Chapter 178 Qiao Changdong: Grandma's Own Son

"Grandpa Jiang, were you bullied?" Qiao Qiao asked quickly after recovering from the shock of seeing the old man's bruised face.

Perhaps it was the obvious concern in her voice that made the old man lose his composure, and he instantly covered his face with his sleeve, tears streaming down his face.

He looked up at the father and daughter in front of him and said, sobbing uncontrollably, "Young man, Qiao Wawa, I... I'm so sorry. The money you gave me... I... it was stolen."

turn out to be.

After Qiao Changdong and Xiang Dongyan gave the old man money, the money was robbed by a group of people that very night.

There are always some people loitering around this hotel all year round.

When they encounter wealthy people with no social standing or background, the group will wait until the person leaves the hotel and then threaten them in a secluded place. They'll take advantage of any opportunity to fleece them, and if they can't, they won't lose anything.

Because they were unfamiliar with the area, most people opted to pay money to avoid trouble.

Few people would dare to confront them head-on.

Xiang Dongyan and Qiao Changdong lived here, and they were initially targeted.

However, when those people saw that Xiang Dongyan had asked a powerful local person to help Qiao Changdong, they gave up the idea of ​​targeting them.

However, the elderly people who were given money by Qiao Changdong, as witnessed by them, were not so lucky.

An elderly person, two children... it's not like they can be easily handled.

No sooner had Qiao Changdong and Xiang Dongyan left Baoyi City than this group of people took the old man's money on his way back.

The old man refused to take the money, so he was beaten, his homemade oven was overturned, and his money was stolen.

The other party also threatened that if they dared to call the police or tell anyone, they would make sure the whole family of three suffered.

The old man didn't have the courage to confront the other party, so he could only suffer the loss in silence.

Forget about calling the police; he'd be grateful if the other party didn't come to his house to continue harassing him.

What the old man didn't expect was that he would run into Qiao Changdong and Qiao Qiao again so soon.

He didn't want the two of them to see him like this, nor did he want to trouble them any further. He felt extremely ashamed and felt that he had let them down.

But faced with the father and daughter's genuine care, the old man couldn't hold back his grief.

She poured out everything to him.

"It's my fault, I didn't keep a single penny of the money, I...I..."

The old man choked up and couldn't speak.

After hearing the old man's account, Qiao Changdong's chest heaved violently with anger.

He bent down to help the old man up, and looking at the old man's bruised and swollen face, he felt a little guilty.

"Uncle Jiang, I didn't think this through enough."

He should have realized this sooner; money shouldn't be flaunted.

He thought that handing the wallet to the old man in an envelope would be enough to avoid suspicion, never expecting that someone would be waiting near the hotel.

It's truly unjust that this disaster has brought such misfortune upon the elderly.

Fortunately, the old man only lost money and his life was not in danger; otherwise, he would have really done something wrong with good intentions.

I'll feel guilty for the rest of my life.

"Comrade Qiao, please don't say that. It's just that I'm incompetent and can't protect the money..." Hearing Qiao Changdong's guilty words, the old man waved his hands repeatedly.

The fact that the other party was willing to give him so much money to help him is already an act of great kindness.

If he blames the other party for failing to protect his money, that would be truly heartless.

"Uncle Jiang, don't worry, I'll get this money back for you," Qiao Changdong said.

Seeing the old man's injured face and tattered clothes, I felt very sorry for him: "Uncle Jiang, how about I take you to the hospital for a check-up and get some medicine?"

"No need, it's just a minor injury, there's no need to go to the hospital."

The old man refused again and again, but when he heard the other party say that they would help him get his money back, he became a little uneasy.

"Is it possible to get that money back?"

"Comrade Qiao, you may not know, but those people... have a lot of influence here. You'd better not provoke them, I'm afraid something will happen to you..."

"It's alright, old man, just trust me. If I say I can get it back for you, I definitely can." Qiao Changdong patted the old man's hand, trying to reassure him.

His beloved grandma's biological son has been busy with this matter these past few days.

He felt it was time to give the other person a chance to prove themselves.

Qiao Changdong took it for granted and didn't feel ashamed at all that he, a grown man, needed to rely on another grown man to get things done.

He took the old man to the hotel, but when the old man got to the door, he refused to go in even a step.

His expression was filled with fear, and he kept refusing.

"This...this...this...how can an old man like me go into a place like this...it would make a mess of their place, that wouldn't be good..."

It's no exaggeration to say that for the old man, this hotel was like a palace; he felt intimidated just standing at the entrance.

Even when he came to look for the father and daughter last time, he just stood outside the wall and watched from afar, not daring to step into the gate.

They were afraid that if they just moved a little closer, they would dirty someone's ground or damage something.

Even killing him wouldn't be enough to compensate for it.

"No, ma'am, please come in." Wu Yunkai, who was standing in the lobby and saw the commotion at the entrance, ran over and heard this, so he quickly said.

He even helped the person walk inside.

The old man still hesitated and refused to go in.

It wasn't until Wu Yunkai noticed the old man's worry that he said, "Sir, please go in. The man next to you is the new owner of our hotel. If he says you can come in, then it's definitely true."

"The new employer?" The old man turned to look at Qiao Changdong in shock.

Qiao Changdong glanced at Wu Yunkai with some displeasure. Wu Yunkai, realizing he had flattered the wrong person, smiled sheepishly at Qiao Changdong.

Having already said it, Qiao Changdong could only go along with Wu Yunkai's words: "Yes, Uncle Jiang, go ahead. If I say you can get in, then you can get in."

In order not to disrupt the normal business in the front hall, the elderly man was invited to Manager Wu's office on the first floor.

The elderly man, who was invited to the office, still looked flustered and kept his head down, not daring to look at anyone.

When the manager arranged for me to sit on a stool, I took off my coat, turned it over, folded it with the inside side facing the fabric, and placed it on the stool before carefully sitting down.

Seeing the old man's condition, Qiao Changdong didn't say anything. He simply asked Manager Wu to bring him a cup of hot water, while he went outside to ask the receptionist to call the police.

Thirty minutes later.

The police car has arrived.

After a brief investigation.

It was discovered that the person who robbed the elderly person was likely none other than the group that had clashed with Mo Wenpei and others on the rooftop yesterday.