Chapter 7474 Thunder
Facts have proven that things like thunderstorms usually have a delayed effect.
The next morning, when Liu Mei didn't see Xia Lulu, she thought she had gone to accompany Boss Zheng again.
Even when she found a hundred yuan in the basket at the door, she was happy to think it was money Xia Lulu gave her for groceries.
Even when Xia Lulu didn't come back at night, I thought she had gone back to her home.
After all, she has been away for several days. Even if Xie Minghui can't come to pick her up, she has to go back to see her, right?
But after another two days, more and more people came to the house, and their words became more and more impolite. The Xia family gradually became unable to sit still.
Xia Dong complained at home:
"Mom, did Lulu go to collect seedlings from other people's houses? We still have so much to collect. If she doesn't come back, what has she been doing?"
Liu Mei comforted Xia Dong, and the mother and son went to Xie Minghui's house to find Xia Lulu.
However, Xia Lulu's mother-in-law said that she had not come back in a few days.
"Isn't she your daughter? Don't you know where she went?"
She spoke in a sarcastic tone and almost poked Liu Mei in the face with her finger:
"A few days ago, she went home to get some money. I said a few more words to her, and she immediately started yelling at me! She's really amazing! Our Xie family can't afford a daughter-in-law as arrogant as her!"
"What? You came back to get the money? When?"
Liu Mei instinctively felt something was wrong and quickly grabbed Xia Lulu's mother-in-law to ask.
"It was only four or five days ago, and I had a bunch of money in my hand! It must be five or six hundred! My dear, don't play tricks on me here, your child must have spent the money on you!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're taking money from your own family to your parents' family. Do you still take your husband's family seriously?"
"She...didn't!"
Liu Mei felt a chill in her heart.
After finally finishing the fight at Xie's house and walking out of Yunnan University, Xia Dong asked his mother a series of questions:
"Mom, did Xia Lulu give you money?"
"... just... a little... for buying groceries..."
Liu Mei hesitated, but Xia Dong was not the kind of person who would let her off, so he used both soft and hard tactics to get Liu Mei to take out the money.
Liu Mei had no choice but to give Xia Dong eighty yuan, but she was not thinking about it. Instead, she said absentmindedly:
"Son, I'm worried. Do you think Lulu has gotten into trouble?"
He had been missing for several days, and hadn't returned home or to Xie's home.
Before leaving, she took some money. Although she was given 100 yuan, according to her mother-in-law, Xia Lulu must have more than 100 yuan in her hand.
What did she do with all that money?
Liu Mei suddenly thought of that night when Xia Lulu came up to her and talked, behaving very abnormally.
Could it be that she had already made a plan that day, so she came to find her before leaving?
Liu Mei's heart was pounding, and she grabbed Xia Dong's arm:
"Son, do you think something happened to your sister? Should we... call the police?"
"Why call the police?"
Xia Dong denied it flatly and looked at his mother with an impatient look on his face.
"Mom, Xia Lulu is already a grown-up, what could possibly happen to her? Don't just believe everything you hear!"
"But……"
"It's nothing. Maybe she's just busy these few days and will be back in a few days."
Xia Dong said nonchalantly:
"Don't worry, even if she runs away, where can she go?"
Hearing her son's firm guess, Liu Mei could only try to calm her anxious heart.
However, there are some things that cannot be calmed down just because she wants to.
Mr. Zheng's deadline is well known to everyone who buys orchids.
When the loan had just expired, no one dared to look for it frequently, but after a long period of time without any movement, even the most prudent people could not help themselves.
More and more people come to visit.
Everyone in the factory went to look for the Xia family. Some of those who had bought the seedlings through Xie Minghui's connections went to look for Xie Minghui.
The two families were so troubled by the searches that in the end, they were almost unable to leave the house.
From morning till night, more and more.
Later on, even someone as slow-witted as Xia Dong began to think:
Could something really have happened?
Xia Dong wanted to go to work, but when he opened the door, he saw many people sitting on the steps at the door. Some of them were smoking dry cigarettes, making the whole corridor full of smoke.
When they saw him open the door, those who were sitting stood up one after another.
Xia Dong slammed the door shut.
But the people outside were unwilling to calm down, knocking on the door and saying:
"Xia Dong! Is your sister back?"
"That's right! Let Xia Lulu come out! And that Boss Zheng! He was so happy when we sold the seedlings! Why doesn't he come out now when we're harvesting the seedlings?"
"If your sister doesn't come out, then you can just pick up all the seedlings! What's the point of hiding and shrinking?"
The people outside are obviously more excited than yesterday.
Xia Dong closed the door tightly and hurled a string of obscene words at him.
After he finished scolding her, he stared at Liu Mei with his donkey eyes:
"Mom! Where on earth did my sister go? If she doesn't come back, they will tear down our house!"
Liu Mei's lips trembled and she couldn't speak.
Besides, what can she say? She doesn't know either!
She watched Xia Dong wandering around the house helplessly, but she could do nothing about it.
"Son...how about...let's hide away for a few days?"
