Chapter 205: Chapter 205: Hapless Eldest Sister 20

She sneered and mocked, “Our family is so poor we can’t even afford food. What thief would be stupid enough to come to our house and steal?”

Ma Xiaolan’s sobs choked her, and she almost suffocated from holding her breath.

Zhong Daming asked, “Yuan Chun, did you hear any noise in this room this morning?”

“No, maybe I’ve been eating well and don’t have to work these past few days. I’m in good spirits and slept very soundly. I didn’t hear any noise.”

Zhong Daming fell silent.

Could it really be that his sister-in-law blamed him and Xiao Lan for mistreating Zhong Li Wen and came to punish them by taking all their money?

But if it wasn’t a ghost, then how did the money Xiao Lan sewed into the cotton-padded jacket disappear so mysteriously?

He had seen with his own eyes Xiao Lan sewing the money in.

Eighteen hundred yuan, and he had counted it himself.

Saying it disappeared, just like that?

Zhong Guoqiang and Zhong Guohao were also awakened by the commotion. The two brothers rubbed their eyes and walked into the room, shocked to see the mess, “Dad, Mom, did our house get robbed?”

“Dad, what got stolen from our house? Seeing Mom cry like this, was it money that was stolen?”

“Dad, how much money was stolen from our house?”

“Dad, was it all stolen?”

“Oh no, what about our schooling? I don’t want to run up a tuition debt at school. I’ll be laughed at by my classmates.”

“Then I’m not going to school anymore.”

“Me neither.”

The two brothers, one after the other, almost drove Zhong Daming to rage.

“Shut up.” Zhong Daming’s face was livid, “Not going to school? What do you plan to do then? Let me tell you, if you dare not go to school, I’ll break your legs.”

Frightened, the two brothers hurried back to their small cubicle, not even caring about their crying mother.

Not long after, the brothers also burst into tears, “My money is gone, boo-hoo, Dad, Mom, my money was stolen too.”

“Aah… I’m going to beat that thief to death, he stole all my money…”

Soon after, Zhong Yuanfen also cried and wailed about her missing money.

“That was my pocket money saved for over a year. I was planning to buy little leather shoes, and now it’s all gone, boo-hoo, Mom, I want to wear little leather shoes. All my classmates have them, but I don’t, boo-hoo… Mom, I don’t care, you have to buy me a pair.”

All morning, the Zhong family was crying and wailing nonstop.

A curious neighbor peered over and asked, “Zhong Daming, what’s going on in your house? Why all the crying early in the morning? Did something happen?”

“No… nothing happened, the kids were being naughty, I gave them a few hits, and they started to make a fuss.” Zhong Daming forced a smile.

The money had been stolen, and he was very anxious, but he didn’t dare report it to the police, fearing that his sister-in-law had really taken it, and reporting it could anger her, and if…

Humans can’t fight with ghosts.

They can’t win against them either.

But just watching the money disappear made Zhong Daming unwilling to resign.

So, in the evening, Zhong Daming and Ma Xiaolan went to a secluded crossroads and burned the paper money for Ma Dalan and Zhong Liming.

As they burned, the couple muttered:

“Sister, I failed your trust. I didn’t take good care of Wenwen. I’m sorry. I swear, from now on, I will take good care of her. I just beg you, return the money to me. My four children need support, and without money, we can’t survive.”

“Sister, you can’t use that money in the underworld, please return it to me. I… I promise you, I’ll make sure Wenwen gets a rich dowry in the future.”

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