"That girl didn't doubt me and even gave me a gold bracelet today." Aunt Cui said after entering the house.
The person inside turned around, dressed like a maid from a wealthy family. The two did not say much. She took out a jade pendant from her waist. There was nothing precious about it except the word Pei engraved on it. "She is a child, and you have to pack her daily clothes. Put this thing in her gift."
The maid lowered her head again and explained to Aunt Cui in detail, "Just remember, if someone wants to investigate in the future, you must say that this thing was brought out from the mansion of the number one scholar."
Aunt Cui was a little puzzled. The maid waved her to come closer and then explained something to her.
Then he said, "If you do this well, your whole family will rise to prominence."
Aunt Cui was a little hesitant at first, after all, this was a big risk. But after hearing what she said, she bit her lip and said, "As long as the princess fulfills her promise and my son has no worries for the rest of his life, it doesn't matter if I risk my life!"
——
I saw Aunt Cui coming out of the restaurant and Tu Jiu also coming out from behind.
She looked in the direction of Aunt Cui, turned back, picked up the bracelet that she had left on the ground, and then returned home.
"She can't get close to my things on a daily basis, so I think she will start from Jincai. You should follow Jincai closely these days to prevent her from being taken advantage of." Tu Jiu nodded and picked up the gold bracelet. "That woman lost the bracelet when she went out. She is really a conscienceless person. At that time, the master had good intentions to customize it for her daughter's wedding, but she didn't expect to give it to an ungrateful person."
Shen Qingqiu also looked at the bracelet. She had learned the most exquisite martial arts in the world and could cure deadly poisons, but when it came to human hearts, the more she looked at them, the more confused she became.
"You can do with the things as you please."
After saying that, she covered her mouth and yawned. It was strange. She used to be annoyed by Mother Chen forcing her to eat this and that to replenish her body at night. She seemed to be not used to it even after several days of constant nagging.
Tu Jiu saw that she seemed tired and quickly took his leave.
He was still weighing the gold bracelet in his hand. As a man, it was useless for him to keep it. After all, it was made of pure gold, and it would be a pity to lose it. Just as he was thinking about whether to find a craftsman to melt it down, he saw Jin Cai walking past him with a basin of clothes.
She glanced at him and raised her head.
Tu Jiu touched his head, wondering how he had offended Miss Jin Cai these days. She always looked at him with indifference. Suddenly, he thought of something and touched the bracelet in his hand - wasn't this a ready-made favor?
"Golden color!"
"Golden color!"
When Tu Jiu called out for the first time, Jin Cai didn't want to pay attention to him, but later she slowed down her pace.
"Mr. Tu Jiu, what does he want me, a maid, to do?" Jin Cai snorted.
"What maid? Mother Chen usually spoils you and your master pampers you, but I don't treat you as a maid," he said, handing the bracelet forward, "Look, can I give such a good thing to an ordinary maid?"
Jin Cai was stunned for a moment. At first, she thought the fool had finally come to her senses. But after looking at it for a while, she felt something was wrong and put the basin on the ground. "This bracelet looks familiar to me. It seems like the one you gave to Aunt Cui the other day."
"Yes, that's it!" Tu Jiu slapped his thigh.
Jin Cai thought about it for a while, then suddenly bit her lip and said shyly: "You...why didn't you tell me earlier...why do you have to go through Aunt Cui? It's not like I don't agree——"
"Aunt Cui threw it away just now, and I picked it up again. I thought to myself that it is made of pure gold after all. If you like it, you can wear it. If you don't like it, you can melt it down!"
As soon as Tu Jiu finished speaking, he felt the wind around him getting colder. A moment later, Jin Cai kicked the basin hard.
"Fuck you!"
Jin Cai, who used to be more delicate than a girl, never said such a thing, and even kicked over the basin. The monk Tu Jiuzhanger was confused, and wanted to call Jin Cai to stop, while he was busy picking up the basin for her and the gold bracelet she had thrown away, and he was in a panic.
——
Mother Chen went out, and the job of helping Shen Qingqiu get dressed fell on Jin Cai.
"Girl, girl, wake up."
Everyone is lazy, and Shen Qingqiu is also a person who loves to enjoy himself. Now that everything is arranged, he just refuses to get up until noon every day.
Jin Cai coaxed, "Girl, hurry up and get up. Don't you want to drink some milk tea this morning? The kitchen has done what you said. If you don't get up soon, it will get cold."
Nothing else worked. As soon as this was said, the person who was still clinging to the quilt tightly moved his eyelids, and then sat up from the bed.
Her eyes were still closed, and she just spread out her arms and let Jin Cai dress her.
Jin Cai smiled gently, took out a set of red clothes from the closet, and said: "Let's comb the girl's hair today. How can she keep her hair tied up randomly? The girl will be ten years old soon, and she will get married in two years——"
Shen Qingqiu heard Jin Cai say the same thing as Mother Chen, so he half-opened his eyes, "I still like the way you ignored me at first."
