Chapter 32 Hidden Treasures

In Qin Ruo’s space, Tiao Tiao was lying on the patch of grass like a big shot.

One hand was behind his head, the other holding a pastry, taking a bite.

Seeing Qin Ruo enter the space, he instantly sprang up from the grass.

He looked at Qin Ruo warily, clutching his pocket.

“Master, you’re so unfair. You’re just taking advantage of me, a little… me! You’ve plucked all my wool!”

Tiao Tiao, meeting Qin Ruo’s half-smiling gaze, quickly changed “little master” to “me.”

While eating at the Celebration Feast Restaurant, Qin Ruo had gone into the space under the pretense of going to the toilet, intending to give Tiao Tiao some of the pastries she had brought back from the Xie Mansion.

Tiao Tiao didn’t need to eat regularly, he ate purely to satisfy his cravings.

The usually stingy Tiao Tiao, after receiving the pastries, generously threw her a few ginseng roots.

When Qin Ruo was about to leave, she found a silver hairpin on the grass in the space.

She immediately understood. Tiao Tiao had been hiding things.

It turned out that he had been deliberately acting pitiful and putting on a show for her.

Most of her space was inexplicably sealed off, and she couldn’t retrieve the things inside.

But Tiao Tiao himself had a small space.

Besides, knowing Tiao Tiao, he wasn’t the kind of person who would put all his eggs in one basket.

She knew Tiao Tiao’s habit of only taking in and never giving out.

Qin Ruo had known from the beginning that Tiao Tiao had his own space.

Over the years since she had obtained her space, it had been constantly filled with things, becoming a small world of its own.

There were medicinal fields, an armory, a spirit spring, a warehouse, and a living villa.

At Tiao Tiao’s request, she had specially designated an area for him to store the strange things he had collected.

Tiao Tiao’s reason was that although he had a small space, he preferred this big one.

Qin Ruo had always been a free-range owner towards Tiao Tiao. She had once taken him to her world to live a normal life.

When Tiao Tiao first arrived in the modern world, he was curious about everything and wanted to stuff everything into his “big warehouse.”

For a while, he became a full-fledged shopaholic.

Every day, packages piled up at home, and the things he bought were all sorts of things.

Qin Ruo had seen Tiao Tiao’s big warehouse, and it was no exaggeration to say it was like a big supermarket.

Fortunately, Qin Ruo’s family was wealthy enough that spending this small amount of money wouldn’t hurt her foundation.

She simply gave him a supplementary card with a huge limit and let him have his fun.

After coming to the Great Sheng Dynasty, Qin Ruo had discovered for the first time that the area in her space was inexplicably closed off.

She couldn’t take out most of the things inside, and she subconsciously ignored the fact that Tiao Tiao had his own space.

Until today, when Tiao Tiao was unusually generous and gave her a few ginseng roots.

And then she found the silver hairpin, and she remembered that Tiao Tiao was a little thing with his own space.

“Tiao Tiao, are you going to hand it over yourself, or am I going to beat you up and then take it?”

Qin Ruo raised her eyebrows and said casually.

“Master…”

Tiao Tiao rushed in front of Qin Ruo and called out pitifully.

“Okay, this is my last stash, you have to be careful with it…”

Seeing that Qin Ruo was unmoved, Tiao Tiao’s attempt at cuteness failed, and he puffed up his cheeks and waved his little hand.

A pile of miscellaneous food appeared on the ground, forming a small mountain.

Coke, melon seeds, potato chips, soda, dried fruit, instant noodles… there were even several bottles of red wine.

“Is that all?” Qin Ruo didn’t believe that Tiao Tiao’s stash was only this much.

“Forget it! Forget it! We share in good times and bad. You have to pay me back when you earn money in the future.”

Tiao Tiao put on a heartbroken expression and waved his hand again, and another pile of items appeared out of thin air.

Lego blocks, remote-controlled toy cars, scooters, all toys.

There was also a huge box, filled with something unknown.

Seeing Qin Ruo staring at the box, the heartache in Tiao Tiao’s eyes was about to overflow.

He reluctantly stepped forward and opened the box.

“Other spirit tools get to eat and drink well with their masters. I’m a spirit tool, and I have to support my master. What kind of fate is this?”

“This is my last little kingdom…”

Tiao Tiao, mimicking the shrewish old women he had learned from, stomped his feet, slapped his thighs, and sat on the ground wailing.

Qin Ruo ignored the little guy and went to check the contents of the box.

“You’re quite good at hiding things,” Qin Ruo thought to herself, not knowing how to describe it.

Ginseng, ganoderma, snow lotus, ranging from decades to hundreds of years old… basically, all the types of herbs that had been planted in her space before were here.

At the bottom of the box, there were rows of neatly stacked silver ingots and dozens of gold bars.

The silver ingots and gold bars, judging by their size, were obviously gifts from her modern-day, unreliable friend, given to Tiao Tiao to play with.

Tiao Tiao loved money, but his friend had marked them.

Qin Ruo understood immediately. The silver hairpin must have been accidentally mixed in.

Tiao Tiao had probably taken it out to play with and dropped it.

“Of course! Who am I? You always say, ‘Be prepared for the unexpected,’ right?”

“And you said yourself, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Unfortunately, there are too few eggs in my basket.”

Tiao Tiao jumped up from the ground, proudly boasting to Qin Ruo.

Qin Ruo felt her heart being struck. She had been running around, busy and tired, to earn a couple of copper coins.

Meanwhile, he was sitting comfortably in the space, owning a “wealthy little kingdom.”

After confirming that Tiao Tiao only had these things, Qin Ruo didn’t bother thinking about it anymore.

Suddenly, not having to worry about food or clothing, Qin Ruo wanted to lie flat.

She could just stay in this space and lie flat for the rest of her life.

As soon as the thought arose, Qin Ruo quickly dismissed it.

Hiding in the space all the time wasn’t her style. She liked the human world’s warmth and bustle.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have earned enough money for several lifetimes in her previous life and still occasionally picked up a task to pass the time.

The two of them munched on potato chips and drank Coke, chatting idly.

“Master, you said that silver and gold can be easily used in this dynasty after a little processing. So what are you worried about? Just leave.”

“Your old lady is so annoying, Master. Can I get rid of her?”

“You try getting rid of one and see…”

Qin Ruo slapped Tiao Tiao’s head. In Tiao Tiao’s eyes, there were only people who could be killed and people who couldn’t be killed.

She had witnessed Tiao Tiao’s destructive power firsthand.

It had taken Qin Ruo a lot of time to correct Tiao Tiao’s concept and make him understand how to follow the world’s order.

She wouldn’t let Tiao Tiao stay in the space forever. When the time was right, she would bring him out into the world openly.

Some rules had to be made clear.

Old Lady Qin didn’t deserve to die, but if some people were eager to die, she couldn’t stop them.