“Su Nianxi seems to be angry. Why don’t you go and coax your adopted daughter? As for going out shopping I can go by myself, can’t I?” Su Nian’an looked at Su Aiguo with a half-smile and asked.
Su Aiguo thought that even if Su Nianxi went shopping with Su Nian’an, she probably wouldn’t be able to keep an eye on her.
He knew his own daughter all too well.
If they really went shopping, Su Nianxi would probably get caught up in shopping herself. How would she have the time to keep watch over Su Nian’an?
In any case, Su Nian’an’s household registration booklet, identification documents, and everything else were still in his hands, so he wasn’t worried that she would run away.
Su Aiguo planned to hand all those things over to the Gu family when he met them tomorrow.
“Fine. Just come back early,” Su Aiguo said.
“Okay. My ID and household registration booklet are all in your hands, aren’t they? And I don’t even have a letter of introduction, so I can’t take a train. Are you really afraid I’ll run away?” Su Nian’an looked at Su Aiguo and directly tore away the last layer of pretense between them.
This old fox at a time like this, he was still pretending to be a loving father and devoted daughter. It was simply ridiculous.
What Su Nian’an didn’t know was that Su Aiguo still hadn’t given up on making her remember the Su family’s “kindness.”
He had sensed that his biological daughter was not an ordinary person. What if she really became successful one day? Then the Su family could benefit from it too.
That was why, for the time being, he was still pretending to treat Su Nian’an well.
Su Aiguo coughed awkwardly before saying, “Then go. Just come back early.”
Su Nian’an nodded and turned around, leaving the Su family compound.
The moment she left, Su Nianxi immediately rushed out of her room.
“Dad! How could you let that little bitch Su Nian’an leave? What if she runs away?” Su Nianxi said indignantly, staring in the direction Su Nian’an had gone.
“Xixi! You’re getting more and more willful as you grow older.” Su Aiguo frowned deeply. He was becoming increasingly unable to understand why the daughter he had carefully raised had turned out to be so thoughtless.
But his biological daughter…
Sigh. What a pity!
“I’m willful? Su Nian’an clearly has bad intentions toward our family. She took so much money from us in one go, and you still say I’m being willful? Dad, you’ve changed! Now that you have a biological daughter, you don’t like me, your adopted daughter, anymore, do you? Fine! I’ll leave! I won’t shamelessly stay in the Su family anymore. I’ll leave, all right?”
After saying this, Su Nianxi turned and headed back toward her room.
Su Aiguo watched her retreating figure and shook his head.
In the end, he still couldn’t bring himself to leave her upset, so he had no choice but to go coax her himself.
Meanwhile, Su Nian’an, who had finally made it out of the Su family compound, was visibly excited.
Beijing at this time was still quite different from the later era. The buildings were relatively old, and there were many hutongs and narrow alleyways.
Although the architecture was far from modern, Beijing was undoubtedly bustling.
There were people everywhere on the streets. Su Nian’an had no interest in wandering around aimlessly. After walking for a while, she observed how the locals hailed taxis, then immediately raised her hand to flag down a three-wheeled vehicle. Vehicles like this were called bengk-beng cars in this era.
The driver stopped and looked at Su Nian’an’s shabby clothes before asking, “Little girl, do you have money to pay for a ride?”
Su Nian’an: “…”
She had to admit, the Su family really was stingy when it came to her. She had been here for so many days, yet they hadn’t even bothered to buy her a new set of clothes.
“Yes, I want a ride. Don’t worry, I have money to pay you,” Su Nian’an replied speechlessly.
The bengk-beng driver took Su Nian’an to the largest trading market in Beijing. As soon as she got out, Su Nian’an wanted to buy some clothes.
Surely she couldn’t marry the male lead dressed this shabbily, could she?
At present, Su Nian’an was completely focused on getting her hands on the male lead’s spatial bracelet. The question was how she was going to trick him into giving it to her.
Since the two of them would eventually become husband and wife, what could be simpler and faster than seduction?
So she still needed to dress herself up a little and make the male lead fall in love with her at first sight.
That was what she had in mind, but once she entered the trading market, there were hardly any clothes inside that she found presentable.
This kind of trading market seemed to be where ordinary people shopped, didn’t it? She should have gone to a department store instead.
Most of the clothes in department stores were ready-made imports from Hong Kong or other places.
The things sold at this trading market, on the other hand, were mostly bolts of fabric. After buying the fabric, she would still have to find a tailor to make the clothes. By the time everything was done, it would take at least a week. How could that work?
Looking at the lively trading market even though it was already well into the afternoon, Su Nian’an couldn’t help sighing.
“Oh, little girl, what are you looking to buy? You’ve been standing here for quite a while without buying anything. Tell Auntie what you want, and I’ll take you to get it.”
A kindly looking middle-aged woman appeared in front of Su Nian’an, smiling benevolently.
“You’ll take me there?” Su Nian’an asked.
“Of course! What do you want to buy? I have connections. Everything is very cheap. Come with Auntie. I absolutely won’t let you get cheated.”
Although most people in this era were simple and straightforward, that didn’t mean there weren’t bad people around.
The middle-aged woman in front of her looked kind and benevolent, even putting on an appearance of wanting to help. But Su Nian’an’s instincts told her that something was wrong.
“No need, Auntie. What I want to buy isn’t something you have.” Su Nian’an had only just transmigrated into this world and still didn’t know much about it, so she didn’t want to cause any unnecessary trouble.
She was seventy percent certain that this middle-aged woman was a human trafficker.
But she was in a hurry to find the male lead, and with her current identity as a country girl who had come into the city, she had no grand ambition of hunting down human traffickers.
So she simply wanted to reject the woman and let both sides leave each other alone.
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman refused to give up just because she hadn’t achieved her goal. She insisted on making Su Nian’an go with her.
“Oh, come on, girl~ You haven’t even come with me to take a look yet. How do you know I don’t have what you want? Come with me. Everything we have is sold to you at a low price. I’m only saying this because I can see from the clothes you’re wearing that you’re obviously not from a wealthy family. I thought your family might be having a hard time, so I wanted to help you a little. You know, life isn’t easy for families like yours, so when you buy things, don’t go for expensive ones. Listen to Auntie. Everything I have here is sold at wholesale prices. I’m just trying to help poor children like you.”
The moment she heard this, Su Nian’an became even more certain that the woman was a human trafficker.
Her gaze instantly turned cold. Crossing her arms, she said icily, “No, Auntie. I already told you I’m not going with you. I want to look around by myself. I don’t want to buy anything from your stall. Didn’t you understand?”
After saying this, Su Nian’an shifted her gaze toward a young, burly man at the stall beside them.
“Big brother, this auntie has followed you all the way to your own doorstep to steal your customers. I was just trying to buy some balls of yarn from your stall, but I couldn’t decide which color to get. But this auntie keeps pulling me along and insisting that I buy from her instead. If she dares to openly steal your customers today, tomorrow she’ll dare to make sure you have no business at all! Big brother, aren’t you going to do something about this? I don’t want to go with her, but she’s still trying to force me to leave with her. Tell me, what kind of logic is that?”