"Old Master Tang, you must be joking. My Jueqing Manor is just a small pawnshop.”
Liu Wuqing deliberately lowered her head and stared at her sleeves. She patted them to hide the obvious unhappiness on her face.
"Stop pretending, Boss Liu. My house was broken into last night and the jade pendant, a family heirloom left behind by my ancestors, was stolen.”
"What does that have to do with the Heartless Manor?" That's strange. His house was robbed, and she was shouting to catch the thief at the Heartless Manor. Was she mistaken?
"Boss Liu, you must have heard that in the past month, many houses in our county have been robbed.”As he spoke, his plump belly shook a few more times. "What was stolen wasn't gold or silver, but the precious stones passed down from the ancestors.”
"So?" She waited.
"Everyone is very curious. Why is it that we have all been robbed, but nothing has happened to the Heartless Manor, which has many collateral treasures.”Pausing for a moment, Old Master Tang said meaningfully," I heard that a strange man moved into the Heartless Manor a few days ago…"
"What does Master Tang mean?”Liu Wuqing raised his head, and his black eyebrows rose two degrees.
"Last night, the night watchman saw a sneaky black shadow lingering outside the wall of the Manor of Unrequited Love. In the blink of an eye, the black shadow disappeared. Boss Liu is so intelligent, how could he not understand what I meant?”
"Why didn't you say that it was a wild cat that randomly climbed over the wall?”Using such a forced reason to blame her for harboring a thief in the Heartless Manor.
"Whether it's a cat or not, we'll have to ask the thief first. You're a smart person and know what's best for you. You wouldn't want us to use the law to catch people, would you? It's always ugly when we fall out…"
She wouldn't let him have the chance to step into her Heartless Manor. It was probably just a small matter to catch a thief. He really wanted to explore the treasury of the manor! She knew that many people were coveting her secret treasure house. Of course, Master Tang was one of them.
"Don't tell me Old Master Tang has forgotten? Last month, in order to redeem the freedom of a singer with a sky-high price, a man sent the purple jade ring that his wife had given him as a dowry to the pawnshop. Only then did he manage to gather enough silver taels to reach the sky-high price.
Liu Wuqing stopped talking because she saw Master Tang's rosy face turn pale, and his oily belly no longer shook, as if he was announcing that he was no longer arrogant.
" If that man's wife finds out about this, I think..." She said something that only the two of them could understand.
"Liu Wuqing!" Master Tang scolded.
"I believe in evidence. If you can't prove anything, don't even think about framing my Heartless Manor. If you have nothing else to say, please leave with your men and don't get in my way.”
Even an idiot could tell that Liu Wuqing was asking them to leave. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do next.
"Humph! Alright, Liu Wuqing, let's wait and see!”
After saying those harsh words, Master Tang rushed out of the pawnshop in a panic with an embarrassed look on his face. The people who followed him in naturally dispersed because of his departure.
"Little sister, what's going on?”Shen Cuirong asked in a low voice. As soon as she came out, she saw Master Tang leaving in a hurry with his men.
"No, it's nothing. It's just that some boring people came to make a scene.”
Liu Wuqing didn't want to answer her. She knew that Sister Cuirong had been against letting Yang Guhong live in the house from the beginning. If she knew that Master Tang suspected Yang Guhong was a thief, she would definitely make a fuss again.
" Love sister…" She didn't like the feeling of not knowing anything.
"Sister Cuirong, help me look after the shop first. I'm going to take a nap.”
Liu Wuqing immediately stepped behind the curtain without giving Shen Cuirong a chance to speak. Of course, he did not notice the gloomy look on Shen Cuirong's face.
Just as she was walking past the boudoir that had been invaded by the madman, she unexpectedly found that the door was open. She inadvertently looked inside and happened to see a certain someone sitting on a chair facing the door with his legs crossed. He was playing with an emerald green round jade ring with a missing piece in his hands...
Damn it! She glared back at him.
What was that?
"You…tell me again, what is that in your hand?”
Liu Wuqing roared angrily in exasperation. He faced the man sitting on her and calmly answered her question.
"Jade."
"Jade!" She lost control and shouted again.
Outside the room, heads gathered to watch. Liu Wuqing's face darkened as he said to Little Winter Melon, who was standing in the corner,""You, close the door! Also, those who are found to have left their posts without permission will have their salary cut by half this month.”
As he spoke, the servants who were eavesdropping outside the room all used their skills to dodge quickly. After a few muffled collisions, it was silent outside.
Liu Wuqing only dared to ask after the door was firmly closed.
