After paying for the cart, the fool carried the basket, and the family happily headed home.
Since it was already dark, there were hardly any people on the road.
Before long, they arrived at the old residence and shockingly found the locked main gate violently smashed open…
"Oh my, what happened?" Madam Xie, upon seeing this, hurriedly rushed in to check.
Fortunately, her family was as poor as they come, having even eaten up their most valuable rice, and except for two bags of partly good, partly bad sweet potatoes, there was nothing of value left.
They had just recently divided their family property, and the house was this poor, yet to be robbed? Xuexue was very skeptical.
Turning around, she took a lamp out of the fool's carried basket, lit it, and then, stepping back into the rooms, she wanted to check if the packet of gold and silver jewelry had been found by anyone.
"Wifey, wifey, where are you going?" the fool followed closely behind.
