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As soon as those words fell, a customer who had been waiting in line couldn’t help but speak up, “Boss, he’s just looking for trouble! He even cut in line, don’t let him consult!”
“Yeah, everyone worked hard to line up, how can he just cut in when he arrives!”
“Even if he’s a streamer, he can’t cut in line!”
The customers grumbled, and Ling Yue wasn’t just someone who only looked at money.
Seeing her silent, Bald Qiang became a bit anxious. This was the best live streaming effect he had had in years. Just a moment ago, the backend had showed that he had already received several tens of thousands in tips.
Several big shots had also specifically requested to continue watching.
As for whether they wanted to see the shop owner or the exposing of the fraud, it was hard to tell.
He hurriedly said, “I know you have rules, boss. I’ll pay fifty thousand yuan, and I’ll be the last one.”
“Besides, boss, I’m live streaming. I have nearly a million fans on the Orca platform. I’m the type that wouldn’t come even upon invitation, and I’ll even promote your shop.”
Bald Qiang smiled kindly, but with his full face of flesh, it made him seem even less like a good person.
Ling Yue looked at him deeply, remembering the orca live stream. She could naturally see his intentions and knew he wouldn’t give up easily, saying, “Then you’ll have to wait a bit.”
“As for the fifty thousand.” She turned to Da Hei, who obediently carried a small blackboard that had originally been stuck on the shelf outside the door, walking through the path cleared by the crowd.
Ling Yue’s new rule stated that apart from the ten consultations a day, there were also three premium consultations, each costing ten thousand.
Seeing this, Bald Qiang felt relieved: “Then I’ll pay fifty thousand for one premium consultation!”
His mind was already racing; fifty thousand for so much popularity, he was making a huge profit! Even the audience in the live stream called the streamer generous, saying fifty thousand was nothing.
As for the subsequent premium consultations, Bald Qiang chuckled. Seeing his expression, those familiar with him knew he was planning something.
Bald Qiang having nearly a million fans on the orca live stream was enough to prove his strength. Every time he exposed fraud, his tricks were endless, making people shout in excitement.
[This guy is always so cunning!]
[The shop owner is going to be in big trouble; what a pity for such a beautiful woman.]
Bald Qiang watched from the side while Ling Yue seemed unfazed, her calm demeanour and her miraculous consultation process left the live stream audience in awe.
[Wait, what’s up with this cat? The owner doesn’t even dare to touch it, but it rolls over when it sees her. Is it a cat or a transformed dog?]
[Damn, I just turned around to grab something, how did the disabled dog recover? Is the shop owner a fairy?]
[Hey, brother in front, didn’t you see? The dog was just pretending, tricking its owner, and the shopkeeper saw right through it, exposing it with a chicken leg!]
The viewers in the live stream were having a blast, and in the blink of an eye, it was Bald Qiang’s turn. Not a single customer had left; instead, more and more gathered around.
People are creatures that love to join in on the fun. Hearing that a big anchor with nearly a million follower count on the Orca platform orca streamer was challenging shopkeeper, they couldn’t wait to grab a small stool and watch the showdown.
The onlookers were even more curious, munching on sunflower seeds, enjoying the spectacle, but mainly watching the shopkeeper. Ling Yue’s hair was not even a bit disheveled; her smooth and flowing consultation had put immense pressure on Bald Qiang. Perhaps the shopkeeper was truly capable?
He glanced at the bottom right corner of his phone; the popularity had skyrocketed nearly tenfold, reaching several million. Bald Qiang’s eyes were about to pop out, his heart filled with joy!
Bald Qiang: “I want to buy a pet, but I’m not sure if the shopkeeper can recommend one for me.”
As soon as he said this, many viewers burst into laughter.
Any old fans who followed him knew that Bald Qiang had no luck with animals; whenever they saw him, they ran away faster than anything.
This was a tough problem.
Ling Yue: “No other requirements?”
Bald Qiang chuckled: “Nope, I’m not picky at all. I just want to find a little animal that catches my eye. Is that too much to ask?”
As he spoke, his gaze suddenly sharpened, relying on his strong physique, he said, “But if you can’t do it, you’ll have to close the shop. Don’t deceive everyone here!”
