Gan Lan watched with a smile as the teary-eyed little girl swallowed with great difficulty. The next moment, the girl immediately stuck out her tongue. Looking wronged and pitiful, she mumbled to Gan Lan, "HISS... is my tongue broken? It feels like it’s vibrating on its own."
PFFT. Gan Lan burst into laughter. This little cutie was just too funny.
"Then we won’t eat it anymore." Gan Lan reached out and took the remaining shrimp meat from the little girl’s hand, throwing it directly into the trash can. She did this mainly because the part the girl had gripped with her dirty little hands was completely filthy.
A piercing wail broke through the sky without warning, startling Gan Lan so much that she choked on the spicy shrimp she was putting into her mouth. She coughed so hard that tears welled in her eyes, feeling like she was about to cough up her lungs.
Looking at the bawling little girl, Gan Lan struggled to speak. "Don’t... COUGH... don’t cry, I’ll peel another one for you... COUGH..."
She grabbed a tissue to wipe the little girl’s tears, then took her two small hands and washed them clean with water. She explained to the sobbing girl, "I only threw it away because your hands were too dirty and got the shrimp meat all filthy. I’ll peel another one for you right now, so please don’t cry..."
Hearing this, the little girl finally stopped crying. With her red, swollen eyes, she kept staring at Gan Lan.
"I’ll peel it right now, right now." Gan Lan picked up a shrimp and quickly began peeling it. She was truly afraid of this little girl—she would start crying at the drop of a hat, without the slightest warning and catching her completely off guard.
She had just finished peeling the shrimp, rinsed it in water, and placed it into the little girl’s bowl when a loud roar echoed from afar.
"Who made my sister cry?! I’ll kill them!"
The roar drew closer and closer, startling Gan Lan so much that her hand trembled, nearly scraping herself on the shrimp shell.
Gan Lan was startled at first, but then a wave of joy washed over her. A customer had arrived!
As for the threat to kill her, she pretended not to hear it. She quickly turned her head and shouted at the figure sprinting in her direction, "Hey friend, come have some shrimp with us!"
The loud roar echoed back. "Who is your friend?! Don’t think pretending we’re close will save your life! Just wait and die!"
For some reason, hearing those words made Gan Lan want to laugh. Surprisingly, she didn’t feel panicked in the slightest.
She leisurely ate her shrimp, waiting for the frantic woman to arrive.
Just as Gan Lan was about to eat her second shrimp, the hot-tempered woman finally arrived. Before Gan Lan could even speak, the woman grabbed her by the collar and hoisted her completely off the ground. Even with her toes pointed downward, Gan Lan couldn’t touch the floor.
Dangling in the air, Gan Lan was utterly speechless. Although she hadn’t been killed on the spot, this humiliation was even harder to accept than death itself!
"Yuanyuan, did this woman bully you?!"
Still holding Gan Lan up in the air, the hot-tempered woman turned her head and instantly changed her expression, asking the little girl in a gentle tone. Then, she shot a vicious glare back at her captive.
"You’ve got a lot of nerve, daring to bully my sister! Aren’t you afraid I’ll kill you?!" She gripped Gan Lan’s collar tightly, showing absolutely no intention of letting go.
Gan Lan rolled her eyes, her face the picture of despair. She had lost all desire to speak. She had suffered damage—internal damage at that.
"Big Sister, she didn’t bully me..." A weak, milky little voice saved the despairing Gan Lan.
"If she didn’t bully you, then why were you crying?! Your eyes are swollen from crying, and even your mouth is swollen!" The hot-tempered woman was shocked. She hastily dropped Gan Lan and hugged the little girl. Observing her lips closely, she found them red and swollen, as if someone had slapped her hard across the face. Instantly, her fury ignited!
If she hadn’t genuinely wanted to kill Gan Lan a moment ago, she definitely did now! This woman was simply unforgivable!
She immediately spun around, wanting to grab Gan Lan again—first to beat her to a pulp, and then figure out a way to finish her off! She was absolutely furious. To think her own younger sister had been treated this way! This woman was an absolute beast!
Gan Lan coughed. Seeing the enraged woman coming to humiliate her again, she hurriedly jumped to the side. "I say, friend, can you let me finish speaking before you get physical?!" She grumbled inwardly about this hot-tempered woman.
After saying that, she shouted loudly to the little girl, Yuanyuan. "Yuanyuan, hurry up and tell your sister to stop, or else I won’t peel any more shrimp for you!"
She had no other choice. Gan Lan definitely couldn’t win a fight against this woman who was almost two meters tall, so she had to take an indirect approach. After all, they were in a deserted area—a perfect place to murder someone and dump their body. She didn’t dare be careless.
Hearing Gan Lan’s threat, the little girl let out a sharp, ear-piercing scream. "Big Sister!"
It was effective—highly effective. The hot-tempered woman finally stopped chasing her. Gan Lan had been running for her life on her short little legs, only just barely dodging the pursuit of those long legs. Still, it was astonishing how a little girl with such a soft, milky voice could scream so piercingly.
Gan Lan rested both hands on her knees, hunching over and panting heavily. She must have forgotten to check the almanac before leaving the house today. What kind of mess had she stumbled into?!
"I told you, she didn’t bully me! I cried on my own. She even gave me something delicious to eat, it was just too spicy." Yuanyuan tugged at her older sister’s pants, sticking her tongue out again when she mentioned the spice.
"Really?" The hot-tempered woman squatted down and patted Yuanyuan’s head, feeling a bit uncertain. Yuanyuan never lied, but her eyes were so red and her lips so swollen that it was hard to believe she hadn’t been bullied.
Gan Lan finally caught her breath. Hearing the hot-tempered woman’s suspicious tone infuriated her, and her own voice grew irritable. "Do you think I’d collude with your own sister?! Besides, aren’t there surveillance cameras around?! Can’t you go check them yourself?!"
"Hmph! Cameras can lie, but my sister won’t. What if you fed my sister some sort of special potion?" The hot-tempered woman changed her expression in a second, turning her head to stare at Gan Lan gloomily.
"Then give her a physical checkup!" Gan Lan angrily sat back down in her folding chair; her legs were sore from standing. "I’ll sit right here. If I really did anything to her, you can kill me anytime!"
She reached out to grab another spicy shrimp, eating it to calm her nerves and soothe her boiling temper.
She peeled the shrimp at an unhurried pace. The moment she popped it into her mouth, she was instantly healed. Sure enough, good food could soothe the soul. There was no need to be irritable; she needed to be gentle and smile.
Having calmed herself down, Gan Lan finally felt a bit better.
Hearing this, the hot-tempered woman thought it made sense. She quickly took out a scanning device from her Space Ring. The test results showed only an increased blood flow rate and slight emotional agitation. There were no external injuries, and everything else was perfectly normal.
The hot-tempered woman put down the scanner in silence. Then, she placed Yuanyuan back into her seat and stood up, straightening her slightly wrinkled clothes. As she walked toward Gan Lan, Gan Lan instinctively dodged out of the way.
Gan Lan was speechless.
"I’m sorry, I misunderstood you. The moment I saw the condition of Yuanyuan’s face, I panicked. I offended you without figuring out the whole story first, and I apologize." With that, the hot-tempered woman gave Gan Lan an earnest bow.
Awkwardly, Gan Lan sat back down in her chair, pretending she hadn’t just recoiled. She let out a cough. Oh well, she was a magnanimous person. If it had been her, and she had seen her own sister’s eyes and lips so red and swollen at first glance, she would have panicked too.