ECG -Chapter 138 Her Surname Is Xia

The crowd split apart from both sides as a man walked in.

He was dressed in a light gray suit, and his brown leather shoes were polished until they shone.

Judging by his age, he looked to be around thirty-five or thirty-six. His face had sharp, defined features, and although his eyes were not large, the slightly upturned corners gave him an imposing air.

Behind him followed two people. One was a plump, middle-aged man, while the other was in his early thirties. He was around 178 centimeters tall, had a square-shaped face, and wore a serious expression. He was dressed in a dark blue jacket on top and matching trousers below.

“G-General Jia?” Brother Bin looked at Jia Xiangwen, bowing and nodding repeatedly.

“What are you doing? Shooting a movie?” Jia Xiangwen was already holding back his anger. He couldn’t figure out Xiao Yuan’s background and only vaguely felt that something was wrong. He never expected that right after entering the Guqi specialty store, another incident would happen. He had truly lost face completely.

The two security guards endured the pain and crawled back up. One of them had half his face swollen, and Lin Hao’s punch had even loosened two of his front teeth.

The three female sales assistants saw that the big boss had arrived and stood there trembling, not daring to say a word.

Xiao Yuan glanced toward Xia Yumeng in the distance and winked at her.

Xia Yumeng understood what he meant.

“Brother, why are you here? The security guards from their mall were bullying us and even hit us with batons!”

Jia Xiangwen was startled. He never expected that these two customers actually knew Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan acted as if he had just noticed Xia Yumeng, his face full of surprise.

“Xiaomeng, why are you here?”

“I came with my boyfriend to buy clothes, but their salespeople bullied us and even called the security guards to beat us…” As she spoke, tears welled up in Xia Yumeng’s eyes, making her look pitiful and wronged.

She wasn’t pretending either. Her shoulder was actually hurting badly right now.

Lin Hao understood. It seemed that this square-faced man was the “Brother Xiao” she had called earlier.

“General Jia, are the people your Suya International hires security guards or gangsters?” Xiao Yuan’s face was full of anger.

If this matter had happened to someone else, it wouldn’t have mattered much. But Xiao Yuan was absolutely not an ordinary person.

Jia Xiangwen bent slightly and apologized, “I, Jia, have failed to properly discipline my people. Please allow me to first find out what happened. May I ask who this young lady is?”

Xiao Yuan softly said three words:

“She—has—the—surname—Xia!”

The volume of his voice was not loud, but each word was spoken clearly and slowly. Zhang Wenming and Jia Xiangwen heard every single word.

Jia Xiangwen was stunned at first. After thinking for a moment, his heart suddenly sank.

He finally understood Xiao Yuan’s identity.

Zhang Wenming’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He didn’t understand why Xia Yuan’s daughter would appear here. Was it a coincidence, or was this whole scene deliberately staged?

If it was a coincidence, then it was far too coincidental. As the saying went, flies only land on eggs with cracks. Shen Xueming’s biggest weakness was precisely this brother-in-law of his. How could things possibly be this coincidental?

Besides, how could there be such a coincidence in the world?

He didn’t believe it!

The specialty store fell completely silent.

Although there were dozens of people watching the commotion, among all of them, only Jia Xiangwen, Zhang Wenming, and Lin Hao understood what Xiao Yuan meant by those last three words. Everyone else was completely confused.

Jia Xiangwen let out a long breath and looked toward the security captain, Brother Bin.

“Liu Bin, have everyone watching leave.”

Liu Bin quickly took the other two men and began clearing away the people gathered at the entrance of the specialty store. At that moment, several more security guards ran over, shouting that they wanted to enter, but Liu Bin immediately stopped them.

With a sorrowful expression, Jia Xiangwen walked quickly up to Xia Yumeng and said in a heavy voice:

“Miss Xia, I am Jia Xiangwen, the general manager of Suya International. I truly didn’t know that you had honored us with your presence. Today’s matter was our fault. I sincerely apologize to you!”

After saying that, he bent down, his attitude extremely sincere.

The three female sales assistants stared with their mouths wide open in shock.

They never could have imagined that the usually arrogant and famous General Jia in the provincial capital would actually apologize to a girl who looked like an ordinary student.

What exactly was going on?

Xia Yumeng shook her head. “President Jia, I need them to apologize to me!”

As she said that, she pointed toward the three female sales assistants standing not far away, trembling in fear, as well as the three security guards who were currently helping disperse the customers.

“No problem!” Jia Xiangwen immediately turned around and glared at the three female sales assistants. He shouted angrily, “Come here and apologize to Miss Xia!”

