Back to the 1970s: Building My Fortune Through Time Trading-Chapter 146

"Why is this cat yowling so terribly? It sounds like it’s lamenting. I’m guessing it’s an old, shameless cat."

Zhang Guifang: Feels like this brat is insulting her, but there’s no evidence.

Su Xiaoxiao feigned a yawn and said, "Mom, it’s late. Let’s go to sleep."

Liu Cuilan, tired after a busy day, couldn’t resist and yawned as well once she heard her, "Yeah, let’s sleep. Tomorrow morning people will come to take the mugwort, so you, your brother, and I need to get up and help. You can’t handle so much on your own."

Su Xiaoxiao: "No problem."

With that, they both went back to their rooms.

Once she heard that everyone had left, Zhang Guifang, who was outside against the wall, finally let out a breath. After mimicking a cat for so long, her throat was almost breaking.

Wait, she seemed to realize a very serious problem. She could have left earlier and come back later, so why did she insist on crouching by the wall meowing like a cat?

At this moment, Zhang Guifang’s face changed colors—red, yellow, blue, and green—feeling like a big fool.

But it’s okay, as long as she could successfully find out Su Xiaoxiao’s mugwort market and take it over.

Thinking of this, she tightened the military coat around her and continued to huddle against the wall to spy.

Inside, Su Xiaoxiao crawled into the warm bed and opened the game interface.

As expected, apart from the scene inside her own courtyard, the range had expanded a little more.

She could see a shivering little figure outside the west wall, looking small, pitiful, and helpless.

She had long noticed that as her level increased, the game screen gradually expanded. From the start with only her own room, now it could cover the entire courtyard, along with the scene within a meter around it.

Staring at the shivering figure outside the wall, Su Xiaoxiao sighed, "If only there was a way to manipulate the interface like in the game."

As if sensing her thoughts, the previous slot machine interface popped up on the game screen.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at it. The peculiar spot "Words and Law Follow" had changed to "Trial Experience for One Hour."

"What’s this again?"

She reached out to click and check but noticed a line in small letters below: Successfully complete the mugwort selling task to get a draw chance.

Su Xiaoxiao touched her chin. It seemed she had to sell the mugwort first to earn the lottery chance.

It’s still early. She can’t go out yet. She’d wait until everyone is asleep to proceed.

After figuring it out, she set the alarm to the lowest volume and set the alarm time to midnight, then peacefully drifted into a dream.

In her dream, she once again found herself in modern times.

Sitting in a dimly lit bar private room, in front of her stood male models with clear-cut abs, wearing skimpy clothes, revealing their muscular contours.

They obediently stood in a line, uniformly calling her, "Sis."

One of the shirtless models walked towards her with a glass of wine, "Sis, may I feed you?"

Just as Su Xiaoxiao was about to respond, a sharp alarm suddenly awoke her from the dream.

She opened her eyes, her brain blank for a second, only to finally realize where she was.

A glance at the clock showed it’s midnight, a perfect time for secret actions amidst the dark, windy night.

Listening to the snoring sounds from next door, Su Xiaoxiao quietly put on a coat and went out.

It’s already late autumn, and the night was biting cold.

She sneaked to the place in the courtyard where the mugwort was stored, saw no one around, and swiftly collected all the mugwort into her space’s mini-warehouse, quickly clicking on ’dispatch.’

Soon a "ding" sound indicated the dispatch was successful.

After finishing this, Su Xiaoxiao stealthily turned around. Just as she placed one foot inside the doorway, a voice suddenly came, "Third Sis, where are you going?"

She was startled, had she been discovered?

Slowly and stiffly turning around, she found no one behind her.

Soon after, Su Jianwu’s voice echoed again from the next room, "Take me too, I beg you."

Ugh, it turns out this guy was sleep-talking, nearly scaring her to death.

The racket he made while sleep-talking was enough to frighten someone.

After finishing everything, she quietly slipped back into her room and lay down again.

But she didn’t know whether she had missed her sleepiness cycle or something; she who usually had a good sleep, oddly found herself suffering from insomnia.

Unable to sleep, she simply sat up and pondered finding something else to do.

Suddenly, she thought of Zhang Guifang outside the yard.

This was a perfect opportunity to give her brother an unforgettable night.

Thinking of this, she opened the game interface, and sure enough, saw the lottery chance had turned from zero to one.

Excitedly rubbing her hands like a fly, Su Xiaoxiao cautiously extended a finger.

According to her usual bad luck, the prize this time should be...

Sure enough, the dial pointed straight at "Trial Experience for One Hour" without surprise.

As expected, her luck always seemed divorced from grand prizes.

However, this trial experience seemed quite interesting.

She clicked to use it and saw a line of bold letters pop up on the game screen: The item is activated, and the player can manipulate anything on the game screen at will for the next hour.

Is there really such a sweet deal?

Unexpectedly, this time the item was even more powerful than the last.

Her gaze swept toward the trembling figure outside the wall, and an insidious smile curled at the corners of her mouth. Her dear second aunt would become a guinea pig once again.

Zhang Guifang was dozing off when suddenly a rustling noise came from the courtyard wall she was leaning against.

She jerked awake, eyes snapping open. Could it be that brat’s making a move now?

This night of suffering in the cold was not in vain.

She carefully climbed up from the ground, leaned the ladder she carried against the wall, and spat on her hands ready to climb.

Raising her head, whoa, where was her ladder? Where did her big ladder go?

The ladder she just leaned against the wall root was suddenly gone before her eyes!

Could it have fallen into the grass because it wasn’t placed properly in a daze?

She quickly bent down and started rustling through the grass, and as she was doing so, she felt something tug on her clothes.

At first, she thought it was just a branch snagging; she didn’t give it much thought, pulling her clothes back and continuing.

But then something tugged on her clothes again, with such force it almost pulled her to the ground.

Zhang Guifang’s muddled brain suddenly became incredibly clear.

Could it be...in the middle of the night...

She stiffly turned her head and saw the ladder, still untouched, leaning against the wall root.

And her clothes were just pinched under the ladder.

Zhang Guifang’s face turned pale white instantly. How would her clothes get caught under the ladder when she was the only one here?

In that moment, her scalp tingled as if it were going to explode.

Just then, a cat’s howl suddenly came from above her head.

Zhang Guifang’s stiff body turned her neck, looking up to see a black cat perched on the wall, its eyes glowing green in the darkness, eerily fixing on her.