Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

The driver quickly replaced the lamp.

Silver lamps were placed on both sides of the carriage shaft, brighter than before. Jiang Luo walked half a circle around the carriage, looked up, and finally put her little hands behind her back with satisfaction.

(￣ ▽ ￣)

That's more like it.

If someone else's boss rips off the roof, you can't expect Lolo to pay for even the fallen bricks.

The crow followed behind and handed over the counted money bag, but did not immediately let go, still holding the thin string at the opening of the bag with its other hand.

"Lord Jiang, these bags are his. Someone is identifying the bag next to them. Let's not put them in together yet."

Jiang Luo followed her gaze and saw a one-armed buyer arguing with a thin-faced merchant over a copper seal. The two did not fight, but each took out half of a deposit slip and compared the gaps under the light.

The needles were bought, and the money was returned.

(≖ᴗ≖)✧

The last hospitality hosted by Boss He suited her better than the previous auctions.

Stella stood beside her and used her uninjured hand to fasten her cloak, placed the small box containing needles against her waist, and even re-tied the bag strap.

Jiang Luo reached out and touched the lid of the box.

The head maid immediately looked down, and when she saw it was her, she smiled and gently placed the box in front of her.

"My lord, would you like to see it again? I have cleaned the needle."

"Lolo won't take your things. Don't touch it all the way, or you'll loosen the buttons too."

Stella's fingers stopped, then she casually smoothed out the bag strap, but the smile on her face never faded.

The thin-faced businessman approached, bowed in thanks, and then introduced himself.

His name is Tao Shun. He sells old and strange items in the East Market of the canyon. The two boxes that were delivered tonight have been found, but one of his accomplices who was escorting the goods for him died.

The remaining workers were collecting the torn clothes in the side yard. Underneath the cloth lay a sallow face. Tao Shun didn't look in that direction for long. He took a bag from the money he had collected and had someone take it back with him.

Jiang Luo stopped laughing and waited for him to finish explaining before pointing to the back of the counter.

"You recognize these things, pick out a few usable items for Lolo, don't let Lolo bring back a truckload of junk that might bite."

Tao Shun stopped making pleasantries, took the lantern and walked ahead, first going around a row of cracked wooden boxes and then kicking a silk bag with half a foot sticking out into the empty cage.

Boss He is dead, but these strange items he kept there each have their own temperaments, and some of them are even refused to be touched by their original owners.

A buyer in a long robe was sealing the box. After sealing it, he didn't take it with him, but hired someone to guard it until his companion brought something to put it in.

Jiang Luo didn't join the crowd. Instead, she walked along the clean side and her eyes were quickly drawn to a small gilded cabinet in the corner.

The cabinet was only slightly taller than her knees, with white stone slabs embedded in the door, and the handle was a curved silver fruit pit. Next to it was labeled Grade A Freshness Preservation Box.

She reached out and pulled, but the inside was empty; no one dared to rush out.

(✧ω✧)

Finally, there's something that looks like a proper decoration.

Tao Shun retrieved the original instructions and told her that the box could insulate against heat and slow down the spoilage of food. Snacks placed inside while hot would not cool down quickly, and those stored in ice would retain their coolness, but the crystals needed to be replenished regularly.

"Things that are already broken won't get better if you put them in, and you can't put living creatures in it, because the inner lining can't withstand being torn or bitten."

Jiang Luo touched the inner wall to make sure there was no thumping like in a cold storage room, then took out a small piece of pastry that he hadn't finished eating from his pocket.

The pastries had long since gone cold.

She looked at it for a moment, then put it back in the paper package and looked up at the crow.

The crow immediately pressed down on its pocket.

"I don't have anything hot here either. Don't look at me, I even crushed those two pancakes during the fight."

Tao Shun asked his waiter to borrow hot tea and a bowl of cold water from the shop across the street. Jiang Luo smelled the tea first, then had him try it in an ordinary cup before putting the tea into the upper and lower cups respectively.

The partition separated the two sides, preventing any cold mist from escaping, and the sound of swallowing could not be heard from inside the door.

As they were testing the box, a tugging sound came from outside the side door. The foreman, who had taken off his white apron, was dragged out by two of the merchants' guards, carrying several sets of keys that had been taken from the customers.

It tried to blend in with the people carrying goods and slip out. Just as it ducked and squeezed through a gap, it was recognized by the leather-clad man guarding the door, whose short, toothless hook immediately blocked its way.

The woman with the ram's horns didn't leave it any room to beg for mercy. She had the guards tie up its hands, which had just been grabbing the workers, and then pulled a thin piece of skin from her clothes and stuck it to its already frostbitten face.

The sound quickly disappeared beneath the thin skin.

She instructed her servants to carefully collect her household account books and scattered keys. As she passed Jiang Luo on her way out, she slightly stepped aside to let him pass, not using her own lost belongings as a reason to claim a larger share of the spoils.

