Chapter 234: Chapter 234: Can’t Help but Laugh from Anger Chapter 234: Chapter 234: Can’t Help but Laugh from Anger Zhang Guihua had always looked down on the girls from the second branch of the family, and now that Sun Lixia had suggested it, she subconsciously assumed it was they who had stolen the items.
Seeing her storm into the second branch’s house with great fury, the other members of the Jiang Family hurriedly followed behind her.
Once inside, Zhang Guihua began to search without any hesitation.
She made a mess of the bedding and clothes in the house, but found not a trace of food.
“Good grief, you worthless bunch, not learning anything good but stealing food to eat! If I don’t beat you to death today, who knows what shameful things you might do in the future,” Zhang Guihua said as she raised her hand to hit Da Ya and the others.
Having made up her mind that it was the greedy girls who had stolen the items, she now felt that since she hadn’t found anything, they must have eaten it all.
When Zhao Xiaojuan saw her mother-in-law about to hit her daughters, she quickly shielded the children behind her, “Mom, Da Ya and the others are my kids, I believe they wouldn’t steal.”
She was pregnant at the time, and the old lady really wasn’t in a position to hit her, so she could only glare and command, “Eldest daughter-in-law, step aside. If I don’t teach them a lesson today, they’ll later steal who knows what.”
Zhaodi quickly seized the opportunity to plead, “Grandma, we really didn’t steal anything. You just searched and found nothing in our house. And you only searched our room, which is totally unfair.”
“Search, then search. If there’s nothing in the Eldest’s or Second’s, I’ll break your legs,” the old lady was provoked by Zhaodi’s words and turned to walk out.
Sun Lixia, however, was panicking, as she hadn’t hidden the stolen items well.
So she quickly spoke up to stop her, “Mom, don’t go searching. Eldest brother doesn’t like others entering his room. With so many of us going in, Eldest brother will definitely be unhappy when he comes back.”
The old lady had originally planned to search Jiang Changhai’s room first.
Because the Eldest usually had the most guts, did things off the cuff, and dared to engage in all kinds of shady deals—what wouldn’t he dare to do?
However, seeing Sun Lixia, who usually clashed with the Eldest branch, actually defending them, she immediately sensed something was amiss.
She pushed Sun Lixia, who stood in her way, aside and stepped toward the Third Branch’s room, flipping over the quilts and mattresses—finding nothing.
Sun Lixia’s heart pounded with nervousness as she watched her mother-in-law search the room.
“Mom, how could I possibly steal your things? There really is nothing here,” she swallowed hard, struggling to maintain composure.
Zhang Guihua noticed that as Sun Lixia spoke, she was standing very close to the wardrobe. She squinted her eyes and said, “Step aside, I want to see what’s in the wardrobe.”
“Mom, there are just dirty clothes in this wardrobe, they’re going to stink, I don’t want them to offend you,” Sun Lixia said with a terrified pallor, but still refused to move aside.
But the more she behaved , the more the old lady suspected her, and she stretched out her hand to pull Sun Lixia aside, “Get out of the way!”
She wasn’t pregnant, so there was no need for her to be indulgent.
As soon as she opened the wardrobe, Zhang Guihua saw a piece of clothing wrapped around something, bunched up into a ball.
She picked up a corner of the cloth and gave it a gentle shake, and out fell the cookies and date cakes that should have been in her own cabinet, littering the floor.
Zhang Guihua’s face turned an iron shade of blue as she pointed to the items on the ground and snapped, “What is this?”
“This, this, I don’t know, why these things would appear here,” even at this moment, Sun Lixia was still stubbornly refusing to admit it.
Hearing her shameless words, Zhang Guihua almost laughed in anger.
“So you mean to say, a thief went into my room, stole the items, didn’t eat them, but deliberately placed them in your room to frame you, is that it?”