Chapter 87

The gatekeeper certainly did not want a young girl like Zhou Mingzhu messing with his precious radio! It was a gift his son had bought for him—second-hand, perhaps, but it still cost twenty-five yuan. That was two months’ worth of his son’s hard-earned wages; if she broke it, he wouldn’t even know where to turn to cry. “No need, no need at all,” the old man hurriedly waved his hands. But Zhou Mingzhu, with a sudden lack of social grace, declared in an arrogant tone, “I have been invited by the Ministry of Railways, accompanied by the Railway Bureau, to come here to Wugang to provide technical guidance! Not to mention Wugang, even the person who came to receive us this morning didn’t make any arrangements for this! And look at this broken radio of yours! I can fix it with a flick of my fingers! Who do you think you’re looking down on? If I can’t fix it, I’ll buy you a new one! Your Wugang is just trying to give me a hard time by doing this, aren’t you? Well, I’ll show you! I’ll show you just how capable I am!”