Chapter 114 Yan Bin
Yan Bin, who reacted quickly and arrived in the yard, turned pale and his heart pounded when he saw the black and red blood all over the ground and the footprints at the scene.

Without a word, she turned back into the room: all the closet doors and drawers were open, clothes and sheets were scattered everywhere, and even…

The dark compartment was completely empty, with nothing left.

Before he could even lament the loss of his hard-earned savings, which had been reduced by a third, something even more infuriating and enraging had happened—

The box containing the amulet that was originally meant to protect him had also been stolen, and now it had become a deadly time bomb!

Who is it?

Is it his enemy, or...?

"My God! Which son-without-an ...

With his fists clenched tightly, he felt a surge of panic after his initial anger. Just as his temper was about to explode and he wanted to kill someone to vent his anger, he heard a series of piercing cries and curses coming from his mother's room next door.

He knew without a doubt that for his mother to cry and scream like she had when his father died, it must be because the money she valued most was gone.

But right now, Yan Bin has no time or inclination to care about her three melons and dates!
"Yan Bin, what... what happened? Was your house burgled?"

"Mingzhu, now tell me everything that happened today, without revealing a single detail."

With a look of fear and timidity on her face, her body seemed to tremble slightly unconsciously, and the stray strands of hair falling across her forehead obscured the light that shone in her eyes. Huang Mingzhu took a small step back to create distance between them.

Once she felt somewhat safe, she began to answer his questions in a low voice.

During the day, aside from her mother-in-law's constant harassment, she was treated like a thief wherever she went, even having to wait outside the door to go to the toilet.

Neither of them went out today, and no one came to their house. Apart from the black blood falling from the sky at night, there was nothing else strange about it.

"You mean you heard a loud noise in the kitchen?"

What noise was so loud that they could hear it immediately while cooking in the kitchen, where the noise level was already quite high?
"It sounds like... oh right, like the sound of an enamel basin being smashed from a height."

Enameled basin?
Yan Bin stepped out of the room and stood under the eaves of the porch, his eyes darting around a few times. Just as he had seen before entering, there were no enamel basins in the entire courtyard.

"Did you see the enamel basin?"

"I...I didn't notice, my mother-in-law..."

"That vixen dares to tell my youngest son on me behind my back? You're asking for it..."

"mother!"

Liu Jinhua was taken aback by her son's sudden outburst of anger, and the curses that were about to come out stuck in her throat.

Only then did she notice that her son's complexion was very strange, with bulging veins on his temples and his tightly clenched teeth making a cracking sound.

Quickly wiping the snot and tears from her face, Liu Jinhua stammered, "Little one, you?"

"What?! You've lost all your money and tickets?!"

I'm about to lose my life, who cares about money!
Yan Bin stepped forward and gripped her shoulders tightly, saying each word slowly and deliberately, "Mother, this is not the time to worry about this. I'm asking you, did you hear me? Something's wrong. After leaving the kitchen and going into the yard, besides the blood, did you see anything else?"

"Something else?"

Seeing her son's extremely serious expression, and the force with which he gripped her shoulders so tightly that it hurt, as if he had lost something more important than money.

Knowing that her son was in a deadly job of feeding peanuts, Liu Jinhua couldn't help but feel a sudden panic and fear. She covered her head and tried hard to recall.

"Oh, right! Besides the blood, there was also a large enamel basin!"

"What about that pot?"

"The basin, the basin is right here..."

Her hand instinctively pointed to the spot right next to the wall, and Liu Jinhua's eyes widened suddenly. "Little one, where is it... It's right there!"

"You're asking me? Who the hell am I supposed to ask?!"

"Since you realized something was wrong, and someone clearly threw something in, why didn't you stay in the yard and call for help instead of running out?!"

“There are two or three people staying outside every day. Have I told you that?”

"I..." Liu Jinhua was stunned by his repeated angry rebukes and couldn't come to her senses for a long time.

How could she have imagined that a reckless thief would dare to come and steal from the Yan family? So why would she have thought to call someone in for help?
I thought it was just some bastard, a stinking bug in the gutter, using some disgusting trick to spite people.

