Whose little lady is so crazy?

Chapter 515 How Do You Know Everything?
"Stop! Did I give you permission to leave?" Hong Xiaoduo said in a deep voice.

Hu Jiawang slowly turned around, pursed his lips, looked at Hong Xiaoduo, and said in a very restrained tone, "I admit that I owe you a favor, but no matter what I did before, I have never done anything to harm you. What do you want?"

Hong Xiaoduo didn't think much of his words, tone, or expression, but Tian Shu and the other six children were very unhappy.

I was wondering if he had some kind of trouble, and I was thinking about how to put in a good word for him and persuade him to stay. I thought that no matter how difficult things were for him, Xiaoduo was so capable that she could definitely help him solve them!
"No matter what your reason is for leaving, and no matter what you have hidden from us before, we took you in and treated you sincerely. It is wrong of you to leave without saying goodbye and steal Little Grey."

"It's even more inappropriate for them to speak to our mother in such a tone and attitude." This time, it was Tian Shu who spoke.

"Fine, I admit I was wrong. So how can I leave? By kneeling?" Hu Jiawang was furious. Looking at the six people who usually seemed innocent and harmless, all of whom were staring at him with anger, and their mother with a half-smile, he knew that if he didn't beg for forgiveness, he would have a hard time leaving.

He simply knelt down in front of Hong Xiaoduo: "It was wrong of me to steal it, but I had no choice. My story is not what you heard. Please don't hold it against me and let me leave, okay?" After saying that, he kowtowed three times.

It wasn't a perfunctory kowtow; it was three genuine, resounding kowtows.

What does kowtowing matter, as long as I can leave smoothly as soon as possible.

Everyone present looked at Hong Xiaoduo, wondering what she would decide.

“No.” Hong Xiaoduo responded without even thinking.

Hu Jiawang suddenly raised his head, still looking at her with suppressed anger: "Why, why are you making things so difficult for me? What exactly do you want?"

Hong Xiaoduo ignored him and instead looked at Lan Zechen, asking, "Pavilion Master Lan, has the person who delivered the message left?"

Lan Zechen thought she had something else to ask, so he said no. In order to deliver the message as soon as possible, I told the person who had rushed over day and night to rest at the inn.

After saying that, without waiting for Hong Xiaoduo to speak, he made a gesture, and the next moment, someone jumped down from the height.

Apart from a few children and Fei Yan who were stunned for a moment, Hong Xiaoduo and Quan Jinghuai were not surprised.

Quan Jinghuai had long sensed that someone was lurking in the shadows, and that they were quite skilled.

Although Hong Xiaoduo didn't feel it, she always was like that; she could only clearly sense danger when it was present.

Given Lan Zechen's identity, it's normal for him to have bodyguards accompanying him.

"Xiao Duo, if you need anything from him, just tell him. Don't stand on ceremony," Lan Zechen said, pointing to his newly appeared subordinate.

Upon hearing this, the man immediately stepped forward and clasped his hands in greeting to Hong Xiaoduo.

“You’ve gone to so much trouble to make this trip, so I won’t let you go for nothing. Here’s what you’ll do: take him to Hu Dongshan’s residence in Xishan Town, and you should receive a reward of a thousand taels of silver. You don’t need to hand it over to your sect leader; you can keep it for yourself,” Hong Xiaoduo said to the man in black in front of her.

"Alright, thank you, young lady." The man in black didn't say much, but he was very excited. This mission had unexpectedly brought such a pleasant surprise.

With the reward of a thousand taels sent back, life became much better for the elderly, wife, and children at home.

After hearing this, Lan Zechen glanced at Hong Xiaoduo with a hint of helplessness, thinking to himself, "Did you really need to bring this up in public? What do you mean I don't need to hand it over to you? Do you think I'm the kind of greedy person who would ask him for this reward? Who do you think you are!"

"Why are you picking on me? Why can't you just leave me alone? I've never done anything bad to you." Hu Jiawang suddenly stood up and questioned him angrily.

