Chapter 8: Go shopping at the department store!
"Isn't that country girl already engaged to Gu Xiangyu? Why is she going out with her future uncle? She has absolutely no manners at all."
"Tsk tsk tsk, this country bumpkin is obviously not someone who will keep quiet. Is she targeting Gu Yunting? Doesn't she realize her status? Is Gu Yunting someone she can possibly get close to?"
"Gu Yunting and the Jiang family have been engaged for a long time. If the Jiang family's youngest daughter hadn't gone missing, they would have been married long ago. Besides, what kind of family is the Jiang family? She is just a country bumpkin. It's wishful thinking for a toad to want to eat swan meat."
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On the way out of the family compound, Su Mengxue sneezed a few times for no reason. After the two of them reached the sentry booth in the family compound, Gu Yunting looked at Su Mengxue and said, "I'll go inside and make a phone call to send a car to pick us up. You go wait for me outside first."
Su Mengxue responded and left the family compound. She waited for a while under the shade of a tree by the roadside, and then saw a military jeep driving towards her direction and then stopped not far from her.
She thought this was the car Gu Yunting called, so she walked over quickly in the hot sun, raised her hand to open the back door, and sat in without even looking.
When she looked up, she met a cold and hard face.
The man was wearing a military uniform and looked a few years older than her. There were three star badges on his epaulettes, and his military cap was pulled down very low. His resolute brows and eyes gave off a cold and solemn aura, and his whole body exuded an oppressive feeling that kept strangers away.
Su Mengxue pursed her lips and blurted out, "Who are you?"
Jiang Weilong was used to seeing women trying to get close to him, so he didn't even raise his eyelids: "Get out of the car."
The man's disdainful tone made Su Mengxue furious. She knew she had taken the wrong bus, but the man shouldn't be so disdainful of her.
When she got out of the car, she deliberately slammed the door shut and said, "No matter how high an official is, they still serve the people. Why are you so arrogant?"
She spoke quite loudly, and the man in the car immediately frowned.
Su Mengxue saw Gu Yunting walking towards her and took the initiative to greet him: "Gu Yunting, I thought..."
"Wait for me here." Before Su Mengxue could finish her words, Gu Yunting walked past her and went straight to the jeep.
Soon the car window rolled down, and Su Mengxue saw the two men talking in low voices for a few words. Although she didn't hear clearly what they said, she could tell that they were close friends. Not only that, she had just looked at the star bar on the epaulettes of the man in the car, and he had one more star bar than Gu Yunting, so his official position should be higher than Gu Yunting's.
A few minutes later, the car drove into the family compound. When the jeep passed by Su Mengxue, she glared at the man in the car fiercely.
Gu Yunting walked up to Su Mengxue with a sullen face, stared at her and asked, "Why did you get in his car?"
There was obvious anger in Gu Yunting's cold and hard tone, and Su Mengxue immediately understood that he thought she was going to hook up with the man in the car.
Su Mengxue raised her eyebrows, looked up to meet his malicious gaze, and replied unhappily: "Gu Yunting, you should understand that I am not your soldier and I will not accept your questioning."
Gu Yunting's Adam's apple rolled, his voice still cold and low: "He is not someone you can think about."
Su Mengxue's previous impression of him disappeared in an instant. It turned out that he was no different from the other people in the Gu family. They all thought she was a country bumpkin who wanted to curry favor with the powerful.
She looked at him with cold eyes and replied in a cold voice: "Don't bother reminding me, Captain. I know my own weight."
Gu Yunting also understood what she meant. He didn't look down on her, but when Jiang Weilong said that she had gotten in the car to seduce him, he was furious. She had just done that with him last night, so how could she find another man in the blink of an eye?
He was filled with inexplicable anger. He was too lazy to explain to Su Mengxue and tugged at his military cap. "It's good that you know."
After these words were spoken, the two fell into silence and no one spoke again.
