Chapter 480: Going to the grave to burn paper money, you're trying to fool ghosts?

Facing the plan proposed by Jia Zhangshi to rescue Bangeng.

Qin Huairu put herself in their position, gave it some thought, felt it had some feasibility, and thus could only follow Jia Zhangshi's method.

Bangeng can't possibly spend his whole life in the rural Dongbei, can he!

Xiao Dang resented Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu, married an old bachelor over ten years her senior, heard her life wasn't good, and still occasionally got beaten.

Huaihua is young but ambitious; her words are all about going elsewhere to make her way, making it unrealistic for her to support her parents in old age.

She gave birth to three children.

There must be someone to support her in her old age and see her through to the end, right?

That person must be Bangeng, and can only be Bangeng.

Jobs like carrying coffin heads and smashing burnt paper basins have no precedent for girls to do.

Qin Huairu suddenly thought of Yi Zhonghai.

Back then Yi Zhonghai probably also considered these, not wanting to die indoors for many days before being discovered, so he made all kinds of calculations.

A hint of bitterness.

It welled up in Qin Huairu's heart.

She muttered a word of karmic retribution.

Yi Zhonghai calculated various aspects for his old age regarding Jia Dongxu and Shazhu; Qin Huairu now, for her old age, must go deep into Dongbei to rescue the white-eyed wolf Bangeng.

What else is it if not karmic retribution?

What Qin Huairu worries about now is that either she or Jia Zhangshi before her will end up infamous like Yi Zhonghai.

She let out a sigh.

She replied to Jia Zhangshi: "Mom, I'll see how things go when the time comes."

"A widow can follow Bangeng back to the city; the widow's several children, we Jia family don't want; whatever you say, you must make it clear to them, stressing it a bit—for example, if the children follow the widow back to the Capital City, they need to change their surname to Jia, counting as our Jia family's children, and in the future they must carry my old wife's coffin."

In Jia Zhangshi's heart.

Children changing their surname with the stepfather.

That is a major taboo.

The reason Jia Zhangshi originally disagreed with Qin Huairu remarrying was her worry that Bangeng and the others would take the stepfather's surname and become someone else's family, and she thought she had this under control.

But she didn't expect the widow to see through Jia Zhangshi's tricks.

She actually agreed to let the children change their surname to Jia.

This left Qin Huairu in a chaotic mess.

That's a story for later.

After Jia Zhangshi had given Qin Huairu a bunch of instructions, she busied herself washing the bowls quickly; she had originally planned to go to the street the next daytime to sue the Liu family three brothers, but instead she accidentally heard the neighbors' murmuring inside the courtyard, all hotly discussing whether the Liu family hid a treasure, otherwise the Liu three brothers wouldn't be living and eating under the same roof.

She then realized the neighbors had come up with exactly the same idea as her, worrying that delay would let others seize the opportunity; she said a word to Qin Huairu, then left the house on the pretext of going to the toilet.

In order to further numb the neighbors inside the courtyard.

In Jia Zhangshi's hand, she deliberately grabbed a few sheets of coarse paper.

Laughing happily in front of the neighbors, she walked out, exited the siheyuan, seeing no one around, she slipped away running toward the street.

……

The Liu family three brothers, completely unaware that they had already been exposed.

At this time they were still staging a big drama of spying on each other inside the house.

All harbored ulterior motives, also suspected the other side of having ulterior purposes, worried that if they left the Liu family, the gold, silver, and treasures hidden by the Liu family would have nothing to do with them.

On one hand, they feared the other would swallow the treasure alone.

On the other hand, they were plotting to drive the others away and monopolize the treasure themselves.

So this drama.

Thus it carries a hint of playfulness.

Clearly knowing the other understood the situation, yet deliberately pretending to be confused, using illusory empty talk to fool the other.

Liu Guangqi, as the eldest.

He naturally assumed the airs of the eldest.

He glanced at Liu Guangtian, glanced at Liu Guangfu, then slowly spoke.

"Guangtian, Guangfu, what are you doing? Why are you still spying? Our Old Liu family's old house has been bought back by us; this is a good thing, equivalent to our longing being preserved; I am the elder brother, you are the younger brothers; you have always blamed me, saying I don't act like an elder brother, not loving you two younger brothers; today, I, as the elder brother, am making up for that to you."

He pointed to those things inside the house.

Because Yu Li had brought people to give it a fresh coat of paint.

All the furniture etc. are there, only lacking this sleeping bedding.

Liu Guangqi is now using this as an excuse, in the guise of a kind elder brother, to coax his two younger brothers.

"The situation inside, you've also seen it—there's nothing; you definitely won't be able to sleep tonight; I am the elder brother, I can endure a bit of hardship, you are the younger brothers, as the elder brother I should yield to you; go back home, I'll just make do for one night inside."

Liu Guangtian frowned.

Liu Guangfu pursed his lips.

Liu Guangqi obviously treated them like three-year-olds, sent them off, then himself under cover of night dug away the treasure—didn't he just buy this house for nothing?

Bastard.

He used to bully us.

Now he still treats us like little kids.

I fuck your grandmother.

"Brother, go back; I and Guangfu can handle this here; you know the sister-in-law's temper—if you don't go back, she'll surely cause a fuss; as for this house, we two brothers will watch it first; if anything comes up, we'll talk tomorrow."

"Eldest brother, Second brother's words make sense; we now have bought back the old house, nothing else matters; what's important is that we have the nostalgic longing; I and Second brother just need to watch the house; you go back to keep the sister-in-law company; with Second brother and me watching, what else do you have to worry about?"

I went back.

You two are digging for treasure and splitting it evenly.

What good thing are you thinking about?

「Guangtian, Guangfu, I told you to go back, so go back—why waste all that talk? I'm the older brother; just listen to me. Hurry up and go back—what are you looking at? You'll miss the bus in a moment. 」

「Boss, you go back, we'll look at the house. 」

「I'll look at the house. 」

「What gives you the right to look? 」

「Then what gives you two the right to stay? 」

「Liu Guangqi, you really think we're three-year-olds you can fool? You know what's in this house, yet you're trying to fool us and send us away so you can stay here and enjoy it all by yourself—is that appropriate? 」

「Guangtian, what do you mean? 」

「Nothing much—I just think you're completely unmotivated. Whatever you know, we know too; whatever you don't know, we know too. 」

Liu Guangqi could hardly fail to understand the meaning in Liu Guangtian's words.

He secretly sighed in bitterness.

Just then, while we were pooling money to buy the house, Liu Guangqi also played the petty villain, saying a few lines that he thought had fooled Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu.

As it turns out, they know everything.

If I had known earlier.

Just now I wouldn't have made up those lies.

He bit his lower lip.

Unwilling to give up, he said: "Guangtian, what do you mean? What's in our house? I'm telling you, buying the house back is purely to give our parents a place to live—none of the things you mentioned."