With the small wire, Lin Xiaoman pried open the door of the main house and entered the lobby.
Lin Xiaoman went to the kitchen first. It was morning, but the morning porridge was obviously gone. After searching for a while, Lin Xiaoman found a bag of popcorn sticks and half a bowl of peanuts in the kitchen.
Without hesitation, Lin Xiaoman ate a few mouthfuls and drank a large bowl of water.
After filling his stomach a little, Lin Xiaoman packed his things and dragged the bag of popcorn sticks to Zhou's father and mother's room.
The door was locked, but that didn't bother her.
Relying on the survival skill of lock picking, Lin Xiaoman quickly opened the lock, entered the room, and squatted down beside the bed with a clear purpose.
Under the bed, there are several wooden boxes of different sizes.
After Zhou's father died, Zhou Daming and his wife had searched the room for things, but the wooden boxes were all locked and they couldn't find the key. Zhou Daming chopped one of them with an axe and saw that there were only some rags of clothes inside. He ignored the rest and waited to find a locksmith to open them later.
Perhaps he forgot, or perhaps he thought there was nothing valuable in the box, so Zhou's father's belongings survived.
Before his death, Zhou's father told Zhou Jinghong where he kept his money, and as for the key, it was buried somewhere under the yard.
It's such a waste of time to dig the soil.
Lin Xiaoman found the box where Zhou's father had hidden his belongings, dragged it out, and pried the lock. After opening it and searching inside, Lin Xiaoman found: a bag of unusable bills. A bag of loose change, about a hundred yuan—a fortune these days.
In addition, there is a bag of jewelry, mostly silver jewelry, but there are also a few pieces of ancient gold jewelry.
A gold ring, a pair of gold earrings, and a gold necklace with a heart-shaped pendant.
Lin Xiaoman weighed the three items and estimated that they should weigh about 20 grams.
After taking the money and gold and restoring the scene to its original state, Lin Xiaoman carried his food bag and left the room.
Lin Xiaoman walked out of the yard without looking back, and left the town at full speed, chewing something as he walked, heading quickly towards the town.
Hexi Village is a village relatively close to the town. After walking about five kilometers along the rural dirt road, you will reach the town.
When we arrived in town, we had just finished eating.
The town was very small, so Lin Xiaoman found the hospital without even asking anyone for directions.
After walking around the hospital pretending to feel unwell, Lin Xiaoman suddenly felt a little disgusted. It was called a hospital, but in fact it was not even a health center. There were only a few doctors, and it was inconvenient to buy medicine. Moreover, if he bought medicine here, he was afraid that he would be discovered.
After leaving the hospital, Lin Xiaoman walked around the town again. There was no pharmacy or anything like that, nor was there any small gold shop. There was only a supply and marketing cooperative selling groceries.
Lin Xiaoman went straight to the station.
It was morning when she left the house, so it must be before eleven o'clock. In the original owner's memory, there were two buses from the town to the city every day.
One was in the morning, and the other seemed to be around noon.
I found the place. The station was very small, just a storefront with a few benches and a ticket window.
Lin Xiaoman hurried to the ticket window to inquire, confirmed that there were tickets available, and quickly bought one.
Then, smelling the aroma of buns from the stall outside the station, Lin Xiaoman felt hungry again unconsciously.
Popcorn sticks, they don't fill you up at all.
Since he had some money, Lin Xiaoman bought two meat buns from the stall and then stood aside to eat them.
Obviously affected by his body, Lin Xiaoman felt that meat buns were the most delicious thing in the world!
So fresh!
She wants to eat slowly and chew thoroughly.
Just as Lin Xiaoman was earnestly chewing on a meat bun, a green figure on a bicycle flashed past on the road ahead, but stopped after moving forward a few dozen meters.
After braking the bicycle, the man touched the ground with his feet and turned his head to look over.
Lin Xiaoman naturally noticed it as well and took a look.
Ugh, scumbag!
It turned out to be that scumbag Shen Jianye!
With fair skin, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a straight nose, regular facial features and a gentle and handsome appearance, Shen Jianye looks very handsome among a group of rough men.
Lin Xiaoman had to admit that this scumbag looked really good, no wonder he could deceive girls so easily.
Originally he just felt that the face looked familiar, but when he stopped and took a closer look, Shen Jianye naturally saw Lin Xiaoman squatting openly at the station entrance.
Glancing at the station, Shen Jianye instinctively realized that Lin Xiaoman was about to run away. He immediately got off his bicycle, parked it, and walked over quickly, shouting angrily as he walked, "Zhou Jinghong, where are you going!?"
Shen Jianye was unhappy because the high dowry promised by Zhou's father did not materialize. After all, with his conditions, he could easily find someone better. He agreed to the marriage entirely because of the dowry.
But their family paid the betrothal gift in real money, and later they were blackmailed by that scoundrel Zhou Daming.
In Shen Jianye's view, since all the money of the Shen family has been spent, Zhou Jinghong must marry his eldest brother, give birth to children for him, and take good care of his daily life!
Their family had already made an agreement with Zhou Daming and his wife that they would withhold food from Zhou Jinghong and starve him for a few days until he was too hungry to have any strength left. They would then carry him back at night.
The village chief of Hexi Village is not Zhou Jinghong’s father, so his influence cannot reach that far, and it is impossible for him to control everything.
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