"Tell me, this is just a piece of jade that you picked up on the road, and then you named it jade, right?”
"I don't have the habit of picking things up."
Compared to her excitement, he answered very calmly.
Glancing at her, he shrugged and put the jade pendant on the small round table. "According to what you said just now, it should be called Jade Pendant. If you like it, I'll give it to you!”
For the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Liu Wuqing could only stare at him in a daze, as if she had heard something unbelievable from his mouth. Then, she suddenly hugged her knees and squatted down. The chain around her waist made a crisp sound.
"Ah!"
Yang Guhong's hand, which was holding the glass of water calmly, paused in mid-air for a while because of her unexpected shout. Then, he brought the edge of the glass to his lips and took a small sip.
After recovering from his momentary daze, he concealed his worried expression and asked her, who was still squatting with her head lowered,"What's wrong with you?"
"You!"
She quickly raised her head and looked at the man who had caused her to lose control. "You have the nerve to ask me? I repeatedly promised Sister Cuirong that you weren't a bad person. Just now, I righteously said that I couldn't have stolen goods here. There's actually a thief hiding in the Jueqing Manor, and you're the thief who should be sent to court.”
"I never said that I didn't take it.”He stared at her face, which was red from anger, and smiled.
Knowing how to shout and scold meant that she was very energetic. It seemed that he had worried for nothing.
In front of her, he finished the tea in one gulp, put the cup on the small black wooden round table, and looked up at her with his hands crossed.
From the beginning to the end, his expression was natural, as if he did not know that it was her fault that he was a thief and that it had nothing to do with him.
Liu Wuqing buried his head in his knees and wailed again.
"Heavens! This is the first time I've been so defeated. I actually let a wolf into my house! Great, if people find out that Biyu is in the Jueqing Manor, my reputation will be ruined!”
"If you lock it in your treasure vault, no one will find it.”Yang Guhong kindly reminded.
" Lock him in the treasure vault…" she muttered.
That's right! If that happened, no one else would be able to find her…Wait, how could she do such a thing?! This was illegal!
Also, how did this man know that there was a treasure vault in the Manor of Unrequited Love?
"How did you know…that there was a treasure vault in the Heartless Manor?”She remembered that ever since she brought him into the villa, she had never mentioned it to him.
Could it be that…he had planned this long ago and wanted to make a move on the Heartless Manor?
He looked at her with a faint smile. "I don't think anyone would think that a pawnshop as big as the Heartless Manor doesn't have a treasure vault to store the treasures that customers have pledged.”
She was still staring at him suspiciously.
However, he wasn't that worried. She had an exquisite keyhole. If it wasn't for the three keys that she carried with her, it would definitely be impossible to open the big lock of the treasure vault door. Moreover, even if someone stole it, if the key was not turned in the right direction, the door would not open.
"Perhaps I should send you to the government.”Her legs were sore from squatting, so she sat on the ground.
"Don't forget that we have an agreement. You have to protect me well within this month. According to the rules, not only is your reputation damaged, you have to compensate me…"
A plaintive groan came from beside her ear, and the black pupils locked her head between her knees for the third time.
This time, Yang Guhong didn't even notice that the smile in his eyes had spread to his entire face. What he didn't notice was that he, who had always been too lazy to talk to people, unexpectedly made an exception.
Every time he saw her being teased by him until she was helpless, her helpless and cute appearance made him want to hold his belly and laugh.
Her straightforward and unpretentious personality was the type he had never met before. Other than feeling fresh, he also liked the intimacy between the two of them.
"It seems that we really have to hide her in the Heartless Manor for the time being.”After the limelight died down, she would think of a way to return the things to Master Tang's residence.
Who knew that he would throw out another shocking sentence. "Not only the jade pendant, but I'll also give you all the 'things' in the bag. I think they'll need to borrow your treasure house for a while.”
What was that? There was more!
She jumped up from the ground in fright. Perhaps she had used too much force, but she felt dizzy and dizzy. Her body swayed and she could barely stand up.
Someone held her unsteady body first, preventing her from coming into close contact with the ground.
Closing his arms, he enjoyed the feeling of soft jade in his arms. He did not expect her slender body to have such a well-proportioned skeleton.
"Don't be so excited. If you really like these jade stones so much, I can give them all to you.”He lowered his head and said half-jokingly. There was no use for him to keep it anyway. His voice was so close that it made her tremble. Why was his voice so close…
When her vision cleared up, she realized that something she didn't want to believe had happened. It was really him hugging her tightly!
In his shock and anger, he suddenly remembered what he had just said.
