“This was left to me by my family. Uncle, you’ve been looking at it for a long time now, I’m going back.”
After Xiaoxi finished speaking, she quickly took the jade thumb ring, put it back around her neck, and ran away: "Although this uncle doesn't look like a bad person, what if he keeps pestering me to sell him the jade thumb ring?"
The man watched the small figure running away under the streetlight, carrying a large woven bag on her back, without even asking her where she lived.
A sudden, dull pain shot through his chest, like a rusty knife tearing at his heart again and again.
He frowned and got back into the car. "Old Zhao, we're in a hurry, let's hurry!"
The luxury car turned around and started moving quickly.
The driver, Lao Zhao, kept glancing furrowed brows at the man in the back seat through the rearview mirror. The entire car was filled with a low-pressure atmosphere, as if it were freezing cold.
This man is Ye Yichen, the president of the Ye Group and the seventh son of the Ye family, one of the four major families in Shanghai.
He has had an amazing business talent since childhood. The entire Ye Group has both great respect and fear for this 22-year-old president.
Old Zhao noticed that Mr. Ye had been acting strangely ever since he got out of the car and asked the little girl a few questions. His anxious expression was something Old Zhao had never seen before.
As the car entered the city and stopped at a traffic light, Lao Zhao heard the notification sound on his phone. He looked at it and was shocked to see that there were two extra zeros.
"Mr. Ye, you must have transferred the wrong amount. Wasn't it supposed to be one thousand?"
"I'm so sorry about today, I shouldn't have taken that road." Old Zhao became increasingly uneasy, even though a thousand yuan wasn't much.
To everyone's surprise, Ye Yichen said, "No, Lao Zhao, you did the right thing, so the remaining money is a reward for you."
Old Zhao shut up at the right moment; he was completely bewildered.
Why is that?
At this moment, Ye Yichen was still immersed in the shock he had just experienced.
The feel of that jade thumb ring was very familiar to him.
When he was a child, he saw his grandfather's jade thumb ring in his grandfather's study.
Grandpa said this was a family heirloom of the Ye family, and patted his head with a smile, saying, "Little Chen, it's because you're not a girl, so Grandpa can't give you this jade thumb ring."
Thinking of his grandfather's words, Ye Yichen suddenly had a bold deduction in his mind: judging from the little girl's age, could she be his lost sister from back then?
Next, Ye Yichen immediately made a phone call.
"Hey, help me look into a little girl who lives in the northern part of Jiangdong District. Her distinguishing features are that she looks like a little beggar, is about six or seven years old, and has a jade thumb ring on her. I need the results quickly, by noon at the latest by tomorrow!"
When Old Zhao heard this, he was shocked: "Oh my god, that young girl didn't try to scam me. Didn't you offer to pay her the thousand yuan yourself? Why are you investigating her?"
With both rewards and investigations, Old Zhao was even more confused.
However, starting tonight, many people are destined to be running around and unable to sleep.
In the garbage dump shack, Xiaoxi sat cross-legged and practiced the exercises taught by her master all night.
As morning arrived, Xiaoxi stretched and opened her eyes. She felt not tired at all this morning, but rather incredibly relaxed and refreshed, with a lot of energy and a clear mind.
What she didn't know was that because her master had infused the gift into her sea of consciousness, Xiao Xi's cultivation speed was the same as when she was in the courtyard, even though she wasn't there.
At this point, she had already entered the early stage of Qi Refining, and spiritual energy had transformed her entire body.
But Xiaoxi soon discovered that there was a lot of dark, sticky stuff on her body that smelled really bad.
"I need to take a bath!" She grabbed a basin and ran out of the shack to get tap water.
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