Whether it was intentional or an accident, there are others who will judge.
Once they captured him and recovered the Jade Buddha, Qin Huai’an’s crisis was resolved.
In the middle of the late night, Qin Huai’an ran back.
When he arrived at the village, it was already dark, and the villagers didn’t believe his words; they even mistook him for a bad guy and beat him up.
Qin Huai’an was furious. By the time he ran back to the village, it was past one in the morning. He felt uneasy, as the task Brother Mo gave him was still uncompleted.
Even when he offered money later, claiming there was really a circus to watch, those villagers didn’t believe him.
At this late hour, telling them there’s a circus to see?
Even Qin Huai’an himself found it hard to believe. If there really was a circus, the news would have surely spread during the day, not at night.
"You got beat up?" Mo Siyu opened his eyes to see Qin Huai’an standing in front of the car, panting as he said, "Brother Mo, those villagers just wouldn’t believe me, Brother Mo, what should we do now?"
"Back to Jiang City," Mo Siyu said.
Qin Huai’an looked at Mo Siyu dubiously and asked, "Brother Mo, if we go back now, we still haven’t caught the person."
Qin Huai’an was about to drive, but as soon as he opened the car door, he smelt a faint odor of blood and anxiously asked, "Brother Mo, has your injury reopened?"
"It’s fine." Mo Siyu closed his eyes again and said, "The person has been caught, and the Jade Buddha will certainly be found."
Hearing him say it’s fine, Qin Huai’an felt relieved. He had been running for hours and was starving, not realizing until then and asked in retrospect, "The person’s been caught?"
"Of course," Mo Siyu replied without opening his eyes, speaking calmly as if he was commenting on the day’s weather.
"Oh."
Qin Huai’an had just started the car when he immediately hit the brakes hard, looking at him incredulously and asking, "Brother Mo, really caught him?"
"Yes," Mo Siyu urged, "Your stomach is growling, aren’t you going to hurry back to the city and eat something?"
Suppressing his impulsive feelings, Qin Huai’an kept glancing at Mo Siyu. He looked toward the back seat – it was empty, but in the trunk, listening carefully, there seemed to be someone indeed.
"Brother Mo, how did you catch the person?"
"..."
Mo Siyu couldn’t be bothered to talk.
They arrived at the destination, and Qin Huai’an was dying of curiosity. Upon opening the trunk, sure enough, Shi San was lying there, blood still oozing from a hole in his belly.
"Hey." Qin Huai’an patted Shi San’s face. Shi San had been squeezed in the trunk the whole time, losing so much blood that he was about to pass out.
"He won’t die," Mo Siyu glanced at him, his sickly form sitting in the car was particularly conspicuous.
Qin Huai’an brought the man inside, and with their cooperation, Shi San had already confessed the location of the Jade Buddha. Qin Huai’an followed the lead to retrieve the Jade Buddha, and by the time they left, it was already five in the morning, and it was starting to get light.
"Brother Mo, let’s go have breakfast," Qin Huai’an promptly took Mo Siyu out for breakfast.
At five o’clock, it still wasn’t fully light, and most of the breakfast shops hadn’t opened yet; even the steamed bun shops were just starting, and the buns were not yet cooked.
Qin Huai’an sat there waiting, only starting to eat the piping hot steamed buns with Mo Siyu after they were ready, and followed up with some soy milk. Only then did he finally feel revived.

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