Chapter 289: Find a Clue

The You’s Pawnshop was famous in the capital city as an old brand with a history of several decades. The price in the pawnshop was reasonable, and it was popular in the neighborhood.

After all, nobody hoped to make contact with a pawnshop, but when somebody was in need, a pawnshop would be better than his father.

That man had been a manager in The You’s Pawnshop for more than twenty years. As long as they made inquiries, they knew that the man was named You Junle. It was said that he was the biological son of the pawnshop’s owner.

Shi Qingxue didn’t guess wrong. The owner of The You’s Pawnshop had passed away many years ago, and You Junle took over the pawnshop.

However, You Junle was always the manager of the pawnshop. Even if he became the real boss, it didn’t change much, so all people around called him Manager all the time.

“Do you think that he hid his real relationship with his boss because he thinks it is not important or…he hid it from us intentionally?” Shi Qingxue asked in confusion.

Although she asked such a question, her bright eyes expressed that You Junle just hid it from them intentionally.

Mo Junyang playfully scratched Qingxue’s head and stated, “Stop imagining wildly. If you have questions, let’s ask him to his face.”

Shi Qingxue opened her eyes wide in astonishment and looked at Mo Junyang doubtfully. “Have you found him so soon?”

“Is it difficult?” Mo Junyang pursed his lips indifferently.

In fact, although You Junle had left Duke Shi’s mansion and cautiously escaped from all the spies sent by the Shi family, thinking that he was safe and sound, he never escaped from Mo Junyang’s control.

So when Shi Qingxue saw You Junle again, this fat middle-aged man was tied up and thrown to sit on the floor, in an awkward position.

“…You…” Shi Qingxue helplessly glanced at Mo Junyang. Seeing that he took it for granted, she couldn’t complain about him.

She had to walk forward, personally tear off the dirty and stinky towel from You Junle’s mouth and take out a knife to cut off the rope around him. Then she told a servant to help You Junle sit up.

Afterward, she said apologetically, “I am sorry, Manager You. I and Junyang just need to ask you something and don’t want to offend you. Please forgive us.”

You Junle always led a life of luxury and privilege and had never been treated so rudely, so he got angry involuntarily and leered at Shi Qingxue coldly, snorting impolitely, “I have been tied up and brought here by you. You have tied me up but ask me to forgive you now. Lady Qingxue, don’t you think it is too late?”

Shi Qingxue paused for a moment and then looked at You Junle, with surprise and doubt flashing in her eyes, yet she concealed it soon.

She lowered her head and expressed obediently, “Manager You, as long as you don’t mind, it’s not late.”

You Junle was speechless.

The middle-aged man was petrified by Shi Qingxue’s words, so he stopped being carefree and looked Shi Qingxue up and down seriously again.

After a while, he laughed once more but with no provocation or sarcasm, different from before. This time he laughed sincerely even with admiration and just gazed at Shi Qingxue.

It made Mo Junyang behind her look gloomy, while You Junle laughed more happily.

“Manager You…you must know me, right?” Shi Qingxue asked all of a sudden.

You Junle was stunned and then smiled as if nothing had happened. “You are Elder Duke Shi’s sixth biological granddaughter. How would I dare not know you?”

“Oh? So you are familiar with Duke Shi’s mansion?” Qingxue asked in a hurry.

However, You Junle replied, “I am just a lowly manager of a pawnshop. How can I know the people in Duke Shi’s mansion? My Lady, stop joking.”

Perhaps he knew that Shi Qingxue doubted his behavior in Duke Shi’s mansion earlier, so he added causally, “I am merely lucky to send Elder Duke Shi’s relic to your mansion for my boss, so I had the chance to see you, My Lady.”

He purposely said that he was lowly, as if Shi Qingxue was a big shot beyond his reach while he was a “civilian”.

However, Shi Qingxue didn’t believe his words at all and pointed out without hesitation, “If you really know me only because of this and even have never known anything about the Shi family before, how do you know that I am the sixth young lady in my family?”

You Junle was unable to reply.

He intentionally joked with Shi Qingxue, but unexpectedly, his words exposed him.

“Fine, fine.” Although You Junle had heard that Shi Qingxue was quite smart, he still thought that she was a girl at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and no matter how smart she was, there must be a limit, yet unexpectedly…

This time he had guessed wrong.

However, You Junle didn’t feel frustrated but was relieved as his secret was seen through.

He admitted it frankly. “Right, I did know who you are since long ago.”

“You also know that my father has more than one daughter, right?” Shi Qingxue looked cold.

Since You Junle showed up in Duke Shi’s mansion, Qingxue thought that his behavior was weird and he said those words on purpose just to ruin the relationship among her family members obviously.

She didn’t know what this man attempted to do.

