Chapter 7
After scanning the QR code on the old woman's cart and paying 80 yuan, Zhu Yu received four carrots.
"Is that all? Isn't that a bit too little?" On average, each carrot costs 20 yuan.
This is an outrageous price!
Zhu Yu felt like she had been tricked.
The old woman, still smiling, put four carrots in a small bamboo basket and handed them to Zhu Yu.
"That's quite a lot. These alpacas usually eat specially prepared feed. Only those unscrupulous merchants would let them eat the feed that customers buy."
"We're only making enough to cover our costs. Here, if you like this little basket, you can take it home."
Even with this basket included, these items probably don't cost more than eighty yuan...
But since they had already said so much, Zhu Yu could only smile and take the basket from their hands.
I'm already having a bad feeling about today's trip to the horse farm.
Although this was the store with the most positive reviews and the best-looking photos on the app, judging from her first impressions upon entering, she was likely to spend a lot of money here today.
Having learned her lesson from buying radishes, Zhu Yu ignored everything along the way, whether it was monkeys performing or dogs pulling a cart, and kept her head down on her way to the horse farm.
"Hello, I called at noon today to schedule a trial class."
There was only one young woman at the front desk, who was busy making five or six drinks at the same time.
Seeing that everyone was so busy they seemed to have three heads and six arms, Zhu Yu hesitated and looked around, trying to find a staff member who looked a little free to help her.
Unfortunately, I don't know if it was because it wasn't the weekend and there weren't many people working, but I didn't see anyone else in the reception hall except for this young girl.
"Who are all these drinks for?" Zhu Yu wondered. The reception hall was connected to the horse farm behind it, separated only by a glass wall.
Therefore, Zhu Yu could see the empty horse farm and the staff resting on deck chairs in the shade of the trees at a glance.
"Excuse me, could you wait a moment?" The young woman wearing a transparent mask turned around with her hands raised, hurriedly wiping the sweat from her eyes with her sleeve.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not in a hurry, you go ahead and do your work." When the group was filming, some classmates liked to buy milk tea, and she had ordered it with them a few times.
Knowing that the process of making milk tea is complicated, and that you have to sterilize everything again if your hands go over a certain area.
Everyone else was so busy they were practically red in the face, but she wasn't in a hurry at all.
So Zhu Yu sat down on the bar stool at the bar.
"Excuse me, may I ask who these drinks are for...? Because I don't seem to see any customers in the venue."
Zhu Yu patiently watched as the front desk prepared each cup and placed them into the sealing machine.
The sealing machine was very close to Zhu Yu's position. She looked at it for a long time but still couldn't guess who ordered the drinks, so she had to ask.
"Uh, it's what our boss wanted. Sorry for taking up your time. You're here for your horse riding lesson, right?"
The young girl brushed off the topic with a single sentence, clicked a few times on the computer, and then looked up at Zhu Yu.
"Yes, we agreed on this over the phone. I'm here for a trial lesson."
"Okay, please wait a moment."
The procedure seemed very rigorous. After receiving Zhu Yu's affirmative reply, the girl took out a notebook from the drawer and started flipping through it while operating the computer.
"Don't you need to send over the drink your boss ordered first?" Zhu Yu pointed to the drink that was placed to the side, its cup already covered with a layer of condensation.
Upon hearing this, the young girl turned around and glanced at Zhu Yu. After thinking for a moment, she turned back and gave Zhu Yu a bright smile: "No need. Of course, serving a real guest like you is more important than bringing water to the boss!"
"We've already arranged a trial lesson with an instructor for you today. The trial lesson fee is 12% of the regular course fee, but since I think you like the instructor, I'll give you a special employee discount of 40% off."
The little girl smiled, revealing eight neat, white teeth: "The discounted price is 888 yuan. How would you like to pay?"
"This girl is really nice," Zhu Yu thought to herself. "Will you scan my QR code to pay with my phone?"
This trial lesson... She remembered that the website advertised it as a free trial lesson?
Zhu Yu sensed something was wrong and wanted to ask, but looking at the little girl bowing respectfully to her and the sweat still on her forehead...
Oh well, I'm not short of money with my current status anyway, so I'll stick to the principle of the happy ones giving way.
"Yes, go straight from the horse farm. Your instructor is already waiting for you in the protective gear room!"
So Zhu Yu followed the direction she pointed in, and walked there in a daze.
"Hello, you must be the student taking the trial lesson today. I'm your coach, my surname is Wang."
The coach was a dark-skinned man wearing a cowboy hat. When he saw Zhu Yu walk in, a glint flashed in his eyes, and he quickly came to greet her.
"Hello, my name is Zhu Yu." Seeing the coach extend his hand, Zhu Yu politely shook the coach's fingertips.
Have you ever learned to ride a horse before?
The walls and shelves of the protective gear room were covered with different styles of protective gear. The coach took a measuring tape from a pillar.
