Chapter 295

Page 105 Falling into the Trap

The streak of red hair on Lu Li’s forehead was very eye-catching. If she were in a boys’ school, she would have been sent directly to the dean’s office to have her hair cut. Fortunately, the girls’ school was more lenient with such matters, allowing the girls to dye their hair and apply makeup to some extent.

But this couldn’t change the reality that she had fallen into the trap.

Grandmother asked calmly, “So, Lu Li, you don’t have class now?”

Lu Li waved her hand indifferently, “We have physical education today. It’s self-training time. As long as the teacher doesn’t catch us, it’s fine to sneak out for a while. But what about you, senior student…”

Grandmother interrupted her again.

“Let’s not talk about me. What are you doing here? And what’s that you’re carrying on your back?”

Putting down the bulging backpack behind her, Lu Li countered, “Senior student, do you have prejudice against the boys from the boys’ school?”

“…No.”

Clearly, it was a lie, but Lu Li didn’t know.

“That’s good.”

Lu Li nodded in satisfaction and then asked naively, “Then don’t you think the boys are pitiful?”

“Oh? How so?”

Grandmother’s tone carried a hint of amusement.

Perhaps her youthful body also changed her mindset, making me see a glimpse of Lin Hua.

“Boys and girls pay the same tuition, yet they can only attend classes in classrooms without air conditioning, with outdated desks and equipment, most of which are in a state of repair… Is this fair?”

Unaware of the seriousness of the matter, Lu Li raised a reasonable question, but Grandmother replied, “Of course it’s fair, Lu Li. The Bìyáng Girls’ School has received many social donations and subsidies, which allows us to enjoy better treatment beyond the tuition level. These subsidies come from noble families and wealthy merchants, but have nothing to do with the boys’ division.”

Clearly, Grandmother was not answering this kind of doubt for the first time.

She could withstand public opinion to maintain separate schools and differential treatment, undoubtedly having prepared well for it; otherwise, she wouldn’t have passed the scrutiny of reporters.

“Back to your question, what’s in your backpack?”

“…Since it’s seen, there’s no way around it, but you must keep it a secret!”

“Okay, I will.”

As expected of a successful entrepreneur, Grandmother lied without hesitation.

Compared to her calculating sister, Lu Zi, Lu Li’s personality was somewhat simple and naive. She treated Grandmother as a fellow truant and was ready to reveal the secret.

“In fact, this is support material being transported to the boys’ school!”

“…Oh? Support material?”

Grandmother raised an eyebrow and asked back. I was also curious, so I extended my tiny thread-like probe to peek inside the backpack.

There were uniforms.

“If these things bought within the school are sent to the boys’ school, we can get funds to update the basketball court.”

I roughly understood the situation.

Grandmother asked, “Are you planning to let those boys sell the contents of the bag and use the money to renovate the facilities?”

“Exactly.”

“Regardless of what these are, isn’t this theft?”

“No, no, no, I bought all these with my own money. The source is absolutely legitimate!”

Grandmother retorted, “If you bought them with your money, why don’t you donate the money directly?”

It seemed she was unaware of the market value of Bìyáng uniforms outside the school.

“Because I don’t have enough money. You don’t seem to know either!”

Lu Li said with a puffed-up nose, “High school girls have a prestigious aura, so their school uniforms become ‘valuable items’!”

Ah…

This naive girl just blurted it out herself.

Now even heaven and earth couldn’t save her.

“You mean… uniforms?”

Grandmother reached out and pulled open the zipper of Lu Li’s backpack, and a summer pleated skirt popped out into her hands.

“Hey? What are you doing, senior student? I barely managed to put it in! Quickly put it back in!”

What audacious words.

“Can our school uniforms be sold at high prices outside the school?”

“Don’t be shocked, off-campus, the price of our school uniforms is rumored to be ten times higher! However, after admitting ordinary students, the value has decreased… it’s likely that students from ordinary families sold their uniforms, increasing the number of them on the market.”

Lu Li exaggerated her gestures, but the content was easy to understand.

Originally, Bìyáng was a pure school for the elite, only admitting daughters of wealthy families and not caring about making a little money from the black market. But for ordinary families’ girls, a tenfold profit was still quite attractive.

“Besides you, are there other students selling their uniforms?”

Concerning the school’s reputation, Grandmother was preparing to investigate this matter.

She asked another question, “By the way, where did you get this information?”

Before Lu Li could answer, a call came from below the artificial mountain.

“Li-mei~ I’m here! Throw it down!”

Without looking down, I knew who it was…

The second idiot who had fallen into the trap.

“Who is he?”

When Grandmother asked, Lu Li shyly smiled.

“Hehe, that’s my boyfriend, a major player in the boys’ school basketball team!”

“So that’s why you want to raise funds to renovate the basketball court for the boys’ school?”

“Sort of… I wouldn’t do so much out of sympathy alone…”

While Lu Li was reminiscing, Grandmother reached out and unclasped the strap of the backpack, taking it off directly.

“What are you doing, senior student?!”

Lu Li instinctively tried to resist, but Grandmother stopped her with her hand.

“Don’t sell school uniforms anymore. It’s dangerous to interact with black market people… As for the boys’ school basketball court, I’ll allocate funds to renovate it.”

Grandmother said this, and Lu Li gave up on the backpack.

“That’s a lot of money! Senior student, are you also a young lady? But why go to such lengths?”

“I am your principal.”

Grandmother also introduced herself. Unexpectedly,

But Lu Li didn’t seem to believe it… it would be strange if she did.

“Principal? Although I haven’t seen much of her, our principal is an old lady… You can’t fool me.”

Grandmother placed the backpack on the ground and added, “Although I can’t prove my identity, I will keep an eye on this matter. Don’t circulate these uniforms outside the school. I will investigate this matter later… and hold someone accountable.”

A hand was scrambling up the cliff of the artificial mountain.

“Li-mei, why won’t you acknowledge me?”

Zhao Zhao’s climbing speed was extraordinary. In less than half a minute, without protective gear, he climbed up a dozen meters high artificial mountain, perhaps he was an incomplete evolved ape.

“There’s someone else… Ah!”

Zhao Zhao, half his body hanging over the edge of the cliff, let out a startled cry.

To ensure student safety and prevent anyone from falling, the guardrail from the top of the mountain to the actual cliff wall was a certain distance away. Moreover, security forces had set up warning lines here…

That’s why I said this. Zhao Zhao triggered the alarm.

The alarm in the grass started ringing.

And the security camp was located at the foot of the artificial mountain.