Chapter 14: The Thief

"You took the bracelet, right? Yesterday I went to your place when I came out of Yu's house, but today the bracelet is gone. This morning, Yu Wuwu sent me another bracelet with no injuries, and left a message, saying that if you need money in the future, you can just go to him directly, and don't take the bracelet as a bag. Wang Yuchen, I know you've been worried about money lately, but you don't need to be a thief. ”

"I didn't take it," Wang Yuchen's voice was high-pitched, "Besides, isn't it just a bracelet, what's the big deal, I need you to ask me for the crime so aggressively, Fan Qing, you think he likes you to give you something, in fact, he just treats you as a Qinglou girl, you accompany him, and when you are happy, he will reward you with something new." ”

"Smack."

A crisp slap sounded, startling Jiang Xixi, who was hiding under the tea tree, Fan Qing came over and picked up the bushes.

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The night was already deep, the sound of cicadas outside the door was weakened, and in the firewood room where the sundries were placed, a figure was looking out of the door with his head probed, and found that there was no one outside, so he walked out of the firewood room lightly, looked left and right in the courtyard, and ran towards the inner courtyard.

He is a worker who came to Yu's house to deliver silkworm seedlings today, and during the day, he saw that Yu's house was full of gold, silver and jade, and there were a lot of dazzling things, so he had a bad heart, and took advantage of the crowd to mix, secretly hid in the firewood room, and waited until the dead of night before sneaking out and preparing to steal a few valuable things back.

Walking all the way down the corridor to the courtyard of the inner courtyard, he dared to take a breath against the wall, and looked at the surrounding houses as he gasped: the largest one in front must be Yu Gongzi's, the smaller one on the left is his study, and the side rooms on both sides should be the rooms where the people who take care of him live. The bedroom and the side room must be asleep now, so he set his sights on the study, what are the four treasures of the study in the study of the big family, although I don't know what it is, but it sounds like a very valuable treasure.

Thinking so, he ran towards the study with broken steps, and as soon as he put his hand on the door, there was a "rustle" sound in his ears, and his heart tightened suddenly, and he quickly squatted down and shrank into a ball, for fear that he would alarm the people in the courtyard.

His eyes wandered around the courtyard, but he found that there was no shadow of half a person except himself, so he put down the heart he was carrying, pushed the door open a crack, and went into the study on one side.

The moon was white and bright tonight, so even though there was no light in the room, he still had a rough idea of what was inside. However, to his disappointment, there are no treasures hidden in it, there are a lot of paper, ink, pen and inkstone, but where are the "four treasures of the study." He walked around the house a few times, and finally put his eyes on a jade pot spring bottle, on which a few lotus flowers were painted. However, he didn't understand this, he only knew that this jade bottle was crystal clear, and it would definitely be sold for a good price when he got it on the set, so he quickly carried it in his arms and prepared to go around the front hall to see if there were other valuable things.

Before he could reach the door, there was another "rustling" sound behind him, and this time he listened carefully, and the sound was clearly the sound of something running against the wall and furniture.

He jerked his head back and saw a few small rats standing in the corner, standing upright on their feet and staring at him with glowing eyes.

"After a long time, it turned out to be a few rats, you steal things, I also steal things, although we are peers, but the well water does not violate the river water."

He felt a lot more relaxed at once, laughed twice in his throat, and walked quickly towards the door.

"Twitter...... Twitter......"

A few rat cries came into his ears, which was not unusual, but it scared him so much that he almost threw the bottle in his arms. For the cry was so close that it came out of his bosom.

Lowering his head, he saw a gray pointed head poking out of the jade pot spring bottle, and opened his mouth wide at him, revealing a few fangs that were cold and cold.

The scream almost blurted out, but luckily, the little sanity in his head would allow him to hold the scream down his throat instantly. There was a mouse hidden in the vase, which was normal, he comforted himself, endured the nausea, pinched the rat's head and dragged it out, and threw it the ground next to him.

The mouse struggled a few times, and its slender tail finally lay on the ground limply, not moving. He stared at the corpse of the mouse, not wanting to linger in the study any longer, and ran towards the door.

"Twitter...... Twitter.......twitter"

The rat croaking behind him was getting louder and louder, and he finally couldn't help it and turned around.

On the floor, on the bookshelf, on the table, on the inkstone....... As far as the eye could see, there were gray-black rats squatting, as if they had emerged from the ground, filling the entire study room in just a moment of turning their heads. Countless eyes glowing green stared at him, and he felt himself poked into a sieve by these vengeful gazes, his legs went limp, his feet staggered, and his body slammed forward.

Fortunately, at the moment he fell to the ground, he finally broke free from his fear, trembled and ran to the wall on his two legs, climbed over the high wall with all his might, and ran away into the night with a puff of smoke.

I don't know how long he ran, until the houses next to him were gone, and the trees gradually became thicker, he stopped, his legs were numb, and he only felt that he was dragging two thousand-pound boulders below his waist, and it was difficult to walk an inch. With a cold chest, he lowered his head, it turned out that in a hurry, he hadn't dropped the vase yet, and his mood turned back slightly, finally, this adventure was not without gain.

But where is this? Why is the shade of the trees above the head so thick that even the moonlight can't penetrate it? He steadied himself and turned to look closely.

In the depths of the dense forest, three pointed roofs can be faintly seen, it turned out that he ran all the way to Qinglun Mountain, and then walked forward for a while, and he arrived at the Silkworm Temple.

After taking a few heavy breaths, he stuffed the jade pot spring bottle into the placket again, and then slowly walked in the direction of the silkworm temple.

The breeze blew, and the leaves above his head were blown "rattling", and the sweat that ran out of him was also dried, and his whole body was transparent, and he suddenly came to his senses, and his steps were faster.

"Twitter ......"

An extremely slight voice caused him to stagnate, and he didn't dare to take another step forward for a long time.

"Twitter...... Twitter ......"

As the rats chirped more and more densely, the sound of rustling in the grass became louder and louder, and the tips of the grass seemed to grow a few inches taller, nothing else, the back hair of thousands of rats.