The Billionaire’s Kick Ass Wife

Chapter 321 Self-Reliance

The man silently looked into Betty’s sincere big eyes for a moment. He coughed awkwardly

and explained, “No, there’s no need. Betty. Me and your Grandma Grey are old friends, but

don’t tell her.”

“Why not?”

Betty’s big eyes flashed with suspicion. She looked at the man as if she was looking at the

big bad wolf who had deceived Little Red Riding Hood.

“The big bad wolf… Oh no.” the man carried Betty into the house and said, “Because I’m

embarrassed!” Betty tilted her head and sized up this man.

The man felt uncomfortable under her gaze. “Betty, Grandpa will cook noodles for you.”

The group entered the house. Steam was rising from the stove in the kitchen. Water was

boiling in a pot. Cut cabbage lay on a chopping board beside it.

The bedding in the room was old, but it was very clean. There was also the smell of

sunlight.

The walls had been brushed by someone. Although it was simple, it was white and clean.

The ground was black and gray cement, and it had been mopped clean.

Betty looked around curiously for a moment. Her little face became serious. “Uncle, is this

your home?” The man nodded with a smile and said, “Yes, this is my home, Betty. Don’t call

me uncle. You see I’m too old to be called uncle. My surname is Wright. You can call me Mr.

Wright.”

Betty nodded obediently and said, “Mr. Wright, Betty and Grandma Grey won’t think that

you’re poor. Don’t be shy.”

“Grandpa Jaye and the others won’t think that you’re poor. Don’t be embarrassed to be with

them just because you’re poor!” she added.

She reached out her fair and tender hand and patted the man’s shoulder, Her big eyes were

especially sincere.

Her mother had said that one should not judge a book by its cover, let alone look down on

others just because they were poor. When making friends, one had to first take their

characters into consideration.

Landon was speechless.

“Hahaha, Betty, do you have some misunderstanding about the word ‘friend”?”

Lance and the others laughed loudly from behind. They all looked at the man mockingly.

Landon glared at them with a dark expression. This group of people who were watching the

show did not mind making a big deal out of it. They actually dared to watch him make a fool

of himself.

Betty looked at them in confusion, not understanding why they were laughing.

Her confused eyes were extremely cute. Landon’s expression softened and he could not

help but reveal a loving expression.

He placed Betty on the sofa beside the bed, got up, and went to the kitchen to cook

noodles.

He threw a large handful of noodles into the pot.

After a while, he walked out with two bowls in his hands.

He gave the small bowl to Betty and the big bowl to himself. He said to Lance and the

others, “If you want to eat, scoop it yourself. If it’s not enough, cook it again. Do you still

need me to serve you?”

Hector and the others rushed into the kitchen.

After a while, the few of them walked out with noodles in their hands.

Betty widened his eyes and looked at the noodles in the small bowl in front of him.

Other than the noodles, there were only a few cabbage leaves.

Betty felt that she was not a picky child, so she silently took the fork and prepared to eat.

At this moment, Hector said, “Father, other than vegetables, you don’t have any meat in it!”

Landon glared at her. “Don’t eat if you don’t want to.”

Hector’s face fell. “Father, didn’t I give you 50 bucks last time?”

Landon was instantly enraged. “You are one to talk? How long was the last time? It was two

months ago!”

Hector was speechless.

Betty’s eyes flicked from face to face. Her fork poked at the small bowl. “Eh?”

She lifted the noodles and found a poached egg hidden in the bottom of the bowl.

Everyone stopped eating their noodles. Then, several pairs of eyes looked at Betty… the

egg in the bowl.

Seeing the wolf-like eyes, Landon was furious again “What are you looking at? There’s only

one egg at home. Do you still want to snatch food from the child?”

Hector and the others lowered their heads silently and slurped their noodles.

Betty once again saw how poor this place was.

She said obediently, “Mr. Wright, I won’t eat the egg. You guys can have it.”

Everyone raised their head in unison.

Landon’s eyes became even more loving. He patted Betty’s head and said, “Betty, be good.

Eat it and don’t give it to anyone!”

With that, he glared threateningly at Lance and the others.

Hector and the others lowered their heads again.

After dinner, Betty took out her phone and called her parents.

However, the call did not go through.

Betty could only make a call to the residence again, but the call still did not go through.

Betty hugged her phone and sat on the bed, her big eyes filled with confusion.

“Oh well, I was muddle-headed!” Lance slapped his forehead.

Betty looked at him. Hector said, “There’s an independent signal source on Mystical Island.

You can’t communicate with the outside world.”

Betty was speechless.

“Didn’t he say that he would let me call my parents when we arrived?” she thought.

It turned out it couldn’t get through.

She began to suspect that she had actually been kidnapped!

The more Betty thought about it, the more convinced she became of the idea. The moment

she thought about how she would never be able to see her parents and brother in the

future, as well as great-grandpa, great-grandma, and the other family members, she could

not help but pout and was about to cry.

Hector was dumbfounded.

“Oh, little angel, don’t cry. If this doesn’t work, we’ll think of another way to inform your

parents…”

Landon walked over and frowned. “Hector, figure out a way to contact the outside world

and inform the Lockwood family’s people as soon as possible.”

Hector responded with a serious expression and turned to leave.

Landon walked up to Betty and said gently, “Betty, we’ll think of a way to inform your

parents. During this period of time, can you be with Mr. Wright first?”

“Tomorrow… tomorrow, I’ll bring you to make money. When you make money, I’ll buy you

delicious food!” he added.

Betty held back her tears. “Make money?”

The next day, Landon led Betty down the street.

This was a relatively safe area in the slums.

This was because this area was governed by their people.

Although the pedestrians on the street looked normal, they were no longer as dirty and

messy or killing and robbing people everywhere as before.

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As the chief of the Liberals, Landon should not have been so poor. However, the Autocrats

suppressed them

every possible aspect. All the businesses that were related to them had been banned,

plundered, and destroyed.

It was becoming more and more difficult for the Liberals to fight for space on Mystical

Island.

Poverty was only the most intuitive manifestation of the situation.

Betty looked at the pedestrians on the street and asked the man beside him curiously, “Mr.

Wright, how are we going to make money?”

She was hungry, and she didn’t want to eat cabbage noodles anymore. She wanted to earn

money and buy delicious food!

Betty had never thought that one day, at such a young age, she would actually live a self-

reliant life in advance!

Landon was rendered confused.

He, the dignified leader of the Liberals, sighed from his soul in the face of the five-year-old

girl’s question. He had not thought of how to make money!

If he knew, he wouldn’t be so poor.

After all, the people in the slums were very poor. No one had money to make for others.

The two of them passed through the streets and alleys. Betty stared at a big rock at the

corner of the street. Suddenly, her eyes lit up. “Mr. Wright, Betty has thought of a solution!”

Landon looked at Betty in surprise, his eyes shining with anticipation.

He was indeed very poor to want to draw inspiration from a little child to earn money!

Betty pointed at the big rock and said excitedly, “Mr. Wright, let’s show people how to break

boulders with our chests!”

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