After talking about this issue, the female detective quickly became in a bad mood. She was no longer interested in following them and left in a hurry.
Zhou Paigu breathed a sigh of relief again.
"Why are you so nervous?"
Qiao Yan looked at him doubtfully.
"She...she has a sword, it's scary."
"There's nothing scary about holding a sword. You still hold it all the time."
"Uh... you don't know, this escort trip is really scary. Seven or eight people went out and I was the only one left. Isn't that scary enough!"
"Yeah····
Don't go to escorts anymore, just go to school with peace of mind. "
She meant it lightly, not knowing the pain of a heroic man being stumped by a penny.
You have to pay tuition to go to school, and his younger brother and sister are also in school. The money he takes home every month is not enough for the family's living expenses. His mother is just an ordinary woman, not very capable, and she has almost relied on him to support her in the past few years, barely surviving.
Now I can indeed breathe a sigh of relief, but the source of the money is unknown and cannot be seen at all, let alone any clues.
"I can't help it, it's not my destiny to be an official."
He sighed and shook his head helplessly.
Qiao Yan was a little unhappy and said, "My aunt sent a message from Wangcheng, saying that she has invited a great scholar to her house and wants me to study with her."
Her aunt married into a high-ranking official family in the royal city. She wanted to support the younger generations of her mother's family, or to make herself look good, so she urged the Qiao family's children to come over. The third young lady of the Qiao family has gone to practice immortality, the eldest son has already become a bodyguard, and the younger son is still young, so only Qiao Yan is suitable.
You have to go one at a time, and now Joni is gone...
These days, Qiao Yan was hesitant about this matter and felt a little unable to let go of this classmate.
If he is willing to study hard, he will have a good chance of getting into high school. I don't want this good story to end.
Although they are both sixteen or seventeen years old, girls are much more mature than boys at this age. Qiao Yan has long thought about her marriage, while Zhou Paigu has not considered such a thing at all.
Even though he was thinking about marrying a wife, he never considered Qiao Yan. They were not from the same world.
The story of the poor boy and the rich lady was just a legend in a book. I never thought that it would fall on me.
"A great scholar from the royal city? What a great opportunity!"
Zhou Paigu shouted in surprise. If he had such an opportunity, he would naturally seize it.
"How about you become a book boy with me?"
"This...my younger siblings are still young and need to be taken care of..."
He can't just slap his butt and leave like his father.
"As much as you can."
Qiao Yan became even more unhappy, shook off the sleeves he was holding, and left quickly.
Zhou Paigu is a little confused, how can he get angry so easily?
The tempers of these eldest ladies are indeed always unpredictable, and they are always unhappy. There is really nothing they can do about it.
He followed her outside the school, then turned around and went home.
His family rented a house in an alley not far from the school.
His father could actually be regarded as a capable person in their village. He did some small business and brought the family from the village to the county seat to enjoy the blessings. He was considered a great person in the village. And every child must be able to go to school and understand that reading and literacy can change their destiny.
His father was probably a salesman. He went to the county town to bring some things back to the county town to sell. The business got better and better, and it got bigger and bigger. He opened a shop, but he was robbed. Not only did he lose his capital, he also owed a lot of debt and hid out.
The house in my hometown was also occupied by creditors, and the family drifted into the city.
Zhou Paigu pushed the door open and saw the landlord chattering non-stop.
His mother hurriedly said: "Xiaozhou, the rent has arrived again. Have you paid your wages? The family doesn't have enough money."
The rent is not too much, five hundred cash a year.
His mother only had more than 100 pennies left, and she still had to feed the family, which was very confusing.
"It's gone."
He quickly took out a silver coin and handed it over, "I specially raised the money to pay the rent for two years."
"Your son has made his mark."
The landlord snatched away the silver coin, checked it for a while, and then left with satisfaction after confirming that it was not a fake.
His mother asked: "Xiaozhou, where did you get so much money?"
"The travel money I was given... is the hard-earned money when I went out as a escort. I was given a lot of money, and I paid it back for three years. It's really a lot."
He took out all the remaining eight silver coins and gave them to her, "Hide them. Don't let others know. Keep them at home for later use."
"That's great. Mom is worried about the money for your brother and sister's wedding. How much money will it take to buy clothes for each of you..."
"Let's make new clothes during the Chinese New Year. If we wear them now, creditors will come to our door, thinking that our family is rich."
"I haven't made clothes for you in three years..."
She sighed, "Okay, let's wait until the end of the year."
Zhou Paigu only had one gold coin and more than thirty coppers left on his body, so he went out to cut some meat. Waiting for his younger siblings to come back from school, the family closed the door and ate a meal of meat secretly.
Like a thief.
It is indeed a thief.
If you don't pay off your debts when you are rich, you will hide at home and eat meat. If your creditors find out, they will definitely come to make trouble.
The problem is, he has no idea how much money his father owes.
The exact amount of each creditor is also unclear.
Relatives are okay and won't push them to death. At least they will wait until they grow up and then look at the situation.
Some of the people his father had business contacts with were forced to repay their debts by shouting, shouting, and killing. It was not uncommon to bully orphans and widows and exaggerate the amount at random.
It was just a small bungalow, and everyone was crammed into it to eat, drink, and have sex. It was very crowded.
After dinner, he didn't want to stay home and squeeze in, so he returned to the escort agency.
This time, the room of the eighth team of Wuhu Escort Bureau was indeed quiet, and he was the only one left.
You can roll around on the bunk as you like.
He hesitated whether to leave the escort agency. The escort agency run by bandits was really disgusting.
Finding another job would be more comfortable than staying here...
No one will disturb you, and you can practice "Moon Tiger" with peace of mind.
He took out the porcelain bottle and planned to take another Spirit Gathering Pill to improve his cultivation level as soon as possible. I didn't want to open the stopper, but I was dumbfounded. More than a dozen pills inside were broken.
Crushed into powder and mixed together.
Pills are very valuable, so you have to handle them with care and try not to move them, as they may break if they are shaken around. But he never thought about this problem and wandered all the way back...
This time I was really dumbfounded. Something worth more than two hundred gold coins was in pieces.
Naturally, there is no way to take out the two Spirit Gathering Pills separately.
And if they are mixed together, can they still be eaten?
You can’t just throw it away, right?
In desperation, I had to pour some powder on my hand and eat a little to taste.
I can’t tell what the smell is, it just melts in my mouth and I don’t feel anything at all.
While he was hesitating, the door was suddenly kicked open. He was so frightened that he trembled all over. Thinking that the police were coming to arrest him, he put the elixir bottle to his mouth and sucked hard.
Let’s talk about destroying evidence...
Even if the elixir is broken into pieces, you will never be able to tell if you have the elixir in your hand.
There was nothing, just an empty bottle picked up on the roadside to play with, to fool him through.