Shi Qingxue didn’t like him from the beginning, and she was in a worse mood after hearing him admit it.

Feeling Shi Qingxue’s cold shoulder, You Junle was stunned and then laughed at leisure. “So what if I know that? I just took out Elder Duke Shi’s relic, yet they tried to grab it from me, as if there were a treasure inside.”

While speaking, You Junle couldn’t help but smile happily and slyly. Even though he knew the answer, he still asked, “Were you scared?”

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Shi Qingxue didn’t try to ask You Junle if he had seen the stuff covered with the red cloth, nor did she wonder why he did that.

She just asked, “Whose cranium is it?”

You Junle was stunned for a while probably because he hadn’t expected that Shi Qingxue would be so straightforward. After a pause, he responded casually, “It’s just a white bone. Perhaps Elder Duke Shi picked it up on the battlefield randomly and left it to you as a keepsake.”

Shi Qingxue certainly didn’t believe You Junhle’s nonsense, so she sneered. “Yes? Manager You, why did you pack it up so carefully if it is just a white bone picked up randomly?”

He packed it up with the red cloth layer by layer, and obviously he didn’t hope that the stuff inside would be damaged.

If he just wanted to scare them, he wouldn’t do so much.

The smile on You Junle’s face stiffened again, but soon he recovered.

Maybe because he was seen through by Shi Qingxue, he didn’t evade the subject under discussion but just reminded, “My Lady, you are so smart and must have guessed the owner of the cranium, yet I can’t tell you about this person’s identity randomly. If you really want to know the truth, you can go back home to ask your grandma.”

“Grandma doesn’t know it,” Shi Qingxue retorted subconsciously.

However, when she met You Junle’s faint smile with sarcasm, she was distracted and suddenly thought of the date engraved in the cranium. Then she couldn’t be so bold.

Fine!

Although she had guessed that Mo Shujun had something to do with the date, the tenth day of the first lunar month in the Year of Yihai, You Junle seemed to stress it intentionally.

Nevertheless, she couldn’t find a clue for a moment, so she turned to Mo Junyang.

Mo Junyang smiled at her and then turned to look at You Junle. He sneered and asked out of the blue, “I hear that you are the boss of The You’s Pawnshop now, right?”

You Junle was the one who knew a secret, but he was asked by Mo Junyang all of a sudden, so he got nervous, as if he lost his advantage.

Especially when he met Mo Junyang’s cold and frightening eyes, he felt cold all over and avoided his eyes with guilt.

After a long time, he admitted it. “Right, but it seems unable to prove anything, right?”

Mo Junyang didn’t make comments and continued to ask, “Was the previous owner of the pawnshop your mother?”

You Junle was so astonished that his jaw almost dropped. He gazed at Mo Junyang and couldn’t speak a word for a long time.

Even though his reactions gave Mo Junyang an answer.

Shi Qingxue was shocked as Mo Junyang suddenly revealed this secret. Although they had got this news from the neighbors earlier, they just knew that You Junle was the son of the pawnshop’s owner.

Nobody had told them that the previous owner of the pawnshop was a woman.

Even if they guessed, they wouldn’t turn in this direction.

“How do you know that the previous owner was a woman?” Shi Qingxue stared at Mo Junyang and asked, “Do you know her?”

She could only guess this.

Unexpectedly, Mo Junyang’s eyes fell on the cranium in her hand, and he suddenly laughed. He said casually, “Her cranium is in your hand. How do you think I know it?”

“What?”

Shi Qingxue was so shocked that she almost shook her hand and threw away the cranium.

Fortunately, before she did that, she remembered that this cranium was a relic Shi Lei left to her, so she controlled herself and didn’t move.

However, Mo Junyang’s words couldn’t answer Shi Qingxue’s question but made her more and more doubtful.

Why did Shi Lei have the previous owner’s cranium and even engrave the words “the tenth day of the first lunar month in the Year of Yihai” in it?

It was horrible even when people thought of it.

And the two had such a relationship. Perhaps they bore a deep grudge against each other and made the other party unable to rest in peace even after death. Although You Junle tried to ruin the relationship among the members of the first master’s family, yet he didn’t cross the line, and it didn’t seem that he avenged his mother. And if the two families had feud which couldn’t be defused, You Junle wouldn’t have the copy of her personal seal in his hands.

After ruling out this possibility, another more absurd thought came into her mind.

She shook her head in a hurry and looked at Mo Junyang by instinct, with plea and expectancy in her eyes.

Mo Junyang didn’t smile this time but nodded at her.

Shi Qingxue was stunned.

After a long time…

She seemed to come back to earth and looked at You Junle with obscure light in her eyes.

Qingxue pursed her lips and asked softly, “Sir, do you have another name?”

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