Chen Yaoming kept chattering, but Liu Yuelian frowned in deep thought.
"Slap!" Suddenly she clapped her hands, turned and ran to Xiao Wei's side:
"Mommy, I know, I know how the things under the courtyard were taken away."
Guo Xiaoli pouted, a native girl actually calling herself mommy like a foreigner.
But Liu Yuelian's words made her spirits immediately lift.
"...So, I guess Tian Jing's ability is not martial arts, but special powers."
"Xiao Da Layye and Xiao Er Layye guessed correctly, it must be Tian Jing who used her special powers to secretly move the underground things."
"What should we do? We have no evidence, how can we get it back?"
Hearing Liu Yuelian's analysis, Xiao Wei also found it very reasonable.
Chen Yaoming squeezed over, offering suggestions to the mother and daughter:
"This matter needs to be planned in the long run. First, we need to prove that Tian Jing has special powers."
"Then we need to find out her movements during the time she was in Kyoto..."
...
In the courtyard, Tian Jing told Zeng Jingrong about the things under the Prince's Mansion Museum:
"...Grandpa said I can handle it however I want. Xiao Wei and Liu Yuelian won't give up."
"Then you notify Kyoto to excavate them with great fanfare. It would be great to infuriate them."
Zeng Jingrong immediately took out his internal phone and dialed. He had to fulfill his sister's request.
After arranging it, he asked Tian Jing: "Do you want me to get you a phone too?"
Tian Jing refused, what would she do with a phone? She could be easily found.
Zeng Jingrong gave Li Weiyan a week off and took Li Weihao, Li Weibo, and eight team members with him.
Ouyang Meihua patted her younger siblings on the shoulders: "You are a prime example of having a difficult background. As the saying goes, 'The poor in the bustling city go unnoticed, while the rich in the deep mountains have distant relatives.'"
"If you have ability, all sorts of ghosts and monsters will jump out."
"Alas~ I'm so ordinary, I wish I could suddenly have a rich family recognize me."
Li Yuyan said as he walked towards the door:
"Just based on the fact that you can cultivate Ouyang family techniques, you can't have lost parents."
"You should honestly acknowledge your adoptive parents, my grandfather and grandmother. Pity them, for raising a daughter for decades in vain."
"Li Yuyan!"
"Not here." Li Yuyan's voice had already come from outside the courtyard.
Ouyang Meihua chased after him: "You brat, you don't come home for three years, and when you do, you're looking for a beating."
Li Yuyan actually waited outside: "Come on, you can hit me. You're old, you can't catch me anymore."
Tian Jing shook her head. As the saying goes, "No enmity, no father and son." This mother and son were enacting "no enmity, no mother and son." They hadn't seen each other for three years, and they started fighting upon meeting.
Ouyang Meihua's name was now on Sister Guihua's blacklist again.
...
For the few days Li Yuyan was home, the village was lively for a few days.
Villagers sold melons while also 'eating melons' (gossiping).
Sister Guihua's notebook was filled with Ouyang Meihua's name.
Ouyang Meihua waved her hand: "Write whatever you want. If I don't teach this unfilial son a lesson, I'll take his surname."
"Puchi."
The villagers, who were loading the truck while watching the excitement, burst into laughter:
"Ouyang Meihua, you should have been called Li Ouyang Shi, you know? It doesn't matter whether you take your son's surname or not."
Ouyang Meihua stopped and took a breath: "Bah! If I take the surname Li, it's Li Ligguo's Li, what does that brat have to do with it?"
Li Yuyan squatted on top of the driver's cab of the large truck, sticking out his tongue at his mother:
"Mom, if I'm a brat, what are you and Dad?"
"Hahahaha, ah..."
The villagers laughed so hard they stumbled, losing their footing and falling onto the watermelons, then rolling off them.
Li Yuyan flipped and landed first, catching the falling villager.
After Li Yuyan helped the villager stand steady, he patted his chest: "Thank you, thank you Yanyan."
Li Yuyan waved his hand: "No need..."
"Hey, you brat, I caught you!"
Ouyang Meihua took the opportunity to get close to the two, grabbed her eldest son by the collar: "Come on, let's go home and kneel on the washboard."
Li Yuyan twisted his body and wriggled out of his clothes, running away shirtless:
"Mom, I'm going directly back to the team. Goodbye!"
Ouyang Meihua, holding his clothes, shouted angrily: "Your grandfather misses you."
Li Yuyan's voice echoed from afar: "I don't have any vacation left. I'll come see him next time I'm back."
...
Chen family in the provincial capital.
Guo Xiaoli was smashing basins and bowls in the kitchen.
All because Xiao Wei and her mother came back to live with them, saying they needed to discuss countermeasures.
What countermeasures? They were clearly trying to seduce people.
Seduced her husband into constantly mentioning "Weiwei" and "Yuelian."
That wasn't all, they didn't help with eating, drinking, shopping, or even cooking.
She could understand that Xiao Wei, a pampered young lady, wouldn't do anything, but why should Liu Yuelian, a genuine country girl, also expect to be served?
The two daughters-in-law at home were one with a baby and the other pregnant.
Her eldest and second daughters brought their husbands home for meals, and they were served everything.
Suddenly thinking of Tian Jing saying she was just a nanny, her hands holding the basin loosened.
With a "bang," she felt relieved.
Another "bang," satisfying.
Unfortunately, she couldn't deal with Xiao Wei and Liu Yuelian, otherwise smashing them would have been even more satisfying and exhilarating.
Hearing the clatter from the kitchen, Chen Yaoming rushed over:
"What's wrong again? What are you going crazy about?"
Her husband's words made Guo Xiaoli's face turn ashen: "I'm going crazy? Yes! You're right, I'm going crazy from your wild women."
"They came and stayed for days. It's fine, they're your daughter and your daughter's mommy. They can stay."
"But why should I serve them? At least they should wash the dishes and scrub the pots, right?"
"My daughters-in-law are pregnant, and I'm happy to serve them. Who do they think they are?"
"Slap!"
Chen Yaoming, finding Guo Xiaoli petty, angrily slapped her: "If you don't like it, then get out!"
"You? You hit me?" Guo Xiaoli covered her face, looking at her husband in disbelief:
"You dislike me? Are you planning to dump me before you get your share? I'm telling you, no way!"
Chen Yaoming pointed at the shrew-like Guo Xiaoli: "You are simply unreasonable!"
In the living room, Xiao Wei trembled all over.
"Stop arguing! Stop arguing!" Liu Yuelian held Xiao Wei's shoulders: "Mommy, Mommy, what's wrong? Are you okay?"
Xiao Wei raised her finger and pointed at the television: "Those, those..."
Liu Yuelian turned her head to look at the news on TV. Wasn't it that dozens of iron boxes were excavated from under a certain prince's mansion?
Xiao Wei pointed at the golden hairpin that was being zoomed in on:
"This is the same as the gift my daddy gave me for my eighth birthday. Daddy said he drew a picture according to Grandma's dowry and had someone make it for me."
At this moment, the camera switched again.
Xiao Wei's eyes widened even more: "This, this hairpin, is the same as the hairpin Daddy gave me for my twelfth birthday."
"Daddy said that if the situation was better, he would give me the real thing."
"This, this, they all have it, I have them all."
Xiao Wei pointed at the changing images on the TV screen and said flusteredly:
"What's going on? How were they excavated?"
Liu Yuelian anxiously retorted:
"Mommy, where are your things? Where are the jewelry Grandpa gave you? Let's confront them, to prove that these things are owned items!"