Chapter 48
Zhong Miao didn't know why, but seeing Wang Yingying's awkwardness made her feel uncomfortable. Was she also affected by the plot? Did the heroine and the supporting actress repel each other?
While Wang Yingying was still not reacting, Zhong Miao continued to attack.
"Also, this time Pei Ze spent a total of 10,000 yuan to buy a car, three bungalows and a factory in the city. My dad added 500 yuan and bought a bungalow as well."
"Oh, except for the car being transferred to Pei Ze's name, the four bungalows and the factory building were all transferred to me. My father's bungalow was my dowry, and Pei Ze's bungalow was my betrothal gift."
Wang Yingying couldn't believe her ears. Ten thousand yuan, are you kidding? Ten thousand yuan is enough to buy a studio apartment in the city, a new one at that. How is that possible?
"Haha, you're really good at joking."
"Believe it or not, oh, my house will be renovated in a few days, and I will move to the city. Then you should not come to my in-laws' house and disturb her rest."
"Well, I won't bother you anymore. See you in the city then."
Zhong Miao’s dislike was clearly expressed, and she was unwilling to talk to her seriously, so Wang Yingying left with a gloomy face.
"Well, take your brown sugar with you and don't come here again."
Wang Yingying was also unhappy. She picked up her things and left quickly. Zhong Miao had no intention of seeing her off, so she followed her out and closed the door.
After returning to the house, Zhong Miao rolled around on the kang, laughing as he rolled around. It was really interesting.
The heroine took the initiative to come to her and stretch out her face for her to hit. Hahaha, this is a dimensionality reduction attack, it's so fucking satisfying.
Why are Pei Ze and his mother-in-law so cute? They gave her the capital to fight back. Humph, considering that she had a good time today, she won't beat Pei Ze when he comes back. She will forgive him this time.
Zhong Miao had no idea how many times she had been slapped in the face without realizing it.
After having enough fun, she calmed down and recalled whether this paragraph was in the original text. She had forgotten the plot a little recently. Life was so beautiful that she didn't think much about these bad things.
In the corner of her memory, she dug up this plot. The heroine actually came to the house once and showed off how good the city was, with TVs, refrigerators and so on. The original owner was completely upset. She cried and made a fuss, and even had a fight with her mother-in-law. That was the first time her mother-in-law had a quarrel with the original owner.
It was this plot that prompted the original owner to go to the city and meet a cheating scumbag, which eventually led to the destruction of her family.
Thinking of the plot, Zhong Miao became even more beautiful. I have to remember the plot well and fight back when the time comes.
She doesn't care what the original owner was like. Now that it's her in this body, she can't let Wang Yingying bully her.
Oh, this damn desire to win.
Wang Yingying left Zhong Miao's house, she was so angry that she was about to catch fire. Her eyes were red with anger, and her hand holding the brown sugar was clenched into a fist, and the blue veins on her hand were throbbing.
One can imagine how angry she was because of Zhong Miao.
She didn't believe that Zhong Miao deserved a house or a car.
As for the betrothal gift, how could someone like Pei Ze come up with a decent betrothal gift? Even if Pei Ze really went out to do business, it was impossible for him to spend 10,000 yuan to buy a house for her. It was absolutely impossible.
Don’t be angry, don’t be angry. That damn girl Zhong Miao did it on purpose. Don’t fall for her tricks.
Humph, wait until I move to the city and get into college, then we'll see what she can compare with me. She can lie with her eyes open without blushing.
Wang Yingying was angry for three days until Song Xing came back to pick her up on the moving day, and then she felt a little better.
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On a dark and windy night, uh no, it was a moonless and starry night with no wind, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were sneaking around in their yard, tinkering and searching.
Not to mention that outsiders didn't know what kind of new type of performance art this was, even Zhong Miao didn't know what her mother-in-law was doing.
An An had just fallen asleep when she was pulled out by her mother-in-law, who was holding a hammer in her hand. She was so scared that she didn't dare to say a word.
