The chauffeur and Old Wang helped carry the luggage into the mansion. The mansion was quite luxurious. There were stairs in the house, and the first floor was the living room. There were expensive sofas and coffee tables, a phone on the sofa cabinet, and another on the dining table. The floor-to-ceiling windows and beautiful curtains were completely different from the Xia Mansion in their hometown. Meng Lin was stunned. She now knew why Third Uncle was always arguing about splitting up. It seemed that Grandpa was really rich. People who could live in such a house were definitely not ordinary people.
"Young Master, Young Miss, your rooms are on the second floor. Let me help you send your luggage up.”Old Wang said.
"Help Menglin with the luggage, I'll do it myself.”
"Alright."
Meng Lin and his brother were opposite each other. As soon as he entered his room, he was mesmerized by the decoration of this rich young lady's boudoir. He sat on the soft bed and looked around. He really couldn't bear to blink, afraid that everything in front of him would be gone in the blink of an eye. He had left his hometown and worked hard so that he could have a house like this one day, so that his mother and siblings could enjoy it. This was the life he had dreamed of! Thinking of his mother, Meng Lin suddenly thought of something. He reached out and rummaged through his luggage.
He had brought his phone from his hometown to Shanghai in order to help him. There was a power source in the mansion. Meng Lin plugged in the charger and his phone lit up. That day, she almost received a call from her mother. She wondered if she could call her back today. With a glimmer of hope, she made a call.
"Meng Lin." Her brother's voice came from outside the door. She hurriedly hung up the phone and casually picked up a book to cover it.
After opening the door, her brother said to her,"You must be hungry. Let's go have dinner."”
"Alright, I'll pack up."
"There's no need to clean up. There's a small steamed bun shop near the City God Temple. There's a queue every day. If you go late, you won't be able to buy it.”After saying that, he pulled Meng Lin's hand and left the room.
Meng Lin turned around to look at the charging phone under the book and closed the door.
At night, the City God Temple was very lively. There were acrobatics, incense burning, and hawking candied haws along the street. Qing Feng said to Meng Lin,"Shanghai is more lively than my hometown." Then, he brought Meng Lin into a small steamed bun shop.
As he ate the dumplings, a beggar came over. He wore a straw hat that was very low and held a walking stick. He held a broken bowl and stretched out his hand to each table to ask for money. Some people gave him a copper coin, while others waved their hands to let him go. He did not speak. When others gave money, he bowed. If they did not give money, he would leave.
Walking to Azurepeak's table, he lowered his head and stretched out his broken bowl to ask for money. Azurepeak took out a copper coin without saying anything and threw it into the broken bowl. The beggar bowed and prepared to leave. Azurepeak accidentally saw the bandage on his left arm that was holding the walking stick. He immediately recognized that it was the bandage he had bandaged.
As we mentioned before, there was a private doctor in the Xia residence, Doctor Lin. He had a good relationship with the old master and often discussed medicine. The old master had also learned a little from him. Qingfeng had been following his father to learn business from Shanghai and his hometown since he was sensible. He had been following his grandfather all year round and had also learned some basic medical knowledge. Moreover, when bandaging, Qingfeng had a special habit. He liked to fasten a single button instead of a double button, and the single button was facing down.
Azurepeak was shocked. He looked at the figure of the beggar who was about to leave and looked around. There were many people. If he greeted the beggar here and others saw a noble young master chatting with the beggar, they might expose his identity as a beggar and cause trouble for themselves. Therefore, he endured it, but his eyes were always on the beggar. Seeing that he had no intention of leaving the shop, Azurepeak did not disturb him. Instead, he pretended to be fine and continued to eat, but his eyes were always fixed on the beggar.
The beggar did not realize that he was being watched and continued to ask for money. After a while, he sat on the steps at the door to rest.
Meng Lin didn't notice anything wrong. He chatted and laughed with his brother while eating. Azurepeak also smiled in response, but his eyes never left the beggar. Suddenly, a tall and sturdy man wearing a top hat came into the shop. He had an imposing appearance and did not look like an ordinary person. As soon as he entered, he sat at a table near the door and asked for a pot of tea.
Before he finished his cup of tea, the beggar at the door stood up and turned around to enter the shop. He walked slowly towards the man in the top hat. The man glanced at the beggar and took out something from his pocket and handed it to the broken bowl. At this moment, Azurepeak was staring at the table not far away with his eyes wide open. He wanted to see if the thing he handed over to the broken bowl was money.
It wasn't money! Definitely not! It was a very small piece of paper!
Azurepeak understood that the beggar begging for food was a cover-up. His real purpose was to wait for someone. And this person was not a beggar. The bandage on his left arm betrayed him. He was the person he saved in the private room on the ship!
The beggar received the note. It seemed that he had completed his mission and was ready to leave. Xia Qingfeng did not care whether Meng Lin had finished his meal or not. He placed a few copper coins on the table, grabbed Meng Lin's hand, and left the Steamed Bun Shop.
