Chapter 34: Really a Piece of Shit
Ling Chu's words made Zhou Wu's mouth twitch.
Even Guanshi Lu and Hu Batian couldn't help but pause when they pulled the golden leaves.
Ling Chu looked at them innocently, "Don't you smell anything?"
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 roast chicken and looked for it, and soon 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 bitch Liu Dongluo really ate roast chicken."
Even Zhou Wu couldn't stand Liu Dongluo's ruthlessness, "Then Liu Dongluo's 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, there seems to be something buried in the ashes in the stove. Could it be... roasted sweet potatoes?"
Hu Batian paused, then turned around 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 there.
Ling Chu pulled 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 happen to be 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 quietly 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?"
Ling Chu 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 bag contained a contract.
Hu Batian is just a tyrannical bully who actually doesn't know a lot of 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 all the 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 had a surprised look on her face, she actually already knew it from the system's scan.
"Although Liu Dongluo's restaurant is not big, the 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 steward of Changlefang, Manager Lu knew more.
He probably guessed Liu Dongluo's plan.
"Search quickly and find the money."
Ling Chu frowned slightly, why did she feel that Manager Lu's attitude suddenly became anxious.
Hu Batian also noticed, "Manager 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.
Helplessly, Hu Batian's two followers kept a close eye on him, and he had no way of getting rid of them.
Liu Dongluo winked at Ge, wanting her to stop Hu Batian and the others.
But Ge Shi 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 would 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 weren't 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, and no one 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 the hexagram technique to calculate again and see where the Liu family still has hidden silver."
Manager Lu was satisfied when he saw her being so obedient.
The system had already scanned the hidden silver, so Ling Chu didn't need to use hexagrams to calculate it.
However, in order to prevent Steward Lu and the others from getting suspicious, she still took out the tortoise shell and copper coins from the brocade bag and pretended to start calculating.
She looked at the copper coins scattered on the table and found that she couldn't understand the hexagram at all.
Steward Lu had to ask Ling Chu, "How is it, did you figure it out?"
Ling Chu frowned and said nonsense to the hexagram seriously, "According to the hexagram, the silver should still be in the kitchen."
Hu Batian, "In the kitchen? Then hurry up and find it."
Ling Chu put away the copper coins and tortoise shells and searched in the kitchen with Zhou Wu.
With Steward Lu around, Hu Batian did not stand idly by and rolled up his sleeves to follow the search.
In order to leave a good impression in front of Steward Lu, Hu Batian searched very hard and soon he was sweating profusely.
"I have searched everything that should be found in this kitchen, and there is no silver at all. Miss Ling, did you calculate it wrong?"
Ling Chu stopped, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve pocket, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
It's almost done, it should be enough.
Ling Chu suddenly pointed to a pile of firewood in the corner of the kitchen and said, "Hey, the firewood pile over there seems to be no search yet?"
Indeed, it has not been searched.
There is not much firewood in that small pile, which is sparsely piled in the corner. Through the gaps between the branches, it doesn't look like there is anything hidden.
Hu Batian frowned, "It's just a few pieces of firewood, what's there to find."
Manager Lu took a look, but didn't refute Hu Batian's words.
Ling Chu walked over and used his feet to dig up the firewood.
Zhou Wu didn't say anything, walked over silently, bent down and moved the firewood away.
Zhou Wu didn't talk much, but he was a good worker.
Ling Chu retracted his admiring eyes, suddenly pointed to the ground under the firewood pile and said in surprise, "Hey, what is this?"
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