Chapter 3, the fried egg was something Liu Qingyue watched the man make...
Liu Qingyue watched the man make the fried eggs, and he wasn't worried that the man had poisoned them.
It wasn't that Liu Qingyue was too naive; it was mainly because their martial arts skills were too different. If this man really wanted to do something to her, he could have done it from the very beginning.
The reason the other party was so ruthless to Liu Qingyue at first was probably because they mistook her for a thief. It was only when they realized that Liu Qingyue didn't seem like a thief that they suddenly let go.
Looking at it this way, this man isn't an unreasonable person; he's just a bit impatient and rude.
Moreover, he shouldn't be a bad person. As long as he finds a way to make the other party understand his meaning, he feels that he should still be safe for the time being.
As Liu Qingyue thought this to herself, she was also very curious as to why the cooking utensils used by men were so strange.
And... he didn't even see the fire, so how did the water in the cooking vessel get hot?
Under Liu Qingyue's curious gaze, Qin Ren turned off the induction cooker and scooped out the poached eggs from the pot.
Actually, Liu Qingyue was still very scared at this moment, but hunger temporarily overcame his fear. He didn't look at Qin Ren much before taking the bowl and chopsticks and starting to eat.
The eggs were just ordinary eggs. Back when he was in the capital, he always thought eggs tasted terrible. But later, when chaos broke out in the capital and he and his family began to flee, he discovered that even the unpalatable eggs gradually began to taste good.
He had recently become separated from his parents, and was only accompanied by a guard and a maid. They carried very little food, and he had been hungry most of the time, having not eaten all day today. As a result, even eggs tasted like a delicacy to him now.
Because his stomach felt a little better, he felt like crying while holding the warm bowl.
He missed his father, his mother, and his brother very much.
I wonder where they are now?
When will the war end?
Now that he's all alone, where will he go from here?
And... he was just seen by that man, how can he get married looking like this?
The more I think about him, the sadder I become, and I feel like the future is bleak.
Qin Ren was drinking water when he glanced at the thief and saw that the thief, who had been perfectly fine just moments before, had suddenly started crying again for no apparent reason.
What's going on?
What kind of behavior is it for a grown man to always be crying like this?
Qin Ren walked up to the thief, somewhat speechless, with these thoughts in mind.
"Why are you crying? Didn't I give you food?"
Could it be that they can't bear to part with that golden bean?
Thinking of this, Qin Ren returned the gold beans to him.
He didn't really want the thief's gold coins; he was just curious whether the thief had given him real gold.
Seeing the thief suddenly start crying, Qin Ren had no choice but to immediately return the gold.
Liu Qingyue couldn't understand what he was saying, but when she saw him return the gold beans to him, she blinked her big, beautiful eyes.
How could anyone not want gold?
Could it be... that he really misunderstood the other person? This person seems... seems to be quite nice.
Liu Qingyue didn't have much gold left, so he tentatively reached out and took the gold.
Seeing that the man wasn't going to take the gold from him and was genuinely going to give it to him, he quickly and carefully put it away.
Qin Ren looked at him hiding the gold and thought he looked like a pitiful yet cunning little hamster.
He wanted to laugh, but he also felt something was off.
This kid... really doesn't seem like a thief.
Naïve, innocent, and a little silly.
Also, his family's yard was built very high. To prevent thieves from breaking into the house and hurting his grandfather, Qin Ren had people put a lot of broken glass on the walls when they were renovating the house.
Qin Ren looked at the thief's hands; they were small, fair, and slender, like those of a young girl.
The thief was even dressed in elaborate ancient costume. How did such a fool like him manage to climb over the wall?
Thinking this, Qin Ren took the bowl from the thief's hand and then pulled the thief outside.
Suddenly, her wrist was grabbed by a strange man, and Liu Qingyue instinctively tried to struggle.
However, this time Qin Ren was relatively gentle, so Liu Qingyue's struggles were not very intense.
He awkwardly struggled and dragged himself into the yard.
Once they reached the courtyard, Qin Ren let go of her hand.
Qin Ren took out his phone and turned on the flashlight function.
Seeing the phone suddenly light up, Liu Qingyue curiously wanted to go closer to take a look.
But before he could even see his phone clearly, Qin Ren pointed to the high courtyard wall, indicating that he should look up at it.
Qin Ren pointed at the wall for a while, then pointed at Liu Qingyue, asking him how he got in.
Liu Qingyue didn't understand at first, and it wasn't until Qin Ren's patience was about to run out that he belatedly realized what was going on.
Liu Qingyue: "I didn't come in from here, I came in from over there..."
Seemingly remembering that Qin Ren couldn't understand him, he could only continue talking as he walked towards the secret chamber.
The secret room is actually the basement of Qin Ren's house.
Qin Ren watched him walk towards the basement, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably.
He suddenly had a ridiculous idea: could this little thief be an ancient person?
They couldn't communicate in the same language, and the other person was dressed in ancient costume and used gold as currency.
Qin Ren, whose mind works exceptionally fast, couldn't help but have such doubts.
If the other person really is an ancient person who has traveled to his home for some reason, then the other person's strange behavior makes sense.
Qin Ren quickly followed the thief into the basement and saw the thief walk to a door in the basement.
This door isn't the one that leads to the basement; it's the one Qin Ren bought from outside six years ago.
The door is not a traditional room door.
Instead, it resembles a decorative door, engraved with very intricate patterns, and made of a relatively uncommon copper material.
Qin Ren bought the item on an antique street. When he bought the door, it came with a brass key.
Before Qin Ren could recall where he had put the bronze key, he saw the thief reach out and open the bronze door.
He meant that there was a wall behind the bronze door, and opening the door would be pointless.