Jiang Luo remembered the wooden box that had been found in her hand, nodded, and continued picking out things, without asking everyone who passed by to thank her first.

The counter behind her was half empty. Goods that had been claimed by their owners were being loaded onto the truck one after another. No one was holding a knife to someone else's neck anymore in order to snatch a box of unknown origin.

When she returned after browsing the other two cabinets, the hot tea was still steaming, and the cold water hadn't cooled down.

Han Ya returned the teacup to the other side of the street. When she came back, she checked the bottom of the cabinet again to make sure that the small compartment for crystallization was intact and not stuck to the frozen meat in the cold storage before asking the shop assistant to wipe off the dust.

Jiang Luo closed the box door and put the whole thing into his personal space, his movements even more swift than when he put away a money bag.

"Luo Luo will take this. From now on, she won't have to carry around a bag of cold snacks when she goes out, and she can have hot tea anytime."

The crow looked at the empty corner of the wall, then at its own pocket full of cookie crumbs.

Jiang Luo immediately added a sentence.

"I'll also leave you a layer for drinks, but if Xiaobai tries to put anything alive in there, you'll have to stop him."

"You should write this on the cabinet door first, otherwise I won't be able to stop him, and he'll think I'm trying to steal his food."

Jiang Luo thought of her younger brother's mouth, which could stuff anything in it, and silently took out a piece of paper and wrote on it that he was not allowed to keep food.

(￣_￣|||)

It's still necessary to make this clear in advance.

Lolo bought a snack box, not a cage to hide midnight snacks for him.

Tao Shun then showed her a mirror that could reflect the gaps between bones, but the crack on the back of the mirror was still bleeding. Jiang Luo only glanced at it and waved her hand, without even asking how much cheaper it was.

She pushed the black wooden comb that was brought over back. It could indeed make hair smoother, but it would only comb it if a few strands were pulled from the user's head first.

As soon as Stella moved her hand, Jiang Luo grabbed his hair and glared at her small bag.

(╬￣Dish￣)

"You're not allowed to buy it. I won't give it a single hair of Lolo's, and you're not allowed to hide the hair that's been combed out behind my back."

The head maid regretfully withdrew her gaze, turned around to block the box next to her that kept trying to close itself, and gave up on the comb.

Tao Shun figured out what the lord wanted today, so he stopped trying to please him with those ferocious objects and put the silverware and cloth that could be safely moved aside.

Jiang Luo noticed a piece of dark purple fabric, pulled back a corner, compared it to Stella's injured cuff, and then had the shopkeeper roll it up.

"Take this back and make it into an outer garment for you. The rest can be used as a hairband. Don't use that blood-stained one anymore."

Stella took the cloth, without saying that it was free, and simply bowed her head in agreement, holding it in her arms and carefully tidying up even the broken threads.

After searching for a long time, Han Ya finally only picked out an unremarkable wristband.

This leather gear was designed to distribute the impact of the shield's charge. The leather surface bore creases from repeated tightening, and the inside of the buckle was padded with thick, soft rubber. After trying it on, she found it could perfectly wrap around her wrist, which had just become sore.

Jiang Luo asked her to leave the wristband and placed a bag of crystals beside her. Han Ya quickly explained that she hadn't calculated how much the crystals were worth yet.

"The wristband is for you, this bag is the reward for you. Lolo chased the wrong place just now, you're the one who found the guy hiding in the coffin."

The crow paused, a smile involuntarily creeping onto its lips, yet it still wanted to switch the bag to the smaller one.

Jiang Luo slammed her hand down.

"Take it. Don't let Lolo take back the money she gave away in front of others. That would be so embarrassing."

(￣ ▽ ￣)

This time, the crow didn't push it away. It held the bag and wristband together tightly, and even the slight soreness in its shoulder seemed to lessen considerably.

Before leaving, Tao Shun looked at Stella's needle case again and asked her if she found it convenient to use.

The head maid truthfully said that the needles were useful, but when chasing, she had to be close to the enemy to retract them, so that others could not get behind her while she was removing the needles.

Tao Shun mentioned a Master Shao from Huai'an Town, saying that he had made a box buckle that could retrieve small flying gadgets, and might not be able to directly match this needle, but he could ask for her first.

Jiang Luo didn't immediately agree to pay. He told him to first find out the other party's methods and prices, so that he wouldn't just add two zeros just because he was from Hongyue.

Tao Shun smiled and agreed, then personally escorted the three of them to the carriage.

As the wheels left the old slaughterhouse, Jiang Luo couldn't help but take out the freshness preservation box again, place it in front of his seat, and open the hot tea compartment.

Stella poured her half a cup, the temperature was just right.

Jiang Luo leaned back against the cushion, cup in hand, her eyes slowly curving upwards. The cold wind outside the car seeped in through the corner of the curtain but couldn't cool the tea in her hand.

Not only did I buy a needle today, but I also found such a great find.

When Xiaobai sees this, he'll be so envious he'll want to lick the cabinet door.