Liu Bao's yard is right next to Liu's house.
When Liu's residence was taken over by the fourth brother and his men, it was also searched, but only some treasures were found, not much else was discovered.
Now that secluded and quiet yard has been allocated to Malte as an arms workshop.
Su and the wasteland warriors also live there recently.
It was late at night, and except for the soldiers on duty, everyone else should have rested. When Jiang Xia walked into the yard, he could still hear voices coming from the main hall.
It must be Malte who is working late at night. This weaponsmith is very energetic.
But he wasn't the only one in the main hall.
Jiang Xia also heard another voice, which was talking with Malte with a bit of joy as if chatting. That voice should be the third prince Shi Rui.
When the fourth prince reported before, he said that the third prince, who was not at all arrogant, had been hanging out here for the past few days, mingling with craftsmen like Malte.
Jiang Xia wanted to win him over, so he gave him some weapon blueprints and design drawings. He is said to have learned how to operate a machine tool, and he has been having a lot of fun making things these days.
I heard that the third prince wanted to learn from Malte, but was rejected by the wasteland craftsman.
Shi Rui doesn't look like a scheming guy, but his identity is very sensitive, and Malte is not a person who doesn't know the importance of things. Now Black Hand will cooperate happily with Kunlun Square.
He didn't want to bring any more trouble to Jiang Xia.
"His Royal Highness the Third Prince has been having a great time these past few days. He even pestered Miss Jasmine and insisted on going to see the sophisticated machines that Miss Jasmine manages."
Seeing Jiang Xia stopped at the entrance of the courtyard and looking towards the main hall, Ruyue, who was holding a lantern behind him, whispered something.
"You are quite good at reading people's expressions."
Old Jiang glanced at Ruyue, who was looking down, and said:
"I heard from Lao Si that Julie gave you the job of accountant?"
"Um."
Speaking of this, Ruyue felt uneasy. She said softly:
"I have been able to read and write since I was young, so Mr. Zhu taught me to do accounting and keep accounts. He also said that I was a good learner and had talent. These past few days, I did the accounts first and then showed them to Mr. Zhu.
She is a truly capable person and can spot my omissions at a glance, but suddenly asking me to be in charge of the accounts of the entire market, I... I was afraid.
I am just afraid that I might make a mistake and delay Mr. Zhu and the boss’s business.”
"What are you afraid of? The worst that can happen is that you make a mistake in your calculations."
Jiang Xia shook his head indifferently and said:
"Julie trusts you, which shows that you are really capable. These people don't lie very often. I underestimated you because you were just a spoofer.
I didn't expect you had some abilities.
Kunlunfang is short-staffed, and there are too few available people under the Fourth Brother. Since Julie has promised you to be in charge, you should do it. Go find Jasmine tomorrow.
Ask her to do 'employee onboarding' for you.
Let's go.
Take me to see Liu Bao's 'treasure'."
"Well, boss, follow me."
Kisaragi breathed a sigh of relief.
She led the way, swaying her slender waist. Jiang Xia followed behind, his eyes always subconsciously falling on Ruyue's swaying waist.
This woman is very charming.
I don't know if it was cultivated and trained since childhood or if it was born that way.
When she walked, her round buttocks always swayed from side to side, and her slender legs naturally walked in a cat-like pace.
Just looking at it is a visual enjoyment.
Ruyue is indeed a beauty, with a unique charm that is very alluring.
Mr. Crow had commented on her before, saying that Ruyue might have a trace of demon bloodline. In Liu Hui's words, Ruyue might have a weak magical power similar to "charm".
A few minutes later, Jiang Xia moved his eyes away from Ruyue's round buttocks for the seventh time. He recalled what Mr. Crow had said before.
The man seemed to have said so .
The woman Ruyue has a good destiny and is destined to be a prosperous master.
I didn't really believe this before, so I sent her to work for Jasmine.
Now it seems that she is doing well in the new system. She is also lucky enough to be appreciated by Julie and become the accountant of the market town.
From a mortal's perspective, this is considered a meteoric rise.
Sure enough, people with ability can succeed anywhere.
"Liu Bao has a treasure, which should be a very secret matter. How did you know about it?"
He followed Ruyue through several courtyards and came to the wooden corridor of the artificial lake. In front was a garden, and in the shadows he could see a quiet courtyard.
Jiang Xia asked casually as they walked.
Ruyue, who was leading the way, had a changed expression. She felt a little ashamed and angry, but it was hard for her to speak. Her face changed several times. Finally, she bit her lip and chose to tell the truth.
