Chapter 176
“Tight-fisted,” Tao Junlan muttered disdainfully under her breath. But she didn’t dare challenge Jiang Yexun, instead, she looked eagerly at Su Xiaoxiao and said, “You’ve been out for so long. How about going to the city together tomorrow?”
Su Xiaoxiao was about to agree when Qian Siyu shook her head at Tao Junlan and said, “Let’s not. Comrade Jiang will definitely follow us, and he’ll complain again.”
“They’ve been together outside for a month, and now they won’t even give us one day?” Tao Junlan was annoyed.
However, she understood very well that Jiang Yexun was indeed that stingy. He couldn’t bear to give them even one day.
“Alright, he won’t be here every day. When he’s busy with something, we can go to the city together,” Su Xiaoxiao said, soothing Tao Junlan, following Qian Siyu’s words.
She would be going to the city tomorrow to thank Big Gao for selling them a hundred-year-old wild ginseng for six thousand yuan. They couldn’t treat this as a simple transaction. So it would be a bit inconvenient to bring Tao Junlan and Qian Siyu.
“You’re prioritizing man over friendship!” Tao Junlan scolded Su Xiaoxiao in a playful manner.
Su Xiaoxiao didn’t argue; instead, she playfully blinked her eyes. The side chat was over, and she took a bunch of candies, cookies, and pastries from her basket. She got up and distributed them to everyone in the educated youth dormitory.
Except for Pan Yongsheng and Dong Jiaxuan.
She passed right over these two individuals.
Their expressions had turned particularly ugly.
Finally, when they saw that everything had been distributed and none of it was for them, the two couldn’t take it anymore.
“Xiaoxiao, we grew up together since we were children. How can you treat us like this?” Dong Jiaxuan stopped Su Xiaoxiao and said in a grievous tone.
“Get lost!” Jiang Yexun reached out and pulled Su Xiaoxiao behind him, reprimanding Dong Jiaxuan with a scowling face.
Both Dong Jiaxuan and Pan Yongsheng were terrified. Su Xiaoxiao poked her head out from behind Jiang Yexun.
Her gaze fixed on Dong Jiaxuan. She scrutinized her from head to toe for quite some time before saying somewhat arrogantly, “Oh, by the way, you still owe me meat tickets. I have to see them tonight, or I’ll go straight to the city’s police station tomorrow and report you for cheating me out of my stuff.”
“Didn’t you say you wanted to split the pork? Why don’t I just give you the meat directly?” Dong Jiaxuan was shocked, quickly retorting.
She had thought that Su Xiaoxiao, who had been gone for a month, must have gotten over her anger. So she had taken advantage of her good mood to borrow some money and meat tickets from her.
Little did she know that Su Xiaoxiao, upon her return, immediately asked for the meat tickets.
“I want to eat meat, so what’s the problem with you returning the tickets? Right now, you owe me things. It’s not the other way around, so what’s with the nonsense? Could it be that you still have nothing to offer at this point? Tsk, tsk, it seems the guy you found last time wasn’t that great,” Su Xiaoxiao taunted.
Dong Jiaxuan was stunned for a moment and then her face turned bright red.
“Su Xiaoxiao, don’t talk nonsense as soon as you’re back,” she protested.
“Am I though? Everyone knows it in their hearts! Anyway, you better give me my stuff back quickly. Don’t talk to me anymore in the future; you disgust me,” Su Xiaoxiao raised her chin, showing a look of disdain.
While she was away, she had thought that the people in the production team must have caught her having an affair. Who would have thought that these people were so useless that they allowed her to continue prancing around here? Sigh, in order to avoid this woman from disgusting her, she had to take action first.
“Su Xiaoxiao, you’re going too far!” Dong Jiaxuan exclaimed in frustration.
But Su Xiaoxiao didn’t bother with her anymore. She spoke again, “Anyway, you’ve got another seven or eight hours. Just handle it yourself.”
After saying this, her meaningful gaze fell on Pan Yongsheng.
Pan Yongsheng shuddered and had to suppress the words he was about to say to Su Xiaoxiao, as he had neither money nor tickets and it was completely impossible to make it through the winter.
He gritted his teeth and forced himself to walk up to Su Xiaoxiao, but she dragged Jiang Yexun two steps back behind her.
“Stink bug, stay away from us!” She shouted urgently.
“Ha!” Tao Junlan couldn’t help but laugh on the side.
Pan Yongsheng’s face turned completely dark.
During this time, they had all worked hard to forget that he had spent the whole night in the pit. But now that Su Xiaoxiao had returned, she brought it up again. Seeing the undisguised disdain in everyone’s eyes, Pan Yongsheng’s body shivered with anger.
But Su Xiaoxiao didn’t care about his expression at all. She shouted, “Pan Yongsheng, keep your distance!”
“Brother Yongsheng, are you okay? Don’t pay attention to Su Xiaoxiao’s nonsense; she’s completely gone mad now,” Dong Jiaxuan reached out and tried to touch Pan Yongsheng but was pushed away.
“Get lost! Stay away from me!” Pan Yongsheng shouted in frustration.
“Brother Yongsheng…” Dong Jiaxuan called out, her eyes red, and her voice full of grievances.
Su Xiaoxiao and Jiang Yexun were both sickened by their melodramatic performance. They smiled dryly, quickly left the educated youth dormitory.
Jiang Yexun had originally thought that they would go home after giving out the things. But as soon as they left the educated youth dormitory, the young girl by his side turned to look back.
When she confirmed that no one was following them, she immediately pulled Jiang Yexun and headed for a small grove outside the educated youth dormitory.
“Are we not going back?” Jiang Yexun was a bit confused as the young girl buried herself in his arms.
“With my understanding of Dong Jiaxuan, she will definitely go to that man for things and money. Yexun, can you please follow them secretly? If something really happens between them, we can immediately step in and expose them and send both of them to the police,” Su Xiaoxiao nestled into Jiang Yexun’s arms, gently rubbing against him.
“For over a month, that man wouldn’t give Dong Jiaxuan nothing. She’s not an easy person to deal with.” Jiang Yexun frowned and pondered. After all, no one with a bit of intelligence would look for trouble on one side and go to bed with another man on the other side. Isn’t this basically asking to get caught?
“She’s biased towards men and looks down on women. If the postage wasn’t so expensive, she probably would have sent a needle home. So, besides the essentials, she won’t keep anything on her. I forced her to return the meat tickets, giving her a reason to go to the man and demand things from him confidently,” Su Xiaoxiao explained.
Last life, she was in the bureau, so she couldn’t see many things clearly. However, in this life, after jumping out of it and considering what Dong Jiaxuan had done last time, she could say she understood Dong Jiaxuan well.
“Alright! In that case, you go back first. Don’t wander around. If those neighbors come to bully you, just go back and fight them.” Jiang Yexun replied.
However, Su Xiaoxiao didn’t move. She used her foot to lightly push his calf and urged him. “You should go quickly. If you don’t leave now, Dong Jiaxuan will definitely meet that man.”
“Alright.” Jiang Yexun responded with a hoarse voice.
But his burning gaze remained on the young girl in front of him, and he didn’t seem willing to withdraw it.
Su Xiaoxiao knew it was useless to say anything to him, so she simply lowered her head, feeling her legs trembling, and hurriedly left the grove.
Jiang Yexun watched Su Xiaoxiao until she reached the end of the small road. Then, he found a place to hide near the educated youth dormitory.
At this moment, educated youth dormitory was probably having their meals, so it took about half an hour before Pan Yongsheng sneaked out from the educated youth dormitory stealthily.