Yan Qingcheng was the first to see Liu Chang'an and Shangguan Dandan leave the resort. From the balcony of her third-floor room, she watched Shangguan Dandan carry a huge thermos while Liu Chang'an held the chainsaw Shangguan Dandan had bought that day, starting it with a few pulls now and then before switching it off again.
Yan Qingcheng knew how to use a hand saw. The battered desks at rural elementary schools had to be used to the fullest, patched and repaired year after year. Saws, hammers, pliers, and other common tools were things one had to know how to use. For a girl raised in Yan Qingcheng's circumstances, skillfully operating tools and repairing desks and chairs was nothing difficult.
If it were someone like Bai Hui... forget it. Why was she always competing with her? During dinner, she had only just resolved not to let herself be drawn along by Bai Hui's rhythm and temperament.
Still, Bai Hui had really put in the effort today. A girl who usually weighed herself before and after every meal, and screamed at the slightest increase in body fat, had truly eaten quite a lot today. Any one of those lobsters would have been enough to serve an entire table at a restaurant.
What puzzled Yan Qingcheng when she saw Shangguan Dandan and Liu Chang'an heading out was this: why was Shangguan Dandan always hugging such a huge thermos?
Other than when she had been hopping around onstage today, Shangguan Dandan had kept hold of that thermos. Yan Qingcheng estimated that if it were full of water, it probably weighed over ten pounds. Yet she had also heard Shangguan Dandan mutter things like, "I have no strength," from time to time.
Holding a thermos that big all the time meant she had plenty