Li Susu tossed the stick in her hand aside and said with a sincere expression, “Sister Xu Mei, although I didn’t manage to kill the spider, it ran away. It’s not on your back anymore.”
At this moment, Xu Mei’s entire back felt both painful and unbearably itchy. Her heart was filled with resentment toward Li Susu.
“All right, all right. Since the spider is gone, I’ll continue doing your makeup!”
Li Susu hadn’t expected that even after being in such a state, Xu Mei was still obsessed with putting makeup on her.
She had to admit, this woman’s persistence when it came to harming others was truly impressive!
Li Susu put on a concerned expression. “Sister Xu Mei, the spider was crawling all over your back just now. I’m worried that it might have bitten you. What if it was poisonous? The consequences could be terrible!”
Xu Mei’s face turned pale as soon as she heard this.
She was scared too. After all, her back seemed to be getting itchier and itchier.
Could she really have been bitten?
Could the spider really have been poisonous?
Flustered, Xu Mei said, “Susu, I’m going back for a bit!”
With that, she turned around and ran.
Xu Mei lived at the educated youth settlement. Simply put, everyone slept together in one large dormitory.
Li Susu, on the other hand, had spent her own money to build a separate room beside the educated youth settlement.
Previously, Xu Mei had hinted several times that she wanted to live with the original Li Susu. However, the original owner was rather spoiled and didn’t like sharing her private space with anyone.
Xu Mei had brought it up several times, but seeing that the original owner never responded, she eventually gave up.
However, as the original owner’s closest friend, Xu Mei ate meals with her almost every day.
She claimed that she was helping the original owner cook, but in reality, she simply wanted to mooch off her food.
Not long after Xu Mei left, Lu Yuanxing arrived.
Seeing Lu Yuanxing with a long, gloomy face and not saying a word, Li Susu knew that he must have been thoroughly scolded by his family after going back home.
But thinking about it, it made sense.
The original owner had caused the Lu family to lose their chance to return to the city. In other words, she had become the enemy of the entire Lu family.
And now Lu Yuanxing was being forced to marry her.
It was practically rubbing salt into their wounds.
Li Susu cautiously studied Lu Yuanxing’s expression.
She deliberately softened her voice and said, “You’re here?”
Lu Yuanxing glanced at her and noticed that the bright red and green colors that had previously covered her face were gone.
In their place was clean, fair skin and delicate, beautiful features.
He was somewhat surprised.
Every time Li Susu had appeared in front of him before, she had been wearing some bizarre makeup.
It wasn’t exactly ugly, but it gave people the impression that she was eccentric and almost crazy.
Lu Yuanxing had always thought that Li Susu was mentally unstable, which was why he had avoided her whenever possible.
He hadn’t expected that without all that ridiculous makeup, Li Susu actually looked rather pleasant.
Lu Yuanxing’s expression softened slightly.
“Are you ready? Let’s go to the health clinic now.”
Li Susu nodded. “I’m ready. Let’s go.”
The two of them then set off for the health clinic.
The clinic was in Shankou Town, ten kilometers away from Liu Village, where they currently lived.
If they walked, it would take at least one or two hours.
There was actually a barefoot doctor in the village, but Lu Yuanxing didn’t have much confidence in that kind of doctor.
Besides, he wanted to confirm whether Li Susu was really pregnant. It would be safer to go to the town health clinic.
At this moment, Li Susu was also feeling extremely anxious.
Although Lu Yuanxing hadn’t explicitly said why they were going to the clinic, she knew exactly what it was for.
They were going to confirm whether she was pregnant.
Things had already reached this point. If she didn’t want to be sent to the far northwest, she had to find an opportunity to take the fake-pregnancy pills.
However, once she took the pills, if she really was pregnant, there was a good chance they could cause a miscarriage.
Li Susu was conflicted.
After all, she had taken over the original owner’s body.
And the original owner had already slept with Lu Yuanxing.