[The streamer is starting to pull a fast one again!]
[No requirements, yet wanting something that catches his eye? Isn’t that like looking for a needle in a haystack? The shopkeeper is in for a tough time.]
[Brother Qiang is just full of justice; I thought it was too fake earlier. Is there really such a magical skill? It must be fake! The shopkeeper must have hired actors!]
[Zhang Wuji’s mother1 was right; the prettier a woman is, the more likely she is to deceive people!]
The last comment seemed to come from someone who had suffered from a broken heart, sounding particularly extreme.
The live stream was filled with pessimism, but Ling Yue was unaware; the pressure from the other side didn’t faze her at all as she stared intently at him.
For some reason, at that moment, Bald Qiang felt flustered, as if she could see right through him; even the X-ray in the hospital didn’t seem to be any less piercing than Ling Yue’s gaze!
Ling Yue stepped out and entered the pet store. Hearing her intentions and seeing a crowd gather, the shopkeeper was also curious and cheerfully called out, “Feel free to look around; you can choose any one you like.”
As soon as Ling Yue entered, she heard all sorts of sounds. She was completely unfazed: “Is there anyone who wants a master?”
The cats and dogs looked fearfully at the towering man, straining their necks just to see his face, and upon seeing it, they looked even more ferocious.
“No way! I don’t want him as my master; he’s too scary!”
“Waaah, I’m so scared, the big bad guy is here!”
“Ugh, this human is so ugly; he’s not worthy of this lady at all!” A golden tabby in a pet cage licked its paw, not even glancing at him.
The cats and dogs huddled together in fear, while Bald Qiang smiled, clearing his throat: “Are we ready?”
At that moment, Ling Yue suddenly walked towards the corner.
There, a snow-white long-haired cat lay in the cage, its sea-blue, clear eyes gazing dreamily at Bald Qiang, its delicate pink paws pressed against the iron bars, resembling a deformed elastic jelly: “Is this going to be my future master? He looks so strong; the kitty really likes him!”
“That’s the one.”
Ling Yue suddenly spoke up, and when she picked it up, everyone was taken aback.
A pure white long-haired cat, like an innocent little fairy ignorant to worldly charms, or rather, a little fairy cat that had fallen to the mortal world, exuding an ethereal charm and cuteness.
“This is the pet you’re giving me?” Bald Qiang expressed doubt verbally, but his eyes were glued to it, unable to look away.
“Meow~”
No one expected the little cat to let out a delicate meow, stepping lightly onto Bald Qiang’s size 42 shoes, which were still bigger than it!
“Hello, master~”
The onlookers were so shocked that they dropped their snacks without realising it. The fierce and strong man paired with the delicate fairy cat, a beauty and the beast combination, was such a stark contrast that it was eye-popping!
Bald Qiang was almost melted by its cuteness, but he ultimately steeled himself and said, “Ahem, this little cat does seem unafraid, but how do you know it likes me?”
Ling Yue clapped her hands to attract the little cat’s attention: “Kitty, if you like your new master, show me a heart by raising your little paws and putting them together.”
The onlookers were stunned. A heart? What kind of joke was that!
But then, a shocking scene unfolded: the little cat calmly stepped off the shoe, raised its two front paws high above its head, and pressed its pink paws together, forming a little heart!
It even let out a sweet, sticky meow, acting all coquettish.
Not to mention Bald Qiang, even all the onlookers were left in shock, and the shopkeeper’s mouth dropped open: “Holy crap, this cat is only a month old, and I haven’t taught it anything! How could it make a heart shape!”
Ling Yue looked at Bald Qiang: “It seems like it really likes you. Do you like it?”
Bald Qiang hesitated; deep down, he had already been completely captured by this heart-making cat, but he hadn’t forgotten that he came to debunk the myth. How could he end up being the one getting slapped in the face instead?
At that moment, the long-haired little white cat curled up weakly, snuggling at his feet, looking all soft and watery: “Master, please hug me (づ′▽`)づ”
“Blood! He’s bleeding!” someone shouted.
The viewers in the live stream finally noticed that the streamer was actually bleeding from his nose!
