Chapter 1678 — Yu Xiaoke's Troubles, Part One
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"Don't bring this matter up in the family again. Let bygones be bygones—count it as money spent buying a lesson. Damn it, if only I'd said outright that Wei Zhao was an Earth-rank expert, and had them send Heaven-rank killers after him—it wouldn't have cost more than three hundred million, no matter how dear! The money spent this time is truly wasted!" Zhao Qibing said with some helplessness.
"True enough, but no one expected Wei Zhao to have advanced again. Weren't we thinking of saving money at the time? Killing a Yellow-rank expert costs only ten million, but to kill an Earth-rank expert, I'm afraid the quoted price would exceed two hundred million!" Leader Zhu smiled bitterly. "Sometimes, indeed, a small saving is a great loss."
"Never mind. Cihua, go look into the demolition matter. Earn as much as you can, and win back this three-hundred-million loss!" Zhao Qibing ordered.
"Yes!" Li Cihua said. "Then in the next few days I'll make contact with the orphanage people again. If they're still so blind to reason, don't blame us for not being polite!"
At the orphanage, the old director and Yu Xiaoke had been worrying over the demolition, but so long had passed with no word from the Qibing Real Estate Company that the two assumed the other side had given up on developing the orphanage's land, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Money flows away like water. It seems I'll have to find something to do before long—I can't just sit here and eat my way through the mountain, can I?" Watching the gold and silver treasures she had brought back from the ancient tomb dwindle rapidly, Yu Xiaoke said to the old director with a worried frown.
"It's not eating through the mountain, Xiaoke. The gold and silver you brought back, converted into money and placed in the bank—the yearly interest alone is basically enough to maintain the orphanage's expenses. So long as no great enormous outlay comes up, there should be no problem!" the old director said. "And you—don't do that line of work anymore. It's too dangerous! When you came back from the tomb robbing and I heard you tell of it, my heart trembled in my chest. And that was only hearing about it—at the time it must have been far worse!"
"True. But if I don't do that work, what can I do?" Yu Xiaoke had been idling at home of late, unable to find any way to earn money. The thief's trade had grown even harder: because of the bank robbery in Songshan City, patrol cars now filled the streets everywhere, so how would Yu Xiaoke dare go out and ply her trade against the wind?
And tomb robbing—that she truly dared not attempt again. After that one trip, Yu Xiaoke had learned just how vicious and perilous the trade of tomb robbing was. If not for the Male Thief always shielding her, she would long since have died with no place to be buried...
The Male Thief... At the thought of him, Yu Xiaoke's face flushed faintly. This man, the first to stir her heart, cared for her and protected her at every turn, never letting her suffer the slightest hurt! In Yu Xiaoke's heart, the image of the Male Thief had already been branded deep...
She did not know what he looked like, did not know whether he was handsome—but none of that mattered to Yu Xiaoke. What she liked was simply that masked Male Thief who stood before her, blocking every danger!
"Xiaoke, you've worried over this orphanage for so many years and poured so much of your heart's blood into it. Now that the orphanage has no worries behind it, it's time you found a man and married. You can't cling to the orphanage your whole life, can you? This isn't a place for a young girl to stay forever!" Looking at Yu Xiaoke's faintly crimson cheeks, how could the old director fail to guess what was in her heart?