Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots
Chapter 894 - 124 Go Home, Thief_3

Chapter 894: 124 Go Home, Thief_3

Lin Yuan nodded, thinking about the silver her father had given her and the fact that it was entrusted to the old village chief for safekeeping—surely that meant they wouldn’t lack food or drink.

"Mother, if we want to give Granny something in the future, just send it to the old village chief’s house," she said.

Lady Liu’s eyes lit up, "Exactly right. Your Uncle Foolish Han is the one who has been delivering food and drink to your Granny. To avoid arousing suspicions from the people at the old residence, he only takes a little each time and pretends it was sent by the old village chief. Yes, we’ll do it this way from now on."

Lady Liu happily tapped Lin Yuan’s forehead with her finger and laughed, "You truly are my daughter, so clever!"

Lin Yuan chuckled, "This mother of mine is becoming more and more fond of joking."

The mother and daughter laughed heartily, but Lin Wei was busy with her head down, organizing the stuff in her hands, her little brows tightly furrowed, lost in thought.

Lin Yuan nudged her with her elbow, "What’s wrong? You seem distracted."

Lin Wei suddenly snapped back to reality, glanced at Lady Liu, then at her older sister, and smiled, "I was thinking that with you back, we’ll have delicious food tonight."

Lady Liu took Xiao Yongyan from Lin Yuan’s hands and fed him, feigning annoyance, "What, are you saying the food your mother makes isn’t delicious?"

"Not at all, the food Mom makes is the tastiest, didn’t you see even the master vying for it?" Lin Wei quickly hugged Lady Liu’s arm, giggling as she flattered.

"You little rascal! Alright then, Yong Yan is going to sleep, you two go play in that room," she said, dismissing the sisters. After they left, Lady Liu put Xiao Yongyan on the kang bed and, slipping on her shoes, she too climbed onto the kang, propping herself up with one hand as she fed him. Watching her son eat with gusto, she couldn’t help breaking into a smile.

The sisters tiptoed back to their own room. Lin Yuan closed the door and asked, "Er Ya, are you hiding something from me?"

Lin Wei hesitated, stammering for a while before finally opening up under Lin Yuan’s repeated questioning, "Big sister, something happened in our village during the month you were away."

"What happened?" As soon as she heard that something had happened, Lin Yuan’s nerves tensed up, "Did the people from the old residence come to make trouble?"

"No, no," Lin Wei waved her hands quickly, "It’s that a thief came to our village, and has stolen from several households already. Lanhua’s house, Aunt Guizhi’s House, nearly every household that’s a bit better off has been robbed."

So a thief had come!

Aunt Guizhi’s family had earned money from selling liangpi and rocking chairs and had since moved to live in town, naturally leaving their house unattended. This presented an opportunity for the thief, and if Aunt Wang hadn’t suddenly come back to check on things, they would never have known their house had been robbed.

The theft at Lanhua’s house was truly an accident. Since Lin Changqing had opened a furniture shop in town, he often stayed there. As for Lanhua, the tofu shop was practically her second home by now.

The thief took advantage of Lin Fugui and Aunt Wang being out, driving a bullock cart to town, to slip into their house and turn it upside down, even finding and stealing the two taels of silver Aunt Wang had hidden in an old cotton shoe. Fortunately, Aunt Wang was cautious and had already deposited the family’s silver in a silver shop; otherwise, the thief would have taken all of their belongings.

But the theft at Lanhua’s house showed that the thief was very familiar with the situation of each household in Lin family hollow. It just goes to show that the thief was not someone from outside the village; most likely, it was someone from their own village!

Lin Wei nodded, "The old village chief said the same thing. Ever since then, people in the village have been panicking, even leaving someone at home during the day when going out to the fields for fear of a visit from the thief."

"What about our house? Did the thief come here?" This was Lin Yuan’s chief concern. Now, the most affluent family in Lin family hollow was not that of the old village chief, nor Lanhua’s or Aunt Guizhi’s, but their own.

Lin Wei bit her lip and nodded with difficulty, "He did come, but he didn’t succeed. Father has been guarding against him. As soon as he entered the yard, he was caught by the mouse trap Father had set. Frightened, he turned tail and ran away!"

"Why didn’t you tell me about this?" Lin Yuan was a bit anxious, no wonder she had felt Lady Liu was being somewhat evasive when talking earlier.

"Aren’t father and mother worried about you? You and brother-in-law have been so busy in Yecheng, and if we told you what was happening at home, you wouldn’t be able to come back but would still worry. It’s better not to tell you. Since nothing really happened at home, it’s fine, let it be," she reassured.