[Holy crap, does it have to be this exciting!]
[I remember I came to expose a fraud; what’s going on now?]
[This cat is so clever; if the streamer doesn’t want it, I’ll pay to buy it!]
Bald Qiang looked down and felt two lines of wetness under his nose, his fingers stained with red blood. He, a tough and strong man, had actually been made to bleed from cuteness!
Ling Yue: “Don’t you want it? If you don’t—”
“I want it!”
Bald Qiang’s heart tightened, and he immediately bent down to pick up the little kitten, as if cradling a fragile crystal ball: “I really like it too. How about we call you Snowball? Snowball is so beautiful.”
Well, he even came up with a name for it; what else could this be but affection?
This twist had the viewers in the live stream rolling with laughter. What kind of debunking was this? It was simply a live slap in the face, and he was the one getting slapped!
Bald Qiang paid a heavy price for his recklessness, losing over a hundred thousand fans in an instant. Instead of stepping on others to rise, he ended up making a wedding dress for Ling Yue.
After this incident, Ling Yue became completely famous.
However, when the attracted netizens arrived at the destination, they found it was closed. Unwilling to have made the trip for nothing, they asked the nearby shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper glanced over: “Ling Yue? She’s off work.”
“It’s written on the blackboard, fifteen orders a day, but she’s quite capable and finished early, so she closed up. Come back tomorrow.”
The netizens who had come specifically for her: “…”
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pls do not share this anywhere or u will always stub ur toe when u walk past a door frame !! this translation has been stolen from mioscorner.com, pls only read there i’m begging u :kneels:
At noon, in the complex alleys of the old neighbourhood, a faint squeaking sound suddenly rang out.
“Master, go straight ahead, take a right, and keep walking. There’s a big willow tree in front of the house where the treasure is hidden, it’s really big, to the point where even three people can’t wrap their arms around it.”
Upon hearing this, Ling Yue’s face revealed a complex expression.
Peeking out from the specialised pet carrier she was carrying was a little head that belonged unmistakably to the treasure hunting mouse, looking particularly excited.
After walking for a few minutes, her vision suddenly brightened. A dilapidated courtyard appeared around the corner, with a robust willow tree in front—lush and leafy, just as Duo Duo had described.
Ling Yue: “…”
What a coincidence.
After hearing her words, the treasure hunting mouse was stunned, holding its two little paws: “Master, you mean this is the Wang family’s residence?”
“I thought it was an abandoned courtyard with no one living in it.”
Ling Yue looked at the house and sighed: “It’s not far from being an abandoned courtyard. I heard my mom say that decades ago, the Wang family forcibly occupied someone else’s courtyard, causing a death, and it was said to be unlucky, so the Wang family never moved in. It seems like it hasn’t been maintained for decades. These few rooms look like they’re about to collapse.”
Calling it a house was still quite polite; what lay before her was clearly a pile of ruins.
Ya Ya was keeping watch above while Ling Yue used her basic combat skills to nimbly climb over the wall.
Under the guidance of the treasure hunting mouse, a round hole half a meter wide had already been dug out by the mice in the middle of the dust covered house. The treasure hunting mouse stood with its paws on its hips, looking incredibly proud: “Heh, is it just this? With just a wave of my arm, my little mice brothers dug this out in just a few days.”
It looked at Ling Yue: “Master, should we carry it out now?”
Ling Yue nodded, but looking at the dug-out hole, she had no desire to jump down. Her gaze fell on the treasure hunting mouse: “Master has a request for you and will definitely reward you with meat to eat.”
The treasure hunting mouse’s little eyes immediately sparkled, and it licked its lips: “What is it?”
Ten minutes later, Ling Yue felt her scalp tingle as she looked down.
A mass of grey-brown large mice flooded the courtyard, among which several were particularly plump. At this moment, they were crawling under the delicate little paws of the golden treasure hunting mouse.
Only around her, the mice formed a one-meter-wide gap, as if it were a forbidden area that they dared not cross over.
Under the treasure hunting mouse’s instructions, the mice were unusually quiet until the treasure hunting mouse raised its arm and shouted: “Little ones, do you want to eat meat?”
