The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1140 Everything’s Gone, All Stolen

Chapter 1140: Chapter 1140 Everything’s Gone, All Stolen

Why bother talking about evidence?

"Granny, I’ll go with you tomorrow. Changyi is still young; let’s not take him," Lin Caiqing interjected from the side.

For such matters, it is somewhat more convenient for a woman, and Changyi is but a child. If he were to go to the county, wouldn’t he be easily bullied rather than being of help to Granny?

Hearing this, Lu Qiubo looked at Lin Laogeng.

"If girl Qing wants to go, let her go," Lin Laogeng said.

It was time for the children of the family to get out and see the world. This time, they would show the Zhou family whether the people of the Lin Family were easy to bully or capable of swallowing any humiliation!

...

Zhou family...

When Elder Mr. Zhou and his entourage arrived home, they saw the doors of the Zhou family wide open.

"What’s going on here, where is everyone?"

After dismounting from the carriage and walking into the courtyard, they found not a single servant or maid in sight, aside from the voices of their own family, there was not another sound.

In the courtyard, clothes were scattered haphazardly along with a few chairs and stools.

"Father, what...what is happening here?"

Old Master Zhou’s heart began to thump wildly, and he asked his father.

He could never have imagined that after merely a trip to Ya Village, they would return to such a scene—it was as if their home had been ransacked by bandits.

"You’re asking me? Who am I to ask?"

Elder Mr. Zhou looked bitterly at his son and then glanced at the others.

"What are you standing around for? Hurry up and check!"

"Ah!"

Startled by his reminder, Madam Zhou screamed and ran towards the back yard.

Zhou Liang also rushed toward his own room, fearing that his belongings might have been stolen.

However, when the Zhou family members regrouped after a long while, each looked disheartened and deflated.

"Father, the indentures for the servants and maids are all gone; they’ve been stolen," Madam Zhou said weakly, yet still biting her lip in frustration.

She had always been strict with the servants and maids in the mansion, who wouldn’t dare come close to her room, and yet today, her belongings had been stolen, and the servants had vanished without a trace.

What should she do now?

"Grandfather, father, mother, all the silver I had hidden away is gone," Zhou Liang said, his face ashen, speaking to his family.

When Liu Yushui had asked him for five hundred taels of silver, his mother had given him two hundred after much pestering, even though he had only given Liu Yushui fifty taels, hiding the rest away.

And yet, before he had the chance to use a single tael, it had been stolen clean from him.

Thinking about it made him furious.

"Father, I..."

Old Master Zhou also looked at his own father, about to report what had been stolen from him.

But then he saw his father’s body sway and begin to fall forward.

He quickly reached out to support him, hearing his father mutter with his eyes closed.

"It’s all over, all finished."

In his hand he held the keys to the family’s possessions, but the treasury was now empty of silver. How were they to live from now on?

"These servants, every single one of them... Father, I’ll go to the county office tomorrow and file a complaint; we must catch those thieves and bring them back!" Old Master Zhou said to his father.