Chapter 52: Ran into a money grabber

  Half an hour later, seeing the middle-aged woman with her head down and Wang Zhaonan with a face full of anger preparing to leave, Zuo Xiaoyao immediately got up first to settle the bill and walked out of the cafe, heading in the direction where Wang Zhaonan came from.

  In less than ten minutes, she saw through her spiritual vision that the mother and daughter who were sitting in a BMW had driven past the pedestrian path where she was walking.

  "It's her, Zhao Nan, stop the car quickly! It's Zuo Xiao Yao!"

  As the middle-aged woman in the car let out a cry of surprise, the sound of emergency braking filled the air, and the car was stopped randomly on the side of the road crowded with traffic, regardless of whether it would affect others' normal passage. With a look of unexpected surprise, Wang Zhaonan followed the line of sight of the middle-aged woman sitting in the passenger seat "Where is she? You didn't see wrong?"

  "There! How could I have been mistaken? It's her, absolutely her!"

  A middle-aged woman couldn't help but point at a person walking on the road with an obviously outdated bag, wearing casual clothes that looked like they came from a street stall, and the whole person looked somewhat listless and disheveled.

  It was the person who had made her hate him to the bone, Wang Zhaonan also recognized at first glance that the thin figure walking on the pedestrian path was indeed Zuo Xiaoyao. A smile of joy appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he was about to get out by pushing open the car door. However, just as the car door was about to be opened, he suddenly remembered Wang Quanren's instructions: "No matter who it is, wherever you find her, don't rush forward to let her discover you, but instead quickly call me at the first opportunity." He paused for a moment before reaching into his small handbag to grab his phone and prepare to dial.

  The middle-aged woman saw Wang Zhaonan's action and hesitated for a moment, saying "Zhaonan, don't make the call first. Your uncles have been trying to find Xiaoyao, but what if it's not good for her?"

  Wang Zhaonan frowned impatiently and said, "I don't know what Dad wants to do with her, but no matter what, if he's willing to spend so much money and effort to find her, it must be something important, and it will definitely benefit us. What does it have to do with you? She's never treated you like a real mother anyway!"

  The middle-aged woman heard this and a look of relief appeared on her face.

  "Hey, Dad, she's here! On Zhengye Road in S City, it's...it's...can't be wrong, I just got a call from her older sister, Li Ping is also nearby... Yeah, the mother and daughter definitely won't mistake each other. What do we do now? ...Okay...uh-huh...uh-huh!"

  Wearing headphones, Zuo Xiaoyao 'heard' Wang Quanren make a phone call after receiving a call from Wang Zhaonan. The person on the other end of the line had a slightly aged voice and might be a cultivator, but Zuo Xiaoyao couldn't confirm. However, from his arrangements, it wasn't hard to infer that besides him, there was another person who would soon come to tail her. Wang Quanren of the Hongxin Group only relayed this information and instructed Li Ping and Wang Zhaonan, the mother-daughter duo, to follow her from a distance without drawing attention to themselves, and didn't mobilize the power of the Hongxin Group again.

  When the "fallen" Zuo Xiao Yao walked into a small restaurant that looked relatively clean but had very low food prices, completely not upscale, she quickly took out a small machine about the size of a palm, similar to a mobile phone, and inputted the number that Wang Quan Ren had just dialed into the listener, setting it as the first listening task. As she drove behind 50 meters away, Wang Zhao Nan was strictly following Wang Quan Ren's instructions, watching from afar, her mouth couldn't help but curve up in a comforting smile, Zuo Xiao Yao also has today!

  Just as Zuo Xiao Yao walked out of the restaurant, a middle-aged man with a cultivation level in the late stage of Nascent Soul appeared within her spiritual sense's coverage area. He was of medium build and wore casual clothes, looking like a very honest and reliable family man. With the evacuation order given to Wang Zhao Nan, she finally left with satisfaction. The anger that had been pent up inside her due to Wang Zhao Mei's earlier outburst also dissipated somewhat. Today, she had achieved a great feat!

  After the young man made a call to report his current situation to the newly monitored number, the stranger immediately dialed a very familiar number. Left Xiaoyao couldn't help but feel a hint of melancholy in her heart, an emotion that she had never felt even when she saw her blood relatives performing at the coffee shop earlier.

  Although the mobile phone number was somewhat unfamiliar due to not having been dialed for a long time, and sounded like its owner's voice in general, when Zuo Xiaoyao 'saw' this number again and then 'heard' that voice afterwards, she still recognized it at first glance - Zhao Jingru, Wang Zijia's mom!

  As an abandoned child, she had no mother! This fact brought her a lot of trouble when Zuo Xiaoyao was in elementary school. Other young children who didn't understand things would naturally use this to hurt and exclude her. She, also young and not understanding, felt treated unfairly and deeply longed to have a loving father and mother like other kids. She even went home crying to her grandmother asking for parents, not understanding the meaning of being an orphan or abandoned child.

  When Zhao Jingru, like her ideal mother, shared Grandma's worries, hugged her and comforted her in a soft voice, saying that she was willing to be her mother, it brought great excitement and happiness to the young girl. Even as she grew older and matured too early due to her environment, Zuo Xiaoyao quickly understood that Zhao Auntie was someone else's mother and not hers after all. The so-called maternal love or paternal love had nothing to do with her; only Grandma would give her the most selfless and deepest love in this world. However, the gratitude she felt when Zhao Jingru first brought her comfort and hope was deeply etched in her heart.

  Now, reality is showing its ferocious face. Although Zuo Xiao Yao didn't want to investigate when Zhao Jing Ru or other members of the Wang family started 'targeting' her and her grandmother, or rather, her grandmother's entire family, she knew that no matter what the truth was, she had to keep investigating in order to make things clear for both her grandmother's family and herself.

  At this time, Zuo Xiaoyao's newly bought mobile phone suddenly rang. Seeing the familiar number, she felt a headache "Hello, I'm Zuo Xiaoyao!"

  "Hehe, I suppose Miss Zuo already knows the purpose of this call? You've started owing me money, oh!"

  On the other end of the phone, it seemed like you could hear Xiāo Yáo's helplessness. After a soft laugh, a warm and pleasant male voice said.

  "You're really robbing us! I've already paid 800,000 as a deposit, and the remaining amount will definitely not be shortchanged. Now that this matter has just begun, let's do it like this: I guarantee to settle the subsequent fees within one month, and doubling it is no problem!"

  The rental of this equipment has not yet been a month, and the 800,000 is gone. Now it's starting to owe debts. This expenditure is absolutely stunning, but this is still under the circumstance that no one needs to be invited to assist in installing the equipment and sorting out effective information. Otherwise, the cost would be even higher, leaving Xue XiaoYao absolutely stunned. The money she has on hand is not enough for someone else's daily labor costs.

  The soft laughter sounded again. "Although I'd like to agree with Miss Zuo's proposal, business is business. We had an agreement earlier that the 800,000 yuan upfront was just for you to try out our latest top-of-the-line equipment from the Covering the World Information Institute after installation. Now it's time to start collecting formal usage fees. Definitely have to follow company rules, 100,000 yuan per hour, absolutely a very favorable price, but this is prepaid business, no monthly settlement accepted, and no interest will be charged!"

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