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After she finished performing the role of "Aunt Ci", Xia Yi finally spoke out with a cold gaze: "Could Aunt Li please tell me when you ran into me wandering around the village, and when you met me buying vegetables?"

"I... I saw it yesterday... I saw a grocery store owner. " The Li Clan had always been guilty, but now that they saw Xia Yi's imposing manner, they felt even more guilty.

Furthermore, after hearing Xia Yi's explanation, Madame Li finally understood that Xia Yi was the one who bought the vegetables.

"Can you tell me when you saw me in the village?"

"This morning." Madame Li said, then said: "I was careless, it wasn't Xia Yi who stole it."

Without waiting for Xia Yi to speak, Mao Cuilan could not wait to answer Madame Li's question, "Why is that not, if Xia Yi did not steal the money, where did she get the money to buy groceries?"

Lady Wu was almost convinced, but hearing Mao Cuilan's words, she steeled her heart once more, "That's right, where did you get the money to buy vegetables?"

Mao Cuilan played the role of a sh * t stir stick in this entire matter. If it wasn't for Mao Cuilan's participation, this matter wouldn't be related to Xia Yi.

Mao Cuilan thought that without her, the three siblings would just starve to death. She didn't expect that not only were they not starving, they were even doing well, so she was naturally jealous.

Xia Yi said: "In Aunt's eyes, should the three of us starve to death?"

Xia Yi's words were too straightforward, causing Mao Cuilan to feel embarrassed, she awkwardly glanced at Lady Wu and Li, and said: "What did you say? "You are all my nephew and niece, how could I wish for you all to starve to death? Your words are …"

As they talked, Mao Cuilan started crying immediately, "Aunt Wu, Aunt Li, why don't you guys judge whether or not she has no conscience. I have raised them for two years, and now she's actually talking about me like this.

After Mao Cuilan finished speaking, Xia Yi then said: "Since Aunt is doing this for our own good, then we shouldn't wrongly accuse these people. Father and Mother left us with some money before we leave, if it wasn't for us siblings being unable to live on, I wouldn't dare to take it out."

Xia Yi said as she started to sob. She was thin and weak to begin with.

Hmph, if you can cry, then I can cry too.

Xia Yi thought as she cried.

Compared to the wailing of the middle-aged woman, the delicate and touching look of a young girl was naturally better.

Mao Cuilan was upset by Xia Yi's crying, she said: "Enough, enough, stop crying, it's as if we bullied you."

Xia Yi looked at the Wu family and sniffed, as though she was trying her best to suppress her grievances: "Aunt Wu, I really didn't steal your money."

"But now the evidence points to you …" Madam Wu still refused to let go.

Right now, it was only this suspect. If she were to let go of him like this, she wouldn't know where to find the money she had lost.

"Then when was the last time Aunt Wu saw your money, and when did she realise that it was gone?" Xia Yi asked.

"The last time I saw my money was in the afternoon of the day before yesterday. I found out early this morning that the money was missing."

"I believe that Aunt Wu has also heard about it. Yesterday, I was kidnapped by Niu Dazhi and I stayed on the mountain the whole night. In the afternoon, I left for the Lingshan Town, so … "Aunt, do you think I have time to commit a crime?"

Although Xia Yi was speaking to the Wu family, her eyes had always been on Mao Cuilan.

Mao Cuilan could only pretend that she did not understand, and did not dare to look straight into Xia Yi's eyes.

The more she heard from Xia Yi, the more disheartened Lady Wu became. However, she didn't give up so quickly, and continued to speak. "You said that the money was left by your parents? "What evidence do you have?"

Xia Yi's eyes became colder, she could already tell that the Wu family was a nagging master, "Rather than wasting time with me, it would be better to just spend some time to look for them, maybe even find them. "Or I can help you report it, but …"

"But what …"

"But... I heard that my uncle has a habit of gambling. " Xia Yi slowly said.

Xia Yi had heard about this from the time she was eating at Granny Liu's house. He said that she saw Xia Wen Rong in the village at the entrance of Lingshan Town gambling den, and that the Wu family was very strict with him.

Xia Yi did not know whether or not Xia Changsheng was talking about the Wu Clan, who was standing in front of him.

Seeing the panic in Lady Wu's eyes, Xia Yi knew that she made the right bet.

"You're lying!" The Wu family denied it.

Xia Yi did not argue with her, but said: "Aunt Wu, I am young and have good stamina, I do not mind helping you make a trip to the government, I believe the government will definitely help you find a thief."

"No need, I'll go by myself."

With that, Lady Wu dejectedly left.

Xia Yi said: "If the few aunts have nothing else, I will be going back."

After saying that, she led Xia Yue back to the kitchen without looking back.

"I... I'll leave too. " After Li Clan also left, only Mao Cuilan was left.

She snuck up on the kitchen door and peeked inside.

Xia Yi was busy working on the stove at the moment, and a sweet fragrance filled the entire kitchen and entered Mao Cuilan's nose.

"Red beans?" Mao Cuilan took a deep breath and muttered in his heart, "Why are you cooking red beans?"

"Is there anything else in Second Aunt?" Xia Yi looked up to see Mao Cuilan sticking her head out and ridiculing him.

Mao Cuilan laughed awkwardly: "It's fine, I'm just here to see if you guys still need anything."

In this short period of time, Mao Cuilan had already seen clearly that the originally dusty kitchen had been arranged neatly by Xia Yi. On the chopping board, other than the dishes, there was also a large piece of meat.

Even Xia Yang had changed into a new set of clothes.

Mao Cuilan was really curious as to where Xia Yi got so much money from.

Without waiting for Mao Cuilan to think about it, Xia Yi had already opened her mouth: "I still have a lot of things I need to take care of, let Aunt give them to me, I'll thank Aunt here first."

Xia Yi naturally knew that Mao Cuilan's words just now were just a formality. Mao Cuilan was just curious why the three of them hadn't starved to death yet.

Just as expected, he saw Mao Cuilan's face freeze, "No need to thank me, no need to thank me. We can talk about this later, I …" I still have some matters to attend to so I'll be leaving first. "

Seeing Mao Cuilan fleeing in panic, Xia Yi laughed lightly. It was truly ironic, this person who kept saying that he was their own sister-in-law was not even close to them.

Knowing that Xia Yi had to make Red Bean Cake the next morning, Xia Yang and Xia Yue did not eat much in the morning and were only waiting for the Red Bean Cake to come out from the wok.

"Elder sister, are you done?" Xia Yue and Xia Yang had already smelled the scent a long time ago, and saliva was flowing from their mouths from their gluttony.

"Alright, you two can eat again later. It's still hot now." Xia Yi placed the plate on the table.

Xia Yue and Xia Yang watched on anxiously.

Xia Yang brought his nose up to smell it.

"Yang, don't put your saliva on it." Xia Yue anxiously looked at the Red Bean Cake on her plate.

Only then did Xia Yang unwillingly shrink his head back.

"Big sister, the Red Bean Cake you made is even more beautiful than the ones Second Uncle brought back from the imperial city …" Xia Yue stretched out his hand and carefully poked the Red Bean Cake that had been shaped into petals. He didn't forget to add, "It must be delicious."

"If it's delicious, then eat more."

Xia Yi wrapped a few pieces of Red Bean Cake with kraft paper and sent them to Granny Liu.

Granny Liu was also full of praise, her words were comparable to what was sold in the dim sum shop.

The remaining Red Bean Cake filled up half a basket.

Xia Yi was still not very familiar with Lingshan Town, so she did not dare to do too much.