Chapter 1169: A Small Punishment

Liu Chuxue had no intention of dealing with her again; after all, most of what she grew in her space was medicinal herbs, and the older they were, the more valuable they became.

As for the fruits in the space, since the quantity wasn't large, she could keep them for herself or use them to repay favors; there was no need to sell them all here.

She circled several times, confirmed no one was following, then quickly headed toward the guesthouse, since she had to catch a vehicle early tomorrow morning; having conducted two transactions that night, it was already late.

Taking the usual route, she confirmed the surroundings were safe, then swiftly climbed back through the window into her room.

After returning directly to the space to wash up, she suddenly remembered she hadn't dealt with the footprints outside the windowsill; she slapped her forehead, exited the space, and only then discovered it had started raining, and heavily at that. Well, heaven was helping her; with a thought, she settled into the space to catch up on sleep.

With an alarm clock to wake her, plus her habit of never dawdling when she had business to attend to, she was fully ready by the time someone knocked on the door outside.

Mi Aijun stood outside the door: "Squad Leader Zhou sent me to call you for breakfast."

When the two reached the small door leading to the cafeteria, someone was already waiting there. Wan Qing, seeing Liu Chuxue approach, immediately rolled her eyes at her.

Liu Chuxue was no pushover; "I've given you face, have I? Again and again, what a nuisance."

Seeing everyone assembled, Squad Leader Zhou led the way toward the guesthouse cafeteria at the rear, while Wan Qing, head held high, followed closely behind.

As everyone filed out through the small door into the courtyard behind, no one noticed a single soybean flicked from Liu Chuxue's hand, striking directly at the Weizhong acupoint behind Wan Qing's knee, commonly known as the numbness point.

Without any warning, Wan Qing let out an "Ah!" and dropped straight to her knees right there; Xu, the clerk walking behind her, nearly suffered the same fate, but fortunately, Zhang Chunsheng, walking beside him, pulled him aside.

Squad Leader Zhou, walking ahead, turned back and saw Wan Qing kneeling behind him: "What's going on? How did you just fall like that out of nowhere?"

Liu Chuxue had naturally made full preparations; after exiting through the back door, she had moved far away from her. Even if Wan Qing wanted to "frame" her, she would find no grounds.

Wan Qing turned and glanced behind her; no one was standing directly behind her, and Mi Aijun, the closest to her, could absolutely not have done anything to her, while Liu Chuxue stood diagonally behind her, separated by the distance of two people, looking at her with an expression of pure curiosity.

Everyone already had a poor impression of her; if she rashly accused someone, it would surely fail, yet she didn't want to suffer in silence: "I don't know what happened; just now my leg went numb, and I fell uncontrollably."

Hearing her words, Mi Aijun frowned: "Your constitution is really poor. I'll tell your director later that for future business trips, it's better to assign someone else."

Anyone who understood these words knew exactly what they meant.

Indeed, for over a month, she had been the most idle one; she hadn't done well what she was supposed to do, yet insisted on meddling in what wasn't her business, offering unhelpful assistance. Given that she was a female comrade, everyone found it hard to say much, but this person had absolutely no situational awareness; truly, no one knew what to say about her.

Seeing she was fine, Squad Leader Zhou didn't want to waste time: "Good, as long as you're fine. We still have to catch a vehicle soon; we can't be delayed."

Glancing at the person still kneeling on the ground: "Stop kneeling; get up quickly."

Having spoken, he turned and entered the cafeteria.

Since Liu Chuxue and she were at odds, she naturally wouldn't take the initiative to help the person up; as for the others, well, "men and women should not touch," so naturally, they too found it hard to step forward and help.

Wan Qing had no choice but to climb up herself; the force of that fall just now had not been light; whoever was in pain knew it best.