Jia Xiangwen felt extremely frustrated inside. Although he had relied on his brother-in-law’s influence and had been doing very well these years, he was not someone from the government system after all. Back then, he had also acted arrogantly more than once. After suffering several serious lessons, he finally understood that his brother-in-law was not all-powerful in Long Province—there were still several people above him.

After being suppressed a few times, he had learned his lesson. He had become much more low-key over the past two years.

The three sales assistants still couldn’t understand what had happened. How had the situation suddenly turned around? How had it become this rude girl’s turn to act arrogant?

Especially the one in black stockings—she had already received several slaps from Xia Yumeng, and she felt even more wronged. Standing in front of Xia Yumeng, her eyes were full of resentment.

The customers had all left. Although they were reluctant to leave because they hadn’t seen enough of the drama, the store had already closed its doors, so they had no choice but to disperse.

The three security guards also walked over in confusion. They had no idea what kind of important person they had offended that was worth making President Jia personally come over.

“Quickly apologize to Miss Xia!” Jia Xiangwen shouted again.

Xia Yumeng stood there silently. She watched as the six people respectfully bowed and apologized to her and Lin Hao. She could clearly see that these women’s faces were filled with hatred.

“Miss Xia, we were wrong!”

The six people shouted together.

The corner of Xia Yumeng’s lips curled up into a mocking smile. Then she looked at Jia Xiangwen.

“I don’t accept their apology. Fire them!”

After saying that, she pointed at the three female sales assistants one by one. Then her gaze swept past the two security guards and landed on the security captain, Liu Bin.

“And him too…”

Liu Bin froze.

What was going on? Why was he being fired?

Just as he was about to speak, Xia Yumeng continued.

“This person hit us with a rubber baton. I’m seriously injured now, and I want to call the police!”

When Liu Bin heard this, he was stunned. He hurriedly looked at Jia Xiangwen.

“President Jia, President Jia, save me! I was only doing it for Suya! President Jia…”

“Shut up!”

Jia Xiangwen hadn’t expected that Xia Yuan’s daughter would refuse to let this go. His face turned extremely dark, and he immediately turned to look at Xiao Yuan.

“Secretary Xiao, let’s stop here.”

Jia Xiangwen’s voice carried a trace of coldness.

Although his brother-in-law could not cover the sky with one hand, neither could Xia Yuan! Don’t forget, there was still the word “acting” before his official position. Before that word was removed, anything was still possible!

Xiao Yuan spread his hands, looking completely innocent.

“President Jia, this is a dispute between a customer and your shopping mall. I’m afraid it’s not appropriate for me to interfere.”

Jia Xiangwen nearly spat blood.

Damn it! If you weren’t trying to deal with me, would you have set up this whole scene? You want to use such a small matter to deal with me? You want to bring down my brother-in-law? You’re too naive!

Of course, Xiao Yuan knew that this small matter would not be enough to bring anyone down for the time being. But he only needed an excuse.

Even two countries going to war needed an excuse.

He wanted to use this insignificant incident to pry open the case involving Gu Changhong of the Yayun Group, and then pull out the radish while bringing the dirt along with it…

The matter of the boss coming to the provincial government had been dragged out for two whole years. All the resistance came from Shen Xueming.

If this first strike couldn’t bring him down, then the boss would never be able to straighten his back in the future!

Although the top leader of Long Province admired Xia Yuan very much, his attitude toward the open and hidden struggle between Xia Yuan and Shen Xueming was ambiguous, making it impossible to figure out what he truly thought.

These past two days, Xiao Yuan had also been trying to get close to the top leader’s secretary, Zhou Xiaopeng, but he had never found a good excuse or opportunity.

The three female sales assistants became pale with fear when they heard they were going to be fired.

Although the salary at Suya International was not particularly high, the working environment was good, and the people they interacted with were all upper-class figures. Even saying they worked there gave them status.

If they were fired over such a small matter, they would truly feel wronged.

“President Jia,” Xia Yumeng looked at Jia Xuewen. “I only want to ask you one question.”

Jia Xuewen steadied himself.

“Miss Xia, please ask.”

“If an ordinary customer suffered such humiliation, what would you do?”

Jia Xuewen didn’t answer.

Inside, he thought:

What would I do? Nothing. If someone made too much trouble, I’d just crush them hard. There isn’t anyone who isn’t afraid of death!

“These three women cursed my ancestors for eighteen generations!”

Xia Yumeng pointed at Liu Bin again.

“This security guard didn’t care about right or wrong. He raised a baton and hit me without hesitation! I said to fire them and call the police—what’s wrong with that?”