Chapter 12

Bai Jinzi’s smile cracked and he finally couldn’t hold it in anymore.

Just when her sweet and flattering smile completely disappeared, Li Mo smiled and waved at her: “I’m leaving first, bye.”

“Jinzi, have you reconciled with her?”

Just when Bai Jinzi’s face was almost distorted, Du Huaizhou’s voice suddenly sounded behind her.

Seeing Bai Jinzi’s unhappy expression, Du Huaizhou asked with concern: “What’s wrong? Did she bully you again?”

Bai Jinzi’s expression was a little ugly, and she said with evasive eyes: “No…nothing. Maybe it’s right for my sister to do this.”

“What happened?”

After Du Huaizhou’s repeated questioning, Bai Jinzi reluctantly said, “My sister plans to return to the Bai family. Because the Bai family is rich and can help her mother clean up her name. With the Bai family as a backing, her mother won’t need Fan Min’s father’s money anymore.”

Du Huaizhou looked incredulous.

After all, Li Mo said yesterday that she would not go back to the Bai family.

“How could she do this?”

“To clear her mother’s name, she actually did something like this? Why does she think that with the Bai family’s backing, all the parents should apologize to her? Does the Bai family just use their power to pressure others? Why didn’t you stop her?”

“I told her that this wasn’t a good idea. She said… she said that instead of wasting energy trying to persuade her, I should think carefully about how I, a fake daughter, would behave in front of her classmates after she returned to the Bai family. Sister… Sister wants to destroy me…”

Bai Jinzi burst into tears by the end of her speech.

Thinking about Li Mo’s warning just now, she was really scared and didn’t know what to do.

She was already upset enough that Du Huaizhou had accidentally discovered her identity. Now he was going to let the whole world know?

If her identity as a fake daughter is made public, what’s the point of her living?

Du Huaizhou opened his mouth.

He felt that all the goodness and excellence that Li Mo had shown in his heart in the past had been shattered like an illusion.

——

After scaring Bai Jinzi, Li Mo went to Yangcheng University in a good mood.

Zhao Linya had been waiting at the bus stop for an unknown amount of time, but Li Mo saw her mother as soon as she got off the bus.

“I told you not to come, and your leg is still bandaged!”

As soon as she received the call from Li Mo, Zhao Linya couldn’t help nagging.

Li Mo smiled happily: “Oh, you know, applying medicine is just to comfort Grandpa. My injury is nothing serious. I can walk normally today. How is it, have you chosen a shop?”

Zhao Linya was in a bad mood this morning, but all her frustrations were gone in the afternoon when she was looking around shops and bargaining.

After what happened this morning, she deeply understood a truth.

Everything that Li Mo encountered today was because she was not a good enough mother, which led to her daughter being looked down upon.

Although Li Mo is a child of the Bai family, as an adoptive mother, she must also stand up and be a strong support for her two children.

“Momo, I spent the whole afternoon walking around today and found that the shops on the small street behind Yangcheng University are better and more suitable. The government has built a snack street behind the university, and the shops that are already open are doing very well. Although the prices are much higher than the shops outside, the shops depend on popularity. These shops outside are on the main road, and students rarely come here except on weekends and during winter and summer vacations when they take the bus home.”

Zhao Linya shared her afternoon observations with Li Mo, “A 30-square-meter shop on the side street costs 50,000 yuan, while a 50-square-meter shop on the main road only costs 50,000 yuan. As the saying goes, cheap goods are cheap. The shops on the main road are obviously much cheaper than those on the snack street. And from what I’ve observed all afternoon, there are obviously more people on the snack street than on the main road. Since we’re both selling snacks, a 30-square-meter shop is more than enough.”

Li Mo smiled and said, “Mom, good wine needs no bush, especially since this is a main road. If those college students heard that the food in our shop is delicious, they would definitely rush out to eat. Besides, how much money can students have? We can’t just focus on college students when doing business, right?

Look at that area over there. It’ll be all high-end entertainment venues in the future. The money spent by those people driving out for late-night snacks is more expensive than what college students can afford. So listen to me and buy here.”

And in a few years, computers will appear in front of everyone like wildfire, and this place will become a computer city with countless businesses gathered here. Both students and ordinary people love to go shopping here. It is the most prosperous area in Yangcheng, without a doubt.

Later, this place will become the city’s central axis, which will be built by the government. Modern commercial centers will spring up one after another, and street-facing shops like theirs will be demolished, and they can get a large compensation at that time.

Of course, she believed that by then, her family would no longer rely on this shop for a living. But now, at this time and in this location, this was a good opportunity for her mother to make a fortune.

Her mother’s snack-making skills were applied for intangible cultural heritage back then. She is not worried about the business here at all.

Zhao Linya still wanted to struggle.

But she always subconsciously listened to her daughter.

Although I thought the snack street behind was doing better business, my mouth had already agreed before my brain: “Okay, I’ll do as you say.”

Then Li Mo took her mother’s hand and went to the procedure office to pay the deposit.

In the end, after Li Mo’s bargaining, they were given a discount of 2,000 yuan.

After buying a shop in the future city center for 48,000 yuan, Li Mo could only lament that he had too little money.

The remaining 2,000 yuan, plus the 20,000 yuan pension received from their father when he died, was enough for them to decorate their house and purchase the first batch of ingredients.

When Li Shuo arrived, Li Mo had already hand-drawn the recruitment information and posted it on the store.

The family of three was very happy to have their own shop.

I went home after having a meal outside.

As soon as they reached the alley, Bai Zhibo and Guan Kaili opened the car door and rushed towards them like robbers.

Unlike their previous confusing and annoying attitude, this time the two of them were extremely attentive and kind.

“Momo is back!”

“Why are you leaving school so late? Is there something going on at school? Have you eaten yet?”

“Mrs. Li, you’ve worked hard. How about we go out to eat something?” Bai Zhibo waited from the afternoon to the evening and was so hungry that his chest was touching his back.

Li Mo: “No need. My mom, brother and I have already eaten outside. What can I do for you?”

Bai Zhibo rubbed his hands together and smiled amiably, “Of course, I’m here to discuss your return to the Bai family with you and your mother, Li. Momo, it was your parents who didn’t do a good enough job before, causing you to lack a sense of belonging. But we are still your biological parents after all. What biological parent wouldn’t love their own daughter?”

Guan Kaili nodded immediately. “When you were born, I was filming in Yangcheng. Someone tricked me into giving birth prematurely. My family wasn’t around, so it was just the two of us, mother and daughter, who depended on each other for survival. I swore at that time that as long as you survived, I would spoil you and make you the happiest little princess in the world.”

“You see Jinzi is so happy, but her happiness was originally for you. It was us who transferred the love we had for you to her.”

“If you hadn’t been taken away by the bad guys, you would be the one living like this now!”

“So Momo, come back to the Bai family with mom and dad. We promise to treat you well! Awww!”

Guan Kaili nodded: “Haha good!”

He vowed to spoil her into the happiest little princess, but after losing her, he didn’t look for her, but instead asked Bai Jinzi to spoil her?

Li Mo: “…-_-||”

These are her parents.

He is weak-willed, not well educated, but has a strange way of thinking. He does have fatherly and motherly love for her, but it’s just not much.