"Good question. Well then, I might as well tell you why. Let's not even talk about how you are so young yet so vicious, treating your six-year-old brother with such cruelty."

Take the day I found you starving and collapsed on the roadside, for example. They persuaded me to take you in, but how did you treat them? Have you forgotten what you did last time when you suggested using the name Kaiyang to replace him as one of the Big Dipper constellations, and were opposed by some of them? Well, let me remind you, Tian Shu's favorite wolf-hair brush is missing. Did you secretly throw it away?
Did you tell Tianquan in private that Tianxuan complained that he ate too much and did too little? Was the cracking of Yuheng's embroidery frame also your doing?

And what about Yao Guang's windmill, and Tian Ji's eggshell carvings?

"You, you, how did you know? How did you know it was me?" Hu Jiawang asked in disbelief.

They're together all the time, so it's normal for her to know about these trivial things, but how can she be sure it was him? You know, Tian Shu and the others never suspected him.

"How do I know? Because I know them well. They've suffered so much, so they cherish everything they have now, even the cheapest little things."

This had never happened before they objected to you using the name Kaiyang, but since then it has been happening frequently.

You lied, trying to sow discord between Tianquan and Tianxuan, but you forgot about the trust they have in each other. When Tianquan heard what you said, he didn't question Tianxuan or hold a grudge against him. Instead, he realized that he had indeed been eating too much and doing too little. He secretly asked the others if that was the case, and if so, he would change.

He even asked about Xiao Yaoguang. The little girl likes to nag in front of me, so I found out too.

So I asked Tianquan what happened, and he told me that this is what you told him.

"Sigh, that's why they say a leopard can't change its spots. People with bad intentions will do bad things no matter where they go." Hong Xiaoduo said, shaking her head in disgust.

Hearing these words, Tian Shu and the others became even angrier. Ah, so he had already done this so many times.
Yao Guang was so angry that tears were streaming down her face. How could Brother A Ping be so mean! He had so many candies, which he wouldn't even eat himself, and he gave them all to others, yet he secretly broke her favorite little windmill!
"Since you already knew, why didn't you kick me out or punish me?" Hu Jiawang was very puzzled. Now that so many bad things he had done had been exposed, compared to what she knew about the things he had done at home, it was nothing.

Hong Xiaoduo shrugged and said, "At that time, I just thought you were a bad person. Besides, if they had driven you away and punished you for those seemingly insignificant trivial matters, they might have even pleaded for you."

You may not know this, but I didn't want to take you in at first. They secretly begged me to put in a good word for you so that you could stay.

I never imagined you could be so evil as to harm your six-year-old brother.

Actually, you had already decided to leave the day you learned you were going to Jiaozhou. The reason you didn't leave immediately was because you were greedy and eyeing their little savings.

You've been with us for several months, so you're not penniless. The New Year's money and red envelopes we gave you, plus the money from Master Jiang, totaled at least a hundred taels of silver. If you take all of that with you and don't spend it recklessly, it'll be enough for your expenses for several years.

But you're too greedy; you want more.

Hu Jiawang, you have truly let them down. Don't you think about how heartbroken and sad they are because of what you did to them?

"So, why should I let someone as heartless as you off the hook? You brought this on yourself, so don't blame anyone else." Hong Xiaoduo said calmly. She was so patient because she didn't want the children to have any lingering resentment.

The matter of Hu Jiawang must be resolved clearly tonight.

We must not let those children regret their decision because of this incident, and in the future, if they encounter similar situations, they will be so wary that they will be afraid of even the smallest things and not know how to handle the conflict.

She slowly sorted out the whole matter, explained it to them, and showed it to them.

Let them know that it's not their fault for being kind, nor is it their fault for misjudging people. They can still help others if they encounter similar situations in the future.

"Alright, I've said everything I needed to say. Now, leave your money and valuables behind, or I'll have to take action." Hong Xiaoduo noticed the bulge under Hu Jiawang's raincoat and said.

Upon hearing this, Hu Jiawang instinctively clutched his waist: "Why should I? Since these were given to me, they are mine..."