Grandpa Su was the first to finish his meal and go out. He was very particular about health and wellness. After eating, he took a stroll around the village. When he came back, he found the house in complete disarray, with chickens running and dogs barking. He said that some money had been lost.

Several villagers stood outside the gate listening to the gossip, their faces full of mockery.

Grandpa Su was very concerned about his reputation and felt that the villagers were definitely laughing at him, and that the Su family had completely lost face.

The chickens and ducks at home also squawk and squawk, which is very annoying.

Grandpa Su quickly asked, "What happened?"

Su Qianqian pushed Su Fugui aside. Everything was going according to her plan, and she couldn't let Su Fugui's reckless words affect the course of events.

She quickly said, "The silver in the milk storage room is missing. We need to catch the thief red-handed. If it really was our third branch that stole it, it wouldn't have been hidden far away in such a short time. Quickly send someone to search our third branch's residence. If they don't find it, it proves that our third branch is innocent."

The old man's face showed impatience. He was usually not talkative, but this time he finally spoke up, "Alright, stop arguing. Is it something to be proud of to have a thief in the house? Go and search every room. Whoever hides it in is the thief."

It may seem that Grandma Su is in charge, but in fact, Grandpa Su is the one who truly makes the decisions in the family.

He just liked to be a nice guy, so he let the old lady do the bad things.

The old lady's embezzlement of the third wife's dowry money was also tacitly approved by the old man.

Since the person in charge says to search, then of course we should search.

The eldest and second sons all rushed to the door of the woodshed, preparing to search the third son's territory.

Su Qianqian suggested, "It's easy to cheat if we can't search our own rooms. The eldest son's room should be searched by the second and third sons together, the second son's room by the eldest son and our third sons together, and our third sons' room by the eldest son and the second sons together. That's fair."

That couldn't be fairer, so the old lady decided to search the house using the cheap girl's method.

But the old lady disliked the third house the most, so she decided to search the third house first. If she found the silver, she wouldn't need to search the first and second houses anymore.

The old lady walked briskly to the woodshed and kicked open the dilapidated wooden door, breaking a piece of the already flimsy door.

Su Qianqian wasn't angry at all. Anyway, they were going to separate the family, and she wouldn't be able to stay in this dilapidated woodshed for more than a few days.

She smiled and praised, "Grandma, you're really strong for your age!"

The old lady was taken aback by the praise. She felt that the girl from the third branch of the family had been acting strangely since she returned from her disappearance, and had completely slipped out of her control. This feeling was really ominous.

Especially when she made eye contact with this girl, the old lady felt inexplicably flustered, something that had never happened before.

The old lady turned around and fiercely ordered the eldest and second wives, "Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, you two search for me, search thoroughly."

The eldest daughter-in-law patted her chest and assured her, "Mother, don't worry, I guarantee you'll be satisfied."

As a result, the eldest and second sons searched the woodshed from top to bottom, but found nothing.

The old lady muttered, "This shouldn't be happening."

Su Fugui had bowlegs, walked with his toes pointing outwards, and was the slowest, always the last to come out of the woodshed.

He speculated, "Could it be that the third branch of the family hid the silver somewhere else?"

Su Qianqian admired Su Fugui's pig-headedness; the money was indeed hidden elsewhere.

The old woman kicked the wooden door several times in a fit of rage. "Third son, you'd better confess! Did you hide the money somewhere else?"

The door to the woodshed was truly pitiful; if the old lady kicked it a few more times, the whole door would probably collapse. "Grandma, do you think honest people like my parents would have the guts to steal money?"

The old lady thought about it casually and realized that this made perfect sense. Even if Su Bing had ten times the courage, he still wouldn't dare to steal money.

Su Qianqian looked up at the sky; the sun was about to set. "Grandma, it's getting dark. Hurry up and search the first and second houses. If both are innocent, then we can blame the third house later."

The old lady was anxious to find the silver, so she quickly nodded, "Okay, hurry up and search the first and second houses."

Su Qianqian stretched her wrists, preparing for the search.

This time, it was finally the third wife's turn to finally get her revenge.

We'll search the first and second houses later; we're sure to find something good. Who wouldn't want to frame someone?

