After confirming that Lu Qian had no money to pay the bill, the store clerk gave a completely unbuffered face, glanced down from the corner of his mouth, and went to complain to the proprietress.

Only a few steps away from Lu Qian, the shop clerk complained, and turned his head to despise the guest officer who had no money to pay the bill.

Lu Qian responded to the contemptuous gaze not very friendly. He lowered his head halfway, raised his naturally smiling peach blossom eyes, and stared at the shop assistant through his long and dense eyelashes.

A pair of sword eyebrows that look low inside and out because of the handsome brow bone outline, transforming the natural smile in Lu Qian's eyes into a very provocative atmosphere, making people feel that this young man can play with the world like ants when talking and laughing illusion.

The boy's aura distracted the proprietress for a moment, and then she walked towards Lu Qian with an almost blank smirk on her face, saying that she invited Lu Qian to come often in the future.

Lu Qian didn't want her to invite this meal. If he accepted this charity, he would have to accept it together with the scorn from the shop assistant just now, so he said fiercely, "My lord will send someone to bring the meal money later."

"Yes, yes, yes!" The proprietress realized that her help was too reserved, which would frustrate the young man's spirit, and she immediately took the initiative to express: she was worried about offending him, a distinguished guest, as if Lu Qian would not order something in the future. It's a few days away." It looks like her shop will close down.

Women in this era are used to showing weakness to maintain the self-esteem of men.

But for the proprietress, this kind of thing only happens to a very small number of men. She even treats her husband like a tigress, but because of a certain temperament in Lu Qian, she will willingly degenerate into a little woman in her 30s.

This kind of feigned delicacy can only be understood by those who understand it. The shop assistant beside him can only be puzzled by Monk Zhang Er, staring blankly and jealously at the boy who eats the overlord's meal, not understanding why the proprietress is lenient to him.

It's not just the proprietress who has this kind of weird tolerance towards Lu Qian, there are also many people who are familiar or have only met once, including Xue Yao.

Xue Yao himself didn't realize this little secret of his own. In getting along day and night, he always let Lu Qian have the addiction of "being in charge of the family", intentionally or unintentionally.

If things go on like this, it has become a habit, so that Xue Yao becomes simple and unconcerned in front of Lu Qian, as if he really needs protection.

Occasionally, when Lu Qian was in danger, Xue Yao would break the seal and return to the identity of the protector who made plans and adaptable, but subconsciously prevented the other party from finding out, so as not to hit Lu Qian's little man's heart.

Lu Qian himself, who can cause many people to have such a wonderful self-abuse behavior, does not know the truth of the facts.

He didn't know that these people acted weak in front of him intentionally or unintentionally, just to fulfill his natural desire to be strong.

Under such treatment, Lu Qian always thought that he was the protector of everyone, too strong to be looked at, so he believed that Xue Yao would never dare to leave him in a dangerous situation.

However, Xue Yao took the initiative to leave him now.

This gave Lu Qian a fresh sense of frustration for the first time.

He doesn't like to be disturbed by these annoying emotions, because emotional disorders make it difficult for him to digest this strange emotion, just like the pain caused by the disappearance of his father, there is no way to drive it away.

Lu Qian has nothing to do with this kind of pain, and he rarely has such powerlessness.

If there are more such losses, the pain that cannot be driven away will fill his world.

The only way Lu Qian could think of was to drive out those people who entered his world one by one.

If these people did not exist in the first place, when they were lost, they would not become the pain that cannot be dispelled.

Over the past year or so, he has been very satisfied with his driving results, because he has gotten used to reading without a companion.

He equated escaping from the concern of the real world with getting rid of the dependence on the spiritual world, mistakenly thinking that he had no weakness.

Xue Yao's sudden disappearance broke Lu Qian's assessment of himself.

He vaguely discovered that the calmness of the past year or so was only because he knew clearly that those people in his heart were safe and sound.

But now, he didn't know whether Xue Yao was safe.

Lu Qian was angry at his unilateral and unstoppable desire to protect, but he blamed himself for not being able to solve the problem, and he could only get angrier as he blamed himself. He turned to Xue Yao for being willful and presumptuous.

The Lord protects Yaoyao all the time.

On the way back to the palace, Lu Qian thought to himself: Yaoyao can leave as soon as he wants, it's not fair.

Bad far away.

However, after returning to the palace, Lu Qian found that Bad Yaoyao was not waiting for him to lose his temper in the palace.

Xue Yao and the two boys were led into the secret room by Ah Zhu, and came to the "location where the crime happened" that Xue Yao said.

He held onto the oil lamp and lay down on the ground for a long time, trying to prove through his footprints that the story he described was not fictional.

If you can see the footprints clearly, even if the trajectory is chaotic, you can at least tell how many people have appeared in this room. However, the actual operation is not easy to achieve in theory.

Xue Yao pouted his ass and found five faint footprints, but he couldn't tell the difference with the naked eye.

Without a camera, photo comparison would not be possible.

"What trick do you want to play?" A bound boy yelled at Xue Yao, "Would you like to delay until your accomplice finds a sword master to stand up for you?"

This sentence successfully attracted the fearful hostility of the elders around Xue Yao.

"Whether the senior Juggernaut is a person who protects the weak, you all know it well." Xue Yao raised his head and looked at the crowd: "If I really did something like killing people and looting money, it's too late to hide from the Juggernaut, how could I ask him to come forward?"

"Then what are you doing now?" Azhu asked.

"Check the footprints." Xue Yao said, "The man who pretended to be the gang leader was standing in this position, and I was standing in that position."

