worried about your ......" and Jing Xi and the Yu family, worried that anyone who has anything to do with me will be implicated.
"It's just a report that catches the wind."
Bai Xiao didn't look at the curious eyes around her, and hugged him firmly, and the familiar embrace eased the anxiety in her heart a little.
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"Mr. Yu?" Behind him, someone shouted Yu Shaoting, Bai Xiao subconsciously left his embrace and turned his head to look over.
It was a middle-aged man who looked like a boss, followed by two or three subordinates carrying briefcases.
The middle-aged man walked over: "I just said where Mr. Yu went, it turned out that he was ...... downstairs" and said, looking at Bai Xiao with a smile.
Bai Xiao guessed that this boss should have business dealings with Donglin, so when the other party's eyes came, she nodded at the other party in a friendly manner.
However, Yu Shaoting's expression was as usual, with one hand in his pocket, and the other hand naturally hanging down by his side, greeting the other party, and talking about nothing more than business.
It is not difficult to judge from the content that Yu Shaoting was having a meeting with him upstairs just now.
The two men talked for a while, and Yu Shaoting suddenly turned his head and introduced to Bai Xiao: "This is Mr. Huang of Haijian Group. β
Bai Xiao stretched out his hand towards Mr. Huang: "Mr. Huang, hello." β
Mr. Huang smiled and shook Bai Xiao's hand and looked at Yu Shaoting: "In a few days, it will be my child's birthday party, and Mr. Yu will bring his family to the party at that time." β
"Definitely." Yu Shaoting had a polite smile on his face.
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Waiting for Yu Shaoting to take Bai Xiao to the parking lot, Mr. Huang was still standing at the east door, squinting at the backs of the two, and sighed: "I'm old!" β
"Mr. Huang, you are only in the prime of life, where are you old?" The assistant next to him was kind and flattering.
"It's because I'm old, I can't do anything like being angry at the crown anymore, and the older I get, the more timid I am to do things."
The assistant glanced at the direction where Yu Shaoting and Bai Xiao left: "Could it be that the one just now was written in the magazineβ"
In large companies, office workers most often read magazines, there are fashion magazines, financial magazines, and naturally there is no shortage of gossip magazines.
Although the report did not name the man who secretly communicated with his wife and cousin, in this era of national gossip, as long as you ask a little around, you can immediately know who Xu Shuyuan mentioned in the report is, and who married the only eldest daughter of the Xu family back then.
"I really can't see it, but at this age, I thought I would be twenty-seven or eighteen." The assistant muttered.
"This man looks at women, talking about the edge of the eyes, and the family background of the little girl is very good, Yu Sanxuan's woman's vision is called picking one and the other. Before the meeting just now, he asked me if I knew the shareholders of Yuansheng News Newspaper Publishing Group, and I accidentally mentioned it at a previous dinner, and he was worried about it. β
Mr. Huang said, looking at the assistant who was not deeply involved in the world: "The magazine you passed around in the office area in the morning is under the umbrella of Yuansheng Group. β
The assistant seemed to understand something, but felt that it was unlikely, Mr. Huang snorted, put his hands on his back, and turned around slowly, "In these years, it is not easy to open a newspaper, if you are not careful, you will offend a powerful person, the most unfortunate situation is that you will offend a large group of people at once, and you can't eat and walk around." β
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Xia Lan saw the report in the magazine because her sister-in-law in the lobby came to the hospital to find her and threw the magazine on her quilt.
"Ah Lan, our Xia family doesn't have a background from the Xu family and the Yu family, so we can only help you get here."
The lobby sister-in-law's raised eyebrows made Xia Lan have a bad premonition, flipped through the magazine in an uproar, and finally saw the content that gave her a headache on the eighteenth page, the half-truths and half-truths made her face ugly, pointing to the photos in the magazine and asking the lobby sister-in-law: "Where did this come from?" β
"This is what I asked Zhen Ning for." The sister-in-law in the lobby sat down on the edge of the bed and patted Xia Lan's hand: "The article is also written by the best writer of the magazine." β
Xia Lan's brain buzzed, and when she heard the smug words of the sister-in-law in the lobby, she almost burst out: "Who asked you to help?!" β
"Two days ago, a reporter came to Next Weekly for an interview, saying that because of the pressure from the Xu family, she insisted on publishing a report on Xu Liu and was fired, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of this idea."
