Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 86 - 85 Search

Chapter 86: Chapter 85 Search

Daya and her sisters, upon hearing their eldest aunt’s voice, understood the candies might not be safe, especially with the presence of their aunt. The house already had a second aunt and a third aunt, which compounded the risk of losing the candies.

At the moment, they couldn’t even bother to cry. They wanted to secure all the remaining candies and pastries, but a glance at the room told them it was futile. The room was so small one could spot a filthy spot immediately, and there wasn’t even a mouse hole under the bed to use for hiding things.

“Hide them in the quilt. Qing always hides things in the quilt.”

Siya remembered how Qing, like a magician in the stories, would pull out so many toys from the quilt and could even hide a clay jar in there.

Qing could still enjoy honey, but Siya had only tasted honey once. She dreamed about its sweet taste sometimes, and even in her dreams at night, she would smack her lips, imagining eating honey.

Daya and the other two sisters hadn’t witnessed the scene of Qing giving gifts that morning, nor had they tasted the honey, let alone seen Qing’s carefree refusal to accept gifts.

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They reacted instinctively; since there was nowhere else to hide, the quilt seemed the best hiding spot.

When the elder sisters were hiding the items in the quilt, Ye Shiqi, with a thought, gathered all the items from the quilt into the space.

Hongji, speechless, watched the children’s actions. Could the quilt really conceal anything?

If the family wanted to find something, they would turn even a mouse hole inside out.

Mrs. Lai had just spoken when Ye Shuying, holding her son, arrived at the doorway of her eldest brother’s room. She had always looked down on her eldest brother since he was too weak in her eyes.

Too “obedient,” always listening to their parents, without a single copper coin to his name. Their couple supported a widowed mother who was quite formidable. Although their family had other brothers, her husband would give some of his earnings to the family fund and also save some secret cash.

She despised her brother all the more for only having daughters. This was Ye Shuying’s first encounter with her eldest brother’s youngest daughter.

Upon seeing her youngest niece, she paused, staring fixedly at the girl. How could such a delicate beauty be born to her rustic brother and his wife?

If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, she might have thought the child was adopted.

This girl looked better than the older ones, her features different and refined, unlike the older girls who had once had sallow faces and dry, yellowish hair.

Ye Shuying looked down at her own son, thinking she had raised him well, but he wasn’t any better off than her brother’s impoverished daughters.

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“Eldest brother, didn’t you see your nephew has come? Bring out the candies and pastries you’ve received for your nephew to eat.”

“This…” What could Hongji say? Could he say no? He might be stern with Ye Shuying, but the nephew was just a child. It was hard to refuse him.

“Eldest brother, really, you’ve collected so many candies and pastries but won’t share them with your sister?”

Why did Ye Shuzhen talk so much? She simply pushed past her elder sister and stormed into the room to search.

Ye Shuzhi also entered the room following her, searching along with her youngest sister, flipping even the bedding.

Daya and her sisters, timidly watching Second Aunt and Third Aunt’s actions, looked nervous, fearing they would find the hidden items.

Ye Shuzhi and Ye Shuzhen went into the room to search. Ye Shuying, holding her son, initially didn’t want to enter her elder brother’s room, but at this moment, she couldn’t care less and put her child down to join the search.

As Hongji watched his three sisters rummaging through the room, he frowned at the sight. They were turning the room his wife had just tidied into a complete mess, even dumping out clothes from the chest.

Those were clothes his wife had neatly folded. The normally mild-mannered man scolded angrily, “You are going too far. Look at the mess you’ve made of the room my wife just cleaned up.”

“Eldest brother, just tell us where you hid the things. They aren’t hidden up in the rafters, are they?”

Ye Shuzhen, desperate for something to eat, didn’t care about the scolding from her elder brother.

Upon hearing what her younger sister Sanya said, Ye Shuzhi also looked up at the beams in the room.

The beams were not high—their eyes could easily see, with or without anything there. The beams, made of wood, weren’t very large. From their standing height, they could clearly see that nothing was hidden among the beams.

Ye Shuying couldn’t help but glanced at the beams as her younger sisters spoke, then lowered her head to peek under the bed.

She only smelled the odor of stinky shoes, covering her nose and disdainfully fanning the air.

Their parents kept their money too tight. Everything in their elder brother’s room was very shabby, including the shoes worn by him and the younger children, which were both old and tattered.

She found it strange and glanced at the clothes in her younger sister’s turned-out elder brother’s box—hadn’t Mrs. Li come back once bringing some nice things? It was supposed to include clothes for the children, but why hadn’t she seen any?

“Elder brother, didn’t our sister-in-law bring back a large bundle this time? Shouldn’t it have some nice things in it?”

At that moment, Ye Shuzhen thought of Mrs. Li, who had brought back a large bundle. At that time, everyone was too distracted by the gifts to notice.

“Sanya, if you hadn’t mentioned it, I would have completely forgotten. Indeed, Mrs. Li did bring a large bundle into the room when she came back.”

Stirred by what Sanya mentioned, Ye Shuzhi also remembered.

“A bundle? I didn’t see it, and the way you don’t even call her sister-in-law, it’s very impolite.” Hongji had not noticed Mrs. Li bringing a bundle, as he was accompanying the housekeeper at the time.

“Well now, my son, you’ve learned to be sneaky, hiding things from your spouse.”

Mrs. Lai had always guarded her own room. The two rooms were separated only by a wall, so she could hear the conversations from here.

Upon hearing there were unseized valuables, Mrs. Lai didn’t care about guarding her room and quickly leapt in, almost falling over the threshold like a dog eating dirt, but Hongji quickly caught her.

Having regained her balance, Mrs. Lai slapped her son’s body. “You wicked thing, now you even keep secrets from your own mother, hiding valuable items.”

Feeling miserable as his mother hit him, Hongji could only shake his head, all while hearing his sisters’ accusing voices, feeling very wronged—they didn’t understand that he genuinely hadn’t seen the bundle his wife brought back.

“Don’t hit my dad, Grandma; my mom didn’t bring any items back.” Daya loudly defended her father.

“Don’t hit my dad…”

Er Ya, Sanya, and Siya were all shouting.

However, Ye Shiqi was just watching Hongji and the family, remaining calm.

Indeed, their mother Mrs. Li had brought back a large bundle; she even glanced inside it to see some clothes and shoes for her sisters and herself, all warm for winter.

Inside, there was also a high-quality quilt, definitely better than the ones on their beds now, as it contained real cotton.

Their mother had left the bundle there and forgotten to mention it to her family or her husband by the time she left.

Ye Shiqi, aware that her mother had placed the bundle in the room and fearing that her grandmother and others might come looking, decided to safeguard it by intending everything inside the bag into the “space”.

“Speak up, did Mrs. Li bring things back or not? You lot, always costing us money, will you tell or not?”

Daya and Er Ya, Sanya hadn’t seen the bundle and shook their heads, only Siya was vaguely aware. She had been with her younger sister Qing and had indeed seen the bundle their mother brought in.