Chapter 123 Where Is The Jade Pendant?
"Thanks for telling me these." Su Jiuyue said sincerely.
But Yang Liu looked awkward, "Who allowed you to call me sister? I'm not your sister."
Su Jiuyue sensed her embarrassment but thought she's somewhat cute.
"Right. It's me who is desperate to have a sister like you. Is that okay?"
Yang Liu snorted, "That's more like it."
She had drunk more than half of the tea. Su Jiuyue was about to order one more for her, but she interrupted, "That's enough. I wasn't here to drink tea. Since I told you what I know, I'm leaving."
She got to her feet as she said. When she turned and was about to leave, she suddenly turned back and looked at Su Jiuyue as if she reminded of something: "Since you call me sister, isn't it inappropriate that I as a sister ask you to do me a favor?"
Su Jiuyue hurried up to get to her feet, "Sister, please say. If I can help you, I definitely won't refuse you."
Yang Liu was flattered by her words. She nodded, "Then I just cut to the chase."
She dug in her pocket and took out two lumps of silver. She dragged Su Jiuyue's hands and put them in her palms.
The silver was worth about two taels, which was enough for an ordinary family to use for a long time.
"My sister, I may not be able to go back to Xia Yang Village, but I really worry about my mother. I've been away for a long time and she must have been worried about me. Please give her this for me. If it can make her live a better life, I'll be content."
Seeing that she picked up the handkerchief again and started wiping her tears, Su Jiuyue sighed silently in her heart, "I will help you give it to your mother, don't worry."
Yang Liu couldn't stay outside for a long time. Seeing her agreement, Yang Liu bent her kneels to show her appreciation.
Su Jiuyue quickly dodged away, "Sister, don't do that. It's just a piece of cake. Actually it's me who have to express my sincere appreciation."
Then she was about to give a salute but Yang Liu stopped her, "Then I'm leaving. Hope to see you in the future."
Su Jiuyue watched her shadow vanish and looked down at the two lumps of silver in her hands. She sighed and put them in her wallet.
The tea had already been chill after their long conversation. Su Jiuyue grudged her money, so she held the bowl to swallow the tea. Then she left two big coins on the table and left.
Backing to the Huang Mansion, she found nobody found the man out, she sighed, "Well. I'd better go back and sleep on it."
But Huang Husheng said: "Why don't you live here so that you can continue to search for the person? Otherwise, it'll take you a lot of time on the journey."
Su Jiuyue was reluctant, "It's fine. I have Hong accompany with me! And I didn't tell my family I won't go back. If I sleep over, they will worry about me."
Huang Husheng still worried about her. So he delegated some servant to send her back by riding the horse with her together.
Right at the moment when she was about to leave the town, she saw a familiar figure in a tavern.
She was too young to get into the tavern, so she begged Fu Sheng to invite the person out for her.
Xia Lixing was holding the wine jar and consuming himself in a happy dream when someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder from behind. He subconsciously grabbed him and threw him on the table.
Before Fu Sheng could react, he had spun in the air. The people around were also frightened in an uproar and scattered away out of fear.
"Who are you!"
Fu Sheng looked up at him while exhaling in pain.
The man's eyes glittered with viciousness, which made him have no doubt that he would eat people in the next moment.
"I'm a servant of Master Huang. There is a miss outside looking for you, who let me come and pass on a message." With strong desire of survival, he said the long sentence without a gasp. All he wanted is that he'll not be strangled to death after quickly testifying his innocence.
Xia Lixing looked outside and saw a little girl waiting for him on the roadside while leashing a horse.
She was the girl who bought his saddle few days ago. Xia Lixing was confused why she looked for him. Did she think he sold at a high price?
He bought the saddle from a prairie which cost him a big fortune and had high quality. Was it expensive for only 100 big coins?
If it weren't for her fabulous horse, he may not be willing to sell her the saddle even she paid 100 taels.
He released his hands and let Fu Sheng go. Then he took big steps to walk out of the tavern.
"You little girl, what's up?" He asked.
Su Jiuyue measured him from top to bottom and confirmed he was the man she's looking for. Then she said: "It's not me who's looking for you. I'm just a messenger."
"What?" Xia Lixing was confused.
Su Jiuyue took out a jade pendant from her sleeves, "Zong Yuan said you'll come with me if you see this."
She handed over the jade pendant with both hands. Xia Lixing peered at her and then checked the pendant.
Only with one glance, his expression changed.
"Who asked you to give me this?" He said in a low and cold voice.
"He said he's Zongyuan."
Xia Lixing spit out three words silently and then his expression became completely cold, "Where is he? Take me to him now!"
"Come with me."
Fu Sheng's horse was snatched by Xia Lixing and he was demanded to go back.
Fu Sheng was afraid that he would not be able to explain to the master, but Su Jiuyue said: "Little brother, go back first. I will explain to the master."
Then Fu Sheng agreed, "You two take care of yourselves. I go back first."
The two rode horses towards the mountain. When they passed the Xiang Yang Village, Su Jiuyue also dropped in on Liu Cuihua.
Wu Zongyuan did suffered a lot these days. Although his master was stern to him, he still had four dishes and one soup for each meal. Now he could only eat pancakes.
He took it with no grudge. But it's conspicuous that he's slimmer than before.
When Xia Lixing saw him, he was holding a bunch of firewood. He looked disheveled and was completely different from his former impression, who was "Mu Zongyuan" before.
Wu Zongyuan was stunned when he saw Xia Lixing. He put down the firewood and patted dust on her clothes, then he said: "Sure enough, it's you. Let's go to the room and have a talk."
After speaking, he turned to leave. But he was stopped by Su Jiuyue, "Zongyuan, wait."
Wu Zongyuan turned his head with a little doubt on his face as if he was a little puzzled about her call?
"Since I found the person for you, I have to return the jade pendant to you as well."
As she spoke, she took out the jade pendant from her sleeve pocket. But she found nothing.
"Where's the pendant? Where did the pendant go?!"