After Marrying the Officer

"I heard that the people from the Wang Family and the Li Family have already gone into Fan San's place."

"Do you think it's the Wang Family that bought the ice jade, or was it the Li Family?"

Unable to squeeze inside, Xia Chuyi simply stood outside the door, listening to everyone gossip.

After listening for a while, she roughly understood the situation.

She guessed that when she had just left the house, someone had inadvertently learned about Fan San's stone carving, and then deliberately leaked the information, attracting buyers.

Now that the buyers were here, how was it that the seller wasn't?

Xia Chuyi couldn't help but smile wryly, shaking her head, preparing to announce, "She is Fan San's guest, please make way."

However, just at that moment, suddenly someone shouted before her, "Make way, make way!"

Everyone immediately looked towards the source of the voice.

"Make way, Mr. Cheng is coming!" the person shouted.

Mr. Cheng? Who's that? Another buyer?

Just as Xia Chuyi was puzzled, she heard someone whisper, "Why has he come too?"

Another person replied, "Hey, if he's here, it looks like the jade Fan San carved will definitely be snatched up by him... The Wang Family and the Li Family are no match for him."

Another added, "Exactly, Mr. Cheng is domineering. What he wants, he gets."

"Looks like the owner of the jade won't be able to keep it!" someone exclaimed.

"That's not necessarily true!" another chimed in, "I heard the person who carved the jade today is no small fry either."

"Is that so? Then we'll have to see whose backing is stronger!" The crowd was very excited, eager to watch the unfolding drama.

The real gossip, Xia Chuyi, felt quite helpless at this moment: To watch the show, shouldn't she, the protagonist, get inside first?

As she thought this, Xia Chuyi saw a middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit, wearing round-rimmed gold wire glasses, walking towards her, led by two subordinates.

The others seeing this bespectacled middle-aged man immediately made way.

Seeing this, Xia Chuyi's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly followed the man towards the inside.

The bespectacled middle-aged man had walked a few steps and was about to enter when he noticed Xia Chuyi, his "tail."

"My young comrade, following behind me, what do you mean?" the middle-aged man asked with a smile.

However, his smile appeared somewhat sinister to Xia Chuyi, giving off a bit of a smiling tiger vibe.

Just then, someone shouted, "Mr. Cheng, perhaps this young lady has taken a liking to you and wants to follow you?"

Xia Chuyi's eyebrows instantly knitted.

"Talking nonsense?" the man called Mr. Cheng immediately rebuked loudly.

Then, he looked Xia Chuyi up and down and asked warmly, "Young comrade, are you a student from somewhere else here to do a field study?"

"If that's the case, I suggest you go to that Golden Stone Pavilion over there; they are more professional in this field."

Honestly, if Xia Chuyi were truly a young inexperienced female student, she might think Mr. Cheng was quite pleasant—graceful, polite, and speaking kindly.

However, combining what she had heard earlier with her intuition, Xia Chuyi still saw him as a smiling tiger.

Therefore, Xia Chuyi didn't bother with much chit-chat and simply pointed inside, saying, "I need to go in there."

Hearing her words, Mr. Cheng's smiling face momentarily stiffened, and he looked Xia Chuyi over once more.