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Chapter 31: Bang!\nThe Fourth Master poked Matriarch Wang and Patriarch Li who was deep in sleep on the bed and above them, was a cabinet right above Matriarch Wang’s head.\n
There was a large lock on the cabinet, but the cabinet itself was not tightly closed. The ancient lock was very long and large, so one could easily open a gap between the lock and the top of the cabinet.\n
Li Shu used this, taking advantage of his small size to sneak in and snatched all of the silver away. The Fourth Master wasn’t as good and obviously much bigger, so he had to take out a lockpicking kit from the inside of his robe.\n
Soon, the lock was removed.\n
“Hey, I didn’t expect to actually learn from Er Gouzi!” The Fourth Master muttered this four times, thinking that now that he had this skill, how could he be afraid of lacking money in the future?\n
This Er Gouzi was really useless, with this amount of skill, he was still living like a ghost!\n
Thinking to this point, the Fourth Master’s lips curled into a happy and disgusting smile.\n
Are you still afraid that you won’t have money in the future?\n
The Fourth Master opened the cabinet and took a look inside. There was only a small wooden box on the inside.\n
The Fourth Master’s eyes lit up with a cunning light. He recognized that this was the box used to store all of Matriarch Wang’s silver.\n
Matriarch Wang was extremely stingy and loved money to the point that she liked to put all of her treasure in one place.\n
In this way, you can see all of your silver at once!\n
If it is scattered and stored in different places, it will appear that you have less money than you actually have.\n
Lifting the box out of the cabinet, the Fourth Master was a little surprised and weighed the box roughly in his band, “So light? Is it all silver bills then?”\n
Opening it in a hurry, he was immediately stunned upon seeing the contents of the small box!\n
Where’s the silver?\n
It was so empty inside, there weren’t even any traces of ghosts there!\n
The Fourth Child stared at the open box for a long time, before putting the small box into the cabinet and searching around some more. There wasn’t even a copper coin!\n
The Fourth Master felt a bit panicked, but then immediately reasoned, Mother must have changed her hiding place!\n
However, since I’m already here, I might as well find that silver!\n
As such, the Fourth Master turned around and scanned the room, looked under the cabinet, around the cabinet, under the pillow, under the bed…well, there was the urinal too…\n
“Bang!”\n
The Fourth Master shoved Matriarch Wang off the bed.\n
“Bang!”\n
The Fourth Master kicked Patriarch Li off the bed.\n
Regardless of whether the two people had been shoved against the cabinet and one had been kicked against the wall, the Fourth Master hurried to check if there was a secret space under the two old people.\n
But, alas, nothing.\n
Going through the room several times, the Fourth Master found nothing, not even a speck of silver dust.\n
Secretly cursing “stingy” in his heart, he could only head back with empty hands.\n
Since the money had not been found, he’d have to restore and fix up the room to make it look like it was before.\n
There was no other way, the drug he bought wasn’t particularly effective, and it wouldn’t last a long time. If the two old misers wake up, it’ll be all over!\n
Bailian sank into a deep sleep after Li Shu came back. Her body was still very frail and weak, and she didn’t want to continue to abuse herself.\n
Morning arrived, the glimmer of light beaming through the open window\n
Grandmother Ciying got up quietly and started to sweep the courtyard after washing up.\n
Bailian sighed. Since she wouldn’t be able to stop it, just let her exercise!\n
Once the time comes to leave the Li House, I won’t think about it too much.\n
Recalling the conversation she had with her Fourth Uncle yesterday, Bailian also hopped out of bed.\n
She had to prepare herself a bit. Although she did indeed possess strong inner energy, it was still too weak to go against a full-fledged adult, let alone a man at that.\n
It might have been enough for her to smash a table in half with her bare hands, but this time, Bailian didn’t know how many people would be there this time.\n
“Fifth, feeling any better” Grandmother Ciying’s trembling voice rang into the room accompanied by the swishing sounds of the broomstick scraping against the floor.\n
Bailian had been brushing her teeth with a soft branch, sorely missing her modern-day toothpaste and toothbrush, “Grandma, it doesn’t hurt anymore, I’m going to go do the laundry!”\n
“Fifth girl, don’t go! Mother will go!” Madam Zhao caught wind of Bailian’s agenda for today and quickly got up.\n
She still felt that her daughter had a rather poor complexion, and wanted her to recuperate fully so she wouldn’t exhaust herself further.\n
