Traveling through ancient times: starting with live streaming

Zhou Chang woke up again and was frightened by the big face above his head and broke out in a cold sweat.

Last night, Tao Niang's face appeared repeatedly in my dreams.

Unexpectedly, early in the morning, no, it appeared in front of me again at noon.

"What time is it now?" Zhou Chang rubbed his eyes and sat up.

Tao Niang pinched her waist and squinted her eyes, lowering her voice: "Did you steal something?"

Zhou Chang's goose bumps had not yet subsided, but suddenly they were upgraded to goose bumps: "What, what do you mean?"

Tao Niang ignored her and started walking around the room.

Zhou Chang got up from his bed with a guilty conscience and poured himself a cup of overnight tea. He looked out the window and saw that the sun was already high in the sky.

"Hey," Tao Niang turned around twice and suddenly felt strange, "Why are the things in your room getting less instead of more? Were they stolen too?"

See less?

Of course.

Zhou Chang had no intention of being polite to a pervert like You Zhongyou. In the past few days, he even "live-streamed and sold goods" to the air, and sold all the small items in You Zhongyou's house.

Not worth a few commissions, but better than nothing.

"What do you mean by 'also'? Who lost the thing?" Zhou Chang asked knowingly.

"Whom?" Tao Niang pinched her waist and turned her mouth away. "It's all of them. All the girls, including me, were stolen last night."

"Ah?" Zhou Chang drank two sips of the remaining tea before expressing his surprise, "What was lost?"

Tao Niang was furious and pinched her waist again: "That thief must be a dirty guy, he only steals women's underwear, but never sees anything lost by men."

"Ah, cough cough..., is that so? That's disgusting enough." Zhou Chang forced You Zhongyou's eyes to move away from the "pair of ups and downs" opposite him, and then cursed him neither lightly nor heavily.

"The whole Yaoyuefang has gone crazy now. Everyone is looking for the person who did this dirty thing. No one has left the house in the past few days. The thief must be among us." Tao Niang sat down at the round table and poured herself a cup of overnight tea. She looked down and decided not to drink it. "Is this tea from yesterday?"

"How can we be sure that it was done by our people? Could it be an outsider?" Zhou Chang wanted to mislead, "Everyone was drunk last night, maybe an outsider took advantage of the situation and broke in..."

"Outsider? Which thief would go to such lengths to steal several large bags of women's underwear and shoes and socks, but not steal money and jewelry?" Tao Niang was not completely confused even when she was drunk, and now that she is sober, her thoughts are even clearer.

Zhou Chang thought to himself that he had made a mistake and that it was due to his lack of experience. In order not to arouse suspicion, he should have taken a broad approach and stolen a little bit of everything.

As for why the customers in this dimension don't place orders for Kabuki's jewelry, it is probably because they don't think highly of it. No matter how glamorous they appear to be, how much can the jewelry on them be worth? Most of them would rather save it for when they are old and no one cares about them anymore.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chang felt that it was right not to take their money and valuable jewelry.

"What you said makes sense," Zhou Chang said, but saw Tao Niang staring at her with her peach blossom eyes. "Hey, that's not right. You came to me so early in the morning, no, in the middle of the day. Are you suspicious of me?"

Tao Niang raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't think I'll forget just because I'm drunk. I remember you came out of Handan's room last night, and you were holding something in your hand. It must be her underwear, right?"

Haha, I did remember it, but unfortunately I didn’t remember it accurately.

Zhou Chang said calmly: "It's not true. Don't show off. If you don't believe me, you can look for it from me. If you find it, I will take your surname and work like a slave for you for the rest of my life."

"Tsk," Tao Niang smiled nonchalantly, "I don't know what kind of person you are. You definitely didn't lose so many things. You have the heart to steal, but you don't have the guts to do it. But if you took advantage of the chaos and stole something that a girl has been coveting for a long time..."

"Then what are you doing here?" Zhou Chang interrupted her guessing.

"Are you still asking me?" Tao Niang immediately changed her expression to a coquettish one. "Why did you leave last night? Didn't you say you would accompany me?"

"Ahem, I drank too much last night and have a headache. I'm not feeling well either." Zhou Chang could still come up with such perfunctory words.

Tao Niang didn't mean to pursue the matter seriously: "Forget it, do you think I really care about you? But the front building is in a mess now, the first and second managers are not here, so the third manager can only bring people to search the whole building. I just came to your place to hide away in peace and quiet."

Zhou Chang could understand a little from the memories of Li Caifeng and You Zhongyou.

I don’t know how it is in other places, but the shopkeeper and manager of Yaoyuefang can be understood as two kinds of division of labor, external and internal.

The three shopkeepers are responsible for greeting guests and building relationships, while the two managers are mainly responsible for internal management, internal communication, account settlement, etc.

Now that the first and second managers have been locked up in the Ministry of Justice, the third manager will be the only one to take charge of this internal thief incident.

"Ah, it's such a mess, and no one has had breakfast yet." Tao Niang was probably hungry. There was only tea from the previous night in front of her, and she could only force herself to drink a sip. "Who knows, they might search you soon. Why don't we hide in the kitchen?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard hurried footsteps outside.

Before he even entered the door, a voice called out from outside: "Second Shopkeeper, the young master is here, and the first shopkeeper wants you to come over quickly."

"Young Master?" Zhou Chang stood up suddenly. Did he mean that Miss Yuan was here?

"Okay, I'll go right away." Before he finished speaking, he had already stepped to the door.

"Hey, wait for me." Tao Niang also hurriedly got up and followed.

Zhou Chang hurried to the front building.

As I entered the first floor hall from the side door, the smell of last night's wine mixed with perfume and leftover food had not yet dissipated.

Miss Yuan, dressed in a sky-blue silk dress and a gauze hat that covered most of her body, was already standing at the entrance.

Following behind her was the chief steward He Xihe, whom she had met in the Ministry of Justice prison that day.

On the other side behind Yuan Qi, there were dozens more women with tattered clothes and dishevelled hair and faces.

Zhou Chang recognized at a glance that the person closest to Miss Yuan was the head clerk Li with a long horse face.

Her hair was still neat and she had changed back into her own clothes, but her face was haggard and her eyes were a little dazed. She stood there with her head slightly lowered.

Behind Manager Li were several middle-aged men, all of them also listless and in tattered clothes. One of them should be the head manager Cao Rong, and the others were his attendants.

Zhou Chang was not interested in using You Zhongyou's memory to recognize people one by one, so she only looked for familiar faces among the group of Kabuki girls under Li Zhangshi.

After a quick look, he saw Liu E's pretty face, but didn't find Yang Jiao.

How about delicate?

Until now, Zhou Chang still has no memory of her delicate appearance.

Even though her first identity when she traveled through time was Xiqiao, she didn't know what she looked like.

Finally, she saw a thin figure with half of its head exposed behind Manager Li.

The girl pressed herself closely against Master Li's lower body, with her chest hunched and her head lowered, her face almost touching her chest, making it impossible to see her appearance clearly.

Zhou Chang was not sure, but it was indeed more slender and delicate than she had imagined. "I have very little material possessions and sleep a lot, because I have everything in my dreams."