Chapter 349: Chapter 349: The Ultimate Deflation Chapter 349: Chapter 349: The Ultimate Deflation “Yunniang, what’s happened?” Gu Ya was sleeping with his arms around his little wife, so when she got up, it naturally woke him up too.
Without time to explain to Gu Ya, Su Yunjin jumped out of bed, put on her shoes, and ran out.
Gu Baofu and Mrs. Zhang had just gone to pick locks when they stepped on something. Then a wooden basin fell from above, water sloshing inside it, drenching both Gu Baofu and Mrs. Zhang from head to toe.
Gu Baofu was tall, but Mrs. Zhang stood a head shorter than Gu Baofu. When the basin fell, it first hit Gu Baofu on the back, and then with a clatter landed on Mrs. Zhang’s head.
Mrs. Zhang hadn’t expected to be hit by a basin and saw stars as it struck her, the sudden event leaving both her and Gu Baofu too shocked to react.
They heard Su Yunjin and her husband’s door open; Gu Baofu and Mrs. Zhang, startled, shuddered, knowing that the noise had disturbed Su Yunjin.
Fearing being seen by Su Yunjin, they lost all will to steal the fish, dropped the iron bar they were holding, and scurried off into the woods outside to hide.
Su Yunjin came out, lantern in hand. Despite the quick escape of Gu Baofu and Mrs. Zhang, she spotted them running towards the small grove outside the Gu Family house.
Reaching the outside of the kitchen, Su Yunjin looked down at the puddle on the ground and the wooden basin and couldn’t help but chuckle to herself.
It seemed the married couple, Mrs. Zhang and Gu Baofu, had both been drenched like drowned rats.
The image of Mrs. Zhang and Gu Baofu getting hit by the basin and soaked through just made Su Yunjin laugh secretly again.
She had anticipated Mrs. Zhang would come back to steal fish.
However, Su Yunjin didn’t expect her eldest brother Gu Baofu would also join in. It’s true that ‘Birds of a feather flock together,’ just like sister-in-law and Gu Baofu, the married couple.
Both were equally outstanding in their way.
Noticing an iron bar on the ground, Su Yunjin bent down to pick it up. It wasn’t long, only about twenty centimeters. Not too thick either, about the size of a thumb.
Perfect for picking locks.
After examining the stick, Su Yunjin checked the kitchen lock. Seeing it undisturbed, she realized Mrs. Zhang and her husband Gu Baofu were caught before they could even start lock-picking.
Those two must not have even begun their attempt.
Su Yunjin looked towards the direction where Gu Baofu and Mrs. Zhang fled. Intentionally, she stood there without moving, just staring in that direction. That small grove where Mrs. Zhang and Gu Baofu were hiding was not only full of mosquitoes but also bugs and rats. They came here to steal fish,
and she would be surprised if she didn’t make it hard for them!
Since she wasn’t leaving, the couple wouldn’t dare come out of the woods.
Su Yunjin didn’t go after Mrs. Zhang and her husband.
She just stood there.
Letting them feed the mosquitoes and insects in the forest a little more. Mrs. Zhang and Gu Baofu were soaked to the skin, hiding out there.
And the bugs were plentiful.
Seeing Su Yunjin come out, they were all hoping she would leave quickly so they could get back to their room. Who would have thought that Su Yunjin, that little scoundrel, was doing it on purpose or not,
simply standing there, not moving an inch.
Su Yunjin wasn’t moving.
So, Mrs. Zhang and Gu Baofu didn’t dare emerge.
If they came out now, wouldn’t that be the same as admitting to Su Yunjin that it was they who tried to steal the fish?