"At that time, Liu Bao had just forcibly redeemed me.
That man was a second-generation rich man who loved to play with prostitutes like me. Before me, three or four famous courtesans in the county town had been killed by Liu Bao.
Those sisters were tortured in every way and committed suicide because they could not bear the humiliation.
My mother told me to run quickly.
Unfortunately, I was a weak woman, no match for the evil servants of the Liu family. Before I even left the county town, I was kidnapped and sent to Liu Bao's courtyard. He was going to deal with me that very night.
But it seemed like something was wrong, and I was severely scolded and put under house arrest by his elder brother Liu Ruyi, which saved me from the disaster.
At that time, I was trapped in this garden.
He was helpless and miserable. Later, when I was drinking with him, I heard him talking about you, the boss. He was so angry that he gnashed his teeth and said he would teach you a lesson.
I couldn't escape that night.
But Liu Bao suddenly left the city, and I was stripped naked and tied up in the courtyard, waiting for him to come back and deal with me. But I vaguely heard Liu Bao talking with others in the room.
What about using immortal money to buy and sell goods.
He also said he was picking up the goods from the deserted mountains outside the city, but he was clearly the only one in the room."
At this point, Ruyue stopped, turned around and put down the lantern, straightened her clothes and hair, bent her slender waist, knelt on the ground, and said to Jiang Xia very sincerely:
"Liu Bao left that night and never came back.
Later I heard that he died outside the city. I didn't know that before and just thought I was lucky. A few days ago, I accidentally heard Miss Jasmine talking about it, and then I learned that it was you, the boss, who punished the evil Liu Bao that night.
The boss may have acted unintentionally, but he definitely saved my life and preserved my innocence. I have never thanked him before.
This is a life-saving grace.
I am now dying, and I have no way to repay you."
"There is such a thing?"
Jiang Xia also didn't expect that Liu Bao's death that night could be related to Ruyue. He smiled, lamented the unpredictable fate, and reached out to help Ruyue up.
Seeing tears in the woman's eyes, I knew that her gratitude was truly from the heart.
The bad impression in my mind that Ruyue had previously offered herself to me and was not at all decent was also largely eliminated.
Jiang Xia likes beautiful women, and he is also a man.
But he doesn't like women who show off their beauty. To put it simply, he doesn't like vases who use their beauty to please people, and he doesn't like women who have good bodies but no brains and only cause trouble.
That kind of beauty is the real disaster.
The ultimate beauty needs to be accompanied by wisdom, otherwise it is just an empty shell.
"So, are you sure that Liu Bao's treasure is in this courtyard?"
Jiang Xia asked.
Kisaragi nodded, wiped her eyes with her long sleeves, picked up the lantern again, continued to lead the way, and said:
"After being kidnapped by Liu Bao, I have been living in this courtyard. I also know some of Liu Bao's quirks. He would go out every few days and come back without bringing anything, but with a smile on his face.
No one is ever allowed to enter his house.
He said that he hid a lot of treasures. When I was drinking with him, I also heard him say when he was drunk that he had some immortal friends and he might be able to become an immortal in the future. "
"For a person like him, any cultivator with a little bit of ambition would not get close to him. He is really ambitious but incompetent, and his heart is higher than the sky."
Jiang Xia shook his head and said.
He followed Ruyue into the small courtyard. The house in front of them had naturally been searched by Lao Si before, but Lao Si found nothing after searching the ground for three feet.
This shows that Liu Bao hid those fun things very deeply.
In the dark night, Jiang Xia's left eye pupil shrank once. He walked into the room, stretched out his left hand hidden by his sleeve, placed it on the wall, and the detection module of the prosthesis started.
Sound waves, similar to the principle of sonar, are transmitted into the wall.
Soon, the structure of the entire room was calculated by the chip and shaped into a three-dimensional image, with every inch of the room taken into account, including the furniture.
Ruyue was standing nearby, and she saw Jiang Xia’s hands pressed against the wall.
Those five precise metal fingers looked extremely creepy in the dim candlelight, causing Ruyue's eyes to show a hint of fear, but this time she clenched her teeth and dared not utter a word.
Afraid of disturbing Jiang Xia from performing his "secret technique".
The boss is indeed an extraordinary person.
She thought so.
"There's a secret cabinet!"
After a few seconds, Jiang Xia's eyes lit up.
