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Chapter 920
Chapter 920
?Chapter 920: 443 Stepping on Snow_3 Chapter 920: 443 Stepping on Snow_3 Madam Elijah went immediately to check on Hellena and Titi Groove, upon seeing no change in their expressions, she quietly sighed with relief, then fixed Lexi Benz with a cold stare.
“What is your name?” Madam Elijah asked, her lips curling up slightly, managing to appear calm and collected.
Lexi Benz’s eyes gleamed bright, and she suppressed her excitement before answering, “Madam, my name is Lexi Benz, and I am…”
Madam Elijah kindly interrupted her, “Your surname is Benz?
What is your relation to Damian Benz?”
“He’s my father, do you know him, madam?”
Madam Elijah’s lips curled further, “With Damian managing operations for his company all day, how would I ever have a chance to meet him?
Given the skills he has demonstrated in raising his daughter, it’s fine not to know him.”
The madam was obviously furious.
Not to mention her unexpected interruption, the way she had just pointed out the two young ladies’ origins was not fitting for a lady of sophistication and grooming.
This is clearly a complete disregard for face.
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Madam Elijah had a kind visage, and her conduct has always been kind-hearted and generous, everyone present had never seen her speak harshly like this before, so everyone was taken aback.
Lexi Benz seemed stunned for a moment, her face instantly gone pale.
“Madam…, I…”
She had thought that pointing out the two girls’ origins in front of everyone would definitely provoke them, leading them to overstep their behavior, and consequently implicating Aubree Groove.Who would think that the two young ladies, upon hearing of her words, acted as if they had not heard them at all, and had no reactions whatsoever.
She had miscalculated.
Madam Elijah didn’t cast another glance at her, but lowered her head to touch Hellena and Titi’s small pigtails, “Happiness is mine if I have it, life is mine if I lose it.
The wisdom told by experience, you two agree with this, don’t you?”
Hellena and Titi nodded in unison, “Madam is right.”
Hellena glanced at Lexi Benz, didn’t miss her ashen face, wanted to add fuel to the fire, but remembering her sister’s words, she held back.
A clever one, eventually, becomes the victim of his own devices.
Lexi Benz had initiated the trouble, and the consequences were hers to bear.
But if she retaliated, it would be her initiative, and the outcome would also be hers to swallow.
What goes around comes around, natural retribution was inevitable.
Having grown up in the Buddhist Nunnery, being taken care of by their master, and being nurtured and looked after by their eldest two sisters, was already the greatest luck in life.
As for the parents who abandoned them, the two of them had never avoided talking about it.
Just as Madam said, happiness is mine if I have one, life is mine if I lose one.
Fate was always fair.
They don’t have parents, but they have their eldest two sisters.
Many envied their circumstances, so why bother agonizing over it and self-deprecate themselves.
Thinking she had hit their achilles heel, she was nothing more than a jester dancing on stilts.
“Fool.” Cynthia Spinter scoffed, it seemed many people still couldn’t read the room, and had to bump into the coffin before they shed a tear.
Maddy Spinter couldn’t sit still any longer: “What’s the point of a bunch of women plotting against each other, I need to get some fresh air.”
Cynthia Spinter shot her a warning glance: “Sit down.”
Maddy Spinter had already slipped out.
Cynthia Spinter took a deep breath and cursed at her niece in her mind for not giving her a moment’s peace.
“Having enjoyed the plum blossom cake and plum wine, everyone is free to walk around.
Ten kilometers to the south, it’s all plum woods.”
Aubree Groove stood up gracefully: “Beyond the Brooks Bridge the spring waters are green, stepping on snow to search for plum blossoms, shadows of startled geese are seen, don’t let the good time go to waste.”
Everyone was already anxious to get up and look for plum blossoms among the woods.
Aubree Groove helped prop up Madam Elijah: “I’ll accompany the madam to pick wax plums.”
“Madam Gatten, why don’t you join us?”
Madam Gatten rubbed her hands together: “Honestly, I’ve been wanting to go.
Even if you didn’t invite me, I would have invited myself.”
Aubree Groove smiled: “Madam, how has Snowy Gartia been recently?”
Ever since the incident at Granny Groove’s party, Snowy Gartia had taken offense at her and broke off contact with her.
Madam Gatten was taken aback for a moment.
Alexa Gatten clucked: “Snowy has been asking me about your whereabouts every day.
She is just hard-headed and won’t admit her mistakes.
You don’t have to bother with her, just give her some time and she’ll be the one to approach you.”
Aubree Groove shook her head: “I am also at fault in this matter.”
Alexa Gatten looked at her seriously, such people were indeed hard to find.
Her cousin was angry that Aubree hid such a big thing about her birth from her, she didn’t consider her as a friend, but from an outsider’s point of view, she could understand Aubree.
Such a complicated background was hard for her to communicate.
“Rather than saying Snowy is angry with you, it’s more accurate to say that she’s angry with herself for not being able to protect you.”
Although it felt a bit odd, with her cousin’s peculiar thinking process, it couldn’t be gauged by common logic.
As a group headed towards the Plum Garden, the sunlight fell on their bodies, carrying a slight chill.
The wind fluttered the flowering branches, with a delicate plum scent filling the air, stirring people’s hearts.
In the distance, Phoenix Mountain laid under the blue sky and white clouds, looking like a nestling phoenix.
Not far away, a sinuous river flowed, and a white jade bridge spanned over the green waves.
This is the so-called Brooks Bridge.
Beneath it, green waves lapped gently, and pink petals float along with the moving water, and on the water’s surface, they reflected the figures of beautiful women.
“This water is led in from the hot spring on top of Phoenix Mountain.
The water is mild and clear, and it can be drunk directly.”