Inside the main room, the sound of Guan Yumei slurping noodles was deafening.

She tiptoed back to the storage room, closed the door, and let out a long sigh of relief, her heart still pounding wildly.

If she remembered correctly, her third brother, Su Yin, would send Guan Yumei away in a few minutes, then steal the family's household registration book and go to the educated youth office to register her, Su Zhenzhu, and Su Tong to go to the countryside.

In her previous life, she witnessed Su Yin's actions but dared not speak out for fear of being beaten.

They thought he was stealing money, but they never expected that he was actually stealing the household registration book.

There were too many children in the family, but only Su Tie voluntarily went to the countryside, which was against the policy.

The educated youth office and the street office have come to persuade us many times, and their attitude has become more and more forceful each time.

Su Jin took up one of her father's quotas for a child to work in the factory, which was available for an eighth-grade worker, and was already in her second year as an intern.

Su Zhenzhu works as a temporary worker at a match factory.

Su Tong has heart disease and is not required to go to the countryside according to policy.

Su Ruyi is still in high school.

Only Su Yin idled away his days.

Su Ruyi later learned that he had been involved in the black market.

In his past life, Su Yin pulled a fast one on this day, signing everyone except him and Su Jin up to go to the countryside.

Furthermore, they took away everyone's rural allowance totaling 600 yuan.

After everyone went to the countryside, Su Yin sold Su Zhenzhu's temporary job and got 400 yuan, finally earning his first pot of gold.

With this first pot of gold, he began to thrive in the black market.

In less than two years, he became the number one figure in the entire Haicheng black market, and gathered a large number of followers.

After the policy was relaxed, he seized the opportunity and quickly began to lay the groundwork for his business empire.

By the time he rescued Su Ruyi nineteen years later, he had already become a Forbes-listed figure.

Moreover, he has connections in both the legitimate and criminal worlds, and in Haicheng, he has long been all-powerful.

Su Ruyi, who was forced to go to the countryside, was sold by Ding Xiuling, the wife of her fifth brother Su Tie, to Zhang Biao, a distant relative who lived in the back mountains, not long after she arrived.

Zhang Biao was a bachelor in his forties, with a terrifying appearance and a violent temper.

Su Ruyi escaped many times, but was caught and brought back many times as well.

Later, to prevent her from escaping, the old bachelor began to lock her in the woodshed year-round, and even brought in an abandoned pig trough, tying her feet to it with an iron chain. Even in the dead of winter, he wouldn't unlock the chain.

She gave birth to six children with intellectual disabilities, and all six children died before they were one year old.

When Su Yingang rescued her, she couldn't look directly into the sunlight, her back was hunched, and she even had some difficulty standing up straight.

As for Su Tong, not long after he arrived in the countryside, he was reprimanded by the brigade leader for asking for leave during the harvest season, and was dragged off the kang (a heated brick bed) to work in the fields.

In the end, he collapsed to the ground and died of a heart attack.

...

As Su Ruyi was lost in her memories, she heard Su Yin's voice clearly ring out: "Mom, I just went to pee and saw a bunch of people lining up at the alley entrance! Aunt Wu said that they've found another job pasting cardboard boxes on the street!"

They're here!!!

These words are exactly the same as those in Su Ruyi's memories from her previous life!

Su Yin is about to steal the household registration book!

Upon hearing this, Guan Yumei immediately perked up, picked up her shoes, and hurriedly walked out of the courtyard gate, praising as she went, "You're such a clever little lad! When Mom earns some money, I'll give you special treatment!"

Su Yin smiled and said, "Mom is so good!"

After Guan Yumei walked away, Su Yin looked around at his eldest sister, fourth brother, sixth sister, and youngest sister who were watching him in the courtyard, and said fiercely, "Get back to your own rooms! Don't come out! I get annoyed just looking at you!"

Although they didn't know what had gotten into him this time, everyone immediately turned around and went back inside.

Everyone knows he's ruthless when he fights, and Guan Yumei dotes on him, so nobody wants to mess with him.

Su Ruyi also pretended to return to the storage room, but her eyes peered out through the gap in the newspaper on the window.

Sure enough, Su Yin slipped into her parents' room in a flash.

Su Ruyi took a deep breath, rushed into the kitchen, grabbed a rolling pin and a cleaver, and went to the four boys' room on the east side.

Su Tong, who had just opened a book, was startled by her: "Ruyi, what happened?"

Su Ruyi said urgently, "Fourth Brother, hurry! Third Brother is trying to break into Mom and Dad's closet; he's going to steal all the money in the house! We have to stop him!"

"What?!"

Su Tong grew anxious, took the kitchen knife, and stood up to block her behind him. "Go and call your eldest sister, and take your little sister with you. The three of you hide well! Don't come out!"

Su Ruyi went to the west wing room of Su Zhenzhu and Su Manao and repeated herself.

Su Zhenzhu was furious: "How dare he! I've been working for so many years, and I've given all my money to my parents. What right does Su Yin have to touch my dowry?"

She took the rolling pin from Su Ruyi and rushed out.

Little Su Manao shrank to the corner of the kang (a heated brick bed), clutching her agate pendant, and blinked her big eyes: "Second sister, I'll be good and won't go out. You go and help eldest sister!"

Su Ruyi frowned—how come she didn't notice this little green tea bitch in her past life? She's already showing signs of being a green tea bitch at such a young age.

She gave Su Manao a deep look, then walked out.

Su Yin was frantically searching through drawers and cabinets, sweating profusely.

Although he usually hangs out in the black market, he's now stealing from his own home!

—This is really strange! My parents always kept the household registration book and money in this drawer, so how come it's empty?

In his desperation, he started searching frantically.

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