Then, the next second, Qin Ren froze.
Because when the thief opened the door, what he saw behind it wasn't the familiar cement wall, but a dark, gaping hole.
The little thief, Liu Qingyue, pointed inside and even took a step inside.
Liu Qingyue: "I came from here. I was being chased by a group of bandits and ended up at your house by accident."
As Liu Qingyue explained, she could only sigh helplessly, realizing that Qin Ren couldn't understand her at all.
As Liu Qingyue sighed, Qin Ren arrived in front of him and the bronze door, attempting to follow him into the passage.
Then... Qin Ren discovered that although he could clearly see the passage and the little thief inside, he himself had no way to get in.
There seemed to be an invisible barrier between him and the passage behind the bronze door, preventing him from trying to follow it in.
Qin Ren pulled the thief out from inside, closed the bronze door again, and then reached out and opened it himself.
Then Liu Qingyue was dumbfounded, because she discovered that after Qin Ren opened the door, the dark passage behind the door had disappeared.
But it wasn't like this when he first opened it!
Thinking this, Liu Qingyue stepped forward and tried it herself.
Liu Qingyue opened the door again, and behind the door was the passageway.
Qin Ren opened the door again, but there was nothing behind it.
This is so strange, so strange, it's like seeing a ghost.
Before Liu Qingyue could hug herself in fear, Qin Ren shone the light on her.
Liu Qingyue was startled, thinking that Qin Ren had mistaken her for a ghost, and quickly began to explain pitifully.
"I, I'm not a ghost, I'm a person, a real person. I, I don't know what happened, I didn't create this passage. Oh dear, you can't understand me, how am I supposed to explain it to you? Anyway... I didn't create this, I really don't know anything."
Qin Ren didn't know what he was talking about, but silently looked the man over.
He didn't suspect the other person was a ghost; he had held the other person's hand before, and it was warm and tangible, indicating that the person was a living, breathing human.
The reason Qin Ren was looking at him at this moment was because he was wondering what made him different from Qin Ren.
Why was there nothing when he opened the door, but a big hole appeared when the thief opened the door?
Not only that, the thief made a big hole that he could walk through, but Qin Ren couldn't follow him in.
As Qin Ren was thinking this, he suddenly remembered the key he had brought with him when he bought the door.
He ignored the grumbling thief and turned to rummage through the shelves next to him.
He quickly found the brass key he was looking for in a storage box.
Qin Ren immediately took out the bronze key and tried inserting it into the keyhole on the door.
He opened the door, and there was still a wall behind it.
Isn't it because of the key?
Just as he was thinking this, the thief who saw his key suddenly pulled out an identical brass key from his clothes.
This bronze key was given to Liu Qingyue by her grandfather. Her grandfather said that this key was very important, and even her father and mother did not know about it.
His grandfather loved him very much, so he gave it to him.
Grandfather said, "This is very important. It is a family heirloom of the Liu family. You must keep it safe."
Liu Qingyue didn't understand why it was important, but he always listened to his grandfather.
In order not to lose the key, he strung the key and several jade beads together to make a bracelet and wore it on his wrist.
He had accidentally cut his hand when he pushed open the stone door to avoid the bandits.
The blood on his hands stained the bracelet.
He remembered his grandfather saying that the key was very important, so to make sure the key wouldn't be lost, he hid it in a different place.
Now, seeing Qin Ren's bronze key, he felt it was very similar to his own.
No, he then carefully compared them and found that their keys were exactly the same.
Liu Qingyue: "Where did you get this key? Why is it exactly the same as mine?"
Qin Ren, who couldn't understand what he was saying, focused his gaze on the bronze key in his hand.
Qin Ren took the thief's copper key and wanted to try using it to open the copper door.
He thought that perhaps his brass key was fake, and the one in the thief's hand was the real one.
But when he tried it, there was still a wall after he opened the door.
Qin Ren's eyes darkened upon seeing this. Instead of immediately returning the key to the thief, he had the thief try to open the door again.
This time, however, after the thief opened the bronze door, the passage was gone.
Liu Qingyue was dumbfounded. What was going on?
He had opened the door a few times before, and the passageway was always fine.
Why... Thinking of this, he quickly snatched his keys back from Qin Ren's hand.
Could it be... that the key his grandfather gave him is a treasure?
While he was still in shock, Qin Ren on the other side figured everything out.
Qin Ren took out the small knife he had on him and cut his finger.
He found bloodstains on the thief's keychain, and Qin Ren wondered if the item could recognize its owner.
The thief has the key, so he can open that passage.
Qin Ren took the key, and the thief disappeared after opening the door again.
Qin Ren also had the same key, and he wanted to try it out to see if it could really recognize its owner.
Qin Ren dripped blood onto his key, and when he reached out to open the bronze door again, the strange passage appeared behind it.
Qin Ren wasn't too surprised to see this, and was about to step inside.
Liu Qingyue, who was standing to the side, was already stunned by his series of actions.
A cut on the finger, dripping blood?
A copper key, a copper door?
He vaguely understood something, but due to the sheer volume of information, he hadn't fully grasped it yet.
Seeing Qin Ren about to enter the passage, he didn't have time to figure things out properly and quickly reached out to grab him.
"No, no, you can't go in."
The passage leads to a dilapidated temple, where the bandits chasing Liu Qingyue are located. If Qin Ren were to suddenly go there now, he would easily be discovered by those bandits. And he, hiding in Qin Ren's house, would also be discovered by them.
Qin Ren, who was walking forward, paused and then turned around in surprise.
Qin Ren: "What did you say?"
Upon hearing Qin Ren's words, Liu Qingyue was stunned.
He, he, he seems to be able to understand what Qin Ren is saying?
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