Chapter 115 — No Philandering [Seventh Update, Begging for Monthly Tickets]
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"All right, I'll rush right over..." Qiu Lingshan's heart sank. Finding the ringleader of the suspects should have been something to celebrate, but she could not feel happy at all, because what they had found was not a living man, but a corpse.
This meant there was still something hidden behind the case. The bald man had probably been silenced.
If that was so, the case would become even more complicated, and finding the real culprit behind it all would be all but impossible... Still, headache or not, Qiu Lingshan quickly led her people to the scene...
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"Sister Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?" Shen Yushu had also noticed that Gu Mengyao seemed in low spirits, her face gloomy all along. At first she had thought Gu Mengyao was just playing the good girl with Uncle Chu around, but after a while Shen Yushu realized that was not it at all.
"It's nothing..." Gu Mengyao shook her head. Though she was annoyed inside at Wei Zhao's lecherous behavior, she could hardly show jealousy before her own best friend, could she?
"Oh, I think yesterday's fried mushrooms were tastier than today's dishes. What do you think?" Shen Yushu nodded, then suddenly asked.
"..." Gu Mengyao was speechless, but Shen Yushu made her laugh despite herself. "Xiao Shu, you are fated to eat at roadside stalls all your life... When you marry someday, your husband will save a fortune..."
"Hee hee, if I marry, won't you marry too? Besides, that would be saving money for you..." Shen Yushu said with a mischievous look at Gu Mengyao, giggling.
"For me... huh?" Gu Mengyao suddenly blushed as she understood what Shen Yushu meant, and could not help swatting her. "Why are you still bringing up that childhood stuff?"
"Hee hee, childhood stuff counts too, we hooked pinkies on it." As Shen Yushu said this, her own face flushed slightly. She glanced at Wei Zhao out of the corner of her eye. Could Uncle Chu really be thinking that, planning to take Wei Zhao as his son-in-law?
"I'm not talking to you anymore." Gu Mengyao's expression turned a little unnatural as she turned her head away...
What Shen Yushu called their childhood business was a little secret between the two of them, never told to anyone else, but after they grew up they would still occasionally tease each other about it.
Six or seven years ago, when they were in middle school, the two of them had watched a soap opera about a pair of best friends who had been close since childhood and, so they could stay together every day in the future, married the same man...
So Shen Yushu had said, all silly and earnest, "Sister Yaoyao, when you marry, I'll marry right along with you, so we'll never be separated..."
Gu Mengyao thought that sounded wonderful and nodded in agreement, and so the two of them hooked fingers and swore never to change for a hundred years... As they grew older they realized how absurd it had been, yet they still joked about it...
Especially after Shen Yushu grew up and no longer wanted to call Gu Mengyao sister, since they were classmates in the same class and calling her sister felt a bit like playing cute... But Gu Mengyao used that old pact to blackmail Shen Yushu: after you marry over, I'll be the first wife and you'll be the second, so of course you have to call me sister, and if you don't, I'll tell everyone about it...
Left with no choice, Shen Yushu had kept calling Gu Mengyao sister all these years, but it had grown natural with use, and since she was a few months younger than Gu Mengyao anyway, calling her sister was no great loss.
Of course, apart from Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu themselves, no one else knew about it.
Wei Zhao listened, baffled, as the two girls traded cryptic remarks, and shook his head without asking, because he knew that even if he asked, he would get no answer.
Wei Zhao sat to one side with his eyes half closed, seeming to rest, though in truth he was doing something else.