He withdrew his left hand, strode to the desk in the room, roughly pulled out several drawers, threw them aside, then reached out his hand and fumbled in the third drawer of the desk.
"Stand back a little."
He said something to Ruyue, and the woman immediately stepped back. She saw a silver-gray arm knife that looked like a mantis's forelimb pop out from Jiang Xia's left arm with a swish.
With a low buzzing sound, as Jiang Xia swung his left arm, the entire lower part of the heavy desk was cut open by the knife.
The cut is smooth and wood chips fly everywhere.
Lao Jiang reached out his hand, grabbed something, and pulled it gently.
As he opened his left hand again, a strange stone appeared in the palm of the metal mechanical hand.
"Communication Stone?"
Jiang Xia looked at this thing with strange eyes. This thing was very similar to the communication stone that Martishu had given him before, but the thing in front of him was a little weird.
There are not just simple talismans on it, but the entire stone is engraved with talismans.
It is more than ten times more complicated than an ordinary communication stone.
There is no stamp of Mo Shuang Shan under the stone, which proves that this thing is not a standard product of Mo Shuang Shan, but must have been made by other people or other forces.
“Interesting.”
Jiang Xia pursed his lips, pulled out a chair and sat there, ignoring Ruyue who was holding a light in front of him. Tonight, this girl had proved her worth and loyalty.
She doesn't have a chip.
But he is also a trustworthy person.
"Mr. Crow's face reading skills are amazing.
It is said that Ruyue has a prosperous destiny. As a result, this charming woman, who had just become my official employee, gave me such a gift.
I just don't know where this message stone leads to."
Lao Jiang thought to himself.
If Ruyue's fate as a "lucky master" is really that powerful, then it would be a bit of a waste to let her go out and become an accountant in the mortal world.
But Jiang Xia doesn’t have a good idea of ​​how to arrange her.
"Find a chair and sit down. No matter what happens, don't make any noise."
Lao Jiang played with the communication stone in his hand and gave Ruyue some instructions.
"oh."
When Ruyue saw that her boss had really found something, she felt relieved. She had said before that Liu Bao had hidden treasures, but in fact she was not sure in her heart.
The reason I told Jiang Xia about this was not because I had any intention of charming him.
It's more about wanting to repay a favor.
Now seeing that the boss had important things to do, he didn't disturb him. He turned around, moved a chair, sat in the corner of the room, and looked at the boss and the stone in his hand curiously.
She was actually very curious about what Liu Bao was going to do with this treasure.
Jiang Xia stared at the stone in his hand and recalled the confrontation with Liu Bao the night before.
"Silly Monster Liu Hui said that it was captured by a group of weird people on the edge of the northern border and sold as merchandise, and Liu Bao bought it by mistake.
But it is very difficult for mortals to come into contact with monsters.
Not to mention trading.”
Lao Jiang stroked the communication stone in his hand, and an idea came to his mind.
“Perhaps, Liu Bao bought Liu Hui through this, intending to use her as a trump card, but was cheated by a profiteer.
However, he dared to withstand the pressure from the Immortal Alliance and did not ask the identity of the buyer, so he casually bought and sold the monsters of the Monster General Realm. The person on the other side must be a person with great power and eyes. "
Jiang Xia narrowed his eyes, hesitating a little. After a few minutes, he activated the chip communication and said:
"Jasmine, are you asleep?"
"Uh, I just fell asleep. What's wrong, boss?"
Jasmine's voice was weak, and contained a faint anger at being disturbed in her sleep.
"You will do the 'employee onboarding' for Kisaragi tomorrow."
Jiang Xia played with the communication token in his hand and said:
"Don't use the Striver chip, just give her the six-slot chip."
"Um?"
Jasmine suddenly woke up. She was silent for a few seconds and asked in a strange tone:
"Boss, we don't have many six-slot chips left. Are you just going to give them to Ruyue? When did you think so highly of her?
Could it be that between you…"
"Don't think too much."
Jiang Xia said:
"She has proven her ability to me, she has demonstrated her loyalty, Julie thinks very highly of her, and she is clearly the type of person we need."
Jasmine didn't answer for a long time.
Nearly a minute later, the wasteland girl said curiously and confidently:
"Boss, you must have slept with her, right? After all, Ruyue is so beautiful, has such a good figure, and is so gentle..."
"No."
Jiang Xia looked at the communication stone in his hand and said seriously:
"Kira has a quality that is very beneficial to us. She is a real 'lucky cat'. She is worth my attention. Believe me, she is worth it."