C20

Qiao Er had already gone to sleep, and the courtyard was quiet.

Under normal circumstances, three to four was the time for a person to enter a deep sleep. Therefore, those who went out during the day and night would usually choose to leave at this point in time.

Presumably, other than Yun Qixi, there was at least one other person in the Residence of the Duke who couldn't sleep today.

With that in mind, she returned to the bed and did something before leaving the room. Yun Qixi quickly climbed to the top of a tree in the courtyard and surveyed the situation in the residence. Indeed, Yun Lanyue's room was still lit.

Heh, last night, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep, because her family was going to become a Crown Princess. Tonight, she still couldn't sleep, because the bridal ceremony had been ruined.

This life was truly like a roller coaster ride, ups and downs.

Yun Qixi walked through the rooftops with ease and familiarity, then left the Palace and stood behind the Duke of Guo Huai's Mansion.

Damn, her identity is different now. Can't she just come out from the back door? Was there a need to go out of the way? What a joke!

In the dark sky, a full moon was hanging high in the sky, sprinkling down a good amount of moonlight.

When Yun Qixi looked under the tree, she was startled.

Where she had buried the bag, there were traces of being dug up. She tensed to the point that her scalp went numb and used her bare hands to pick at the loose soil.

Gone? How is this possible? It was too strange. Who would know that there was a treasure underneath?

The night was eerily quiet.

Yun Qixi squinted her eyes and pricked up her ears. It was because she seemed to have heard a subtle sound.

In the dark of the night, her eyes sparkled as she quickly scanned the area not far to the left.

He saw a small figure hidden under the wall.

Yun Qixi's vision was extraordinary, especially at night. Even though the man was hidden from the moonlight, she could still see him clearly. The man was sitting against the wall, holding a bag.

Without hesitating at all, Yun Qixi ran over.

The man looked up, startled at the sound of footsteps. Instinctively, he stood up quickly and began to run.

Yun Qixi chased closely after him, because she could clearly see that the thing in his hand was precisely her bag.

However, although the person in front was small, he was very fast. Furthermore, he was very smart. He did not walk on the main road and actually went through many alleys. To Yun Qixi, who was not familiar with the geographical environment, this was quite a loss.

At that moment, she saw a figure walking slowly through the alley in front of her.

As if she had seen her savior, Yun Qixi shouted as she ran, "Catch the thief! Catch the thief! "

Logically speaking, in the dead of night, she should have raised her voice to a hundred meters away from him. But after Yun Qixi shouted a few times, the man acted as if she did not hear anything, and did not even lose her balance.

F * ck, so no matter what era it was, people were the same reality? Lei Feng didn't have the slightest bit of spirit. They were all driven only by benefits.

Yun Qixi didn't have time to think as she shouted, "Help me capture him, ten silver coins as repayment."

The man did not move, did not look back.

"Twenty taels."

"…"

"Thirty taels!"

"…"

Yun Qixi suspected, was that person deaf?

To her, although the bag contained a huge sum of money, it was more of something that not even tens of thousands of gold would be able to buy in this era.

"Catch him, the silver in the bag will all be yours, the rest will be mine." Yun Qixi had really invested a lot.

"It's a deal?" A pleasant voice was carried by the wind.

At this time, Yun Qixi had already ran over to the side of the man's body, only to see the man wearing a felt hat with a very low brim, covering his eyes. He faced Yun Qixi's direction, waiting for her reply.

So he wasn't deaf. He had lost everything!

However, he couldn't bear to see his child get caught in such a trap. Even though he had returned all of his wealth, the treasures in his bag were worth thousands of gold taels, and he wasn't going to return them.

Seeing the thief who was stealing the bag running further and further away, she immediately clenched her teeth.

"Alright, it's a deal."

When she said that, Yun Qixi only saw the corner of her lips hooked up, and the person had already ran out quickly.

He didn't know whether it was because he was fast or because the person in front was too slow, but he caught up to him before he could run too far.

Yun Qixi ran a few steps and caught up with him, snatching the bag away as she panted while staring at the thief.

However, the words that were going to explode stuck in his throat.

The person in front of him was small and thin, no more than twelve or thirteen years old. He had a dirty and flowery face, and his clothes were tattered.

Little beggar?

Yun Qixi was moved to pity her again. A half-grown child like this, being a beggar, was usually because of his miserable background. It was even more unsightly to mention that he had a beautiful childhood.

Therefore, she had become like this when she said those insults that couldn't be put on the table.

"You are so young, why don't you learn? You actually learned how to steal? "

The little beggar felt wronged and lowered his head to retort. "I didn't steal it."

"He even said that you didn't steal anything, and that you've already gotten your hands on them. Why are you still trying to argue with him?"

Following the principle of "tireless efforts", Yun Qixi patiently guided him to recognize his mistakes and returned him back to the right path.

The little beggar looked more and more wronged, his face grimaced.

"I really didn't steal it!"