pastoral fragrance

Chapter 154 The Thief Who Steals Money
After a day of going to the market, the rouge powder in the shop has been sold out.The Qiuyue sisters didn't plan to sell the rest of everything, so they brought two boxes to the eldest aunt, and the remaining few bottles were given to the aunts who had made friends with her family after returning to the village.After everyone had eaten, the last thing they were interested in now was counting silver.A few girls sat around on the bed, staring at the bright silver on the bed with flooded eyes, the little ones jumped up and down like a cat seeing a mouse, their faces were full of excitement !

"How much!" After Qiuyue finished counting, everyone couldn't help asking.Adding the money earned yesterday, there should be about 200 taels, right?
Qiuyue didn't answer, but counted again carefully, and after confirming that it was correct, she replied: "The total is 160 and eight taels of silver, plus yesterday's 95 taels, the total is 260 and three taels of silver." Qiuyue looked happy, so Calculated, it only cost more than 200 taels of silver for my family to buy this shop.If it wasn't for Qiu Lin's words that turned the situation around, such a big bargain would never have fallen to their home.Qiuyue was so happy!
Mei Xiang and the others also became happy. These rouge and gouaches are really profitable. In just two days, they have made so much money. More than 200 taels of silver, where have they seen so much white money?

Qiuyue distributed a set of money and gave Mei Xiang and the others ten taels of silver each. Everyone was about to shirk, but they heard Qiuyue say: "You have worked hard these two days, you take the money, you deserve it, hurry up tomorrow!" Maybe this shop can be rented out, and then we can go back to the village."

"But……"

"Don't worry about it, if you keep going down, you will feel that the money is too small." Qiulin pouted pretending to be displeased, "Okay, since the elder sister gave it to you, you can accept it, come here quickly to soak your feet , I’ll give you a lot of hot water.” After this morning, there should be no one among you who doesn’t want to soak your feet, right?

Sure enough, these girls collected the money and rushed over to soak their feet.There are a lot more people coming to the shop today than yesterday, and the girls are all slobbering dry, and their feet are swollen from standing for a long time. Seeing the benefits of soaking feet this morning, they are naturally scrambling came up.

Everyone soaked their feet in hot water, and the soreness in their feet seemed to be less severe, and it was indeed much more comfortable than before.After soaking their feet, everyone went to bed to rest. The past two days have been exhausting, but they will be freed soon. When the shop is rented out tomorrow and the contract is signed, everyone can go home up.

Seeing that everyone was asleep, Qiuyue turned over and blew out a dim kerosene lamp on the desk, and the surroundings fell into darkness.Qiuyue slowly retracted her body, opened her eyes to watch the moonlight pouring down from the window, squeezed the key tightly in her hand, and with a sweet smile on her mouth, she closed her eyes contentedly.Although I was so busy these two days that I felt dizzy, I finally gained a lot.In the blink of an eye, 200 taels of silver are in hand, even if you are busy, you are willing to die!
After nightfall, the other girls were also half dead from exhaustion, lying on the bed and sleeping very deeply, listening to the long and short breathing, it is estimated that even the thunder could not wake them up.

At this moment, the girl lying on the bed, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly opened her eyes. In the dark night, those eyes were particularly bright.She looked around, and saw that these girls were all sound asleep, snoring up and down, and it was estimated that they would not wake up in a short time.She tiptoed up, carefully avoiding the bodies of the girls, and got off the bed through the gap.She breathed a sigh of relief when her feet touched the ground, and she didn't dare to put on her shoes, so she lowered her body with bare feet and stared at Qiuyue who was sleeping outside.

Qiuyue closed her eyes tightly and slept peacefully.Nervously, the man turned his hand into a palm and shook it slightly in front of Qiuyue's eyes.With the help of the moonlight shining into the house, she could only look at the sleeping Qiuyue without even twitching her eyelids.After making sure that Qiuyue would not wake up, the man was also slightly relieved.Tiptoely, she lifted the quilt covering Qiuyue's body bit by bit, and when she lifted it for a little bit, she saw Qiuyue's hand, which was holding a key, which was the key that opened Qiuyue's deposit of silver. The key to the big wooden box.

Seeing this, the thief stared, and his whole heart was beating endlessly, as if it was about to jump out of his heart.

After trying to calm down for a long time, he finally suppressed the throbbing in his heart.She slowly stretched out her hand, and touched the key that Qiuyue was holding tightly in her hand little by little.I don't know whether it was because of fear or nervousness, but the closer the hand got to the key, the more trembling it became.

Her hand finally came close to the key that had already been warmed by Qiuyue. In the darkness, the man's eyes were fixed on the key that was still in Qiuyue's hand, and his heart was already in his throat. Son.She mustered all the courage in her body, squeezed the key, and channeled her strength between her two fingers, trying to slowly pull the key from Qiuyue's hand.

Who would have thought that when she exerted such force, Qiuyue, who was still sleeping soundly, suddenly opened her eyes, tightly clutching the key in her hand. At this moment, her sleepiness disappeared completely, and her eyes stared at the shadow in front of her eyes lingeringly. , the sound is as deep as water. "Who are you?"

The thief never expected that the key he was going to get was because of this one step away.She turned around in a panic and started to run.But Qiuyue grabbed her tightly, opened her mouth fiercely and bit her arm.The thief was in pain and almost screamed out.Gritting his teeth tightly, he used all his strength to punch Qiuyue with a fist. After the punch, he seemed to feel that it was not enough, so he kicked again.

Qiuyue was caught off guard and was almost kicked in the face by that person. When she regained her composure, there was still no shadow of that shadow in the room, and it had already disappeared without a trace.

After this commotion, the rest of the people were also woken up, but they all didn't know what happened, so they got up from the bed reluctantly, chattering and chattering: "What happened, do you want someone to sleep?" gone?"

Qiuyue got out of bed quickly, and she didn't even care to put on her shoes, "I've been robbed, I'll go light the lamp and see who is missing here!" Judging from the fight with that person just now, this thief is not strong, and the skin on his wrist is delicate. It must be a woman.So the thief is likely to be among them, and when the lights are turned on and people can be seen clearly, then the truth will be revealed!
"Ha, these little beauties are staying up so late, do you want our brothers to come and accompany you? Haha, you are so self-aware!" In the darkness, Qiuyue didn't touch the torch used to light the fire, but touched one. A rough hand.In line with the man's wanton smile, Qiuyue was not scared to death, and quickly shrank back on the bed with her body hugged.

(End of this chapter)