Juanjuan, whose adoptive parents had died, was sold by her uncle for ten silver dollars into the Warlord's Mansion to bring good luck to the severely ill only son, Si Jinchen.
She thought...
Chapter 78 The Liu Family Was Robbed
At night, when everyone in Beiyang City was asleep, a group of uninvited guests appeared in the Liu family's old house.
They moved between the rooms extremely quickly and without making any sound.
All I saw was a little bird knocking something off the shelf.
I expected to hear a cracking sound, but there was no sound at all.
The fallen items were carried by a group of little ones and ran towards the kitchen, where the back door had been opened.
They moved all the valuables out of the Liu family's old house, secretly transported the things away through a dog hole in the corner of the wall, and hid them in an abandoned house.
The next morning.
"Knock knock knock" There was a rapid knock on Mrs. Liu's door.
"Madam, get up quickly, something happened." The housekeeper shouted anxiously outside.
Madam Liu pulled a robe over her body and opened the door with an unhappy look on her face: "What's going on?"
"There's a thief in the house." The housekeeper's voice was trembling.
"What did you say?" Old Madam Liu woke up from her sleep when she heard it.
"All the antiques in the house and the valuables in the room are gone." The housekeeper is now very anxious.
When Old Madam Liu heard this, she felt a buzzing in her head, as if someone had hit her hard.
I quickly turned around to check the things on her dressing table, but all the jewelry was gone.
"Ah! Who dares to do that?" Her roar woke up everyone who had left the old house.
Everyone found that all their gold, silver and jewelry were gone, and they cried bitterly.
The scariest thing is that no one noticed anything unusual last night.
When Mr. Liu heard the news, his eyes widened and he died immediately.
After receiving the report, the police station went to the Liu family's house and looked it over carefully from top to bottom, but found no clues.
There were no signs of the doors and windows being pried open, the glass was intact, and no noise was heard in the house last night.
The servant who got up in the middle of the night did not notice anything unusual.
This is unbelievable. I don’t know how these things could disappear out of thin air.
The detective searched Liu's house and found a lot of gray hair on the ground.
"How long has it been since you cleaned your house?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Old Madam Liu no longer had the heart to listen to what he said.
If the things cannot be found, their Liu family will be completely finished.
The death of Master Liu made their situation even worse. Now they couldn't even afford the money to hold his funeral.
"Our Liu family has been giving money to your police station quite a bit. If you can't get these things back, I'll come to your house and make trouble."
Old Madam Liu was so angry that her head hurt.
The detective also got angry: "Okay, then go ahead and make some noise."
After saying that, he took his people away and didn't intend to pay any attention to them.
Liu Ruyan quickly pulled her arm and said, "Mom, if you drive them away, what will we do with the things we lost?"
"Can they help you find things if they stay? They are just a bunch of good-for-nothings." Old Lady Liu felt powerless.
"What should we do now? We need to take care of Dad's funeral and the food for the whole family." Liu Ruyan was furious. Also stolen were the jewelry she had tricked from Cai Yong some time ago.
Now that everything is lost, she feels so heartbroken that her heart is bleeding.
"How should I know what to do? You're already a grown-up, can't you learn to help share some of the housework?" Old Lady Liu was extremely disappointed with her daughter.
"What can I do? All my jewelry has been stolen." Liu Ruyan said hesitantly.
"Madam, now that things have come to this, why don't we divide the family up as soon as possible and each of us get a shop so we can make a living, don't you think?"
The second aunt wanted to see her.
"If you want to share the Liu family's things, don't even think about it, unless I die." There is no way that Old Lady Liu would agree.
"Okay, if we don't split up the family, you can support us." The third concubine had an indifferent expression on her face.
"My father just died, and you are already thinking about dividing the family. What are you thinking?" Liu Ruyan pointed at them and cursed.
"If we don't divide the family, will I starve to death with you?" The fourth concubine said bluntly.
"Enough, shut up." Old Lady Liu yelled at them.
She looked at the housekeeper and said, "First, find someone to help deal with the master's affairs."
"Madam, we don't have a penny now." The housekeeper was a little embarrassed.
"We don't have money, but the shop is still there. Let's talk about it when I come back." Old Lady Liu went back to her room and changed into decent clothes.
She asked the servants to take some antiques from the shelves and followed her out of the Liu family's old house.
Liu Ruyan wanted to ask but didn't dare to, and wanted to follow but was afraid of being scolded, so she could only glare at these concubines and sisters-in-law hatefully.
"Liu Ruyan, it's useless for you to glare at us now. We have no money." The second concubine looked at her with a sneer.
"By the way, I heard you've been having a hot affair with Cai Yong from the Cai family lately. Why don't you call him and ask for money to take care of the old man's funeral?"
The third concubine looked at her with a playful expression.
"You don't know this. Young Master Cai hasn't contacted her for a long time. You looked down on her before, but now she's out of your reach."
The fourth concubine looked at Liu Ruyan with disdain.
You always think that you are the legitimate child of the Liu family, and you look down on everyone. You want to curry favor with the governor, but unfortunately, he looks down on you too.
"You, you guys..." Liu Ruyan turned around angrily and made a phone call.
The second concubine touched the third concubine's arm: "Hey! Who do you think she called?"
"Who else could it be except Cai Yong?" The third concubine rolled her eyes.
The fourth concubine looked at them and asked, "Are you just going to waste time here?"
"If they don't want to divide the family, what can we do? There will always be someone to support them, so let her take care of them!" The second concubine said as she twisted her waist and left with her children.
The Si family received the news of what happened to the Liu family early in the morning.
"Mom, do you think the Liu family will come to our house today?" Si Tian smiled and took a sip of tea.
"Maybe she thinks we don't know, so it's not impossible for her to blow us up." Madam Si knew Madam Liu too well.
"Then let's wait at home?" Siming lowered his head and drank tea.
"Now, apart from the old house, the Liu family only has some shops left!" Si Tian felt that the Liu family was really miserable!
"These shops have not been theirs for a long time. Don't forget, they still owe a lot of money to banks and other businesses." Siming took today's newspaper and flipped through it.
"How about I go and promote it for them?" Si Tian said with a smile.
"No need. I think those people already know about it. Now they are probably rushing to the Liu family. If we go too late, there will be nothing left." Siming said casually while looking at the newspaper.
"Madam, Madam Liu is here and has brought a lot of antiques." The housekeeper emphasized the last two words.
Madam Si looked at the two children with smiles on their faces and said, "See, I told you she would come."