Under One Person: I, Jiaqian Jushi, work from nine to five

Upon hearing Chen Duo's description, Zhou Fengliu quickly realized that the girl was none other than the incredibly clever Feng Baobao.

"Come out, everyone," Zhou Fengliu called to the people hiding in the shadows.

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's voice, the group of temporary workers hesitated for a moment, then came out from their hiding places.

Upon seeing these people appear before her, Chen Duo did not adopt an aggressive stance; instead, she turned her gaze back to Zhou Fengliu.

"You...you're with them?"

That's how it is right now.

"So you're here to arrest me too?"

"Ah."

"Liar." Chen Duo used two words to describe Zhou Fengliu.

"?"

"What are you saying? What are you talking about? What have I lied to you about?"

Zhou Fengliu said this with a strong sense of conviction, though his argument was flawed.

Although he took 998 yuan from Chen Duo and had her practice the Reversal of Heavenly Power to aid his own cultivation, it can't be called fraud; it's more like a bribe...

He nourished Chen Duo.

"You lied to me... You said before that they didn't send anyone to arrest me," Chen Duo said slowly.

"Um...this."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Fengliu scratched his face:

"The past is the past, and the present is the present... I also received the order halfway through."

“Liar…” Chen Duo ignored Zhou Fengliu’s sophistry.

"..."

As everyone listened to Zhou Fengliu and Chen Duo's conversation, their expressions changed to varying degrees.

The feeling of this conversation...

Could it be that Zhou Fengliu and Chen Duo... have some kind of history?

Otherwise, how could Chen Duo still speak so politely even after knowing she had been deceived?

Seeing Zhou Fengliu and Chen Duo so familiar with each other, Zhang Chulan, who was standing to the side with his own thoughts, unconsciously frowned a little.

"What exactly is going on?"

At this moment, Lao Meng from the Northwest Region was like a badger in a melon patch who couldn't find any melons. He looked at Zhou Fengliu and then at Chen Duo.

“I know…” Feng Baobao raised her hand and described to everyone what had happened the night before when she went to see Chen Duo.

Just as Chen Duo just said.

She went to Chen Duo and told her about the night raid on Biyou Village that day, and asked Chen Duo for her choice. Chen Duo didn't know what to do, so the clever girl gave Chen Duo two choices.

They either had to follow Ma Xianhong and become their enemies, or leave the village and find somewhere to wait for them.

Chen Duo chose the latter, and so she waited for them quietly.

After hearing Feng Baobao's description, everyone remained silent for a few seconds.

"Who asked that? What we really want to know is the relationship between Commander Zhou and Chen Duo, Miss Bao!"

Qiu'er said that rather than asking why Chen Duo was there, what they really wanted to know was why Zhou Fengliu and Chen Duo seemed to have an unusual relationship!

"what?"

Feng Baobao was momentarily stunned; the usually quick-witted girl now looked like a complete idiot...

Chapter 187 Only a fool would choose death! (Second update)

"Relationships..."

Hearing Qiu'er's words, Zhou Fengliu thought for a moment and then replied, "It doesn't seem to be related, it's just that I brought her food a few times..."

Delivering food?

Upon hearing this, the people present were slightly taken aback.

What kind of relationship would allow someone to deliver food to a girl?

...

"Then I gave her a secret manual," Zhou Fengliu added.

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's addition, Chen Duo corrected him:

"I bought it..."

"Oh right, you bought it."

Zhou Fengliu could tell that Chen Duo was still bothered by the 998 yuan.

"Speaking of which... you're really something. I just casually mentioned it, and you actually brought the money..."

“That money…I asked Village Chief Ma for it,” Chen Duo said.

"You want it?"

"Um... I helped him catch Granny Jin Feng, and then I asked for 998 yuan. I've given it all to you."

Listening to Chen Duo's description, Zhou Fengliu raised an eyebrow. He had only just learned that the 998 had such a history.

"Commander Zhou, that young lady finally managed to get less than a thousand yuan, and you took it all?" Qiu'er asked Zhou Fengliu.

"What words... she said them to me."

"It's what you wanted... You said back then that if you couldn't buy it for 998, you'd be at a loss, you'd be cheated!"

In response to Zhou Fengliu's reply, Chen Duo mimicked Zhou Fengliu's serious tone and spoke.

"..."

Seeing that the way everyone was looking at him was getting increasingly strange, Zhou Fengliu frowned and then added an explanation:

"Okay, so you want to chat like this? Why don't you say that you came to my room late at night to chat and disturbed my sleep?"

"I didn't ask you for a single penny back then."

"???"

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's words, the sheer amount of information made everyone feel even more uneasy.

late at night...

A lone man and a lone woman...

What kind of relationship could make Chen Duo go to see Zhou Fengliu late at night?

...

"Didn't you say I could come to you with any problems I had?" Chen Duo looked at Zhou Fengliu seriously, then said:

"Besides... I also said that I would find a way to pay you back the money I owe you."

...

"Brother Liu, you're really obsessed with money. How could you be so heartless as to lay a hand on such a pitiful little girl?"

Zhang Chulan then added insult to injury, making the matter even more complicated.

Zhou Fengliu: "..."

What is all this nonsense...?

This is really impossible to have a conversation with.

The more they talked, the more something seemed off. It was as if Zhou Fengliu had become the villain who cheated a naive girl with a tragic past out of money.

But is that really the case?

Obviously not...

He said those things unintentionally, but who could have imagined that Chen Duo would take them to heart!

You say he's refuting this now...

He couldn't refute it either... after all, what Chen Duo said was true.

What Chen Duo said was true, but what he said was also true... It was clearly a legitimate transaction, so how did it end up being described like this?

Zhou Fengliu pondered the conversation for a moment, then suddenly realized what had happened and turned his gaze to Qiu'er from the Southwest region and Zhang Bilian from North China.

He discovered the blind spot...

The conversation was perfectly normal until these two troublemakers interrupted with a couple of sentences, and then the conversation completely changed.

...

"Wang Zhenqiu and Zhang Chulan, if you two keep stirring up trouble, see this hand? I guarantee this slap will be thrown in your faces in a moment."

Zhou Fengliu warned Qiu'er and Zhang Chulan that they were both cunning and scheming.

Faced with Zhou Fengliu's threat, the two brats finally quieted down for a while, after all, they didn't want to try to force the God of War into a major confrontation.

Without these two people chiming in, the rest of the conversation finally sounded much more normal.

...

"What should I do next?" Chen Duo looked at Feng Baobao beside her.

"Ah..." Feng Baobao, who was being watched by Chen Duo, scratched her butt.

How could she know what to do?

"I don't know," Feng Baobao answered frankly.

"I don't know?" Chen Duo was clearly dissatisfied with Feng Baobao's answer:

"Are you lying to me too?"

"No, I don't know, but you can ask them, they have a lot of ideas..."