Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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No one could have imagined that there was not just one white jade turtle this big, but a pair.
Zhang Zi and Zheng Yu each took one. The white jade turtle was too eye-catching, so after the two divided the loot, Zhang Zi did not dare to find someone to sell it to immediately but wrapped it in ashes and buried it under his bed.
He had a good plan. He had originally planned to wait for a while, find a reason to resign from the corpse recovery team, and then use the excuse of going to work in other places. He would then take the white jade turtle to other places to find someone to sell it. After a year or two, he would return home in glory under the guise of making a little money in business. No one would suspect that he had made a windfall.
But these crazy turtles completely disrupted his plans.
After learning that Zheng Yu had died, he panicked. He had originally planned to take care of his grandmother, then take the white jade turtle to another place, and then sell it as soon as possible at a low price. He didn’t believe that these turtles could still chase him to another place. But he never expected that these turtles would chase him back to his hometown.
When Jiang Lan and Ying Qiao arrived at Zhang Zi’s house, the turtles had already begun to get restless.
They flapped their paws frequently, and their small black eyes sparkled with an attractive light. Guan Shui and Captain Guan tried to comfort them.
But the turtles were just animals after all, and no matter how smart they were, their intellect was limited. It seemed that they could only understand some words related to the white jade turtle. No matter how much more was said, they couldn’t understand them and were not patient enough to listen.
After a long time, they seemed to realize that Guan Shui could not take out another white jade turtle and began to drag Zhang Zi towards the ditch again.
Guan Shui tried to stand in front as he did before but was bitten by an agitated giant turtle.
Fortunately, the other party was just giving a warning and did not insist on not letting go.
The wounds on Zhang Zi’s body were all white from being soaked, and he was already a little dazed. Captain Guan scolded him angrily, “Think about it again, where is Zheng Yu’s white jade turtle hiding!”
Zhang Zi could only repeatedly say “I don’t know, I can’t remember”.
Fortunately, Jiang Lan arrived just in time and stopped Zhang Zi who was almost at the ditch.
He squatted down, approached the leading old turtle, and tried to communicate with them. The old turtle’s pointed head then approached him, as if sniffing.
Jiang Lan placed his palm close to its head and carefully released a little of Dragon Palace’s aura and pressure. While doing this, he nervously glanced at Ying Qiao from the corner of his eye, fearing that he would be noticed.
Fortunately, Ying Qiao did not show any abnormality.
He looked at the old turtle, who showed a hint of closeness and submission, and conveyed his thoughts to the other party in the simplest words.
The old turtle seemed to understand and threw Zhang Zi into the field.
Seeing this, Zhang Zi, with a dazed expression, immediately got up and wanted to run, but was pushed back into the field by Jiang Lan with an indifferent expression.
His face was a little cold: “You’d better tell me everything clearly, where did the white jade turtle come from, where did Zheng Yu hide his… Otherwise, I can let these turtles let you go today, but they will come looking for you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”
Zhang Zi shrank his shoulders in fear: “I, I really don’t know where Zheng Yu hid his.”
“When you two were dividing the spoils, didn’t Zheng Yu tell you anything?” Jiang Lan looked at him scrutinizingly, his dark eyes seemingly able to see into the deepest parts of a person’s heart. “Or now that Zheng Yu is dead, have you thought of taking his share as well?”
Zhang Zi’s eyes panicked, and when he met his half-smile, he finally gave in: “The things are in the house he rented outside.”
He gave an address: “I don’t know if it has been moved. Zheng Yu was anxious and had been wanting to make a move as soon as possible.”
Jiang Lan looked at Guan Shui and said, “Go and have a look. If you can’t get into the rental house, you can look for Wang Qing.”
Guan Shui and Wang Qing were also familiar with each other, so it was easy for him to get things done.
Guan Shui agreed and immediately turned around to do his work.
“Tell me more about how you got the white jade turtle.”
Jiang Lan let go of his hand, squatted on the edge of the field, lowered his eyes and looked coldly at Zhang Zi who was struggling in the paddy field.
His attention was all on Zhang Zi, so he didn’t notice that Ying Qiao was looking at him intently.
Jiang Lan usually behaved like a piece of soft and sweet candy, harmless and tempting to eat. But at this moment, he squatted casually on the edge of the field, looking down at Zhang Zi from above, with a hint of coldness in his eyes, but also a somewhat sharp outline.
Ying Qiao looked at him greedily and found this little monster even more attractive than usual.
He licked his lips imperceptibly.
