Chapter 7 - The trouble it cost

As Li Xin was departing from the torture chamber, one of the soldiers face was pale as white, looked like he had been in a cold room that was filled with emptiness. No one notice until he started vomiting blood. Blood was splattered on the ground. In results, the person was about to faint , luckily his comrades caught him before he hit the ground. Well, his comrades took him away.

Another investigation had been made yet again. Bo Qin sighed as he would have another work assigned to him, when the other investigation had not even been done yet, not even close to solve it .Just in the passed few days already a lot of overwhelming things had happened. Would there be a special reason why it happened during the festival ? People would be celebrating while Li Xin was stuck with work. We also can't forgot about Bo Qin.Even though Li Xin was stuck with work he was not the type of person to celebrate these kind of thing.

The next day had arrived. Yet again, when the sun had risen , the people would woke up from their long dreamy slumber and would start their daily routine .You could hear the hawkers setting up their stall.

Rouxi opened the door wide opened as the sunrise had happened.Sunlight came to Ai Li's room. Ai Li woke up with lifting her both arm and yawn afterwards. She got up and did her dailies. As she was almost done changing her cloth , the finishing top wasn't done yet which was her jade pendant.

Rouxi kneeled down and apologized as she couldn't find the jade pendant. Ai Li told her not worry about it since she put it below her pillow. She was so confident that she put it there but in the end it was a candy wrapper below it. She scratched her head knowing that she was confused. She looked at Rouxi face and looked at the pillow. Instead of Rouxi looked at her young lady, she just looked at the floor with confusion and almost burst into laughter.

This can't be happening to her, that jade pendant was given to her by her grandmother. Another trouble has came to her. It's like she a magnet but only would stick to trouble.She looked up and sighed. She asked Rouxi to helped her to find it.Rouxi reminded her to greeted her elderly first , before searching for the item.

While walking to the Wise Hall a flash back came to her. At the alley during her escape, she felt that something has fallen off her , it must be her jade pendant and it was left at her hiding spot last time . She was screaming inside hoping that it was not the truth . At the Wise Hall , Ai Li greeted her grandmother . She didn't suspect a thing from Ai Li. Ai Li was celebrating in her mind but she spoke too soon in her mind because her mother started to asked about where was her jade pendant.

Of course ,her mother found it odd since she always carried it with her ever since she was given to it. It was one of her precious item that were given to her. Even her grandmother started to asked about it.

Ai Li just froze. " Xiao Ai, why aren't you answering your grandmother and your mother." Master Huang which was Ai Li father. "Umm.... I.. I... I accidentally left it in my room. " she answered. " I thought you lost it sister. " Jin Jin said. Ai Li told her brother don't be ridiculous how could she would lost it since she always carried it everywhere. Jin Jin believed what her sister said which was shocking to her sister.

At least, the covered hadn't been blown but Ai Li could only feel relieved for a little while since someone in this house eventually would find out. She didn't intend to tell, because she wouldn't want her grandmother to be heart broken about finding her precious granddaughter lost the item that she gave her.

" Where are you going Xiao Ai? " Madame Huang asked. Ai Li totally forgot about having breakfast, she could only thought about the jade pendant. She could only answered that she wanted to sleep again, since that was the only answered that came to her mind.

Breakfast was done, she already filled her stomach then just lay down on her bed and close her eyes since she didn't know what to do during the day. She then suddenly remembered that she needs to find the pendant. She would tried to find in the resident hoping that it would appeared soon.

The first place to search was her own bedroom. She looked at all places, she even checked 10 times under her bed but with no luck at all with the bedroom. On to the next destination which was the court yard. Well, it would be going to be difficult since the courtyard is big, and there was only two person going to worked it out. The search has started. Rouxi was checking all the flowers while Ai Li was checking at the pond to see if it has fallen there. This destination was also filled with no luck of finding it.

Jin Jin was just walking at the hall, passing by the courtyard and he saw his sister and was wondering what was his little sister was doing. He didn't want to go straight to his sister but plan on a sneak attack to his sister. He went to a bush to hide . Just as he was going to scare her " My young lady, I could not find the pendant. " Rouxi said. Jin Jin suddenly popped out " What pendant? ".

Ai Li was surprised to see her brother just popped out of nowhere. " Um... I'm..just searching for my... j.. j.. f..flower pendant. " He asked his sister since when she had a flower pendant as he didn't saw it before. " I just made the pendant by my own sweat and tears . " Her brother gave a weird looked and just walked away.

Well, their today mission to find the jade pendant was a failed but it was still fine as they haven't searched the other part of the residents. Ai Li went back to her room as she was tired and needed some rest. A maid came in and told Ai Li that she was called by the Old Madame Huang.