readsfreenovel Chapter 208 Want to get it back? Impossible!
Chapter 208 Want to get it back? Impossible!
"Don't rush off yet," Xia Mo said, putting away the two pieces of black ironwood sticks.
"What brings you here, young lady?" The Han family head secretly glanced at Yin Rou. Yin Rou was just a fallen adopted daughter of the Cao family. How could she suddenly have such a powerful henchman? There was only one possibility, and that was... This was someone their master had temporarily assigned to Yin Rou.
"I rely purely on brute force and quick reflexes to beat people. Because of this, I've ruined my hands. Both my arms are sore now, especially since I had to put in a lot of effort to only dislocate your son's limbs without damaging his body," Xia Mo, disguised as a maid, gave the Han family head a simple smile.
Young Master Han stared wide-eyed in astonishment, looking at Siya (Xia Mo) in disbelief once again.
"It was you who crippled my limbs! How dare you..."
Before Young Master Han could finish speaking, Patriarch Han interrupted him.
The Han family head said, "Yes, yes, that's right. Look, this is all the money I have on me. Is that enough?"
The head of the Han family is now hoping that Si Ya (Xia Mo) will be lenient with her words when she tells her master what's going on behind his back. Therefore, he is also paying her hush money.
“You’re on the right track,” Xia Mo, who was disguised as an honest maid, broke her disguise and revealed a mischievous smile.
The head of the Han family nodded repeatedly.
The head of the Han family went to handle matters concerning the Han family's shipping company. He carried 20,000 taels of silver notes with him, and at this moment, he handed them all over without missing a single coin.
Xia Mo quickly scanned the 20,000 taels of silver notes with her divine sense and discovered that the note's serial number was the same as the bank where Cao Kai had hidden. Her eyes flickered.
“These money houses look so familiar,” Xia Mo, disguised as a maid, said deliberately.
"Don't you look familiar?" The Han family head gave Siya (Xia Mo) a hint, his eyes saying, "We're all working for the same person."
Xia Mo smiled.
Now, she doesn't have to worry about Cao Kai finding out when she goes to cash out Cao Kai's silver notes, hahaha...
The head of the Han family beckoned two servants over, and they used a door panel to carry the young master away.
"You can take the shipping ledgers from previous years back to the Yin family to see if you don't want to look at them here," the Han family head said before leaving with his son.
The head of the Han family took the young master away, and Yin Rou was unable to sit in the Han family to look at the Han family's shipping account books over the years.
At the end of summer, he took the initiative and filled three large burlap sacks with the shipping ledgers from previous years.
The servants of the Han family all saw it, but since the head of the Han family had clearly favored Yin Rou, they didn't dare to move and just watched in astonishment as Xia Mo and Yin Rou took the account books away.
In the private study of the courtyard where Yin Rou lives in the Yin family home—
Yin Rou organized the account books one by one onto the bookshelf and placed the ones she wanted to read on the table.
Three days later—
The case of the Cao family helping human traffickers transport people, which had been settled, has been brought back to the forefront.
Cao Kai never expected that a case that had already been closed would be overturned!
Cao Kaixin was uneasy and looked at the light screen in front of him.
He's already completed the side quests; they can't just take back the reward items after the case is overturned, right?
Cao Kai searched the room, and when he pulled open the brick, the box was still there, but the silver notes and shipbuilding blueprints inside were gone!
An angry Cao Kai whispered to the system, "System, did you take my stuff?!"
The shipbuilding blueprints were a system reward, so he could take them. But the silver notes and other valuables were earned privately by him; how could the system touch them?!
The live streaming system popped up a notification: The host has offended the noble live streaming system and will be punished with an electric shock once.
The live streaming system didn't treat its host as a respectable life form at all, especially a host like Cao Kai who could only rely on it for survival.
Cao Kai was startled when he thought of the electric shock he felt at the dock, and he kept apologizing to the live stream.
Cao Kai's live-streaming system was clearly more domineering than Lin Chengzhi's; it completely ignored Cao Kai's apology and the electric shock punishment had already begun.
Xia Mo used her divine sense to observe all of this, and a sense of mockery rose in her heart.
Another fifteen minutes later—
Cao Kai was still panting heavily after his electric shock punishment ended.
The live-streaming system that didn't treat Cao Kai like a human popped up a chat window again, saying: "The previous task is complete, that's it. The system will not take back the reward, and the system will not take the host's items. Please be aware that the system has no interest in the wealth of this world."
The system's voice echoed in Cao Kai's mind.
After hearing what the system said, Cao Kai sprang to his feet and demanded, "If you didn't take it, then where did everything go in my box?!"
The live streaming system popped up another message: System: The system can't stand being wronged.
Upon hearing the cold, mechanical voice of the live-streaming system, Cao Kai shuddered in fright and hurriedly said, "I'll explain. It's because, apart from a great and unfathomable being like yourself, I really can't imagine who else could take something without breaking the mark!"
The data from the live streaming system flashed by quickly. I managed to say a few words: "Apart from the inventory slots within this system, there is nowhere that is completely safe."
Cao Kai took a breath, got up from the ground, and said, "The banknotes have serial numbers! Each banknote has a different serial number, and the money exchange has the corresponding number! I'll go to the money exchange to inquire!"
Cao Kai had actually looked at the backpack slots of the live streaming system many times, but the value of each slot was 10,000 reward points. The value was so high that Cao Kai felt he could keep his items safe without the backpack slots, so he didn't bother to unlock them.
At present, Cao Kai still has no intention of explaining.
Cao Kai is the type of host who doesn't know how to do live streaming, and therefore, he receives a limited number of reward points, which he is reluctant to waste.
Cao Kai was reluctant to waste his reward points, so he would buy fewer things in the live stream shop. If he didn't buy anything, he would need even fewer reward points. As a result, Cao Kai only had less than 20,000 reward points in total.
Xia Mo met five hosts with live streaming systems. Cao Kai was the one who gave the fewest reward points among the five, and was the most frugal and stingy.
Inside the money exchange—
Cao Kai rushed to Yong'an Money Exchange and said, "My 30,000 taels of silver notes have been stolen! I have a note here with the exchange number!"
"Oh, then quickly take out the ticket number so I can see it," the shopkeeper urged hurriedly.
Cao Kai took out a small booklet and handed it to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper saw the ticket number and thought it looked familiar. Then he remembered who had redeemed it.
"All of your bank drafts have already been taken," the shopkeeper told Cao Kai after carefully checking the ledger containing the bank drafts.
"You should report this to the authorities," the shopkeeper sincerely advised.
Even if Cao Kai reports it to the authorities, it won't make a difference. Their money shop is managed by the entire dynasty. Unless someone's status surpasses that of the Jiang King, otherwise...
Want to get it back? Impossible!
Cao Kai gritted his teeth and asked, "Can you tell me who took my 30,000 silver notes?"