If the original owner really was pregnant, then by taking those pills, she would effectively be killing the only bloodline the original owner had left in this world.
But if the original owner wasn’t pregnant, Lu Yuanxing would definitely send her to a farm in the northwest for re-education.
When she weighed the two possibilities against each other, it was obvious that her own safety and happiness mattered more.
She would take the fake-pregnancy pills!
After all, the most important thing right now was to keep Lu Yuanxing under control.
If she miscarried because of the pills, that would actually be even better!
Once she got through the immediate crisis, she wouldn’t need to remain tied to Lu Yuanxing.
She could use the miscarriage to gain sympathy and then find an opportunity to escape.
Yes, that was it!
The two walked one behind the other.
Lu Yuanxing was tall with long legs, and he walked very quickly. Before long, he had left Li Susu far behind.
Looking at Lu Yuanxing walking ahead of her, Li Susu felt annoyed.
She had survived the apocalypse, after all. How could she possibly lose to an educated youth sent down to the countryside in the 1970s?
With her competitive spirit fired up, Li Susu quickened her pace and broke into a light jog.
When she finally caught up with Lu Yuanxing, she shot him a glance and stubbornly continued jogging ahead.
Lu Yuanxing frowned when he saw Li Susu overtake him.
Wasn’t Li Susu pregnant?
How could she run so fast?
“Li Susu! Why are you running so fast? Could it be that you’re not pregnant?”
Lu Yuanxing’s voice came from behind her.
Li Susu froze.
Oh no!
She had been so focused on overtaking Lu Yuanxing that she had forgotten she was supposed to be pregnant.
She awkwardly stopped where she was.
Lu Yuanxing took three quick strides forward and caught up with her. Looking at Li Susu’s flushed cheeks, his deep eyes swept over her from head to toe.
Thinking quickly, Li Susu put on an aggrieved expression.
“You were walking so fast and didn’t wait for me. I had no choice but to run if I wanted to catch up with you!”
Hearing her pitiful, slightly whiny voice, Lu Yuanxing’s cold expression softened somewhat.
“Then you should have said something. Why did you have to compete with me?”
Li Susu pouted.
“I didn’t dare say anything. I was afraid you’d say I was making a fuss over nothing.”
Looking at Li Susu’s aggrieved face, Lu Yuanxing suddenly found it a little amusing.
Perhaps Li Susu wasn’t as annoying as he had thought.
“All right. I’ll slow down. Don’t run anymore.”
Li Susu nodded.
Seeing that Lu Yuanxing’s expression was no longer as cold, she tentatively asked, “We’re going to the health clinic to check whether I’m actually pregnant, right?”
Lu Yuanxing’s footsteps stopped when he heard this, and he felt slightly displeased.
That was exactly what he had been thinking, but Li Susu had asked so bluntly that it made him seem petty.
Still, that was the truth.
If Li Susu wasn’t pregnant, he absolutely would not have anything to do with her.
Lu Yuanxing nodded.
“Yes. We’re going to confirm whether you’re pregnant. Li Susu, you’ve framed and harmed me time and time again. What I’m doing is only reasonable.”
Li Susu nodded along.
“That’s true.”
Now that she had confirmed it directly from Lu Yuanxing, she had to find an opportunity to take the fake-pregnancy pills.
That was the safest and most reliable option.
After walking for a long time under the hot summer sun, they finally arrived at Shankou Town.
As soon as they reached the town, Li Susu complained that she was thirsty and hungry.
Lu Yuanxing had originally wanted to go straight to the health clinic so they could finish the examination and return home as soon as possible. But when he checked the time, it was already almost lunchtime.
So he found a state-run restaurant in town.
They decided to have something to drink and eat before going to the health clinic for the examination.
The two entered the state-run restaurant, but Li Susu suddenly said that she needed to use the restroom.
Then she hurriedly ran outside to look for one.
Lu Yuanxing watched her somewhat flustered figure and gently furrowed his brows.