"This, this..." Baldy Liu awkwardly explained.
"Indeed, this item wasn’t given to by an old friend. Let be honest with you, it was given to by a mistress I keep outside."
"Mistress?"
Baldy Liu said with difficulty.
"I had a wife before, but my enemy killed her. After that, I dared not marry or have children. I kept a lover, who has been with for so years now. She gave this necklace not long ago."
"Oh?"
Zhang Xiaoshan said with a hint of doubt.
"Aren’t you treating your lover not so well? Maybe she wants to retaliate?"
"Or perhaps your little mistress is keeping a lover outside, too, looking to get rid of you?"
"No, no, no, that’s not possible."
Baldy Liu rejected Zhang Xiaoshan’s guesses without hesitation
and proceeded to explain,
"My lover is a country girl from the hills, not well-off. Her parents are both sick, and I have been helping her family out. She’s quite grateful and even bore a child. By rights, she shouldn’t harm ."
"I called her last night to ask, and she said it was just sothing she picked up while shopping at an antique shop one day."
"That must be a coincidence."
"Coincidence?"
Zhang Xiaoshan narrowed his eyes.
This necklace was no simple trinket—could it really be sothing you’d find in an antique shop just like that?
It was either a set-up against Baldy Liu’s lover, or that woman was lying.
As for a coincidence, that was utterly impossible.
"Right, you just ntioned that you called her. You don’t live together?" Zhang Xiaoshan picked up on an essential point.
Without thinking too much, Baldy Liu nodded imdiately.
"Right, to prevent any danger to her and the child, I secretly keep them in the city and visit once or twice a month."
Having heard this, Zhang Xiaoshan had figured it out.
Without a doubt, Baldy Liu had likely been cuckolded, and it was quite possible the child wasn’t his.
Of course, this was just Zhang Xiaoshan’s preliminary guess.
"How about this, could you arrange a eting for with your lover?"
"et? Why do you want to et her? If you’re lacking a woman, I can find a few more young and beautiful ones for you," Baldy Liu said, his expressions showing trace of anxiety;
"Bullshit."
Zhang Xiaoshan knew exactly what Baldy Liu was thinking and bluntly exposed it.
"What do you take for, Zhang Xiaoshan? She has a child with you, would I make advances on her?"
"Let tell you the truth, this necklace isn’t sothing anyone can make. If it ended up in your hands, I can assure you, it’s no accident—it’s definitely soone trying to harm you."
"You better pray your lover is not in on it. If she’s colluding with soone to entrap you, you won’t even know how you died."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, Baldy Liu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground.
"Master Zhang, please, save , I..."
"I’m entrusting you with my life now."
’Alright, now that I’ve revealed it to you, of course, I’ll help you. But don’t directly confront your lover with this sensitive information, lest you startle the snake. Try to test her subtly, and find an excuse to let et her."
"Alright, alright, you can rest assured, I will arrange it as soon as possible."
Baldy Liu promised hastily, joking aside, if there were any issue with his closest companion, wouldn’t that be like strapping a ti bomb to his own waist?
"Alright, that settles it, I have other matters to attend to, so I’ll take my leave now."
Having finished explaining things, Zhang Xiaoshan drove away from Sea Dragon KTV.
He was supposed to head back to White Dragon Village, but seeing the nearly a million in cash obtained from Wang Xiaolong’s step-mother in the luggage compartnt, and feeling the five million check given to him by Lin Yanran,
he decided to go to the bank and deposit all the money in his na before heading back.
It was about an hour from noon at this ti.
There were still quite a few custors waiting for service in the Xinhe Business Hall.
However, many of the tellers had already left.
Only one window was still serving, and a long line had ford in front of it.
"Okay, everyone can go back now, co back at two-thirty, we are going to have our lunch break now," announced the only woman teller suddenly.
The queue of people waiting to be served imdiately objected.
"What’s going on? It’s only eleven fifteen, there is still forty to fifty minutes to closing ti. We’ve been lining up for a long ti, this is too irresponsible of you,"
The one at the front of the line was a young girl in a blue school uniform.
The girl, gazing at the teller packing up her things, said plaintively,
"Sister, my dad is waiting for the money to buy dicine, I’m in a hurry to withdraw money, can you help ?"
She cautiously handed over a bank card.
The female teller said impatiently,
"Withdrawal? You can use the ATM for that, we don’t process withdrawals here."
The school uniform girl imdiately beca anxious and tears flowed,
speaking in a soft, self-deprecating voice,
"I, I only have just over ninety yuan in my account, I can’t withdraw from the ATM..."
"Hahaha, just over ninety yuan?"
Upon hearing this, the teller was firstly stunned, then burst into laughter.
"Thinking of buying dicine with just over ninety yuan? Haven’t you heard? Poverty can’t cure illness."
"Whimper..."
Xu Xiaong, dressed modestly, didn’t dare to retort, bowing her head, silently crying.
"Get lost, get lost, you little pauper; don’t delay my leaving work."
The teller provoked Xu Xiaong, urging her to leave disdainfully.
Feeling profoundly aggrieved, yet being accustod to being mistreated,
she silently wiped the tears at the corner of her eyes and tried to pick up her card from the counter to leave.
"Repeat that for ?"
Suddenly, an angry voice resonated in the hall.
The self-deprecating Xu Xiaong looked up at the man who suddenly appeared beside her, first bewildered, and then quickly grabbed the man’s arm, sobbing into his chest.
"Brother Little Shan."
A soft call filled with boundless grievances.
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