Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife-Chapter 501 Precious Wife (2)

Huh?

Xiao Shuzhu and Shuju were surprised at the same time.

Zhu Jiayin thought it was strange; otherwise, she wouldn’t have mentioned it to her mother. She said, "I didn’t even know what was happening, so I couldn’t speak up to stop it. And I didn’t know if he was secretly stealing from our family. But that’s impossible, right? Hasn’t the butler been working in our family for many years? Doing such a thing is despicable, and he would be caught immediately, wouldn’t he? Is it necessary?"

Indeed, it would be impossible for the butler to steal. It’s more likely that the butler was acting on someone in the family’s orders, moving things out of the house, which amounts to transferring the family’s assets.

Xiao Shuzhu and Shuju were tense for a moment.

We say we won’t fight or vie for the inheritance, but we can’t just watch someone sneakily move the property out of the house.

"Who would dare to do such a thing? So brazenly, dad may be lying in the hospital, but he’s not dead. The elderly matriarch is here, healthy and able to move around," Xiao Shuzhu couldn’t fathom the situation and raised a series of questions.

On the contrary, as soon as she heard these words, Shuju suddenly realized, "Could it be that Grandma herself ordered the move?"

Indeed, who would dare to move things under the matriarch’s watchful eye? No one could do that, absolutely. The more valuable items in the house and where they were hidden—she kept all the keys. Since their mother passed away, the family had been under the matriarch’s control; she was the head of the Xiao Family.

Therefore, it wasn’t hard to imagine that it had to be the matriarch who ordered the move, and the butler following her command was a given.

Once the sisters thought this through, of course, they couldn’t just go and question the matriarch about why she moved the family’s belongings without permission. Instead, they both realized that something must have happened to the family, a crisis had arisen.

Because the matriarch wouldn’t move assets for no reason, only in the face of a family crisis, when someone might try to grab those assets, would she need to relocate them for the sake of the family. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Moreover, this couldn’t possibly be the eldest or the second child causing the matriarch’s actions, because both of them were family members whom the matriarch could control; there was no need.

"Quick, check it out," Shuju said to Xiao Shuzhu, pointing at the smartphone.

Xiao Shuzhu was startled, then remembered and quickly opened the relevant web pages on her phone.

Economic news was reporting on their family company Changda as the top headline.

On one hand, it mentioned their father’s hospitalization and the stock price plummeting, with nearly half of Changda’s market value evaporating. Following that, there was news of Changda facing an unprecedented crisis, with the danger of being split up or acquired.

The reason the matriarch had hurriedly ordered the removal of items was now abundantly clear.

Xiao Shuzhu and Shuju were dumbfounded. They thought, the eldest and the second had fought so hard, how could things suddenly turn out like this? It was completely different from what they had expected.

Zhu Jiayin leaned over her mother’s phone and asked, "Mom, is Grandpa’s house going bankrupt?"

She truly was acting like a young lady, seemingly oblivious to the fact that her family was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Shuju thought that, after all, this girl wasn’t a Xiao by surname; her foreign father wasn’t going bankrupt, so she felt no personal pain concerning the Xiao Family’s situation.

In contrast, for these women who depended on their natal family, once their natal family was in trouble, their lives would be difficult too.

"The company going bankrupt is unlikely," Xiao Shuzhu tried to say calmly. She couldn’t control what attitude her daughter had; after all, her daughter didn’t carry the Xiao name, not to mention that her husband was eying her natal family’s property greedily.

Shuju recalled what she had said earlier and reflected, "This will be troublesome for Big Sister and Second Sister. I warned Second Sister that she might not be able to control her husband and father-in-law. Now, judging by this situation, Second Sister simply doesn’t have the ability to control the overall situation."