42: save4 Lu Yanyan's Proposal
The police house search ended a bit faster than Lu Lele had imagined.
At the same time, thanks to Lu Yanyan's maneuvering, it was an experience fraught with peril but ultimately safe. The police found nothing in the end.
Lu Lele witnessed her sister's operations the entire time and couldn't help but be filled with admiration, while also increasing her understanding of this cheap older sister of hers.
This damn rich woman wasn't just wealthy and connected. She was also an actor no less skilled than Lu Lele herself, with unfathomable depth of character and scheming.
It had to be said, the Tangerine City police were indeed well equipped. They even brought a search dog and prepared items Liu Lili had used personally and was carrying her scent, a hairclip found at school. They were poised to dig three feet into the ground to find Liu Lili.
However, Lu Yanyan was well versed in methods of stalling for time. The moment the officer entered, she shed her ice queen persona and adopted a gentle demeanor Lu Lele didn't even recognize, handling the situation unhurriedly.
Offering tea and water, chatting casually, these simple tactics could be overlooked. Lu Yanyan's truly brilliant move was while serving tea, she took the opportunity to grab some pepper from the kitchen. Then, under the guise of looking for tea leaves, she sprinkled the pepper on the study, especially on the large bookshelf.
The officer didn't notice this small action by Lu Yanyan. Only Lu Lele, who was staring at her sister the whole time, noticed it.
This way, the search dog's sense of smell could be effectively dampened. This was knowledge Lu Lele only learned later when she asked Lu Yanyan out of curiosity.
Only after the police left, Lu Yanyan told the inquiring Lu Lele with an expressionless face that she did it because she saw the police dog.
That meant it was entirely Lu Yanyan's on the spot reaction. From the instant she saw the dog, she made the corresponding judgment and immediately planned her course of action. Her execution speed was incredibly high, as if she had anticipated it.
In the end, the search dog only reacted to the living room and the bedroom where Lu Lele had confined Liu Lili for a day. This was precisely the result of Lu Yanyan's actions.
Lu Yanyan also said she actually wasn't confident, because the effect of a small amount of pepper in masking scents was limited. So she had prepared another set of explanations to use in case this plan failed.
But judging by the result, the explanations Lu Yanyan prepared seemed unnecessary.
However, the crisis wasn't just this one.
When the search hit a bottleneck, an experienced old officer spoke up, asking Lu Yanyan to produce the house's blueprints.
After Lu Lele's parents passed away, her late grandmother organized their belongings, which included the blueprints for this villa.
After the grandmother passed away too, these items were locked in a drawer and never taken out again.
Therefore, neither Lu Lele nor Lu Yanyan had ever seen them. The former because she didn't know about them, the latter because she was too lazy to take them out. After all, who would be bored enough to specifically take out the blueprints of a house they'd lived in for years to appreciate?
Lu Lele didn't know if there was a basement on the blueprints, but this wasn't something to gamble on.
Lu Yanyan obviously knew this too. Her face stiffened for a second or two, then she smiled and agreed.
But just as Lu Yanyan was forced to go get the blueprints.
The phone call came.
The officer captain in charge of the search answered the phone. His expression suddenly became very strange.
Clearly, the phone call Lu Yanyan made in the car had the intended effect. And Lu Yanyan had stalled for long enough.
The officer captain gave Lu Yanyan a glance that was complex but not unexpected, then announced the search was over. He exchanged a few pleasantries with Lu Yanyan and Lu Lele, then led his team away.
"So."
As soon as the officers left, Lu Yanyan walked up to Lu Lele, who had just sighed in relief. She looked at her with very "kind" eyes:
"My dear little sister, it's time to settle the score properly."
Lu Lele's nerves, which had just relaxed, became taut again. She instinctively acted cute:
"Eh, ehe?"
"I said, if you're not a little loli, don't act cute."
Lu Yanyan picked Lu Lele up and walked toward the bedroom where Lu Lele had once confined Liu Lili.
Lu Lele smelled the scent on her sister, lavender perfume mixed with tobacco.
Strange, but surprisingly addictive. It's a pity Lu Lele wasn't in the mood to appreciate it calmly.
She felt an unprecedented crisis, but still tried hard to find a topic:
"So sister, you're a lolicon?"
Lu Lele wanted more intel on her sister. By now, Lu Lele was fully aware of Lu Yanyan's terror. If she knew her sister's preferences, it might be useful in the future, or maybe make her inevitable punishment a bit better.
"Heh... you really are heartless. Still in the mood to joke at a time like this? Don't you know death is at your door?"
Lu Yanyan chuckled lightly, then immediately returned to her icy demeanor:
"However, I can answer my little sister's question seriously. I'm not a lolicon. I like the type that is petite but curvy. At least, not as flat as you."
"Then at the yuri themed adult establishment, are the girls sister orders always of that type?" Lu Lele continued to probe.
"My dear little sister, you have too many questions."
Hearing this, Lu Yanyan scanned Lu Lele with a very scary gaze.
"Eek!"
Lu Lele was frightened by that terrifying gaze and obediently shut her mouth.
Once in the bedroom, Lu Yanyan tossed Lu Lele onto the bed, turned around and closed the door, then walked to the bedside and sat down. Without another word, she pulled Lu Lele into her arms.
"Lele."
Lu Yanyan hugged Lu Lele like a doll, whispering in her ear:
"Your impulsiveness and lies cost your sister two million. How does my dear little sister intend to repay this money?"
Her biological older sister's skin was cold. Where it touched her, it felt like being caressed by cool water.
Sitting on Lu Yanyan's lap, her back feeling the surge of waves, Lu Lele's hair stood on end. Trembling, she said:
"I... I don't know..."
"True. Lele probably has no concept of money... An ordinary person working at a restaurant might earn two to three thousand Lily Coins a month. Let's say they can save two thousand. Relying on part time work to earn two million, how long would that take? Lele, tell me."
Lu Lele wasn't in the mood to do math, but since Lu Yanyan asked, she could only force herself to calculate:
"Two million divided by two thousand, divided by twelve... eighty... eighty three years..."
"Pretty fast calculation. Seems you're studying well at school."
Lu Yanyan praised her, then smiled faintly, whispering like a devil in Lu Lele's ear:
"Dear little sister, how about this? I'll send you to work at the yuri themed adult establishment I know. You won't come back until you've earned two million. How does that sound?"