Reborn as a Superpower Girl in the 80s
Chapter 254 Pulling out the Radish Brings up the Mud

Chapter 254: Chapter 254 Pulling out the Radish Brings up the Mud

Li Dahe stood at the back of the crowd with red eyes watching Gao Taohua; he hadn’t expected that with his mother’s scene yesterday, he would end up helping Tiong Guoqing, allowing Gao Taohua to marry him without any regard for anything else.

In the city, Lu Yichen brought Stone to a primary school not far from City No. 1 Middle School to handle the enrollment procedures, mainly involving a pre-admission test that could take some time.

Luo Qiao returned to her home in the city first to put down the things she had brought, and then she went alone with her admission notice to report to City No. 1 Middle School. There was a sign at the entrance, and it was no longer so crowded when Luo Qiao arrived.

When she reached where the procedures were being handled and handed over her admission notice, the few teachers processing the paperwork all looked up at Luo Qiao simultaneously; a female teacher nearby was the first to react, "Are you Luo Qiao, our top scholar in this year’s middle school entrance exam?"

Luo Qiao smiled and said, "Yes, I am Luo Qiao."

That teacher, beaming with smiles, said, "You’ve finally come; we kept wondering why the top scholar hadn’t arrived yet?"

Luo Qiao didn’t reply, just stood there smiling. The teacher wanted to say more but was interrupted by another teacher in the middle, "Alright, don’t scare our student Luo Qiao."

Then, looking up, the teacher asked Luo Qiao, "Student Luo Qiao, will you be boarding or commuting?"

Luo Qiao replied softly, "Teacher, I will be commuting."

The procedures were quickly completed, and a senior girl from the second year then led Luo Qiao to the door of the first-year class, laughing as she said, "Student Luo Qiao, this is the classroom for the first year, Class One."

Luo Qiao smiled and said, "Thank you for bringing me here."

The senior replied, "No need to thank me, it’s what I should do. Go ahead and enter." After saying that, she turned and left.

When Luo Qiao entered, the classroom was in a bit of a raucous state with everyone greeting each other. Seeing Luo Qiao come in, everyone suddenly quieted down.

A male student called out, "New student, please introduce yourself."

Luo Qiao smiled lightly and said, "Hello everyone, I’m Luo Qiao."

Her introduction was brief, but it caused quite a stir among the others, none of whom had expected the top scholar to be so beautiful.

The girl sitting closest to Luo Qiao said, "You’re Luo Qiao, the top scholar in this year’s city middle school entrance exam."

Luo Qiao smiled and nodded slightly before asking, "Can I sit anywhere for now?"

The student replied, "Yes, just find a place to sit for now."

Luo Qiao then chose a seat in the second-to-last row, mainly because there wasn’t much choice left; it was the only spot still vacant.

It was only after sitting down that she understood why nobody else had chosen that seat—the desk was most likely quite old and wobbled left and right.

The boy sitting next to her said, "Student Luo Qiao, how about I swap seats with you?"

Luo Qiao smiled and said, "No need, this desk can be fixed later; it’s not a big issue. Thank you anyway."

The male student was still somewhat embarrassed, touching his head as he said, "No need to thank me, no need to thank me."

In Qingshan Village, believe it or not, the comrades at the police station really had some skills: by noon, they had actually found the two men who had cooperated with Gao Suhua.

It turned out that the two men were brothers, living in the Cui Family Manor some ten-plus miles from Qingshan Village. Because the village was situated halfway up a hill, it had little farmland and was extremely poor, so most families were unwilling to marry their daughters into the mountains.

The Cui brothers had finally saved up enough money, planning to buy a wife for the eldest first. Coincidentally, Gao Suhua learned of this, so she took the initiative to contact the family. They had originally planned to act previously but, unfortunately, Luo Qiao had gone to the city.

The Cui brothers were very pleased with Luo Qiao’s circumstances, thinking that with her, even if anything happened, she wouldn’t be able to cause trouble and would obediently accompany them through life. That’s why the incident happened last night.

Fearing complications, they hurriedly consummated the marriage with her last night, anxious that a long night might bring changes to their plans.

Zhao Xiaomei had been taken back by them yesterday and woke up not long after that, but unlike last time, she wasn’t lucky. She kept shouting that they had grabbed the wrong person, that she wasn’t Luo Qiao, but the Cui Family Eldest didn’t care what she was shouting and just pulled her into the room and consummated the marriage.

When the police officers arrived, Zhao Xiaomei was still in bed weeping bitterly. Hearing that the police had come, she ran out disheveled and barefoot, saying that she had been knocked unconscious and brought there.

The Cui brothers hurriedly explained, "Comrade police officers, don’t listen to her nonsense. We gave a dowry; we have a note from her mom."

Cui Family Eldest quickly went back to his room to retrieve the hidden note and handed it to the police for inspection.

The police officer looked at the note and saw that the person named on it was Luo Qiao. It indeed stated that a dowry of two hundred yuan had been received, signed by Gao Suhua.

The police officer’s anger flared up at once; this was no longer simply a matter of breaking and entering. It involved human trafficking, and now, for all the commotion, it turned out they had abducted the wrong person.

The police took both Zhao Xiaomei and the Cui brothers back with them. For the convenience of the investigation, they didn’t return to the police station at Chaoyang Commune but instead went to Qingshan Village and started to question them one by one at the village committee office.

The case was quickly cleared up; Gao Suhua had tried to sell Luo Qiao for two hundred yuan to Cui Family Eldest of the Cui Family Manor in the mountains. It happened that Luo Qiao went out to fetch something in the evening.

She coincidentally came upon Old Master Lin from the eastern end of the village having a medical emergency. In the process of sending him to the Commune health clinic, she narrowly avoided the conspiracy, which could be seen as good people receiving their reward.

Meanwhile, the Cui brothers accidentally mistook Zhao Xiaomei, who had come to watch the commotion, for Luo Qiao and abducted her, and they even consummated the marriage that very night. There were quite a few doubts in all this.

First, Zhao Xiaomei claimed she had been knocked unconscious; second, the Cui brothers insisted that when they leaped into the courtyard, they didn’t notice anything amiss. As soon as they saw someone on the bed, they just picked her up and left. After all, Gao Suhua had told them that only one girl lived in that courtyard.

No matter what they said, the fact remained that Gao Suhua’s scheme to pawn off Luo Qiao had failed, and she had inadvertently ensnared her own daughter instead. Moreover, the time Luo Qiao went out to rescue someone coincided precisely with the time they came to abduct their victim.

Luo Qiao’s suspicion was thereby removed; a girl couldn’t possibly have managed to switch Zhao Xiaomei. Truth be told, the Cui brothers were also somewhat scared and foolishly forgot to mention that the front door had been bolted shut.

With this incident, Qingshan Village was in an uproar once again. Luo Qiao was just a poor little thing, not intentionally murdered, but nearly sold due to someone’s secret plotting. Fortunately, her luck was not bad, and she managed to escape each time.

The police officers at the station believed the case to be of a serious nature and had no choice but to take all the people involved back to the detention center. They instructed the village head to notify Luo Qiao to return as soon as possible to assist with the investigation.

Now Gao Suhua had become infamous. She was involved in a human trafficking crime. Qingshan Village was in an uproar; Chaoyang Commune was in an uproar. And Luo Qiao had become well-known. No one knew quite what to say about her.

Sure, she was academically brilliant, but why were there so many people out to harm her? To put it bluntly, were it not for her uncanny ability to escape death each time, one might have thought she was cursed, haha!