The lobby manager led them to a table next to a window. After he handed the menu to Fu Zhi and Lu Yumo, he said, "Do you two want the same strawberry cheesecake milk tea?"

"Yeah."

"Change it to a mango one for me this time," Lu Yumo said.

The lobby manager lifted his head to look at the eldest young master of the Lu Family and his hand, which was holding the walkie-talkie, froze. "I remember Miss Fu being allergic to mangoes. Is that right? With all due respect, don't you think it would not be proper for you to order a mango drink at our ski resort?"

'Why would it not be proper? She is allergic to mangoes, but I'm not, so why can't I order a mango drink?' Lu Yumo thought.

Before he could say anything, the lobby manager added, "Besides, we don't have any mangoes in the ski resort."

Originally, the ski resort had been a gift for Xu Wei and Fu Zhi, so everything had been built according to their preferences. As for Lu Yumo's preference, it was not within the scope of their consideration.

Lu Yumo was speechless. "Are you telling me that you can't get me a single mango in such a big ski resort?"

He now had every reason to believe that the lobby manager had something against him, but he could not have it out with him.

After all, the ski resort would not charge them for the meal, and besides, the service at this ski resort had always been excellent.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Lu Yumo turned around and ordered a mango milk tea on his phone.

The lobby manager saw what he was trying to do out of the corner of his eyes. He smiled apologetically at Lu Yumo and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Lu. According to the rules of our resort, mangoes are strictly prohibited, so you have only two options right now: Either you will order another drink, or you can order a mango milk tea, but I may have to ask you to leave the resort."

Lu Yumo was speechless.

'Or maybe you and Fu Zhi should leave the resort?'

The lobby manager did not look at Lu Yumo anymore after he finished speaking. He turned around and told Fu Zhi with a smiley face, "What do you want to eat today, Ms. Fu?"

Although Fu Zhi was adopted, the lobby manager did not know why but he felt that she really looked a lot like Xu Wei, and the more he looked at her, the more he liked her. That's why he kept wanting to give Fu Zhi something. At the same time, he was worried that Fu Zhi might realize something. After all, the profession of the Xu Family needed to be kept a secret. Plus, the Lu Family had always thought that the Xu Family was poor, and if Madam Lu really learned something, considering her way of doing things, she would certainly shout until the whole world knew it.

Thus, the lobby manager felt so sad that he wanted to cry whenever he thought that Fu Zhi and Lu Yumo had to be so polite although they were basically eating at their own home.

After Fu Zhi finished browsing through the menu, the first thing she saw upon raising her head was the lobby manager's teary eyes. She was stunned for a moment and she started wondering if he looked at her this way because she had ordered too much food. Just as she was about to cancel the plate of coca-cola chicken wings, she heard the manager say into his walkie-talkie, "Add 10 more of our specialties to the order. It seems to me that the food in No.1 High School is bad. Look at Ms. Fu and Mr. Lu. Both of them are very skinny."

Fu Zhi felt that the lobby manager was a bit strange and had no idea why but she detected a sense of familiarity in the way he spoke.

She did not know how to explain it, but she felt that the way he spoke was similar to how He Min and the others talked to her. They all liked to stuff food into her and they treated her like a pig.

The lobby manager went away to pick up a phone call after he finished speaking.

At the same time, a group of students from Hang Yuan who had gone to the front desk again to negotiate with the waiter saw the situation and frowned. "That's Fu Zhi, right? Why are they in this restaurant?"

Wu Zhiyou then turned her eyes in the direction of their line of sight. When she saw Fu Zhi and her gang, she seemed rather distraught and asked the front desk, "Didn't you say this resort doesn't entertain customers without reservations? Then how can they dine here?"

"Yeah, right. We wouldn't say a thing if the Lu Family was richer than the Wu Family, but they really aren't! Why can they dine here, while we have to wait for so long? If you don't give us a proper explanation, we won't let you off the hook so easily."

"Exactly. We have been waiting here for more than an hour, yet they can just go in the moment they arrive? Not to mention that their table is next to the window. Plus, how can you guys give them this meal for free, while we have to pay for our meal? Don't you think it's not appropriate?"

The girl at the front desk remained expressionless and stood as straight as a ramrod as she listened to their stream of complaints.

She could not understand why they were so angry. First, they were not members of the Xu Family, and second, their families were not as rich as the Xu Family.

They thought this was a public ski resort, but what they did not know was that this was actually Xu Wei and Fu Zhi's garden.

It was not the girl's responsibility to entertain this bunch of people. She calmly and slowly pulled a machete out of a drawer and slapped it on the table. "You guys were still inside your mother's womb while I was working in my grandfather's slaughterhouse. Try me if you don't believe me."

The crowd was stunned. They had not expected the girl to pull a machete out all of a sudden.

Just as they were imagining being slaughtered like pigs in their brains, another waiter came forward and pulled the girl aside.

Since Wu Zhiyou and her gang knew Fu Zhi, he comforted her. "Please wait in the lounge area for a while. I will talk to my manager."

Then, he went into a small room and told the manager everything through a walkie-talkie.

