Chapter 544: Hidden Killing Intent (3)_1
Chen Ji moved swiftly. Just after Mrs. Du left the study, he had dispatched two groups of people. One group headed south to Liu Yang Village, thousands of miles away, to gather information about the father and daughter of the Mo Family and their four members; the other, while Mrs. Du wasn’t paying attention, quietly took away all the servants who had accompanied her out for questioning...
Mo Yan, who was busy moving a full chest of gold into Space, had no idea that her family had caught someone’s attention. Gazing at the valuable items already piled up in several chests beneath the Jade Table, she clapped her hands with satisfaction.
Besides a chest of gold, there were five medium-sized wooden chests next to it, filled with silver ingots weighing ten taels each. Most of these ingots were the earnings of the rice shop over the past nine months, with the remainder being dividends from Mu’s Shop, money from selling medicinal herbs and wild goods, and some leftover silver from selling vegetables after building a house, amounting to almost eight thousand taels in total.
The remaining chests, large and small, mostly contained treasures, rare furs, and some precious fabrics that were not in use, all of which were the annual gifts sent by Xiao Ruiyuan last year.
Initially, Mo Yan intended to return the city’s worth of annual gifts sent by Xiao Ruiyuan. Later, after she and Xiao Ruiyuan developed that kind of relationship, she mentioned him taking them back the next time they met.
However, Xiao Ruiyuan said nothing, simply staring at Mo Yan with those cold, piercing eyes. It was as if Mo Yan dared to mention it again, ice spikes could shoot out the next moment and pierce several holes in her, scaring Mo Yan into immediately closing her mouth. She truly didn’t have the courage to endure the severe consequences of provoking someone so overbearing!
But since she couldn’t return them and it didn’t feel right to explain to the straightforward Mo Qingze, nor did she want him to know about her relationship with Xiao Ruiyuan just yet, she hid everything in Space.