A few minutes later, a military jeep stopped steadily in front of them. After the door opened, orderly Wang Qi quickly got out of the car. When his eyes swept over the woman standing next to Gu Yunting, a hint of curiosity flashed in his eyes, but he quickly concealed it.
He straightened his back and saluted Gu Yunting solemnly: "Captain!"
Gu Yunting nodded in agreement. As soon as he walked to the front of the car and opened the driver's door, Su Mengxue said self-deprecatingly, "I'm just a country boy. How dare I waste Captain Gu's time?"
Su Mengxue's words were filled with obvious alienation and indifference. Gu Yunting paused as he gripped the car door handle. Then he turned his head to look at Wang Qi and ordered, "Take her to the department store and return her after she finishes shopping. Remember not to delay the birthday banquet at noon."
Wang Qi bowed and replied, "Understood!"
Gu Yunting glanced at Su Mengxue, the corners of his lips twitched, and he turned and left.
After getting in the car, Wang Qi looked at the woman behind him from time to time through the rearview mirror. Su Mengxue was annoyed by his staring and asked, "Have you seen enough?"
Wang Qi was caught red-handed, his face flushing instantly. He stammered, "It was... the first time I saw a girl with our captain, so I was just curious..."
When Su Mengxue heard this, he immediately thought of what the driver-steward often said in the domineering CEO novels. This was the first time he saw the CEO bring a woman back.
Su Mengxue thought about the beating Gu Yunting had given her just now and raised her eyebrows. "Don't be curious. I have nothing to do with people like Gu Yunting."
Although Wang Qi didn't know what she meant by "that kind of person", he could hear the disdain for Gu Yunting in her words. Gu Yunting was a great hero in his mind, and he would never allow others to belittle him like that.
He curled his lips and couldn't help but mutter, "Our captain is young and promising, handsome, and diligent in his duties in the army. He has all the good qualities and is not the kind of person you're talking about!"
Su Mengxue knew that he was Gu Yunting's subordinate and would naturally speak for Gu Yunting. She now asked him to drive her to the department store. In order to avoid an argument with him, she didn't say anything.
After arriving at the department store, Wang Qi waited for her in the car while Su Mengxue went in alone. The first floor mainly sold daily necessities and shoes. After a quick look around, she quickly started shopping.
She bought Friendship brand vanishing cream, toad oil, bee flower conditioner, Wan Zi Qian Hong brand balm, pearl cream, Maxam lipstick, a towel, a bar of Shanghai brand soap, and a pair of fashionable high heels.
After she finished shopping, she spent a total of 36.5 yuan. She carried the things straight to the second floor, where she saw shelves full of colorful fabrics, including bright floral fabrics, simple and elegant Dacron, and thick cotton fabrics.
Next is the clothing area, where plain Dacron shirts, navy khaki overalls, and floral dresses of various colors are neatly folded in the glass counters.
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Su Mengxue walked around the glass counter twice but still couldn't find anything she liked. Just as she was about to buy some fabric to make a few clothes, the salesperson called her.
She bent down and pulled out a fashionable item from the bottom of the counter: a goose yellow mid-sleeved dress with ruffles at the neckline.
"Girl, take a look at this style and material." The salesperson carefully lifted the hem of the skirt with her fingertips, her tone tinged with a hint of boasting, "This is a new pattern from the Shanghai No. 1 Garment Factory. It just arrived yesterday."
She glanced at the customers around her and said in a low voice, "We only have this one. If you like it, don't hesitate."
After looking at it for a few times, Su Mengxue decided to buy some fabric and make some clothes herself. She smiled at the salesperson and said, "Sorry for the trouble. Let me take a look."
Before she finished speaking, a sneer suddenly came from behind her: "Oh, are you displaying Shanghai goods here to dazzle the country people? Don't you even consider whether she is worthy of wearing them?"
The woman's voice dragged out the last syllable, with a deliberate sharpness.
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