Chapter 12
The father of the two beautiful sisters is the owner of a grain store. According to An Younian, for stable restaurants, the grain store allows them to buy on credit first and pay later, with settlement once a month.
In An Rou's opinion, he was a rare person in the Soul Realm who was good at doing business and had some human touch.
It was the end of the month, and An Younian had paid his rent yesterday. He used the remaining money to go to the grain store to settle last month's bill and bring back 200 kilograms of flour for the next two weeks. Normally, he would have to go back and get more once he had used it up, and settle the bill at the end of next month, but the two beautiful sisters came to his door the next day to ask for money.
That’s not all.
The price of grain had remained unchanged for years, with flour costing 5 gold per jin. The sisters then insisted on a temporary price increase, doubling it. Flour that originally cost only 1,000 gold suddenly became 2,000 gold.
An Younian was already struggling to pay his rent, and after settling last month's bills, he only had enough left to buy meat and vegetables. Yesterday, An Rou, fearing he'd become suspicious, didn't give him any more money—how could he even afford flour? He couldn't even afford the 1,000 gold he had before the price hike, let alone after.
An Younian didn't want his daughter to know about his predicament, but the game had a rule that NPCs couldn't lie. Faced with the arrogance of the two beautiful sisters, he was at a loss and couldn't help but beg for mercy.
At the same time, he couldn't help but look ashamed towards An Rou.
"Rou Rou, go upstairs first. Wait until the buns are steamed and daddy will bring them up for you."
Before An Younian finished speaking, Meiling's shrill voice suddenly rose: "Still making steamed buns? If you can't pay, this dough is mine too!"
She lowered her head, and two burly men dressed as thugs walked into the store. One of them picked up the dough on the chopping board, and the other pushed a cart and lifted bags of flour piled against the wall onto the cart.
"Miss, Miss... Xiaoling, Xiaoqian..." An Younian glanced at them anxiously, then had to take care of the dough first. "For uncle's sake, no, for the sake of Rourou growing up with you, can you give me a couple of days? I'll pay once I have enough money, or... or I can buy some first?"
His intention, of course, was to buy the dough first. Whether the shop opened or not was unimportant; the key was that his daughter wanted to eat buns.
Meiling saw through it and asked the thug for the dough. With a sarcastic look on her face, she loosened her grip and cried out "ouch".
"Uncle An, why is this dough so heavy? I can't even lift it. How much effort did it take you to knead it?"
Meiqian simply stepped up with considerable force, and her purple high heels almost disappeared. She smiled coldly: "Uncle An, don't look at me like that. The dough is mine. I can throw it away if I want, and I can step on it if I want."
"Good noodles, good food, how can they be wasted like this..." An Younian stared at the dough, mumbling to himself.
Since the incident, An Rou has been standing in the bun shop, watching coldly.
The shabby cheongsam that the old maid at the bathhouse found for her had long sleeves. She tucked her hands into the sleeves, and her thumb stroked the Seven Souls Sword again and again.
His gaze shifted from An Younian's raised back to the necks of those men one by one.
The player’s character attributes include health points, but does the NPC have them?
I suppose there is, but it's not numerically quantified. Logically, it shouldn't be higher than a level 1 player's 100 health points.
The Seven Souls Sword has a basic attack power of 2000 points. Just a slash on them would kill not only the two skinny sisters but even the two thugs.
Besides this, An Rou was thinking about another thing.
She finally took action, slowly stepped forward, and held An Younian's arm: "Dad, forget it..."
There was a layer of water in An Rou's eyes, and her eye sockets were already painted red, and now it looked like she was about to cry.
She looked at the two beautiful sisters: "I thought the two sisters treated me more sincerely than Sister Hong, but I didn't expect that I treated them as sisters, but they never treated me as a younger sister..."
The tears accumulated in his eyes and his lower eyelid finally couldn't bear the burden and slid down.
Meiling opened her mouth slightly, looking at her in doubt, and finally chose to stand on Sister Hong's side: "You are the ungrateful one. Sister Hong has taken care of you for more than ten years, and you even care about the money she won from mahjong. Yesterday, you even turned your kindness against her and humiliated her!"
really.
This pair of stupid brains was instigated by Sister Hong.
Unfortunately, Sister Hong is not much smarter than them. She doesn’t think about it. If the bun shop really goes bankrupt, who will pay her such a high rent?
I'm afraid that arrogant woman didn't even think about that step. She just wanted to get revenge.
An Rou glanced at Mei Qian.
Compared to her older sister, Meiling, this sister, with her face etched with villainy, was the dumbest. Meiling, at least, could read people's expressions. Her words just now, though superficially questioning, were actually reflection and hesitation. And what about Meiqian? The dagger in her eyes remained the same from beginning to end. She must have been looking for trouble ever since she left the house.
"Rou Rou..." An Younian felt very distressed about his daughter's haggard and tearful face, but unexpectedly, An Rou quietly patted him on the back, which made him feel an inexplicable firmness.
How could he possibly be resolute after crying like this? An Younian was puzzled by his strange emotions.
An Rou took a half step back, half hiding herself behind An Younian's broad back, and then looked at the two beautiful sisters.
