Chapter 136 Some Things Just Can't Stand Scrutiny
Li Caiyun's head buzzed and she stared at the money box in a daze.
"Xiaoyun, what's wrong with you?"
Li Caiyun slowly turned around, holding up the empty money box, and stammered, "Zhou Yong, the money is gone."
The money is missing?
How is that possible?
Zhou Yong came up to Li Caiyun and looked at the empty money box: "Did you put the money somewhere else?"
Li Caiyun shook her head: "No, I put all our family's money in here."
Zhou Yong frowned, Li Caiyun's face gradually turned pale, she looked at her man: "Did you take the money?
He would tell his wife when he took the money. Besides, he didn't have much to spend, so why would he take all the thousand yuan?
Moreover, Zhou Yong has his own private money. In addition to his private money, he also has a salary, so he usually does not spend the family's money at all.
Zhou Yong's words made Li Caiyun fall silent. She stared at the empty cash box, her mind going blank.
"Think about it carefully, is the money placed here?"
Li Caiyun began to doubt herself after being asked by Zhou Yong: "Did I put the money somewhere else?"
The couple searched through every drawer and cabinet in the house for the money, but still couldn't find it.
Zhang Guifang came back from outside and saw the west room in a mess, so she couldn't help but ask.
When she learned that the money was missing, she started looking for it.
The three of them were almost digging three feet into the ground, and finally they just stood there staring at each other.
Zhang Guifang frowned: "Caiyun, think carefully, where did you put the money?"
Li Caiyun bit her lip, her face full of anxiety: "Mom, I remember I put the money in the money box."
"How could the money disappear? There are people at home every day, it's impossible for it to be stolen."
Li Caiyun was in a state of confusion. She calmed herself down and muttered to herself, "I remember that on the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhou Yong went to the commune to buy New Year's goods. I wanted to give him money, but he refused. The money was still in the cash box! I never touched the cash box again..."
She rarely went out and didn't spend any money, so Li Caiyun herself didn't know when the money disappeared.
Zhou Yong took the money box and looked at it: "Besides the money, what else did you put in it?"
Li Caiyun blinked: "Purchase ticket."
Zhou Yong smiled and said, "Besides the money and the purchase invoice?"
Li Caiyun shook her head, because in that era money and tickets were used together, so the money and purchase tickets would be put together.
"You're still laughing?"
Zhou Yong said: "What if I don't smile? If I cry, will money appear?"
Li Caiyun's eyes were red with worry. Zhou Yong hurriedly comforted her: "Maybe you put the money somewhere else. Don't worry, we will find it slowly..."
I searched everywhere I could, but couldn't find either the money or the ticket, which means they were lost.
Zhang Guifang slapped her thigh and said, "I have to go back to the house to see if the money is missing."
The money was still in the old place, so Zhang Guifang returned to the west room.
Li Caiyun sat on the edge of the kang with a frown on her face, while Zhou Yong picked up the things one by one with a lot of thoughts in his mind.
When Li Baotian returned home and learned what had happened, he said, "No one usually comes to the west room. Even if someone comes, there will be someone in the west room. Could it be that the money grew wings and flew away by itself?"
Everyone knows that it is impossible for the money to fly away on its own.
Zhou Yong put his right hand on his knee and tapped it gently. The figures of Tang Yulian and Li Fengzhi flashed through Li Caiyun's mind.
She thought about it and felt that it was impossible. She was her aunt, how could she steal her money?
But they were mother and daughter, so who else had stayed alone in the west room?
Li Caiyun was so upset that she didn't dare to tell anyone even if her family's money was lost.
"Dad, didn't my aunt and Yulian come on the day of the Little New Year? They stayed alone in the west room for a while..."
Li Caiyun recounted what happened that day. As soon as she finished speaking, Li Baotian said firmly, "Impossible, how could it be that your aunt stole the money?"
“Dad, if it wasn’t my aunt, then let me ask you, who else has stayed alone in the west room?
Now thinking back on what happened that day, given my aunt's personality, how could she suddenly leave without borrowing any money? Unless she is guilty. ”
Li Caiyun's words left Li Baotian speechless for a moment. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Assuming that it was your eldest aunt who stole the money, why would she go to borrow money from your eldest uncle, fourth uncle, and fifth uncle?"
Zhou Yong narrowed his eyes and pointed out: "The more you try to hide something, the more obvious it becomes."
Li Fengzhi borrowed money from the three families, mistakenly thinking that she would not be suspected, but she forgot one thing: everyone knew her temper.
Li Baotian was stunned and Zhang Guifang's face turned pale.
"Just wait and see how I deal with this damned Li Fengzhi."
Zhang Guifang wanted to settle the score with Li Fengzhi, but was pulled back by Zhou Yong.
"Mom, this matter cannot be made public. Have you forgotten where our family's money comes from?"
Zhou Yong's words awakened Zhang Guifang, who had lost her mind. She was unwilling to give in: "Are we just going to let it go like this? That's a thousand yuan."
Li Baotian muttered in his heart: "It may not be the eldest sister who did this, calm down."
How could Zhang Guifang stay calm?
Now she wanted to strangle Li Fengzhi to death to vent her anger.
The child woke up, and Li Caiyun took off her shoes and got on the kang.
Li Baotian sat for a while, but didn't want to leave the west room. Zhang Guifang waited for the child to finish feeding, then she went to find her husband.
Soon a quarrel broke out in the east room, and Li Caiyun felt suffocated and angry.
Zhou Yong pursed his lips and said, "Don't get angry. If we lose the money, we can earn it again."
Li Caiyun bit her lip and said, "You said it was easy, but that's a thousand dollars."
Zhou Yong took a deep breath and said, "It's okay. I will find a way to earn the money back."
"Is that so?"
Zhou Yong smiled bitterly and said, "I know that's not the case, but the money has been lost. Will you solve the problem by holding on to it? Besides, if you get anxious and angry, what if you run out of milk? Then the three children will suffer..."
Li Caiyun sniffed, and while breastfeeding her daughter, she gently stroked her daughter's little face.
Zhou Yong continued to comfort her: "Just treat this money as if we never had it. If you think about it this way, won't you feel better?"
Li Caiyun looked at him and laughed: "You are right."
Now that things have come to this, I should just move on day by day and not think about those bad things.
Having said that, Li Caiyun was still very upset about losing the money.
Zhou Yong comforted her and went to the east room to stop the fight.
Li Baotian was scolded by Zhang Guifang as a grandson, and she forced her husband to ask Li Fengzhi for money.
"Mom, calm down. My dad is right. We can't come to your house and accuse you without any evidence..."
They were just suspicious but had no solid evidence. Besides, the matter could not be made public, so the four members of the Li family could only suffer in silence.
Zhang Guifang was so angry that she pointed at Li Baotian and cursed: "Fuck your grandmother Li Baotian, from now on, if you dare to let Li Fengzhi come to my house, I will show you how I will deal with you..."
Li Baotian lowered his head and said nothing. Zhou Yong calmed down his mother-in-law's violent temper and dragged his father-in-law out of the house.
The father-in-law and son-in-law came to the courtyard. Li Baotian looked at his son-in-law and said, "Zhou Yong, do you also think it was your aunt who stole the money?"
Some things simply cannot stand up to scrutiny. Li Baotian doesn't want to admit it, but the facts are there!
Zhou Yong raised his lips and said, "Dad, if you want to know if it was my aunt who stole the money, I have a way."
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