"Sister, your savior looks well-behaved and gentle, like a scholar." Xiaoqing and Bai Suzhen walked forward and looked at the person they had been looking for for most of the day from a distance.
"Qing'er, what do you know? As the saying goes, you can know a person's face but not his heart." There are too many hypocritical people in the world. It is often difficult to judge a person's character just by looking at his appearance. This scholar-like man looks honest, but I don't know what his character is like.
Xiao Qing said: "Isn't this easy? Let me give it a try."
"Qing'er, how are you going to test him?" Bai Suzhen asked curiously.
"This one..." Xiao Qing pondered for a moment, then glanced at the golden hairpin on Bai Suzhen's head, and her eyes lit up, and she shouted, "I got it."
"Sister, please lend me your hairpin." She took the hairpin from Bai Suzhen's head, put her hands together, closed her eyes, chanted a few mantras, and shouted "Go!" Then the hairpin flew towards the scholar-like man as if it had eyes, and fell to the ground in front of the man with a clang.
Bai Suzhen was curious when she saw Xiaoqing's plan to test the scholar. She really wanted to know whether he would return the hairpin to its original owner or keep it for himself, so she focused on the scholar's reaction. But she saw the scholar bend down to pick up the hairpin on the ground, take a closer look, and then look around with an anxious look on his face.
"Miss, did you drop this hairpin?"
"no."
"My lady, did you lose your hairpin?"
"No.",,,,,,
"This guy is really stupid." Xiaoqing saw the scholar holding up the gold hairpin and approaching a girl to ask if she had dropped her hairpin. She couldn't help but burst out laughing. "With his behavior, I'm afraid that before we can claim the hairpin back, it will be taken away by a greedy person."
"Qing'er, why are you still here? Why don't you go over and claim the golden hairpin back." The golden hairpin was bought by Xiaoqing as a gift for Bai Suzhen, and she didn't want to see it being claimed by someone else.
"I got it. I'll go right away." Seeing that Bai Suzhen was so nervous about the gift she gave her, Xiaoqing was delighted and responded happily.
"Oh, how come it's gone? I can't find it anywhere. What should I do?" Xiao Qing winked at Bai Suzhen, asking her to cooperate with her. Then she pretended to be anxious and annoyed, looking around for the thing. "It clearly fell here, how come it's gone?"
Seeing that Xiaoqing was acting very conscientiously, Bai Suzhen thought that people who didn't know the truth might think that she had lost something when they saw her anxious look.
"Excuse me, young lady, is this the gold hairpin you lost?" The scholar saw Xiaoqing looking for something, so he hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
"So it was you who picked it up, sir." Xiao Qing exclaimed with joy, "That's great."
The scholar seemed to be relieved, and respectfully handed the hairpin back to Xiaoqing, "Return it as it was."
"Then I would like to thank this young master." Xiaoqing took the golden hairpin and turned back to look at Bai Suzhen. Bai Suzhen walked forward, bowed to the scholar, and said softly, "Thank you, young master."
"You're welcome, young lady." The scholar quickly returned the bow, raised his head, and suddenly saw Bai Suzhen's appearance. His body shook violently, and he stared at Bai Suzhen, unable to move his eyes away.
"Hey! Hey!" Xiaoqing saw him staring at Bai Suzhen with an obsessed look on his face, and she suddenly felt inexplicably annoyed. She thought this scholar was good just now, but now she immediately changed her opinion.
"Hey, you little brat, have you never seen a grown-up girl? Why are you staring at my sister?" Seeing that she couldn't wake up the scholar, Xiaoqing simply moved and stood in front of Bai Suzhen, blocking the scholar's sight.
"Oh... I'm sorry." The scholar came back to his senses suddenly, turned away awkwardly, apologized repeatedly, and then ran away in a panic.
"Qing'er, you see, he is such an honest man. He returned the lost money to the owner." Bai Suzhen praised the scholar as he left.
Xiao Qing snorted and said disapprovingly: "Maybe he saw that the things were dropped by a beautiful lady like you, so he just returned them to me."
Bai Suzhen asked curiously: "What if it's someone else?"
Xiao Qing curled her lips and said, "I'm afraid that won't happen."
Bai Suzhen shook her head: "I don't believe it." She felt that the scholar just now should be a kind-hearted person. No matter who lost the things he picked up, she thought he would return them to the original owner.
"If you don't believe me, I'll try and show you." Xiaoqing was not convinced. She didn't believe that the scholar could really always return the lost money.
"Qing'er—" Bai Suzhen held Xiaoqing and said, "Don't tease him anymore. He is just a mortal."
Xiaoqing shook off Bai Suzhen's hand and said, "Sister, it's okay." Xiaoqing ignored Bai Suzhen and caught up with the scholar. She cast a spell to make a noble lady's earring fall in front of the scholar. Unexpectedly, the scholar returned the earring to the lady as he had done before.
"Qing'er, this time you should finally admit that he is an honest man, right?" Bai Suzhen looked at Xiaoqing, who was looking annoyed, and laughed in her heart. She really didn't know what this girl was arguing about.
Xiaoqing stared at the scholar coldly and said, "I'll try him again." After that, she strode towards the scholar.
"Qing'er, Qing'er..." Bai Suzhen wanted to call Xiaoqing, but Xiaoqing didn't listen to her at all. Bai Suzhen had no choice but to watch her transfer the silver from another person to the scholar. The result was predictable. The scholar naturally returned the silver to the other person.
"This guy is really..." Xiaoqing stared at the scholar as if he was looking at a monster, muttering to herself: "I didn't expect there would be a fool who would not want the silver he found. I, Xiaoqing, am convinced. Sister, your lifesaver is really not an ordinary... pedantic."
Bai Suzhen smiled and said, "Qing'er, he sits upright and walks properly, how can you say he is pedantic? There are not many people like him in this world."
Xiao Qing sneered: "Fortunately there aren't many. Otherwise, if there were so many pedantic people in this world, it would be really boring."
Bai Suzhen smiled but did not comment.