Chapter 85: Children Are Both Present and Absent
Feng Zhi didn't expect her to come back so soon: "So soon?"
Su Nuobai said with a smile: "Who made you think I'm so smart?"
Feng Zhi: ...
Before they reached the stall, they saw Cui Han and his wife waiting there with a child, and a group of people behind them carrying a lot of things.
Su Nuobai walked over: "Master Cui."
When Cui Han saw her, he quickly approached with his wife and child. "Master, thank you! If it weren't for you, we probably wouldn't have been able to find Zhi'er."
Cui Zhi looked at this funny man curiously: "Uncle, thank you for letting my parents find me."
Su Nuobai looked at the little guy's face. The disaster in the Palace of Misfortune had passed. He was indeed a smart little guy.
"Don't run around by yourself anymore."
Cui Zhi smiled and nodded, holding Mrs. Cui's hand: "I won't do it anymore."
Madam Cui smiled and touched his head: "Master, my son..."
"He has this disaster in his life. Now that he has overcome it, everything will be fine. There will be some minor disasters in the future, but they will not threaten his life." Su Nuobai knew what he was going to ask.
Cui Han and his wife felt much more at ease and asked the people behind them to present the gifts they brought.
Su Nuobai only took a box of snacks and asked Feng Zhi to collect a box of silver and money: "Take the rest back and do more charity in the future."
Cui Han hesitated and asked, "Master, if I need your help in the future, how can I find you?"
"You can go to the haunted shop in the West Market to find Miss Wei. She knows how to contact me." Su Nuobai remembered that his paper-making shop didn't seem to have a plaque yet.
Cui Han and his friends had naturally heard of the haunted shop, but recently they also heard that the shop was no longer haunted.
"Okay, I'll remember that."
When Uncle Jia saw them leaving, he quickly asked, "Is that the child who was kidnapped yesterday and escaped?"
Su Nuobai smiled and nodded: "Yeah."
Uncle Jia smiled and stroked his beard: "This child is very lucky to have met you."
Su Nuobai just smiled and didn't respond.
Feng Zhi opened the box and looked at what was inside. It was not silver, but a thick stack of silver notes, probably tens of thousands of taels in total.
Su Nuobai took a glance and thought, no wonder the kidnappers chose the Cui family, they are really rich!
"Feng Zhi, go buy me some jade plaques, jade pendants and other things."
Feng Zhi nodded, put the box away and went shopping.
Su Nuobai listened to the gossip of people around him while waiting for the first business of the day to come.
"Master Su, I want you to do some calculations for me." A yamen runner yawned as he sat opposite her.
Su Nuobai looked at him, who was obviously sleep-deprived: "You haven't been sleeping well recently."
Xiong Kui looked depressed: "I don't know what happened. As soon as I fell asleep, my deceased ancestors appeared in my dream and said that we didn't have enough money."
"I woke up and immediately burned a lot of money for them. It wasn't like this in the first few years! But I don't know what happened. After Qingming Festival last year, he kept coming to me in my dreams saying that he had no money."
"This is making it difficult for me to rest. I told them I would buy them when I had some time off, but they forced me to burn them once I had some free time."
"You said that my salary as a yamen runner is so meager. Although these paper money and gold ingots don't cost much, they can't withstand the coming every now and then. If this continues, our family will hardly be able to make ends meet."
Su Nuobai didn't see any evil energy on him, and the ancestors in his family didn't want to kill him.
"You mean they've been appearing in your dreams frequently since last year's Qingming Festival?"
Xiong Kui nodded quickly: "Yes! Last year during Qingming Festival, I brought my whole family to visit their graves."
Su Nuobai looked at him and asked, "Did you burn anything special for them during Qingming Festival last year?"
Xiong Kui thought hard for a long time, but couldn't remember burning anything special for them!
Su Nuobai looked at him like this, and most likely he didn't remember: "Maybe this thing wasn't bought by you, but by your family."
Xiong Kui slapped his forehead as if remembering something: "I remember now, my mother said that the paper-making shop now sells gambling tools from the gambling house. She even joked that she was worried that they would be bored down there."
"After I bought it, I burned it for them, saying it would help them relieve their boredom down there."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Su Nuobai and said, "It can't be because of this!"
Su Nuobai nodded helplessly: "Indeed, they are addicted to the gambling equipment you burned. Now that they have lost all their money, they come to you for it."
Xiong Kui was so upset that he wanted to cry. He never expected such an outcome.
"So, what should we do now?"
"If you're not in a hurry, just wait for me for a while. I'll finish calculating the three divinations for today and ask your ancestors to come up and ask." Su Nuobai sympathized with him.
How could Xiong Kui refuse? He immediately stepped aside and leaned against a pillar to watch Su Nuobai tell his fortune.
Xiong Kui had just made way when a man dressed like a servant sat down and said, "Master, our master would like you to come over to his house."
Su Nuobai: "I don't know who your master is?"
"Earl Qing'an." The servant said this with a look of pride on his face.
Su Nuobai: "I don't know why?"
The servant hesitated and didn't know how to start: "This..."
Su Nuobai knew without asking that the person in trouble was Cai Boyi. He had seen him before and he was responsible for a life.
Previously, he had the good fortune of the Earl's Mansion, which allowed him to act recklessly. Now that most of the good fortune has been taken away by himself, he will have to pay the price for his actions.
"If you don't want to talk, please leave!"
The servant was ordered to invite Su Nuobai back. If he failed to invite him back, he would be punished again. "Yes, he is our family's heir."
Su Nuobai said calmly: "I can't help you, please go back!"
The servant was anxious: "You haven't even taken a look, how can you say you can't help?"
Su Nuobai looked at him: "Even if I can help, I won't help. You reap what you sow. Cause and effect, cause and effect, there must be an effect."
The servant wanted to say something else, but when he saw that she had closed her eyes and didn't intend to pay any more attention to him, he could only stand up dejectedly and go look for other people.
This was the second time that Uncle Jia saw her refuse fortune-telling, but she did it yesterday, so why didn’t she do it today?
Su Nuobai looked at the onlookers, all of whom were curious and looking at her with inquiring eyes.
She didn't want to explain either. Some things didn't need to be explained by herself.
An old lady in luxurious clothes walked out from the crowd. She sat on the small stool in front of Su Nuobai with a calm expression.
Su Nuobai looked at her face and found it interesting.
The children in this Palace of Children are both around and not around.
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