Chapter 42

It was already dark when he logged into the game. Bei Qiao started the robot vacuum and let it do its thing, giving the building a rough clean. Then he sat in the hall to continue practicing martial arts. Afterward, he soaked in a medicinal bath, reviewing his Traditional Chinese Medicine lessons while soaking.

While making money, you must ensure your own strength so that you can protect your property from being taken away by others.

Tired of studying Chinese medicine, Bei Qiao rubbed her eyes and opened the spam group to take a look. Thanks to her hard work, her forum had gained screen-peek privileges on three local forums.

After the demon attack, Changling City's spam groups were in a frenzy of spamming. No matter when you clicked in and out, the number of unread messages was always over 99. Changling City was crowded, and there were a lot of melons. After Bei Qiao clicked in, he was so engrossed in the melons that he almost couldn't get out.

The Wutong County spam group had relatively few people online, and the rate of updates was slower than the Changling City spam group. Because the demon tribe's route didn't include Wutong County, the players here were still discussing the domestic violence man who had been found dead in his home a few days earlier.

After browsing the group for a while, Bei Qiao logged off early, exercised in the bedroom for another hour, and finally sat on the bed before ten o'clock, tapping the pericardium meridian and yawning.

"After using the 20,000 yuan bonus to buy a gold bracelet and supplements, I still have about 6,000 yuan left. I'll keep 1,000 yuan for pocket money and save the rest in a fixed deposit." Bei Qiao sighed: "The money is still too little. I'll keep working hard." The gold bracelet worth more than 20,000 yuan looked better, but it was a pity that she didn't have enough money.

The next day was Monday again. When Bei Qiao woke up in the morning, she was the only one left at home again.

"I'm obviously very busy every day, but I always feel like I'm going to burn out." Bei Qiao held Tangyuan in her arms and petted the cat while eating breakfast: "Tangyuan, your dried fish won't arrive until tomorrow, so just bear with it." That's right, her cat also got a share of the gift, and the main point was that no one would be left behind.

"Meow." Tangyuan wagged his tail happily: For the sake of the dried fish, I will forgive you for ignoring me these days.

Wait, that's not right. I don't think I bought myself a gift. When I logged into the game after dinner, Bei Qiao suddenly thought of a question: Did I leave myself behind?

"Qiao Qiao, you are at home, right? Come out and chat for a while! I'm so bored!" Just when Bei Qiao was struggling with this problem, Yu Qian from next door came knocking on the door again.

"Wait a moment." Bei Qiao walked all the way from the backyard to the front. On the way, he rubbed the dog's head, checked the remaining rations of Huihui, picked up the stick from the martial arts field and put it on his waist. Finally, he entered the escort agency from the back door, stood behind the main door, and opened the door with one hand.

"We're all so familiar with each other, and you still open the door with a weapon." Yu Qian squeezed her head in from outside the door.

"There were so many breathing sounds outside the door, and you didn't tell me in advance, I thought you were being held hostage." Bei Qiao rolled his eyes at her, opened the door and looked outside: "What are you all doing here?" Since the escort agency opened, it has never seen so many customers coming in at the same time.

"Come to listen to gossip." Everyone answered in unison.

Bei Qiao was stunned for a moment: "What gossip?"

"Regarding yesterday's events, the capture of the Changling City demons and the bloodbath at the Fang Mansion, is there any follow-up?" Yu Qian, having never been to Changling City and unable to access the forums, spent the entire night agonizing over her progress. Finally, with panda eyes, she came to Bei Qiao to ask for updates. After hearing the gossip Yu Qian shared in the group chat, the others followed suit.

When we asked another person involved, Xinji, he had disappeared early in the morning. It was said that he had made a small fortune and was planning to use the money to start a business outside. He did not plan to come back in the short term.

Bei Qiao: "..." Is this a teahouse that uses the escort agency as a storytelling place?

"We don't listen to gossip for nothing. We can't waste your time making money, so each of us brought a bag of millet from home. You can exchange the millet for silver when the time comes." Aunt Ding patted the millet bag on her waist happily. They took the millet directly out of the kitchen. They didn't feel bad about taking out something that didn't cost them money.

Mi Zhao, who runs a grain and oil store, raised his hand and said, "Just come to me directly to exchange it. I won't bargain down the price."

Bei Qiao: "..."One-stop service?

Seeing everyone's eager expressions of wanting to eat melons, Bei Qiao held his forehead and took two steps back to make way for the door: "I went to bed early yesterday, I don't know if there will be any follow-up."

"It's okay, it's okay. We won't be picky." Nan Yi took the lead and walked into the escort agency. His expression looked neither hurried nor slow, but he walked a little fast.

The others also followed and entered the escort agency one after another. Seeing that there were too many people, Bei Qiao dragged two benches from the backyard for everyone to sit on.

"Before logging off yesterday, I checked the spam group. The gossip I read was that Princess Jinyang returned to the capital and took the prefect with her before leaving." Bei Qiao gestured for everyone to approve the application to open the forum, then opened the chat history of the Changling City spam group and sat in the middle of everyone to read the chat history.