"Mother-in-law, what are we going to do?" Zhong Miao said in a low voice.
"Haha, Mom will take you to dig for treasures." Zhang Weilan also answered stealthily in a low voice.
"Grandma, what treasure are you digging for at this hour of night?" Zhong Miao was stunned. Ancestral property? No way, how could you bury ancestral property in your own yard? How could it be safe?
Zhang Weilan found the spot and dug the soil with a small hammer. "Miaomiao, go get me a shovel. I want one with a pointed end."
"good."
It was pitch dark, and it was hard to find someone, let alone a shovel. Zhong Miao groped his way to the chicken coop, touched a shovel, lifted it up, and looked at it in the moonlight. No, this one had a flat head.
She put the flat-headed shovel aside and picked up the other one to look at it in the moonlight. It was beautiful, this one had a pointed end.
I went back in the dark to find my mother-in-law, handed her the shovel, and took the hammer she handed to me.
My mother-in-law used a shovel to dig the soil she had just dug aside, then took the hammer and continued.
After working for more than half an hour, Zhang Weilan finally dug out a black package and handed it to Zhong Miao. Zhong Miao almost couldn't lift it and threw it on the ground.
The main thing is, why is it so heavy for such a small package? Zhong Miao thought, it must be an ancestral inheritance.
"Let's go to your room."
"Hmm." Zhong Miao was also a little curious.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned to their new home. Zhong Miao looked at the dirty package. She and her mother-in-law's hands and coat sleeves were all covered in mud.
After washing her hands and taking off her coat, Zhang Weilan locked the door and then placed the package in a basin of water to wash.
After washing off the dirt, Zhong Miao realized that the outer layer should be oil paper.
Zhang Weilan invited Zhong Miao into the house and turned on the light. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sat at the table on the kang, facing the package on the table, as if they were performing some strange ritual.
Zhang Weilan suddenly looked out the window and pulled the curtains shut, believing that it is better to be safe than sorry.
"Miaomiao, Mom has opened it. It's been over 20 years, and Mom can't remember what's in each bag. Let's take a look first."
"Grandma, why are we digging this?"
"I've got this for you. Don't say no yet. Let's take a look at it first."
Zhong Miao quietly watched her mother-in-law peel off the outer layer of oil paper. There seemed to be a layer of leather inside. She then peeled off the second layer, the third layer, and the fourth layer.
When the fifth layer of thick paper was peeled off, Zhong Miao's eyes were almost blinded. Oh my god, there was so much gold.
Zhang Weilan was fiddling with them one by one.
Zhong Miao had imagined what the ancestral inheritance looked like. It should be boxes of gold bars, neatly stacked.
But the gold in front of him was of various shapes, including fish, Buddha statues, things that looked like round cakes, some that were so messy that it was impossible to tell what they were, and some that were simply irregularly shaped gold lumps.
These gold nuggets don't look big, but when put together, Zhong Miao was shocked when he thought about the weight of the package. This family's wealth was too rich.
In addition to gold, there are several other pieces of jewelry, some made of gold and some of silver. However, the size and quality of the gems would be considered top-quality items at an auction in the previous life.
Even Zhong Miao, a rich girl, couldn't help but be amazed when she saw it, my God.
"There's nothing good in this bag, but these two rocks are okay."
Zhong Miao felt that she might never have understood her mother-in-law. What are you, such a rich old lady, doing hiding in the village? How many partners can you find with so much money? Those little old men are flocking to you to curry favor with you. What kind of life can't you make? What's the point of working every day?
"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law." Zhong Miao stuttered a little, which was rare for her.
"Surprising, right? Back then, it took me a lot of effort to bring these things out. I buried them everywhere, hid them everywhere. I even sewed a few pieces of jewelry into our eldest son's pants. He was still a child at that time and always complained to me about getting his butt pricked."
Having not seen these things for more than 20 years, Zhang Weilan touched the two necklaces and rings lovingly, tears in her eyes and a trace of nostalgia on her face. These jewelries were the ones she sewed into her son's clothes and pants at that time.