Jiang Lan was still interrogating Zhang Zi. He had always been friendly to humans, but Zhang Zi could probably be ranked among the top three humans he hated the most, so his attitude became increasingly worse.
Zhang Zi hesitated and wanted to hide some things, but when he met his cold eyes, he had to tell him everything even if he didn’t want to.
The discovery of the white jade turtle was completely an accident.
About half a month ago, he and Zheng Yu teamed up to salvage a female corpse from the river. One of the legs of the female corpse was entangled by water plants, so Zheng Yu had to go into the water with tools to cut off the water plants. But he didn’t know whether to say they were lucky or unlucky that day. They had drunk a lot of wine in the morning and didn’t pay attention to the wind and water flow when they went into the water. As a result, something went wrong. Zheng Yu himself didn’t pay attention and his flippers were entangled by water plants and he almost drowned.
He waited on the shore and naturally found nothing wrong. Zheng Yu told him all this later.
Zheng Yu said that he thought he was going to die, but a big turtle suddenly came out of a cave and saved him. The turtle bit off the water grass that was entangled with his webbed feet and lifted him up from the bottom of the river.
At that time, they were both terrified, and they thought that such a big turtle could save people, and they might have met an old turtle that had become a spirit. At first, they were grateful and wanted to thank the turtle.
Zhang Zi first went into the water to pull up the female corpse, and then went into the water with the killed rooster. He found the reef cave according to the location described by Zheng Yu. Originally, he wanted to tie the rooster to the reef as a thank-you gift, but Zhang Zi’s eyes were too sharp. When he glanced at the entrance of the cave, he saw half of a white jade turtle sticking out of the reef cave.
After he went up, he told Zheng Yu about this, and the other party became interested.
Zheng Yu was even poorer than Zhang Zi. He liked to follow anchors online, and he spent most of his monthly salary on gifts. He even had to rely on his teammates for meals. Zhang Zi was worried that he was seeing things, but Zheng Yu thought that there must be some treasures in the reef cave where the turtle spirit had stayed, so he became interested.
Zhang Zi was also persuaded by him.
The next day, while they were out working, the two of them quietly returned to the reef cave. Zhang Zi was the best swimmer, so he took his equipment and dived into the reef cave in the reef and found the white jade turtle hiding inside.
The white jade turtles were the size of basketballs, and they were actually a pair.
Even better luck was that the big turtle was not in the cave, only a few small turtles the size of a fist stayed in it. Zhang Zi came out of the water holding the white jade turtle, and he and Zheng Yu each held one, and began to dream of getting rich.
“What happened to those little turtles?” Jiang Lan did not ignore the ambiguity in his words.
The group of turtles were obviously not so angry and crazy at the beginning. But they all came out and killed Zheng Yu so angrily. It was obvious that they were angered.
Zhang Zi hesitated for a moment and said vaguely: “They, they died…”
“Tell me clearly how they died.” Jiang Lan did not give him any chance to get away with it, and the group of turtles still left in the field also looked at him.
Zhang Zi’s face twitched nervously, and he said, “Later, the big turtle kept chasing us, so Zheng Yu suspected that it wanted to get the white jade turtle back.”
“We were really scared,” he said, his eyes dodging. “We ventured to that reef cave again and caught a few small turtles, hoping to use them to threaten it…”
Little turtle…threat…
Jiang Lan thought about Zheng Yu using a water cage to trap the giant turtle. He had also wondered what the bait in the water cage was. Now he finally understood.
“You caught those little turtles and used them as bait, hoping to catch the old turtle that was following you?”
Zhang Zi didn’t say anything, but his expression confirmed Jiang Lan’s guess.
Jiang Lan suddenly sneered: “It’s a pity that you all planned so much, but you didn’t expect that there would be not just one turtle this big, but a group of them, right?”
As long as you catch the old turtle that keeps clinging to you, not only can you get the white jade turtle, but you can even sell this big turtle for some money.
Jiang Lan looked at the turtles that seemed to understand and had sorrow in their eyes and pointed to the top of his head with anger in his eyes: “God is watching what we do. You repay kindness with hatred, have you never thought about the retribution you will suffer?”
“Or do you think that these are just a few turtles and so it is not a big crime?”
Zhang Zi slowly lowered his head as he questioned him.
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Longlong: Men who work hard are indeed more attractive.
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Sorry for the long wait, here is the second update!
Boo everyone.
Why did everyone in the comments suddenly guess it was the eldest brother (Bixi)?
Big brother has appeared in the previous article!
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