"Sister-in-law, why are you talking so much nonsense to them?"

A man wearing coarse clothes, with a yellowed piece of cloth wrapped on his head, short but strong, holding a sickle in his hand, walked up to Lu Demin aggressively and said with a ferocious face: "What's wrong with me checking your family? Damn it, what can you do if I check it?"

Bai An looked up at the man, then turned to look at Lin Zhixia, only to see that Lin Zhixia had her head down, her face as dark as the deep sea, and a dangerous aura in her eyes.

The village chief also echoed: "It's okay to go and take a look. It's not a good idea for them to keep making trouble."

Lu Jinan looked at the group of people in front of him. He did not see any sadness or worry in their eyes. Instead, they looked eager to try, like a vicious dog seeing a bone, and it seemed like they would rush forward in the next second.

"You would rather waste your time here than look for Aster's whereabouts."

"You just want to come into my house like that."

The big man seemed to have been exposed, and said in a panic, "What's wrong with going in to take a look? Why are you talking so much?"

After that, no one spoke anymore, even Cui Ju's mother stopped crying. They all looked at Lu Deming's family with their eyes.

Lu Jinan seemed to have figured something out. He sneered, pulled Wanqing and Bai An to the side and made way for them.

...

...

Lu Demin was stunned, glared at Lu Jinan, and asked him what he was doing.

"Dad, don't you see that whether Aster is missing is one thing, and they want to check our house is another."

Lu Demin didn't understand why those villagers were so persistent in coming to his house.

Seeing this, the village chief had no choice but to smile and say, "I'm sorry."

At first, no one dared to take the lead. The short man holding the sickle and calling Mother Chrysanthemum "sister-in-law" made a nonchalant sound and walked in.

Seeing this, the others followed him.

"What do you think they eat?"

A group of women gathered around Bai An's family's dinner, discussing something in whispers.

"And there's meat, which is amazing."

"There are also white flour buns here."

"It's been a while since I've had meat. Can I have a bite?"

Seeing their lustful eyes, Lu Jinan frowned and said, "Aren't you looking for someone? Are you looking for someone else's food?"

The women who were being talked about looked at each other and smiled awkwardly.

"Hey, come and take a look."

A woman in her thirties looked like she had seen something good. Her face turned red with excitement and she waved at the women.

Lu Jinan watched them go into their parents' room and rummage around rudely.

"Look how well off their family is. Look at this quilt, it's so thick, and there are so many clothes."

"That's right. They don't work that much, but how come they live better than us? God is really blind."

"No wonder this woman is so pretty. My husband always peeks at her. She is so shameless. Why does she dress so pretty even though she is married?"

"Who knows?"

They didn't look like they were here to look for someone, but rather to steal something.

As they talked, they stuffed the cloth in their hands into their arms.

Bai An was originally angry when she heard them belittling her mother like that, and they even stole things right under her nose.

"What are you doing!?"

Bai An walked up to them, snatched the cloth from their hands, and shouted, "You are not pretty, so you are jealous of my mother's beauty. You have no shame!"

"How can you talk like that, kid? You are indeed an adopted child, a thing without a mother."

As they were talking, they were about to push Bai An out the door, "Looking like this, you won't know how to seduce people when you grow up."

"Second Aunt." Lin Zhixia walked in, pulled Bai An to her side, and said coldly: "Cui Ju hasn't been found yet, you guys should hurry up."

The women looked at Lin Zhixia in confusion, mumbling something.

Bai An shook off Lin Zhixia's hand.

"You don't have to be so kind."

Bai An didn't look at him. She felt a little aggrieved and her eyes were slightly red. She looked angrily at those aunties who were like thieves.

Those women couldn't do anything under Bai An's eyes. They pretended to lift the quilts, take out all the clothes in the box, spread them out one by one, and even tried to pick up Wanqing's jewelry.

Bai An couldn't help it, and stepped forward and asked loudly: "Are you here to look for someone?"

After hearing what Bai An said, the women threw away the things in their hands, made a mess of the house out of anger, and gave Bai An a cold look when they walked out.

Bai An clenched his fists and looked up at Lin Zhixia beside him, "Why, even you want to see what good things are in this room?"

Facing Bai An's weird tone, Lin Zhixia just lowered her head and looked at Bai An, saying in a muffled voice: "I will return the book to you tomorrow."

"You don't have to give it back to me." Bai An held onto the door frame, listening to the noise coming from the kitchen next to him. He looked up and saw Lu Demin frowning at the kitchen door. He said, "I lent it to Cui Ju. Ask her to give it back to me."

When Lin Zhixia heard Cui Ju's name, her face became stiff for a moment. She put her hands in her pockets, her fingers curled up unconsciously.

At this moment, Lu Demin shouted angrily, "What are you doing?"

Bai An frowned and ran over.

When the other women saw Bai An leave, they hurried back to the room they had just been in.

Lin Zhixia saw it and wanted to reach out to stop them, but then she thought of something and put her hand down. She stood at the door with an indifferent expression, watching those women stuffing clothes into their arms like crazy.

At this time, Bai An was standing next to Lu Deming. When he saw the situation in the room, he understood why his father was angry.

There was no place to hide people in such a small kitchen, so those people were obviously not looking for anyone. They were just a large group of people crowded in the kitchen, surrounding the food in the kitchen, looking left and right, and reaching out to the food under the cover of others.

"Are you stealing?" Bai An looked at their shameless appearance and sneered, "Aren't you here to find Cui Ju? You are so shameless that you are still stealing here."

"We are shameless." An old man with sunken cheeks pointed at the rice in front of him and said, "You are the shameless ones."

"We work so hard, but in the end we don't eat as well as your family. Look at the rice, the vegetables, and even the meat."

Feeling their hungry gazes casting at him one by one, Bai An's sixth sense told him.

There is danger.

Lu Jinan next to him also felt something was wrong, narrowed his eyes, and pulled Bai An behind him.

Lu Demin was speechless. He could feel the villagers' undisguised hostility towards them.

He pulled Wanqing to his side, and the family of four stood in a corner of the yard, watching the invaders search their home and pounce on their home like hungry wolves.