"Human traffickers? Is that really the case?"

Jiang Wanqiu's expression froze when she heard her say this: "What did you say?"

Mo Li was vague: "I'm just curious, how could such a coincidence happen? My father was worried that he couldn't find a suitable family to entrust me to, and your biological daughter was taken away at that time - human traffickers really know how to pick the time."

"What, what do you mean?" Jiang Wanqiu seemed to have suddenly grown a brain and was a little stuck in his words.

An incredible thought suddenly popped up in her mind. She had to be serious and stared into Mo Li's eyes: "Tell me! Do you know something?"

Before Mo Li could say anything, Chu Shengfeng, who was feeling guilty, immediately stood up and scolded her in a masculine manner: "Alright! Why are you listening to her nonsense here? Our daughter has already been found. Does it matter how she was lost in the first place?"

Jiang Wanqiu looked at him dully.

Having been married for twenty years, how could she not see the flash of guilt in her husband's eyes?

Besides, she had not forgotten that it was Chu Shengfeng who suddenly said that he would take his daughter out to buy things alone, and then the moment he turned around, the baby was taken away by human traffickers and had not been heard from since.

Later, they called the police in time, but the child seemed to have disappeared and could not be found no matter what. Just when she was still immersed in the pain of losing her child, Chu Shengfeng brought back a baby girl who was also in swaddling clothes, and happily told her that his family was going to make a fortune.

Jiang Wanqiu's pupils shrank slightly, and a storm of shock surged in her heart. She looked at the person beside her in disbelief: "You you you——"

"What do you mean by 'I'?" Chu Shengfeng shouted at her for being tactless. "Is this the point now? She is clearly deliberately confusing us. Can't you see that?"

The past is not worth mentioning at all. In comparison, the current property is of course the most important.

After being reminded by Chu Shengfeng, Jiang Wanqiu seemed to be suddenly awakened and suddenly remembered something.

She questioned Mo Li with a frown on her face: "—By the way, what did you take away from the attic when you moved out of the villa last year? Did you steal any valuable treasures from the house? This house didn't belong to you at that time! Why don't you return it to me now!"

When she said that, Chu Shengfeng also remembered that the two of them should have known with their butts that the bed must be of astonishing value. So he put on an aggressive posture and demanded that she return it immediately.

……

Mo Li knew that they would remember this sooner or later. After all, she had had the golden nanmu bed carried away from the attic under the watchful eyes of many servants. It was impossible for her to hide it from them.

But - she stole it, but so what? Who has evidence?

So Mo Li immediately denied it: "What nonsense are you talking about? When did I steal anything from the attic?"

Jiang Wanqiu was furious: "Well, you... dare not admit it! The servants told us at the time that they saw with their own eyes that before you left, you called several people to carry out something that looked like a wooden bed from the attic of the villa... Where is that thing now? Why don't you return it to me quickly!"

"No, what I took that day were all my own things." Mo Li looked at her calmly: "...or do you have any evidence to prove it?"

Seeing that she refused to admit her mistake, Jiang Wanqiu said with a frown, "Okay, okay... You really won't give up until you see the Yellow River! Wait for me! I'll call the servants at home right now!"

As she spoke, she took out her cell phone from her pocket, hurriedly removed the telephone numbers of those servants from the blacklist, and then called them one by one.

As a result, several calls failed to go through.

Jiang Wanqiu coughed lightly to hide her embarrassment: "Ahem, everyone is probably busy..."

Finally, she managed to get through with one. She was so excited that she immediately turned on the hands-free modem in front of everyone. She glared at Mo Li fiercely, her eyes indicated that "you are finished", and then she asked the other party loudly and righteously: "Hey! Wang Ma! It's me! I am Madam Chu! I have something to ask you - on the day when the eldest lady held her birthday party last year, did you tell me that you saw her with your own eyes..."

Before she could finish her words, Wang Ma's hysterical voice came from the other end of the phone: "How dare you call me? I ask you - when will you pay us the wages you owe us servants?"

Jiang Wanqiu's expression suddenly became even more embarrassed.

Ever since Mo Li left, the Chu family had officially entered a state of spending more than they earned. Unfortunately, after being nouveau riche for so many years, Chu Shengfeng and his wife had long been accustomed to a luxurious life, and had no idea that their income alone could not fill the huge hole in their family's expenses.

Soon, even the wages of the servants in the house could not be paid, but Jiang Wanqiu was reluctant to give up the luxurious life of having someone to serve her and having everything provided for her. So when it came time to pay wages, she began to find all kinds of excuses to shirk her responsibilities, and kept delaying the payment of the servants' wages until they could no longer bear it and ran away.

After that, these servants would call Jiang Wanqiu every now and then to ask for their wages. She was so annoyed by this that she simply scolded all the servants who came to ask for money on the phone, angrily calling them heartless, snobbish, not loyal at all, and unwilling to help them through the difficult times.

After scolding them, she put them all on the blacklist and never saw them again.

However, blocking someone felt good for a while, but who could have thought that there would be a day in the future when she would need someone to come back and testify for her?

……

The embarrassment and distress on Jiang Wanqiu's face were visible to the naked eye. She gritted her teeth and argued loudly with Wang Ma opposite her: "You took the initiative to resign in the beginning, and I didn't drive you away. How dare you ask me for salary now? And I remember that you left without even saying hello! My husband and I didn't even have breakfast after getting up that day, and I haven't settled the score with you yet! - Hey, this is not the point! Anyway, let me ask you, at the beginning of last year, did you see with your own eyes that someone had a wooden bed moved out of the villa attic on the day the eldest lady moved out?"

Jiang Wanqiu glared at Mo Li with a look of confidence, thinking, let's see how you are going to deny it now!

Unexpectedly, the person on the other end of the line denied three things in a row: "What bed? I don't know! Don't ask me! I didn't see it!"

Even through the phone, she could feel Aunt Wang rolling her eyes at her.

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