The fool has become a spirit, and she can speak

"It's only natural for me to take back my things. Why should I inform them?" Cheng Youning said it with confidence.

Cheng Feng said, "Cheng Youning, please explain clearly how this thing came into your hands. I remember Madam Chen put this jade pendant away."

Cheng Youning said: "She put the jade pendant away, but it doesn't affect me getting it back."

"I asked you how you got it back."

Cheng Youning said, "It's easy. Go into the inner room. There is a locked chest of drawers in his house. I guess the jade pendant is inside. It's really inside."

"How did you open the cabinet when it was locked?"

Cheng Youning said: "How can a padlock stump me? I can open it with just two shakes."

Shang Xi was so angry that she pointed at Cheng Youning's nose and yelled, "Cheng Youning, do you have any manners? You entered someone's inner room, picked their lock, and took their things. Do you know what you are doing? This is theft. Do you understand what theft is?"

Facing Shang Xi's roar, Cheng Youning showed no sign of cowardice or repentance, and even reasoned with Shang Xi, "Theft means stealing other people's things. I am taking back my own things, so it's not theft. I am returning the property to its original owner."

Shang Xi was so angry that she wanted to hit someone: "Given to someone else, it's theirs. If you pick the lock and take it back, it's theft."

Cheng Youning also got angry and raised his head to confront Shang Xi, "I can give my things away if I want to, and I can take them back if I want to. And I didn't pry the lock. I just shook it twice and it opened, so I didn't steal."

"You're so young, but you're full of nonsense." Shang Xi raised her hand and hit Cheng Youning. Cheng Youning didn't run away or cry, but the expression on his face showed that he was right, he didn't accept it, and he would fight his mother to the end.

Seeing that Cheng Youning refused to admit his mistake, Shang Xi became so angry that he hit him harder and kept scolding Cheng Youning. It was really infuriating that Cheng Youning seemed to be turning a deaf ear to him. In the past, if Shang Xi had hit Cheng Youning, eight hundred people would have stood up and said good things for him. But today was not the case. Except for Qiao Rong who blocked Cheng Youning, no one spoke for Cheng Youning. Even so, Cheng Youning did not think he was wrong. He clenched his teeth and did not say a word to beg for mercy.

Shang Xi was panting from exhaustion. Cheng Feng reached out and held her back. Shang Xi was so angry that she was incoherent. "Cheng Feng, why are you stopping me? You should teach your son a lesson. He is only a few years old and he has already gone astray. It will be too late if you don't take care of him now."

Cheng Feng winked at Shang Xi, "Even if it's the buttocks, you can't hit them like this. It will hurt some parts."

Shang Xi said: "Then you fight."

Cheng Feng said: "If I take action, your son will be crippled."

Shang Xi said: "If you cripple him, I will raise him for the rest of his life. It's no pity to break such a dishonest hand or foot."

Wan Lianxing said, "Okay, this is a street. Even if there are not many people around, this is not the place to teach a child a lesson. If you have anything to say, go back and talk."

Wan Lianxing pulled the jade pendant off Cheng Youning and called his attendant, who appeared in response, "What do you want, Lord?"

"Stop pretending. You are half responsible for what happened today."

"My Lord, are you going to punish me?" Seeing that the situation was not good, the follower ran away leisurely.

"Come back and return this jade pendant to the chest of drawers you took it from."

The attendant smiled and stood in front of Wan Lianxing again, took the jade pendant and said, "Then I have to take Cheng Youning with me."

"Why take him? Go find it yourself in the locked chest of drawers in the inner room."

"There are five drawers in the chest of drawers. I know which drawer Cheng Youning took it out from."

Cheng Youning said, "The first drawer."

"Apprentice, did you lock it after you opened it?"

"I can't lock it without a key."

"That won't work. It's no good if you can only open the lock but not lock it. Come, let the master teach you how to lock it." In the blink of an eye, the follower pulled Cheng Youning and disappeared.

"Follower, come back, you have corrupted my son."

"Hahahaha, my apprentice, I will teach you however I want."

"Then you can't teach randomly, come back..."

Wan Lianxing said, "Get in the car, these two will be back soon."

"Uncle, you have to control your followers. If this continues, Cheng Youning will go astray."

Wan Lianxing said, "Okay, I'll punish him when I get back."

The carriage and horses finally started moving again.

In the courtyard of Chen Gongxiang's house, the little girl Chen Zi'e went to find Xiang Qin who was working, "Mom, where is the jade pendant my brother gave me?"

"Mother locked it up in the chest of drawers in the inner room."

"Can I see it?"

"Of course, it's locked in the first drawer by mom. The key is hanging around mom's waist. You can take it yourself, take a look at it and put it away. Don't lose it."

"I got it, Mom." The little girl took the key and skipped away.

When she came to the inner room, the girl saw that the chest of drawers was not locked, so she opened the drawer and looked, but there was no jade pendant.

The little girl ran to the dining hall again, "Mom, did you remember it wrong? There is no jade pendant for my brother in the first drawer."

"Impossible, it was put there by my own hands, there's no mistake. When I finish this job, I'll show it to you."

"Madam, let us servants do this job. Please go and help the young lady find something."

Seeing Chen Zi'e waiting on the side, Xiang Qin put down the work in her hands, washed her hands, and took Chen Zi'e to the inner room. She opened the drawer and found it was empty. She panicked for a moment, "Zi'e, you are kidding me, where did you take the jade pendant?"

Chen Zi'e stretched out her hands to show Xiang Qin: "I didn't take it. If you don't believe me, you can turn me over. This drawer was open when I came here."

"That's impossible. I clearly put it in the first drawer and locked it before I left." She hurriedly used the key to open the drawers below. All the valuables were there, except the jade pendant.

"I told her I didn't have any, but she still didn't believe me."

The woman was at a loss for a moment. "Go find your father with your mother and ask him what to do."

Chen Gongxiang was still immersed in joy, sitting there drinking tea to sober up. After hearing what his wife Xiangqin said, he was not panicked at all. The three servants in his family had always been honest. This thing would definitely not grow legs and walk away. "Madam, don't worry. Think about it again. It must be that Madam remembered the wrong place to put the jade pendant."

"Master, how could I put such a valuable thing in the wrong place? It concerns our daughter's lifelong happiness."

"Come on, I'll go with you to the inner room to look for it."

The family of three came to the inner room again. Xiang Qin pointed to the chest of drawers and said, "Master, I put the jade pendant in the first drawer and locked it."

"Bring the key."

Xiang Qin looked at the locked drawer with a doubtful look on her face, "Did I lock the drawer just now?" She looked at Chen Zi'e, and Chen Zi'e shook her head.