Chapter 201: Chapter 201: Hapless Eldest Sister 15

The city where the original host lived was Shangdu in Yu Province. Due to the city’s large size and population, the government divided the grain distribution days between the 1st and the 15th.

The steel factory residential area where the original host lived collected rations on the 15th.

On this day, before dawn, Mr. Zhong pushed the family’s small cart and took Mrs. Zhong with him to the grain bureau to queue up.

In previous months, it was Mrs. Zhong and the original host who went to collect the rations, and it was also the original host who cooked at home. The original host, being naive, didn’t notice that the rations brought home were significantly reduced. However, after Yuan Chun inherited the original host’s memories, she immediately realized that the amount of rations brought home did not match the quantity used daily, falling short by nearly half.

That day, she merely tested Mrs. Zhong’s reaction.

But seeing the guilt hidden in Mrs. Zhong’s eyes, she understood that those missing rations were secretly taken by Mrs. Zhong to sell on the black market.

And the money made from the sales…

Yuan Chun recalled that in the previous life, shortly after the original host got married, Zhong Guoqiang and Zhong Guohao were separated, with each brother receiving a more than one hundred and fifty square meter apartment.

So, all these years, was Mrs. Zhong exploiting the original host to save money for buying houses for her two sons?

Yuan Chun’s coldness grew intense. She used her spiritual power to scan Mr. Zhong and Mrs. Zhong’s room and saw that under the bed in the room, there were six jars for pickling salted vegetables, still pickled by the original host.

But among them, in a broken jar with a missing lid, a tattered piece of clothing was stuffed inside.

Using her spiritual power to probe further into the clothing, she saw a large bundle of ten-yuan banknotes, amounting to over eight hundred yuan.

Behind the five-drawer cabinet, at the base of the wall, there was a loose brick, inside which was a hole containing a large bundle of money, totaling seven thousand eight hundred yuan, along with many letters, a thick stack of remittances, a title deed, a jade pendant, and a pair of bracelets.

At the bottom of a locked box near the five-drawer cabinet was a worn-out cotton-padded jacket, patched over and over, but inside it was sewn a total of three thousand yuan.

Inside a small grain jar, there were still five or six pounds of corn, but underneath the corn, there was also a small cloth bag containing eighteen hundred yuan.

In the interlayer of the wardrobe drawer, there were also some scattered bills, likely kept by Mrs. Zhong for daily expenses.

The Zhong Family, where Mrs. Zhong complained daily about having no money, had secretly saved over ten thousand yuan.

No wonder in the previous life, after the family split, Zhong Guoqiang and Zhong Guohao were each able to get a one-hundred-and-fifty-square-meter house.

Ha, before that, Mrs. Zhong would cry with tears and snot, telling the original host that the family had to borrow a lot of money for Zhong Yuanfen’s dowry and wedding dress, and could no longer borrow money, so they could only wrong her by sending her off without a dowry.

The bridal money given by the old widower was also detained by Mrs. Zhong to repay debts, she said.

The truth was, the Zhong family wasn’t lacking money, they just didn’t want to spend money on the original host.

Yuan Chun felt a deep anger.

Using her spiritual power again, she scanned the rooms of her younger siblings and was surprised to find quite a bit of money there as well.

This made Yuan Chun even colder at heart.

The original host worked tirelessly from dawn to dusk to earn money but never had a penny of her own, having given everything to this family. In contrast, the three younger siblings, who did nothing but indulge themselves, secretly saved over ten yuan.

Yuan Chun felt deeply that the original host’s sacrifices were not worth it.

Silently, she sneaked into the house, and using her spiritual power, she unlocked the door to Mr. Zhong and Mrs. Zhong’s room. Then she went inside and took all the money.

Even the money sewn into the cotton-padded jacket was collected from a distance by her.

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