An Accidental Military Marriage

Chapter 88: Chapter 88: No Beating Customers

Lu Tingting and Meng Wei couldn’t hear Jiang Moli’s inner thoughts.

When they saw Jiang Moli remain silent, doing nothing but sizing up Meng Wei with a fiery glint in her eyes,

both of them subconsciously assumed that Jiang Moli was angry and jealous.

After all, what woman wouldn’t be frustrated and jealous upon learning her husband had such an outstanding and beautiful childhood friend?

This was precisely why Lu Tingting had enlisted Meng Wei’s help.

Lu Tingting thought, ’Has Jiang Moli been stunned into silence by her anger?’ and said smugly, "Jiang Moli, why aren’t you saying anything? Cat got your tongue?"

"You’re the one talking so much. Are you a loudspeaker?"

Knowing she was no match for Jiang Moli in a war of words, Lu Tingting shot Meng Wei a look, begging for help.

Meng Wei understood. She smiled sweetly at Jiang Moli and said, "Do you have some time? I could tell you a few things about Third Brother. After all, we grew up together."

"You might have time to talk, but I don’t have time to listen. However, if you’re buying me a meal, that’s another story."

’A leopard really can’t change its spots,’ Meng Wei thought. ’Even after marrying into the Lu Family, she can’t shake her nasty habits of being gluttonous and lazy.’

Meng Wei sneered inwardly but readily agreed to treat Jiang Moli to a meal.

...

The classiest, most prestigious establishment on the entire street was the state-owned restaurant.

Jiang Moli didn’t even consider a second option.

The restaurant was doing good business; it was about seventy or eighty percent full.

Jiang Moli deliberately chose a table right in the middle.

After sitting down, her eyes scanned the surroundings as her mouth kept running. "Quite a few people here. What sort of riffraff are they, to think they’re worthy of eating in the same restaurant as us."

The moment she finished speaking, several angry and condemnatory gazes shot toward the three of them.

『Disdain Value +3, 30,000 yuan credited.』

Jiang Moli was long immune to the disdain of outsiders, but Lu Tingting and Meng Wei weren’t nearly as thick-skinned.

Lu Tingting fumed, "Will it kill you to not be so pretentious?"

Jiang Moli replied, "I’m just trying to fit into your circle. I see you guys are quite good at putting on airs."

Meng Wei frowned. "This is a public place. You should watch what you say."

After speaking, she pointed to a notice posted on the wall.

Jiang Moli looked over: DO NOT ASSAULT CUSTOMERS.

Glancing back at a waitress who was also giving her a cold, displeased look, Jiang Moli spoke in a contemptuous tone:

"Go on, try and hit me. I’m weak and frail. I can’t carry anything heavy. One hit will injure me, one touch will kill me. If you so much as scrape my skin, I’ll be bedridden for half a year. Medical fees, nutritional supplements, compensation for emotional distress... with all those fees added up, I wouldn’t get up for less than a hundred or eighty yuan. And when you come visit me, if you don’t bring canned fruit, malted milk, and royal jelly, I won’t even open the door."

The surrounding customers were all stunned by her bizarre tirade.

’One touch and you want a hundred or eighty yuan? Why don’t you just go rob someone?’

’So shameless.’

『Disdain Value +7, 70,000 yuan credited.』

The waitress was rendered speechless by Jiang Moli’s shamelessness and secretly slapped a "difficult" label on her.

’I’ll have to warn the others later,’ she thought. ’Don’t mess with this lunatic.’

Although the waitstaff was used to acting high and mighty in front of customers, they still knew to treat different people differently.

Jiang Moli might be obnoxious, but she was wearing a Shanghai-brand watch on her wrist.

The two women with her also looked like they were either rich or powerful—definitely not people they could afford to offend.

"What would you three like to eat?"

Jiang Moli pointed at the small blackboard listing "Today’s Specials." "We’ll have one of everything on there."

"Our restaurant’s portions are quite large. Two or three dishes should be enough for the three of you,"

the waitress said, well-intentioned, worried they wouldn’t be able to finish and would waste the food.

Jiang Moli slammed the table. "Two or three dishes? Who are you looking down on? We’re not some stingy poor slobs who can’t bear to spend money when eating out."

The sound of scraping chairs and bumping tables echoed from all around.

All the customers who had only ordered two or three dishes glared furiously at their table.

