Chapter 1699: Chapter 1700: Grocery Shopping with Beauties
Twisting your neck a bit, stretching slightly, you plopped down onto the soft sofa, looking at Du Yanan across from you and said, "It feels like you’ve already moved everything in, pretty fast."
Du Yanan tilted her head back and laughed, "Of course, elder sister here specially hired a moving company for a thousand dollars."
You nodded, "No wonder, but that means there’s nothing left for me to do. Ha—perfect timing, I’m feeling a bit sleepy again, I’ll head back for a nap."
"Since you’re already up, don’t go back to sleep. Accompany us to the market later, I’ll cook lunch, and you can help out. We’ll make a delicious meal for Yanan."
"Oh yay! It’s been so long since I tasted Sister Xiao You’s cooking!" Saying that, Du Yanan deliberately glanced at you and asked Li Qiyi, "Hey, sis, let me be the assistant. Just look at this guy, he seems clumsy and awkward."
"Don’t worry, Mu Yun’s cooking skills have caught up with mine."
"Really?" Du Yanan was skeptical.
You raised your chin and scoffed, "Just don’t end up biting your own tongue."
Accompanying two fashionably dressed beauties at the market naturally drew quite an audience.
Trailing behind the two women, today you served as a human-driven mobile cart. You used to think women only went crazy during shopping sprees at malls, but never thought buying groceries could be just as dazzling to them.
Compared to the chatty Du Yanan, Li Qiyi was much more composed, with one woman being charmingly bold and the other steady and gracious, drawing many passersby to stop and take notice. Some even took out their phones to sneak photos.
At this moment, someone caught your attention.
Just as Li Qiyi and Du Yanan were picking vegetables at a stall, you noticed a slightly familiar figure. On a closer look, it turned out to be your neighbor, Yao Shuilan.
Yao Shuilan was still wearing that slightly washed-out suit, holding a woven bamboo basket.
It looked like she was also there to buy groceries, but unlike the others. She selectively bought cheap items and even asked the vendor if they had leftover vegetable leaves. The vendor usually gave some to Yao Shuilan, indicating they were quite familiar with each other from their interactions.
You deliberately eavesdropped on a conversation between an auntie and Yao Shuilan.
"My dear, someone as pretty and vibrant as you shouldn’t keep eating just greens. Look at you, getting thinner every day, it pains me to see."
"Auntie, I’m fine, maybe just a bit tired from work these days."
"No matter how tough work gets, you can’t ruin your health. If a young lady like you collapses in a strange place, who will take care of you?"
Yao Shuilan smiled and thanked the vegetable-buying auntie, then turned and slowly walked away with a slightly heavy gait.
"Hey, what are you looking at?"
Du Yanan elbowed you.
"Just looking at a great beauty, what a figure, tut tut," you said deliberately.
"Nonsense! Seeing a beauty at the market would be a ghost story. Besides, with us two super beauties in front of you, isn’t that enough?"
Du Yanan rolled her eyes at you, and just as she turned her head, her sharp eyes spotted two men approaching Li Qiyi. One of them had a utility knife hidden in his sleeve, reaching for Li Qiyi’s handbag.
"Hey!" Du Yanan quickly stepped forward, grabbed the man holding the knife, and squeezed hard. The man screamed in pain, and the utility knife promptly clattered to the ground.
Du Yanan stared wide-eyed at the man in front of her and said, "You’ve got some nerve, committing a crime right under my nose!"
"Bitch!"
The other man, seeing this, shook his sleeve to reveal a small hammer and swung it directly at Du Yanan’s head.
With barely half a meter between them, the man’s reaction was fast. Du Yanan was holding the other man down and couldn’t react in time, seeing the hammer coming fiercely at her face!
At the critical moment, you squeezed in, grabbed the hammer, and your hand was only a few centimeters from Du Yanan’s forehead. She could even feel the heat from your hand.
"Committing a crime and even daring to be violent!"
You were holding back anger, and upon seeing such viciousness from the thief, you struck with a furious punch, landing squarely on the man’s right cheek. A "crunch" was heard as bones shattered, and the attacker went flying!
The man slid several meters on the ground, only stopping after crashing into a stall.
Onlookers immediately noticed the man’s eyes roll back in his head as he fainted.
At this point, Du Yanan had already pulled out handcuffs from her waist to cuff the knife-wielding man, then swiftly took out her phone to make a call. In less than two minutes, two patrolling police officers rushed over.
After subduing the two criminals, the officers saluted Du Yanan and said, "Officer Du, thank you for your hard work."
Du Yanan was about to speak when a screech of brakes was heard from the road at the market’s edge, and a tall, handsome man in a police uniform rushed over.
"Yanan, are you okay?"
The handsome man didn’t care about anyone else, as if only Du Yanan existed in his eyes.
Hearing the man call her that, Du Yanan’s eyes widened in annoyance, "Wei Chenghui! Who gave you the right to call me that?"
"Yanan, I..."
At this time, you turned to Li Qiyi and said, "Sis, since Officer Du’s boyfriend is here, let’s not play third wheel and head home."
"Please wait a moment." As you were speaking, one of the police officers saluted you and said, "Sir, according to witnesses, it was you who knocked the attacker away. We’d like to confirm the events."
You scratched your head and laughed, "I saw Lao Du was in danger, so I reacted a bit strongly. Haha, but at most, he’d have a mild concussion, nothing life-threatening."
The two officers exchanged glances, and one continued, "Could you come with us to the police station to make a statement? It won’t take much time."
You looked at Du Yanan, who then walked over to you and Li Qiyi, messed up your hair, and said to the officers, "You can pick up the statement at the criminal police team in the morning. They’re my good friends, we have something important to do."
"Okay, Officer Du."
The officers saluted Du Yanan and the recently arrived handsome man, "Captain Wei, we’ll take the suspects back for processing."
"Go ahead."
After they left, Wei Chenghui approached Li Qiyi and you. Upon seeing Li Qiyi’s face, a slight daze and a hint of amazement passed over Wei’s face, but he quickly concealed it. He smiled at you and your sister, "Hello, my last name is Wei, I’m Yanan’s friend."
In front of strangers, Li Qiyi has always been uncommunicative and carries a cold demeanor. Facing Wei Chenghui, she merely gave him a cool glance and nodded, "Hello."