I am the villain in the book

Chapter 33: Xu Qingwan's Little Tricks for Accumulating Wealth

When Xu Qingwan stood in the dark room with a flushed face, she was simply stunned by the scene before her!

Several luminous pearls illuminated the entire room as if it were daytime. Rows of wooden shelves were filled with jade jewelry and famous paintings and calligraphy. Chests upon chests of gold and silver ingots were casually piled up on the side, reflecting a dazzling light.

This was simply a scene from a dream!

“This, this…”

Her small mouth slightly open, her breathing a little rapid, Xu Qingwan only felt that her eyes didn't know where to look.

Seeing her like this, Wei Changtian couldn't help but want to laugh.

This was his real purpose in bringing Xu Qingwan to the Zhang residence today.

Previously, he had asked Wang Er to investigate why Xu Qingwan needed money so much, thinking that this woman would have some noble motive, but the result was a complete surprise.

No parents seriously ill in bed, no siblings lacking money for schooling and martial arts, no poor people in need of help…

Nothing at all!

This woman was simply a money-grubber!

Wasn't that easy to deal with!

“Don't just stand there, this is the Zhang family's treasure vault, and it will be confiscated later.”

Wei Changtian urged, “Take whatever you fancy quickly, anyway, it's all ill-gotten wealth accumulated by Zhang Hongwen. Once this village is gone, there won't be such a shop!”

“I…”

Xu Qingwan was still standing there foolishly, but Wei Changtian no longer paid attention to her. After speaking, he went straight to the deepest part of the dark room.

He didn't care much for ordinary gold and silver jewelry, but there was one thing he was determined to get.

Pushing aside a pile of messy and precious medicinal herbs, something hanging alone on a sandalwood shelf finally came into view.

A soft armor!

The whole body was dark brown, with dense lines arranged meticulously. If you counted carefully, you would find that there were 1080 thin lines both horizontally and vertically.

Although it looked ordinary, Wei Changtian knew that this was the most valuable item in the entire Zhang residence.

The main material was taken from a ninety-year-old pangolin demon. Its scales were ground into powder, mixed with black iron and black gold stone, melted into liquid, and then tempered thousands of times to finally obtain these 2160 thin threads.

Even if an ordinary person wore it, defenses below the fourth rank would be useless!

Xiao Feng relied on this thing to save his life in the early stages!

Although Wei Changtian didn't think that Xiao Feng would really be killed by others without this soft armor, at least for himself, it was a great treasure!

With it, personal safety was guaranteed.

With it, he could act even more arrogantly.

With it, Mom would never have to worry about me again… Cough, wrong script.

The more Wei Changtian thought about it, the happier he became. He simply took off his clothes on the spot and put the soft armor on close to his body.

Good, it fit perfectly!

After putting on the Tiger Flood Dragon uniform again, he patted his chest contentedly, and then looked around with some regret.

What a pity.

The other things were also valuable treasures, but most of them were not suitable for carrying around.

And things like silver notes that needed to be processed by a bank naturally weren't here.

After all, it was too easy to leave traces, just like why corrupt officials in his previous life only hid cash and not passbooks or bank cards.

Wei Changtian didn't plan to come back to get them next time.

This place definitely couldn't be hidden for long. As long as the Suspended Mirror Division went back and interrogated the Zhang family, they would probably be able to find it.

Forget it, one shouldn't be too greedy, anyway, the goal had already been achieved.

He randomly grabbed a few exquisitely crafted pieces of jewelry and stuffed them into his arms before remembering that there was still Xu Qingwan.

After turning around, Wei Changtian finally found the woman at the entrance.

Wei Changtian was stunned, “Why didn't you take anything? Any one item here is enough for your salary for a year.”

“But, but this is stealing…”

It was rare for the usually cold Xu Qingwan to show such a struggling expression, which was enough to prove that she was really conflicted.

However, it seemed that her moral bottom line had prevailed for the time being.

“Then forget it.”

After looking at her for a while, Wei Changtian didn't try to persuade her again, “Let's go, if we don't go back, others will become suspicious.”

“Oh.”

Xu Qingwan responded, but didn't move her feet.

She looked at a box of gold ingots not far away and suddenly asked timidly, “Do, do you want to take another… no, two gold ingots?”

“??? ”

Wei Changtian turned his head back with a question mark on his face.

Wait, this woman wasn't willing to steal herself, but instead wanted me to steal more?

“I've already taken a lot, there's no room to put it.”

He replied with a strange expression, but Xu Qingwan was persistent, her beautiful eyes looking straight at him, the glistening eyes seemed to say—if you don't take it, I won't leave.

“…”

Wei Changtian was speechless for a while, hesitated, and then had to walk over and pick up two palm-sized gold ingots.

Uniform specifications, one was twenty taels, and two were forty taels.

According to the 1:10 exchange ratio between gold and silver in Da Ning, it was worth four hundred taels of silver.

“Okay, can we go now?”

Wei Changtian shook the gold ingots in front of Xu Qingwan, preparing to turn around and climb the wooden ladder.

But he was quickly stopped again.

“Wait, wait a moment.”

Xu Qingwan called out softly, and stretched out a small hand embarrassedly, “Give, give me the ingots.”

“What?”

Wei Changtian was instantly dumbfounded.

What was this operation?

“Why should I give them to you? If you want them, you can go get them yourself!”

“I said I don't steal things.”

“Then what are you doing? You don't want to steal, so you're just robbing me directly???”

“I'm not robbing…”

Xu Qingwan blushed and didn't dare to look at Wei Changtian, but gently pointed to the scabbard at her waist.

The cowhide scabbard was empty, because the willow leaf knife inside had just been taken by Wei Changtian to poke toads.

“You lost my knife.”

“This, this is the knife money you have to compensate me…”

Wei Changtian: “…”

Good fellow!

This money laundering operation, I admire it!

…

Wei Residence, midnight.

“Creak~”

The door opened gently, and Qiu Yun and Yuan'er, who were waiting in the hall for Wei Changtian to return, immediately stood up.

“Madam, why haven't you slept yet at this late hour?”

“I…”

Lu Jingyao shook her head and asked softly, “Has my husband not returned yet?”

“Hehe, so Madam is worried about the young master!”

Yuan'er smiled with her lips pursed, “Don't worry, before you married over, the young master used to come back very late every day, and there would be ten nights a month when he didn't return at all!”

“Ah? Then what did he do every night?”

“Of course he went to brothels…”

“Cough!”

Qiu Yun's cough came a little late, and by the time Yuan'er realized she had misspoke, Lu Jingyao's face had already changed.

Shame and sadness surged into her heart, and she didn't know what to say for a moment, so she could only spit softly, “Bah, lecher!”

“…”

Qiu Yun and Yuan'er looked at each other and didn't say anything.

Lu Jingyao could scold Wei Changtian, but they couldn't scold him no matter what.

Moreover, they didn't think the young master had done anything wrong.

Speaking of… isn't it normal for men to like to go to those kinds of places?

I will try my best to update three times a day from today, but don’t blame me if there are only two updates.