Everyone got it.
And they stopped dwelling on it.
After all... they were partly to blame. They weren't too bright, which made them easy to fool.
That was the key point.
There was no helping it. Whichever way they looked at it...
It was still too embarrassing.
What happened next got interesting.
The bus finally stopped at the foot of the mountain, and the driver glanced back. "Everyone, this is as far as I can take you. You'll have to walk... the rest of the way yourselves."
Gu Luosheng nodded emphatically. "Thank you, sir. We should all walk our own paths in life anyway. We've already taken a shortcut just now. Leave the rest to us."
Gu Luosheng spoke with such crisp conviction that everyone on the bus, who had still been feeling a little resentful, immediately cheered up.
Everyone got off together.
The men helped unload the luggage.
Having learned from last time, Gu Luoxi had packed plenty of food in her suitcase.
Still... she had underestimated how difficult the climb would be.
"They've built a gravel path now. Before that, the children had to cross along the cliff face to get to school. They learned to scale walls and scramble over rooftops from an early age," the director chatted with everyone as they walked.
Gu Luosheng narrowed her eyes as she looked. Forget climbing it-just looking at it was terrifying.
She could only imagine what the people here had been through.
"There are still plenty of places like this in the world. That's why we wanted to help them through a little charity work," the director said.
Gu Luosheng said nothing.
Zheng Xincheng moved up beside her. "Sister Sheng, are you feeling sorry for them too?"
Gu Luosheng shook her head. "No, I'm wondering what we're having for