That night, Yu Qiuying was half asleep when she suddenly heard some noise outside.
Something suddenly popped into her head, and she opened her eyes wide, instantly losing all sleepiness.
A thief broke into my house!
Yu Qiuying took out a newly bought sickle from her spatial storage, and without turning on the lights, she opened the door and went out.
"Which beast who lost both his parents dared to steal from my house!"
As soon as I stepped out of the main room, I saw a figure climbing over the wall to escape.
Zhou Cailian and the other two were startled awake and ran out of the house.
Zhou Cailian hadn't even put her coat on properly when she asked, "Mom, has a thief broken in?"
Zhou Jiahong gritted his teeth in anger, "Damn it, he must know that Mom got a thousand yuan and wants to steal our money!"
"Mom, did you see who it was?" Zhou Jiadong asked.
“How could I see clearly in the dark? That thief isn’t stupid; he would have jumped over the wall and run away as soon as he heard me open the door.” Yu Qiuying retorted to Zhou Jiadong in an annoyed tone. Wasn’t that a pointless question? If she had seen who the thief was, she wouldn’t be standing here right now; she would have chased after him.
However, this was the first time a thief had broken into her house in all these years. Yu Qiuying knew very well that the thief was definitely after her thousand yuan and was probably from the village.
Sigh... that's why they say you shouldn't flaunt your wealth; having money really makes people envious!
Fortunately, no one knew that she had received an additional 50,000 yuan reward, otherwise who knows what kind of bad ideas those envious people would have had!
"Alright, stop standing here, go back to your rooms and go to sleep." Yu Qiuying was thinking that she would go to town tomorrow to buy some mousetraps and put them under the walls of the courtyard when she went to bed at night. If a thief came again, she was sure she could catch him.
So the next day, Yu Qiuying went to town and bought fifty large mousetraps. On her way back to the village, she saw Zhou Qiliang carrying a black cloth bag and hurrying towards the village in a hurry.
When Zhou Qiliang saw Yu Qiuying riding a bicycle, his eyes immediately darted away. Then he deliberately slowed down and put a large distance between himself and Yu Qiuying.
Seeing his flustered appearance, Yu Qiuying guessed that he had either stolen something in the city or done something else bad.
However, whatever he did had nothing to do with her, so Yu Qiuying didn't care too much.
During lunch, she still reminded Zhou Jiahong, "Fifth brother, Zhou Qiliang came back this morning. You should avoid him for the next couple of days. He might still be holding a grudge against you for exposing him picking someone's pocket at the department store that day."
"Tch, I'm not afraid of him. If he dares to block me, I'll expose his pickpocketing ways in the city, and I'll make sure he can never hold his head up in the village again!" Zhou Jiahong said dismissively.
Meanwhile, the Lu Sanmei family next door were also having their meal.
However, the atmosphere at the dinner table was far less lively than at Yu Qiuying's home.
"It's always pickled vegetables and radishes, pickled vegetables and radishes. Can't you make something else?" Zhou Jianbin smelled the aroma of meat coming from next door, and found the pickled vegetables and radishes in his mouth even harder to swallow.
Zhou Qiming was also full of resentment, "Mom, can you go and buy some meat tomorrow? We've been eating pickled vegetables and radishes for so many days, I'm about to throw up. Look at the neighbor, they buy meat every few days. We're both mothers, why is there such a big difference?"
Zhou Qiliang remained silent, seemingly distracted.
"If you think it's bad, then don't eat it! Change it to something else, what kind of change?! If you're so capable, give me your money now, and I'll go buy meat right away!" Lü Sanmei slammed down her chopsticks and spat in Zhou Jianbin's face.
After berating Zhou Jianbin, she turned to Zhou Qiming, "And you, all you do is eat! Where have you been gallivanting all this time? You're nowhere to be seen. If you're so capable, why don't you just stay away for meals? And you even compare me to that bitch next door. If you think that bitch is better than me, then go be her son!"
Finally, she turned her anger on Zhou Qiliang, who had been distracted the whole time, "If you can't eat, then don't eat! Didn't you think the county town was nice? Why did you come back? Do you think home is a hotel? You can't just come and go as you please! What the hell did I do to deserve this? I gave birth to two good-for-nothings like you! Neither of you is any good!"
"Mom, can you please stop being so annoying? You've said these things so many times. Even if you don't say it's annoying, I'm already tired of hearing it." Zhou Qiliang was already annoyed, and he didn't expect that he couldn't even have a peaceful meal. He slammed his chopsticks down in frustration.
"How am I annoying?! Am I wrong? Look at you, what good are you? You don't know what you do all day in the county town. Do you know what people in the village are saying? They all say you hang out with a bunch of thugs in the county town! Tell me honestly, are you really hanging out with thugs?!"
"Why are you listening to their nonsense? You believe everything people say? I'm not eating anymore." Zhou Qiliang stood up and left the house.
"I'm full too." Zhou Qiming put down his chopsticks and followed him out.
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