The left hand rested on the table, while the right was draped over the back of the chair, facing Guo Guo completely.
"What?" Guo Guo replied weakly. She didn't dare to look at Xiao Lin, nor anyone else, her panicked expression hard to describe.
"They have a lot of questions, explain them!"
"Why should I explain? What I said is all true."
"Nobody said you were lying, why are you panicking?" This was said by Zimu, who had no goodwill towards this suddenly appeared woman.
"What do you think of Director Zhao?" Xiao Lin glanced at Zimu, then asked Guo Guo about soone she had never ntioned before.
"I'm not familiar with him," Guo Guo shook her head.
"He's very familiar with your second boss," Xiao Lin retorted confidently, already sure there was sothing wrong with this girl, not to ntion her motives, her skill in fabricating lies was full of errors. "You guys go rest first!" Xiao Lin dismissed Wuzhi, leaving Guo Guo and him alone in the dining room.
"There's no one else here, why lie!" Xiao Lin lit a cigarette; the first ti he heard Guo Guo talk about these matters, he had questions, and those that Wuzhi ntioned and didn't ntion were all in his head. He didn't think she was Fourth Master's person, but he didn't understand why she was lying.
"I... I didn't lie." Guo Guo hung her head low, her voice soft.
"You didn't lie, but sixty percent of what you said is true, forty percent is false, and five percent of the sixty percent is your own addition, isn't that right! Why do you hate Xiao i so much?"
"I don't hate her!" Guo Guo suddenly raised her head, her eyes wide open and already brimming with tears. "I..."
"I'm giving you one day,"
"Wait!" Guo Guo called out just as Xiao Lin was about to turn away. "How did you tell?"
"I ntioned that five percent is your own addition; in fact, I ant your emotions. When you spoke of Xiao i, your pupils unconsciously contracted, and you were very tense."
"Ah San was killed by Xiao i." Guo Guo relaxed her shoulders; it was really hard to lie in front of these people. Although she couldn't guess what they did, she was sure these people were very capable. "I knew Ah San from the start, that's not a lie, and Director Zhao saying he had an ambiguous relationship with Xiao i is also true."
"Why bla Ah San for Xiao i's death?"
"I can first answer the yellow-haired one's question, why I'm the only one still alive." Guo Guo showed a rare hint of sarcasm. "It's because of that big boss."
Xiao Lin didn't show a surprised expression, though what Guo Guo revealed was shocking and exceeded his expectations. He had considered many people as the hardware store big boss, but he never thought it would be this girl.
"You should have been surprised, but you seem very calm." Guo Guo picked up a puppy and placed it on the table. "I'm just a stand-in, not the real big boss, otherwise I wouldn't be living in that kind of place."
"The big boss is a woman?"
Guo Guo nodded. "At that ti, a man and a woman ca to discuss the storefront, the woman never spoke, wore a hat, probably afraid of being recognized. I had just started watching over this store and got driven out by them. They talked for a long ti, but it seed my original boss didn't agree."
"Actually, there's no high-priced transaction, your previous boss died."
"I don't know if they died; there was a two-day break. When I ca back to work, the store already had those things you saw, and the first day I worked, I t the new boss, who was the woman that ca that day. She told if I could sell the drugs, I could get forty percent profit. You have to know, money was a big temptation for , I had to pay for my grandpa's treatnt." Guo Guo smirked maturely. "I could distinguish banned drugs and didn't agree, but the woman said if I didn't do it, I'd et King Yama like my boss because I knew too much."
"That simple?"
"That simple, I know you won't believe it, in fact, at the ti, I didn't either. Why did she choose ? Later, I found out it was because of Xiao i."
"If you were to identify, could you recognize that woman?"
Guo Guo shook her head. "I've only heard her voice, but her face was always hidden behind a mask and sunglasses."
"A woman's voice?" Xiao Lin asked again, and Guo Guo nodded.
"Xiao i could be said to be my high school classmate. We both grew up in the North District; she dropped out before graduating. We t again when she ca to my store for flashlight batteries. She even asked to work for her, but I couldn't do that kind of work and stayed at the hardware store."
"You and Xiao i were classmates, so you should have so understanding of her."
"Xiao i was a transfer student, only studied for a year; she was a silent person. Many boys pursued her; she was proud, academically average, never saw her family, didn't participate in activities outside school, just gave an impression of mystery. But according to her, in that year at school, by the second sester, she was already preparing to leave school to work at a hotel."
"The relationship between Xiao i, you, and Ah San."
"I didn't have a particularly close relationship with Ah San, just sympathy. He was nice, honest, often bullied, but Director Zhao really treated him well. People in the North District said Ah San was Director Zhao's illegitimate child, and I think it's possible, because Ah San often ca to my place, and in our area, I was the only one who talked to him. Others didn't much bother because they found him hard to understand." Guo Guo wanted to ask Xiao Lin for a cigarette, but he only took out a lollipop for her.
"When you t Xiao i again, she was already in this line of work? I an selling banned drugs."
"I don't know about that; I just know that in high school, she had already started working in the entertainnt sector on Red Street, she was famous because she never went out with custors. In fact, there was a man always pursuing her."
"You said the big boss is a woman? I recall you told at the beginning the big boss was a man and was pursuing Xiao i, including the second boss and Director Zhao saying the sa. Which should I believe?" Even though Xiao Lin closed his eyes, he didn't miss a word Guo Guo said.
"You can choose not to believe any; in the North District, many words shouldn't be trusted. Everyone who lives here is a liar." Guo Guo didn't defend her words in any way. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to go to Qidian (qidian) to vote for recomndation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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