When the wicker trunk was opened, twenty blue bricks were revealed inside. Mrs. Lu was dumbfounded: "This...this is not my trunk. I clearly put large yellow croakers in my trunk. How could they have turned into bricks?"
Mrs. Lu couldn't believe it. She went back to the car to check, and found that apart from the rattan box she had taken down, there was no other box.
Ruan Yunxi picked up a brick and weighed it in her hand, then deliberately asked, "Could it be that a large yellow croaker is hiding inside?"
"Impossible, this is a brick. Who switched my big yellow croaker?" Mother Lu clearly remembered that it contained a big yellow croaker, which she had packed herself.
But Ruan Yunxi was right in front of her, and she couldn't switch places with her.
Therefore, the only person worth suspecting is her most trusted wet nurse.
The things she was entrusted with keeping have now turned into bricks. What else is there to say? It must be that the wet nurse betrayed her.
Thinking of this, Lu's mother picked up a box of bricks and, without saying a word, drove angrily to the wet nurse's house to settle accounts with her.
Ruan Yunxi watched coldly, dusted off the brick fragments on her hands, and waited to see the show.
When Lu's mother arrived at the wet nurse's house, she angrily knocked on the door.
The wet nurse, her body hunched over, opened the door and, seeing Lu Mama return, asked, "Third Miss, weren't you going to rescue the young master and young master? Did you get them out?"
It would have been better if she hadn't said anything, because once she did, Madam Lu got angry and threw the wicker trunk in front of the wet nurse: "I'd like to ask why the trunk I took contained bricks instead of large yellow croakers?"
The wet nurse blinked, looking at Mama Lu's angry face, her eyes full of reproach and disappointment. Realizing something, she immediately denied it: "Does the Third Miss suspect that the old nanny has switched the items?"
"You know perfectly well whether it's true or not." With that, Lu's mother went to the secret room to check on the other supplies she had hidden there. Besides the twenty large yellow croakers she had taken, she had left ninety more there.
Since the wet nurse was unreliable, she decided to take everything with her.
To everyone's surprise, when they opened the secret room, it was completely empty.
Lu's mother: "???"
Suspecting she was seeing things, Lu's mother looked again and confirmed that the boxes, antiques, paintings, jewelry, the Patek Philippe watch stolen from the Ruan family, the imperial green jade necklace, and more than a dozen beautiful colored diamonds and pigeon blood rubies that she had seen before were all gone.
Lu's mother felt like her world had collapsed.
She looked at the empty, destitute secret room, then at the wet nurse who had followed her, and angrily grabbed the wet nurse's clothes: "You still say it wasn't you? I trusted you so much, and you actually stole my things! Give me back my things!"
Looking at the empty secret room, the wet nurse was speechless: "How could this be? It was here before, Third Miss, please let me explain."
"What else is there to explain? As long as you return everything, I can let bygones be bygones." Mrs. Lu wished she could kill her, but she still wanted to get her things back.
The wet nurse was on the verge of tears: "Third Miss, I don't know who took it, it wasn't me, I didn't take it!"
"Even after all this, you still won't repent. You've disappointed me so much, Granny. You won't hand it over, will you? I'll go to the police right now and have you arrested." Mama Lu threatened the nanny.
The wet nurse suspected that the unfilial son of the family had secretly emptied the master's property while she was dozing off. Not wanting to make a big fuss, she chased after him, saying, "Third Miss, you can't call the police!"
"Get out! You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences!" Mother Lu said angrily, shoving the wet nurse hard. The wet nurse lost her balance and crashed into the stone pond in the yard with a thud.
Looking at the motionless wet nurse who seemed to be playing dead, Mrs. Lu said irritably, "Don't think you can get away with this by pretending to be dead. If you don't return my things, I'll have the police arrest you all. It must have been you and your son who did this."
"I trusted you so much, and you actually tried to take it all for yourselves!" Mrs. Lu grew increasingly angry. "If I hadn't needed the money urgently today, I wouldn't have known your true colors, you and your son. Nanny, you've completely broken my heart..."
As she spoke, seeing that the wet nurse was still unresponsive and there was a pool of blood on the ground, Lu's mother had a bad feeling. With trembling hands, she checked the wet nurse's breath.
Lu's mother's expression changed drastically, her pupils dilated, and she was so frightened that she sat down on the ground with a thud, kicking her legs and backing away. Realizing that she had killed someone, she trembled with fear and tried to scramble away from the scene.
Just then, a terrified voice rang out: "Mother, Mother, what's wrong with you? Third Miss, why did you kill my mother?!"
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