Besides, she's an old woman from the countryside who can't read a single word. How could she possibly immediately realize that this is some kind of trick, like the one the storyteller told about, to lure the tiger away from the mountain?

"It's all her fault!"

Liu Jinhua glared fiercely at the thing that was still whimpering. If her son hadn't been holding her arm, she would have loved to go up and scratch it.

"If it weren't for pursuing her, why would I even go out!"

Huang Mingzhu, who was silently shedding tears and playing the role of a weak woman, couldn't help but freeze upon hearing these shameless attempts to shift the blame.

She looked up in disbelief, her voice trembling with suppressed sobs, "Mother, but you told me to go out and see if Yan Bin has come back..."

"Shut up, you old bastard! Do you even have the right to speak? Just keep babbling on and on!"

"enough!"

Yan Bin, his face grim, slowly loosened his grip on his mother's shoulders, his words carrying a chilling, menacing tone: "Shut up, all of you."

The noise finally subsided, and I tried to calm myself down and adjust my breathing before turning around and squatting down.

The footprints clearly overlapped, suggesting that the person possessed a rather underhanded and petty cleverness.

What is the real purpose of this elaborate deception, full of flaws, to conceal?
He didn't believe that only one person could do such a thing. How could someone with great strength carry all those boxes and make them disappear into thin air?
According to my mother and Mingzhu, it was only a little over ten minutes from when they left the courtyard until they arrived, and the two of them hadn't gone far from the gate.

To avoid people outside and to leave quietly with backup from both inside and outside, aside from that wall that deliberately left footprints, there was only…

He raised his head and turned his gaze intently to the backyard, where the old man Li used to live, right next to his own house.

However, after the person was gone, he managed to get his hands on it.

He didn't bother to clean up the dilapidated house, and planned to demolish the courtyard and convert the two large houses into one.

On the surface, he let it fall into disrepair, but in reality, he not only dug a secret room underground, but also opened a very hidden door.

The secret room is empty except for those who know about it, but the hidden door…

"Damn it, if I find out who the mole is, I'll stew him and feed him to the dogs!"

Amidst the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's startled shouts, Yan Bin stormed out of the courtyard without looking back, his body radiating fierce malice.

Only after her son left and the rattling gate stopped did Liu Jinhua pat her chest and turn to her daughter-in-law, whose face was pale with fright.

"Get up and cook! It's already dark, who do you want to starve to death?! You're making liangpi (cold skin noodles)!"

"Mother-in-law, I'll go right now."

Without anyone to back her up, Huang Mingzhu never dared to talk back, because that old man was truly vicious and ruthless, always picking on women's sore spots.

She quickly turned and ran to the kitchen, her face instantly losing all trace of weakness and vulnerability in front of everyone.

Who exactly did this?

The place she had been searching for so long was actually hidden under the bed. How did he find the mechanism?
It seems her suspicions were true; Yan Bin was indeed hiding something shady...

All she wanted to say was: Well done!
Hopefully, the person who gets the item will know how to use it.

In an instant, only Liu Jinhua remained in the courtyard, staring sinisterly at her daughter-in-law's back. Thinking of the lost money and tickets, her heart ached terribly: one day she would make her son see the true face of this vixen and kick her out of the house completely!
That way, if I take control of the household, I can not only get back what I lost, but also gain even more!
……

Su Ning, who was preparing her dinner in the space, was unaware of the three people outside who had different thoughts, especially Yan Bin, who had been perfectly influenced.

After eating and filling my stomach, more than an hour later, I glanced at the time, estimated the situation outside, and cautiously slipped out.

I stood in the gap between the kitchen and the courtyard wall, tiptoeing as quietly as possible.

She made her way to the backyard without any trouble. Based on her observations before coming in, she knew that the house next to the Yan family's was an abandoned one, and that she could climb over the wall of that abandoned house to reach another street.

That's how things happened, a complete accident that turned out to be a happy one.


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