After being looked for for so many days in a row, she couldn't stand it anymore.
"Hide? My dad is still paralyzed in bed! Where can we hide?"
"Besides, I can't even go out now! How can I hide?"
Xia Dong spoke in an angry tone, and a series of complaints came out of his mouth:
"It's all Xia Lulu's fault! She must have been cheated by that Boss Zheng! If it weren't for her, our family would be fine! And it wouldn't have turned out like this! Damn it!"
As he was saying this, there was suddenly a commotion at the door.
Afterwards, someone vaguely said that Boss Zheng was missing and Xia Lulu had run away, and suddenly there was a commotion outside.
Some people even banged on the door:
"Xia Dong! Liu Mei! I know you are in there!"
"Open the door quickly! Stop putting a shrunken turtle in there!"
"Where on earth did Xia Lulu go? Return our money to us immediately!"
"That's right! No matter where Xia Lulu goes, you have to give us an explanation! Get out here right away!"
The sound became louder and louder.
Neighbors also got involved.
Everyone in this building had bought seedlings from the Xia family before, and when they saw the blind man's condition, they rushed over. They all looked at each other and talked, and the more they talked, the more frightened they felt:
That Boss Zheng wouldn’t really run away, right?
Xia Lulu asked them to buy the seedlings. Could it be that she ran away too?
More and more people started knocking on the door.
When they couldn't knock the door open, they started banging on it with their fists; some even kicked it.
Once, twice, the thin wooden door could not withstand the siege of a group of people. After a few hits, there was a loud bang, and the door was actually kicked open from the outside.
Xia Dong stood there as if he was frightened silly, while Liu Mei and Wang Xinyue were so frightened that they hid in the house.
A group of people rushed in with great fanfare, grabbed Xia Dong's clothes and asked:
"Where's Xia Lulu? Where did you hide her?"
"Let her come out! Pay us! Buy our seedlings!"
It looked like they wanted to eat Xia Dong alive.
Even Xia Dong, who usually behaved without hesitation, was so frightened that his legs went limp. He trembled and said:
"I...how would I know...I didn't even collect the dozens of trees at home..."
"How is it possible! Xia Lulu is your daughter. Even if she is cheating, how could she cheat your family?"
"That's right! Everyone, go in! Go and get Xia Lulu out!"
Before he could finish his words, someone had already run into the house.
The living room, bedroom, balcony... even the folded quilts were lifted up and shaken several times, but there was no sign of Xia Lulu.
No...No...
Not here... nor there...
The Xia family is so small... Xia Lulu is a living person... If you really can't find her, please explain...
Xia Lulu is really missing.
They were really deceived.
Someone suddenly howled:
"Xia Lulu is missing! What should we do with our seedlings?"
"We spent hundreds of dollars buying seedlings!"
"We borrowed money to buy the seedlings!"
Xia Dong was squeezed against the wall by a group of people. He saw a group of people making noise in the middle and walked out stealthily. He had not taken a few steps when he was pulled over.
"Xia Dong! Your sister cheated us out of our money! You guys should pay her back, right?"
"we……"
Xia Dong was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice:
"Look at our family... where do we get any money?"
"Who cares? You asked us to buy it in the first place! Now no one wants it! Then you have to pay for it!"
After saying that, several people grabbed Xia Dong and started searching him.
From this point on, others followed suit and started searching the Xia family's house.
But how much money could they find? When someone shouted to grab something, those people started to act like bandits, taking whatever they saw and even robbing people!
The newly bought big sweater, the leather shoes that had only been worn a few times, even the balls of yarn, the dishes in the kitchen...anything that could be taken away was taken away.
They even smashed and destroyed things as they took things, as if to vent their anger. They destroyed all the things they were not allowed to take, and the ground was a mess.
Wang Xinyue hid aside and didn't dare to say anything. Liu Mei was anxious, pulling this and that, and said loudly:
"You can't steal them! They are all mine! They don't belong to Xia Lulu!"
"Someone come! Steal something!"
But she was soon pushed aside and her waist hit the corner of the table, causing her to cry out in pain.
The man was holding a bottle of high-grade vanishing cream in his hand and looked at Liu Mei with a sly look:
"Sister-in-law, tell me that you don't have Xia Lulu at home, so can you afford this?"
After saying that, he stuffed the vanishing cream into his pocket with a dignified manner.
For the entire morning, the entire Xia family seemed to be at war.
Even if the security department came, it would be useless. Those individual anger cannot be suppressed by conventional methods.
Even the people in the security department didn't want to take care of it because they also bought orchid seedlings.
If I didn't have a public office and couldn't get involved, I would have probably gone in and snatched it away long ago.
The mess lasted all morning.
It was not until the Xia family had nothing left to steal that these people reluctantly left.
After everyone left, Liu Mei collapsed to the ground:
"What should I do... old man... son... what should I do now..."
Xia Dong was stunned, and suddenly he picked up the broken stool on the ground and smashed it down:
"Xia Lulu! Where the hell have you been!"
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