Ah Zhu frowned, the underground secret room was cleaned spotlessly, and it was impossible to identify where there were clear footprints left.

The two boys also breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words, and one of them said: "Want to fool our eldest lady? Don't waste your energy, hurry up and find out the whereabouts of the gang leader, and return the secret book, our elder will make you suffer less, and give you Have a blast!"

"You two stole the cheat book, right?" Xue Yao asked coldly.

The two boys suddenly became excited, and said in unison: "Blood spouts!"

Xue Yao stood up, walked in front of the treasure shelf calmly, raised his hand to open the lid of a treasure chest on the left, and lowered his head to take out the small items inside one by one.

Inside the treasure chest were hidden weapons of extremely exquisite workmanship, most of which were made of iron. There were gold and silver inlaid patterns and inscriptions on the front door. When I turned to the bottom, I found a pure gold sleeve arrow.

Xue Yao's eyes lit up, as if he had grasped a certain breakthrough point, after a little thought, he turned around and said, "When we left, we didn't take that book at all, but only took a few items from this treasure chest."

A hint of disappointment flashed in Azhu's eyes.

"You're wise, so you're finally willing to admit it?" The boy sneered and said, "Since you admit it, don't say you hide half of it. Who would believe that you only took the treasure but not the cheat book?"

Xue Yao frowned and said, "I did only take two treasures, but I didn't take the secret book of mental techniques. The two of you took the secret book, right?

Also, I wanted to take the night pearl-like jade in this box, but it was too slippery to hold. We were in a hurry, so we didn’t search for it anymore. Now the pearl is gone. Yes, it must have been taken away by you. "

"Stop fooling people! There is no jade in that box!" A boy argued hastily.

"Is there not?" Xue Yao narrowed his phoenix eyes and showed a smirk of success: "I am talking nonsense, unlike you, who deliberately turned over and knew that there was no jade in the box. In this way, you should put pure gold Have all the hidden weapons been taken away? Or why is there only a pure gold sleeve arrow at the bottom of the box?"

The two boys' eyes widened for a moment, and one scolded: "We didn't turn over the box! But we know that our sect doesn't have hidden weapons made of jade!"

Xue Yao turned his head and asked Ah Zhu: "No?"

Ah Zhu frowned sideways and looked at the two attendants, and said in a low voice, "Of course."

"But there is no jade in the box." Xue Yao deliberately said that there is no such thing. These two children are so contradictory, and they will definitely catch his fault and argue that there is no jade in the box. Sure enough, the two boys did not blame themselves. up.

"Most of the items in the box are made of gold, silver and copper. Logically speaking, there should be quite a lot of pure gold items, but now there is only one item left." Xue Yao turned to ask Ah Zhu: "Miss, have you seen the items in this box? Is there a lot of pure gold products missing, as I guessed?"

Azhu was silent for a moment, and replied: "That's right, there are a few hidden golden weapons missing."

"Even if the gold hidden weapon is missing, it can't be our fault!" The boy said anxiously: "You said you never touched the box, how do you know that the gold is missing? It's because you just took it out of your own mind! "

Xue Yao smiled mockingly, lowered his head and slowly reached out to touch his sleeve pocket.

"Don't move! What do you want to do!" The elders around were afraid that he would draw out the hidden weapon, so they grabbed the weapon one after another.

"Don't be nervous, everyone, I'll prove myself with something." Xue Yao slowly took out the money bag from his sleeve pocket, and handed it to Ah Zhu: "Please take a look at the bank notes inside."

A Zhu took the money bag with a puzzled face, and according to his request, took out the banknotes that were folded squarely inside, opened it, and found four 500 double-denomination banknotes!

Xue Yao was very satisfied with the surprise on Ah Zhu's face, smiled slightly, and deliberately showed a dismissive attitude: "This is the silver tael I carry with me, there should be a few thousand taels left? To be honest, my family is a rich man in the capital. I went to Jinling and Hangzhou to collect grain, and the price was 100 million taels of silver. If you don’t believe me, you can take me to confront the shopkeepers of the grain stores in the two places to prove my family’s financial strength.”

The boy said anxiously: "Are you so rich? Our Xuanye faction can't even offend the government!"

Xue Yao shrugged: "It's nothing great to be rich, but I can say with certainty that from my point of view, it's impossible to be greedy for this bit of gold when life is at stake, and even a despicable person will be greedy for such cheap things, such as insisting on a box. The two little brothers who don’t have jade in it.”

"You villain!" The boy blushed and said, "If you want to say that, don't you know that there is no jade in this box? You are deliberately setting a trap to frame us!"

Xue Yao smiled lightly: "I just found out that there is only one piece of gold left in this box, and I suspect that you are only interested in stealing gold, so there may be no jade in the box, so I said it on purpose, and waited for you to tell me the answer. It's so easy to show off."

"Your words don't make sense!" The boy's lips turned blue in anxiety: "You are deliberately misleading, and you are the one who is showing off!"

"Oh?" Xue Yao asked back, "Isn't it your fault that you showed it first? Why didn't you even remember to add the incense in the room when you interviewed us last night?"

"That's not our job!" The boy hurriedly argued, "Who knows what kind of incense is burned in that room!"

Xue Yao took a deep breath, and smiled contentedly: "So, where did the servants who were serving in that room go? Why are you the only two left? Didn't you say that the leader of the gang will receive us? Where are the servants of the leader of the gang?"

For a moment, the air froze.

The faces of the two boys who accidentally confessed completely were ashen, and they froze like stone sculptures.

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