Rebirth: Pampered by the Lord

Chapter 90: Chapter 90 The Penniless

“The matter of drugging Xuexue was all orchestrated by that damn woman. I really didn’t know about it,” Mo Xiaoqiang hastily tried to clear himself.

“What? You even drugged her?”

The village head and the young man gasped in shock at the same time.

In their simple and honest Mo Family Village, it was unbelievable that such a vicious-minded person existed, who for a handful of silver, would treat their own flesh and blood so horribly. It was utterly despicable.

“So you didn’t know!” Mo Xiaoqiang slapped his own mouth, his face filled with regret.

“You good-for-nothing Mo Xiaoqiang, if you didn’t know, how could you be so sure?” the village head recovered his senses, his face turning red with anger.

“You are unfit to be a father to Xuexue and her sister,” the young man also shouted angrily.

“At first, I didn’t know either, but then that damn woman let it slip by accident, and that’s how I found out. Village head, if you don’t believe me, I can swear to heaven,” seeing the village head angered, Mo Xiaoqiang became flustered.

“You, you…” sighed the village head, shaking his head, about to say something when suddenly, a sharp scream came from inside the house…

“Ah…!”

The scream was piercing in the quiet night, leaving everyone in the main hall stunned into silence.

The first to react was Mo Xiaoqiang: “Aiyo! This damn woman, she never stops making trouble. Who knows what mischief she’s up to now. Village head, I’ll go and have a look.” Saying this, he took the opportunity to run off.

In his heart, he couldn’t help feeling pleased; Auntie Sun was quite shrewd, knowing how to bail him out at a critical moment.

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Inside the room

Auntie Sun sprawled on the ground, her voice hoarse from screaming and crying, “That damned thief, who has stolen all the hard-earned money I saved, how am I to live now, waah…”

In the small cabinet of her dressing table was locked up all her fortune; the gold and silver jewelry she had managed to save from her time at the Yihong Brothel, plus the twenty taels of silver from Butcher Yu. Now, it had all vanished without a trace, which was more painful than having her heart dug out.

Mo Xiaoqiang burst in to see Auntie Sun still crying nonstop and laughed, “Alright, my wife, stop crying. You are so clever, knowing how to help your husband out of trouble.”

Auntie Sun turned a deaf ear to his words, ignoring him completely, and continued to weep on the ground.

“My wife, my wife, what’s wrong?” Mo Xiaoqiang finally realized something was amiss and quickly crouched down, shaking her shoulders vigorously as he asked.

Looking up with tears streaming down her face, she gazed at Mo Xiaoqiang, her lips quivering, and cried pitifully, “Husband, our house has been burglarized.”

“Huh? That can’t be, right?”

“How can it not be? Look for yourself, all my jewelry and silver are gone.” Auntie Sun pointed at the dressing table, her voice breaking with sobs, “I don’t know which damn thief did it, those pieces of jewelry could have fetched over a hundred taels of silver, and not even a copper coin was left for me.”

Usually, Auntie Sun kept the cabinet tightly locked, to the extent that even Mo Xiaoqiang had no idea she had so much money.

“My wife, who would’ve thought you had so much silver?”

“What’s the use, it’s gone, all gone!” The thought of being robbed of several years of hardship in an instant, leaving her penniless, caused Auntie Sun’s heart to ache, and she couldn’t help bursting into tears again.

After some thought, Mo Xiaoqiang said, “My wife, tonight the only outsider who came to our house was Butcher Yu. Could it be him?”

Upon hearing this, Auntie Sun suddenly stopped crying and stared at Mo Xiaoqiang with her red, swollen eyes.

“It’s very likely. Think about it, no one else was at home tonight, and both of us went to the old residence, leaving him alone to be tempted by the sight of wealth,” Mo Xiaoqiang analyzed, increasingly convinced of the possibility.