The manager was taking a picture of Fu Zhi to send it to Master Xu. When he heard what the waiter said, he thought for a while and replied, "They said they are from the same school as Ms. Fu? Let me ask Ms. Fu first. Just hold on and wait for my instructions."

After saying that, the manager brought the milk tea to Fu Zhi and her gang. He told her about Wu Zhiyou, and it was only then that Fu Zhi realized they had come to the restaurant as well.

She looked at Wu Zhiyou, but the latter turned her head away and harrumphed in a condescending manner.

Then, the manager added, "So what do you think of them? Do you want to let them in?"

'What do I think of them?'

Fu Zhi thought about the day Wu Zhiheng had gone shopping with her and figured that Wu Zhiyou might be just like her brother.

Therefore, she commented, "She wears a ten-dollar hat on a five-cent head."

Then, she turned to look at Zhu Wenjie, who was shivering behind Wu Zhiyou, and Chen Shan, who nearly rammed into a door when he tried to run away after seeing her.

"Do whatever you want with them."

In any case, this was not her ski resort, so she figured that she should not stop them from earning money.

The manager then led Wu Zhiyou and her group to the table behind Fu Zhi.

There were only a few meters between the two tables.

The manager implicitly hinted that Fu Zhi was the reason they could dine there.

A few boys from Hang Yuan had mixed feelings.

"We're used to being treated as guests of honor in the capital, so why can't they do the same in Yu City?"

"You can't blame them. After all, Yu City is a small town, and they don't understand the greatness of our families."

"Why couldn't Fu Zhi let us in early? Why did she have to make us wait so long outside? Is she looking down on us?"

"What a bunch of idiots," Wu Zhiyou chimed in. "If you think she's looking down on you, why are you sitting here? If you don't want to stay, then leave. Otherwise, just suck it up and stop acting like a b*tch."

A few girls around Wu Zhiyou nodded and added, "That's right. You guys are so petty-minded. Even Fu Zhi is manlier than you."

The boy's expression changed. Initially, he wanted to leave, but when he thought that Ouyang Ya might be there with Wu Zhiheng, he swallowed this humiliation and stayed.

After Wu Zhiyou sent a text message to her brother, she handed the ice-cream she'd ordered to Fu Zhi.

Looking at Fu Zhi's quizzical gaze, she lifted her chin proudly like a peacock with open feathers and said, "This is for you. If you don't want it, just throw it in the dustbin. I don't take back anything that I give."

"Okay," Fu Zhi replied flatly.

Wu Zhiyou then stormed back to her seat. Although she'd said she didn't care, she kept darting glances at Fu Zhi and only heaved a sigh of relief when she saw Fu Zhi finally eat the ice-cream she'd given her.

Lu Yubai noticed her reaction. He frowned slightly but did not say anything.

Very soon, all the dishes were served. They were served even faster than the dishes of the few customers who had come in earlier than them.

Lu Yubai could not hold back anymore. After he had some rice, he looked at Fu Zhi and pitched his voice low. "Tell me honestly, is this restaurant really not yours?"

Fu Zhi put a pork rib on her plate and replied, "Nope. I have no intention of opening a restaurant in Yu City yet."

'Yet? That means you have a lot more restaurants in other cities?'

Lu Yumo turned his body sideways to look at Lu Yubai. "Why do you keep thinking she's the owner of this restaurant? She doesn't have much money and she's used up most of her savings on the movie. She's poor now, so there's no way she could afford to open a restaurant."

'Oh, you don't know. This girl is like Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans from Harry Potter. You never know what you will get next.'

"If the restaurant is not hers, why is the manager being so nice to you two?" Lu Yubai asked.

"He's not being nice only to me and Zhizhi. He's nice to my entire family. Maybe he's a good guy?"

There were no good guys in the business world.

Lu Yubai looked speechlessly at Lu Yumo. Then, he remembered the radiation-protection glasses he had seen in the video while Fu Zhi had been having a video call with Madam and Master Xu last time. A bold idea popped into his head, and he asked, "Is there a researcher in the Xu Family? The kind that makes a lot of money?"

When Lu Yumo heard what he'd said, he put the corn in his hand down and said, "What are you talking about? Look at me and my mom. Do we look like we're very smart to you? We get our intelligence from our parents, so judging by me and my mom, I don't think there's a researcher in the Xu Family.

"Besides, just like my mother, my grandpa and grandma go square dancing and sweep the streets every day. They are just manual laborers, so how is there any possibility they have the time to do research?"

The lobby manager nearly tripped when he heard Lu Yumo's first comment about the Xu Family. Then, he fell directly on the floor after he heard Lu Yumo's second comment about the Xu Family.

He thought that it was fine if Lu Yumo tainted his own name, but he did not have to pull the entire family down with him.

A waiter came up to the manager and helped him up from the floor.

"What happened? Why did you suddenly fall down?"

The lobby manager wiped invisible tears from his face and said, "This is really saddening. How can he be a Lu with his level of intelligence? Could they have taken the wrong baby home?"

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Lu Yumo continued to talk about how difficult the life of the Xu Family was in the countryside. It took the lobby manager a lot of effort to hold himself back and not go up to Lu Yumo to tell him that the Xu Family was unusually wealthy.