Chapter 173

Chapter 173: Isn’t This Just Making a False Accusation

“ You…” Store Manager Zheng had never thought the hard slap he swung out would be caught in midair. He tried to yank his hand back on reflex, but it did not move at all.

Shamed and angry, he raised his other hand and aimed a slap at Du An Rao’s face.

Of course, that hand was caught too.

She frowned and said: “You don’t know how to talk things out and reason it through, you just have to use your fists, huh?”

Du An Rao already did not have a good impression of this man. Now that she saw him try to hit people again and again, she was truly angry.

With a dark face, she twisted both his hands. Right as he screamed, she kicked him hard in the stomach and sent him flying more than six meters away.

Only when Store Manager Zheng landed on the floor with a heavy thud and let out a pig-like scream did the people in the store snap back to their senses.

Jiang You Nian’s eyes went round like copper bells. Where did this super strong girl come from? Was this really his own tiny, delicate, weak, soft little cousin?

Before they came out, his parents and brother had told him again and again that he had to protect his little sister. Now who was protecting who?!

President Sun and the others also had not expected Store Manager Zheng to fail at hitting someone and instead get beaten up himself. They stared in shock for a long time before finally screaming and rushing over to him.

After that twist from Du An Rao, both of Store Manager Zheng’s arms were half out of joint. His stomach hurt so much it felt like it was being ripped apart.

Even so, he still stood up with his wife’s help. Face dark and gloomy, he dialed a number and said: “Brother Ma, I got beaten up by some cheap little tramp, I’m at…”

Before he could finish, someone snatched the phone out of his hand, and at the same time more than ten bodyguards in black walked into the store.

“Wha… what is going on?”

The customers in the store were scared by this group of bodyguards charging in. They huddled together in small groups.

Jiang You Nian did not have time to think. He stepped in front of the two girls again, blocking them with his body.

Du An Rao stayed very calm. She looked at the bodyguards from a distance and felt that they looked strangely familiar.

The black clothed bodyguard who had grabbed Store Manager Zheng’s phone ignored his fierce shouting. He gave a cold laugh, and said to the loud man on the other end of the call: “Feng Xiao Ma, you really are something. Your man actually dared to lay hands on our Big Miss.”

The person on the other end of the phone suddenly went silent. After a long while, he finally spoke again.

Store Manager Zheng was close by, but could only vaguely hear that the other person seemed to be begging for mercy. His heart gave a hard thump. Eyes wide with fear, he looked at the man in front of him and asked: “You… who are you?”

The black clothed bodyguard hung up and tossed the phone back to him, then quickly walked over to Du An Rao and the others. He bowed slightly and asked with respect: “Big Miss, are you all right?”

“Grandfather told you to follow me?” Du An Rao raised an eyebrow. Now that he was closer, she recognized him.

This was one of the bodyguard uncles who had followed behind A’Ming that day, going with Du De Sheng and her to Liu Family Village to save Grandma Qin. With him here, the identity of these ten-odd bodyguards in black was clear.

“Ninth Master and Old Madam were worried about Big Miss going out alone, so they told us to protect you in secret.”

Since it was secret protection, they were not supposed to show themselves at all.

But just now someone had tried to hit Du An Rao. If they still did not step out, they really would not be able to explain themselves.

The bodyguard uncle glanced at Du An Rao, a bit worried she would be angry at them for following her.

Du An Rao did not mind. Her grandfather and grandmother meant well. After listening to his explanation, she only asked: “What should I call you?”

“Big Miss can just call me A’Wen.”

“Uncle A Wen, let me try to handle this myself first. If I can’t fix it, then you can tell Grandfather, all right?”

“Of course. If you need anything, just tell me.”

Du An Rao nodded, sighed, and dialed Qiu Ji Chen’s number again. As she made the call, she muttered in her heart:

[Qiu Ji Chen, your future wife got hit. Are you coming or not? If you don’t come, just wait for the ‘chasing wife from hell’ stage later!]

Jiang You Nian: “?!!”

Wife? Who? That could not be his little cousin, right? And who was this Qiu Ji Chen? How dare he have thoughts about their little cousin? Was his skin itching for a beating!

His “protecting my cabbage” radar went off at full volume. This second cousin instantly became one hundred and twenty thousand percent alert. But when he turned his head, he saw that while Du An Rao was calling, the person she kept looking at was the young shop assistant who had just been slapped.

So this “wife” she meant was…

At that time, the general manager of a certain group, Qiu Ji Chen, whom Du An Rao had already stamped in her heart as a total love fool, had just used the matter of Du An Rao’s second cousin-in-law to clean house inside the company. He had swept out a batch of useless older relatives who never did any work, ate for free, dragged the company down, and acted all high and mighty.

His days had been very comfortable since then. Even when he went out on business trips to negotiate deals, it felt like he carried a luck buff with him. Everything went smoothly in a shocking way.

Maybe even Heaven Above could not stand him being this pleased with himself. He had just finished signing a deal when Du An Rao’s call came in.

When he picked up, Qiu Ji Chen was a little excited and said: “Miss Du, how do you have time to call me? I still haven’t properly thanked you for what you and your sister-in-law did last time. If it weren’t for the chance Miss Du and your sister-in-law gave me, I don’t know how much effort and time it would have taken to drag out that group of useless drunk parasites and kick them out of the company.”

By the end, his tone was openly cheerful: “Miss Du, are you still in City S these days? I might be going to City S next week for a business trip. If you have time then, I’d like to treat you to a meal to show my thanks.”

“A meal isn’t necessary. I called today mainly to ask something. The jewelry set your mom gave me before had one of your store’s discount cards under the box. Does this card have any use limits? Like, can it only be used in one store in one mall in City J and nowhere else?”

Qiu Ji Chen was stunned. After a while, he said: “No, no. The discount card my mom gave you can be used at every single one of our franchise stores in malls all over the country.”

“Including City B?”

“Of course.” Qiu Ji Chen did not get to be the general manager just because he was the group’s young boss.

The moment he heard this question from Du An Rao, he sensed something was wrong. A bad feeling rose in his heart.

“Are you in City B right now? I happen to be in City B too for a deal. Did something happen to you in one of our franchise stores? Give me the address, I’ll go over right away.”

When she heard that Qiu Ji Chen was also in City B, Du An Rao raised an eyebrow and glanced at Zhang Ke Xin.

“It’s nothing huge. I just went out shopping with my cousin on a whim today. We happened to pass by your store, so we came in to buy some things as gifts. When we were paying, I remembered the card your mom gave me, so I asked the shop assistant if I could use it.”

“The shop assistant said you couldn’t?”

“The shop assistant said I could, but the store manager here said I was a scammer and that my discount card was fake. The shop assistant spoke up for me and got slapped and fired. Oh right, he also tried to hit me.”

[Even though he didn’t hit me, and I beat him up instead, but that’s not the point. Hehe, he’s just making a black report on me. Who doesn’t know how to tattle like that? Bleh bleh bleh~~~]

Jiang You Nian: “Pfft…”