Next Weekly was founded by a cousin of Xia Lan, when she was married to Xu Jingyan, and the Xu family helped a lot behind the scenes.
And now, this weekly magazine has exposed the ugliness of the Xu family......
"Xu Liu is now arguing to divorce you for the sake of that mother and daughter, we might as well poke the matter out first, let the public see what their Xu family's son has done, and let the Yu family see clearly what kind of virtue their new daughter-in-law is."
Xia Lan stared at the pictures on the report, and the triumphant voice of the sister-in-law in the lobby was in her ears: "And your sister-in-law, it's too confusing!" That's the junior who snatched her son-in-law's position after forcing her daughter to death, it's good for her to help their mother and daughter deal with you in turn, this time, let her wake up! β
"That's enough." The sister-in-law in the lobby was stunned when she heard Xia Lan speak, thinking that she had misheard, but Xia Lan said again: "Are you sure this is helping me!" β
"This ...... What's wrong? β
Xia Lan pinched the magazine and smiled bitterly: "Sister-in-law, why don't you check it out before you find someone to write this report?" β
"What are you looking for?"
"Do you know where Bai Ningxuan is now?"
The sister-in-law in the lobby looked dazed, and Xia Lan said word by word: "She changed her name to Su Manrong, and she is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yu family, you say, will her father-in-law give up with the Xia family when he sees this report?!" As she spoke, she threw the magazine to the ground.
"Isn't there still the Xu family?" The sister-in-law in the lobby persuaded the angry Xia Lan: "In order to save your mother-in-law, you even lost the child, and your father-in-law he-"
"Do you think Xu Hongyang has always been on my side by not expressing his position?"
Xia Lan shook his head: "His heart is like a mirror, he believes Liang Huizhen's words!" Otherwise, how could Xu Jingyan not say a word when he wanted to divorce me? With his temperament, if he really wants to help me, he will definitely take tough measures, just like when he drove Bai Ningxuan back then, how ruthless he was. β
"His current attitude is just to take care of my affection for the old lady, and also to stabilize the entire Xu family, and want me to leave by myself. In the events of that year, his two good daughters-in-law also intervened, but he turned a blind eye, even if he warned in private, but he did not say a word on the surface, wanting to make a 'home and everything prosperous'. β
In that way, if Xu Jingyan wants to hate her in the future, he will also hate her Xia Lan alone, and there will not be much estrangement with those brothers.
Xia Lan closed her eyes, Xu Hongyang was scheming, if she still had room to maneuver before, then at this moment, she was almost ruined by the Xia family!
"So what now?" The sister-in-law in the lobby panicked when she heard Xia Lan's analysis.
Xia Lan sneered self-deprecatingly: "It's all come to this point, what else can I do?" β
The sister-in-law in the lobby couldn't wait to slap herself a few times, and heard Xia Lan say, "You go back first, let me think about how to deal with it, and then contact you." β
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When Xu Zhening came, she saw Xia Lan standing by the window, stunned, not knowing what she was thinking, she also found the magazine on the ground.
"Mom-" As soon as Xu Zhening called out, Xia Lan turned around suddenly and said sharply, "You still know that I am your mother?" β
"Who asked you to give those photos to the Xia family? Do you know that because of your recklessness, I, as a mother, will bear what consequences?! β
Xu Zhenning was stunned: "Mom, isn't it right for me to do this?" Dad wants to divorce you, if we take the first step to use the pressure of public opinion/opinion to make everyone think that Bai Xiao's mother and daughter are the third party who destroys other people's families, the Xu family is a family with a head and a face, how can we want Bai Xiao to come back? I don't understand, what exactly are you afraid of? β
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Xia Lan was suffocated in her chest in one breath, she couldn't lift it, she just wanted to reprimand her daughter, and the mobile phone on the bedtable suddenly rang, it was the phone of the Xu family's old house.
