noveltune Chapter 55 Uninvited Guest
Chapter 55 Uninvited Guest
"Brother, I was wrong!"
"What did you do wrong? I don't see it."
Sitting in the chair, Ma Ye looked at Zhu Jin with a mocking expression.
He had just unlocked it and hadn't even looked at the information inside, but the little girl immediately started admitting her mistakes.
Zhu Jin fidgeted with her fingers, unsure where to begin.
"Um, I shouldn't have ignored the phone."
"Not that sentence."
"I wish I had been nicer when I left the house."
"No, not exactly."
"I shouldn't have played scratch cards."
Scratch-off lottery tickets? Did this little girl go out to scratch lottery tickets?
Ma Ye hurriedly opened Zhu Jin's mobile banking app, which showed a balance of only 3.3 yuan, and another savings card had less than 1 yuan!
"Have you paid the tuition?"
"not yet..."
"You mean you spent the six thousand yuan I gave you for tuition and all the money you just received on lottery tickets!"
The futon beside her feet was kicked directly in front of Zhu Jin, and her knees, which had just been rubbed red, were immediately knelt on it.
Water was still dripping from his hair; Ma Ye didn't know if he was sweating from fright.
Judging from the way she looked down, she was probably worried that she wouldn't be able to pay her tuition on time.
"Go, take two incense sticks from the shelf, kneel one in front of the ancestral master, and kneel the other in front of your master and mistress."
"oh."
Zhu Jin picked up the prayer mat and walked to the Three Pure Ones' memorial tablet. She lit a long incense stick and knelt down.
However, the incense from Qingmutang is extremely durable; I knelt for almost a minute and it didn't get any shorter.
"Brother, should I start cooking first?"
"How dare you even eat?"
Zhu Jin pouted, tears welling up in her eyes.
"It's all that redhead's fault! If he hadn't kept urging me to stay, I wouldn't have spent so much money!"
Just as Ma Ye finished rinsing the rice, he suddenly heard the word "red hair" and immediately threw the pot liner onto the table.
Ignoring how much Changxiang was missing, he directly pulled Zhu Jin up from the ground.
This sudden movement also caused Zhu Jin's shoulder blades to ache painfully.
"Brother, you're not angry anymore?"
"Let's put that aside for now. Where did you run into that red-haired guy?"
"It's just a lottery shop on the way back!"
The sun had just set, but there was still a long queue outside the murder mystery game store.
Wen Liang and Qiao Kun sat together at the entrance of Qingmu Hall, ignoring each other.
Zhu Jin was still kneeling on the prayer mat, but fortunately she was allowed to eat her meal in the middle of it, though the number of incense sticks increased from two to four.
Ma Ye rubbed his hair as he walked to the door and plopped down between the two of them.
"Xiao Ye, why did you call this bastard over here? I'd take care of it for you!"
"Master Qiao, how will I know how to solve this if I don't call both of you over?"
This is the second time that Xu Hao has messed with Xiao Jin. I didn't say anything the first time, but for him to do it again is truly shameless!
Zhu Jin, standing behind them, also tilted her head and looked over, casting a pleading gaze at the two processional deities.
Her buttocks were already numb; if she knelt down any longer, she wouldn't be able to get out of bed tomorrow.
"Xiao Ye, why don't you help Xiao Jin get up first? This can't be blamed on her; after all, she bears some responsibility for the waste."
"If she hadn't been greedy, she wouldn't have been led by the nose by wasteful spending."
That's over ten thousand yuan! I never imagined I'd spend it all in just one afternoon!
The two wandering deities sitting on the side didn't know how to persuade them.
They only knew that Zhu Jin had been deceived by Xu Hao, but they didn't expect that she had been deceived so much more.
Ten thousand yuan is enough for the two of them to buy cigarettes for a year.
The address of the lottery shop was already written on Qiao Kun's phone; now, he could only rely on him to catch Xu Hao tonight.
The searchlights at the construction site across the street also came on, and customers who had come to Qingmutang to buy things started arriving one after another.
