Chapter 1933: Chapter 1940: Clever Little Son (2)
At once, she called a palace maid and instructed, “You, go to the Imperial dical Institute imdiately and help invite a gynecologist. Rember, invite the best gynecologist from your Qing Luo Kingdom.”
The palace maid acknowledged and hurried off to the Imperial dical Institute…
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In Nao’ao Village, Scarface was still drinking with the boss, flattering him while drinking, “Boss, the girls we got today are all quite pretty. I don’t have a wife yet. How about keeping one for as a wife!” Thinking of the few standout girls hidden at ho, Scarface felt a heat in his belly and laughed obscenely.
“These girls are all people from the Capital. Your ho is close to the Capital. If you marry them, they might just run back anyti, and then just because of your pants, our brothers might lose their heads!” The boss said coldly, after drinking a cup of liquor.
“The boss is right. After this trip, when we have silver, what kind of girl can’t we get?” Scarface’s old lady echoed the boss, and seeing the boss’s cup was empty, hurriedly filled it for him again.
The room was bustling, but a tall and thin middle-aged man lifted the curtain and ca in. His eyebrows and eyes were shrewd-looking, known as the smartest military advisor among them, referred to in Jianghu as the White-Faced Fox.
Among these people, only he was from a prestigious family. Unfortunately, his ancestors were executed along with the entire house for supporting Wanyan Honglie’s usurpation when the Retired Emperor ascended the throne. Luckily, he escaped, and to make a living, he hid his identity and followed a group of Jianghu outlaws, engaging in the business of human trafficking.
He took a few steps to the boss’s side. Seeing his solemn expression and furrowed brows, the boss couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart as he put down the wine bowl.
“Boss, co out for a mont.”
The White-Faced Fox whispered, made a casual joke with Scarface and his mother, then turned and left the room, with the boss getting up to follow.
Outside the house, the White-Faced Fox took out a delicate jade necklace from his sleeve and carefully presented it to the boss without saying much.
The boss took the jade necklace and looked at it closely under the moonlight, involuntarily sucking in a breath of cold air, his expression turning grave as he caressed the necklace, saying, “This must be top-quality jade. This sparkling and translucent luster, delicate and smooth, as white as congealed fat, and the carving is exquisite and lifelike. This necklace alone must be worth several thousand taels of silver, right?”
Though the boss never really had the chance to handle such exquisite jade, he did have so discernnt, and even if he didn’t truly understand, he could tell the jade in his hand was no ordinary item. He broke into a slight sweat and his expression beca even more serious.
Their line of work ant their heads were always hanging by their waistbands, never knowing when they might have to move, so they had to be cautious to the utmost.
The children of noble families, they wouldn’t dare touch even if they were beaten to death. But ordinary people’s children, often thin and yellow, or rough-looking, couldn’t fetch much money. So usually, they targeted children from small wealthy rchant families.
That’s why they acted on the second day of the bartering festival, as it was mostly mid-to-upper-class families trading on that day. But this jade necklace, it was definitely not sothing a child from a mid-upper-class family could afford.
Could it be they’ve provoked people they shouldn’t have?
The boss thought, unconsciously tightening his grip on the jade necklace, and said, “Isn’t it the child Scarface’s old lady brought back, the one that had it on their neck?”
This ti, the child they brought back seed extraordinary. Without even ntioning the appearance, just from a distance, the kid’s attire, aura, and clothing didn’t seem typical.
When they spotted those two kids at the market, he hesitated. But the kids were truly eye-catching, such rare goods. At that ti, the two kids were being held by their dad and mom, with not a single servant by their side. He hesitated repeatedly, unable to resist the lure of such plump sheep, especially since the child’s mother was the one who handed the child to them, so he brought one back.
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