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Chapter 317: Dumber Than Leigh
Chapter 317: Dumber Than Leigh
Lily thinks for a while and asks Daisy, “Mom, you tell me what she meant. Was she just trying to
emotionally manipulate me?”
Daisy glances at the peace symbol.
“Doesn’t look like it. She has been here a few times to buy wine and she seemed very nice.” Daisy
says as she locks the shop door, “Even if she is your father’s new wife’s sister, she has no hatred
towards you.”
Lily looks at her mother warily, “Mom, why are you siding with her? Did she ask you for any favors?”
“No.”
“She really didn’t tell you about Absalom?”
“She really didn’t!” Daisy scratches her eyes and says in a disgruntled tone, “You think about others in
such an unbearable way! I don’t know how to say… Oh! Forget it! Let’s go shopping.”
Lily doesn’t drop the topic, she asks her curiously, “How to say what? Mom, what are you hiding from
me?”
“She is your elder. Respect her.”
“I just said that you fall for people’s words easily. When she comes over, just don’t pay attention to her
words.” Lily also doesn’t doubt her words, “After all she is from the same family as Absalom. She must
be on his side.”
“Okay.” Daisy waves her hand, “Do you want to go to my place to eat lunch? If not then just go back.”
“…”
After seeing so much in life, now she is getting rejected by her own mother?
Taking the elevator with Daisy, Lily looks at the peace symbol.
Her attitude just now was completely fine. She thinks.
She also respectfully called her auntie.
Like her mother says, when did she disrespect her elder?
After returning home from grocery shopping, Daisy makes Lily clean out the boxes of grapes for wine.
Daisy goes into the kitchen to make lunch after her busy schedule.
“Mom, just make something simple.” Lily shouts towards the kitchen. She has not eaten anything since NôvelDrama.Org holds this content.
the morning so she is very hungry. She can eat whatever her mother makes right now.
“You pick your grapes, don’t talk too much!”
Lily, “…”
After Lily finishes picking and cleaning four boxes of grapes, and also after helping her mother wash
several large cans to be filled later with wine, Daisy finally says, “Come eat.”
Lily washes her hands and runs to the table.
The table is full of dishes - five dishes and one soup. The pot of meatball soup smells delicious, and
there are also braised pig trotters!
“Mom, no wonder you took so long to make dinner. You were making braised pig trotters.” Lily greedily
stretches her chopsticks towards the dish only to have her hand slapped away unceremoniously by
Daisy.
Daisy gives her a small bowl containing only two pig trotters, “This is yours.”
“Can’t I eat from the platter?” Lily looks at the big steaming platter and then at her small bowl. Her bowl
just looks pitiful in comparison.
Lily says solemnly, “Mom, the doctor said that I need to stay healthy, but he allowed me to eat pig
trotters! You don’t want to vacuum pack it and send it abroad for Coffey to eat, do you?”
“I want to send it but I have to look at the postage fee and time!” Daisy gave her a look, then brings
over two lunch boxes and packs the soup and pig trotters.
“Then what are you…?
“This is for my son-in-law and that… that who works besides him…” Daisy can’t remember the name
for a while, “That burly-looking clerk… baby, what’s his name?”
“David. He is Louis’s special assistant, not a clerk.” Lily replies and then realizes that something’s
wrong, “You made so much good food and it’s all for them? What do I get?”
Daisy points on the table, “Eat the vegetables. You have gained weight, so lose it.”
“… Mom, how could you?” Lily is even lower than David in her mother’s heart, “All this is too much,
they must have ordered takeaway already. Mom, leave all this for me to eat!”
“I just called them; they said they didn’t eat yet.”
“…”
Lily eats her couple of pig trotters and then gets ready to leave quite depressed, holding the lunch
boxes.
When she is about to leave the house, Daisy brings her two bottles of self-brewed wine to her, “That
other guy besides Louis is a good kid, he talks well and behaves well. You be nice to him.”
Lily chuckles, “Why don’t I take these two big cans of wine over there so all the employees can have a
taste?”
“Good idea! Can you pick them up?”
“…”
After talking to Daisy, Lily’s mood worsens. She takes a taxi and arrives at Smith Group in ten minutes.
“Miss Lily, hello.”
The passing staff greets Lily one after another. Everyone looks at the lunch boxes and bottles in her
hands with their eyes lighting up with gossip. Lily can only sneak up to the elevator, trying to avoid
people.
After arriving at the floor, lily sees that the secretarial department is rigorous and busy.
David is among them.
Lily goes in and places one of the lunch boxes and two bottles of wine at David’s table. Even though
her movements are gentle she startles David who is sitting there sending messages.
David immediately puts down his phone and stands up, “Missus, how come you are here?”
Missus?
The people in the department all look up and look at them with horror.
A secretary asks in a careful tone, “David, you and Miss Lily…? Congratulations!”
“No! Absolutely not!” The president’s office was next door, David trembles, “Missus… I didn’t mean my
wife… I meant Mrs. Smith...”
Everyone gasps, their gossipy eyes widening with shock.
It turns out that Miss Lily is not with David but actually with President Smith! She’s Mrs. Smith!
“Really? Can’t you call me by my name? What missus?” Lily curses him in a low voice, “I also told
Louis to keep it quiet. Great! Now everyone knows!”
David complains, “It was President Smith who made me call you like that.”
“He asked you to call and you did? Didn’t you use your own mind?” Lily glares at him, “Looking at how
smart you usually are, I didn’t expect you to be dumber than Leigh sometimes!”
Aggrieved, David wants to cry.
Ugh!
It’s President Smith’s fault, not his!
“My mother asked me to bring you food and some of her self-brewed wine.” Lily points to the lunch box
and then turns around to talk to other people in the department.
She speaks tactfully, saying that Louis doesn’t like employees who disturbed him or gossiped. She
intimidates everyone and convinces them to agree that they didn’t hear anything today.
“Thank you everyone.” She smiles and leaves satisfied, holding the other lunch box.
As soon as she leaves, David is suddenly surrounded by people.
Everyone starts to gossip, wanting to get some reliable information from David. There is even a
secretary who wants to smell the food and open the lunch box.
David slaps the secretary’s hand away and says seriously, “What are you doing during work hours? Are
you forgetting what she said just now? Do you want to pack up your stuff and leave?”
The secretaries all scatter around quickly and go back to doing their work.
David opens the lunch box, the fragrance of braised pig trotters in soy sauce diffuses into the air.
The meal is so delicious that David almost cries. He thinks that he did good by working for Louis, at
least he gets to eat his mother-in-law’s cooking.
It is so delicious!
He secretly makes up his mind that no matter why Louis and Lily quarrels in the future, he will always
stand on Lily’s side.
Victory is only on Lily’s side!