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

Chapter 289 Accomplices Arrive in the Mountains
Wei Jingyuan carved a four-leaf clover on the bamboo tube and handed it to Tao Qiuyi.

"It's finished carving again." Tao Qiuyi happily took the bamboo tube, looking at the four-leaf clover with only one leaf on it. She praised it endlessly, "Beautiful, so beautiful."

"I'm glad you like it," Wei Jingyuan said gently, picking up a bamboo tube and continuing to carve.

"I love it, I love it so much." Tao Qiuyi rubbed the lines of the four-leaf clover with her fingers, unable to put it down.

"Sister-in-law, brother, did you hear what I said clearly?" Pear stood up anxiously when she saw that her brother and sister-in-law didn't take her words seriously at all.

"I heard you right," Tao Qiuyi replied with a smile, glancing generously at the pear.

Because she was sitting and the pear was standing, you had to look up to see the pear.

Wei Jingyuan carefully carved on the bamboo tube, not looking at the pear, but he still responded that he had heard clearly.

"Since you heard it clearly, why do you still look so indifferent?" Pear looked down at the two of them. "Auntie said she's going to report it to the police station."

"Don't worry, be good." Tao Qiuyi gently comforted her. "If she wants to report it to the police, let her go. No one is stopping her."

Pear continued, "My aunt is going to bring the police to our house to arrest you and send you to jail."

"Don't worry, be good." Tao Qiuyi said the same thing again. "It's not up to her to decide who to put in jail. Don't worry, your sister-in-law is so lazy she's practically ready to eat snakes in the sun. The police don't arrest lazy people."

Pear felt that Tao Qiuyi hadn't understood what she meant, so she repeated herself. "Auntie said you injured Uncle, and she's going to call the police to arrest you and put you in jail."

“Your aunt called the police to arrest you, not because you are lazy, but because you injured your uncle.”

Seeing Pear almost jumping up and down in frustration, Tao Qiuyi couldn't bear it any longer. She put down the bamboo tube in her hand and stood up. With a serious expression, she asked, "Pear, do you remember when I beat up your third uncle and the others last time?"

"I remember." Pear nodded. She would never forget what happened at her third grandfather's house that day.

Especially the scene where my sister-in-law kicked the courtyard gate open; at that moment, she was like a female warrior.

Tao Qiuyi then asked, "Did your third uncle and the others report it to the police afterwards?"

“I didn’t report it to the police.” Pear shook her head.

“Since you didn’t report it to the police last time, you won’t report it this time either,” Tao Qiuyi concluded. “Auntie only said that because she wanted to get some benefits from me.”

"You yourself said that Grandma asked Fourth Uncle to come to me and your eldest brother to pay for the medical expenses."

Pear thought for a moment, then asked again to confirm, "Sister-in-law, are you sure you won't get arrested and thrown in jail by the police?"

"Don't worry, your sister-in-law really won't be arrested and jailed by the police," Tao Qiuyi assured her, grasping Li Zi's thin shoulders and turning her around to push her towards the kitchen.

"Go check if the food is ready. The smell of stewed meat makes me hungry."

Seeing that her sister-in-law wasn't joking, Pear felt half relieved. Then, hearing her sister-in-law say she was hungry, the other half of her anxiety vanished.

Obediently, she went back to the kitchen as Tao Qiuyi instructed.

Watching Pear's figure disappear through the kitchen doorway, Tao Qiuyi's face immediately darkened. "Wei Jingyuan, is your aunt trying to scare Pear by saying that?"

"Are you just trying to scare the pear?"

"To scare the pear." Wei Jingyuan said confidently, his hands continuing to carve.

"It seems that the lesson I taught was not enough." Tao Qiuyi sighed, sat back down on the straw mat, and noticed that there was an extra bamboo tube where the bamboo tubes used to be on the ground.

Wei Jingyuan was also thinking that he should think of a way to make his grandmother and aunt stop.

"Qiuqiu, it's bad, it's bad! People are coming from the mountains again!" A bird flew down in front of Tao Qiuyi and almost stepped on the bamboo cups. If Tao Qiuyi hadn't been quick and grabbed the two bamboo cups, the bird might have actually stepped on them.

Noticing that Tao Qiuyi's expression was different from usual, the bird stared at her expectantly. "Qiuqiu."

"I know it was an accident, I didn't mean to blame you." After stating her position, Tao Qiuyi asked directly, "So, what happened in the mountains this time?"

Birds have the intelligence of children, and she wouldn't scold them for such a trivial matter.

"Then a dozen or so of those masked men arrived, carrying five boxes."

"The box is quite big and looks very heavy."

“My companions heard them say that this shipment was very valuable and would definitely fetch a lot of money.”

"His accomplice asked the masked man to lend him someone so that the goods could be delivered safely."

When the birds were talking, they walked around on the ground without stopping at all.

The goods are quite valuable; they must be worth a lot of money. Are they filled with antiques? The thought had barely crossed Tao Qiuyi's mind when she froze.

Perhaps the boxes those people were carrying really contained antiques.

She reached into her pocket, pulled out a handful of corn kernels, and put them on the ground for the birds to eat. The birds didn't stand on ceremony and started eating them on their own.

Tao Qiuyi turned her head, wanting to talk to Wei Jingyuan about this, but met his deep eyes.

A chill ran through her. Oh no, oh no, oh no… Tao Qiuyi was extremely annoyed. She had forgotten that Wei Jingyuan was beside her and took out corn kernels from her pocket right in front of him.

What normal person would carry corn kernels in their pocket, only to be unable to take them out and eat them?

Although Wei Jingyuan couldn't understand birdsong, he was very observant. Fearing he might notice something amiss, Tao Qiuyi said directly, "The birds brought this message."

"The masked men in the mountains have gained more than a dozen accomplices. They are carrying five boxes, which are quite large and look very heavy."

"The bird's companions also heard those people say that this shipment was very valuable and would definitely fetch a lot of money."

"They lost many men and went through tremendous effort to get the items out; we absolutely cannot allow any more mishaps."

"In order to leave smoothly, he asked the masked captain to lend him some men to protect him while he delivered the goods. He also promised to prepare a big gift to thank him when he got back."

Even though Wei Jingyuan already knew that birds could bring Tao Qiuyi a lot of information, he was still somewhat shocked after hearing Tao Qiuyi's account of the news the birds brought.

Sending birds to gather information was a wise decision.

Those people in the mountains probably never dreamed that their plans would be spread by a bird.

Wei Jingyuan put down the bamboo cup and the knife and looked at Tao Qiuyi.

"What do you suspect is inside the box?" Wei Jingyuan asked bluntly, as he never liked to waste words.

That just so happens, Tao Qiuyi doesn't like it either.

“Cultural relics.” Tao Qiuyi didn’t mince words. “Based on the information the bird brought back, I judge that the five boxes brought by our accomplices are very likely to contain cultural relics.”

After a moment of stunned silence, Wei Jingyuan sneered, "Very well, those people have one more charge: smuggling cultural relics."

Tao Qiuyi also said, "They're just a bunch of desperate people who only care about money. Most of them have blood on their hands. They don't care how many crimes they have."