Why did you provoke me?

At this moment, Yu's father was extremely grateful that he was the one watching over the shop. If Xiao Si'er were here, who knows how scared she would be.

Yu Hai moved closer to his father. "Dad, can you tell who those people are? Doesn't the person sitting in the chair look a lot like the one we caught last time?"

Yu's father quickly covered Yu Hai's mouth. "Never say these things again," Yu's father whispered.

Yu Hai nodded, and only then did his father release his hand.

The two crystal balls, one large and one small, were made by Yu Hai watching Yu Meng make them. He never expected that his little sister could earn money so easily with this skill.

Mr. Yu didn't tell the three women in his family what had happened at the shop. He figured it was better for the men to handle these things; the women were easily frightened, and he didn't want to scare them further.

Looking at the two cards in his hand, Mr. Yu felt a pang of sadness. He probably couldn't save up the money for those two crystal balls in his entire life.

Yu Meng knew that her crystal ball had sold for a lot of money, but she remained calm. It wasn't that she hadn't seen wealthy people before; back then, when she wanted to eat a dish, her father would have the freshest ingredients flown in by plane.

Aunt Yu, however, was no longer calm. "Little Si, you have this skill, so teach your eldest sister more in the future." She paused for a moment. "If your sister-in-law wants to learn, I think you should teach her too."

Dali looked at her mother, speechless. "Mom, you think I don't want to learn? You think my younger sister didn't teach me? But my talent is there; I can't learn it even if I wanted to. It's not a matter of whether my younger sister taught me or not."

Yu Meng looked at her mother and said, "Do you know how much my skills are worth? Just let me teach them."

Aunt Yu was somewhat annoyed. "We're all family, why are you bringing up money?"

"So you only let me teach them because you think what I make is valuable? Why can't I talk about money?" Yu Meng's tone was calm, but her words were cutting.

Dali looked at Yu Ma disapprovingly, "It's right for my younger sister to be filial to you and Dad. But she has no responsibility to take care of me and my sister-in-law."

Aunt Yu sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) without saying a word. Dali sighed, "Little sister, our mother is getting senile."

Yu Meng nodded earnestly. "I know." She then stood up. "I'm going for a walk."

Watching Yu Meng leave, Dali sighed and stood up to go out as well. "Dali, your little sister is too heartless. Why can't she teach you how to make money like this?"

Dali turned around and looked at Aunt Yu sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed). "Mom, don't you think you're being too greedy? Why should we have her things? Does she owe us anything?"

Yu Ma's face suddenly turned deathly pale. "Dali, is that how you talk about your mother?"

"Without my little sister, do you think I would be where I am today? Without my little sister, do you think my older brother and younger brother could go to the martial arts school? What kind of life did our family live before? Have you forgotten?" Dali's tone was not very good.

Yu Ma opened her mouth, then sat there and started to cry.

"If you keep going like this, one day you'll drive your little sister to not want to come home anymore." Dali returned to her room; she still had to continue practicing.

Dali couldn't understand why her mother was always like this.

Yu Meng walked upstream along the riverbank. She had no destination in mind; she suddenly felt she had given too much to this family. She cherished this warmth, and therefore always wanted to give back. But her mother could always shatter her kindness with a single sentence.

She wandered aimlessly, not knowing how far she had gone, until it gradually grew dark. Yu Meng didn't want to go home, so she curled up on a large rock and stared blankly at the river.

"Hey, you little girl, staying here so late, aren't you afraid your family will worry?" A somewhat familiar voice sounded behind Yu Meng.

Yu Meng didn't turn around; she knew who it was. "You secretly settled things for my eldest sister."

"It was just a small favor I did for you. It's so late, how about I take you home?"

"Is that charlatan you mentioned here? I'd like him to do my fortune telling," Yu Meng asked hesitantly.

"Young lady, you said it yourself, he's a charlatan, how can his words be trusted?" Hua San Niang's voice was very kind.

"I just want to know if my family ties are very weak," Yu Meng said in a low voice.

"Mother and daughter don't hold grudges overnight. Your mother is just temporarily blinded by money."

"My guess was right. How did you know about my situation? You even know what we were saying." Yu Meng turned to look at the old woman in front of her.

Hua San Niang smiled, stretched out her hand, and the thing in her hand, which resembled a sound transmission bell, bloomed, and a voice came out from inside.

"Dali, hasn't your little sister come back yet? Did you go to the river to look for her?" Aunt Yu's voice was very anxious.

"I've searched three times already, but I still haven't seen a trace of her. I asked the villagers, and they said that my little sister went upstream along the river." Dali lowered her head, seemingly lost in thought.

"Then why don't you look upstream? Maybe you'll find her. It's already so dark. Your little sister is timid; she's afraid of the dark. She probably won't dare to walk down this dark path."

Dali looked up at Aunt Yu. "You mean I'm not afraid of the dark and you want me to find it myself, right?"

Aunt Yu sat there, tears streaming down her face. "It's just the two of us in the family, if you don't go, who will?"

"Little girl, did you hear that? She loves all of you children. But when she loves one child, it always hurts another," Hua San Niang said calmly. "If you really try to reason with her, you'll get very tired."

Yu Meng turned around. "I should go back. I can't let my older sister come looking for me in the dark."

Hua San Niang nodded. "You can come to me with any problems you can't solve. To be honest, I've adopted a few troublesome kids, and they always have all sorts of issues."

"I can see that you're a kind-hearted mother-in-law." Yu Meng turned and disappeared into the night.

"She really is a stubborn little girl." Hua San Niang's words echoed softly in the night.

Overwhelmed with worry for her younger sister, Dali slowly made her way up the riverbank.

"Big sister, is that you?" Yu Meng saw a figure and asked softly.

"Little sister, it's me." Dali's voice was full of surprise. "Little sister, why did you run so far?"

Yu Meng walked over and took Dali's hand. "You know I walk very fast, and I walked far away without realizing it."

"Let's go home quickly, Mom's practically crying her eyes out at home," Dali changed the subject.

"Big sister. Your husband hasn't been here lately, what has he been busy with?" Yu Meng followed Da Li's lead and changed the subject.

"What else could it be? His cousin's mining group is now his. Being a team leader and being a team member are worlds apart. He'll be very busy this time." Dali said casually.

"Big sister, aren't you going back to help him?" Yu Meng asked curiously.

"We're not married yet. If I go and help him now, how long will I have to keep doing this? Will I even be able to do my own thing anymore?"

"Big sister, did you two have a fight?" Yu Meng asked.