Mu Zi smiled, her eyes as calm as water.
She didn't continue to dwell on the topic of compensation, instead she smiled and asked, "I heard that Auntie Qiao was just promoted to prosecutor?"
Qiao Jingjia's face softened slightly, thinking that Mu Zi must be afraid of her. Little children would always have a natural awe for professions like police and prosecutors.
She liked this kind of awe from Mu Zi, and admonished in a gentle tone, "Zi Zi, I'm a prosecutor, I know these laws and regulations best, it's not good for you to continue pursuing this matter, you can buy whatever you want with this money, and you can also go to school, it's only realistic for the family to be peaceful in the future. Auntie said these words, all for your own good."
Mu Zi didn't say anything, still smiling.
If she said something, Qiao Jingjia would at least be able to deal with it, but she kept smiling so inscrutably, Qiao Jingjia couldn't help but feel a few moments of annoyance.
"If you don't agree, Auntie won't force the issue." Qiao Jingjia stopped looking at her and swept a glance around the room, "Your mom isn't here today, so some other day Auntie will come over and talk to her."
Only then did Mu Zi open her mouth, "You're Third Brother's friend, by rights, I should be called Sister Qiao, but I've always addressed Auntie Qiao, do you know why this is?"
Qiao Jingjia was slightly stunned, of course she knew.
--Because Mu Zi's identity couldn't rise to the occasion.
An adopted daughter, and, still, an adopted daughter adopted by her mistress, even if Elder Mu was bent on giving her the Mu surname, the others couldn't accept it.
No matter how high Mu Zi's seniority was, in the eyes of the Mu family, she was just an outsider, an outsider living here.
When the Mu family came to friends and relatives, Mu Zi politely and distantly called an uncle and aunt, because no one really regarded her as the Mu family's young lady. Just like Mu Ling never regarded Mu Zi as an aunt, if Mu Zi still favors nieces and nephews calling Mu Ling, that is a clear offense.
Mu Zi smiled and said: ''Because no one sees me as a member of the Mu family, right? --If big brother really treats me as a sister, Mu Ling would never dare to push me into the lake, she has been teasing me and bullying me all these years, and now she almost killed me, Auntie Qiao thinks that I would prosecute her for the crime of intentional injury in the district?"
She raised her eyes and gazed at Qiao Jingjia, quiet and wave-free water eyes, in the sunlight swept through the first sharp light, "Big brother to protect his daughter, the servants at home will not testify for me, when the time comes, intentional injury into negligent injury, Auntie Qiao as the prosecutor advocated mediation, and in the end will not be resolved, I tossed a not to mention, but also can not get a dime. "
Qiao Jingjia said, "We will try to make it up to you ..."
Mu Zi interrupted her, "It is no wonder that big brother feels that the money spent is not worth it, even if the judicial appraisal determines that it is the crime of intentional injury, Muling is under the age of eighteen and did not cause any obvious injuries to me, at most, it will be sentenced to a year and a half, and it is indeed worth a hundred and fifty thousand dollars at this price. How about we change the charge? The crime of abuse, what does Auntie Qiao think?"
Qiao Jingjia's eyes abruptly widened a bit, as if in disbelief, and after the shock, she was a bit moved to anger.
Mu Zi was too ungrateful!
"Zi Zi, you can't talk nonsense about things like abuse." Qiao Jingjia barely maintained her temperament, "Elder Mu kindly adopted you, the Mu family has provided you with food and shelter in fine clothes, if this is also called abuse, then you're not ... free from it."
She stopped her words and looked at Mu Zi with deep meaning, her eyes full of warning.
Mu Zi, however, laughed: "Do you want to say wolf heart and dog lung? Or ungrateful? Auntie Qiao still worry about yourself first, since you are a prosecutor, you should know that this year's new Anti-Bullying Law, the bill just came out, the Procuratorate is the time to catch the typical, as a prosecutor, you are a prosecutor, to the vicious bullying incidents but take the attitude of peace of mind, if the word gets out, I do not know what effect it will have on you?"
Qiao Jingjia's heart sank violently.