PAMPERED CONSORT OF THE FRAGRANCE ORCHARD.BOOK 1

Chapter 53. A Thief With No Return.

“Bang….”

The black shadow directly came to Du Xiao Li’s room and tripped on the stool placed by the door. The stool got knocked over, and the sound startled him. Sensing no movements from the person on the bed, he finally let out a long breath.

“Where did this girl place the money?” The person circled around the room, running into a few furnitures, to the point where his leg started to hurt from the impact. While grimacing in pain, he said, “Why is there so many things in this room!”

Du Xiao Li laid on the bed, watching that person’s every move in this room. This was a thief?! And was even the village’s Er laizi* who liked to steal.

(*T/N: Laizi is just slang for hoodlum or delinquent; I felt just calling him hoodlum Er sounded weird so left it in pinyin since they all call him that like a nickname. There’s a line about him back in chapter 47 that I mistranslated but have fixed now.)

Er laizi was called Du Quan, a thirty some year old bachelor, and also can be considered Du Fu* and the others relative separated by several twists and turns. This person normally likes doing things like stealing. Whenever he sees that a certain family’s gourd has matured, or a certain family’s corn can be eaten, he would go pick some when no one was looking. Occasionally, he would also go to the other villages and steal some chicken, duck, and whatnot. But unexpectedly, this time, he actually came to rob her house!

(*T/N: MC’s eldest uncle; Cui-shi’s husband; so technically this thief is kinda Du Xiao Li’s distantly related relative somehow.)

Perhaps because even after getting so many bruises, he still didn’t find the place where Du Xiao Li put the money, Er laizi couldn’t help taking out the match. In the instant it was lit, Du Xiao Li immediately shut her eyes. This was a perfect time to train her other senses.

Ever since she started training her inner energy, not only did her vision improve, her hearing and senses all elevated quite a bit. She’d asked Luo Qi before, and Luo Qi said this was a normal phenomenon.

Du Quan searched around the room once, but still didn’t find the money Du Xiao Li had gotten today from selling the tangerines. He looked again at the bed Du Xiao Li was sleeping on. When his gaze landed on the small satchel placed at the bedhead, his two eyes lit up. In the afternoon, he’d seen her put the money precisely inside this bag!

It was definitely in there! Du Quan carefully came to the bedside, preparing to reach into the bed to grab that bag, when Du Xiao Li suddenly opened her eyes, startling him. But before he could even react, he just felt his body go numb, and his entire person collapsed onto the bed.

Du Xiao Li, in the moment before Du Quan collapse, had the match in his hand s.n.a.t.c.hed over, and afterwards had him kicked off the bed. Then, she got down from the bed and lit up the lantern Leng Er brought over last time.

“Are you alright?” Luo Qi appeared at her doorway. Seeing the person on the ground, his handsome brows slightly frowned.

“I’m fine.” Du Xiao Li said. She knew that after Du Quan entered her room, Luo Qi had been standing guard outside the whole time. She lightly smiled, then came to Du Quan’s side and gave him a few kicks.

He actually even dared to steal her money!

If she really was just a child, encountering this kind of thing would definitely have scared her to death. Moreover, the money she’d gone to great lengths to earn would also have been stolen too.

“Actually dared to steal a child’s money!” Du Xiao Li felt that as long as he didn’t steal from her, she can pretend to not see. But unexpectedly, this time, he had his sights set on her.