Chapter 13 Are you looking for this?

The rain outside only lasted for a while and then stopped.

Chu Ran took advantage of the rain stopping and ran back quickly.

It was only when he stepped onto the steps and reached the corridor that he discovered that the door was ajar.

Whenever Chu Ran goes out, he always locks his door, mainly to prevent someone from sneaking into his room. When he went out this morning, Chu Ran remembered clearly that he had locked his door, but why was it open now? Where was the lock? Where was it?

Got robbed?

No, where did the thief come from in the palace?

Chu Ran took a step forward and carefully pushed the door open.

There was a slight creaking sound, which was clearly very light in Chu Ran's ears, but to Chu Ran, it was particularly harsh.

Inside the room, the door of his closet was wide open. Guo Maoxue was squatting in front of the closet with half of his body leaning inside, craning his neck to search for something inside.

All the blood in his body flowed along the thin blood vessels like a rushing stream and instantly rushed towards Chu Ran's head.

Chu Ran ran behind Guo Maoxue almost in the blink of an eye. He slammed half of the door shut. After Guo Maoxue stood up out of fright, the other half of the door was also closed by Chu Ran.

His eyes bulged with anger, his face flushed, and after a while, a word seemed to come out of his throat, "You..."

"What are you doing?" Guo Maoxue frowned, "You scared me."

Chu Ran's eyelids twitched several times. He took a deep breath to calm down his nervous mood. After a moment, Chu Ran asked, "Father-in-law, what are you looking for?"

Guo Maoxue stared, obviously still holding a grudge against Chu Ran for scaring him just now, "Where are the candles? There are no candles in our house."

Chu Ran walked to the bedside cabinet, opened the top drawer, took out a few candles from it, and gave them to Guo Maoxue.

Guo Maoxue took the candles and went out. As soon as he went out, Chu Ran locked the door from the inside.

Guo Maoxue frowned.

Inside the house, Chu Ran stood there, took a long breath and then exhaled a long breath. He walked quickly to the closet, opened the door, and stood on tiptoe to take down the package on the top layer.

The package contained all the gold, silver and jewelry that Chu Ran had extorted from Guo Maoxue before. Chu Ran had no place to put them, so he had to put them in the closet. He didn't expect that Guo Maoxue actually had the key to his room, and he entered his room without even telling him.

However, this also served as a reminder to him that it was not safe to keep things here, and he had to find a safer place to hide them.

The closet definitely can’t hold it anymore.

Chu Ran looked around and finally fixed his gaze on the bed against the wall.

Chu Ran knelt on the ground and stuffed all the packages under the bed. Fearing that they would be seen, he kept stuffing them in until they were in the corner. No matter from which angle they could not be seen, he felt relieved.

He was just hiding the things here temporarily, and he would look for an opportunity tomorrow to find another safe place to put these treasures.

It rained intermittently for two days. During these two days, Chu Ran and Guo Maoxue stayed in their own rooms and basically did not go out.

On the third day, the sky was completely clear, and Guo Maoxue went out again early in the morning with his things. According to Chu Ran's understanding of Guo Maoxue, whenever he went out early in the morning, he would usually come back after dark.

Chu Ran moved a stool to sit in the yard, thinking about where to hide the treasures while working. If he hid them in the house, Chu Ran was worried that Guo Maoxue would suddenly come in without warning and find the things he had hidden. If he hid them outside, Chu Ran was afraid that someone would find them and take them away.

I really can't feel at ease no matter where I hide it.

If it really doesn't work, where to hide Li Fu?

There must be no one going there, so hiding there should be the safest.

In fact, he and Li Fu didn't have a very good relationship, just an ordinary acquaintance. He wasn't worried that Li Fu would give these things to him, he was just afraid that Li Fu would agree to his request to hide these things with him.

After all, if someone were to find out in the future and ask where all these properties came from, it would be difficult to explain and it might even bring trouble to Li Fu.

But leaving him here would only make things more troublesome.

After thinking for a long time, Chu Ran still couldn't figure out the reason. He decided that instead of making random guesses here, he might as well go directly to Li Fu to find out.

If he wanted, he would put the things in his place. Moreover, he would not let Li Fu suffer any loss, and in return, he could share the money with Li Fu.

If Li Fu didn't want to, he would think of another way.

There is no time to waste. While Guo Maoxue is away, the sooner this matter is resolved the better.

Chu Ran got up and went to Li Fu.

Li Fu was not in the room when Chu Ran went there. He moved a stool and sat there waiting for a while before Li Fu came back.

After Chu Ran told Li Fu about his request, he added: "If these things cause you any trouble in the future, I promise that I can bear the cost. And I can't spend all the money by myself, so we can spend it together."

Chu Ran was worried that he wasn't explaining it clearly enough and wanted to continue explaining it, but Li Fu said, "Okay."

Chu Ran was forced to stop talking after preparing a lot of words. He opened his mouth for a while, and finally uttered a short syllable from his throat: "You... agree?"

"Um."

Chu Ran was stunned.

Why didn't he ask himself where he got all this money? Wasn't he afraid that he had stolen it from somewhere else? Or did he believe that he had obtained these things legitimately and would not bring him any trouble?

In fact, when Chu Ran decided to hide the things with Li Fu, he was still a little uneasy, because he was afraid that Li Fu would ask him where he got the things from.

He didn't dare tell anyone, including Li Fu, that he had poisoned Guo Maoxue and deceived Guo Maoxue.

Although Li Fu seemed to have some suspicions about him last time when he poisoned Guo Maoxue, suspicions were just suspicions after all. Without evidence, he could not be convicted.

But Chu Ran's voluntary confession and Li Fu's suspicion of him are completely different in nature.

If he confessed, Li Fu would know that he had poisoned someone. In the palace, if someone poisoned someone and was found out, he would be beaten to death.

This is Chu Ran's secret. If this secret is known to others, his life will be in thrall. If it is known to others, Chu Ran may die.

Chu Ran only has one life and he dare not take risks with it.

But he didn't expect that all his worries, concerns, and fears did not happen in the end.

Li Fu agreed to his request without asking any questions.

At that moment, Chu Ran seemed to suddenly become mute, unable to speak, and didn't know what to say.

"Where is the thing?" Li Fu spoke first, "Bring it here."

"Okay... I'll get it right away."

Chu Ran seemed to have just found his own voice.

However, when he took out his key, opened the door, knelt on the ground, stretched out his arms, and tried to take the package out from under the bed...

"Xiao Linzi, are you looking for this?"

A cold and eerie voice came from behind.