'It's damned if I do, damned if I don't.'
Gu Jiaojiao decided to just come right out with it.
"Leng Yuan, I want to go up the mountain this afternoon."
"Mm," Leng Yuan responded.
Gu Jiaojiao was speechless.
She had thought the man would refuse.
After all, this was the same man who had sent Chen Erniu to keep an eye on her.
But she had hesitated all afternoon, only for him to agree so easily?!
'All that hesitation for nothing!'
And she hadn't used a single one of the arguments she'd prepared to convince Leng Yuan.
But that didn't matter.
With Leng Yuan's permission, Gu Jiaojiao immediately went into the woodshed to get her burlap sacks.
They were the special sacks Leng Yuan had made for her, designed to be dragged along the mountain paths. She took two of them and also grabbed a back basket.
The back basket was woven from bamboo strips and was relatively light.
Leng Yuan knew she wasn't very strong, so he had woven it for her specifically.