Meng Lin was shocked by his brother's actions and shouted,""I haven't finished eating yet. What are you doing?”Azurepeak frowned and softly hushed. Meng Lin instantly shut his mouth and followed closely behind his brother.
Meng Lin's shout made the shop assistant notice something and immediately reported it to the boss who was working on an abacus at the counter.
The beggar quickly entered an alley and turned left. Azurepeak grabbed his sister's hand and ran into the alley as fast as he could. When he turned left, he found that the beggar had turned right at the intersection in front of him. Azurepeak followed closely behind and was about to turn right at the intersection in front of him. When he saw that there were many intersections in front of him, the beggar was already gone. Azurepeak was anxious. This alley was very deep. There were intersections and high walls everywhere. What should he do if he lost him?
He was quick-witted and couldn't care less. There was only his sister in front of him, so he believed that she wouldn't say anything. Azurepeak said to Meng Lin,"Don't talk nonsense."”Before Meng Lin could react, he had one arm around his sister's slender waist, and his two feet stepped on the high walls on both sides. In just a few steps, he had reached the roof.
"Oh my god." Meng Lin was stunned. She never knew that her brother had such good skills. Other than surprise, there was only admiration in her eyes.
Standing on the roof, he could see everything around the alley. Suddenly, he saw one of the outer doors three alleys away from him open. The beggar entered the door. The person who opened the door poked his head out and looked around before quickly closing the door.
Azurepeak didn't say anything else. He held his sister's waist with his left hand and lifted her leg with his right hand. He carried her from the roof of this alley to the roof of the opposite alley. Because the alley itself was very narrow, the distance between the two roofs wasn't too wide. It wasn't difficult for Azurepeak to fight. Meng Lin hugged her brother's neck tightly with both hands. She did not dare to breathe too loudly and looked at the man who was hugging her with admiration. Such a handsome and wise man who was good at business, medicine, and martial arts. Wasn't he the Prince Charming in her heart? Thinking of this, Meng Lin couldn't help but smile.
Azurepeak went to the roof of the house that opened the door and gently put Meng Lin down.”When she woke up, she immediately looked very disappointed. She really wanted her brother to hug her for a while more. Azurepeak could not care less. He hinted to his sister to squat down and quietly lifted a tile on the roof. The light in the house instantly spread out and she saw the scene in the house.
The beggar took off his straw hat. As expected, it was the person he had saved in the private room. He handed the note given to him by the man in the top hat to someone. The other man took the note and entered the room.
Following his direction, Azurepeak quickly took his sister's hand and walked to the roof of the house. He lifted a tile and the light from the house shone on Azurepeak's face. He saw this person sitting in front of a machine. His hand kept touching the machine, and the sound of beeping came from the house.”'s voice.
He was sending a telegram. Could these people be…Azurepeak was thinking when suddenly, a man's roar came from outside the courtyard gate."There's someone in the room."
"Not good." Azurepeak cried out in his heart. He pulled his sister's hand and ran to the edge of the roof. Without any explanation, he picked up his sister and jumped to another roof. Then, he jumped from another roof to the next roof.
When he heard someone shouting outside the door, the door of the main room opened from the inside. The person who heard the sound was the man who had been saved in the private room. He stood in the courtyard and looked at the roof under the moonlight. He saw the backs of a man and a woman. He did not see their faces clearly. The bearded man outside the door rushed in and said to the man who had been saved in the private room,"Big Farmer, you're being followed." The bearded man also brought a few waiters with him. The waiters behind saw the man and woman running for their lives on the roof. The five waiters below were not strong enough to get up the roof, so they followed closely behind in the alley. For a moment, the two of them ran on the roof while the five men chased after them on the ground. It was very lively.
"How could I be followed? I've been hiding well as a beggar.”Big Farmer was surprised.
"I don't know either. You were targeted by that man at the steamer stall. Fortunately, the woman beside him shouted when he left the stall. Otherwise, our workers wouldn't have known. He could tell that you were pretending to be a beggar.”the bearded man said.
"How did he see through it? Unless it's one of our own, no one has ever seen through it.”The big farmer was puzzled.
"He doesn't look like one of us. Fortunately, we followed him closely and didn't hear him on the roof. Otherwise, we would be in big trouble.”
"Brother Beard, our location has been exposed. Should we move?”
"Okay, I'll ask the leader immediately. Wait for my news.”
Azurepeak brought his sister all the way to the rooftop near the main street. Seeing that a few men in the alley behind were about to catch up, he hugged his sister tightly and jumped into the bustling downtown. He pressed his sister's head with one hand and bent his head like a bow at the same time. Just like that, he ran left and right through the legs of the crowd. When the group of men escaped from the alley, they looked into the crowd on the street. There were people shopping at the night market everywhere. There was no way to find the person they were looking for, so they gave up.
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。