Before entering the main house, Su Qianqian first raised her hands to show that she had nothing in her hands, and then asked Er Ya, the daughter of the second wife, to search her body.

"See? I don't have anything on me. If they find anything in the house later, don't say I framed you."

Er Ya was very impatient. "You're such a troublemaker."

This girl is actually not a bad person; she has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. On the surface, she looks down on the third wife, but behind her back, she often covers for the third wife.

Su Qianqian urged, "Hurry up and search. You'll feel at ease once you've finished."

Although the three families, consisting of five people, lived in a dilapidated woodshed, the eldest family lived in three spacious and bright houses.

They found the second room of the eldest son's house, where there was a camphor wood chest that the eldest son's wife had brought as part of her dowry, containing her personal savings.

Su Qianqian pretended to rummage through her clothes and secretly took out a few silver ingots and a silver note from her spatial storage, hiding them in the box.

"Hey, come quick! What's this?"

When the second son's wife saw that silver had been found in the eldest son's house, she immediately jumped up and started cursing, "You, eldest sister-in-law! It's one thing for the old lady to always favor your eldest son's family, but you actually dared to steal the old lady's money!"

The eldest son's wife was completely bewildered. Where did these silver ingots and banknotes come from? She had absolutely no recollection of them.

It shouldn't be that the third wife's daughter framed her; the third wife's daughter had Er Ya thoroughly search her body before she entered the house.

The eldest son's wife glanced at Fugui and noticed that Fugui was winking at her.

It's likely that Fugui secretly stole it from the old lady, probably to marry Yingxue.

The eldest son's wife was thinking when the second son's wife grabbed her hair and ruffled it into a mess, leaving several bloody scratches on her face.

The eldest and second wives got into a fight, with adults and children all getting involved, and the fight raged on.

You grab my hair, I tear my clothes, and shoes fly everywhere.

Fortune turns, and for the first time, the third branch of the family became bystanders watching the spectacle unfold.

Usually, it's the old lady who scolds and beats the third wife, while the first and second wives watch and laugh. But today, the sun has risen in the west.

Finally, to protect Fugui, the eldest son's wife confessed to stealing the money, saying, "I stole it; it has nothing to do with Fugui."

Fugui was deeply moved. "It must be that my mother stole it from the old lady so that I could find him a wife," he thought.

Mother, you are so good to your son.

The eldest son's wife is the niece of the old lady Su's family. She has always been favored by the old lady, and today is the first time she has been slapped by the old lady.

The old lady wasn't satisfied with just slapping her, so she took off her shoes and used them to slap her eldest daughter-in-law's face several times.

Su Qianqian was very satisfied with the result. If she wanted to split up the family, the first step was to dismantle the enemy's internal structure.

After counting the money, the old lady found that the amount didn't match up: "Eldest daughter-in-law, there are only five silver ingots, each worth ten taels of silver, totaling fifty taels of silver. The amount doesn't match up. I've lost more than a hundred taels of silver in total."

The eldest son's wife and the second son's wife both stared wide-eyed.

The two had always thought that the old lady had hidden at most a few dozen taels of silver, but they never expected that there were more than a hundred taels.

That damned old woman! She has over a hundred taels of silver, yet she only feeds them one meal a day, and they're not even full. She's a truly despicable person.

It would be hard to find such a vicious old woman in the surrounding villages. She dresses herself in gold and silver but doesn't let her family have enough to eat.

Destroy everything, let everything be destroyed. Anyway, the old lady will not let the eldest son's family off the hook. The eldest daughter-in-law knocked the old lady down.

They even pointed the finger at the second wife, saying, "The rest must have been stolen by the second son's wife."

They haven't searched the second wife's place yet; who knows, they might find something there.

Moreover, the second son's wife was really fierce just now, scratching her face and leaving several bloody marks. She was very disrespectful to her as the eldest sister-in-law.

"Father, the rest of the money must be in the second house."

Normally, the eldest and second wives are united in their attacks, both targeting the third wife.

But today, the eldest son's wife had her hair messed up and her face scratched by the second son's wife, so she became jealous and resentful. The person she hated the most changed from the third wife to the second wife.

The old man said, "Search, keep searching."

After all, that money wasn't just the old lady's retirement fund; he also had a share.

The eldest son's wife rushed into the second room as soon as the old man spoke.

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