There was a long pause, and then, with a hint of anger, he said, “No, 80,000 yuan is too little! Can’t you borrow from your relatives?”

When the husband heard this, his heart immediately rose to his throat. He quickly walked to his wife and winked at her.

They could borrow money from relatives, what could not be done was anger the kidnappers and harm their daughter!

However, based on her past experience in bargaining, <Mother Wang> sensed a hint of concession in the kidnapper’s tone.

If the other party was unwilling, they would have hung up the phone long ago and would not have argued angrily, saying that they were just dissatisfied with the price and wanted it to be higher.

Her tone was deep and very pitiful. “But they’re poor too, and we don’t have a good relationship with them. How about this? We’ll try to borrow money and give you 150,000 yuan tomorrow. Okay?”

The audience in the livestream channel’s hearts nearly jumped out of their throats, as if they had already anticipated the scene of kidnapped daughter’s blood splattering on the spot.

[If you didn’t know, you’d think Auntie was bargaining with a street vendor.]

[I’m impressed! I only bargain with vegetable vendors, but I never thought Auntie would dare to use this trick on kidnappers…]

[Oh my god, I don’t dare look at my phone anymore. The kidnapper will definitely be angry.]

However, to everyone’s surprise, an angry man’s voice came from the other end of the line: “… No, two hundred thousand! No bargaining. Any less than that and I’ll kill her.”

Everyone: “???”

[Good guy, your auntie will always be your auntie.]

[Fuck, did I hear that right? Did the kidnappers actually agree? Kidnapper, if you’re kidnapped, just blink.]

[With just a few simple words, the price of 1,000,000 was reduced to 200,000… This kidnapper is so easy to talk to.]

[You don’t understand. Aunties participate in bloody battles every day, using sophisticated psychological tactics. It looks easy, but the tone and words used are all important. It’s all in the details.]

[Aunties are the true tough guys in society.]

<Mother Wang> quickly agreed, asked the kidnapper for their bank account number, found a piece of paper and pen to write it down, and then hung up the phone.

She then breathed a sigh of relief, put down her husband’s phone, picked up her own, and felt relieved. “Host, it seems that there is no need to calculate anymore. I will transfer the money when the time comes, and my daughter will be able to come home.”

At this moment, in the eyes of everyone in the livestream channel, she was shining with golden light.

[Coach, I want to learn how to bargain.]

[Auntie, please take care of me.]

[For those who suffer from social anxiety, bargaining is a skill they will never master in their lifetime.]

Seeing so many people praising her, <Mother Wang>’s cheeks flushed a little, and she felt a little proud. “I’m just average, not very talented. But I do have some little tricks. If you want to hear them, I can tell you about them.”

She spoke for several minutes, full of valuable information, and people in the livestream channel recorded their screens to keep this valuable life experience.

However, after she finished speaking, An Rugu took a sip of tea and said quietly, “I advise you not to transfer this money.”

<Mother Wang>: “???”

The audience in the livestream channel: “???”

<Mother Wang> was shocked, her face filled with disbelief. “Huh? Why shouldn’t I send the money over? My daughter hasn’t been rescued yet.”

“In fact, your daughter was not kidnapped at all.”

She had been about to say something earlier, but <Mother Wang> was already talking, so out of politeness, she didn’t interrupt her.

<Mother Wang> stood there in shock, her eyes wide open. “But… that number is my daughter’s.”

“Your daughter’s phone was stolen.”

[Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! It turns out this is a scam targeting middle-aged and elderly people.]

[I think punishment is necessary.]

[To imprison or not imprison.]

When <Mother Wang> heard this, she was instantly ecstatic.

It didn’t matter if this was a scam, as long as her daughter was safe!

“Then where is she now? Why hasn’t she gotten her SIM card re-issued yet?”

“Don’t worry, she’s still at work and is very safe. If you don’t believe me, you can contact her supervisor as her family.”

But she was a little worried and didn’t move for a long time. “She works in a big city. We don’t have the phone numbers of her boss. She never told us this.”

She then turned to look at her husband and said, “Why don’t we go and see her tomorrow?”

Her husband nodded immediately, thinking the same thing, “Okay.”

She was overjoyed to know her daughter was fine and quickly thanked An Rugu, “Then we won’t have to pay the money for now. Master, thank you so much! If it weren’t for you, we would have lost hundreds of thousands of yuan.”

“Remember to call the police.”

“Okay!”

After chatting for a few words, the two hung up the video call.

The audience in the livestream channel was still frantically discussing what had just happened.

[Auntie fell for such a simple scam. It’s clear that her awareness of fraud prevention is not very good.]

[I suspect Auntie was trying to deceive me so I’d download the anti-fraud app (dog head)]

[Yes, you have a strong awareness of anti-fraud.]

[You have anti-fraud ingrained in your bones.]

An Rugu saw these comments: “…”

The comments always went off in weird directions.

She looked at her watch and realized she had already been livestreaming for several hours. She said, “Today’s livestreaming ends here. The next one will be in ten days. See you then.”

She ignored the audience’s cute and trolling attempts to keep her, and raised her hand to close the livestream channel.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: There really is an anti-fraud app launched by Tencent in cooperation with the police. From the comments I saw, there was a lot of ‘I downloaded this voluntarily! I was definitely not told I would be fired if I didn’t’ so I think the livestream comments were making fun of it. I’ve also read c-novels where earnest police characters would bring it up for comedy.

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