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Chapter 5 Caught a thief

In previous years, when General Feng Gao comes back, there will definitely be no shortage of greetings and invitations that day.

However, every time, General Gao refused one by one, closed the door of his house, and only had a simple family dinner with his family.

Later, the invitations gradually disappeared, and everyone silently chose not to disturb General Gao's reunion with his family.

Mrs. Gao was very happy and kept bringing food to General Gao, saying that she felt that he had lost a lot of weight.

The three brothers and sisters smiled at each other. After not seeing each other for a year, who can still remember how fat and thin they were before?

In fact, Gao Wenyan was the happiest one and took the initiative to toast several rounds of wine.

"Come on, brother. If you have wine today, you will get drunk today!"

As soon as the words came out, everyone laughed.

Gao Wenting poked her forehead and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, you have nothing to worry about!"

Gao Wenyan grinned and didn't explain anything.

After all, for them, the gap was only one year.

But for her, it transcended life and death.

The family gathered together, chatting and laughing, something she had not experienced for a long time after General Gao was placed under house arrest in the capital.

Late at night, Gao Wenyan went to the lotus pond to meet Bixi.

Bi Xi spent a whole day guarding the lotus pond, but naturally she didn't see anyone.

They hid in the dark and waited for a long time before they saw a servant sneaking up to the shore. Because the rowing boat was too conspicuous, he just rolled up his trousers and walked towards the pond.

He searched for a while before he found the thing, packed it carefully and walked back to the shore.

"who!"

Gao Wenyan shouted loudly, which alerted not only the guards at the house, but also him.

The man panicked and wanted to run away, but his feet were entangled in mud and he could not return to the shore in a short time.

Gao Wenyan stood in the pavilion and watched him fussing around, but he still didn't forget to throw the things in his hands into the pond.

After a while, the guards from the mansion arrived one after another, illuminating the entire lotus pond as bright as day.

When he was caught, he kept shouting: "Miss, spare your life! Miss, spare your life!"

"What are you doing secretly here?"

Perhaps seeing that things were about to turn around, he blinked and knelt down quickly.

"Slave... I saw that Miss dropped an earring in the pond during the day. I was greedy, so... I wanted to catch it in the dark of night so that I could sell it."

Bixi immediately scolded: "Nonsense! Miss, has she ever lost her earrings?"

"Then...that's why I saw it wrong in the daytime!"

He said, burying his head lower, looking extremely frightened.

When General Gao and others arrived, the person had already been taken down and locked up.

After roughly understanding the situation, they went back to their rooms to rest.

However, Gao Wenting stayed and asked her what was going on.

After everyone was dismissed, Gao Wenyan ordered Qingyu and Bixi to guard on both sides and not allow anyone to approach this area.

Qingyu is Gao Wenting's servant, and he is also very agile in doing things.

She pulled Gao Wenting to the boat and directed him to row along the route that the servant had taken. It didn't take long for her to find the bundle.

Gao Wenting was quite shocked: "This? What is this?"

"Shh, go back to your room first."

The brother and sister took the package back to the room and ordered someone to bring water.

After the mud was washed away, a long golden object was revealed, with some scales embedded on it, and the outlines of two dragons could be vaguely seen. "Yan'er, what is this?"

Gao Wenyan put it into the water and illuminated it from above with a candlelight. The water surface really looked like two dragons swimming.

She thought of the nursery rhyme again: "Twin dragons play with twin flowers."

The "Double Dragons" she had never seen with her own eyes in her previous life turned out to be like this.

"This...what the hell is going on here?"

"During the day, I went to the pond to pick the lotus root. I saw something golden underneath, and there was a golden light on the water. I felt it was not a good thing, so I pushed it back. Unexpectedly, I caught a thief at night."

Regardless of whether he believed it or not, Gao Wenyan explained it lightly.

The reason why she expected that person to deal with this thing was because the "Double Dragon" incident only happened once, and only once.

Double lotus, double dragon.

It was impossible for Gao Wenting not to realize what this meant.

So this is what she was confused about.

So why did the nursery rhyme appear three months later?What are they waiting for?
Gao Wenting couldn't help but pace back and forth, a little anxious: "I want to tell dad!"

"No! This matter can only be handled in a low-key manner. For the sake of a little thief who 'steals earrings', he doesn't have to disturb dad late at night."

She carefully put away the dragon eagle, turned around and said, "Let's go and see the thief."

To be on the safe side, they asked Qingyu to watch in the cell.

Qingyu saw them and came up to report: "I have checked, this person's name is Zhang Hai. He entered the mansion a year ago and is usually responsible for taking care of the flowers and plants in the mansion."

Zhang Hai's hands and feet were tied up, and his body was covered with wet mud, making him very miserable.

In order to prevent him from committing suicide, Qingyu stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth.But he obviously wanted to survive, otherwise he wouldn't have lied about looking for earrings.

When Gao Wenyan thought that he was the first to betray the Gao family, he immediately felt murderous intentions in his heart. He kicked Zhang Hai to the ground and without saying a word, he drew a knife and put it against his neck.

"After eating the Gao family's food for a year, why are you eating like this?"

Zhang Hai's eyes showed fear, and he shook his head wildly, twisting his body and trying to retreat.

Gao Wenyan stood up in disgust and ordered someone to take the cloth out of his mouth. He kept shouting: "Miss, please spare my life."

Gao Wenting couldn't help but stepped forward and kicked him, and spat: "You bastard! Why is it not 'Miss, please forgive me', but 'Miss, please forgive me'! It seems that you also know that you are committing a capital crime!"

After saying that, he glanced at Qingyu, and Qingyu stepped forward and beat Zhang Hai hard.

Zhang Hai was in pain. Seeing that he had no intention of stopping, he quickly said: "I said it, I said it!"

"Someone came to the slave a few days ago and said that he would give him 100 taels of gold as long as he put the lotus and wood into the pool the night before and took the wood back the next day."

He burst into tears and said again: "Little one, little one is really just greedy for money!"

"The man said that this would make his wife happy. When I heard it, it was not a sinful thing. My mother was seriously ill at home and it was time for me to use the money, so I agreed."

After saying that, Zhang Hai crawled over and hugged Gao Wenting's legs, crying: "Second Young Master! Second Young Master! Spare your life!"

Gao Wenyan's face darkened and he said harshly: "Qingyu, arrange for someone to tie up his mother too. Let's see if he will tell the truth then!"

She looked at Zhang Hai coldly and smiled cruelly.

She said: "The journey is long and the old man is ill. If he dies by accident, just find a place to bury him."

Gao Wenting was a little surprised after hearing what she said. He always felt that she was a little different from before.

Gao Wenyan had no time to pay attention to this. As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Hai came to kowtow to her again.

"Miss!"

He cried: "Please miss, please let my mother go!"

Without oil and salt, my family would have taken care of it long ago.

(End of this chapter)