Chapter 224

Chapter 224: You’re Dumb And Still Won’t Admit It

“Go out the door and turn left. There’s a hospital three kilometers away.”

Du Wei Shuai froze, then his face grew even darker as he said: “What do you mean? Are you cursing me to get sick?”

Du An Rao rolled her eyes, unable to hold it in anymore, and said: “I mean the neurology department at that hospital is very famous. Some people whose brains are sick should go get treated. Don’t avoid seeing a doctor. If you wait until the illness gets worse, it might be too late.”

“You, you actually dare say my brain is sick? You rude thing, is this how your family taught you?”

Du An Rao’s face changed too. She did not care about being scolded herself, but dragging her family into it meant this man was really asking for trouble.

“Looks like some people not only refuse to see a doctor, they also like to cover other people’s mouths and lie to themselves. Forget it. You can’t argue with someone whose brain doesn’t work, or it might rub off on you.”

“You actually… you actually…” Du Wei Shuai clutched his chest, looking like he might have a heart attack any second. The sight made Du An Rao’s heart jump. Even with such a big distance between them, she was afraid that if he got angry to death, she would still be blackmailed for it.

Du Tian Ci was also holding back a stomach full of anger, but he had not forgotten how Du An Rao went head to head with them the night before. Using his status as an elder relative to pressure her would not work, so he turned instead on the floor manager and the young waitress beside him.

“What is going on here? They didn’t line up, so how did they get in?”

Du An Rao gave him a glance and frowned as she said: “How do you know we didn’t line up?”

“What a joke! I just lined up to get in here. If you were downstairs just now, how could I not have seen you?”

It turned out that after the auction ended last night, Du Wei Shuai’s whole family had been severely punished by Du De Sheng.

Not only were all the accounts used to hold the company’s dividends frozen, even Du Wei Shuai’s job was affected, and he was forced to sit on the bench.

Realizing they might really have caused big trouble this time, the whole family panicked. Almost without thinking, they ran to the big shot who had leaked the news to them early and ordered them to buy that piece of land in the South District, begging him for help.

But since they had failed to complete the task the night before, that big shot was already angry and did not care about whether their family lived or died.

With no other way out, the Du family could only settle for second best and look for someone close to that big shot, hoping that person could speak up for them in front of him and pull them out of the mess.

For that, after learning that the man especially liked the food at Gourmet Pavilion, they had Du Tian Ci come line up early in the morning without even eating breakfast.

Du Tian Ci’s stomach had been empty all morning. He had stood in the crowded space downstairs for four or five hours, and he felt completely exhausted and miserable.

Right at that time, he happened to run into the people he now hated most. It even looked like they had not lined up at all but still managed to get in before him and enter a private room to eat. All of this pushed his already fragile nerves. His head buzzed with anger, and he felt like he might go crazy any minute.

“This…” The floor manager glanced at Du An Rao. After thinking for a moment, he chose to tell the truth and said: “Miss Du is our boss’s honored guest. She enjoys the only VIP treatment in our shop, and she has a private room that belongs only to her. She doesn’t need to line up.”

The father and sons of the Du family were all stunned. Then they burst out laughing like they had just heard the biggest joke in the world.

“Only VIP treatment? Her own private room? Do you even hear yourself? Who in all of City B doesn’t know that Gourmet Pavilion never takes reservations, and the food here can’t be taken to go? Even if the Heavenly King himself came, he would still have to line up.”

Face red and neck thick with anger, Du Tian Ci pointed at Du An Rao and said: “And now you’re telling me this woman is your noble VIP, with her own private room and no need to line up? Is this bitch playing me, or are you all teaming up to play me?”

“This guest, what you said just now is all true. Our shop does not take reservations, and you can only eat here if you come and line up in person. That is a fact. It’s also a fact that Miss Du is the only exception who doesn’t need to line up. That is because…”

“Dad, little brother, what’s going on? Mr. Yao just sent a message saying he’s almost here, and you…” Before the floor manager could finish, he was cut off by the sudden appearance of the Du family’s eldest young master.

He looked at Du An Rao and the person beside her in surprise and asked the exact same question as the father and son Du Tian Ci and Du Wei Shuai: “What are you doing here?”

Du An Rao rolled her eyes. She was already too lazy to bother with this family. She just wanted An An to sit down and eat a meal in peace, but for some reason there were always people rushing to get in her way.

Du Tian Ci, however, refused to let her go. In a strange tone he said: “Listen to you. Of course we’re here to eat at a restaurant. But this person is much nobler than us law-abiding guests. She doesn’t have to line up to eat and even gets a private room all to herself.”

“Who knows if she has some shady relationship with the boss, so he opened the door wide for her and doesn’t care anymore about the rules he has followed for so many years.”

“Sir, please watch your words!” The floor manager’s face changed at his speech. He no longer had any thought of smoothing things over.

He could clearly see that this man and Du An Rao had a grudge and had come over on purpose to cause trouble for them.

Xi Jing Yue’s expression also darkened. In his heart, he was already planning how to make this family pay for what they had said. If a simple meal could cause this much trouble, then he might as well make sure this group never had the right to step into the restaurant again.

What Du Tian Ci said only made Du An Rao laugh in anger.

[Forget about the other guests, but you few dare connect yourselves to the words “law-abiding”? One of you embezzles public funds and steals from your own company. One secretly lends out high-interest loans with a pack of useless friends and probably sets traps to cheat people out of their money. The last one formed little cliques to bully others when he was young and even caused a death. Each of you is worse than the last!]

[And you still dare claim to be law-abiding? If people like you are law-abiding, then there wouldn’t be any outlaws left in this world!]

Xi Jing Yue said: “What?!”

Du Bi Xiao, who had just come over to learn more about the case, also said: “What?!”

At this moment, Du Tian Ci still had no idea that disaster was already hanging over his head. He thought he had caught Du An Rao by the handle and said proudly: “So what? You dare do it but you’re afraid of people talking about it?”

“You!”

The Du family’s eldest young master glanced at Du An Rao and the person beside her, then at the floor manager and the young waitress standing to the side. With a hidden meaning in his tone, he said: “Maybe this wasn’t the boss’s idea at all. Maybe these two decided on their own to secretly break the rules for someone they know.”

Hearing this, Du Tian Ci froze for a second, then quickly reacted: “Right, that must be it! You must have bribed these two and snuck in while it was crowded downstairs. If you know what’s good for you, be smart and kneel down now to beg us to let you off. Otherwise we’ll make you pay!”

“…” Du An Rao thought, say you’re stupid and you still won’t admit it. Every time someone provokes you a little, you jump out to be the first bird that gets shot. No wonder that big head on your neck is just for show.

“What a big mouth! I really want to see who has such power that they can make our Gourmet Pavilion’s honored guest ‘pay’ inside our Gourmet Pavilion.”