Chapter 943

It was already late. After Xia De left the riverbank, he didn't stay in Huntington City for too long, rode a horse directly back to the White River Valley Vineyard, and then returned home.

Because he wasted some time in the riverbank cave, it was already a bit late when he returned home. St. Theresa Square, where the lights were just lit, shone the warm yellow light of the gas lamps into the room through the curtains on the first floor.

At this time, Luweiya, who had an appointment to eat dinner with Xia De, had already finished work. When Xia De was walking up the stairs, she was teasing the cat in the living room. Xia De had told the maid of the Miss Jia Lin Na Manor to send this cat to the Prophet Society first in the evening, so he didn't have to go out of the city to waste time at this time.

Hearing the sound of Xia De going upstairs, one person and one cat went to the entrance of the second floor to welcome Xia De. Luweiya saw Xia De appearing at the corner of the stairs holding a box in his hand at a glance:

"Xia De, did it go well in Huntington today?"

"It went well, found some things, not a waste of time."

He raised the box in his hand upward:

"Luweiya, wait for me, I'll go change clothes, and we'll go out for dinner. Oh, it's so late, sorry to keep you waiting so long."

He casually placed the box in his hand on the cabinet at the entrance, and then walked into the bedroom to pick out clothes to go out.

"I'm not in a hurry, but your cat is probably almost unable to stand it. I fed it some cat food, but it only ate a few grains."

Luweiya said with a smile, and Mia followed Xia De into the bedroom wagging its tail, happily jumping onto the bed to play with the "Fish Training Ring" Xia De threw over—Xia De rinsed the ring at the vineyard to ensure there was no mouse smell.

Luweiya originally wanted to follow into the bedroom, but thinking that the night was still long and there was no need to rush, she casually opened the wooden box Xia De placed on the cabinet.

"Little Mia knows I'm going out for dinner tonight, so it's still waiting for a big meal..."

"Oh~"

The wooden box opened, and the purple-eyed girl felt her eyes were immediately illuminated by that box of jewelry. She sighed softly, and her slender fingers inserted between the jewelry to check carefully, confirming that this box was all jewelry, not just a shallow layer:

"Detective, did you rob an unfortunate jewelry shop in Huntington City this afternoon? Or did you ransack the manor of some cruel noble?"

She sized up the carved wooden box:

"Or, was this won by you playing Luo De Pai?"

"Of course not, I found the stronghold of a Ringed Shushi who died more than a decade ago, and this is his property."

Xia De said vaguely, and Luweiya heard the sound of him throwing clothes onto the bed.

So, the purple-eyed girl held the wooden box and walked into the bedroom. The gas lamp light in the master bedroom was very bright, the curtains were tightly closed, Xia De stood in front of the wardrobe next to the desk, the double doors of the wardrobe were open, he was shirtless and took out the white shirt supported by a hanger, and Little Mia squatted on the bed. Or rather, this cat squatted on the clothes Xia De took off, looking at him with bright eyes, with a very expectant expression.

"Good figure."

Luweiya looked at Xia De's silhouette and praised with a smile, placing the box on the bedroom desk.

"Before we go out, you check the coins inside; one of them is a relic, but I can't recognize it. It should just be a Poet-level relic; I think its original owner didn't know what this was at all."

. Xia De turned and said. He put the shirt on his body, and just as he was about to button the first button of the collar, Luweiya walked in front of him, her left hand holding Xia De's raised right hand to stop his action of buttoning, while her own fair right hand stuck to his chest.

"Xia De, you really can never be idle."

Luweiya said, and Xia De looked at her. The purple-eyed girl close at hand pulled her right hand slightly downward, but her palm didn't stick to Xia De's skin, just rubbed with the finger pad of her index finger, moved three or four centimeters, and stopped at his stomach.

"Hmm..."

Xia De stopped talking:

"Tonight, do we still have to go out for dinner?"

"Of course, otherwise your cat will definitely be angry with me."

"It's not that smart... well, it is indeed that smart."

Little Mia squatting on the bed had a stinky face, looking like it was already a bit impatient.

"I'll help you button it."

Luweiya said, her right hand left Xia De's skin, and together with her left hand helped Xia De button. Xia De opened his arms to facilitate Luweiya's activities:

"I ran to quite a few places this afternoon and met a mouse that cursed. Although I did find clues, I don't know if these clues can investigate the truth."

"Having clues means not wasting time."

Luweiya said, buttoned the bottom button, and took another look at Xia De's wardrobe:

. "Summer clothes have been put away?"

"Yes, the maid ladies sent by Miss Miss Jia Lin Na to help me clean the house every Saturday put those summer clothes in the cloakroom of the master bedroom and left me a note explaining the location. I have to admit that moving to this bedroom is indeed more convenient than the previous bedroom."

