Chapter 54 Mom, it’s not safe down there!
Shi Xiaoai sneered: "Why would I rob someone? After that, I'd go to jail and then cry hypocritically at someone else's door?"
Having said that, she was too lazy to continue arguing with Shi Xiaomei, so she put away the smile on her face and showed impatience.
"Okay, stop crying here, acting like someone's bullying you. While your parents are still here, go back and talk to them about when and how to pay us back.
Don't think you can get away with it by being thick-skinned like you did when I held Grandpa's funeral. I'm not that easy to talk to. If you don't give me a reply within three days, I will sue in court and apply for compulsory enforcement."
Shi Xiaomei left after Shi Xiaoai said she would give an answer within three days. Apparently, she also realized that this cousin was not as easy to fool as she had imagined.
The people watching the excitement around also dispersed, and Aunt Liu, who had been waiting nearby, sent the two children back.
Seeing that the couple was very tired, Aunt Liu didn't say much, but worriedly reminded them again not to leave the two children home alone, to be more careful, and to tell her if anything happened.
Shi Xiaoai and Cheng Yang thanked the old man and returned home with the children.
After closing the door, Shi Xiaoai felt that the world was finally quiet.
Normally, it would be time for Mingrui and Mingxi to go to bed at this time, but today the two children seemed to be frightened. They forced themselves to follow Shi Xiaoai closely, refusing to leave her side for a moment.
Especially Octavia, the little guy's lips were tightly pressed into a line, his brows were furrowed, and his expression was serious and a little scary.
Several times, Xiao Ai suggested that he go to bed, but he shook his head and said seriously, "Let Xiao Xi sleep first. Mom, I have something to tell you."
Shi Xiaoai had never seen her child like this before, and she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
She and Cheng Yang exchanged a look. Cheng Yang reached out and picked up Xiaoxi and said, "You two can talk. I'll take Xiaoxi to sleep over there first."
As he said that, he was about to take Xiaoxi to the cabin.
Even though the little girl calls "my dad" all the time during the day, she will turn her back on her mother at night and insist on sleeping with her mother.
Zizi also knew that his brother must have something important to say to his mother, so he didn't dare to make a fuss. He just struggled to prevent Cheng Yang from holding him. Finally, he simply pushed Cheng Yang away and climbed onto the bed, getting into the innermost part of the quilt.
He fell asleep in a few minutes.
Cheng Yang stood in the middle of the room and once again felt like an outsider.
Seeing him like this, Shi Xiaoai looked at her son.
Mingrui, who was sitting beside her legs, thought about it, stood up and walked over to Cheng Yang. He reached out and patted his thigh, and comforted him like a little adult: "Dad, go to the cabin and wait for me. I'll go over and sleep with you later."
Cheng Yang: "..." The feeling of being abandoned became even more severe.
After Cheng Yang left, Shi Xiaoai asked, "Mingrui, what do you want to tell Mom?"
Octavia stood up and walked over to close the bedroom door.
Then he took Shi Xiaoai's hand and said to her in a low voice, "Mom, that box...is not safe to put inside the bed."
Shi Xiaoai's head buzzed!
She looked at her little son, who was less than five years old, in disbelief and asked in a hoarse voice, "How did you know I put it under the bed? Do you know what's in the box?"
When Shi Xiaoai got the carved wooden box back, she placed it at the innermost part of the bed right away. At that time, she couldn't think of a particularly suitable place.
But when she looked at the contents of the box, Mingrui and Mingxi had already been taken home by Aunt Liu to drink water. She was sure that she was the only one at home at that time.
How did Octavia know? !
Shi Xiaoai's head was buzzing. The shock her son's words brought to her far exceeded the shock she felt when she saw Shi Xiaomei just now.
She couldn't help but grab Mingrui's hand, but she had to control her emotions for fear of scaring the child and asked again, "Do you know this or does Mingxi know it too?"
Maybe Shi Xiaoai pretended to be too calm, and Mingrui didn't notice that his mother was any different from before.
The child said to her with a serious face, "That box must contain money! You always put our money under the bed before. But I saw that the space under the bed here is not the same as in our previous home. There is no loose place in the wall here, so it can't be stuffed in at all!"
When I came back that day, I thought you must have put the box back to its old place, so I climbed in to take a look, and I saw it at a glance.
Mom, that won’t work. What if a bad guy comes next time and I can’t stop him? "
The more Shi Xiaoai listened, the more she felt something was wrong.
Hearing this, she finally reacted and couldn't help asking, "Mingrui, that guy came in and beat you that day, wasn't he trying to steal our quilt?"
Mingrui looked at Shi Xiaoai deeply.
For some reason, she actually saw a hint of disgust in her son's eyes.
Mingrui said, "I'm not stupid! He's so big and I can't beat him. A brave man never suffers a loss. If it was just a fight over the quilt, I would have just run away. But he said everything in our house is his and he even tried to pull the box under our bed!"
I definitely couldn't let him pull it! I blocked him there and didn't let him move. Then I don't know what happened and I bumped into the corner of the table.
It was not until then that Shi Xiaoai realized what had happened.
When they were in the hospital, the two children were in very bad condition, and they were so young that Shi Xiaoai didn't think of asking any more questions.
After hearing what Mingrui said, she felt really guilty and couldn't help but look at this child differently.
She suddenly realized that she could no longer treat him as a little kid who knew nothing.
Or maybe it’s really as the saying goes, children from poor families have to grow up early.
His sharp thinking and insight far surpass his age.
Shi Xiaoai thought quickly in her mind, and then asked, "Does Mingxi know about the box?"
Mingrui shook his head: "She doesn't know. I didn't tell her. She's too young."
Seeing the twin boys saying in such a serious tone that their younger sister is smaller, Shi Xiaoai felt so much love and affection.
She couldn't help but reach out and pinch Mingrui's cheek before continuing, "Okay, then don't tell her about this for now. Let's keep it a secret between the two of us, okay?"
Octavia nodded solemnly.
Shi Xiaoai picked up her son, placed him on her lap, and slowly explained to him, "You all saw it. That box was dug out from my grandparents' grave. It didn't contain money. It was a relic that my grandma left for my mom. It was a souvenir."
Hearing that it wasn't money, the child was visibly relieved.
Shi Xiaoai hugged her son and continued to say to him: "I took out the box a long time ago and put it somewhere else."
Octavia immediately raised his head: "Where is it?"
Shi Xiaoai shook her head: "Don't worry about this. This is something adults need to consider. Children don't need to know so much."
Octavia pouted.
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