The strong smell was nauseating. The room was small, with only a wardrobe and a bed. I opened the wardrobe and saw another pile of messy clothes.
This time it was a pile of men's clothes, and at a glance there was no way there could be a child, so the focus shifted back to the bed. Reaching out, they pulled the pile of clothes aside but found no child.
"I'm going to report this to the police!"
"Lu Zhixia! If anything is missing from my house, I will never let you off the hook. I have money in there!"
"I have 800 yuan in the house!"
"If the money disappears later, you'll be responsible!"
"Su Lan! If you don't let go, I'll get rough with you!"
Liu Yue'e panicked more and more. She tried to pry Su Lan's hands off, but it was no use. She could only lift her left foot and stomp hard on Su Lan's right foot.
Su Lan felt a sharp pain in her foot and her hand loosened its grip, and then Liu Yue'e slipped out of her arms.
Lu Zhixia's gaze fell to the bottom of the bed. After lifting the tattered bed sheet, she saw a camphor wood chest underneath.
There were two boxes, both nearly a meter long, with locks on them, and the boxes looked very old under their reddish-brown exteriors.
In the past, many people used camphor wood chests to carry their dowry. Almost every household in this generation probably had one or two of these, so it's not surprising that they were placed under the bed.
Liu Yue'e lifted the curtain and entered the room, only to find that the bed sheet had already been lifted. The next second, Lu Zhixia should be dragging the suitcase. As soon as she pulled the suitcase, she felt that something was wrong with its weight.
So she quickly went up to him and said, "I told you you came to my house to steal money! You guys are just crazy for money!"
Su Lan hugged him again, "Liu Yue'e! I will never let go of you today, you must hand over my daughter!"
Liu Yue'e struggled to no avail. She tried to use the old method of stepping on the other person's foot, but even if she managed to step on it, Su Lan's hand would not let go.
At this point, Lu Zhixia didn't care about anything else and pulled out a box. It felt quite heavy and had a lock on it. If she didn't have a key, she would have to break it open by force.
So she said to Liu Yue'e, "Hand over the key right now!"
"Why should I?" Liu Yue'e shouted hoarsely, "You're the ones bullying me like this! You're ganging up on me!"
Lu Zhixia didn't want to waste words with her, so she squatted down to look at the lock and figured that since there was no key, she could probably break it open with a hammer.
Upon seeing Zhou Yong in the crowd, she quickly said,
"Dayong! Go back and get the hammer!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yong immediately turned around and went back home. He searched around the house and found the hammer, then returned to hand it over to Lu Zhixia.
Lu Zhixia, who had obtained the hammer, raised her hand and began smashing the lock, unsure if there were any children inside!
But she insisted on opening it to see. There's always a chance of something going wrong. If the child had been trapped inside for so long, would he still be alive?
With sheer determination, he knocked once, twice, three or four times, and the lock finally began to loosen. Just a few more knocks and it would fall off!
Zhou Yong looked down and saw his mother's foot being firmly stomped on by the woman; her face was pale with pain. Enraged, he stomped on the woman's foot with all his might.
"You're not allowed to bully my mom!"
Liu Yue'e cried out in pain from her foot. She hadn't expected this brat to be so ruthless and to have such strength in his foot.
With a thud, the lock fell to the ground. Lu Zhixia immediately opened the box and found nothing inside except clothes.
"Lu Zhixia! This is too much! There's nothing in my box. What if you damage something?"
"I'll find someone to fix it for you!" Lu Zhixia casually closed the box.
"I don't want you to pay for the box, get out of my house right now!" Liu Yue'e continued arrogantly, "Otherwise, I'll make sure neither of you suffers!"
Lu Zhixia did not stand up, but squatted down to pull out another camphor wood box from under the bed.
"Lu Zhixia! If you open the box again, I'll make sure you spend the rest of your life in jail!"
As Liu Yue'e uttered those harsh words, she struggled again and finally shook off Su Lan. Then she rushed over to push Lu Zhixia away!
Seeing the person rushing towards her, Lu Zhixia stood up and pressed a hammer against her chest.
"You better behave yourself, the things I have don't discriminate!"
"What, you dare hit me? Go ahead and hit me here!" She pointed to her head.
"Go ahead and blow my head off if you dare, or don't even think about touching this box!"
Lu Zhixia looked at her suspiciously; this reaction was strange, stronger than before.
Could the child be in the box under the bed?
"I'm telling you, don't move! Anyone who moves, I'll fight them to the death!"
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