Pairs of mouse eyes glimmered with green light.
“If you want to eat meat, follow me down and bring everything up from below!”
Due to the sheer number of mice, Ling Yue felt the ground tremble as they moved. A few minutes later, boxes of various sizes were lifted out together.
As she opened a box, golden light burst forth to illuminate her face.
The large box was filled with little yellow fish with no distinct markings that seemed to be from ancient times. They seemed easy to exchange, seemingly specifically set aside for future generations.
According to Duo Duo, these treasures had been buried for a long time, and the secret chamber below had long collapsed.
In another palm-sized box, there were piles of gems, pigeon egg-sized coloured gems and diamonds, all shimmering and dazzling.
Ling Yue’s eyes were glued to them, unable to look away. Her fingers sank into them, producing a pleasant clattering sound, only to discover a letter at the bottom. Unfolding it, she found it was a blood letter.
Duo Duo seemed to remember something and suddenly said: “Master, I just remembered, there’s also a human skeleton in the secret chamber.”
At this moment, Ling Yue had already finished reading the letter, her expression solemn.
“It was left behind by that family.”
During that tumultuous decade2, a family could collapse due to their connections with foreigners. In their panic, they could only hide these things, waiting for their descendants to retrieve them later on.
But after reading the letter, Ling Yue knew that this family was already gone.
The person who died in this house was the last descendant of that family. The Wang family was both the hidden hand that reported them as well as the enemy that swallowed their house.
The true owner of this old house returned and knew the secret hidden within this house, preparing to take back the house for revenge. However, he had underestimated the Wang family’s ruthlessness and greed. Upon learning that the other party had returned to overturn the previous case, the Wang family acted decisively, directly killing to silence him.
That person returned to the secret chamber severely injured, making various noises with his body, scaring off the Wang family, but ultimately succumbed to his injuries and died in the secret chamber.
Before dying, he left behind a blood letter.
To obtain this wealth, there was only one requirement: let the Wang family be disgraced and die a miserable death!
Perhaps heaven had eyes, not allowing the Wang family to discover these things.
Thinking of the Wang family’s style, Ling Yue instantly understood that this was a case of the upper beam not being straight, the lower beam being crooked3; the Wang family was rotten to the core!
She instructed the treasure hunting mouse Duo Duo to hide the gold well, restore the hole to its original state, and leave a few mice to guard. The target would be too noticeable during the day; she planned to come back at night.
As for the skeletal remains left by that person, she had already made a decision for the mice to sort it out.
At night, the moon hid behind the clouds, and looking out from the balcony, all that could be seen were a few dim streetlights in the neighbourhood.
Ling Yue took out the climbing backpack she had bought during a previous mountain trip. Just as she was getting ready, she suddenly heard Da Hei barking urgently, “Who? Who’s outside the door!”
He had caught a whiff of an unfamiliar scent.
Ling Yue called him to stop and looked through the peephole, but there was no one there. “Could it be some prank?”
Her neighbouring family’s Lele was particularly mischievous, and it wouldn’t be the first time he had knocked on doors randomly.
As Ling Yue spoke, she suddenly heard a squeaky voice, “I’m down here! Look this way! Look this way!”
With a strange expression, Ling Yue opened the door and looked down. A plump, grey mouse was clinging to the door crack, and under Da Hei’s watchful gaze, it pitifully raised its front limbs, too scared to move a step forward.
It bowed to Ling Yue, “Fei Fei greets the boss’s master!”
“Boss’s master, please hurry and come save a mouse’s life! The boss is about to be eaten by the big sister in law!!!
[bald qiang, please leave the window open for better ventilation for my ca— ahem, your cat heheh [wipes bleeding nose]]
- the dying words of yin susu who died in front of her son, zhang wuji from heavenly sword and dragon slaying sabre. it is important that this quote be read with the second half of the quote which is: “I didn’t tell the monk, let’s not tell anyone. I lied to him… Look at your mother… What a liar she is!” ↩︎
- might refer to the communist era of chairman mao and the red army ↩︎
- subordinates/children imitate their superior’s/parent’s vices ↩︎
