Grandma Yu shouted for help, and Yu Changfu came in. Seeing Yu Xiaolian entangled with Grandma Yu, he grabbed Yu Xiaolian by the back of her collar and lifted her up.
However, from start to finish, Yu Xiaolian didn’t let go of Grandma Yu’s leg. She pulled Grandma Yu down to the ground, spilling the white rice from the sack all over the floor.
Seeing his mother fall, Yu Changfu hurried to help her up.
But Grandma Yu stood up by herself nimbly, shouting at Yu Changhe, "I was kind enough to give your family time to pack clothes. Now get out, and you’re not allowed to take anything from this house!"
Earlier, she noticed there were quite a lot of things in this room, including rice, flour, cooking oil, and even snacks covered under a white cloth. The more Grandma Yu thought about it, the more she suspected it was Yu Xiaolian or Mrs. Sun who had stolen her money. Otherwise, where did they get the money to buy these things?
"Changfu, search this room again for me. They must have taken my money, so be thorough this time."
Seeing the white refined rice, Yu Changfu understood something. As long as he found his mother’s savings, his family’s life would improve.
Just that one gold ingot is worth a hundred taels of silver!
Yu Changfu didn’t even take his shoes off. He stepped onto the kang and headed for the locked kang cabinet belonging to Mrs. Sun.
After pulling at it a few times and not being able to open the lock, he turned to Mrs. Sun, demanding, "Where’s the key? Give me the key!"
Before Mrs. Sun could respond, Yu Changhe suddenly sat up and started hitting Yu Changfu with a pillow without a word, just hitting in silence.
Yu Changfu was frightened by his brother’s crazy behavior and looked at Grandma Yu, "Mom, what to do? Mom..." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel✦fire.net
"You coward, he’s just a cripple; what are you afraid of him for?" Grandma Yu said as she began searching Mrs. Sun for the keys.
Mrs. Sun, enraged by now, fought furiously with Grandma Yu.
Afraid his mother might suffer a loss, Yu Changfu shouted loudly for Mrs. Cao to come help, but after shouting for a while, Mrs. Cao didn’t show up, so he went to help Grandma Yu fight Mrs. Sun.
Yu Xiaolian couldn’t care about anything else. She pulled out the pepper spray and sprayed it at Grandma Yu and Yu Changfu.
Inside was capsaicin oil, an oily substance extracted from dried hot peppers, making the spray ninety times hotter than eating a habanero pepper. If sprayed on the face or in the eyes, it would cause unbearable pain.
Yu Changfu was hit first. "Ah, what is this? It hurts so much, Mom, I can’t open my eyes!"
Next, Grandma Yu also screamed in pain, "Ouch, it hurts... this damned little troublemaker."
Yu Changhe looked at his brother and mother with tears streaming down his face, his lips trembling, unable to say a word.
Grandma Yu and Yu Changfu ran out, making their way to the water jar in the kitchen with the help of the corners of their eyes that could still see.
Yu Changhe looked blankly at Mrs. Sun, "Take the child and go back to your mother’s place. Even if I die, I’ll die here at this home."
Mrs. Sun, her hair a tangled mess from Grandma Yu’s pulling and a few scratch marks on her face, started crying as she hugged Yu Changhe, "Changhe. Why are you so silly? I won’t let you die, I definitely won’t let you die."
Yu Xiaolian also felt a lot of emotions. Originally, Yu Changhe’s leg was gradually recovering, but now it had suddenly become even worse than before. Could it be that she really couldn’t reverse the original trajectory of the book?
Wouldn’t that mean she would die too?
No, she didn’t want to die. She wanted to buy a beautiful manor and lie down comfortably as a landlady.
Realizing Yu Changhe was determined to die, with no will to live, Yu Xiaolian decided to tell a white lie.
"Dad, do you know why we bought so many things when we went to town that day? It’s because my mom... is pregnant."
Seeing the wave of emotion flicker through Yu Changhe’s previously lifeless eyes, she continued, "Doctor Zheng from Huichun Hall took her pulse. He said my mother is malnourished and needs to eat more nutritious food."
Upon hearing it was Doctor Zheng who took her pulse, Yu Changhe was convinced there couldn’t be a mistake, "Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I even complained about the stuff you bought that day, it was all my fault."
Mrs. Sun was bewildered, what did I tell you? I didn’t know anything, okay?
Seeing Yu Xiaolian wink at her, Mrs. Sun forced herself to comply, "I wanted to wait until it was more stable before telling you. Changhe, we have another child, you must take care of yourself, the child can’t be without a father!"
Yu Changhe nodded repeatedly, "I’ll take care of myself, I’ll take care of myself..."
"I have a child, I have another child... Heaven hasn’t treated me poorly!"
Yu Xiaolian breathed a big sigh of relief seeing that Yu Changhe finally let go of his death wish.
"But... going to your mother’s place, is that okay?"
The Sun Family only had three straw houses: the east room where Grandma lived, the west room where Sun Fengshou’s family of three lived, and the kitchen in the middle.
There was no place for them to stay even if they went there.
Moreover, with Xu’s unyielding personality, she might throw a tantrum and go back to her parents’ home as soon as they moved in.
If it ended up disturbing her brother-in-law’s home, what could be done?
Before Mrs. Sun could answer, Father Yu stood angrily at the doorway, cursing, "You ungrateful ones, so you really did steal your mother’s money. I’m telling you, get out now, and you’re not allowed to take a single piece of clothing."
Perhaps hearing about the power of the pepper spray from Yu Changfu, Father Yu didn’t enter but stood outside cursing.
"We raised you for nothing. How could you collude with your wife to deceive us and steal your mother’s money, you ungrateful, heartless wolf?"
Yu Changhe glanced at the locked kang cabinet, "It seems we can’t take the silver with us."
Yu Xiaolian climbed onto the kang, unlocked the lock, took out their clothes, Mrs. Sun’s embroidery threads, and the package of silver Mrs. Sun had hidden, wrapping them in a piece of cloth.
"Mom, I’ll go find Jiang Lin to borrow an ox cart to take Dad to town to see his leg."
Mrs. Sun knew Yu Xiaolian had several hundred taels in her space, so she didn’t try to stop her.
But Yu Changhe said, "Borrowing an ox cart is fine, but I won’t go to town. I know of an abandoned temple south of Lower River Bend, let’s... go there instead?"
Yu Changhe would rather live in an abandoned temple than go to Mrs. Sun’s family home.
Sigh, the pride of a man!
Yu Xiaolian went to the outer room and put the bundle into the supermarket, along with their toothpaste, toothbrushes, and electric blanket, all of which she stored away when Yu Changhe wasn’t looking.
As soon as Yu Xiaolian stepped outside, Father Yu and Yu Changfu backed away several steps, especially Yu Changfu, whose face was patched with red and white skin, with some blisters forming, and his eyes were red.
Father Yu, holding a pole, blocked Yu Xiaolian, "Where are you going?"
He suspected Yu Xiaolian intended to borrow a cart only as a pretense to move the silver.
He expressly stated that if she wanted to borrow a cart from Jiang Lin, they had to search her first.
Since things had already reached this breaking point, Yu Xiaolian wasn’t about to put up with them. She straightforwardly took out the pepper spray and said to Father Yu, "Do you want to try and see if the pepper spray is spicy?"
Father Yu swept the pole back and forth. He didn’t dare let Yu Xiaolian get close, "You, you fiend, you think I’m afraid of this ghost thing? Today, even if I risk my life, I won’t let you take away the silver from my house!"