70s Delicate Girl: A Guide to Being a Rich Woman-Chapter 34: Incident Occurred (Happy New Year)

"Qing, why are you looking at me like that?" Xu Mumu said helplessly.

"I didn’t tell my dad and them about what happened yesterday." Zhao Qing bit his lip, looking at Xu Mumu with slightly complicated feelings.

Yesterday evening’s fierce display from Xu Mumu had indeed startled him.

"Thanks, Qing." Xu Mumu said with a smile; she still didn’t want too many people to know about her strength.

"How did you become so formidable?" Zhao Qing asked, a bit curious as he looked at Xu Mumu.

"I guess it’s natural. I’m just a bit strong," Xu Mumu replied without elaborating.

Zhao Qing nodded and didn’t probe any further.

Inside the classroom, when class was over, Xu Mumu took out the practice materials she had found yesterday and started looking them over.

"Can we talk?" Zhou Yuan approached Xu Mumu.

"What’s up?" Xu Mumu looked up at Zhou Yuan. Did they have anything to talk about?

"Yes, I do." Zhou Yuan nodded.

Xu Mumu put down the material in her hand and followed Zhou Yuan out of the classroom.

Zhou Yuan came to the flower bed, where there were more trees, and a few girls were already waiting there, seemingly ready to intimidate her.

Xu Mumu raised her eyebrow slightly, looking at Zhou Yuan in front of her, whose face didn’t look good.

"Zhou Yuan, what do you mean by this?" As Xu Mumu approached, several girls had already surrounded her.

"Nothing much." Zhou Yuan sneered, looking at Xu Mumu’s beautiful face, making her want to ruin it.

"Du Yu is the one Zhou Yuan has her eyes on, stay away from him." A girl with some freckles on her face pulled out a fruit knife, threatening Xu Mumu.

"Haha, I remember Du Yu seems to dislike you quite a bit." Xu Mumu said with a faint smile, her words cutting into Zhou Yuan’s heart like a knife.

Sure enough, Zhou Yuan’s face turned uglier after Xu Mumu’s words, almost wringing her hands to slap Xu Mumu.

But the truth was, Du Yu really did dislike her and even found talking to her annoying.

Zhou Yuan’s dad was the head of procurement at Du Zhen’s shoe factory, a lucrative position, so Zhou Yuan had known Du Yu since childhood.

Du Yu wasn’t bad-looking, and his family’s conditions were good, so she set her sights on him early on, but Du Yu never liked her and even avoided her.

Now that Du Yu was getting closer to Xu Mumu, it made her very upset, but she couldn’t question Du Yu, so she came to find Xu Mumu.

Girls who were previously friendly with Du Yu had been driven away by her.

"Tsk tsk, this little knife is quite sharp, it’s not good if someone gets hurt, let me hold onto it for you." Xu Mumu noticed Su Fangfang, the girl with freckles, approaching with the knife.

But Xu Mumu easily snatched the knife from Su Fangfang’s hand.

The knife spun quickly in Xu Mumu’s hand, and the girls exchanged glances.

"Class is about to start, I don’t have time to mess with you, I’ll confiscate the knife." Xu Mumu said with a smile, turning to leave.

Even though she knew these people didn’t have the guts to do anything to her, she still disliked their actions – school bullying was something she encountered for the first time, but she really didn’t like it.

"Yuanyuan, what should we do?" Su Fangfang recoiled slightly and looked at Zhou Yuan. She didn’t even see how Xu Mumu took the knife from her hand, and for the first time, she felt like they had hit a steel plate.

"You ask me, how would I know?" Zhou Yuan said angrily. Her mood was already bad, she originally wanted to give Xu Mumu a warning, but ended up being intimidated by her.

She had seen Xu Mumu’s skill, which made her a bit afraid to provoke her again for the time being.

Back in the classroom, Xu Mumu looked at the fruit knife in her hand, keeping it for her own use, thinking of it as a bit of compensation from those girls.

When Zhou Yuan and her group came in, Xu Mumu glanced at them, noticing the fear in their eyes.

"Mumu, did Zhou Yuan call you out just now intending to bully you?" Xue Yan whispered to Xu Mumu.

"Why didn’t you think it was me bullying them?" Xu Mumu said with a smile.

"You’re so gentle, don’t be silly, those girls are really mean." Xue Yan simply didn’t believe it.

Xu Mumu just smiled without saying more; her appearance was indeed very deceptive.

With over a week left before the midterm exams, the atmosphere in the classroom grew more studious.

Xu Mumu also studied diligently, teaching those at home besides herself, with more time dedicated to her own studies.

On the weekend, Third Uncle’s family returned again. As Xu Mumu walked into the yard, everyone was home, even the little aunt who married into the city had returned.

"What’s going on?" Xu Mumu quietly asked Xu Minghui as she approached him.

"Third Uncle’s family got scammed, now they owe over a thousand yuan, and they lost their house as well." Xu Minghui said with a pout.

"What happened?" Xu Mumu frowned slightly.

"The house, the person who handled the transaction with Third Uncle wasn’t actually the owner. The real owner never sold it, and the person who took the money couldn’t be found. Third Uncle’s family is finished this time." Xu Minghui said with a hint of schadenfreude.

"What does Third Uncle mean by coming back, asking Grandpa and Grandma to help repay the debt?" Xu Mumu asked.

"Yeah, all of Third Uncle’s money is gone, and they can’t pay back the rest." Xu Minghui leaned lazily against the dirt wall, there would likely be quite the commotion.

At the very least, their parents would never agree to let their old folks take out the money, it wasn’t for Third Uncle’s family alone, they couldn’t use it all to fill the hole Third Uncle left, and besides, the family couldn’t cover that hole anyway.

"Our family can’t pay it back either." Xu Mumu pursed her lips, fearing this wouldn’t end well. The process of dividing the family should be on the agenda, no wonder Xu Xue seemed a bit excited.

"Old Three, what did you say?" Old Xu’s voice trembled slightly.

"Dad, that Lei wants me to repay the money within a month, or he’ll cut off my hand. I borrowed five hundred, but he’s demanding a thousand back." Xu He knelt in front of Old Xu, if he hadn’t been pushed to the brink, he wouldn’t dare speak of this.

"How dare you to borrow loan shark money, if they don’t cut off your hand, I’ll beat you to death." Madam Chen slapped Xu He directly, this loan sharking came with high interest, and she didn’t expect Old Three to have such audacity.

"Mom, stop hitting him, Xu He was forced to borrow the money." Lin Juan said sadly, inside she also had resentment; if the old couple hadn’t been unwilling to lend money, they wouldn’t have been threatened by Lei.