"No." Zhu Yu honestly shook her head, glancing at the tape measure in the other person's hand, her brow furrowing slightly with a keen eye.
"Then you must have never worn protective gear before. Let me take your measurements first so I can find out what size you wear."
As he spoke, the man raised the measuring tape to put it over Zhu Yu's neck.
His fingertips brushed against Zhu Yu's cheek, bringing with them a pungent smell of tar.
The smell startled Zhu Yu, who quickly took a step back to create distance between them.
"No need, I know my size, just get me the protective gear."
Seemingly dissatisfied that his prey had escaped his control, the man's eyes no longer held the kindness he had shown at their first meeting. He looked at Zhu Yu with a slightly gloomy smile and said, "Little Zhu, you don't understand, do you? Equestrianism is an aristocratic sport. The protective gear is very professional, and the size used is different from the size of your clothes."
Although Zhu Yu had done some research before coming, she hadn't gone into detail about how to choose protective gear.
But her sixth sense told her that she absolutely could not let this person get any closer to her.
Thinking this, Zhu Yu's gaze towards Coach Wang became subtly wary.
She came here alone today, and this place is very remote. If anything happens, she will be completely helpless.
"Of course I know. Aren't you guys making videos on that platform? I saw one of your videos about how to choose the right protective gear for yourself."
Seemingly fooled by Zhu Yu's reasoning, Coach Wang stopped his relentless approach.
"You watched our video?" Coach Wang's eyes lingered on Zhu Yu, as if he was weighing his options.
"Then you can choose for yourself. The sizes are all written on the shelf."
Coach Wang took a step back and leaned against the wall next to him, seemingly waiting for Zhu Yu to make her own choice.
"Phew..." Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the terrifying aura emanating from the man gradually dissipate.
Although she had learned some self-defense techniques, her body was already lacking in exercise, and there was also the natural difference in strength between men and women.
Moreover, this is that person's home turf.
To be on the safe side, Zhu Yu chose to avoid conflict as much as possible, and to deal with all problems after she left and was safe.
But the biggest problem now is... how should she choose protective gear?
It seemed that she had been lingering in front of the shelf for a while, and Zhu Yu clearly felt a gaze behind her growing increasingly intense.
Some people always cover themselves with a curtain before they do anything bad. If you pretend not to notice and let them hide under the curtain, they will become more and more unscrupulous.
But once you pull back the curtains, he becomes even more unrestrained.
Before Zhu Yu could think any further, she heard a series of footsteps behind her.
He quickly took a few steps to the side and then turned back: "Coach Wang, what's wrong?"
Coach Wang, who missed his target, didn't feel embarrassed at all. He smiled and looked Zhu Yu over again before pretending to be friendly and taking a few steps back.
"It's alright. Just tell me if you need help. I can help you. After all, you're here to spend money, so the customer is always right!"
"Hehe, no need. I can manage on my own." Zhu Yu's smile was somewhat forced. Using the protective gear on her hands as cover, she hurriedly sent a message with her location to the first person on her contact list.
Coach Wang seemed to have a different understanding of Zhu Yu's movements. He came closer again and said, "What's wrong, Zhu? Don't you know how to put on protective gear? Let me help you."
As he spoke, he stretched out his dark, tar-smelling hands again, with deep black lines embedded in his fingernails, to take the protective gear that Zhu Yu was already holding.
"No need, it's just a protective gear, I can handle it myself."
Zhu Yu dodged his hand. If it weren't for her physical limitations, she really wanted to fight back, but the man made no obvious moves, and she didn't know if there were any cameras inside.
Most importantly, is the rest of the staff in this store a bunch of scoundrels, or is this person just a bad apple?
She hadn't been here long, and the people who had contacted her most privately in the past two days were Zhang Yuge and Shi Ru. Just now, fearing being discovered, she hadn't even had a chance to see who she had sent the message to.
However, both of them are very nice. One helped her a lot when filming, and the other has been playing games with her recently.
Logically and emotionally, wouldn't both of them check on you after receiving your distress message?
Seeing Zhu Yu avoid his hand again, Coach Wang's eyes flashed with impatience. He was about to lash out, but then, as if remembering something, a smile appeared on his lips.
"Here's the thing, the one you chose isn't a try-on piece, it's a product. You can wear it, but you have to buy it first."
This is a rip-off, a total rip-off!
Zhu Yu endured it all, feeling like she was about to become a Ninja Turtle.
Even though there are many zeros in the card, this isn't how you get ripped off!
"I went to a clothing store to buy clothes, and they all offer to let you try them on. Why can't you let me try on a piece of protective gear here?"
Zhu Yu silently turned on her phone's recorder. If recording wasn't so easy to be discovered and could provoke him into doing something even more irrational, she would have loved to just point the camera at this shameless guy and film him!
Even if she gets scammed today, she'll still skin that person alive!
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