"What are you two doing out here when you're not sleeping? Of course Mom is here to look for things." Lai looked at her two daughters defensively, feeling that they were her enemies who were trying to steal things from her.

"Mom, I still don't know what you are thinking. We are also here to look for something." Ye Shuzhen said her true thoughts.

"Don't fight with me, I want to sell the portrait for money."

Lai and her two daughters rushed to search. You pushed me, and I pushed you. The two girls almost pushed me down.

"Ah! You are such good daughters! Do you want to push me down?"

Mr. Lai glared at his two daughters angrily. When competing for interests with his daughters, he did not worry at all about the collision.

"Where are the things? Isn't it the elder brother who put the things back in the room?"

Ye Shuzhi ignored her mother's scolding and muttered to herself while walking towards her eldest brother's room.

"Huh, brother must have taken it back to his room. Let's go to his room to look for it."

The two sisters walked a few steps quickly and came to the door where Acer had closed to go to bed. "Bang bang bang" the two sisters anxiously knocked on the door.

"Brother, open the door."

Acer had just blown out the oil lamp, and when he heard the two sisters banging on the door, he picked up a match in the dark to light the lamp.

Ye Shiqi is a baby whose body is prone to sleepiness. Her father works overtime so late, and her sisters have already slept with her in the room.

It was already October and the weather was cooler. They were covered with thin quilts. The quilts were not warm to begin with, so they felt very comfortable sleeping on a cold day.

Ye Shiqi was woken up by the loud knocking on the door. She heard a slight movement in the room and realized it was her father. She also felt that her sister had not woken her up.

Although Ye Shiqi was just a little baby, her eyes were bright and she smelled a trace of paint. In the yard outside, the moonlight filtered through the crack in the door and she saw clearly that there were two more pieces of wood she painted in the room. Her father was carving them today.

wooden toys.

Glancing at the two aunts who were still banging against the door, before her father turned on the lamp, she silently muttered "take it" and the doll was put into the space by her, and then pretended to sleep again.

My ears heard the sound of my father lighting the oil lamp, getting off the boat, going out to open the door, and opening the door.

"Second sister, third sister, it's so late, why are you knocking on the door if you're not sleeping? You'll disturb others in the dead of night."

Acer, an honest man, did not expect for a moment that the two sisters were still thinking about the toys with exposed heads.

"Brother, where are the toys you made today?" Ye Shuzhi pushed her brother away with her hand and walked in first, searching with eyes.

"Brother, where are the toys?" Ye Shuzhen took a step slowly. While the second sister was searching and talking, she also came in and looked around, but did not see the toys.

"Put the toys over there..." Acer pointed at the table, then saw that there was nothing on the table, and looked at the table in confusion.

It felt a bit like a dream. The lamp he had just blown out would have been in his hands if his two sisters had come in to take it away, and he would have seen it.

If his dolls took the wooden toys from the table, the dolls were sleeping.

Moreover, before he blew out the light, he saw the children sleeping on the bed. He was sleeping outside and knew that the children were up.

Acer's doubts were unanswered. The wooden toy suddenly disappeared, and it didn't look like it had fallen on the floor. His room was so big that you could see it at a glance, and there was nothing on the floor.

"Brother, have you put it away? My nose can still smell the paint from this room."

Ye Shuzhi glanced under the bed, and her eyes fell on her brother's wooden box where he kept his clothes.

"Brother, are you hiding it? In this wooden box!" Ye Shuzhen was also suspicious. The two sisters opened the unlocked box and kept looking through the clothes inside.

Acer was confused, and the actions of his two sisters made him quite disgusted. They didn't keep anything valuable in this house.

When his daughter-in-law first got married, he could still see a silver bracelet on her hand. In the past few years, he had never seen this silver bracelet. He also didn't see the silver bracelet when he was picking up clothes in the wooden box.

Moreover, this box was originally locked, but one day the lock was picked open. As for whether anything was lost?

Both he and his wife knew very well that it must have been done by someone in the family. In order to keep the family scandal from being publicized, the couple remained silent and did not speak out about the incident, nor did they interrogate who stole the thing.

Acer sometimes feels ashamed when facing his daughter-in-law, who is so hard-working yet not treated well by her family. Sometimes he blames himself, but he can do nothing to his family.

"Second sister, third sister, what are you doing? The behavior of robbers is nothing more than wooden dolls. Is there any need to rummage through the cabinets like this?"

"Brother, you said they are just wooden toys, why don't you give these two toys to us sisters?"

Ye Shuzhi was unwilling to find her. When her elder brother said this, she felt angry in her heart.

"Huh, I'm just saying that the eldest brother is the most partial. He must have hidden the wooden toy under the bed."

Ye Shuzhen rushed to the bedside and picked up the quilts of the dolls. The dolls who had just fallen asleep were suddenly lifted off the quilts, their eyes closed and their hands waving wildly.

"Third sister, that's too much. The babies are sleeping well. Why are you disturbing them? What if they catch a cold?"

Acer said, coming over to snatch the quilt from Ye Shuzhen's hand.

"Tsk, it's so noisy and you can't sleep, you're just like a few pigs."

Ye Shuzhen threw away the quilt in her hand in disgust. She looked down upon the quilt, which had many patches and was in tatters. She was very proud in her heart. The quilt on the bed of her two sisters was the new quilt made by her mother-in-law when her sister-in-law got married.

The quilts on the beds between her and her second sister, as well as some items from her eldest sister's dowry, were all taken from her eldest sister-in-law.

The newly married sister-in-law also resisted at the time, and her elder brother also blamed her, but the sisters and their mother together suppressed the couple to death.

Acer covered the children with quilts, holding a younger sister in one hand, and carried them out the door.

"Brother, you are rude, I won't leave..."

"Brother, you hurt me, I want to tell my parents, my wooden doll, I won't leave..."

Acer carried the second and third sisters out of the house, then looked at them sternly and said to them:

"If you dare to make any noise here again, I will take you to a pig pen to sleep." Acer closed the door angrily.

"Dong dong dong"

Ye Shuzhi closed the door and kicked it twice, followed by Ye Shuzhen.

"Why are you so noisy at this late hour? Are you not sleepy? Are you too comfortable at home? We will go out to farm with the children tomorrow."

Father Acer's scoldings came from his parents' room. He did not support his son's pampered dolls, and was persuaded by Lai to sell toys to make money. He felt that it was too wasteful for the dolls to play with valuable toys.

I support my two daughters in searching, but I don't want to say it openly. I discovered that my son has been very critical of them recently. As a father, he is somewhat concerned about his son's thoughts.
Chapter completed!