282: Steal Money and Run Away

Wang Cheng didn't notice anything wrong at first because the doors and windows were all closed. It wasn’t until he went upstairs and saw that the door of his parents’ room was open that he realized someone had come.

Papa and Mama Wang had formed a habit of closing their door - they’d occasionally forget if they were in a hurry, but that was quite rare, and there was nothing they were in a hurry for today. Wang Cheng could tell that something was wrong so he went in and looked around, and found that someone had moved some things in the room.

Wang Cheng checked a second time and found that the money hidden in the room was not stolen, and their valuables were also not stolen. If the thief had come for money, it would be impossible for them to leave these things.

In the evening, Wang Cheng told Wang Ning'an about this.

"Big brother, someone sneaked into the house today to steal something. I suspect that they came for the jade pendant."

"What exactly happened?" Wang Ning'an asked, surprised.

"The other party had searched our parents' room. They didn’t steal any money, but our father’s box was moved with the agreement inside flipped around, and there were signs of things being touched elsewhere. I checked, but nothing was stolen." Their family had not offended anyone in the Guan’s Village, so it was impossible for this to be someone attempting to retaliate.

"Don't tell our parents about this. If this is related to the jade pendant, the other party will definitely not let it go," Wang Ning'an warned.

"But we are going back to the Imperial Capital tomorrow. If someone really is looking for the jade pendant, what can we do if they break into the house again?" Wang Cheng was worried that his parents would be harmed as a result of this person.

Wang Ning'an shook his head, "Don't worry, as long as they can't find it, this person will most likely suspect it’s with you or me. Very few people know of the existence of the jade pendant. Since it is not a thief looking for its monetary worth, it must be that my grandma's relatives found out about this matter. Because of that jade pendant’s great significance, they’re willing to sneak into our house and try to steal the jade pendant."

"If you look at it this way, then the other party is a foe and not a friend." If they were good people, they would recognize their father directly instead of sneaking in to take the jade pendant.

[T/N: basically, they suspect that Papa Wang’s biological mom’s relatives found out about the jade pendant and want to steal it so that there’s no proof of Papa Wang’s relation to them. They know this isn’t a thief’s work because if it was a common burglar, they would want to steal the money and valuables.]

"So this jade pendant is best left with you."

Wang Cheng also knew this. If they couldn't find the jade pendant on his father, the other party might consider the jade pendant being passed down to the eldest son by the father. Since they couldn’t find the jade pendant here, they would next look for his elder brother, so the jade pendant was not safe with his brother.

"I know, big brother, you can rest assured leaving it with me."

The next day, Mama Wang came back after going to the market and told them about how she’d seen Li and Wang Xiaoyan there.

Wang Xiaoyan had made much less trouble since she became pregnant. Now her belly was protruding, she was about five or six months in. However, she didn’t look too good, because after the money in the safe was stolen a while ago, everyone suspected her and was rude towards her.

Li did not treat her as a pregnant woman. When they went shopping for food, she basically treated Wang Xiaoyan like she was her employee. Every time bystanders pointed out that Wang Xiaoyan was still pregnant, Li became unhappy and defeated the other party with a few words. With money in her pocket, she could stand a little bit taller.

"This Wang Xiaoyan was not very good before, but I think she has changed now. Why is Li treating the pregnant woman like that? She is still carrying Ningkai's child in her belly, after all," Mama Wang sighed. She had met Wang Xiaoyan several times in the marketplace, but this time, Wang Xiaoyan’s face and eyes were lowered and she didn’t speak as impulsively as before. It seemed like she had really changed a lot.

Upon hearing this, Wang Cheng said meaningfully: "Karma."

He still remembered the faces of Wang Xiaoyan and her family back then, could human nature be so easily changed? Wang Cheng didn't believe it. Not long after he and Wang Ning’an left, his hunch became reality.

The alimony Wang Cheng had given to Wang Hongwei was stolen.

Actually, the money stolen was more than just the 200,000, there was also the money left over from Wang Ningkai's sale of the house, which in total, was over 300,000 stolen. Not a dime of their reserves were left.

This time it was not Wang Cheng, nor was it a fictional thief who broke in, but Wang Xiaoyan with her big belly.

She had done the deed when the Wang Ningkai father and son had left and Li had also gone out to buy food. It was only her and Wang De left at home. Wang Xiaoyan said she wasn’t feeling well and went upstairs to rest, in order to avoid the supervision of the Wang De husband and wife. Later, someone came to visit Wang De, so only Granny Wang was left watching TV downstairs. Wang Xiaoyan took this opportunity to take action.

The 200,000 yuan that was placed in the safe had been stolen last time, so the Wang Ningkai father and son didn’t believe in the safety of their safe anymore. They now temporarily hid the money in other places, planning to deposit it at the bank later. However, Wang Xiaoyan somehow found the locations where the money was hidden. After stealing the money, she gave the excuse that they ran out of salt and she wanted to buy more, so Granny Wang let her go out without a single doubt.