Meanwhile, in Li Qianqian's small house, the red-haired man was comfortably lying on the sofa counting money.
He sold over 10,000 scratch cards today, and the shop owner gave him a 300 yuan bonus.
Even if his boss comes back later, he can still put on a show.
The instant noodles on the table were completely empty, and water droplets were slowly dripping from the bottle of iced tea next to it.
"Knock knock knock!"
The security door was pounded on, with a force quite different from that of Li Qianqian.
"Coming, coming! Boss, why are you back so early today? Did you forget your keys again?"
The door slowly opened, but instead of the red-haired Li Qianqian, standing in the doorway were five guys with different expressions.
The man at the front grabbed the doorframe, thwarting the red-haired man's attempt to close it. One of the men, quick as a flash, squeezed through the crack in the door.
"Hey, isn't this Little Mouse? It's gotten so bad in all these years!"
"What are you guys doing here? It's too late to visit other people's homes, isn't it?"
"How about we come back tomorrow? The boss isn't back yet!"
The man standing behind him grabbed the red-haired man's arm and pulled hard, causing the door to slip out of his control, and the four men rushed in.
The man in the lead sat down on the sofa, touched the leather under his buttocks, and didn't seem to realize how expensive it was.
The last man saw the iced tea on the table, took a sip, and finding the taste mediocre, poured it down the drain.
"Little Hao, after all these years of hiding, how did you two end up in Jinchuan? Did you find something here too?"
The only man among the five whose shirt wasn't buttoned squatted down in front of the red-haired man and lifted his chin with a single finger.
"Wait a minute, you two have both changed your names. The eldest is now called Li Qianqian, and you've changed yours to Li Xiaoguo! You're so uncultured!"
"How did you five find me? I didn't do anything!"
Li Xiaoguo's chest heaved violently as he was pinned down. Over the years, the two of them had never stayed in one place for more than a month. If things got a little too out of hand in one place, they would immediately set off.
They had only been in Jinchuan for ten days, and even the local city god wouldn't be able to find them.
The man sitting on the sofa covered his face and almost burst out laughing.
"Do you two need to make your little tricks any more obvious? We've been together for thousands of years, anyone who isn't blind can definitely see your little problem."
"A lottery station can't possibly go ten whole days without anyone winning, right? Even a small prize should be at least five or ten yuan."
Zhao Xiaoguo, lying on the ground, didn't know what to say. Lottery winnings are all about probability, so what did it have to do with him if he didn't win?
But the five of them had already broken in, and the clock on the wall was not long away from ten o'clock. He and Li Qianqian had spent so many years focusing their energy on changing their appearances, and they had no way to fight them.
My wrists were grabbed and pulled behind my back, and my shoulder blades were pressed painfully.
The keyhole behind them turned again, and the five guys held their breath. The guy on top of Li Xiaoguo covered his mouth, and only whimpers could be heard in the room.
"Hey kid, I brought back some fried noodles. Have you eaten yet?"
Before the key to the door lock was even removed, Li Qianqian was pulled inside by the people inside.
He stumbled and fell, dropping the fried noodles he was holding onto the floor, leaving a puddle of oil.
"What do you five mean by this? Do you really think no one can control you just because he's not here?"
"Boss, stop struggling! What's the point of bringing him out?"
So many years have passed, how do you know if he's still alive?
"Wouldn't it be better if the seven of us went back to our old professions, living a carefree and independent life?"
The leading man rested his chin on his hand and looked at Li Qianqian and Li Xiaoguo on the ground. He really missed those two red-haired men. It had been more than 20 years since he last saw them, and he felt like he had almost forgotten about them.
Li Qianqian struggled to resist with her hands being held, but she had been suppressing her instincts lately, and all the strength in her body was being used to maintain her current appearance.
As he moved, he even managed to pull out the banknotes from his pocket.
"Lingli, the boss has a lot of money on him! Enough for us to live it up for a while!"
Several red bills were placed on the table, and the guy who had jumped into the room first took out Li Qianqian's pillow.
"Not just that, there are quite a few more!"