Chapter 165: Chapter 158: My Granddaughter
Su Xiaomeng tightened her eyebrows. She’s not the type to easily argue, but there are times when she’s unwilling to admit defeat. She glanced back and forth at Yin Bowen and Bai Zhengxiang, narrowing her eyes, "You two know each other, so no matter what I say, you won’t believe me..."
She felt an inexplicable blockage in her heart!
Clenching her fists tightly, her lips bit firmly, she stood right in the middle of the road, right in front of the Ferrari’s headlights, those headlights that seemed like the eyes of a villain!
The bright red hue on her face displayed a clear expression of "this isn’t over"!
Bai Zhengxiang noticed the young girl’s attitude, and his thick, dark eyebrows furrowed even more tightly, making an impatient "tsk" sound.
This "tsk" almost made the aggrieved and defiant Su Xiaomeng explode right on the spot!
The words erupted to her throat when she heard Yin Bowen say, "Uncle Zhengxiang, please go back to the car first. I’ll handle this immediately. After the ancestral rites are over at home later, I’ll bring Lanlan and the child to visit you and Grandpa Bai at Yijing Manor."
Yin Bowen, thanks to his father Yin Shiqing’s influence, had secured a position in the political field while still young.
Although Bai Zhengxiang was in business, he frequently intervened in politics, whether to make a move in the political arena in his twilight years or simply from his business objectives.
And these were things that Yin Bowen knew.
He always believed that to have a stable and long-lasting position in politics, one must have strong financial support behind them, and entrepreneurs were always the ones he liked to win over and ingratiate.
After Yin Bowen finished speaking, he didn’t realize that Su Xiaomeng had picked up on two sensitive pieces of information from his words.
Ancestral rites? Yijing Manor?
Su Xiaomeng remembered Yin Shixiu mentioning to her that besides the Yin Family’s villas on Jiuling Mountain, only the Bai Family had properties there.
There are guards at the foot of the mountain, and those who can drive up are either Yin Family members or Bai Family members...
So that means...
"Hmm."
Bai Zhengxiang responded and, before turning around, glanced at Su Xiaomeng, saying lightly, "Young girl, you’re too young to take the crooked path."
Zhu Lan took the opportunity to point at the scattered money on the ground, "If we weren’t in a rush, we’d be happy to take you to the police station and have you, this little fraudster, locked up!"
"Lock up who?"
Suddenly, a voice rang out, out of place and full of energy.
Several people looked in the direction of the voice——
Bai Fengmao stood there looking stern, his eyes deep and rich, and his hair was graying but did not make him look old or useless.
Neither angry nor impatient, yet the intimidation in his eyes from the calm fury was formidable, not to be underestimated.
"Grandpa Bai..."
Su Xiaomeng had guessed that Bai Zhengxiang was related to Grandpa Bai, but she didn’t expect Grandpa Bai to be in that car, and what she hadn’t expected even more was——
"Mom..."
Standing next to Grandpa Bai was her own mother.
Su’s mother’s face looked very bad.
After Bai Zhengxiang got out of the car, she had been chatting with her father, talking about the past, and the father and daughter would never stop.
She hadn’t thought much of it initially, but seeing the car in front not moving for a long time and Bai Zhengxiang not returning, she began to worry, fearing there had been a difficult accident.
After all, there were few tourists on the mountain, and only two families could drive up.
So, Su’s mother also got out to understand the situation, but she never expected to hear her daughter’s voice, the one being troubled in front was... Su Xiaomeng.
She did not know Su Xiaomeng had almost been hit.
But Bai Zhengxiang’s words "so young, don’t take the crooked path" and Zhu Lan’s words "I’m happy to take you to the police station and lock up this little fraudster!"...
She heard them clearly.
Yin Bowen, she did not know, even if they had met before, it had been too long, and she had forgotten completely.
From Bai Zhengxiang’s tone, it wasn’t hard to understand that Yin Bowen wasn’t just anyone.
He was a member of the Yin Family...
Even though Su’s mother never thought that revealing to the Yin Family parents that Su Xiaomeng was Bai Fengmao’s granddaughter would benefit her marriage with Yin Shixiu...
But thinking about it carefully, it might not help the marriage much, but it would be immensely beneficial to Su Xiaomeng herself!
At the very least, some bullies would hesitate to bully Su Xiaomeng when they thought about it.
So Su’s mother held her breath at that moment.
She did not immediately step forward to understand what was happening but turned to her father, still sitting in the car, and said lightly, "Dad, Xiao Meng is being bullied."
No matter what happened, she hadn’t grasped the full situation, but she said Su Xiaomeng was being bullied.
Bai Zhengxiang squinted his eyes, his cold, stagnant gaze landing on Yin Bowen and Zhu Lan, also glancing at his son.
"Dad... why did you get out of the car?" Bai Zhengxiang quickly walked over and supported his father.
Yin Bowen and Zhu Lan were a bit flustered seeing Elder Bai step out of the car.
Zhu Lan looked at Su Xiaomeng with even more disdain and hurriedly said to Bai Fengmao, "Mr. Bai, I’m sorry, really sorry for making you come down personally. I’ll send this young lady away immediately."
Speaking this, Zhu Lan impatiently took a wad of cash from the wallet pocket, thicker than before, and forcefully stuffed it into her chest, "Little fraudster, is this enough?"
