False evidence

Chapter 142 A Child's Story (Part 2)
After Xu and his group achieved their goal and returned to the small town of Xuexiang where they started, they learned that Shen Yangguan's male apprentice had committed suicide due to a loss of faith.

The female apprentice, Yin Kela, used her seductive arts to seduce the strong guards and escaped.

If a person loses their thumb, they cannot hold things; that is absolute disability, and it is very difficult for them to become self-reliant.

Although Yin Kela became a cripple, he had already made plans before escaping.

Master Shen Yangguan spent half his life collecting treasures, and his collection of treasures and wealth was quite considerable.

Yin Kela knew Xu's style and knew that if his master went into the mountains with him, he would definitely not be coming back.

After Shen Yangguan died, his family was seen as idiots by Yin Kela.

Yin Kela had made up his mind to murder Shen Yangguan's family and seize his property.

But when they arrived at Shen the shepherd's house, they learned that Shen the shepherd's son had died, his daughter-in-law had remarried, and the property had been sold to a southerner surnamed Qian.

Moreover, the kind-hearted southerner surnamed Qian adopted the mentally challenged boy abandoned by Shen the shepherd's daughter-in-law.

Yin Kela wasn't disappointed at all. She hadn't even learned a tenth of Shen Yangguan's skill in concealing treasures, but she could already roughly see the spiritual energy revealed by the treasures.

Therefore, she realized that a certain spot in the now-changed mansion was radiating a precious light, which might be hiding the treasure that Shen Yangguan had been searching for all his life.

So she told the southerner surnamed Qian that Shen the shepherd was her uncle, that her parents had passed away one after the other before the new year, and that she was disabled in both hands and had no choice but to come and seek refuge with her uncle.

Southerners with the surname Qian have always been content to live their own lives and mind their own business.

However, firstly, he saw that she was indeed disabled; secondly, his adopted mentally challenged son was kind-hearted and begged him to help Yin Ke La.

So, the southerner surnamed Qian finally agreed to let Yin Kela stay for a while, and he would contact welfare and relief organizations for her.

And so, Yin Ke La remained.

For the first three days, Yin Kela was like an honest person living under someone else's roof, taking the initiative to do any chores he could see.

Several times, the southerners surnamed Qian almost shed tears when they saw her working with her disabled hands.

On the fourth night, something suddenly happened.

That night, a scream suddenly came from the bathroom. The southerner surnamed Qian heard the scream, ran in and saw Yin Kela lying on the ground with his head broken.

The crucial point is that Yin Kela is taking a bath and is completely naked.

The man surnamed Qian, from the south, had no intention of remarrying since his wife passed away from illness five years ago. However, despite his lingering affection for his ex, he was still a normal man at heart.

The subtle nuances between men and women need not be described in words.

At that time, the man surnamed Qian treated Yin Kela's wound. In the dead of night, with only a man and a woman alone, and having just experienced the 'awkwardness', what was bound to happen naturally followed.

From then on, every night after the silly child fell asleep, Yin Ke La would go to the master's room.

Later on, they simply made it clear that they lived together.

Yin Kela was becoming increasingly successful, while the southerner surnamed Qian was experiencing a decline in health.

Others might not know what was going on, but Yin Kela knew perfectly well.

—Those two pieces of centipede flesh beneath my great-aunt's body, no matter how powerful you are, can be drained dry and turned into a sickly ghost.

She made up her mind to continue her feigned affection for Qian for a while longer before sending him to his death, so that others wouldn't find it abrupt.

Before that, the priority is to convince the man surnamed Qian to formalize their marital relationship. Once that's done, the house, along with the hidden treasures, will all be hers.

Everything was proceeding according to her plan, but one day, something happened that made her decide to suspend the plan on the spot and do another important thing that she felt had to be done immediately. That day, the southerner surnamed Qian was asked by her company to go on a business trip, and it started to rain and snow in the morning.

The silly little boy she had always ignored suddenly ran to a corner of the yard, jumping up and down and shouting:
"It's all over, Grandpa's dead! My baby's gone! I can't live anymore, I can't live anymore!"

The child was jumping and hopping around, crying loudly, and spouting strange things intermittently.

Most bystanders who heard this thought it was the ravings of a madman.

However, Yin Kela was originally Shen Yangguan's apprentice, and he understood the trick after only a few words.

She braved the rain, went over, grabbed the silly child, and asked, "Child, what's wrong?"

The silly child cried even harder: "My grandpa said that if it snows and thunders, he's going to die! If he dies, his treasure hidden in the back hill valley will grow legs and run away! If the treasure runs away, the jar will break, and the money will run away too! Then I won't be able to buy new clothes, I won't be able to buy candy, and I won't be able to eat pork or chicken legs!"

Hearing him say that, Yin Kela's heart skipped a beat.

What? The baby grew legs? The jar broke...

The average person would find it incomprehensible, but Yin Kela understood that these were terms used in the treasure hunting business.

That valley behind the mountain was a place she would never forget.

She immediately realized that Shen the shepherd doted on his only son, a simple-minded grandson. Snatching treasures and stealing sheep was always a dangerous business; could it be that Shen the shepherd had already considered the worst-case scenario and made arrangements before leaving home?
The key point is that when she was inside the house, she heard what sounded like thunder outside.

Thunder on a snowy day is also a sign that the treasure has been moved!
The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt. So she decided to ignore the mentally challenged child for the time being and, with her crippled hands, used all her strength to open the hidden crypt in the corner of the yard.

When I went down inside, I was dumbfounded.

Inside, there were only two broken clay pots and a few banknotes scattered around; there was nothing else!

Climbing out of the cave, she grabbed the silly child in a fit of rage and demanded, "Where's my baby? Where's my baby?!"

The silly child suddenly stopped crying and laughed, stammering, "I can live, I can... I can live. Grandpa... Grandpa said that as long as I don't open this hole, the treasure won't run away. When... when I grow up, I'll go to the back hill valley, get the treasure back, and then I can eat whatever I want... eat whatever I want, and I can even get married!"

Yin Kela thought for a moment, then smiled and asked, "Child, the back hill valley is so far away, how are you going to get there?"

The silly child was stunned for a moment, "Grandpa said... said he'd let my mom take me, but my mom doesn't want me anymore..."

Yin Kela pulled him into her arms. "Child, who said Mom doesn't want you anymore? I'm your real mom, I want you, I love you."

The silly little boy blinked at her, then suddenly burst into tears again, crying, "Mommy! Mommy! I want to drink milk!"

Yin Kela laughed even harder, pulled him into the house, and started undressing him with both hands while saying:
"Mommy will breastfeed you... After you finish breastfeeding, Mommy will take you to find your precious baby!"

This conversation, and the requests and fulfillments of the two men, didn't seem strange to Yin Kela at all; in fact, she was quite pleased with herself.

That's because she knew her cunning master all too well.

She was convinced that Shen Yangguan had left her a backup plan.

Shen Yangguan may have already realized that he coveted his family's wealth.

Therefore, a fake auspicious site was set up in the home.

But the real treasure was taken to a place that the old man XZ never expected.

The old man doted on his foolish grandson the most, and only taught him the location of the buried treasure and how to find it.

That old devil probably never imagined, even in his death, that his good daughter-in-law would think her silly son was a burden and run off with someone else.

And she, Yin Kela, became this child's 'mother'!
(End of this chapter)