In the eyes of the twins, she seemed to be feeling guilty after being questioned and scolded. Mei Qian snorted with disdain, but she was ready to press the issue and scold the crowd as it grew.
The two sisters' expressions froze at the same time.
In their eyes, the timid An Rou lowered her head slightly, and then looked sideways.
Two lines of red tears flowed down her snow-white cheeks, held back by the upturned corners of her mouth. Her pale, bloodless lips curved upward in a strange arc, a creepy smile.
"Ghost, ghost!"
One of the thugs screamed incoherently and stumbled back.
He and his companion were so burly that they blocked the view of the crowd outside the store. Of the people present, only a few inside the store could see An Rou's face. Of course, this didn't include An Younian, whom An Rou had deliberately avoided.
The other thug also reacted and dropped the cart with a bang. He was quite responsible and didn't forget to pull the two sisters away before running away. Unfortunately, Meiqian's foot was still on the dough, and the heel was deeply embedded in it, and she couldn't pull it out immediately.
Instead, she lost her balance, and because she didn't hold on tightly enough, she twisted and fell flat on her face. Her carefully styled hair was completely tangled.
The crowd of onlookers did not hear the thugs' short and unclear screams, so they were not frightened. Instead, they burst into laughter and became more and more curious about what they had seen.
However, An Rou had completely hidden behind An Younian, concealing the unintentional grimace she had created.
After An Rou wiped the ghost makeup off her father's back, she looked back and saw that the two sisters and the thugs had already run away. The crowd had dispersed, and she did see a familiar face.
——Sister Hong.
Clothes and accessories all love bright red, and it’s hard to miss it.
Sister Hong also didn't know what was going on inside, and now she met An Rou. An Rou wiped herself with An Younian's clothes, her face flushed, and she looked even more beautiful and beautiful.
Not noticing anything unusual made Sister Hong even more suspicious and she hurriedly fled back to the hair salon in her high heels.
Why did that girl suddenly become so evil? !
A player passed Sister Hong, and the katana at his waist rose imperceptibly, striking Sister Hong in the back. Sister Hong lost her balance, fell to the ground, and twisted her ankle. She glared at the player, then caught An Rou still looking at her from the corner of her eye. She hurriedly scrambled to her feet and limped away.
An Rou didn't catch any trick and just thought that the two of them had accidentally bumped into each other. She was in a good mood and smiled at the player.
[Unnamed NPC Favorability +5%...]
A glance at the notification on the screen flashed in front of him, and he withdrew his gaze from the bun shop. Although, that woman was obviously also beautiful.
Still the most beautiful one.
But it's just an NPC.
He walked straight past the bun shop.
"Meat?"
An Younian felt her daughter nudging his back for quite a while, but assumed she was distressed and crying, not knowing what to do. After a while of no movement from her back, he tried to turn around.
But I saw that my daughter's face was white and rosy, and she was smiling brightly.
An Younian couldn't figure out what was going on, so he just thought An Rou was too sad. An Rou had to persuade him to believe that she was happy to break up with her two fake friends.
After passing the first hurdle, An Younian began to worry about the next one - flour.
Although the two beautiful sisters did not take the flour away in the end, it was still credit after all. An Younian asked himself if he could afford so much money at once, so he was stubborn and did not dare to use it.
An Rou assured him, patting her chest and promising, "Dad, I will definitely resolve this matter today. I'll go talk to Uncle Lin. Even if he's unreasonable and protects his shortcomings, I can still talk to the mayor's wife!"
When An Younian heard the first half of the sentence, he disagreed. How could he let his daughter go to ask for help? But the second half made him hesitate.
The mayor is the boss of the entire town. If the mayor's wife could come forward...but would she really come forward for such a small matter?
Mr. Lin, the owner of the grain store, monopolized the grain supply of the entire town. He owned every grain store in the town.
"Don't worry, Dad. The mayor's wife is very kind to me. She treats me like... a younger sister!"
An Rou got goosebumps when she said this word. With Sister Hong and Shuang Mei's experience as a warning, she felt that every stroke of this word was tinged with hypocrisy.
An Younian, who was not good at speaking, was ultimately defeated by his daughter, so he stayed in the store and watched An Rou pack up and leave.
To match her tatty clothes, An Rou wore a pair of old black leather shoes. They were clearly repaired and looked old. She simply let her hair down, not even wearing a headband.
This outfit, coupled with the balance of over ten thousand in the account, gives a feeling of being in fine clothes walking at night.
An Rou actually had many options for dealing with the troublesome twin sisters. Firstly, she had plenty of force, and secondly, she had plenty of money. Whether she chopped off a few of their heads on the spot or pelted them with 2,000 gold coins, both would have been much more satisfying than the current situation.
But the existence of An Younian and the bun shop forced her to worry about more.
Resolving the issue with force would attract players and the police station, and she didn't want to spend money to resolve the issue—to someone like Shuangmei, she didn't want to give a penny more.
Of course, they still had to keep buying flour. It wouldn't make sense for An Younian to simply close the shop and arouse suspicion. Going to the next town to get supplies wasn't a long-term solution either.
11430.
An Rou stared at the balance in her gold coin account.
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