Su Xiaomeng pressed her lips tightly, holding a thick wad of cash in her hand, and said, "I don’t want money, I want to go to the police station. I want you to see all the surveillance records yourselves! Whether I was trying to scam you, or deceive you, you’ll know once you see it."
"Why are you so unreasonable, young lady?"
Zhu Lan was so angry that she was momentarily speechless, but in front of Old Sir Bai, she couldn’t erupt too much, so she leaned in closer to Su Xiaomeng, lowered her voice slightly, and said, "I’ll give you ten thousand. For you, this should be a considerable amount. Young lady, I advise you, don’t be too greedy. You’ve already gained from this incident today."
After Zhu Lan finished speaking, she thought that at this point, Su Xiaomeng would definitely accept—
"Now I know that Bai Fengmao’s granddaughter can be bought off with money!"
Bai Fengmao said with a deep, powerful voice!
Su Xiaomeng paused for a second after hearing this, and then felt a surge of emotion.
She knew that Bai Fengmao had always liked her, but she didn’t expect that in Grandpa Bai’s heart, he already considered her his granddaughter.
However, on the other side, Bai Zhengxiang, Yin Bowen, and Zhu Lan were all a bit surprised by this statement.
"Dad..."
Bai Zhengxiang was a bit caught off guard and couldn’t help but call out to him, but after shouting, he took a closer look at Bai Sixian and then at Su Xiaomeng...
Only then did he realize that the two indeed bore quite similar features...
"What exactly is going on?"
Bai Fengmao asked.
On the other end, Yin Bowen wasn’t sure if he had misheard Mr. Bai’s words earlier, swallowed hard, and tentatively said, "I was driving up the mountain, and this young girl suddenly dashed out..."
"I think I just heard someone say... scam?"
Zhu Lan slightly furrowed her eyebrows, having a vague sense of foreboding, but after thinking it over...
Even if this young lady was Bai Fengmao’s granddaughter, so what? She was the one who dashed out and they indeed didn’t hit her.
Thinking this way, Zhu Lan said, "A young girl was walking in the middle of the road alone, didn’t know to step aside when a car came, fell on her own but insisted that it was Bowen who hit her."
What she said was factual, and she spoke with full confidence, full of momentum.
On the other side, Su Xiaomeng kept her lips pressed tightly, actually, seeing her mom arrive, she wasn’t worried anymore.
No matter how great the grievance, Mom would help her fight for it!
That’s what Su Xiaomeng thought, however, she didn’t expect that the one to stand up for her this time wasn’t just Mom, but also... Grandpa Bai.
Bai Fengmao’s face was terribly cold, but when he walked up to Su Xiaomeng and took her hand, the cold expression slowly revealed a bit of affection and doting...
"Grandpa Bai..."
Bai Fengmao curled his lips and pulled Su Xiaomeng into his arms, giving a gentle hug, "Silly girl, it’s not Grandpa, it’s Grandfather."
Grandfather?
At this point, Su Xiaomeng was somewhat at a loss. She looked over at Bai Sixian, blinked, "Mom..."
Bai Sixian nodded to her.
Nodding... What does Mom nodding to her mean?
Before she could ask, Bai Fengmao had already let her go, checked her up and down, "Are you hurt?"
Su Xiaomeng shook her head, "Uh... just fell once, my clothes are torn..."
"As long as you’re not hurt, let’s go home."
Bai Fengmao said, pulling Su Xiaomeng’s hand to leave, passing by Yin Bowen and Zhu Lan without even giving them a glance.
"...Grandfather, they just—"
Whether he was Grandfather or not, Su Xiaomeng wasn’t clear, but what this couple did was really too much!
She didn’t want to let it go just like this!
However, Bai Fengmao didn’t let her continue, interrupting her, "Meng Meng, let’s go home first and change clothes, check if there’s any other injury."
Su Xiaomeng was a bit reluctant; even with Bai Fengmao pulling her, she wasn’t willing to just leave...
Bai Fengmao noticed her grievance, smiled a little, "This is just a mountain road, blocking here, no one else can go up the mountain."
"The surveillance here should have recorded everything clearly, Zhengxiang, contact the security office and get the footage from here."
Upon hearing these words, Su Xiaomeng heaved a sigh of relief.
This was exactly what she wanted to do, and the people in front of her were supposed to be from the Yin Family, but Su Xiaomeng couldn’t figure it out...
If they were from the Yin Family, how could they do such horrible things, lacking even the basic morals!
Yin Bowen and Zhu Lan exchanged a look, communicated with their eyes, and Yin Bowen walked over, "Mr. Bai, the mountain roads here are always slippery, it was simply an uncontrolled moment that led to this accident, but I assure you, I didn’t hit this young lady."
Bai Fengmao didn’t even glance at Yin Bowen, just said, "The Yin Family is here today for ancestral rites, you must also be in a hurry, I’m not an unreasonable fool, nor an old man who likes to make a scene..."
"Mr. Bai, what are you saying, of course, you are not a fool, and you are not an old man who causes trouble!"
Yin Bowen hurriedly said.
Only then did Bai Fengmao give Yin Bowen a look, "But just because your wife called my granddaughter a scammer and wants to have her locked up in the police station, this matter won’t end today."