"I won't say anything more, so as not to delay Ming..."
In the courtyard, Li Mei saw someone enter again out of the corner of her eye. She thought the young man had come back to urge her again, and looked up impatiently. When she saw that it was a young girl who had entered, she was taken aback.
Immediately, her gaze sharpened, and she stood up, grabbing the washboard beside her. "You're the reporter who came yesterday! You actually escaped! You..."
"Help! Help!"
Li Mei started shouting at the top of her lungs, wiped her wet hands on her apron, and took out her phone to call someone to arrest her.
Su Deng quickly said, "Aunt Li! Aunt Li, you've misunderstood!"
"What misunderstanding? The Zhang family said you're a reporter who's come to our village to cause trouble!" Li Mei's voice was extremely loud. "Let me tell you, there's nothing worth interviewing in our village, and we don't need to report on it. Get out of here, or we'll lock you up again, and this time we won't give you any food!"
Fierce and shrewish, she's so real, she doesn't seem like an NPC at all.
Su Deng licked her teeth, lowered her head to gather her emotions, then looked up again, tears welling in her eyes. "Aunt Li, you may not know me, but I know you. I came to Yaozhuang this time because of my parents..."
"You..." Her words startled the aggressive Li Mei, who frowned and said, "Stop pretending. You reporters are all liars. Tell me your parents' names first."
“Aunt Li, I am a reporter, but I swear, I did not come back this time to expose or harm the village.”
Su Deng continued wiping away tears and sobbing, "My parents' names are Li Jie and Li Fang. They were both from this village. You were still young then, so you might not remember them. Everyone in the village called them Gou Dan and Xiao Fang. They thought that by leaving the village, they wouldn't be affected by it anymore, but they still didn't live past twenty-five..."
"When I was little, I didn't understand. Later, I went to university and became a journalist. Now that I've finally grown up, I'm not here to report. I just want to come back and see my parents' hometown, and find out what caused their untimely deaths..."
“Li Jie, Li Fang? I don’t remember having these people in the village…”
"Aunt Li!"
Before Li Mei could finish speaking, Su Deng threw herself into her arms and burst into tears, “When I was little, my parents often talked about you, saying they didn’t know if you were still alive. They never thought you were still alive. If only they had known that staying in the village would have prevented their early deaths and that they wouldn’t have left us, sob sob sob…”
"you……"
"Aunt Li, my parents said they'd look for you if I ever came back. You're such a kind person. Aunt Li, I'm also from Yaocun. What if I don't live past twenty-five? I'm twenty-three this year. I'm so scared, waaaaaah..."
Half an hour later.
Village Committee Service Center.
Su Deng sat in the chair, sobbing, her eyes red.
An elderly man, wearing an old black cotton-padded coat with his hair open and graying temples, squatted at the door, puffing on his pipe.
There were four people sitting inside, three men and two women, all still wearing cotton-padded jackets, and all over thirty years old.
A group of people scrutinized Su Deng, and finally the woman in the white jacket spoke first, "You can stay in the village to participate in the festival, but we won't give you your camera and phone. You can stay at Xiuxiu's house for the next few days."
Her name is Li Qinghui, and she is the village party secretary. Once she speaks, no one else has anything to say.
I cried for half an hour!
A full half hour!
She cried until her life points dropped to 89. She had to use up all the lies she could ever tell before these people believed her and were willing to let her stay.
Su Deng looked grateful and said, "Thank you so much, aunties, uncles, and grandpas!"
When Su Deng was taken to Xiu Xiu's house and saw the girl named Xiu Xiu, she realized that she was the girl who had brought her food but whom she had knocked unconscious.
Su Deng: "..."
Their eyes met, and the awkwardness reached its peak at that moment.
Fortunately, Xiuxiu didn't say anything and assured the village secretary that he would keep an eye on her.
Thinking about how he had knocked her unconscious and eaten the food she brought, even knowing that she was an NPC, Su Deng felt very guilty.
After everyone had left and the door closed, Su Deng finally spoke, "I'm sorry for hitting you this morning..."
"It's nothing." Xiuxiu had delicate features and a slender figure. She was wearing a black coat and smiled nonchalantly. She led her up the open-air staircase and pointed to the room on the left side of the second floor. "My mom is busy at the service center. I have to go there too. You can rest here for a while. I'll come back to cook lunch."
Su Deng nodded. "Thank you."
"No need." Xiuxiu shook her head and smiled, then went out the door again.
"hehe……"
Just as Su Deng was about to push open the door to enter the room after seeing Xiu Xiu off, she suddenly heard a low laugh.
Su Deng turned her head to look at the opposite side. Liu Sangua was sitting on the edge of the top floor of the building next door. The wind made the curtain in front of him flutter, but his face could not be seen. He was tossing a jade pendant in his hand. His whole aura was exceptionally otherworldly.
Su Deng frowned. "What are you laughing at?"
“Hehe…” Liu Sangua began again with a melodious tone, “Of course, it’s just an excuse to laugh at your consummate acting skills.”
Su Deng's expression stiffened slightly. "You saw it."
Liu Sangua raised an eyebrow. "When you were hugging that Aunt Li, making up stories and crying your heart out, I was watching and listening from the rooftop, but you were crying so hard that I didn't notice."
Su Deng: "..."
Is this what they call social death?
Liu Sangua was still laughing, "No matter how realistic this place is, it's just a game. It's really touching that you went to so much trouble to gain the trust of a group of NPCs. Luckily, I didn't go live today, so I didn't alert the main system and get caught. You didn't go live either, otherwise I wouldn't be the only one who saw it."
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