Chapter 909

Mrs. Chu was stunned to hear Mr. Chu’s words, “What laughing stock? What’s going on? They are in class, so I came home first.”

Mr. Chu was very annoyed, “Now there are rumors that we are psychotic; treating our own daughter badly, starving her, siding with her abusers, and treating a fake daughter as treasure. I don’t know what they’ve done outside that caused nonsense to spread. Quickly bring them home and find out! I have a client to win over. I’ll be back tonight.”

“Wait, who told you that? This is not true, right? What do you mean we starved her? Who beat her up?” Mrs. Chu’s eyes widened, and when she looked up inadvertently, she saw a housekeeper who looked a little bit guilty. She was shocked. Could there really be such a thing?

Mr. Chu said, “I’ll send you a photo. It is said that is Chu Xiang’s injury was from receiving a beating, and it was the Chen family who hurt her. She is also malnourished. The reason why she’s unwilling to come home is because she’s scared we’ll lock her up and starve her. If it wasn’t for the client’s assistant who gave me a heads-up today, I wouldn’t be able to figure out what is going on. Stop questioning me and go fetch them.”

After Mr. Chu hung up the phone, Mrs. Chu looked at the guilt-stricken housekeeper. She seemed to have understood something. “When Chu Xiang was in confinement, you didn’t bring her food?”

The housekeeper said: “Mrs. Chu, that time, that time said that Ms. Chu Xiang stole something, then she firmly refused to admit it. Mr. Chu was angry and said not to give her food to eat, so I-I did not send food.”

“And then? She was confined five or six times in total, and you didn’t bring her food each time?” Mrs. Chu looked at her incredulously.

The housekeeper lowered her head, “I thought Mr. and Mrs. Chu meant to not give her food in confinement, after all, what she had done was too infuriating.”

Mrs. Chu was so angry that her head was dizzy, “She is still my daughter. Her punishment is not up to you to decide. Aside from the first time Mr. Chu got too angry and said to not give her food, when have we forbid it afterward? I always told her to go back and reflect on herself. When did I ever stop her from eating?”

The housekeeper felt as if she was being questioned and was not happy about it, “Mrs. Chu never asked either, so I thought you mean the same thing.”

It was true. If Mrs. Chu really cared about her daughter, she would have known that Chu Xiang hadn’t gotten her meal by asking. Ultimately, it’s because she failed as a mother. Mrs. Chu was infuriated by the housekeeper’s counter. She had a pale expression and shouted, “Pack up, claim your salary, and get lost! I don’t need someone like you to work for me!”

The Chu family’s housekeeper’s salary is high and the work there is nice. However, too many things happened these months. First, Chu Xuan lost something and suspected them about it. Now, they got scolded again. Staying with the Chu family is not comfortable at all. The housekeeper is also young and can’t handle the anger. She rolled her eyes, pulled off her apron, and threw it to the ground, “Do you think we want to work for you too? This household is such a mess. We might even get jinxed if we keep working here.”

“You! Get out of here!” Mrs. Chu’s face became whiter and she hurriedly asked someone to bring her medicine. After a while, she asked the driver to take her to school again. This time, she called the homeroom teacher in advance, saying that there was an emergency at home and she had to bring Chu Xiang and Chu Xuan home.

Chu Xiang has seen Mrs. Chu at school before and has sent the Qiankun Mirror to follow Mrs. Chu, so she naturally knows what’s going on. Chu Xuan, who had complained the day before, now thinks that Mrs. Chu is looking for Chu Xiang to settle the score.

That was about right. Chu Xuan complained because she figured that the incidents outside could not be kept a secret for long. It was better for her to tell the truth to reduce her suspicion and let her parents take care of Chu Xiang, except that Chu Xuan did not expect the teacher to have such a good impression of Chu Xiang and said a lot of things to Mrs. Chu.

Sometimes the words of an outsider work effectively. The hospitalized Chu Xiang already planted a seed of suspicion in Mrs. Chu’s heart, and the teacher’s words were undoubtedly fertilizing this seed, making Mrs. Chu suspicious of Chu Xuan again.

When the two of them packed their bags and went out, they saw Mrs. Chu sitting in the back seat of the car waiting for them. Chu Xuan got into the back seat first and smiled sweetly, “Mom, why did you come here yourself? Just give me a call if you need anything.”

Chu Xiang went straight to the passenger seat; her expression was cold and she didn’t even say hello.