Chapter 106 — Who Said I Was Giving It to You? Please Vote and Add to Collection
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"Hmph!" Tang Yun snatched the coins from Wei Zhao's hand, grabbed the dress in a huff, turned, and hurried away without sparing him so much as a glance.
"Who did I offend? I meant well, and look where it got me?" Wei Zhao flicked the fifty-yuan note in his hand, shoved it into his pocket, and headed off toward the food street as well.
After a few steps, Tang Yun's head cooled. Thinking back over how Wei Zhao had always treated her—he did not cling and pester the way other rich young masters did, but seemed to take a different approach, acting lukewarm toward her and occasionally stepping up to help her, the better to show off his gentlemanly manner... Hmph, it was exactly as she suspected. Remembering Wei Zhao's little act today, Tang Yun stamped her foot. She had fallen for his trick again. Him asking her for money had to be deliberate, so that she would let down her guard and he could achieve his goal.
Tang Yun wanted to throw the dress on the ground and stomp on it a couple of times, but she could not bring herself to do it. With a sigh, she marched back to her family's barbecue stall, cheeks puffed in anger.
"Yun'er, you bought the dress?" Tang Yun's mother looked at the dress in her daughter's hand and asked with a smile. Tang Yun had had her eye on this dress for a long time—she had seen it before, thought it too expensive, and passed it up. Today, her mother had given her a bit of encouragement and told her to go buy it, and only then had Tang Yun finally made up her mind.
"Mm..." Tang Yun stuffed the dress into her schoolbag and answered absent-mindedly.
"How much did you spend? Did you talk them down?" Busy with the barbecue stall, her mother naturally did not notice her daughter's expression.
"Forty-five," Tang Yun said flatly.
"Forty-five? Really? That shopkeeper was asking two hundred, wasn't he? How did you manage to get it that cheap?" Her mother was rather surprised.
"Some annoying person helped me talk the price down." The memory was enough to make Tang Yun angry all over again. "Anyway, Mom, enough about that. Let me help you."
Tang Yun's mother shook her head in bewilderment. She could not think of who this "annoying person" might be. If someone had helped her bargain, she ought to be thanking them—so why would she find them annoying?
Wei Zhao turned a corner and came back to where Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had been eating fried mushrooms. The two of them had just finished and were getting up to pay. Gu Mengyao looked up, saw Wei Zhao walking over carrying a pair of big shorts, and let out an "Eh?"
Hearing the doubt in Gu Mengyao's voice, Shen Yushu looked up too and caught sight of Wei Zhao.
"Jianpai Ge, where did you get those big shorts from?" Shen Yushu asked, staring curiously at the pair of shorts in Wei Zhao's hand.
"Bought them over there. How do they look?" Wei Zhao held the shorts up against himself and gestured a couple of times.
"..." Gu Mengyao curled her lip. "Anyone wearing those would look like a shady character."
"I remember a lesson from primary school with a line about a rascally old Frenchman," Shen Yushu said, nodding and chiming in.
Wei Zhao was speechless. "I'm done talking to you two. You have no taste at all. I paid a whole fifteen yuan for these."
"Huh?" This time it was Gu Mengyao who was left speechless. And he actually had the nerve to show off something that cost fifteen yuan?
Shen Yushu covered her mouth and giggled—only Wei Zhao would do something like that. "Alright, let's go home. Jianpai Ge, if you really like those big shorts, put them on when we get back and give us a look. It's not like you can change right here in the street, right?"
"Xiao Shu, what's so great about seeing him in a pair of shorts? Are you getting all hot and bothered?" Gu Mengyao pinched Shen Yushu.
"I thought you were the one who wanted to see him in them." Shen Yushu blinked, looking at Gu Mengyao with an innocent expression. "You were so surprised about it just now..."