"What…what did you just say? There's another bag. There's another bag of what?”
Her red face was looking up at him. As long as he lowered his head slightly, he could smell her scent. He thought that she must not have noticed the ambiguous posture between the two of them. This slow little woman!
"I took them from…other places. You can call them 'stolen goods.”
"Heavens! How many more things did you steal?" She clenched her fists tightly.
"Don't be agitated, don't be agitated. It's just a burden.”Yang Guhong laughed secretly in his heart and patted her back to comfort her. She was so angry that she was trembling.
When she realized that something was rubbing her back, a gust of hot air rose from her back to the top of her head.
"What are your hands doing?" His chest suddenly turned into a furnace, scorching hot. Her hands, which were originally placed in front of her, seemed to be burning, and she quickly shrank back.
I already said that he was a wolf, but she actually…actually forgot to break free and even let him take advantage of her. She's really stupid!
"What are you doing? I'm trying to calm you down!" He continued to caress her back as if it was natural.
" I'm sorry," he said with a serious expression." I can forgive you for losing control when you were so excited to know that so many treasures can enter your treasure vault."”
"I lost control?"
If he were to touch her again and say something shocking to her, she would really lose control, scream, and go crazy!
He suddenly didn't say a word and just hugged her as he walked towards the bed.
"Wait, let go of me. What are you doing?”She screamed in horror.
He knew that she was thinking the wrong thing. "You're in Little Winter Melon's way."
The poor little wintermelon had been standing behind her for quite a while. He was carrying his breakfast with both hands, but he could not get past her.
Her mouth was half-open and she forgot to close it. This clumsy look made Yang Guhong really unable to hold it in any longer. He let go of her and laughed.
Liu Wuqing's face was full of anger. He glared at a brat who deliberately wanted to see her embarrass herself and who had thrown countless plates on the road. His face darkened as he turned around forcefully.
"Don't forget to take these things with you.”
Yang Guhong reminded her. Seeing her angrily grab the bag with the jade and throw it on her shoulder without any pity, Yang Guhong felt a burst of laughter.
Although the treasury of the Manor of Unrequited Love was his target, what attracted his attention more was the interesting mistress of the Manor of Unrequited Love.
He knew that he was already involuntarily attracted to her.
It was drizzling, and the air was cold. The cold wind that poured into the shop blew through the accounts. Liu Wuqing hurriedly pressed down the messy notes with one hand and continued to move the abacus with the other.
Occasionally, when she felt tired, she would stop, take a breath, and look up at the cloudy sky outside the shop.
It was only at this moment that she had the time to think about other things, such as him.
Go! He could think of pigs, dogs, or cats, but why would he think of his thief?
With a snort, his hands continued to keep track of the accounts. Finally, a straight line passed through the top row of beads, and the sound of the abacus stopped.
"Done."
She glanced at the gray sky that was no longer drizzling. The annoying weather made her sleepy. If she didn't move her body, she would definitely be the one to fall asleep.
She took out a few notes from the account book and folded them. After confirming that she had not forgotten anything, she took out an umbrella from the low cabinet.
"Xiao He, look after the shop. I'm going out to collect some debts.”
She had just walked under the eaves, and before she could even close the umbrella, a tiny person bumped into her. Fortunately, she took a few steps back in time to support the door at the side, preventing the two of them from falling. However, she could not stop the drenched little person from staining her clothes.
"You hateful brat, look at yourself. You're like a mud ghost. Don't you know how to find a place to hide from the rain on a rainy day? Why are you in such a hurry? You made me wet all over.”
Liu Wuqing grabbed Little Winter Melon's sleeve that was dripping with water and pulled him back forcefully.
"Wipe your feet clean before you step in!”Look at the pile of muddy footprints in front of her shop, really!
"S-Sorry…Achoo!”A gust of cold wind blew, and Little Liuyu couldn't help but shiver.
She frowned and said unhappily," Stop talking. Go in and change your wet clothes first." Little He, go in with the little ghost and ask Chi 'er to bring a bowl of hot ginger soup to the little ghost. Don't let him catch a cold.”
Little Winter Melon let Little He hold his hand. When he flashed behind the curtain, he timidly glanced at the door. His pale little face seemed even paler and bloodless. He hurriedly turned back, and the curtain that had fallen covered Liu Wuqing's curious gaze.
This brat seemed to be nervous about something. What was wrong with him? What was he afraid of? Looking at how panicked he was, could it be that someone was chasing after him?
Her confusion was quickly resolved by a man and a woman who appeared by the door.
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