Lin Qing had originally planned to just put the Gu family in sacks and give them a beating, but she changed her mind. Giving them a beating would be too lenient. They'd received so much from Brother Nanxun over the years! Let them pay it all back!
So Lin Qing first went into the living room and put all the furniture in the house into her spatial storage. Then she went into Old Gu's room and took away all the wardrobes, clothes, bedding, and other items. Although she didn't care about these things, she could sell them on the black market. In any case, she was just throwing them away and not leaving a single thing for Old Gu's family.
After leaving the old couple's house, Lin Qing went to the kitchen and put all the food, pots and pans, and other items into her space. She didn't even leave behind the broken water tank and the firewood, aiming to sweep everything away.
Then Lin Qing quickly moved through all the rooms, and everything in her path disappeared, even the things in the courtyard. Only the manure bucket in the courtyard was left untouched because Lin Qing disliked it.
"System, please check if there's anything I've forgotten."
5 seconds later...
"Ding... Under the fields in the backyard."
Lin Qing asked casually, but she didn't expect that the Gu family had kept such a deep secret.
Lin Qing went to the backyard and saw that it was full of vegetables, including green beans, eggplants, cucumbers, and tomatoes. As usual, Lin Qing put them all into her spatial storage. After thinking for a moment, Lin Qing decided not to damage the seedlings and let them continue to grow. She could come back again when they were ripe!
"hey-hey……"
Thinking of this, Lin Qing couldn't help but laugh. She was really clever. Before she could grow her own vegetables, she would let Old Gu's vegetable garden provide them for her.
Finding the location indicated by the system, Lin Qing took a hoe from her spatial storage and began digging. She quickly unearthed a box, but before she could even see what was inside, she put it directly into her spatial storage. Next, Lin Qing put all the chickens from the backyard into her spatial storage, then opened the gate and returned to her dormitory.
Back in her dorm, Lin Qing couldn't wait to open the box. She was really curious about what was inside that the Gu family was hiding.
Opening the wooden box revealed a chest full of small yellow croakers, along with a dragon-shaped jade pendant. The pendant was crystal clear, a top-quality imperial green jade. Where did the Gu family get so much gold, and this jade pendant? This was far beyond what the Gu family could possibly possess. Looking at the jade pendant, Lin Qing couldn't help but ponder deeply.
"System, do you know what's going on? Where did they get the jade pendant from?"
"It should be related to Gu Nanxun's background."
"Could it be that Gu Nanxun really isn't from the Gu family?"
Have you ever seen any parents treat their own son like this?
"So it really wasn't his biological child!"
"System, should I tell Nanxun?"
"System, do you know who Nanxun's parents are?"
"have no idea."
"How could you not know? You're the system, aren't you!"
"...The system isn't omnipotent either."
After hearing Lin Qing's words, the system replied helplessly.
"Both of you are outsiders, outside the trajectory of this Heavenly Way, therefore your fates cannot be fathomed, and thus you cannot see his past."
"Then how do you know that Brother Nanxun isn't Old Gu's biological son?"
“They are not related by blood, which I can still verify.”
"Then how do you know that the jade pendant is related to Brother Nanxun's background?"
"Just a guess."
"..."
After looking at the wooden box, Lin Qing put it away, planning to ask Gu Nanxun about it tomorrow. Then, Lin Qing sorted through the things she had taken from the Gu family. The Gu family was quite wealthy, with a huge sum of 3,000 yuan. Humph, this must all have come from her brother Nanxun. In addition to the 3,000 yuan in cash, there were some odds and ends, and finally, a dozen or so bags of coarse grains.
Besides these, the rest were the family's clothes, bedding, and furniture, including some pots and pans in the kitchen. Lin Qing piled all these odds and ends together and planned to sell them slowly at the black market when she had time.
"ah……"
A sudden scream rang out in the Chaoyang Brigade in the early morning.
The villagers around Old Gu's house came running out of their yards when they heard the shouts.
They saw that the gate of the Gu family's courtyard was wide open, and everyone walked towards the Gu family's house together.
The group entered the house and found it completely empty, without a speck of dust. Gu Changhe and Wang Dahua sat on the floor, staring blankly at the house. Their eyes were vacant, as if they were still wondering if they were dreaming.
"Old Gu, Da Hua, what's wrong with you two?!"
An older woman in the crowd asked.
"How did you end up in my dream?"
Looking at the crowd rushing into her room, Wang Dahua murmured to herself.
"Big Flower, are you possessed? What kind of dream is this?! *Slap*..."
Upon hearing Wang Dahua's words, the woman who had asked the question slapped Wang Dahua on the shoulder.
"What...what's going on? Where are our things?"
"I don't know, it was like this when we came in..."
Before the aunt could finish speaking, Wang Dahua scrambled to her feet and staggered towards the other rooms. The others followed her, touring every single room. They found that everything in Old Gu's house was gone; there was nothing left, just a clean, empty space. Now, apart from the floorboards, the house was truly bare.
"Wow……"
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