Back to the 1970s: Building My Fortune Through Time Trading-Chapter 130: Judging by His Eyes, He’s Out to Scam Her
Su Xiaoxiao has completely given up hope for the lottery business.
No matter how hard she tries, her bad luck hands never draw anything good.
"Xiaoxiao, shouldn’t you be going to work?"
As she was feeling frustrated, Liu Cuilan’s voice suddenly rang in her ears.
With that reminder, Su Xiaoxiao suddenly realized—oh no, she’s going to be late for work.
She immediately hopped on her bicycle, didn’t bother to grab her steamed buns, and pedaled madly, nearly sparking the pedals off.
As she rode to the village entrance, a few village ladies were gossiping about the morning’s events.
Seeing Su Xiaoxiao ride over from afar, they couldn’t help but wear gossiping expressions.
Facing the old ladies’ gossiping eyes, Su Xiaoxiao sucked in a cold breath. If she got caught up with them, she might not be able to leave until noon.
Her forehead twitched, and she continued to accelerate, drifting past the village entrance.
Village ladies: What just drifted past us?
Successfully leaving the village, Su Xiaoxiao frantically pedaled her bike and finally managed to arrive near the department store five minutes before it opened.
Just as she saw she only had to turn a corner to reach the department store, suddenly a staggering figure emerged from the roadside.
From a distance, Su Xiaoxiao locked eyes with the old man who burst out, um, confirmed by the look in his eyes, he wanted to scam her.
Seeing a young girl coming, the old man’s mouth curled into a smirk.
This girl clearly hasn’t been exposed to the harsh realities of society. Come, let Grandpa give you a lesson.
The old man aimed for Su Xiaoxiao’s path, calculated the distance, and as she was nearing, he suddenly lunged forward, perfectly blocking her way.
"Oh dear..."
Just as the young girl was about to bump into him, the old man opened his mouth ready to start bawling.
Who knew that before he could start the scam routine, he saw the young girl in front suddenly veer her handlebars to the side, executing a serpentine maneuver to dodge him effortlessly.
Old Man!!!
Is this girl doing acrobatics or what? She slipped through without even brushing against his clothing.
This was an utter disgrace to his scam career, being outsmarted by a teenage girl.
The old man felt a bit frustrated, but soon regained hope.
The girl is gone, no worries, there’s a guy coming from behind.
The old man nimbly picked himself up from the ground to prepare for another attempt.
Zhao Yang, who was following behind, turned pale.
He had just seen Comrade Su in front and thought to catch up and say hello.
Who would have thought Comrade Su would make a sudden turn and both she and her bike vanished.
Even worse, an old man appeared in front with a posture ready to collapse under his bike, clearly up to no good.
If he got scammed by the old man, his month’s salary might not even cover it.
Recalling Comrade Su’s slick maneuver, Zhao Yang bit his lip and decided to risk it.
As he approached the old man, he mimicked Comrade Su’s action by turning the handlebars left. Who knew the old man was dead set on scamming him, as he turned left, the old man went left, he turned right, the old man lunged right.
Zhao Yang was almost in tears, so he closed his eyes and picked a random direction to dash through.
All he heard was a sharp, short scream, and the old man clutched his crushed legs and fainted.
What had he just done?
He had run right over the old man’s legs.
The old man had finally succeeded in scamming, but the price was knocking himself out from the pain.
Meanwhile, Su Xiaoxiao was unaware that her slick move had caused a career crisis for the scammer old man.
Just as she reached the department store entrance, she made a drift, skillfully parking her bike in the bike shed.
Then, with a leap, she hopped off the bike, grabbed her handbag, and dashed into the department store.
Xu Cuilan saw it was about time, just opened the department store doors, hung the open sign, and saw a shadow zoom past under her nose.
Xu Cuilan: What was that wild thing that just ran past? Is that even human? How can anyone run so fast?
Su Xiaoxiao gasped for breath, finally standing behind her assigned counter just before customers started arriving.
She took large breaths, feeling her legs as soft as noodles; even her school sprint test wasn’t this fast.
Leaning against the counter, she panted heavily, and hadn’t caught her breath when a swarm of customers flooded into the department store.
"Hello comrade, I’d like some green bean cake."
"Hello comrade, do you have shrimp skins?"
"Please give me two pounds of egg cake."
Customers in line started to buy things all at once.
Su Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, her face breaking into a gentle and kind smile, quickly getting into work mode.
Once the customers had purchased what they needed and left with smiles, she finally found a moment to sigh in relief.
This morning was truly thrilling.
The counter on Zhang Dongmei’s side was usually quite idle. Seeing how busy Su Xiaoxiao was, she pouted with her chin on hand: "Why does she have the nerve to always rush in right at start time?"
Huang Mei happened to pass by overhearing this, and snorted lightly: "What’s wrong coming on time? Xiaoxiao didn’t clock in late, she can come whenever she wants, it’s none of your business, you and your nosiness like a dog chasing mice."
Through their interactions over time, Huang Mei had developed quite a deep revolutionary friendship with Su Xiaoxiao, and was quite dissatisfied with Zhang Dongmei’s frequent disapproval of her.
Whenever she met her, she would throw a couple of jabs.
She was a senior employee at the department store, and no matter how vexed Zhang Dongmei felt, she didn’t dare confront her directly, only dared to grumble quietly behind her back.
Why does everyone help that little rat, Su Xiaoxiao?
Zhang Dongmei, grinding her molars in anger, blamed Su Xiaoxiao for all her grievances.
After a busy spell, Su Xiaoxiao sneezed, rubbed her nose, wondering who was talking bad about her behind her back.
"Grumble grumble~"
It wasn’t even noon and her stomach was already singing the Empty City tune uncontrollably.
At this moment, a middle-aged woman came to buy pastries, she watched as the woman bought the last pound of green bean cake, her eyes almost popping out in hunger.
Seriously starving, she desperately wanted to eat something, but it was work hours, she couldn’t eat even if she wanted, just had to watch.
Su Xiaoxiao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her gaze glued to the woman’s green bean cake.
She didn’t want to seem so pathetic, but she was simply too hungry, hungry enough to nearly lose her sanity.
Suddenly, she seemed to spot a familiar figure flashing by the department store entrance.
