Chapter 115 — No Philandering Allowed
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"All right, I'll head over right away..." Qiu Lingshan's heart sank. Finding the ringleader of the suspects ought to have been a cause for celebration, but at this moment she could not summon the slightest joy—because what they had found was not a living man, but a corpse.
Which meant there was more to this case than met the eye. Someone had likely silenced the bald man for good.
If that were so, the case would only grow more tangled, and tracking down the true mastermind behind it all would be next to impossible... Yet for all her throbbing headache, Qiu Lingshan still hurried her people to the scene at once...
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"Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?" Shen Yushu had noticed too that Gu Mengyao's mood seemed less than bright, her face pale the whole way. At first she had assumed it was Uncle Chu's presence making her play the good girl, but after a while Shen Yushu realized that could not be it.
"Nothing..." Gu Mengyao shook her head. She was a little irritated at Wei Zhao's lecherous behavior, but surely she could not be jealous of her own best friend?
"Oh. I thought yesterday's fried mushrooms were better than today's dishes. What do you think?" Shen Yushu nodded, then asked out of the blue.
"..." Gu Mengyao was speechless, but Shen Yushu managed to coax a laugh out of her: "Xiaoshu, you're fated to eat at roadside stalls your whole life... When you get married, your husband will have to pinch every penny..."
"Hehe, when I get married, won't you be married too? And besides, that saves money for you as well..." Shen Yushu said with a teasing look at Gu Mengyao, all smiles.
"For me... huh?" Gu Mengyao's face suddenly flushed as she grasped what Shen Yushu was getting at, and she raised a hand to swat her: "That was when we were little—why do you still bring it up?"
"Hehe, it was when we were little, but we did pinky-swear on it." At this Shen Yushu's cheeks flushed a little too, and she stole a glance at Wei Zhao from the corner of her eye. Surely Uncle Chu could not really be entertaining such an idea—taking Wei Zhao as a son-in-law?
"I'm not talking to you anymore." Gu Mengyao's expression turned awkward, and she turned her head away...
What Shen Yushu had brought up was a little secret the two of them had shared as children, one they had never told anyone else—though even after they grew up, they still occasionally joked about it.
Six or seven years ago, back 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 that they could stay together every day forever, wound up marrying the same man...
And so Shen Yushu had foolishly said, Yaoyao, when you get married, I'll marry over with you, and that way we'll never be apart...
Gu Mengyao thought that sounded like a fine idea and nodded in agreement, and so the two of them hooked pinkies and swore a hundred years without change... As they grew older they came to realize how absurd the whole thing was, yet they still joked about it...
Especially after Shen Yushu grew up and no longer wanted to call Gu Mengyao "big sister"—after all, they were classmates in the same class, and calling her sister felt a bit like pretending to be younger than she was... But Gu Mengyao held it over her head: once we're married I'll be the senior wife and you'll be the junior wife, so of course you have to call me sister—and if you don't, I'll tell everyone about it...
With no way out, Shen Yushu had no choice but to keep calling Gu Mengyao "big sister" all these years. But after calling her that for so long it came naturally, and since her birthday fell a few months after Gu Mengyao's, calling her sister was no great loss anyway.
Of course, apart from Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu themselves, no one else knew about any of this.
Wei Zhao listened with some bafflement as the two girls spoke in veiled, cryptic terms. He shook his head and did not ask, because he knew that even if he did, he would get no answer.