Wen Zhuqing had to admit that he had underestimated Li Juan all along. He had originally thought she was just an ordinary-looking girl with nothing special about her, but he never expected her to be so deeply concealed, even to the point of seeing through his true nature.

Li Juan didn’t seem to expect an immediate response from Wen Zhuqing.

After what seemed like a confession, she mustered the courage to reach out and touch Wen Zhuqing’s hand.

Seeing that Wen Zhuqing kept his lips tightly pressed together but didn’t refuse, her face lit up with joy.

The touch lasted only a moment, and soon, she turned and went back inside.

Wen Zhuqing watched her retreating figure, his eyes gradually darkening.

After returning to his room, Wen Zhuqing picked up a towel and carefully wiped the hand that Li Juan had touched. His eyes grew colder, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

What kind of riffraff could possibly be his equal? Ridiculous.

Whether Li Juan saw it or knew about it, Wen Zhuqing didn’t really care. After all, she had no evidence, and even if she spoke out, no one would believe her.

It was just a pity that those pigs had been saved.

Wen Zhuqing truly hadn’t expected that Gu Jianing actually knew medicine and had managed to diagnose the problem with those pigs.

It seemed that his previous understanding of Gu Jianing was far too shallow.

Adding to this, Gu Jianing’s recent coldness and “abandonment” of him, Wen Zhuqing, who had initially only seen Gu Jianing as a stepping stone and was infatuated with her beauty, now found himself even more interested in her.

Such an intriguing woman—how could he not keep her in his grasp?

That night, Gu Jianing had a nightmare. She dreamed that she was being stalked by a venomous snake, its triangular eyes fixed on her as if it wanted to devour her whole. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Sheng Zexi appeared and, with a swing of his axe, chopped the snake into several pieces.

At the end of the dream, Gu Jianing hugged Sheng Zexi, feeling completely safe and warm.

The next morning, Gu Jianing opened the system’s exchange mall. She had already used 100 points to exchange for a super body scanner the night before, and she had scanned her entire family with it.

Her three older brothers were in good health, strong and robust.

As for her sisters-in-law, the eldest, Yang Manman, was slowly recovering from her uterine cold issues.

The second sister-in-law, having just given birth not long ago, was still in her postpartum recovery period and was relatively weak, but she was gradually getting better. Her little nephew, Zhuangzhuang, who had always been healthy, had gained some weight recently after drinking formula milk.

Her mother, Yao Chunhua, was also in good health, but her father, who had overworked himself when he was younger, had some lingering physical damage. However, it wasn’t a major issue, and with some nourishing food, he could slowly recover. She had already discussed this with her mother.

Now, Gu Jianing was in the system’s exchange mall to exchange for something else.

After a while, her eyes lit up. “Found it.”

Seeing that the price wasn’t high, Gu Jianing made the exchange.

“Ningning, it’s time to eat.”

“Coming.”

After closing the system, Gu Jianing went to have breakfast. Just as she was about to leave after eating, she saw Bao Shanyan standing at the door.

There was no surprise in Gu Jianing’s eyes as she said, “Let’s find a place to talk.”

Then, Bao Shanyan followed Gu Jianing to the back of the Gu family house…

At the back of the house, Gu Jianing explained her plan to Bao Shanyan and handed her a packet of powder.

Bao Shanyan took the powder but didn’t question the content of the plan. However…

“Aren’t you afraid that there might be evidence left behind or that someone might see it, and Wen Zhiqing could turn around and bite you?” After all, Bao Shanyan could also tell that Wen Zhuqing was definitely not as kind and pure as he appeared.

This man had a lot of tricks up his sleeve.

Usually, when encountering someone like this, it’s best to stay far away.

But Bao Shanyan wasn’t afraid because she believed that no matter what schemes he had, physical strength was everything, and she and her mother happened to have strength that surpassed even men’s.

Plus, she genuinely liked Wen Zhuqing’s looks.

Perhaps it was precisely because she didn’t have good looks herself that she wanted to find a handsome man, so that their child could inherit a mix of their features.

“I have my ways,” Gu Jianing replied.

As for what those ways were, there was no need to tell Bao Shanyan.

After all, she and Bao Shanyan were only using each other.

“Alright, as long as you’re confident. Otherwise, I won’t help you.”

“Same here.”

After parting ways with Bao Shanyan and returning to her room, Gu Jianing opened the system’s exchange mall and bought a pen and a disposable paper mouse.

The pen cost 0.5 points, and the paper mouse also cost 0.5 points.

Gu Jianing used the pen to write a sentence on a piece of paper, then tore it off, folded it, and placed it in the paper mouse’s mouth, specifying Wen Zhuqing’s bed location in the educated youth point.

The moment she finished speaking, the originally gray paper mouse flashed with light for an instant, and then the mouse seemed to come to life.

From a distance, it looked like a real, glossy mouse.

In the next second, it turned around and ran off with the paper in its mouth, so fast that only a blur could be seen.

The gray mouse ran straight into the educated youth point.

At this time, there was no one in the educated youth point, as everyone was out working in the fields.

The gray mouse accurately found Wen Zhuqing’s bed and, in an unbelievable manner, jumped onto it.

Then, the folded paper was placed under the pillow, mostly hidden, with only a small corner exposed.

After that, the gray mouse jumped down and stopped moving. In the next second, it spontaneously combusted, burning up.

The once lively mouse turned back into a paper mouse and then burned into a pile of ashes.

As the wind blew, the ashes scattered.

No one witnessed this scene.

It wasn’t until noon that the educated youth returned from work.

As soon as Wen Zhuqing entered, he casually glanced at his bed and easily noticed the corner of paper sticking out from under the pillow.

Wen Zhuqing’s bed was always neatly arranged, and he was very familiar with everything in his personal space, so he immediately noticed something that didn’t belong there.

Walking over, and making sure no one could see, Wen Zhuqing took the paper from under the pillow and hid it in his palm.

When he was alone, he unfolded it to read.

At first glance, he recognized the handwriting.

Wen Zhuqing immediately knew it was Gu Jianing’s writing.

Previously, Gu Jianing had written some small poems to get closer to him, asking him to critique them. Wen Zhuqing had always had a good memory.

So he instantly recognized Gu Jianing’s handwriting, especially since her name was written below.

On the paper, Gu Jianing wrote that her meeting with the officer surnamed Sheng was forced, and that she still liked him. If Wen Zhuqing also liked her, he should meet her tomorrow at the old place north of the village, as she had something important to discuss with him.

The so-called old place north of the village was a remote old house where a lonely old man used to live. After the old man passed away, the place had been left abandoned due to its dilapidated state, and no one lived there anymore.