Luweiya picked a black warm vest and a thick coat from the wardrobe and helped Xia De put them on:

"We can talk about your adventure this afternoon at the dinner table in a while, or talk about it after we come back... Didn't you say, there is something that glows at night, and you want to show it to me?"

She asked with a smile, helping Xia De pull his sleeves. Xia De felt that Luweiya still didn't understand his meaning, but explaining now was definitely not the right move, so he could only respond in silence.

The purple-eyed girl asked generously again:

"I said this morning that I bought new pajamas. Do you prefer purple or white?"

【Like both.】

"She" understood Xia De's thoughts very well, but what Xia De actually said was:

"Although this might be a bit cliché, I prefer you, which has nothing to do with any pajamas."

. Luweiya hammered Xia De:

"Put on your clothes quickly, really, detective, these words weren't taught to you by that princess, right?"

The smile on the corner of her mouth was definitely not faked.

After changing clothes, Xia De held the cat that was about to starve and went to the restaurant on Silver Cross Avenue where seats had been reserved with Luweiya. While eating, Luweiya listened to Xia De recount the experience of the afternoon while playing with the coin he found.

For her "special fortune-telling," Luweiya specifically collected and searched for information on the containment of currency-type relics. Although Xia De couldn't recognize what this was, after comparing and confirming, she easily knew what this was:

"Poet-level relic 【Coin of Cat and Dog】."

She stood the gold coin on the table with one hand, twisted her fingers lightly, and the coin began to spin. The size of this coin was about the same as a one-pound gold coin. The front side that Xia De thought was a portrait of a strange woman, and the back side was the abbreviation symbol of the number "one." This symbol was the basis of contemporary mathematical symbols.

. A circle of text was engraved on the side of the coin:

【Cat and dog, you and me.】

"Give this coin to any cat or dog, it can be a mixed-blood, but the bloodline of the cat or the bloodline of the dog must exceed fifty percent. Give this coin to this kind of creature, if the other party actively accepts it, then it is equivalent to establishing a contract. The creature that accepts the coin voluntarily becomes the pet of the creature that hands out the coin, absolutely loyal, absolutely reliable, dares to sacrifice, and will never betray. Before the 'master' dies, this relationship cannot be lifted in any way. You can regard it as 'buying money' for cats and dogs, very interesting, isn't it?"

Luweiya pressed down on the coin that was about to fall, and Xia De, who was cutting red wine sauce steak with a dining knife and fork, took a look at Little Mia eating on the side:

"Can this kind of coin be used to enslave another soul?"

"It can be understood this way."

Luweiya nodded and also took a look at Xia De's cat.

"Is this a coin cast by a demon?"

"Yes, you guessed it right."

Luweiya held the coin and raised it slightly, and the light of the crystal lamp on the top of her head made it look like it was also glowing:

"The negative characteristic is that once the coin is given, then after both parties die, some terrifying existence, which should refer to the demon who cast these coins, will appear and take away the soul of one party, letting the other party continue to walk."

"Take away whose soul?"

. Xia De asked with great interest, thinking in his heart whether Father Shi Nai De would be interested in this kind of coin.

"Decided by the pet. Yes, the pet decides whether to sacrifice its own soul to protect the deeply loved master, or to let the soul of the damn master be taken away by the demon."

Luweiya said softly and pushed the coin back to Xia De. Xia De thought again of his friend, the demon scholar Mr. Xiao En Asmon, telling those stories about the demons of the Third Era:

"They are really guys full of bad taste. Miss Felianna was right, cherish the soul and stay away from demons."

After finishing dinner, Xia De didn't take Luweiya home immediately, but went to the Dawn Church with her, and then donated fifty percent of the banknotes and coins he found in Huntington City this afternoon to the Sect.

It was already winter, and the Sect was raising funds for the poor according to tradition, and this money would be used for relief food and the purchase of relief items after the snow. And the reason why Xia De donated part of the cash was because this was not his money in the first place, and he decided to keep that box of beautiful jewelry, so donating this unexpected gain was also with a clear conscience.

That night, Xia De still found an opportunity to show Luweiya the flying stone slab he obtained, but Luweiya didn't care at all, just vaguely indicating that it might be something like a key.

. Xia De's stone slab didn't attract the girl's interest, but her new pajamas attracted Xia De's interest. Luweiya was clearly prepared, so Xia De, who originally wanted to flip through the books found from Huntington in the evening, didn't find a chance to go to the study to get the books until the lights went out at two o'clock in the morning.

"Xia De, oh Xia De! How can you be so degenerate and lazy? Have you forgotten the year-end exam review plan you made earlier?"

So when he woke up on Tuesday morning, Xia De complained about himself for the first time.