She calmed down before she picked up: "Hey? β
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When Xia Lan hung up the phone, Xu Zhenning couldn't wait to ask, "Is it grandpa's phone?" What did Grandpa say? β
"What else can you say, if it's you, someone shakes out your family's ugliness, will you still greet people with a smile?" Xia Lan didn't want to say more to her: "You clean up yourself, your grandfather asked us to go home, saying that we have something to say." β
Xu Zhening and Xia Lan's bodies were still recuperating, and the doctor advised them not to go out, but Xia Lan still asked to take the wheelchair to Xu's house.
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On the way, Xu Zhening was still nervous and asked Xia Lan: "Grandpa called us back in a hurry, what is the matter?" β
Xia Lan glanced at her daughter at the end of her eyes, and she didn't know what it was for, but at least she didn't mess up: "What are you panicking about?" β
With Xia Lan by her side, Xu Zhening felt a lot more at ease, even if she was twenty-nine years old, but compared to her mother's wisdom, she was indeed insignificant.
At that time, Liang Huizhen insisted that her mother wanted to kill her in order to hide the truth, but Xia Lan just had a way to make most people believe that it was Liang Huizhen who had a misunderstanding with her, and in order to persuade the impulsive Liang Huizhen, she accidentally moved the steering wheel to guide the car and crashed into the big truck.
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When they arrived at Xu's house, Xia Lan got off with Xu Zhenning.
The nanny who came to pick them up at the door was a nanny who had worked in the Xu family for more than ten years, and the nanny was still very respectful when she saw Xia Lan: "Dean Xia, you are here, and the sixth young man has just arrived." β
Hearing what the nanny said, Xia Lan suddenly remembered that she hadn't seen Xu Jingyan for a few days, and the divorce agreement was still lying at her bedside.
After being married for so many years, she didn't expect that he would be ruthless and not miss any affection.
Or, because of himself, he didn't have much affection for himself?
Xia Lan took a deep breath, found several cars in the yard, and asked the nanny, "Who is at home today?" β
"It's all here, there may be some happy events, several young masters are back, and there are young grandmothers, who are drinking tea in the house, by the way, there is also a guest."
Xia Lan's forehead and temples jumped, and even those who worked and did business in other places returned to the capital, for some reason, she vaguely had a bad feeling......
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And Xia Lan's premonition was fully confirmed when he entered the house and saw a middle-aged woman with an elegant smile on the sofa.
After Xia Lan and Xu Zhening came in, everyone in the living room stopped talking and looked towards the door, including the middle-aged woman holding a teacup.
When Xu Zhenning saw the other party's appearance clearly, the blood on her face faded, and her lips whispered the other party's name: "Aunt Xu, why is she here?" β
Xu Xinghua had already stood up and smiled at Xia Lan: "Xia Lan, I haven't seen you for a long time, do you remember me?" β
On the stairs, there was the sound of footsteps, Xia Lan turned his head and saw Xu Jingyan, his whole body was dusty, as if he had just come back from afar, and his face had not yet washed away his tiredness.
"The sixth is down?" Fu Min poured a cup of tea and offered his courtesy: "I just got off the plane, haven't you had a good drink?" β
"I'm not thirsty." Xu Jingyan had no expression on his face, went downstairs, and when he passed Xia Lan's mother and daughter, his footsteps did not pause at all.
"Mom......" If Xu Zhening was nervous on the way here, then at this moment, she was panicked.
Xia Lan suddenly said, "I want to go to the bathroom." β
"I'll push you to go." Xu Xinghua got up and offered to push Xia Lan over, with a faint gentle smile on his face.
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After entering the bathroom, Xia Lan didn't have time to beat around the bush, and asked Xu Xinghua directly: "Didn't you go abroad with your husband?" How did you come back again? β
"It was Xu Liu who found me, and he said that there was something very important that I needed to return to China, and for your sake, I would come back." Xu Xinghua said casually while washing her hands, and looked at Xia Lan with a complicated face when she turned off the faucet: "Didn't he sue you?" β
For her sake? Xia Lan only felt that this sentence was extremely ironic, and she settled down and asked, "Did he say something?" β
"Said that more than 20 years ago, he came to the hospital with a sample to test my DNA and asked me if I had made a mistake, and he said that this is about his biological daughter, and I hope I must think about it seriously," Xu Xinghua said, and suddenly looked at Xia Lan thoughtfully: "I remember that at that time, you seemed to have come to talk to me......
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