The prefect had acted a little too radically at first, but later on, for some unknown reason, he was arrested and taken away by Princess Jinyang. The government office is now managed by the legal advisor, and a guard remains to oversee it.

"I knew something was going to happen." Yu Qian munched on sunflower seeds. "The witness was injured and lying in the hospital, and could die at any moment. He even tried to forcibly take him away. He must be crazy."

"That's right..."

"It's a sinful thing."

Bei Qiao continued to flip through the records with a calm expression: "Well, there was no follow-up on Princess Jinyang's side, and the Fang Mansion massacre has become an unsolved case. The Fang Mansion is still under lockdown, waiting for people from above to investigate further. Oh, and a group of Taoist priests were hired to perform a ritual." Come to think of it, this world has metaphysics.

"We definitely need a ritual," Aunt Ding said cheerfully, pulling an apple from the basket and beginning to chew on it. "Whether this was done by a human or not, we have to find a way to appease people. Otherwise, how can the people living nearby sleep?" As to whether this was man-made or metaphysical, the truth remains to be seen. Ghost stories are scary, but when people act like humans, they are far scarier than ghosts.

"A tiger demon was also captured at the border, killed, and sent all the way to the capital. A player who had been to Changling City encountered the team escorting the tiger demon back to the capital on the way. Because he got too close to watch the excitement, the patrolling guard mistook him for a suspicious person and pinned him to the ground, almost giving him a scratch."

Now this person is showing off and complaining in the group chat. Because the guard's action was rather rough, he was pressed on the shoulders and fell to the ground for a few times, and his newly bought clothes were torn in several places.

"It's quite miserable, um... " Yu Qian has already started exchanging snacks with others: This person doesn't know what it means to eat melons rationally. You know, if you want to eat melons for a long time, you must first ensure your own safety! If you don't have any, what can you use to eat melons?

There were no soldiers under Feng Jiuming in the Changling City flooding group, so no player knew that the tiger monster was captured by the army, and no one knew that in addition to the tiger monster, there was also a jackal monster hidden in the carriage.

Tiger demon: I regret it so much now. Why did I believe the jackal demon's lies? I thought he was playing the empty city trick and let me go. Now I have lost my life!

Jackal: It turns out the empty city plan doesn't make sense! You've already killed several people, there's no reason for them to let you go! Unless... they let you out to fish! Puff! I'll die with my eyes wide open!

Feng Jiuming: Ah, it was indeed an empty city plan last time, but it’s not the case this time! Ever since the news of the demon invasion reached the capital, many royal children have rushed to the border areas, determined to slay demons and ascend to higher ranks. Now, not only is the city not empty, it’s even a bit crowded.

Feng Jiu Ming: Tiger Seventeen, Jackal Nineteen, if they have committed more than ten human deaths, they shall be executed according to the law!

This melon-eating party at the escort agency lasted for about half an hour. Although the sequel was not the ending, everyone was still quite satisfied with the melon.

After finishing the melon, everyone saw that it was getting late, so they each took away the leftover fruit shells, said goodbye to Bei Qiao, and went out to busy themselves with their own things. Gossip is to be eaten, and life must be lived. Eating melon can spice up life, but it is not the whole of life.

Bei Qiao gathered all the grain into a sack and drove with Mi Zhao, the last to leave, to the grain and oil store to exchange it for 62 coins. While Mi Zhao was busy weighing the silver, Xian Yu, standing in the distance, waved toward the donkey cart.

"What's the matter?" Bei Qiao put the change into his purse and walked over with Huihui.

"I want to go on a long journey." Xian Yu said that he didn't want to move, but because some monsters had passed by before, his family refused to deliver goods to the Novice Village on the pretext of unsafe conditions. He had no choice but to hire a carriage and go out.

"You shouldn't be short of money to hire a carriage, right?" Bei Qiao rubbed his gray head.

"There is a shortage of people, but it will save more money to hire you." Xian Yu answered confidently.

"...Thank you for your frankness. Where are you going to deliver the goods?"

"You're welcome. I'm not shipping any goods. I'm planning to close the store and rest for a few days." Xian Yu leaned against the door frame with his arms folded, as if he had no bones. He looked so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. His voice was vague and difficult to hear clearly unless you got closer: "Anyway, I don't rely on this store to make money... Oh, Yu Qian is here too, welcome. The store is having a sale now, so buy whatever you want."

Like Aunt Ding, Xian Yu is a wealthy man who achieved financial freedom since birth. He opened a shop in Yuanshan Village purely to complete the task assigned to him by his family and to prevent himself from lying down for too long and becoming exhausted.

Now that the head office didn't want to ship goods to him, he felt relieved and simply held a clearance sale. He planned to clear out the store's stock and then go out and relax for a few days.

Xian Family: Just tell me there is a day when you are not relaxing, right?