Xia Wan pointed in the direction of the cabinet, her tone somewhat impatient: "Where is it? Go and take all the money out!"

Qiao Chunsheng tried hard to suppress the urge to lose his temper. How could someone rob someone and then act so self-righteously?

However, after glancing at Zhao Chunlan lying on the bed like a dead pig, he was dissatisfied but gave up resisting!

Even if he wasn't injured, he didn't know if he could beat this person, let alone now that he was in pain all over!

He slowly moved to the cabinet, took out a small cloth bag, and handed it to Xia Wan: "This...this is all the money our family has!"

Xia Wan took it and glanced at it. She couldn't see exactly how much money was inside, but Qiao Chunsheng gave it to her so readily, there must be something fishy going on!

"Are you kidding me?" Xia Wan kicked the bed, shattering the wooden planks. "What can this little bit of stuff do? Get it all out here right now!"

She didn't want much; she just wanted to swindle this family before leaving, which would be her reward for the original owner's ten years of service to them!

Zhao Chunlan fell off the bed, groaned twice, but ultimately did not wake up!

However, Xia Wan's action really startled Qiao Chunsheng. She kicked the bed so hard it broke apart. If she had kicked him, he would have been crippled.

"Take...this...just take it..."

At this moment, Qiao Chunsheng looked like an octogenarian, walking unsteadily. If the room lights were on, you could definitely see the fear on his face!

Xia Wan leaned against the wall, just waiting for him to give her the money, completely unaware that she was there to rob him!

After Qiao Chunsheng took out another iron box, a smile finally appeared on his lips: "Is that all?"

“Yes, yes, that’s all…” Qiao Chunsheng nodded vigorously.

His tone was quite certain, but that didn't make Xia Wan show any mercy. She was knocked unconscious to the ground with a chop to the neck!

Then he slapped Zhao Chunlan awake and used the same method to make her hand over the money in her house!

Sure enough, Qiao Chunsheng wasn't telling the truth. Zhao Chunlan then lifted another brick from under the bed and took out an iron box!

Xia Wan sat on the only chair in the room like an old man: "Tch, you're pretty good at hiding things. Do you have any more?"

"No...it's all gone...it's really all gone this time..." Zhao Chunlan's voice trembled with fear.

"You poor bastard, what can you do with so little money? If you can't afford it, then pay with your life!"

Xia Wan's voice was full of malice, and Zhao Chunlan, who was already frightened, fainted on the spot!

"Useless!" Xia Wan clapped her hands, stood up, and swaggered out of the room!

She opened the door, pretending that a thief had broken in, before going back to her room!

I took out all the money and counted it; it totaled one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven yuan!

This number is about right. Even if they have some money hidden in their hands, it would only be some small change!

Qiao Chunsheng also sends money back to his hometown every month, and Zhao Chunlan also occasionally gives subsidies to her family. They are already quite fortunate to have this much money!

Two hundred more than expected!

The next morning, before Xia Wan had even woken up, a commotion broke out outside!

When they opened the door, they learned that Qiao Chunsheng's family had called the police! They said that someone had broken into their home and robbed them the night before, and more than a thousand yuan had been stolen!

Xia Wan stood at the door without saying a word, calmly watching the commotion!

After inspecting the scene, the police found no clues.

According to the information provided by Qiao Chunsheng and his companion, all they knew was that the other person was a man, and they could only vaguely make out that he was wearing clothes from a plastics factory!

They suspect it's someone from this apartment building!

As soon as these words were spoken, the onlookers outside were in an uproar. It turned out that all the men in their family had become suspects of Qiao Chunsheng.

"What does Deputy Director Qiao mean by this? We've lived here as neighbors for so many years, everyone in our apartment building knows each other!"

"Exactly, why do they start accusing people as soon as they open their mouths?"

"He's not Deputy Director Qiao anymore; some people have already been fired for misconduct!"

"The factory is coming to take back the houses soon. Are they trying to scam some money from us before they leave?"

Zhao Chunlan, in a fit of despair, roared at the onlookers outside.

"You stole the money, so you'd better hand it over now, or you'll all be in jail when the police find out!"

"Officers, if you search their houses one by one, you'll definitely find the money that went missing from my house!"

They only have thirty yuan left in their house now, which was the money she had saved up to help her family!

Now that they are unemployed and can no longer live in the factory's housing, how will their family survive?

"Search! Who do you think you are? You think you can just search us because you want to!"

"I think you're just crying wolf. If there really was a robbery, how come we didn't hear a thing?"

"Exactly! Our two houses are so close, and we didn't hear a thing!"

Qiao Chunsheng blushed with embarrassment as they talked about him, and forced himself to explain to the police officer next to him.

"All our money is gone, and the bed in the house is smashed! Officer, you must find the robber!"

The police officer gently comforted him, saying, "Comrade, we know you're very anxious, but I hope you can provide more clues!"

These clues are now rather abstract; they just asked the neighbors, and they all said they didn't hear anything.

Even the two children from the Qiao family didn't hear anything last night, which left them wondering where to begin their investigation!

Take, for example, the work clothes from a plastic factory, and the body types that Qiao Chunsheng and the other person just described—that's not easy to verify!

Most importantly, apart from the bed in the room, there was absolutely no sign of a struggle.

The police can only try their best to find the so-called robber based on the clues they provide, and it will be difficult to get results in the short term!

However, they didn't have to make things difficult for long before the factory's union and revolutionary committee members came to the Qiao family's house together!

"Qiao Chunsheng has been dismissed from our factory due to lifestyle issues. You are hereby ordered to move out of the plastic factory staff dormitory today!"

Without saying a word, the factory union staff handed out a notice, and Qiao Chunsheng and his wife faced another round of ridicule!

"Tsk tsk, their conduct is questionable, which means what's being said outside is true!"

“I knew it a long time ago. Xia Wan said last time that these two slept together when her mother was still alive!”

"I thought you couldn't take a child's words seriously, but it turns out they're all true?"

"You can't take other people's words seriously, but Xia Wan is different. She's been honest since she was little and never tells lies!"

"I heard that Qiao Erbao is the son of Qiao Chunsheng and Zhao Chunlan! Those two heartless bastards switched Qiao Erbao with Xia Wan's baby!"

The surrounding whispers and mockery made the Qiao family so embarrassed they wanted to disappear into the ground.

Xia Wan also lowered her head, pretending to be sad and upset, but in reality she was overjoyed!