When Li came back after buying vegetables, she asked after Wang Xiaoyan. When Granny Wang said that she went to buy salt, Li had no doubts at first, and only cursed Wang Xiaoyan for being lazy by deliberately leaving before she came back from her shopping trip. She only had a strange feeling when she noticed that there was still a lot of salt in the jar. Because Wang Xiaoyan had been behaving well these days, Li and Granny Wang didn’t consider her a threat to stealing any money. However, after Li had this strange hunch, they both found out that some of the valuables in her room were gone. The two were even more shocked when they discovered that all the money was missing. They hurriedly called the Wang Ningkai father and son back. This 300,000 yuan was all they had - without this money, let alone start a business, the family would have to drink the northwestern winds*. This bad news was a big blow for them, and Granny Wang soon fell ill.

[T/N: *live on empty stomachs]

Although they immediately reported this to the police, Wang Xiaoyan was clearly prepared.

She didn't return to the Wang house after stealing the money, but instead left Shanhai City directly. She was also not the only one involved; she clearly couldn't do this kind of thing alone, so she most likely met up with others. The police told them that they would investigate as soon as possible, but this answer left Li and the others very dissatisfied. If they didn’t catch her soon, Wang Xiaoyan would flee to other provinces, and it would be even more difficult to catch her. Not to mention, the stolen 200,000 from last time still hadn’t been found, so they don't really believe in the ability of the police anymore.

In the end, the Li family decided to find it by themselves. They first attacked the [T/N: other] Wang family and started a big fight with them. Although the other Wang family was also down and out, they were still not easy to provoke. This drama of ‘the best versus the best’ was quite troublesome.

The Wang family really didn't know that Wang Xiaoyan had fled, they had long been idle in caring about their married daughter. Even as Wang Xiaoyan was beaten, Father and Mother Wang asked her to be patient with her husband and his family.

However, Wang Ningkai and the others did not believe them, and finally had a big fight. During the chaos, Mother Wang was pushed down the stairs by Wang Ningkai, and her forehead hit the floor so hard she directly bled on the spot and began hyperventilating.

Everyone was shocked. Father Wang hurriedly sent her to the hospital, while Wang Ningkai and his parents hurriedly ran back to the Wang’s Village. However, it wasn’t long until the police came to take Wang Ningkai away. Father Wang charged him with intentional injury, and apparently, Mother Wang had not awoken even now.

After Granny Wang finally woke up, she heard that her grandson had been arrested by the police - she soon wailed and fainted. After waking up for the second time, she went with Li to the detention center to visit Wang Ningkai. They had an argument with the police and were also detained in the detention center for obstructing official duties. It wasn’t until Wang De and Wang Hongwei ran to intercede and pay the fines that they were freed.

Wang Ningkai's case was not particularly serious. As long as Father Wang was willing to withdraw his charges, he would be fine. However, Father Wang was quite angry with the Wang family, so he was unwilling to let things go.

Li told Father Wang that as long as he withdrew the charges, they would still treat Wang Xiaoyan as the Wang family's daughter-in-law if they found her or she came back.

However, Father Wang didn’t care about this. A married daughter was like spilled water. Since she was colluding with others and didn’t tell them, swallowing the money by herself, he didn’t want or have to recognize her as his daughter. In the end, he directly gave the terms: a 100,000 yuan private settlement that bore all the expenses of Wang’s mother’s hospitalization would overrun his complaints.

However, how could there still be money in the Wang family’s eldest house? Let alone one hundred thousand, even fifty thousand was not available. The fortunate thing was that they had put ten thousand yuan in the safe to cover other eyes and ears*. Wang Xiaoyan hadn’t known the password of the safe, so this 10,000 yuan was fortunate enough to not have been stolen. Otherwise, their Wang family would not have time to trouble the other Wang family.

[T/N: *deceive others]

One wave of drama after another came for those in the Wang family’s eldest family. The people of the Guan’s Village were dazzled and sighed when watching such retribution.

Wang Cheng and Wang Ning'an took a plane back to the Imperial Capital at 2 o'clock that afternoon. To avoid missing the flight, they set off soon after lunch.

Papa and Mama Wang reluctantly watched them leave.

Buses didn’t go directly to the airport, so the two of them had to transfer to a taxi soon afterwards. Fortunately, they didn't bring many things. It was almost half past one when they arrived at the airport.

After the two hurried inside, an unidentifiable man in a trench coat and sunglasses walked towards them. Originally, it wouldn’t have been surprising to see such a person in a crowded airport. However, Wang Cheng discovered that he was purposefully approaching them, and immediately switched positions with Wang Ning’an. The person’s footsteps soon visibly shifted. Wang Cheng suspected that this person was targeting his elder brother. After his plan was foiled by Wang Cheng, the other party immediately lowered his head and pretended to casually walk by, finally brushing past them with no results.

After watching them enter the lobby through the security check, the man in the trench coat took out his phone and called an unknown number.

"Failed, execute Plan B."

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