A few people immediately pushed back on Xiao Li.
"Of course you would say that. You were neighbors."
"Maybe you got something from her before?"
"People like you always speak for the rich ones."
Xiao Li replied again.
"I am speaking because I know what I saw. Before all this, Bai Li bought supplies in the name of business because she had a lot of household and company matters to handle. That does not mean any of it is for you to demand now."
The moment Bai Li saw that, her expression eased just a little. Not because she was moved beyond words. It was because at least one person in that building still had a brain. Not many. But one was enough to make the whole mess look even more pathetic.
Then the opportunists started to surface in full. These were the people who never wanted to look greedy, so they wrapped their greed in round words.