If Bailain knew what Madam Zhao was thinking, she would definitely complain and grumble.\n
Which one of these people in the Third Branch had good complexions huh?\n
“Mother, I’ll go, I’ll be fine!” Bailian mischievously grinned at Madam Zhao, supporting the laundry basin against the side of her body, “Mother, take care not to hurt yourself when bending over!”\n
After all, Madam Zhao was just about to give birth, and the death rate of women having complications during childbirth in ancient times was still very high. There was a common saying that “giving birth was like taking one step into hell, who knows if you can come out alive or not”.\n
Bailian internally thought of heading to the mountains for a while and looking for some beneficial medicinal herbs. It would be definitely better if she went by herself.\n
“Sister, we’ll go with you!” Yuhang had just woken up at this time, his hair cutely spiked up in a few places, a bad case of bedhead. His eyes were a bit puffy, but nevertheless brightly shined as he looked at Bailian.\n
He hadn’t forgotten that, with his sister, he could eat meat.\n
Yuyang calmly patted down his ruffled hair and took a furtive glance at Bailian.\n
“I’m heading out to do the laundry, there won’t be many ragweeds around the river.” After seeing that Yuyang and Yuhang’s eyes dimmed significantly, Bailian guiltily added, “But we can still go together!”\n
“Great!” Yuhang whispers softly, yawning slightly and then quickly washed up with Yuyang.\n
Bailian peered around the room, discovering that all the people in the Third Branch had already gotten up for the day. It wasn’t even completely bright outside, yet the Third Master had gotten up earlier than them, already working in the fields.\n
Even went to labor with an empty stomach.\n
As for the rest of the Li Family, they were all still sleeping and wouldn’t get up until it was time to eat breakfast.\n
Bailian coldly looked in the direction of her Fourth Uncle’s quarters and then nonchalantly headed out with her two excited brothers.\n
She was afraid that the Fourth Master would be already up by the time she was back!\n
This Fourth Master, except for secretly sneaking out to gamble out at night, one would still be able to see him at this time in the morning, heading back from his nightly ventures. If he had stayed in the house and slept for the night, he would never get up early this morning.\n
“Sister…”\n
Yuhang grabbed Bailian’s head, looking a little anguished and was thinking of something, his awkward expression revealing his embarrassing state of mind.\n
“Meat.” Yuyang bluntly spurted and directly handed his precious firestriker to Bailian.\n
“Want to eat some meat?” Bailian beamed and took Yuyang’s firestriker. “You two go cut down some ragweeds first and then meet me at the place where I often wash the laundry. I will head over once I’m done!”\n
“Okay!” Yuhang nodded quickly, but suddenly thought of something, and then began to shake his head, “No, no, it’s too cold in the morning, we won’t eat!”\n
Yuyang’s eyes dimmed, but he looked around, “Cold, don’t eat!”\n
“If you don’t eat some fish today, just wait!” Bailian vigorously ruffled Yuhang and Yuyang’s hair and after feeling satisfied at their askew hair strands said, “I will wash the clothes first, then I’ll go grill some! Don’t go too early, I’m going to take a while!”\n
“Good, good!” Yuhang fiercely nodded and kindly reminded, “Sister, don’t go into the water.”\n
Seeing Yuhang and Yuhang each carrying a large bamboo basket strapped to their small backs, each holding a rusty sickle to cut ragweed, Bailian’s eyes turned frigid.\n
Those people in the Li Residence were still sleeping!\n
Bailian observed them pitifully for a few more seconds, and then with one agile motion, held up the basin of clothes and went to the stream where she usually did the laundry.\n
I just finished washing the clothes yesterday, but now it’s full again.\n
Hmph, what a good scholarly family, naturally even diligent in changing their clothes.\n
Bailian casually threw the clothes into the cold stream, swished it around a few times, swirled it around a few more times, then fished them out. After twisting the clothes like a dirty rag, she chucked them into her space.\n
Done!\n
Bailian was hiking up towards the mountain, but there was to be a tough battle later today, so she had to prepare ahead of time.\n
Along the way, lush bushes popped out with every turn.\n
Although it was almost autumn, each tree’s leaves were still glowing emerald green, the air smelling sweetly fresh, much better than the smell of car exhaust in the 21st Century.\n
The brisk and sharp morning air could help people clear their heads and instantly feel refreshed.\n
If it weren’t for the fact that she had transmigrated into a treacherous family like the Li’s, Bailian felt like there would be nothing wrong with her transmigration.\n
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