Jin Cai blushed immediately, "Miss, you are annoying. You always expose my shortcomings!" She put the clothes on Shen Qingqiu and pressed him firmly on the dressing table, "Anyway, you have to comb your hair today. I have done it many times when Madam Chen was not around. If Madam Chen knew that I let Madam's hair be messy every day, wouldn't she eat me alive?"
Shen Qingqiu looked up at the sky in silence. How could her hair be disheveled when she tied a ponytail? But Jin Cai had a hold on her. She looked like a little bully, but in fact she was softer than anyone else. She just tied her hair around and followed her dressing style.
"Look, isn't our girl dressed more elegantly than that prince?" Jin Cai said, and couldn't help but sigh, "She really looks like a daughter of a wealthy family."
Shen Qingqiu also took a glance. The little person in the mirror had a neatly combed bun, a small circle of red necklace on his head, the same color as his clothes, red lips, white teeth, and a very good complexion. At first glance, he gave people a feeling of being unparalleled. Isn't he noble? Shen Qingqiu stood up, and the necklace on her head swayed in a circle. She frowned and wanted to take it off, but then she held back. If she took it off, she would be annoyed again.
"This is strange. I didn't see Aunt Cui early this morning. Why can't I see her now?" When Jin Cai arrived at the dining room and saw no one there, she looked around in surprise.
Shen Qingqiu was drinking a cup of milk tea. Hearing this, he looked up and licked his lips, "You'll be able to see it in a while."
"After a while?" Jin Cai was stunned.
"Gyeonggi Prefecture Government Office, open the door!" Jin Cai was startled when someone suddenly knocked on the door.
"Gyeonggi Prefecture Government Office, if you don't open the door we are going to break in!"
Tu Jiu and others were waiting outside, and the door was opened soon.
The leader was Lin Xuanfeng, the chief constable of the Jingji Prefecture Yamen. Although he was called a chief constable, he was the only grandson of Master Lin. Compared to his grandfather who was devoted to assisting the emperor, he was determined to rush into the Dali Temple to investigate the case.
"Who is the head of this family?" He looked around as he entered the door.
"I." Shen Qingqiu held the milk and raised his head slightly.
In fact, he had noticed the little girl when he first entered the room. She was a sight to behold even if you didn't look at her face. Now that she looked up at him, Lin Xuanfeng felt his heart tremble as he looked at those eyes as black as obsidian.
Although it hasn't grown up yet, it does have an extremely cute face and no one wants to hurt it.
Lin Xuanfeng, who was always impartial to everyone, couldn't help but soften his voice, "Little girl, where is your master? Tell me quickly. Your servant committed a crime, and now the Gyeonggi Prefecture government wants to collect evidence for investigation."
"I said, I am the owner of this house." Shen Qingqiu's eyes passed over the handsome young man in the uniform of a constable, and moved slightly backwards to the constable who was escorting Aunt Cui behind the preparations.
She was originally from the capital, and her family was considered to be relatively wealthy. When they first settled here, she helped a lot. Later, as the Liu family's embroidery shop grew bigger and bigger, her mother hired Aunt Cui, who had nothing to do, to help out in the mansion.
The wages offered are also extremely generous.
She was not considered wealthy on a daily basis, but had she ever been so slovenly?
Being looked at in this way, Aunt Cui turned her head slightly.
Shen Qingqiu smiled, then looked up at Lin Xuanfeng, "This is my servant. What crime has she committed?"
The constable had already looked around and saw that there was no other master besides the little girl in front of him, so he leaned over to Lin Xuanfeng's ear and gave her some instructions. Lin Xuanfeng frowned slightly and said, "Little girl, do you know that the accessories your servants carried when they went out today are all from the palace? This stuff may be a capital crime."
Shen Qingqiu seemed a little annoyed when he heard this, "So what?"
Lin Xuanfeng didn't know why, but he had an unprecedented liking for this little girl. If this matter was investigated further, even if she was innocent, she would be thrown into prison for interrogation. How could such an innocent face go to such a place?
"Where are the adults in your family?"
"Are you annoying? I've already told you that I have the final say. If you don't want to investigate the case, just turn left."
"How dare you, little girl, speak to the young master like that?!"
Lin Xuanfeng stopped the servant who followed him to the government office of Jingji Prefecture, and looked at the little girl sitting there with a cold and cute face. She looked cute and well-behaved, but her temper was very erratic. He did not force her, and said, "The items she told me to wear were actually from the storehouse in the palace, and she stole them."
Shen Qingqiu smiled after hearing this, and then looked at Aunt Cui who was kneeling on the ground with disheveled hair, "So what you mean is that my storehouse is the one who stole the stolen items from the palace, and I - Shen Qingqiu is the thief?"
So her name is Shen Qingqiu, Lin Xuanfeng thought.
Aunt Cui on the ground was originally feeling a little guilty, but now she would be in danger if she showed her head. She didn’t look at Shen Qingqiu, but just knelt down and kowtowed, saying, “Sir, what I said is true. If you don’t believe me, you can go and look at the storehouse and you will know. I just wanted to wear some things secretly to show off, but I didn’t know it was such a deadly thing!”
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