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Yu Suihuan shyly gestured for Wu Xiuli to come closer and whispered in her ear.
"Here's the thing. Some relatives from out of town came to visit my family. They had dinner at my place yesterday and couldn’t stop praising the pickled vegetables! When they arrived, they brought us a lot of local specialties, so I can't send them back empty-handed, right? My mom asked me to prepare some gifts in return. I thought, since they liked the pickled vegetables so much, why not just buy five pounds for them to take home?"
After saying this, Yu Suihuan put on an innocent expression, blinking her big eyes, looking both silly and adorable.
"Pfft, haha!"
Wu Qiaoli couldn't help but laugh at her cute demeanor.
"You know, Yu Suihuan, your act of playing dumb is quite effective. How else would you get close to people?"
Although she was in her teens, Yu Suihuan looked much younger—barely eighteen or nineteen—which she could use to her advantage.
"You’re such an honest girl! Who gives pickled vegetables as a gift? And so much of it!"
"Huh? What should I give instead of pickled vegetables?"
Yu Suihuan pretended to be troubled, her face scrunching up like a bitter melon.
"You could check out the Department Store; they have a lot of things there! Or we could go to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative; they have snacks you could buy for them. That would definitely be better than pickled vegetables!"
Wu Qiaoli noticed that Yu Suihuan didn’t look like someone from the village, especially since she was talking about buying pickles by the pound. She figured that Yu Suihuan probably wasn’t short on money and kindly offered her suggestion.
"The Department Store sounds good, but I’ve never been there and wouldn’t know what to buy!"
Yu Suihuan feigned difficulty and glanced at Wu Qiaoli, noticing that she didn’t seem impatient so far.
"I just moved to Jing City not long ago; could you please take me there?"
"Me?"
Wu Qiaoli thought that while this girl was pleasant-looking, asking her for such a favor felt a bit presumptuous. After all, how well did they know each other?
"I'm sorry; I know this might be a bit much to ask. But I'm just trying to make it easier for myself."
"If you go with me, I'll pay!"
Wu Qiaoli didn't expect Yu Suihuan to be so candid, revealing her own thoughts. It made her feel that the girl was a bit silly, yet quite endearing. However, after hearing her words, Wu Qiaoli felt a bit shy and couldn't bring herself to refuse her.
"Sure, but you have to wait until I finish work!"
"Great! Thank you! By the way, what's your name?"
"I'm Wu Qiaoli. And you?"
At that time, people were simple and didn't have many defenses against others.
"I'm Yu Suihuan. Can I come find you after you finish work?"
Wu Qiaoli nodded, indicating that they had reached an understanding.
Yu Suihuan was delighted; she was confident that she could extract quite a bit of information tonight, which would count as progress.
Yu Suihuan was somewhat directionally challenged. Normally it wasn't a big deal, but the winding alleys could really confuse her—it wasn't an exaggeration at all.
"Xiao Lan, what is this woman up to? Why does she keep wandering around the alley?"
"Who knows what she's up to? It can't be anything good. Never mind, let's wait until she turns into that dead-end ahead before we make our move."
Xue Lan had been beaten by Yu Suihuan last time and wanted to go home to complain but didn't want to embarrass herself in front of her family. So she gathered a group of five or six friends today, intending to teach Yu Suihuan a lesson.
The group followed Yu Suihuan around the alley for several rounds and gradually lost their patience.
"Xiao Lan, why don't we just make our move at that corner ahead? This woman isn't heading towards the dead-end!"
"Sounds good!"
So when Yu Suihuan turned the corner once more, she was surrounded by several girls who had been lying in wait.
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