I Made a Fortune By Raiding Houses In Ancient Times

Chapter 34 It’s really nothing

 Ling Chu’s words made the corners of Zhou Wu’s mouth twitch.

Even Manager Lu and Hu Batian couldn't help but pause when they pulled the golden leaves.

Lingchu looked at them innocently, "Don't you smell something?"

Manager Lu sniffed and hesitated for a while before saying, "It smells like roast chicken?"

Hu Batian said angrily, "How can Liu Dongluo still afford roast chicken if he has lost all his money?"

Hu Batian, furious, followed the smell of roasted chicken and quickly stopped at the stove.

Looking down at the pile of chicken bones on the ground, Hu Batian kicked them with his foot, becoming even more angry.

 “That **** Liu Dongluo really ate roast chicken.”

Even Zhou Wu couldn't stand Liu Dongluo's ruthlessness. "The Liu Dongluo family is really nothing. They secretly hide gold leaves and have money to buy roast chicken, but they have to use their wives and daughters to pay off debts."

Ling Chu on the side did not speak, but he quite agreed with what the two said.

 Liu Dongluo's thing is indeed not a thing.

Looking at the pile of chicken bones, Hu Batian suddenly felt hungry. He cursed a few words and turned around to leave the stove.

Ling Chu suddenly pointed to the inside of the stove and said, "Hey, it seems like something is buried in the ashes in the stove. Could it be... roasted sweet potatoes?"

Hu Batian paused in his steps, turned back and followed Ling Chu's fingers to look into the stove. There was a slight bulge in the ashes in the stove, and it really looked like something was buried.

Lingchu took out a branch from the firewood pile, squatted at the entrance of the stove, and used the branch to dig a few times into the stove ashes.

Hu Batian touched his rumbling belly and asked, "Is it roasted sweet potato?"

Manager Lu pulled out the gold leaves hidden in the salt shaker and put them away. He also came over and said, "I'm hungry. Dig out the sweet potatoes and fill my stomach first."

Ling Chu paused in his pulling movements, twitched the corners of his mouth, said nothing, and silently started digging again with the branch.

 Hu Batian and Manager Lu were waiting aside, preparing to enjoy the fragrant roasted sweet potatoes.

Unexpectedly, under the gaze of four pairs of eyes, what was dug out was not a fragrant roasted sweet potato, but a yellowish paper bag.

Several people were stunned at the same time.

"What's this?"

Lingchu put down the branch, took out the paper bag, and shook off the stove ashes on it.

Hu Batian reached out to take it and found it was an oil paper bag.

 After opening it, I found that the oil paper package contained a contract.

 Hu Batian is just a bully who runs rampant and arrogant. In fact, he doesn’t even know a few Chinese characters.

He didn't know much about the words on the contract, so he had to hand it to Manager Lu.

Manager Lu read the ten lines at a glance, his face gloomy, "Liu Dongluo actually sold his restaurant."

Hu Batian and Zhou Wu were surprised when they heard this. They didn't expect that this was a sales contract for a restaurant.

Although Ling Chu’s face was also surprised, she actually already knew it from the system’s scan.

“Although Liu Dongluo’s restaurant is not big, its business is pretty good. Although there haven’t been many customers recently, isn’t it a pity that he just sold it like this?”

Hu Batian was puzzled, but as the second manager of Changlefang, Manager Lu knew more.

 He probably guessed Liu Dongluo’s plan.

 “Search quickly and find the silver.”

Ling Chu frowned slightly. She felt that Manager Lu's attitude suddenly became urgent.

Hu Batian also noticed, "Guanshi Lu, did something happen?"

Manager Lu sneered, "Then Liu Dongluo sold the restaurant without telling everyone. He planned to take the silver and run away secretly to pay off our debt."

Hu Batian suddenly realized, "Liu Dongluo is really brave."

Liu Dongluo didn't know that his intention to escape secretly had been exposed. When he saw that Manager Lu and the others were going in the direction of the kitchen, he felt uneasy. Seeing that they hadn't come back for such a long time, he became more and more anxious. He wanted to take a look in the kitchen several times.

  Helpless, Hu Batian's two followers stared at him so hard that he had no way to get rid of them.

 Liu Dongluo winked at Ge, wanting her to stop Hu Batian and the others.

　　But Geshi was unmoved by his hint and took his daughter and stood aside silently.

Not to mention that she didn't dare to go to trouble Hu Batian and Manager Lu, even if she had the courage, she wouldn't stop them.

Ge Shi even hoped that Miss Ling could find the money. After all, if the debt was not paid off, there would be no way for her and her daughter to survive.

 Being used by her husband to pay off debts and thrown into a pit of fire, she and her daughter will be worse off than dead.

It would be fine if it were her, but her daughter was still young, how could she watch her being destroyed.

Liu Dongluo was anxious and angry. He didn't expect Ge, who had always been docile and obedient, to dare not listen to him.

 In the kitchen, Manager Lu’s attitude toward Ling Chu became much gentler.

Although he felt that the discovery of the gold leaf and the contract was a coincidence, if it hadn't been for Miss Ling, they really wouldn't have discovered it.

 After all, no one would have thought that gold leaves would be hidden in the salt shaker, let alone anyone would have thought to check whether there was anything hidden in the stove ashes.

"Miss Ling, the gold leaves are not enough to repay Liu Dongluo's debt. If you want to save Ge and her daughter, this little money is not enough."

“Don’t worry, Manager Lu, I’ll use hexagram calculations to see where the Liu family still has hidden silver.”

 Steward Lu was satisfied when he saw her being so obedient.

The system had already scanned the hidden silver, and Ling Chu did not need to use hexagrams to calculate it.

However, in order to prevent Manager Lu and others from becoming suspicious, she still took out the tortoise shell and copper coins from her brocade bag and pretended to start calculating.

Looking at the copper coins scattered on the table, I found that I couldn't understand the hexagrams at all.

Manager Lu had no choice but to ask Ling Chu, "How is it, but it's been calculated?"

Lingchu frowned and talked nonsense to the hexagram in a serious manner, "According to the hexagram, the silver should still be in the kitchen."

Hu Batian said, "In the kitchen? Then look for her quickly."

Ling Chu put away the copper coins and turtle shells, and started rummaging in the kitchen with Zhou Wu.

With Guanshi Lu here, Hu Batian didn't just sit back and watch. He rolled up his sleeves and started searching.

In order to leave a good impression in front of Manager Lu, Hu Batian worked very hard to find him, and soon he was exhausted and sweating profusely.

“I’ve looked for everything in the kitchen, but there’s no money at all. Miss Ling, could you have made a mistake in your calculation?”

Lingchu stopped, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve pocket, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

 It’s almost done, it should be enough.

Lingchu suddenly pointed to a pile of firewood in the corner of the kitchen and said, "Hey, it seems that you haven't found the pile of firewood over there yet?"

 It is true that I have not found it.

The small pile of firewood was not much, and it was piled sparsely in the corner. It did not look like there was anything hidden through the gaps between the firewood branches.

Hu Batian frowned, "It's just a few sticks of firewood, what's there to find?"

Steward Lu looked at it, but did not refute Hu Batian's words.

Lingchu walked over and pulled up the pile of firewood with his feet.

Zhou Wu didn't say anything. He walked over silently and bent down to move the firewood away.

This week he doesn't talk much about martial arts, but he is a good at work.

Lingchu withdrew his admiring gaze and suddenly pointed to the ground under the firewood pile and said in surprise, "Hey, what is this?"

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