"I told you, it's not money, it's not money, it's the cloth your mother used to tie her hair, a few letters we wrote, and the food coupons we used in the early years, nothing else." Li Pingwang said to her angrily: "Why do you only have money in your eyes?"

Li Hongyan obviously didn't believe Li Pingwang's explanation: "But my mother is so rich, how could she not give me some?"

Li Pingwang was extremely anxious: "How come it disappeared?"

Li Hongyan watched her father searching the kang, cabinets, wardrobes, and beds in the room like they were a garbage dump, but still couldn't find those things. Her face turned black.

"Dad, think about it, did you hide it somewhere else and forget about it?"

"If I didn't have these things, even if I found my biological mother, she wouldn't recognize me, right?"

Li Hongyan is not stupid. It has been more than 40 years. If she goes to find her mother again, it probably won't work if she doesn't produce some evidence and just relies on her father's words.

Li Pingwang was anxious. He really looked everywhere but couldn't find it.

"I can't find it." He said blankly.

Li Hongyan widened her eyes. Can’t find it?

"No, Dad, think about it. When was the last time you saw these things? People in our village don't have anything valuable. Outsiders don't come to steal. When people lose things, it's usually done by dishonest people in the village. Dad, think about it. Let's find them quickly."

Coincidentally, when Li Pingwang was settling accounts the day before yesterday, he took out these things again to remind himself of the past. Then he went to the city yesterday and stayed at home today. No outsiders came the day before yesterday and today.

That could only be yesterday.

"Yes, yes, it was yesterday. I was not at home yesterday. The thief might have come at that time." Li Pingwang slapped his thigh and said angrily: "This damn thief, why did he steal these things? They are not worth anything!"

Having said that, Li Hongyan glanced at the open kang cabinet on the side. There was a roll of money in it, which looked like there were about two or three hundred yuan. It was easier to find than in the compartment of the table pocket.

But not a penny was lost?

"Dad, think about it first, did the thief touch the money just now?"

Li Pingwang was stunned for a moment and thought about it. When he found the money just now, the handkerchief was placed in a different place. It had been moved, but the thief did not take the money away.

"How come the thief came to steal something, but he didn't take the money?"

He couldn't figure out what the thief was here for.

Li Pingwang couldn't figure it out and looked confused.

But Li Hongyan was very smart. She immediately went out and went to the neighbors on both sides to inquire.

Did anyone come to see her father yesterday?

Her father was not at home yesterday. Did the dog bark?

The big black dog at the door is very human-like. If a stranger comes to the house, don't even think about getting through the door because the dog chain is very long and it directly guards the entire area of ​​the gate.

When Li Hongyan came back, she brought some bad news.

She said with a gloomy face: "Dad, Xiaoyu came here yesterday."

This is the advantage of living in the village. There are always idle people playing chess and cards at the entrance of the village. As long as a stranger appears, he will be discovered almost immediately, so the villagers can basically not keep any secrets.

Especially if someone's relatives have nothing to do with the people in the village, after coming to visit a few times, they can become familiar with other people in the village.

That's someone's daughter-in-law's elder sister.

No, that's not right. This is her sister-in-law from her mother's side, not her eldest sister. Her eldest sister has double eyelids and is a little taller than her.

Look, this is the countryside.

They know each other very well, and when they meet at the market, they will greet each other with a smile: Come to the market.

Yes, I came to the market. This is your child, so cute.

Li Hongyan immediately found out that the dog at home did not bark yesterday, and Li Yutong came.

"Dad, it must be Xiaoyu who did it. I'll go to our house to find her now." For the first time, Li Hongyan felt that this scheming niece was so vicious.

She actually ran to her grandfather's house to steal things!

"No way, why is Xiaoyu flipping through this thing?" Li Pingwang didn't think it was Li Yutong.

Li Yutong is indeed the kind of person who would never do such a thing.

However, this situation was very special, so Li Hongyan said, "Dad, have you ever thought that it was Chen Xiaoying who asked her to steal?"

It has to be said that Li Hongyan had deceived Chen Xiaoying and Li Pingwang for decades, and she had already understood their temperaments thoroughly.

Considering Chen Xiaoying's attitude towards her during this period, she thought that her mother might have known from these things that she was not her biological daughter.

"Xiao Yu listens to her and is her accomplice, Dad!" She couldn't help crying: "Why is my life so miserable? Why does she want to hurt me?"

"Does she want me to find my biological mother?"

She started crying, grabbing her sleeves and wiping her tears. "I have called her mom for more than 40 years, and I have been filial to her for more than 40 years, but she is still not satisfied. I am getting old too, and my life is almost over. Can't I go and see my biological mother?"

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was all Chen Xiaoying's conspiracy. She was selfish and didn't want the daughter she raised to find someone else to recognize her mother. She felt that she would be at a disadvantage by doing so.

Put yourself in her shoes. If this happened to her, she would never raise her son until he was in his forties and then look for someone else to recognize him as his mother. She has raised him for more than forty years, spent so much effort and money, she is not raising him to provide for others in their old age.

Li Pingwang listened to Li Hongyan's words and stood up angrily: "Okay, I'll go find her right away."

Li Pingwang and his daughter Li Hongyan went directly to Li Hongwei's home.

The couple just came back from the fields and haven't had breakfast yet.

Li Hongwei was squatting in the corner sharpening the blade of his hoe. Liu Lanxiang was preparing to cook on the stove. There was a soup pot squatting on the coal stove next to it. There was white rice soup at the bottom of the pot and steamed buns on top.

Suddenly I saw this father and daughter coming towards me aggressively, and it was obvious that it was not a good thing.

Liu Lanxiang blinked, stood up in surprise, not knowing what to say.

"Dad, big sister, you are here? Have you eaten?"

No matter how much they hated each other behind their backs, as long as they didn't want to quarrel or fight, they could still say hello to each other when they met. Liu Lanxiang didn't really mean to let them have dinner.

Li Hongwei also took a look.

Li Pingwang glared at Li Hongwei, then looked at Liu Lanxiang: "Where's Xiaoyu? Tell her to come out."

Liu Lanxiang was stunned for a moment: "Xiaoyu is not at home. She went back to the city yesterday."

"She went back to the city? When did she go back? Did she take anything with her when she went back?" Li Hongyan asked hurriedly.

Liu Lanxiang was not happy with the tone of Li Hongyan's words and ignored her: "I was in a hurry to go to the fields, so I didn't see it."

Li Hongwei also heard something wrong, he stepped forward and said to Li Pingwang: "Dad, what do you want to do with Xiaoyu?"

Li Pingwang hadn't thought of what to say yet, so Li Hongyan took the initiative and said, "Something was lost in Dad's room, and someone saw it. Xiaoyu was the only one who went home yesterday. Ask her if she did it?"

Li Hongyan's tone, as if she was trying to catch a thief, made Li Hongwei angry: "What's missing? Xiaoyu just went to our dad's house, what can happen?"

He described his daughter as a thief. When his father asked him a few questions, he admitted it. He was his father and there was nothing he could do.

But why does Li Hongyan say so?