These words sound funny, but they hide so much sad past of the mother-in-law. It must be thrilling for a woman to survive in troubled times with a child and valuables hidden on her body, as the white hair gives birth to the black hair.
"Miaomiao, let's go dig another one."
"Ah? Still digging? Grandma, this thing is scary when you take it out. Let's not dig it out anymore. It's safer to hide it."
"Don't be afraid. When I asked my second son to clean up the house, I left room for you. There are seven bags left. I remember one was filled with stones and pearls. It was really beautiful. You have good taste. Let me judge it."
Zhang Weilan kept busy as she spoke. She packed up the things on the table and put them in Zhong Miao's cabinet. She locked it with the small padlock she had prepared in her pocket and put the key back in her pocket.
"Mother-in-law, you won't need so much money to buy a house, a car, or anything else. It doesn't matter if we bury it at home or in the city. Let's not dig it up." Zhong Miao didn't even dare to speak loudly. This was too scary.
"Okay, then I won't dig. Mom will dig one out for you."
The old lady was a little excited, and she pulled Zhong Miao out, not forgetting to lock the door of the new house after she came out.
The little old lady was too forceful, and Zhong Miao couldn't resist and didn't dare to speak loudly, so she could only be dragged to the main house by her mother-in-law.
Zhang Weilan went into the house and got a flashlight, and asked Zhong Miao to help light it. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy in the kitchen.
On the stove in the main house, Zhang Weilan carefully took down the portrait of the Kitchen God. Behind it was a greasy brick wall, and it was impossible to make out anything. Zhang Weilan counted the bricks excitedly, took the stove hook and inserted it into the gap of a brick.
"Shocked" isn't enough to describe Zhong Miao's current mood. Is there such a thing? The brick joints are all covered with oil smoke putty, and it's really impossible to see anything.
My mother-in-law used a stove hook with one hand to hook the brick, adjusting the angle from time to time, and put her other hand under the brick, for fear that the brick would fall and make a noise and wake An An up.
The brick was already half out, and after digging for a while, the brick fell steadily into the palm of my mother-in-law's hand.
Zhang Weilan put down the brick, reached in and directly pried open the brick below, revealing the entire package inside.
Zhang Weilan took the package down and handed it to Zhong Miao. Zhong Miao felt that it was even heavier than the previous one.
My mother-in-law put the two bricks back in, went into the house, lit a candle, and used the fire to warm the hole that the stove hook had just opened. The soot putty dissolved immediately, and when it was removed from the fire, it quickly solidified into a shape that was almost the same as before. It was hard to tell that the brick had been moved before.
"It's okay. The bricks here are all black, so it won't be noticeable after being baked."
After saying this, Zhang Weilan respectfully pasted the Kitchen God sticker on her head.
Zhong Miao was speechless. Is this the wisdom of the working people? This is amazing. Mother-in-law, you are such a ruthless person.
"Let's go see what's in this bag."
Ever since they started doing this at night, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been talking like thieves, never speaking loudly.
"Yeah." Mother-in-law, please stop digging and picking. I'm scared.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sat around on the kang again. There was no dirt on the outside of the package, only oil. The mother-in-law had just opened the outer packaging and thrown it into the stove in the outer room. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law rubbed their hands with soap for a long time before they washed them clean.
"Daughter-in-law, this bag must be good stuff. This house of ours was built by your father-in-law himself. The wall of the main room is made of three layers of bricks. In order to keep it warm and not attract attention, I deliberately asked him to leave two bricks empty."
Zhong Miao no longer cared what was inside. "Mother-in-law, let's just dig these two today and leave the others alone."
"Haha, don't be afraid, this is a good thing, don't you want it at all?"
"Mother-in-law, you're so brave to give it to me. Aren't you afraid that I'll squander it all? What will you do if I divorce Pei Ze one day?"
"You little girl, how can you be so heartless? Even if you really want to squander it all, you can't just say it. You can't ask for a divorce in front of the second brother, or he'll tear the roof off your house."
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