It was only afterwards that she realised she had missed such a great show.
She complained about Shen Xiaojun and Haitong.
Shen Xiaojun said that she had warned Haitong, but it was Haitong who didn’t want her to see that kind of rough scene, considering that she was from a grand lady’s background.
Shang Xiaofei: There is nothing wrong with her being a young lady, but she is Shang Xiaofei. She has a bad reputation in the high society of Guancheng, and people say she is rude and unreasonable, so what is she afraid of?
When she was in a bad mood, she would also create rough scenes.
“My sister got all she deserved, except for the renovation fee, which the Zhou family refused to refund, so my sister asked me to find someone to help her and go and smash up the renovations.”
Mrs Shang said appreciatively, “That’s how it should be, why should it be cheap for the Zhou family?”
At the end, she added posthumously, “If only Auntie knew that it would be proper for Auntie, as the elder of your maternal family, to take a group of people to collect the renovation fees for your sister.”
Hai Tong suddenly felt that Shang Xiaofei’s character was entirely inherited from her mother.
“Tong Tong, later on, you close the shop and come home with us, we’ll have a meal together as a family. By the way, is your husband free? Ask him to join us.”
Hai Tong said, “My husband is on a business trip today and may not be back until some time later.
“He’s gone on a business trip, so I’ll have to wait until he returns to see him again.”
Mrs Shang didn’t care that she couldn’t see her niece first, her focus was on her two nieces.
Now that she had her niece back, she had her aunt to back her up, so she could give Hai Tong a chance to see if her niece’s son-in-law was trustworthy.
“Your sister gets off work at five thirty, right?”
“Yes.”
Mrs. Shang looked at the time, “Which company does your sister work for?”
“Lu’s Group.”
Mrs. Shang hmmed and said, “Lu’s Group has a lot of upside, Lu Dongming is a genius in business, he didn’t rely on his family’s patronage and made his own way, now he is worth tens of billions, his brothers wouldn’t be as rich as him if they just continued with their family’s share of the property.”
Lu Dongming broke out on his own, Mrs Shang appreciated this kind of young talent who climbed up on his own.
“Later we’ll go to Lu’s Group and wait for your sister to get off work, then we’ll go to your aunt’s house for dinner together, and I’ll call your two cousins to come back for dinner.”
With that, Mrs. Shang said to her daughter-in-law, “Ah Ching, tell Wuxing to put off his social engagements tonight and come back for dinner.”
“Okay.”
“By the way, Tong Tong, this is your first cousin’s wife Lan Jing, the third young lady of the Lan family.”
Mrs. Shang forgot to introduce her family to her niece.
Shang Xiaofei was a year older than Hai Tong and became Hai Tong’s cousin.
One by one, Hai Tong greeted her newly-found relatives.
Mr. Shang, her uncle, was very gentle, and her sister-in-law, who had a very cheerful personality, was quite similar to Shang Xiaofei, so it was no wonder that they got on well together, as they had similar temperaments.
Mrs. Shang took Hai Tong’s hand again and asked about her sister.
Although Mrs. Shang felt that her adoptive parents had taken 400,000 yuan in compensation for her sister’s death, she was not particularly angry with them.
In any case, the family had raised her sister.
The 400,000 was a way of buying off their love affair with her sister.
“Your grandparents are the ones living in the house your parents built up now?”
“Yes they live, they said that when they die in their hundredth year, the house will be given to my second cousin to inherit, saying something about how my sister and I are girls and not qualified to inherit the family property.”