Courtyard House: Purchasing Agents' Comeback from the Great Famine

Chapter 223 Yan Fugui suspects the three aunties stole the gold

When the third aunt saw that Yan Fugui suspected her, she was somewhat incredulous.

"Old Yan, you doubt me? We've been married for decades, how could you doubt me?"

Yan Fugui roared, "If it wasn't you, then who was it? Only the two of us know what's down there, and only you had the chance to secretly dig it up. Tell me, where did it all go?"

"Waaah, I don't want to live anymore, I don't want to live anymore, Lao Yan, we've been husband and wife for decades, how could you doubt me? I don't want to live anymore!" The third aunt cried out in despair, burying her face in her hands.

"Dad, Mom, what happened? What's missing from our house again?" Yan Jiefang asked anxiously.

Yan Jiekuang also said anxiously, "Yes, Dad, Mom, don't be anxious, let's explain things clearly first."

"Waaaaah, your dad and I buried fifteen large yellow croakers and twenty small yellow croakers underground more than twenty years ago, and now they're all gone. Your dad is accusing me of stealing these yellow croakers."

The third aunt burst into tears and quickly recounted the whole story. She didn't care about anything else now and told the whole story. Even Yan Fugui couldn't stop her in time.

"Yang Ruihua, you've gone mad!" Yan Fugui roared.

"What?"

When the Yan family heard that there were fifteen large yellow croakers and twenty small yellow croakers hidden in their house, their eyes widened in disbelief, as if they had seen a ghost.

The four siblings grew up eating cornbread and pickled vegetables, and they could only afford to eat refined grains once a month. Now that they are told that their family is so rich, what did all the suffering they endured before amount to?

Even Yan Jiecheng, who was heartbroken, was stunned when he heard his mother's words. At the same time, he began to resent his parents. If his parents hadn't been reluctant to take these things out to use, he might not be in this situation today.

Liu Yuhua, standing to the side, stared blankly at everything, her mouth agape, wide enough to fit a steamed bun.

Yan Fugui sat on the ground with a blank stare, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

Based on the changes in the third aunt's expression just now, he felt that it didn't seem like the third aunt had stolen these large and small yellow croakers. Moreover, they had been married for more than 20 years and had so many children. There was no reason for her to steal large and small yellow croakers. But only the two of them knew about this. If it wasn't her who stole them, could it be a ghost?

"Yang Ruihua, you really didn't steal it?" Yan Fugui asked again, his eyes red and uncertain.

The three women wiped away their tears and waved their hands repeatedly: "Old Yan, I really didn't steal it. If I did, may I be hit by a car and die when I go out."

"It's over, it's all over! It's all ruined!"

Yan Fugui's face was ashen, and he sat down heavily on the ground, looking as if he had lost his soul.

Suddenly, the three women remembered something and shouted loudly.

"Old Yan, I know! It must be the same thief who stole our big and small yellow croakers last time our house was burgled."

Upon hearing this, Yan Fugui suddenly remembered that when he was digging the soil before, he felt that the soil looked like it had been dug before. So it turned out that it had really been dug up!

Yan Fugui sighed and waved to the rest of the Yan family, "You all go out, I want to be alone."

"dad."

"go out!"

Yan Fugui roared, and everyone in the Yan family was terrified by his murderous gaze. They sighed and left the room.

A group of people sat down at the table, and Yan Jiefang couldn't help but ask, "Mom, what's going on? How does Dad have so many yellow croakers of all sizes? Why are we pretending to be so poor when we're so rich?"

Yan Jiekuang chimed in, "Mom, our family is clearly so rich, but what have we been eating all our lives? Why did you do this? Now look what's happened, all those big and small yellow croakers, we didn't spend a single penny, and they've all been stolen."

The old woman wiped away her tears and let out a long sigh.

"These things were left to your father by your grandfather. As for the rest, you can ask your father yourselves."

She couldn't talk about Yan Fugui's past as a small business owner, so she could only make things up.

The family was gloomy and depressed, and everyone was sighing. The three Yan brothers hated their parents now. They had so much money, yet they made them eat cornbread and pickled vegetables every day? They were so stingy with them, unwilling to spend any of it. Now look what happened, they have nothing left, all of it has gone to some thief.

The three aunties were out of their minds. Liu Yuhua was there, and she still blurted out the story about the large and small yellow croakers.

Thinking of the seriousness of the consequences, she held Liu Yuhua's hand and solemnly instructed her while crying.

"Yuhua, you absolutely mustn't tell anyone about this, understand? Otherwise, we'll never be able to explain why we had so many yellow croakers of all sizes before."

Liu Yuhua nodded: "Mom, don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

"That's good, that's good."

The old woman wiped away her tears and then instructed Yan Jiecheng and the others, "You mustn't tell anyone, understand?"

"understood."

Yan Fugui stayed alone in the room for half an hour before opening the door.

"dad."

The Yan family members all looked at Yan Fugui. The third aunt was about to help him sit down when Yan Fugui waved his hand, sighed, and instructed Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang:

"Jiefang, grab the shovel and fill in the hole in the house."

"Okay, we'll go right away."

The two nodded in agreement and went to get shovels to fill the hole.

Yan Fugui then looked at Yan Jiecheng and said, "Jiecheng, you are injured. You should go back to your room and rest."

"Um."

Yan Jiecheng didn't want to say a word, so he went into his room and slammed the door shut.

Only Yan Fugui, the three aunts, and Liu Yuhua remained at the scene. As for Yan Jiedi, she had long since disappeared to play somewhere.

Yan Fugui sighed and said to Liu Yuhua, "Yuhua, you saw what happened today. I originally wanted to dig up two small yellow croakers, exchange them for money, buy vegetables to hold a banquet, and also compensate Wang Feng with fifty yuan. Now, the gold in our basement has been stolen."

Even Yan Fugui felt a little embarrassed at this point.

"Yuhua, look, could you lend Dad a hundred yuan first? Don't worry, it's a loan. Dad will pay you back slowly after I get my salary."

Liu Yuhua was utterly speechless. The Yan family had just gotten into trouble so many ways. She'd only been married into the family a few days ago! How could something happen to them every single day? Were they haunted by ghosts?

With a sigh, Liu Yuhua went back to her room, took out a hundred yuan, and handed it to Yan Fugui without saying a word.

Taking the money, Yan Fugui nodded solemnly: "Yuhua, don't worry, Dad will definitely pay you back in the future."

Liu Yuhua nodded. If it weren't for her father-in-law's guarantee that Yan Jiecheng's chicken theft wouldn't get out, she definitely wouldn't have lent him the money.

She heard clearly during the hospital-wide meeting that the money was for buying groceries and hosting a banquet, and also for bribing people in the hospital to keep them from gossiping. She had no choice but to borrow the money, since she didn't want a divorce right now; otherwise, how could she explain it to her father and her three brothers?