THE CUNNING VIGILANTE

39. Jade Pendant

So much happened in the past, yet in Chen Guang's head seemed like it only happened yesterday. He witnessed his children grew up well through their hard work and he was grateful for that. However, he didn't get to see his youngest child. He heard that the current general married him, he nearly blow up his head when he heard the news.

The family's cabbage had been dug out by the pig at the age of twenty! The child of his was still young as a large pupa! Thinking of it being eaten by a bird seems so unforgivable that he's willing to become a fierce corpse. He wanted to cut off his head. If not for the fact that the youngest child of his loved the general the most as what the rumors had mentioned, he would have gutter his throat.

Back to the present, Chen Guang put his sword on his scabbard and placed it on his left side of the hip. Wearing his old uniform, he looked into the mirror and examined himself. It felt like he was being transported back in time, though it was not the case. He missed this look. The smell of the battlefield while fighting with his comrades lingered on the uniform he wore. Also, the existence of his senior brother remained on his sword.

This sword is the only thing that Wenyan bestowed to him, that day was when he first joined the organization. This was the only thing that Wenyan had left for him. Reminiscing the old times in the cold night, he sighed and took a deep breath.

'This was going to be a bumpy journey.'
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After the visit with his Chao-ge earlier, Li Jie was stuffed with many varieties of herbs and medicine that even Jiao-long couldn't guess why the Young Madame brought so many. Chao-ge was just overexcited about Li Jie's ideas about becoming a doctor so he took out the newest picked herbs and medicine for him to study.

There was a large house near the 'flower' garden. He decided to use it as his lab room to experiment medicine. But before that, he needed to clean up the place. This house was being emptied since the night of the tragedy happened. Li Jie doesn't even knew who lived in it before. However, since he asked his dear husband to occupy the space, he was happy to make it his own.

Right now, he was in the east side of the manor where the flower garden is located. While Delun is in the palace, Li Jie doesn't have anything to do in the house except for eating or sleeping. Someday, he may become a pig if he continued this way. God knows he hated being fat. What if his husband discredited him if he becomes a pig? That is definitely atrocious. He let his servant do his day training because he wanted to work his muscles. Best to sweat than to earn fats, lesson learned by the author.

He was cleaning the house's interior since it was full of dust and cobwebs. This house was already abandoned yet the things left behind were valuable and screaming expensive. One thing he noticed is that the original owner of the house had almost the same designs; two dragons on the side and a beetle in the middle. The rusty, old shuriken and daggers were preserved and have been put on the wall, having the same exact design. He could tell that the owner of the house was a mighty warrior or a general of some sort.

Li Jie was humming a song as he cleaned the entrance hallway of the house to the kitchen until it was swept clean. The cobwebs were being taken away and it was not as horrible as before. The house's interior regained its beauty again after it has been purified, unlike before that was like a horror house.

The dining room, balcony, hallway, bathroom and living room were all cleaned and all that's left was the bedroom. Li Jie had not been from this corner of the house and he was not sure what's in there. This was also the only place that he never explored before. He never knew why he was excited going in there. He took a deep breath and let it all out. Carrying all his cleaning utensils, he pushed the door open and went in. 

"Oh? Not bad." Li Jie thought as he explored the bedroom. Step by step and he slowly went near the bed. He lightly touched the bed and the visible traces of dust stuck on his fingers. The of sheet of the bed was dusty and few insects flew away. Li Jie scrunched his nose and thought: "The house is abandoned and only the garden was being cleaned. It can't be that this house was haunted right?"