Ye Laoer was a very honest man. He really thought that the child had taken the old lady's things out of play, so he went back to the house and told his wife about it.
The couple searched the house and called their twin sons back, stripping them naked under the pretext of giving them clean clothes.
After searching the clothes inside and out and finding nothing, several people breathed a sigh of relief.
Mrs. Ye gathered the dirty clothes and said, "Luckily it wasn't our child, otherwise I would have beaten his hand until it was swollen!"
Mrs. Ye San didn't find anything either, but she already had other suspicions in her mind.
She quietly ran upstairs, knocked on the door and whispered to Ye Ersao.
"Second sister-in-law, do you think it was really Mother who lost the banknotes?"
"Is it possible that what mother said is false? Is she lying to us?"
"Oh, that's not what I meant." Mrs. Ye lowered her voice and said, "Let's put it another way. You've been married for so many years. Have you ever seen mother exchange banknotes?"
Mrs. Ye thought about it and said, "That's really not the case..."
Old Mrs. Ye has a money-saving box where she saves coins one by one.
When he had saved up five hundred yuan, he sent his son to exchange it for silver coins.
Old Mrs. Ye always said that a banknote was just a thin piece of paper.
What if the bank goes bankrupt, won’t the paper become worthless?
There is no real silver and copper coins to give people peace of mind.
Now people are fleeing famine, and they are in panic along the way. The money houses in the city have collapsed.
At this critical juncture, it was naturally impossible for Old Lady Ye to exchange her life savings accumulated for banknotes.
"Mom didn't lose the money, but she insisted that she did. What's the purpose?" Mrs. Ye Er was still unable to figure it out.
"I asked my son Nian Nian, he was just playing with Qingtian in his eldest brother and sister-in-law's room.
"I vaguely heard my sister-in-law talking about some banknotes, and then she started crying.
"Then Chang Xue came out with a few children... Do you think about this?"
Mrs. Ye's eyes widened instantly as she asked, "Are you saying that what was lost was actually the fifty taels of silver that belonged to my eldest brother and his wife?"
"I think it's almost right." Mrs. Ye sighed.
"This is a big deal!" Ye Ersao slapped her thigh anxiously.
Mrs. Ye said, "Brother's family lost the banknotes. It wasn't our family who did it, nor could it be Mother who did it. Who else could it be?"
"No way..." Mrs. Ye was frightened by her words, "How could she have the guts to do such a thing?
"This is fifty taels of silver, not five hundred taels of silver!
"If Big Brother and Big Sister-in-law report it to the police, she will be sued!"
"As long as Mother is still around, would Big Brother and Sister-in-law dare to report to the police?" Third Sister Ye shook her head. "Fourth Brother is a real man. Let's see if he can dig out the banknotes first!"
After saying this, Third Sister Ye rolled her eyes and leaned over to Second Sister Ye's ear and asked, "If it turns out that she stole it, do you think Mother will ask Fourth Brother to divorce his wife?"
Mrs. Ye was frightened by what she said. She pushed her and said, "Stop talking like that! Who wants a thief in their house?"
The two sisters-in-law were whispering to each other upstairs, and Ye Laosi was also worried in his heart.
After returning to the room, Guo asked him, "What did mother ask you to do?"
"Nothing, just say that we are now staying in the same inn with the Qin family, so we should all be careful.
"Speak softly and don't break things in other people's guest rooms.
"Change your clothes and clean up regularly. Don't let people think we country people are dirty, noisy and unruly."
When Mrs. Guo heard all these things, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Mother, you are making a big deal out of nothing. It's really that serious!
"Didn't the Qin family look down on us when we were on the road earlier?"
"It won't hurt to be careful anyway," said Ye Lao Si, "I heard there's a place to bathe in the inn, so let's both take a good bath tonight and change our clothes.
"There's a well behind the inn. You can wash and hang your dirty clothes there tomorrow."
"Okay, let's take a bath." At this time, Guo was only thinking about the fifty taels of silver notes. She vaguely heard Ye Laosi mention taking a bath, so she agreed immediately.
Ye Laosi felt a sinking feeling in his heart when he heard this.
Although they had been married for only a short time, he felt that he still had some understanding of Guo.
He is the laziest person on weekdays. Every time he does any work, he always makes excuses and bargains.
Even if they have to do something, they will procrastinate and put it off until the last minute before doing it reluctantly.
Normally, when she was asked to sweep the floor, she would argue for a long time, just to get Ye Laosi to sweep more so that she could sweep less.
When she was asked to wash clothes today, she didn't refuse, didn't complain, and didn't bargain.
Although Ye Laosi is usually noisy, he is not a fool.
His intuition told him that there must be something wrong with Guo.
Ye Lao Si finished his dinner calmly, then went to boil two large pots of hot water. He returned to his room and said to Guo, "I've boiled the water. Go take a bath."
There was no place to take a shower during the escape, so it was good enough to get some hot water to wipe the body occasionally.
So when she heard that the hot water was ready, Guo was naturally happy. She immediately took the clean clothes she had prepared and went to the bathroom at the end of the corridor.
Just as she entered the house and was about to lock the door, Ye Laosi suddenly squeezed in behind her.
"What are you doing?" Guo was startled.
"It's very cold. Let's take a shower together. It will warm us up."
"Oh, you..."
Guo's face turned red, thinking that Ye Laosi was so depressed that he wanted to take the opportunity to do something shameful.
Who knew that Ye Laosi would take off his clothes and start washing in no time.
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