Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 112 What did she do?

The people in the house heard some of the talking in the yard just now. Even if they couldn't hear what they were saying clearly, at least they knew who was talking.

"Ever since Tao Qiuyi married into our Wei family, our family has never had peace." Li Hongying raised her hand and pointed outside the door. "Look at her. She's been back for so long, and she hasn't even come to my room to ask about her situation."

"Is this the right attitude for a young person? I told you she stole my money and tickets, but you refused to believe me and insisted I produce some proof."

"What more evidence do you need? If she hadn't stolen my money and tickets, why wouldn't she dare come to my room?"

Li Hongying spoke with great confidence and she believed it without a doubt.

"Mom, we need evidence for everything, not just our own suspicions." Team leader Wei Laosi rubbed his brows.

Li Hongying's tone of displeasure rose a few notches, "You're still talking about evidence? What kind of evidence do you need? Tao Qiuyi's guilty conscience and fear of coming to my room is the best evidence."

"Damn Tao Qiuyi, you black-hearted, vicious woman, you ungrateful bastard! You even stole my money and tickets. You must be tired of living."

"That's the money and notes I've worked so hard to save my whole life! Once I find them, I'll beat her to death."

As Li Hongying was talking, she started to scold Tao Qiuyi again, and Zhou Mei and Li Yuegui beside her also joined in the scolding.

"That's right, she must have stolen our money." Zhou Mei wiped her tears as she spoke. "She must have seen that we were not at home last night, so she sneaked in and stole all our money."

"Oh my god, that's over 600 yuan. It's the hard-earned money that my eldest brother and I saved for our entire lives, without skimping on food or clothes."

"I was going to use it to get my son a wife! Damn Tao Qiuyi, how could she be so cruel and vicious? She stole everything from me, stole everything."

The more she talked, the sadder she became. She just started to cry. Because there were other people in the room, she didn't dare to cry loudly.

Li Hongying looked at Zhou Mei with disgust. The money and tickets she had saved for her entire life were stolen. She also wanted to cry.

Li Yuegui rolled her eyes and wiped her tears to persuade Zhou Mei, "Sister-in-law, don't cry yet. Don't worry. Third Uncle, the old Party Secretary and the Fourth Uncle are all here. They will definitely help us get the money and tickets back."

"More than 400 yuan was stolen from our house. It was our life savings. We saved money by living frugally so that we could marry my son."

"Let's first catch the thief and find the money. We can deal with the rest later."

"Yes, let's go search. Once we find out, we'll see how some people can deny it." Wei Lao San agreed and glanced meaningfully at Wei Jingyuan who was sitting by the door.

"How does Third Uncle plan to search?" Wei Jingyuan asked calmly, his eyes like deep pools staring quietly at Wei Lao San.

Wei Laosan was stunned, and felt a chill down his spine for no reason. He felt that Wei Jingyuan's gaze was like a knife covered with frost.

Only today did he realize that Wei Jingyuan's eyes could be so frightening.

"How else can I search? Of course..." Li Yuegui's next words were stuck in her throat, because Wei Jingyuan's gaze moved to her face, and a feeling of fear arose in her heart.

That was a look she had never seen before, like... like...

She couldn't tell what it looked like at the moment.

When Boss Wei saw his third brother and his wife, one of them was stumped by Wei Jingyuan's question, and the other dared not speak because of Wei Jingyuan's look, he swallowed what he wanted to say.

Zhou Mei realized something and her crying became much quieter.

A suffocating feeling of oppression spread throughout the room. The captain looked at Wei Jingyuan, whose face was as gloomy as water. He didn't speak harshly or get angry, but a few words were enough to shock everyone.

Is this the person who came back from the battlefield?
Grandpa Wei San and the old branch secretary looked at each other, picked up the teacup and drank tea.

"Grandma is more than 200 yuan, aunt is more than 600 yuan, and third aunt is more than 400 yuan. The total is just over 1,300 yuan." Wei Jingyuan's gaze swept across the faces of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and finally stopped at Li Yuegui's face.

"So, you guys decided how much money was stolen from you based on the money in Tao Qiuyi's hand?"

Being looked at by Wei Jingyuan, Li Yuegui felt extremely nervous, as his eyes seemed to be able to see through people's hearts.

Could it be...that he knew something?
No...it's impossible. He couldn't possibly know anything. He absolutely couldn't possibly know.

Trying to maintain a calm expression on her face, Li Yuegui kept comforting herself in her heart. Don't be afraid, don't panic, Wei Jingyuan can't know anything.

But she didn't know that the more she tried to appear calm, the more problematic she became in Wei Jingyuan's eyes.

Tao Qiuyi had more than 1,300 yuan on him, and everyone else in the room was so shocked that they were speechless.

"More than 1,300 yuan?" Wei Lao San exclaimed in disbelief, "How could Tao Qiuyi have so much money?"

The courtyard where the Huang family lived was the largest courtyard in the village. The house was a brick and stone structure and was also the best house in the village. The Huang family was rich, but it was impossible for them to give Tao Qiuyi so much money.

"Whether there is or not, Third Aunt knows." Wei Jingyuan hinted at something.

"I...how could I possibly know?" Li Yuegui's eyes dodged for a moment, but she quickly mustered up her courage and stared at Wei Jingyuan angrily, "Jingyuan, don't accuse me. I don't know how much money Tao Qiuyi has."

Li Yuegui didn't do a very good job of hiding her inner panic with anger, because everyone in the room could see that she was not telling the truth.

"Unfair." Wei Jingyuan snorted. "Everyone knows that our house was sold to our eldest uncle and third uncle, and our fourth uncle also helped grandma with some of the money. The total was 470 yuan."

"This afternoon, the old Party Secretary brought comrades from the Public Security Bureau and Captain Wen to give Tao Qiuyi a reward of one thousand yuan in cash. Didn't Third Aunt see it outside the door?"

Li Yuegui's heart sank suddenly. He had indeed discovered that he was peeking outside the door.

"One thousand yuan in cash?" This time it was Li Hongying who was stunned. She looked at Li Yuegui in disbelief and asked, "What did she do?"

Li Yuegui shook her head. How could she know what Tao Qiuyi had done?

"Yes, what did she do? Why did the public security comrades reward her with one thousand yuan in cash?" Zhou Mei asked.

"I don't know." Li Yuegui said irritably.

"Does she really have so much money?" Wei Laosan looked at Li Yuegui. He knew what kind of person his wife was. She said she didn't know, which meant she really knew how much money Tao Qiuyi had.

"Yes." Seeing that she couldn't deny it, Li Yuegui told the truth. She saw with her own eyes that a large bundle of ten-yuan bills was taken out of the envelope, and heard with her own ears that the soldier said there was a thousand yuan.

Third Grandfather Wei also spoke up, "I heard about this. A police officer and a soldier did come to the village this afternoon. It was the old Party Secretary who brought them to the Wei family."

"They said they were here to give out rewards, but I haven't heard what the rewards are or how much they are."

(End of this chapter)