"It really fell off."
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"You did that on purpose?"
After a moment of stunned silence, inspiration struck Zhuge Yun.
He blurted out,
Xiao Xiao smiled without saying anything.
Zhuge Yun and the others nodded knowingly.
"Third Brother, you really take things too seriously."
Zhang Bo clicked his tongue.
It was just an excuse.
And he'd actually turned that excuse into the truth.
"You really don't mind throwing it away, do you?"
That ornament had been expensive.
And he'd just casually tossed it into the courtyard.
What if...
The chances of that happening were really very slim.
But what if the two elderly people took their polite words at face value and really thought they'd given up looking? Then Third Brother's ornament would be like a meat bun thrown to a dog—gone for good.
"Now that it's really lost, won't Feifei get mad?"
Zhao Luzheng muttered.
Taotie had left a deep impression on him.
So in his mind, all monsters had a bit of a temper... or rather, a pretty bad one.
"Ah!"
Zhuge Yun clapped his hands.
A second later, he stuffed them back into his pockets.
Brr, it was cold.
"You guys are all missing the point!"
His voice came out muffled through the scarf covering half his face.
"What?"
Zhang Bo glanced at Zhuge Yun with a somewhat dismissive look.
"Speak more clearly."
Zhuge Yun rolled his eyes.
He tugged his scarf down a little and repeated, emphasizing every word, "I said, you're all missing the point!"
Before Zhang Bo and Zhao Luzheng could react, Zhuge Yun continued, "Isn't the point the reason Third Brother did this?"
"Normally, Third Brother isn't so inflexible."
They couldn't actually think Third Brother had tossed the ornament there just so that what