"If they'd do something like that, who hates our family so much? We haven't offended anyone in the business world!"

"Master Mu said."

Xiao Fubao said, "Master Mu, it might not be hatred. It could also be that your family's wealth has infringed on the interests of some people!"

Master Mu had considered it, but he also felt it was impossible:

"It can't be his, absolutely not."

Little Fu Bao sighed softly and said, "Master Mu, you can know a person's face but not their heart! Anyway, that's all I wanted to say."

Niu Dadao:

"Master Mu, you might as well take a good look and see where those things were used. My daughter is right, you can know a person's face but not their heart."

After leaving Master Mu's house, Xiao Fubao didn't go home, but went straight to the pickle shop in town.

The Chen family has also been having a lot of bad luck lately.

First, Chen broke her leg at home. Her eldest daughter-in-law, Guo, took care of her, while her younger daughter-in-law, Xiao Chen, looked after the shop.

Later, someone found dried dog feces in her pickles, which forced Chen's shop, which was already struggling, to close down.

To open this shop, Guo and her sister-in-law Chen borrowed a lot of money from their maternal families. Neither of them were particularly wealthy relatives. Now that they heard about all the troubles at Niu An's Chen family pickle shop, they decided to close it down immediately.

Where are there debtors who don't come to collect their debts?

Niu An was also capable of such things. He directly divorced Guo Shi on the grounds of being unvirtuous, and even said that it was Guo Shi who borrowed the money, and that the debt should be repaid by Guo Shi and her parents.

His family never intended to repay the money.

The benefits go to him, and have nothing to do with his parents-in-law. After all, a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup.

When collecting debts, make your parents-in-law repay them. After all, Guo is their daughter, and it is only right and proper for them to repay their daughter's debts.

Niu An said to Guo Shi:

"Even if I divorce you, you have to stay in my house and take good care of my leg, which I consider my mother's, before you can leave!"

"Pah, Niu An, what kind of trash are you? I went to my mother's house to borrow money for the sake of our family, and now you want to abandon me? I'll burn your house down with you!"

Although Guo has a temper, she is not usually a shrew who makes a lot of noise.

"Sister-in-law, don't lose your temper. Shiwu, hold your sister-in-law a little tighter!" said Madam Chen.

Guo did the most housework at home, and since she had just finished cooking, she was full of energy and threw a handful of firewood into the woodpile in the kitchen.

Niu Anjia's house was half burned down.

The fire was raging, and the old clan chief organized the villagers to fight it. The Niu family, who lived closest to Niu Anjia, naturally also went to help fight the fire.

After all, when the city catches fire, sometimes the innocent bystanders suffer as well.

The half that wasn't burned was also charred.

Seeing her perfectly good house burned down like this, Chen collapsed to the ground, slapping her thigh and crying out:

"Oh dear, what terrible things have I done!"

The matter between Guo and Niu Anjia should be settled with each of them receiving equal punishment.

When someone is down on their luck, there's no limit to how unlucky they can get.

When Chen sat down on her bed, she suddenly remembered that she still had a gold leaf with a missing corner. Moreover, she had previously discovered that since that brat Xiao Fubao had secretly hidden a gold leaf in the tree on the back mountain, she certainly wouldn't have hidden it only once.

Her family is so rich, they certainly don't only have one gold leaf. Children are naive and might not even know that their gold leaf is missing.

"Jiejie, come here!" Chen said.

Niu Jiejie thought that Chen was going to tell her something, and said rather impatiently, "Grandma, what is it?" After her mother left, the responsibility of taking care of her grandmother would most likely fall on her, a six-year-old child.

"Remember when we went to the back mountain to pick daylilies and got the gold leaf? Xiao Fubao's family is so rich, she must have more than one gold leaf. Keep an eye on her on the back mountain when you have time." "Also, she's clearly not our Niu family's biological daughter, but she eats better than you, dresses better than you, and has more pocket money than you. Don't you want to switch with Xiao Fubao?"

Of course she wants to! She even wants little Fu Bao dead!

"Grandma, do you think Xiao Fubao knows she's not Uncle Niu's biological daughter?" Back then, Uncle Niu kept quiet in the village, so few people mentioned it, and many children didn't know that Xiao Fubao wasn't his biological daughter.

Perhaps Niu Jiejie and Chen felt that their family wasn't unlucky enough, so they had to recklessly court disaster.

She's actually quite smart!

Niu Jiejie thought about the silver anklet Xiao Fubao was wearing, the red gold longevity lock around her neck, and the dragon and phoenix patterned bracelet on her wrist.

Why does she, an abandoned wild child, live such a good life?

Grandma is right, she should be the one to take it. By all accounts, she and Uncle Niu are relatives, within the fifth degree of kinship.

Every day at daybreak, she would secretly keep an eye on Xiao Fubao.

It was discovered that she often brought gold leaves to the tree on the mountain, but when she went to the tree, the gold leaves had already been eaten by the tree.

She told Chen about it.

Chen's leg had almost fully recovered. When she heard Niu Jiejie mention this, she was quite surprised and said:

"No wonder that golden leaf was missing a corner; it's a demonic tree!"

Since Niu Jiejie is just a child, her words cannot be taken as the whole basis. Therefore, Chen woke up her husband and daughter-in-law in the middle of the night to keep an eye on the back mountain with her.

The mother and son, along with the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, were intently hiding in a corner of the back mountain, keeping an eye on Xiao Fubao and Xiao Heng. They seemed oblivious to any commotion behind them, focusing solely on Xiao Heng and Xiao Fubao who had just come up the mountain.

"Ah! What is that?" Little Chen suddenly jumped up. "A snake!"

Just as Chen and Niu Shiwu were about to turn around and scold Little Chen, a snake the size of a bowl suddenly coiled around them. "Snake! Snake!"

It was a python.

Ms. Chen was so frightened that she fainted.

Little Fu Bao watched the commotion on Chen Shi's side with great interest. Xiao Heng was also afraid that Little Fu Bao would be bitten by a snake, so he quickly hid Little Fu Bao behind his back.

The python and the little green snake slithered into the tomb as if they had never been there.

"Little brother, should we send them home and call a doctor?" Xiao Fubao said. She wasn't being overly kind, but it was just that having several healthy people die here would inevitably disrupt the luck.

Niu Jiejie's father, Niu An, has been bedridden since he was given fifty lashes a few days ago. He has two older brothers who are still studying in the county town.

She was the only one at home who was free, so the responsibility of taking care of the whole family fell on her, a six-year-old child.

She didn't want to take care of this whole family, and she was still young, but she had no choice but to serve Chen tea and water and coax her to take out the gold leaf from the house.

"Grandma, is there any money left at home?" Niu Jiejie asked.

"What do you need money for?" Chen asked.

“That money is for the doctor; it costs a lot to get the medicine for you!” Niu Jiejie said.

She had made up her mind. She would take the gold leaves to her mother to pay off her debts, and then keep some for herself. In fact, she had understood since the last time that Xiao Fubao had been raised by Niu Da and his wife since she was a child. Although she was jealous of everything Xiao Fubao had, she could never replace Xiao Fubao in this lifetime.

Moreover, her family has been having such bad luck lately. If this bad luck continues, it's uncertain whether she'll be able to switch with Xiaofubao, or even if she'll be scammed to death.

Furthermore, Chen and her father had never treated her very well.