"If you have this ability, why were you captured and sold?" Lin Jingge stared intently at Lin Shu's fair face, as if trying to see through him.

However, she was disappointed. She couldn't see any change in the other person's emotions; they were still as soft and cute as ever.

"I don't know." Lin Shu tilted her head and shook her little head. "I've forgotten everything, I can't remember."

He then blinked and reached out to Lin Jingge for a hug.

After staring at Lin Shu for a long time, Lin Jingge finally couldn't get any information out of him. She sighed and resignedly stepped forward to hug him.

Holding the person in her arms, Lin Jingge stroked their slightly curly silver hair: "Really forgot?"

Lin Shu, nestled in Lin Jingge's arms, nodded vigorously upon hearing the question.

His confused look made it seem like he genuinely didn't remember.

Lin Jingge recalled Lin Shu's previous behavior, which seemed to be typical of a child. However, the other party was quite strange, which made Lin Jingge suspicious.

She snapped out of her thoughts, looked down at the beads in Lin Shu's hand, and asked casually, "Where did you get these beads?"

"I don't remember," Lin Shu replied instinctively without looking up.

Then, as if remembering something, he held up the beads in his hand to Lin Jingge's eyes: "Does sister want them? If so, then give them to sister."

The Star Bead that Lin Shu held up to his eyes seemed to be more dazzling than before. Perhaps because of the darkness, the twinkling stars inside also appeared brighter than usual.

Lin Jingge remembered that the pills Lin Shu gave her were taken from here.

She pushed Lin Shu's hand back: "These are your things, keep them yourself, and don't take anything out of them in front of others, understand?"

Why?

"Because once someone finds out that this is a treasure, many people will try to snatch it away," Lin Jingge said. After saying that, she rubbed the other's head, thinking to herself that Lin Shu was still too naive, and her doubts were dispelled a lot.

Lin Shu nodded as if he understood, a dark glint flashing in his lowered eyes.

Night falls quickly; we had only been talking for a short while when it was already completely dark.

After that, Lin Jingge held Lin Shu in her arms and fell asleep.

She was awakened by a noise.

Lin Jingge got up and got out of bed.

The moon was high in the sky, its silvery light illuminating the courtyard. She looked out the window and saw someone quietly enter the yard. The sound that woke her was the sound of that person accidentally breaking a branch.

Lin Jingge frowned slightly as she saw the man with shifty eyes looking around as he approached her room.

Lin Jingge returned to her bed and pretended to be asleep.

Not long after, I heard a creaking sound as the door was pushed open.

After the man entered the room, he immediately began to rummage through the chests and cabinets. Just as he opened the wooden cabinet, he was knocked unconscious from behind.

Looking coldly at the person who had fainted on the ground, Lin Jingge scoffed and found a rope to tie the person up.

The next morning, when Granny Lin got up and went out of her room, she was startled by the stranger who suddenly appeared in the yard.

The man was bound hand and foot, and his mouth was stuffed with something to gag him.

"This is...?" Granny Lin looked at Lin Jingge beside her.

"Grandma, this man broke into my house in the middle of the night to steal. I knocked him unconscious and tied him up. I was just about to take him to the village chief later."

"Breakthrough theft?! Are you alright?" Upon hearing this, Grandma Lin quickly stepped forward and looked her granddaughter up and down. She only breathed a sigh of relief after finding that the girl was unharmed.

"Grandma, don't worry, I'm fine." Lin Jingge smiled at Grandma Lin, her eyebrows curving, and although her face was pale, her eyes were very bright.

Grandma Lin brought breakfast to the table, and the two children woke up and sat down to eat.

After breakfast, Lin Jingge dragged the bound man to the village chief's house.

Lin Jingge knocked on the village chief's door, and someone quickly came to open it.

It was Shen Ting who opened the door. When he saw Lin Jingge, a smile appeared in his eyes. He opened both doors and then discovered that Lin Jingge was dragging someone else along.

"Chen Ting, is the village chief here?" Lin Jingge nodded to the other party, but did not go into the house directly. Instead, she asked.

“Yes, you can come in first.” Shen Ting nodded, then stepped aside. He didn’t ask any more questions, but let Lin Jingge drag him into the house.

The village chief came upon hearing the commotion and saw the person tied up by Lin Jingge.

"Miss Mu, what are you doing?!" The village chief stepped forward, looking at the person Lin Jin was dragging in his arms, his brows furrowed tightly.

Lin Jingge noticed the village chief's expression and instantly understood. It seemed the village chief knew this person, which made things easier.

"Village chief, this man broke into my house last night and I caught him. What do you think we should do with him?" Lin Jingge pulled the man in front of her and then pulled out the rag that was gagging him.

"Village chief, save me!" The man cried out for help as soon as he was able to speak.

"Untie him first." The village chief's brows remained furrowed, showing no sign of relaxing. Their village had never had any petty thieves or scoundrels before.

"What if he runs away after we untie him?"

"No, I recognize him, he can't escape," the village chief said.

Lin Jingge nodded and untied the rope binding the man.

Once the man was free, he immediately tried to hide behind the village chief, but he had been in the same position all night and his body had gone numb. Before he could even stand up, he fell to the ground again.

"Village chief, what do you think we should do about this?"

"Dashan, is it true, as Miss Mu said, that you went to steal last night?"

The man was still sitting on the ground, the numbness still lingering in his body. Hearing the village chief's question, he felt a pang of guilt.

"Village chief, you know me best! How could I steal? I was just passing by last night when she kidnapped me! Village chief, you must do me justice!"

Lin Jingge hadn't expected the other party to turn the tables on her. Her previously indifferent expression turned serious as she raised an eyebrow: "Just passing by? Just passing by my house?"

"I..." Da Shan didn't dare to meet his gaze and stammered for a long time.

Seeing this, the village chief understood everything.

He first scolded Dashan a few times before looking at Lin Jingge: "I'll have him apologize to you. Considering it's his first offense, let's just let this matter go."

Da Shan is related to the village chief, and Lin Jingge is just an outsider. Although she knows that Da Shan has done something wrong, people's hearts are biased.

"You're just going to let it go like that?!" Lin Jingge exclaimed in surprise, not expecting the village chief to say that. "Village chief, if this is all we're going to do, what if another thief breaks into my house in the future? What if I kill someone and that's it too?!"

Lin Jingge scoffed coldly: "Yesterday, Clan Chief Zhao gave me a huge pile of spirit stones. Many people in the village saw it, and there are quite a few who are envious. With this commotion every day, how can I have any peace?!"