"What?" Wang Yongzhu was dumbstruck.
Still, she helped Old Granny Zhang up to sit on the kang bed and then carefully asked, "Mother, could you have put it somewhere else? There have never been strangers coming and going in our home, it's impossible for a thief to have gotten in—"
Before she could finish, the mother and daughter exchanged a glance, both harboring an unpleasant suspicion.
Wang Yongzhu recalled that night when she had suggested that Wang Yongan stay in Wang Yongping's room, a suggestion that Wang Yongan had refused.
She also remembered how Wang Yongan kept pouring liquor for Wang Laozhu at the dinner table and, on the following morning, Wang Yongan's panicked demeanor, with his clothes messily tucked into his belt.
The most telling sign was his parting remark, "Don't regret it later!"
That was his taunt! After sweeping the Wang Family's fortune clean, he didn't forget to further disgust the Wang Family's members.
