Su Xiaoxiao shook her head, "No, it was just here just now."
"Damn it, that’s strange, where could that brat have run off to? I clearly saw him run in here just now."
"But this is a dead end; it’s impossible for him to have run out. Could we have been mistaken?"
"That’s right, there’s another alley beside. Could he have run through there?"
The group huddled together and muttered for a mont, and then their expressions changed uniformly. They turned and charged into the adjacent alley.
At the sa ti, Skinny slowly regained consciousness and was montarily stunned by the scene in front of him.
Where was he? Who was he?
A white room, a soft big bed, and a white contraption hanging on the wall.
He got up from the ground and found a white object full of buttons by the bedside, looking quite strange.
Curiously, he approached it and discovered that apart from nurous buttons, there was also a small screen. He accidentally pressed sothing, and a beep sounded.
Then he noticed that the rectangular white machine on the wall imdiately emitted a buzzing sound, and then slowly opened a slit.
The next mont, Skinny felt a cold breeze blowing out. It was winter already, and the cold air was piercing. Within minutes, he felt he was going to freeze stiff.
"Ahhh! What is this place? A monster! There’s a monster! Help, is anyone there? Please help..."
When Su Xiaoxiao entered the space, what she heard was Skinny’s desperate wailing, followed by a dull thud, and all sounds ceased instantly.
She had been thinking about finding sothing to cover her face, but now there was no need.
The kid actually fainted from fright, such a coward.
She brought him out from the small warehouse in the space again, laid him on the ground, and slapped him twice.
Skinny let out a yelp and sat up from the ground, "Ahhh... a monster, help..."
Just as he shouted, he saw Su Xiaoxiao looking at him helplessly.
And when he looked around again, there was no white room or any machine monster blowing cold air.
But just now he clearly...
"Sister Su, have I been lying here the whole ti?"
Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but roll her eyes, "If not here, were you sleepwalking?"
Skinny scratched his head in confusion, "But I just seed to be in a strange room, where a machine monster on the wall was blowing cold air out, freezing to death."
"Then you were definitely dreaming."
Su Xiaoxiao lied without changing her expression. Things like the space were better left unknown to others.
"Could it really have been a dream?"
Skinny murmured to himself, but everything in the dream seed so real just now.
Su Xiaoxiao recalled those people from earlier and asked him, "Who were those people looking for you just now?"
"They are a new group in the black market recently, always trying to get information about sewing machines and electronic watches from . I ignored them, but they kept chasing ."
Su Xiaoxiao nodded. These things were indeed too advanced for this era, so it was normal to attract attention. It seed she should be more cautious when selling things in the future.
"Alright then, take care of yourself and go back if there’s nothing else."
The two parted ways, and with the bonus Su Xiaoxiao received today, she wanted to celebrate properly, so she specially packed four hearty dishes from a state-run restaurant.
Sweet and sour carp, braised pork ribs, braised pork with preserved vegetables, and chicken stewed with mushrooms.
She packed the lunchboxes in a net bag, hung it on the handlebars, and headed ho.
Just as she reached the doorstep, she encountered Su Jianwen and Su Jianwu returning from school.
Su Xiaoxiao was about to call out to them, but noticed them sneakily entering the house, soon coming out again, looking around warily before leaving together.
Sothing’s not right; this is too off.
These two are usually the most eager to eat, and now it’s almost alti and they’re running out; sothing must be up.
Su Xiaoxiao wheeled the bicycle into the house, placed the packed food properly, and then rode her bicycle out.
Riding a bike, she was definitely faster than her two brothers who were on foot, and she quickly caught up with them.
The two left the village, headed straight for the neighboring village, and stopped at the entrance of a reasonably well-decorated courtyard after several turns.
Su Jianwen walked up and knocked on the courtyard door, and imdiately soone inside opened it.
What were the two of them doing here? And what were they looking for?
This didn’t seem like they were visiting classmates.
Su Xiaoxiao was puzzled and quickly followed.
The courtyard wall was quite high, and she struggled to climb it using a pile of firewood as support.
As soon as she got up, she saw a large group of people standing inside the courtyard, looking familiar.
Su Xiaoxiao thought carefully and imdiately realized, weren’t these the people who had been chasing Skinny earlier?
Oh no, could she have been exposed? But even if exposed, they shouldn’t be looking for her two brothers.
As she was thinking, she heard the leading man speak, "Tell , where are the mini electric sewing machines and electronic watches sourced from?"
"Tell , and these twenty bucks are yours."
The man said, taking out two banknotes and slapping them on the table.
The two exchanged glances, and Su Jianwen spoke, "If we tell, you’ll leave our family alone? And give us twenty bucks?"
"Yes, tell , and you can take this money imdiately. Not only will I not bother your family in the future, but if anything happens, you can co to for help. How about that? It’s a good deal, isn’t it?"
The two exchanged another glance but remained silent.
This man was willing to threaten their family; he must not be a good person.
Could such a person really be trusted to keep his word?
"Big brother, to be honest, we do want the money, but how could our sister trust us with such important matters?"
Su Xiaoxiao silently praised the two brothers. These troublemakers usually seed unreliable, but at critical monts, they were quite clever.
As long as they didn’t imdiately tell this man what he wanted to know, he wouldn’t harm them.
Unexpectedly, just as she thought this, she saw Su Jianwu stretch out two fingers towards the man, "Though we don’t know now, we can go back and get our third sister to talk. But this money..."
Saying this, he held up two fingers, "Our third sister is very fierce. We’re risking a beating to get this info. Twenty bucks isn’t enough; you must add at least another twenty."
Su Xiaoxiao: "..."
Damn, she very much wanted to take off her shoe right there and teach these two brats a lesson.
No wonder they were so firm just now; they wanted to get him to raise the price.
These two little scoundrels, daring to think like that, trying to get money by extracting information from her—if she didn’t spank their butts till they blood, she wasn’t their third sister.
Inside the courtyard, Zhang Jun scanned the children up and down with his gaze, giving them chills.
The look in this man’s eyes was terrifying.
After a brief silence, Zhang Jun spoke up.
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