This Side-effect Is Great - Chapter 22

Chapter 22 Is This Love?

After transmigrating and fusing with the soul and spirit of the original owner, Song Ankang’s spiritual perception was stronger.

Coupled with the side effects of absorbing the Seven Wounds Demonic Sutra, this allowed Song Ankang’s spiritual will to increase further, allowing him to sense things that ordinary people could not.

In terms of mental willpower, even Jiang Yunhe, who was once at an extremely high level, could not compare.

Moreover, after this period of bitter cultivation, Song Ankang’s strength had already reached the peak of the Organs Tempering realm. He was close to the Visceral Tempering realm, and his overall quality had also improved greatly.

The Hidden Heaven Earth Technique also made Song Ankang’s overall quality stronger. Coupled with his mental will, it was normal for him to be able to discover some abnormalities.

Therefore, Song Ankang did not think that his perception was wrong. Since he had sensed that something was wrong, there must be something wrong.

He quietly approached Jiang Yunhe to prevent himself from not being able to protect her if anything happened. He was also prepared to step on the snow without leaving a trace. He could escape at any time and bring Qiu Shi along

Song Ankang could not bear to see something happen to her. She was so beautiful, obedient, sensible, and cute.

Even though he had only spent about half a month with his mistress, Song Ankang felt that he seemed to have fallen in love with her. Even though it was inevitable that he had fallen in love at first sight (Read:lust at first sight) with her, there were also many feelings.

Compared to many modern people who went on blind dates that day, got married the next day, or got married in a flash, Song Ankang must have chatted around with his mistress for a long time.

Even though it was basically the mistress who took care of him, this allowed Song Ankang to see the character and ability of the mistress. He was very satisfied with this lover(read:mistress).

This was love!

Therefore, Song Ankang hoped that she could continue to take care of him. Moreover, thanks to his special physique, he had forcefully injected the Traceless Snow Steps Technique during this period of time, causing his movement technique to soar to the Minor Mastery stage. Even if he brought along a small concubine, it would not affect his full strength.

Just as Song Ankang was carefully searching for the source of the problem, trying to determine if it was related to the theft of the warehouse, there was another commotion outside. The loudest one was from Liu Yuanqing.

“Hao Jiyong, what else do you have to say now? Even your biological brother said that you stole the precious herbs in the warehouse of Chaoyun Manor. You also stole the ten-year-old ginseng from the warehouse of Chaoyun Manor. There are witnesses and physical evidence. What else do you have to say now?”

“And ever since we targeted you, we haven’t lost a single medicinal herb in the warehouse in the past few days. This also means that you’re the thief.”

“We can’t delay any longer. If we delay any longer, we might not be able to find those herbs again. Hao Jiyong, even if you have to confess today, you have to confess.”

A group of tenants who had been instigated by Liu Yuanqing held Hao Jiyong and responded loudly, “Yes, Hao Jimeng has already confessed. Hao Jiyong, stop being stubborn.” “If I really stole those precious herbs, do you think I wouldn’t have taken them out to save Hao Jimeng?” Hao Jiyong smiled miserably and said, “Moreover, anyone with a discerning eye can tell that Hao Jimeng was just spouting nonsense to drag me down with him.”

“Now you’re determined to pin this on witnesses and refuse to listen to my defense. What else can I say? I’m only sorry to the Villa Lord because this implicated him.”

Liu Yuanqing sneered. “What a nice thing to say. When you confess later, let’s see if you can still say such nice words. Let’s speed up and make Hao Jiyong confess as soon as possible. At that time, even if you ask, it won’t help… Ah, Manor Master, why… why are you here?”

“If I wasn’t here, wouldn’t I be blamed by you guys?” Song Ankang looked at Yuanqing and sneered. “Liu Yuanqing, how many times has this happened? I think you don’t want to be in charge anymore.”

“Whew…”

Seeing that he had been caught red-handed by Song Ankang, Liu Yuanqing panicked for a moment before suddenly becoming unyielding. “Villa Master Song, if we can’t find the thief this time, I will also be punished by the family. At that time, not to mention the position of the warehouse manager, I might even be chased out of the family.”

“Since Hao Jiyong doesn’t give me a way out, I can only be ruthless, unless you’re willing to take all the responsibility.”

“Aren’t you afraid that Hao Jiyong will insist on not admitting it and confirm that this matter has nothing to do with him? At that time, you won’t just be chased out of the family,” Song Ankang said coldly.

Hao Jiyong immediately said firmly, “Villa Master, don’t worry. I didn’t do this, so I won’t confess. Even if they beat me to death, I won’t confess, let alone implicate you.”

“I…” Liu Yuanqing was stunned and did not know what to do.

Song Ankang glanced at him and looked at the people holding Hao Jiyong. “Let go of Hao Jiyong. Get Hao Jiyong to organize people to get all the food and herbs out of the warehouse first. We’ll check carefully to see if there are any traces.”

“I don’t think this is man-made. It’s the work of demons, and demons who are good at hiding. Only by emptying the entire storeroom can we discover the problem.”

The warehouse was not small. It was thousands of square meters and contained a large amount of food and medicinal herbs. It occupied about one-sixth of the warehouse and was basically left behind from last year’s harvest.

It seemed like a lot, but there were still about three months until this year’s harvest. By then, it would be enough.

Originally, there were still some precious medicinal herbs that could make up for the deficit brought by this year’s drought. But now that half of them had been stolen, the rest could no longer be made up for.

After paying this year’s taxes, they would probably not even be able to keep 10% of the food and medicinal herbs. These would still need to support the entire farmstead for a year, which was not enough at all!

Hearing that Song Ankang wanted to free up all the food and medicinal herbs in the warehouse, not to mention the surrounding onlookers, even Qiu Shi and Jiang Yunhe’s expressions changed slightly.

“Young master, this is a huge project. Forget about the food. It’s very easy for those medicinal herbs to be damaged when they’re moved. It will affect the price.” Qiu Shi quickly reminded him.

Jiang Yunhe also said, “Young master, I’ve also carefully observed over the past few days. The ghosts and freaks won’t be interested in those medicinal herbs. Even though demon beasts and demons covet those medicinal herbs, their intelligence is limited, and it’s very difficult for them to break through the surrounding Green Ridge Stones.” “Even if it’s really broken, there will be traces left behind. It’s not like there are no traces left behind. Therefore, this matter shouldn’t be done by demon beasts and demons.”

Even Hao Jiyong stepped forward and said, “Villa Lord, you don’t have to take such a huge risk because of me. Once we move out the food and medicinal herbs and still haven’t discovered it, the main responsibility for this matter will fall on you.”