Chapter 720 — The Joy of Haggling
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"The two of them don't come to places like this often, do they?" Tang Zhi shook her head helplessly.
"Probably never been before." Wei Zhao sighed. "Actually, the young lady is rather pitiful. Apart from Xiaoshu, she has almost no friends, and the two of them live very fixed lives and go to very fixed places. They rarely try anything new."
"You know her quite well, don't you?" Hearing Wei Zhao talk about Gu Mengyao, Tang Zhi felt a faint discomfort.
"Heh..." Wei Zhao shrugged. "The young lady probably doesn't have that kind of feeling for me. The reason she gets in a huff with you is just her little pride."
"Oh?" Tang Zhi was taken aback for a moment — this was the first time Wei Zhao had addressed this matter head-on.
"Once you've spent enough time around them, you'll figure it out," Wei Zhao said. "The eldest lady is actually a very lonely person. She doesn't let anyone in easily, but once she does, she doesn't want to lose them lightly. I suppose I count as her friend now? Either way, she thinks slightly more of me than she does of most people."
Tang Zhi nodded. Everyone had their own burdens to bear. If Wei Zhao was telling the truth, then Gu Mengyao, though seemingly born into wealth, actually had no real pleasures to speak of — the fact that haggling at a night market could become entertainment spoke volumes about how monotonous their lives were. "She wouldn't be like the rich kids online — street racing, flaunting wealth, or chasing thrills?"
"You'd know just by looking, wouldn't you?" Wei Zhao shrugged. "They don't even like driving their own cars — they always have someone chauffeur them. Why would they enjoy street racing? And as for showing off money, do you think they're any different from you?"
Tang Zhi shook her head. It did indeed seem to be the case. Unbeknownst to her, her impression of Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had improved considerably.
"Enough of that — let's go catch up with them." Wei Zhao pointed toward Shen Yushu, who had already begun playing the sandbag toss, and said.
"She did go play after all — that ten yuan is down the drain." Although Tang Zhi's family had undergone a sea change thanks to Wei Zhao's intervention and was no longer as destitute as before, Tang Zhi had never developed lavish habits. She still spent every cent with care, never wasting a single penny on anything unnecessary.
Ten yuan bought ten sandbags, and Shen Yushu tossed them all away in no time, yet her haul was meager — apart from a pencil holder, she won nothing at all.
Wei Zhao glanced at the pencil holder. It wouldn't sell for more than three yuan at a wholesale market, which meant Shen Yushu had lost seven yuan in just a few moments. Of course, that was nothing to her.
Gu Mengyao tossed more slowly. She had only thrown three sandbags, but she had already won a phone charm.
"Sister Yao Yao, let me throw for you!" With her own sandbags spent, Shen Yushu set her sights on Gu Mengyao's supply.
Gu Mengyao naturally wouldn't fuss over such trifles. She nodded, signaling that Shen Yushu was free to throw as she pleased. RO