Chapter 43 Thief
"Is it okay if it takes your life and your daughter's life?"
Grandma lowered her head like a deflated ball. She looked at her dying son lying on the ground with complicated eyes.
"You are all fine now, aren't you? Besides, all this is because my daughter is guilty of greed. If you want to get angry, just take my daughter's life."
Xie Fengyue raised her lips and smiled, turning her head to look at Chun Yue who had been silent all the time and asked: "Is it okay?"
Chunyue licked the blood around her lips unscrupulously: "Of course not, we must die together."
Grandma looked at her in disbelief: "You bitch, what are you talking about? I am your mother, and that is your brother!"
Chunyue's eyes flashed with crazy light: "Yes, the whole family should die neatly." She bit the word "die" very hard and looked back at her with a look of indifference.
"Mom, don't you always say that we are a family, so it's only right that I give everything to my brother, and now I don't want to show off."
Grandma stared at Chunyue's face as if her eyes were hardened with poison: "If you die, you will die. Do you want to kill your brother and cut off the roots of my Liu family? You are really an ignorant white-eyed wolf."
Chunyue smiled wantonly: "We are all one family."
Grandma blurted out as if she had woken up: "You were the one who tempted me, right? Yes, yes, it must be you."
Chunyue's eyes were crazy: "You only have brother in your eyes, and you don't care about my life or death. Do you still want me to cry with gratitude when you sold me to a fool as your bride? If I can't survive, then everyone will die together, and I will drag your beloved His son died together!”
Xie Fengyue watched the two of them hysterical, and she suddenly remembered the hairpin that Chunyue pulled out of her head: "Zhezhi, take out the hairpin from her sleeve."
Xie Fengyue took it and played with it: "Don't speak so righteously. You may really want them to die, but this is just an excuse after the matter is exposed. You are just looking for money. .”
She paused for a moment and smiled: "What kind of good bamboo shoots can the bad bamboo produce?"
Chunyue became angry when she exposed her thoughts: "If you want to kill, then kill. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
Xie Fengyue raised her eyebrows: "When did I say I was going to kill you?"
She waved to Li Xiaobao: "Throw them into the rain, and we will leave when the rain stops."
Then he asked grandma: "Where did you hide your money?" Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xie Fengyue rubbed the sharp hairpin in her hand, "It's not impossible to blind your son~"
"In the hole under the corner of the main house, I will give you all the money. You...don't touch my son."
Xie Fengyue didn't stop moving her hands and continued to say sarcastically: "You really love your son. Didn't he push you to get in the way at the beginning?"
Grandma’s ravaged face looked like she was ten years older: “Maybe he is too scared.”
Xie Fengyue nodded noncommittally: "Maybe."
When Zhe Zhi returned after finding more than twenty taels of silver, Li Xiaobao was already sitting aside to rest.
She pouted and asked dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you kill them! They all want to sell us!"
Xie Fengyue took a sip of water, looked up at her and replied: "No matter how powerful a person is, when he is full of hatred, he will still rely on his instinct to release his hatred by beating and killing, but there are obviously a thousand other ways. There are ten thousand ways to retaliate. Do you think their family can maintain the superficial harmony after this? Living with chicken feathers on the ground is much crueler than killing them with a knife."
Li Xiaobao, who had been silent all this time, nodded: "That Chunyue has already broken up with her mother and brother, and there will be some troubles in the days to come."
"That Liu Yaozu was cut off by a branch, and now the money has been taken away by us. If the old godly woman wants to cure her son, she has to quickly find her daughter's idea." Xie Fengyue sighed, "Oh~ It's a pity that we can't Look what happened to this family.”
Zhe Zhi asked half-understanding: "Is this better than killing them?"
The few people on the roof who kept wiping rain on their faces looked at each other, but no one spoke.
In the end, Songshan broke the embarrassment: "Who said this girl was kind-hearted before?"
Several people waved their hands quickly and shook their heads like rattles.
"Not me."
"It's not me anyway"
"I didn't." After the rain, the sky cleared up, and the clear chirping of birds was accompanied by the sound of rolling wheels. The branches stretched out imagelessly in the carriage, muttering: "I just came out and encountered this the next day. These bad things, this is bad luck.”
Xie Fengyue glanced sideways at her: "Hurry up, bah bah bah, what nonsense are you talking about."
Zhe Zhi felt unlucky and quickly changed the subject and asked Li Xiaobao outside the window: "If it doesn't rain tonight, we will sleep in the car."
Li Xiaobao replied with a muffled "Yes" and stopped talking.
Zhe Zhi felt really bored, so he simply counted his money.
She divided the copper plates and silver into two piles, and after counting them, she put them back into the bag one by one. She dug through the bundle again and found the white purse.
She raised her purse and waved it in front of Xie Fengyue's eyes like a treasure: "With these one hundred taels, we still have more than two hundred taels."
After Xie Fengyue glanced at her with a smile, she looked down at the mountains and rivers in her hand.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!"
"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?"
The voices of Xie Fengyue and Li Xiaobao sounded at the same time.
Li Xiaobao stopped the donkey cart and turned around to lift the curtain: "Are there any mice in the carriage?"
Xie Fengyue looked serious and looked at the purse that was shaking off the broken branches.
A few scattered pieces of silver in the purse were shaken off. Zhi Zhi turned the purse over with red eyes and refused to give up.
"Girl..our banknote is missing."
After Li Xiaobao was silent for a moment, he opened the car curtain and continued to drive the car.
Xie Fengyue's red lips almost pursed into a line: "If it's gone, it's gone. Let's save a few hundred taels and it will be enough for us to get to Lingnan."
Tears welled up in Zhezhi's eyes, and her lips trembled: "I have always kept it here, how could it be gone? I have never left this burden."
She seemed to have thought of something and immediately stopped loudly: "Stop! Li Xiaobao, stop the car!"
"Xu~"
As soon as the donkey cart stopped, Zhi Zhi couldn't wait to open the curtain and rushed out: "Did you take my money? This baggage only passed through your hands when we set out from the village."
Li Xiaobao was confused by the question. He looked into Zhe Zhi's eyes and said word by word: "I didn't."
Xie Fengyue also came up from the donkey cart at this time. She held her forehead and sighed: "After breaking the branch, he won't be the one to take it."
Zhezhi stamped his feet and argued: "He was the only one who had touched my baggage. I was in a hurry when I set off, so I asked him to take the baggage to the carriage. It must have been that he took the one hundred taels away at that time!"
The veins in Li Xiaobao's hand holding the whip popped out, and he spoke word by word again: "I told you, I didn't take it."
The two confront each other and the situation is tense.
Xie Fengyue pinched her eyebrows: "Li Xiaobao won't take it."
Xie Fengyue said this with confidence. As long as Li Xiaobao took the one hundred taels of silver notes, he could easily take away his slave contract. Then he could just run away, why would he still be a coachman here?
But the angry Zhe Zhi didn't think so. She insisted that it was Li Xiaobao who stole her banknotes. Her eyes turned red and she glared at him: "You thief, my girl was kind enough to save you, but you still stole money! Thief!" Thief! Thief!”
She turned her head and pursed her lips: "Girl, you are still facing him, don't believe me!"
(End of chapter)