"Not now." Lan Yin's face darkened. "The more critical the moment, the more we need to remain calm. Can't you see someone is watching us? Going to withdraw money now would just expose us."

"Then tell Mom where you hid the money, okay?" Li Chunxiang said unhappily. "Don't you trust your mother? I've taken all the risks for you, why would I want your money?"

"Mom, I didn't want you to know so you would be less in danger." Lan Yin waved her hand, slightly tipsy. "Don't ask anymore. When the time comes, I'll tell you even if you don't ask."

......

Jiang Yi took Xiao Moxi to a neighboring city for fun and didn't return until very late.

They were unaware of what had happened to the Xiao family.

To avoid embarrassment, Jiang Yi had been picking up and dropping off Xiao Moxi at the entrance of the residential complex recently. However, tonight he dropped her off very close to her home. He had bought her a lot of things, and if he didn't bring them in, she wouldn't be able to carry them away.

"Why are there no lights on in the house?" Jiang Yi asked. "They must be asleep. I'll help you carry them in; you can't carry all this stuff by yourself."

“Okay,” Xiao Moxi instructed him. “Keep your voice down, don’t wake them up.”

"I know." Jiang Yi had already gotten out of the car with his bags and walked a short distance. He glanced at the yard and noticed intermittent sobbing. At first, he thought he had misheard, but upon closer listening, he could indeed hear sobbing.

Seeing that he was standing still, Xiao Moxi shook her head. "Come on, what are you afraid of? They're all asleep, they won't see my sister-in-law."

"That wild girl, something's not right," he whispered. "Quiet down, listen carefully!"

Xiao Moxi did as he was told, and what he heard was not just sobbing, but also a kind of desperate wail.

A bad feeling crept in, and she rushed over. The door was ajar, but she pushed it open, and a gust of wind blew in, making her shiver. After her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she could make out several figures in the corner of the yard.

"Oh my god!" she exclaimed, scattering the things she was carrying on the ground. She quickly ran inside, turned on the yard lights, and looked up to see that the people there were her family members.

"What happened?" She ran over and asked several times, but no one answered her, or even looked at her. She shook this person and that person, but everyone seemed to be mute.

No, they're like puppets. Even a mute person can move their eyes, but these people can't even move their eyes.

"What's wrong with them?" Jiang Yi picked up all the things that Mo Xi had thrown on the ground and put them in the yard, then ran over to look at the people who were slumped on the ground.

Just then, the telephone rang inside the house.

In the stillness of the night, the sound was exceptionally loud.

"Moxi, the phone," Jiang Yi called softly.

Xiao Moxi turned and ran into the house. She thought something had happened to Xie Zhi. She could see the burned-out outbuilding at a glance. She never expected that something had happened to the children. If it weren't for that, she probably wouldn't have been able to run and would have collapsed on the ground.

Hello, who is this?

"Is this Comrade Su?"

"No, I'm her aunt."

"Then hurry up and call Comrade Su to answer the phone. I've called this number more than ten times, and it's only now that someone has answered."

"Who are you? What do you want with my sister-in-law?" Remembering their dull demeanor, Moxi asked directly. "If you have something to say, you can tell me. My sister-in-law is not available to answer this call right now."

"Then tell her that the children are okay, and she will definitely come to answer the phone."

"Okay, you wait." Xiao Moxi then realized that the family had become like this because something had happened to the children.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, there's a phone call for you!" she shouted as she ran out.

Everyone treated her as if she were invisible.

"Sister-in-law, the person on the phone said the children are fine and they want you to go right away..."

Before Mo Xi could finish speaking, Su Xiaonuan, who had been like a puppet just moments before, got up and rushed inside.

Then, Xiao Moran also came back to life and quickly ran inside.

Then, Zhang Yulan, Ye Mei, and Su Ming also came back to life and ran into the house.

These undead were all brought back to life immediately because of what Mersey said.

"What's going on?" Jiang Yi looked at her, puzzled.

"I don't know either, but look, the outbuildings here are burned down. Are the children injured?" Xiao Moxi slapped his forehead and rushed in, thinking to himself, "Could the children be injured?"

Jiang Yi also followed them inside, completely bewildered.

Under the light inside the room, everyone looked as if they had just come out of the coal mine, so black that only their two eyeballs could be seen moving, and there were two clear tear streaks on each person's black face.

Especially Su Xiaonuan, she held the microphone to her ear with one hand and pressed it with the other, all ten of her fingers were bleeding, her nails were worn down, and her ten fingers without nail protection were torn and bleeding.

God, what happened? How did she become like this? Jiang Yi felt a pang of pain in his heart. He hadn't expected that even with Mo Xi as a substitute, Xiao Nuan still existed in his heart.

He thought that he would completely forget Xiao Nuan after falling in love with Mo Xi. At this moment, the soft string in his heart was plucked again, and it was a pluck that made a trembling sound. He wanted to go forward and clean the wounds on her ten fingers.

Su Xiaonuan's dark face, like a twin lotus blooming in the night, immediately lit up with joy. "Okay, I know."

"Xiao Nuan, are the children alright?" Several faces resembling Bao Gong surrounded her.

"Let's go pick up the child." Su Xiaonuan waved her hand.

They all thought the child had run outside, but Xiao Nuan led them to the ash heap and then stopped, staring at the ground.

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