The Princess of the Substitute Bride Strikes Back

Four thieves crept in through the back door and found several people sleeping inside. They were sure they were not noticed, so one of the leaders signaled the others to go forward and search.

The leader stayed where he was and watched to see if the sleeping person would wake up, while the other three quietly searched for the package.

The second house didn't have a cart, so it had fewer packages, but later it smoked a lot of wolf meat and picked wild vegetables.

Therefore, there were quite a few items. Cai was holding a package tightly, and the third and fifth concubines were also holding a package. The others were sleeping quietly, with no signs of waking up.

The thieves took away everything they could, whether it was pots or food!

The four thieves gathered at the back door, opened the package, and saw the jerky wolf meat and wild vegetables inside. Their eyes lit up.

"Finally, there's food!"

One of them couldn't contain his excitement and shouted out in a low voice.

"Be quiet, let's go."

The leading thief hurriedly tried to stop them, deciding to stop while they were ahead. The food would be enough for them to eat for several days.

"I clearly saw a lot of carriages outside, which means there are a lot of people here. Let's just go all out and steal them all!"

Some people were eager to try and go to the room upstairs to continue stealing.

Mu Yibai and the other two hid behind the stairs. They could hear the thieves' whispers clearly. As long as they went upstairs, Mu Yibai and the other two would be ready to take action.

"Let's quit while we're ahead! Didn't you see there are still soldiers in today's team? Saving your life is the most important thing. These things are enough."

The leading thief insisted on leaving immediately, and the others thought it made sense, so they prepared to leave through the back door.

At this time, the second aunt suddenly turned over and heard someone talking in a daze. She opened her eyes and saw several blurry figures walking towards the back door of the post station, but when she looked at the packages in those people's hands, she felt that they were very familiar, as if they were theirs.

"There's a thief! Everyone, wake up! Someone is stealing something!"

The second concubine woke up instantly and shouted at the top of her voice that those were their life-saving food. If they were stolen, they would starve to death. She shook the person sleeping next to her desperately, and everyone in the second room woke up.

When the four thieves saw that their plan was exposed, they ran away, but they were no match for so many people in the team!

"What's going on? What are you yelling about?"

Mu Yifan was very upset that his sweet dream was disturbed.

"Catch them quickly, our things have been stolen, wake up!"

At this moment, the people in the second room also discovered the thief that the second aunt mentioned, and were running towards the back door. They hurriedly got up and chased after him.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Don't just stand there, go chase them!"

Cai led everyone to rush out, leaving only Mu Yuanzhang and Mu Xianya guarding the only two remaining packages.

Seeing that the people from the second house had already started chasing after them, Mu Yibai turned around and went back.

"Let's go! Little apprentice, the fun is over."

Huo San tapped Chen Jianzhong's forehead with his fingers. He was a head taller than Chen Jianzhong and could touch his forehead with just his hand.

"Hey! Who is your little disciple? Only my master can call me that!"

Chen Jianzhong was very dissatisfied with Huo San. This guy didn't consider himself an outsider. Were they that familiar with each other?

"Then can your master's family be called that?" Huo San asked back.

"Of course you can be a family member of the Master, but you are not!"

Chen Jianzhong turned around and followed Mu Yibai without looking back.

"I am your master's father's family member, do you think I can?"

"Aren't you from Yunmu Village? How did you become Master's family member?"

Chen Jianzhong was very confused. What was the relationship between Yunmuzhai and his master?

Huo San said as he walked.

"We'll talk about this later. Let's go to bed first."

As they were talking, the three of them had already walked upstairs.

Huo San turned back to his room, Chen Jianzhong stamped his feet in anger.

I hate people who only speak half of their sentences the most, huh!

Mu Yibai ignored them and went back to his room to rest. He didn't know if he would have peace and quiet tomorrow morning.

……

The people from the second room chased after the thief, but they didn’t see where the thief went.

The night was already dark, and the post station was surrounded by woods. The women could not act alone, so they divided into three teams and searched in three directions.

An hour later, everyone met in the lobby of the post station.

"Ma'am, we found nothing."

"So are we."

"Mom, they ran too fast. This must have been premeditated."

"Stop talking and see what's left."

Cai was exhausted. The wolf meat and wild vegetables that she had obtained with great difficulty were all gone. Fortunately, the silver and money were on her and were not stolen!

"Madam, the dried wild vegetables you asked me to get are still there."

Apart from the package in Cai's arms, only the third aunt's package was still there, and of course, their thin quilts were also still there.

"Look at what you are doing. You can't even keep an eye on a package! This is our life!" Cai regretted not giving more food to the third aunt.

There was some dried meat and potatoes in her package, but there was not much left, and this little food was not enough for the whole family.

"Ma'am, everyone was asleep just now, and it's hard to guard against thieves."

"Why don't we go find some soldiers? We can't just stand there and watch them die."

All the wives and concubines were talking at the same time, and Cai was overwhelmed. They were spoiled all the time, but were useless at the critical moment and kept quarreling!

"Mother, why did those thieves only steal our food and not others? Could someone be instructing them?"

Mu Yifan's words were like a wake-up call, and everyone suddenly woke up.

"Yes! This post station is so big, and there are so many people in the team. Why did the thieves choose their food? There must be something strange!"

"Maybe we lived on the first floor and they saw us as soon as they came in. Or maybe they wanted to continue stealing but were discovered by Second Aunt and fled in panic."

The fifth aunt spoke slowly, holding a package in her arms.

"Why are you still trying to find excuses for the thieves? We won't last long with the wild vegetables in your package."

The Fourth Aunt said in a strange voice that she entered the mansion earlier than the Fifth Aunt, but had never been able to conceive a child, and this had always been a knot in her heart.

"I think there must be something fishy going on here. We must not let the person behind this off easily." Mu Yifan spoke again, he already had a plan in mind.

"Fan'er, what do you think?" Cai was extremely worried at the moment. She knew that what the Fifth Aunt said made sense, but in such a big post station, they were the only ones who lost their rations, so there had to be an explanation.

"I think there must be someone behind this, and I think Mu Yibai is the most likely person behind this. His family has long disliked us, and now that my father is gone, they want to take the opportunity to bully us!"

Mu Yifan said it with absolute certainty, as if he had witnessed Mu Yibai instructing the thieves with his own eyes!

"We must not let them go. He has caused us losses, so he must pay the price. Now that it is still dark, we should take the opportunity to go to their room and take back all the wolf meat." Mu Yifan stated his plan in one breath.

"Fan'er, this is a great idea!"

Several concubines were helpless about Mu Yifan's logic. They couldn't understand why they were treated as thieves in the blink of an eye when they had just been robbed!

Only Cai agreed with Mu Yifan's idea, because she knew that her son just wanted to find an excuse to take back food from the eldest house.