Baiguo sat down on the kang with the bowl in his hand, squinted his eyes and nodded, watching Dabai and Baixue eating happily on the ground.

"They're not picky about food!"

Qu Jingyao raised her eyebrows. She had cooked the roe deer meat with spiritual spring water, and those two were not stupid.

Night falls quickly.

Qu Jingyao sat up at the second watch, and as soon as she stood up, Bai Guo also sat up.

"Master, I will go by myself."

Qu Jingyao shook her head and frowned, indicating that Baiguo should press the mother's sleeping point first.

Baiguo's movements were quick and decisive. After finishing all this, he nodded at her silently.

"Come on, I'll go with you. The Qu family has my father's things, and I want to go and get them myself."

The jade pendant that Liu mentioned when chatting with her, she found out from the original owner's memory that she had seen that jade pendant before, and she had seen it in the hands of Old Lady Xu, who had found an excuse to beat her up that time.

The original owner had never understood why Old Lady Xu was so nervous, but it turned out there was a reason.

The master and servant got off the kang, carefully groped their way out of the yard under the faint moonlight, and ran straight and quickly towards the Qu family.

In the dark night, a crescent moon hangs high in the sky, like a bright lamp.

The sound of dogs barking could be heard continuously in the distance.

Qu Jingyao and his servant soon arrived at the Qu family. Old Mrs. Xu in the main house had already fallen into a deep sleep, but at this moment a strange noise came from Qu Huaer's side room. Qu Jingyao curiously went forward and listened by the window, not forgetting to point his finger at Bai Guo to make a gesture of silence.

Baiguo nodded silently. When she heard the sound coming from inside, she instantly understood what was going on, but her master seemed unwilling to leave.

"Ouch! Be gentle, it really hurts me."

Qu Jingyao instantly recognized that this was Qu Huaer's voice, and moved closer to the window to identify it.

"Aunt, am I not too excited? You also know that it is easier for us to do things when we are in a good mood. Don't you also want to get pregnant as soon as possible?" The man laughed excitedly while speaking, followed by a series of blushing sounds.

Qu Jingyao didn't know who the man was, so she stopped worrying about it. She called out to Baiguo in front of the windows of Wu and her daughter and walked towards Old Lady Xu's room together.

"Go press her acupuncture points so I can find something."

As soon as he finished speaking, the master and servant acted separately. Seeing that Bai Guo had succeeded, Qu Jingyao began to search and grope around the house.

According to the original owner's memory, Qu Jingyao reached into the kang cabinet and really found a wooden box at the bottom of the cabinet.

"This old hag is quite cautious, she even has a lock."

Bai Guo took a look and asked her master if she wanted her to break the lock, but was stopped by Qu Jingyao. The noise was too loud and would alarm the people in other rooms, which would be troublesome!

"Squeak, squeak, that old hag of yours has the key hanging around her neck and carries it with her every day."

Qu Jingyao followed the sound to the corner of the wall and found a mouse there. However, because Bai Guo was there, she did not make a sound. She just quietly reached out her hand to her lips to signal the little mouse, unable to respond to it.

The little mouse was also smart. It squeaked twice again and ran away.

Qu Jingyao returned to the kang, sneered sarcastically at the sleeping old woman Xu, and reached out to touch her neck.

Soon Baiguo saw his master's eyes light up and a smile appeared on his lips.

Qu Jingyao took the copper key and inserted it into the lock of the wooden box. With a "click", the lock was actually opened.

A smile appeared on Baiguo's brows, reminding his master that there was no more noise in the side room, so he asked her to hurry as much as possible.

She looked out the window and nodded, then opened the wooden box, but there was nothing inside that she was looking for. There was only some loose silver and a deed to a piece of land. It seemed that Old Lady Xu had spent a lot of money because of the Wu family's affairs!

It is true that evil will be punished by evil.

Baiguo looked at the disappointed look on her master's face and frowned to remind her that this kind of wooden box was the cheapest sold outside, but also the most sought-after because it had a secret compartment!

Qu Jingyao tapped her forehead lightly. Why didn’t she think of it? Wasn’t that how TV dramas in her previous life played out?

She tried to find the secret compartment, turning it over and over again, and finally she found it. The compartment instantly appeared in front of her, and inside was a green jade bead. The rich color of the jade bead made it obvious that it was a good thing.

"Is this my father's jade pendant?" Qu Jingyao seemed to have all the doubts in her mind cleared up at this moment.

There was a word "Li" faintly engraved on the jade!

Bai Guo took a quick glance, and just this one glance made her extremely surprised.

"this......"

Qu Jingyao looked at Bai Guo who seemed to be hesitant to speak, her eyes fixed on the jade pendant in her hand. At this time, there was a noise coming from the next room, and Qu Jingyao made a gesture to Bai Guo to keep quiet.

"Bai Guo, let's go back and talk."

Qu Jingyao restored all the things to their original state. When the master and servant walked to the window of the west room, the voices of Wu and Qu Xiuxiu were heard.

"Mom, you mean that my aunt wants to make things fait accompli and rely on the Wu family after having the child..."

"Shh, keep your voice down, you little bitch. Aren't you afraid your grandma will beat you to death?"

Mrs. Wu covered her daughter's mouth and warned her nervously.

But they didn't expect that Qu Jingyao and her servant heard every word of it.

The master and servant looked at each other, and then heard from Wu's mother and daughter that Old Lady Xu had actually spent all the money in the family to bribe the people in the county government to release her two sons.

"Don't go against your grandma for the next two days. Your dad will be back in two days, and then..."

Mrs. Wu's voice became lower and lower. Qu Jingyao raised her eyebrows and nodded at Bai Guo. The two of them carefully left the Qu family's yard.

She did not go back directly, but brought Baiguo to the woods outside the courtyard.

Qu Jingyao stood under the tree and took out the jade pendant. In the moonlight, she asked Baiguo what he wanted to say after seeing this.

Bai Guo pondered for a moment and then said quietly, "Master, the family crest on this jade pendant seems to be the crest of the Li family, the former richest family in Yuan Shao State."

"Ah? You're not seeing things?"

Bai Guo shook his head firmly. When the Li family suddenly disappeared before, the master had ordered the secret guards to investigate.

Qu Jingyao was even more confused at this point. Could her father really be from the Li family? She had thought about the possibility that her father wasn't a child of the Qu family, but she had never considered his identity...

Could it be that mother also knows? Thinking of this, Qu Jingyao decided to test her mother when she went to the temple fair tomorrow.

She called out to Baiguo to go back and rest first and not to reveal this matter for the time being.

Baiguo nodded seriously.

The two of them returned to the courtyard and quickly lay down again. Dabai in the house saw that his master was fine, so he closed his eyelids again and lay down beside Baixue to continue sleeping.

Qu Jingyao, lying down, kept thinking about the Li family that Bai Guo mentioned. If her father was really a member of the Li family, she wondered if he had any relatives alive?

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