And that was to say nothing of the customers who had only ordered one dish, or were just eating buns, congee, or noodles; their eyes looked ready to devour the three of them.

’You finally get to eat out, a happy occasion, only to be called a stingy poor slob.’

’How could you not be angry?’

’Lu Tingting and Meng Wei might be innocent, but who told them to sit with Jiang Moli?’

’Anyone willing to eat at a restaurant with such an obnoxious person can’t be any good themselves!’

『Disdain Value +1+2+3...』

The three of them were thrown out of the restaurant.

The restaurant manager shouted, "Get out, get out, get out! If you come looking for trouble again, I’ll report you to Public Security to have you arrested and sent for re-education!"

Jiang Moli shot back, "With service like this, I wouldn’t come back even if you begged me!"

Never mind Lu Tingting, who was about to go crazy with anger; even Meng Wei’s face had turned black with rage.

She had never been so humiliated in her entire twenty-something years of life!

She was so angry that she couldn’t even maintain her ladylike composure anymore, snapping sarcastically at Jiang Moli, "A good-for-nothing woman like you who only knows how to stir up trouble... I really don’t know what Third Brother sees in you!"

Jiang Moli blinked. "Exactly. He’d rather be with someone like me than with you. You should really reflect on why that is."

Seeing Meng Wei’s face twist with anger, Lu Tingting felt a strange sense of vindication. If even Meng Wei, the acknowledged talented woman of their circle, couldn’t win against Jiang Moli, then her own defeat at Jiang Moli’s hands wasn’t so embarrassing after all.

"Hey, are you still treating me to a meal or not? If not, I’m leaving."

Meng Wei left her on read, turning her head and walking away.

Jiang Moli shouted at Meng Wei’s retreating back, "Why are you leaving? Are you buying me food or not? Say something!"

Lu Tingting shot her a glare and hurried after Meng Wei.

Watching their retreating figures, Jiang Moli called up her system. "From the moment I entered the restaurant until I left, how much Disdain Value was credited in total?"

『43.』

Not a bad haul. In and out once, and she’d earned 430,000 yuan.

Jiang Moli glanced back at the restaurant’s sign, memorized the name, and decided that the next time someone treated her, she’d have to pick a different place to farm Disdain Value.

...

Seeing Meng Wei’s gloomy expression, Lu Tingting couldn’t help but say, "Sister Weiwei, now you finally see how obnoxious Jiang Moli is, right?"

Meng Wei had been furious, but her words suddenly sparked an idea.

"Jiang Moli is this good at courting disaster, but your third uncle doesn’t know about it yet, does he?"

If Jiang Moli’s actions could make them hate her so much, then they would surely earn Lu Cheng’s disgust as well.

Lu Tingting’s eyes lit up. "You’re so clever, Sister Weiwei! I’ll call my third uncle and tattle on her right now!"

Meng Wei stopped her. "Tattling directly is the worst strategy. Your third uncle might not even listen to you."

"Then what should we do?"

Meng Wei smiled faintly. "I have a better idea."

...

The moment Jiang Qing entered the family residential area, she felt that something was wrong.

The neighbors were all giving her strange looks, whispering to each other in small groups.

This was not an unfamiliar scene to her.

Every time Jiang Moli caused trouble, she, the stepsister, would also have to endure the gossip.

She quickened her pace, wanting to hurry home and find out what stupid thing Jiang Moli had done this time.

"Oh, Xiao Qing, you’re visiting your parents?"

Just as she was nearing her family’s front door, Sister Zhu from diagonally across the way came out to empty her slop bucket and quickly greeted her.

Jiang Qing didn’t have time for pleasantries and just nodded, about to head home.

Sister Zhu stopped her. "Xiao Qing, your family moved. They don’t live here anymore."

"Sister Zhu, you must be joking."

It was no wonder Jiang Qing thought she was joking.

The house was assigned by the factory. Unless Jiang Dahai no longer worked at the machinery factory, it was impossible for them to move. And where would they even move to?

Seeing that she didn’t believe her, Sister Zhu explained the whole story of how the factory had repossessed the house.

Jiang Qing was dumbfounded after hearing it all.

She was not only shocked that Jiang Moli had deceived all their relatives, but even more shocked that she had actually managed to get Jiang Dahai’s house taken away.

After the initial shock, she almost burst out laughing.

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