Old Mrs. Xia and her sister finally came back. They opened the door and chatted and laughed. As soon as they came out of the kitchen to get some water, they looked up and saw Chen Xiangbei's resentful face standing at the door, followed by Qiao Yi.
"Why are you two here so late at night?" Old Mrs. Xia sat down and asked casually.
Chen Xiangbei sniffed, "Mom, Auntie, has anyone come to your back door recently?"
Old Mrs. Xia understood. It seemed that he had gone to look for his hidden money and discovered that it was gone. She pretended to be clueless. "Who is it? I have to go to work during the day, and I didn't see anyone come to my back door at night. What are they doing in the dark?"
Chen Xiangbei was so upset. That was a huge sum of money. When his mother said she wasn't home during the day and didn't know, he turned to ask Xia Yu'e, "Aunt, what about you? You should be home during the day, right? Did you see... anyone acting suspiciously?"
When he said the second half of the sentence, his voice was a little choked, and Qiao Yi patted him on the back to comfort him.
Xia Yu'e really wanted to laugh. Although it felt a bit immoral, Chen Xiangbei looked so aggrieved and pitiful, just like a child. She couldn't help but want to tease him. "It seems that there are no strangers here during the day. There are not many strangers in our compound. Apart from the few people we know, everyone else wants to stay away from us. Who would come here for no reason? Unless... they have something shameful to do."
Chen Xiangbei felt guilty again, but it was soon overshadowed by the pain of losing his money. Hearing that his money seemed to be impossible to get back, he tried to hold it back but couldn't help it, and burst into tears with his hands covering his eyes.
"Oh, oh, what's wrong? Why are you crying like this?" Old Mrs. Xia smiled with her teeth bared and her eyes squinted, but she still had to hold back from laughing.
Xia Yu'e also stood up and went over with a handkerchief to wipe his tears. "What happened? Xiangbei, tell us."
Qiao Yi understood instantly that her master and the others must know where Xiangbei's money went.
She pushed Chen Xiangbei, trying to remind him.
But Chen Xiangbei was crying so hard, immersed in his own sorrow, that he did not respond to Qiao Yi's reminder.
He sobbed and said, "A few days ago, I hid a lot of money under the eaves of your back door. It was hidden very carefully... Wuwu... But today... it's gone. Ah, wuwu..."
Old Lady Xia asked knowingly, "Where did you get such a large sum of money?"
Chen Xiangbei felt that there was nothing to hide at this point. The money was gone, and the more people knew, the more people would help look for it. So he told everyone the source of the money, including the hardships he had gone through to steal the money and the tricks he had done in Old Chen's box.
"God must have been fed up with my behavior, so he taught me such a big lesson. I had already vowed not to steal, but... I was so scared that my dad would spend all my brother and sister's money on that Yang Su, so I stole.
I didn't intend to spend it. I just wanted to wait until the right time to give it out. Once my dad saw through that woman's true colors, I'd return it to him. I didn't even tell my second brother; he'd definitely find a way to take it all. I... I didn't intend to keep it all for myself. I just wanted to wait for the right opportunity to return it to my dad. I just didn't want the money, which was originally meant for our big event, to be spent by that woman's family.
Mom, I didn’t want to spend that money. I’ve decided never to do bad things again. I’ve made up my mind.”
Really sad to find out that Chen Xiangbei was such a heartless brat, Old Lady Xia and Xia Yu'e exchanged a glance, then turned and went back into their room. Then they took out the stack of money wrapped in mooncake paper and said, "Alright, alright, stop crying. Is this what you're talking about?"
She picked up the money and waved it in front of Chen Xiangbei. Chen Xiangbei sobbed and then shouted, "The money is not lost!"
Old Mrs. Xia said, "We didn't steal it. The wind was so strong that day that it blew the bag of money down and almost hit your aunt. You're so careless in hiding the money, what if someone took it or it blew into the river?"
Chen Xiangbei held the money he had lost and found, his body still twitching, but his heart was at peace. He was glad it wasn't lost. If it was, he would have been unable to sleep at night because of the guilt.
After being comforted by the three, Chen Xiangbei finally calmed down, sniffing. He was still in the mood to settle the score, "Mom, I'm so sad, and you just deliberately didn't tell me that the money was with you. You just wanted to make me anxious. And Auntie, you've become bad too!"
Thinking of the heartfelt words he had just said to Qiao Yi, and the way she started crying as soon as she entered the door, Chen Xiangbei felt a little angry and embarrassed.
Old Lady Xia tapped his forehead. "You're blaming us. If we don't teach you a lesson, you'll probably do something even worse in the future. Money is something you can't just steal or hide. You're lucky your aunt found it this time, but what if we hadn't? Also, what are you going to do with the money?"
Chen Xiangbei hugged the money tightly and said, "I don't know what to do. How about hiding it with you?"
Old Lady Xia cursed: "You stole the money yourself and you want to drag me into this?"
Chen Xiangbei: "I didn't steal the money. I will pay it back later."
Old Mrs. Xia: "Taking without asking is stealing. Your father hasn't officially given you this money yet, and you secretly took it, which is stealing. And some of it wasn't meant for you, it was his own savings. You really didn't leave him a penny, kid. No wonder he got into a fight. If it were someone else, they might have been hospitalized without even a fight. Anyone would be worried sick to lose such a large sum of money."
Chen Xiangbei yelled, "He's not worried at all. He's so busy finding a job for his stepson that he forgets about me, his biological son. Why should he be worried? Speaking of being worried, he might not be as worried as Yang Su and her sons. The money she saved was taken away by her second brother, and now Dad's money is in my hands. Her efforts are all in vain."
Old Lady Xia grasped the key point again: "What do you mean, your second brother took her money?"
Chen Xiangbei nodded: "Didn't my second brother tell you last time? It was the time when I came here to lie down for the whole afternoon, and then he came after me. We also worked together with my sister and brother-in-law to cheat Yang Su out of her money."
Seeing that Old Lady Xia's face was getting worse, he added, "I didn't get a penny of the money. My second brother pocketed it all. I...I also felt bad about it. I told my second brother about it, but he said that woman would cheat Dad out of all his money in the future. That's why he took that little bit and didn't feel guilty at all."
Old Mrs. Xia: "So, that's why you thought of stealing your father's money?"
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