Dressed as a villain's sister, she became rich by relying on patriotism

"Eat quickly, and go to school after eating!" Li Ling urged Li Min, not even looking at Zhou Ting and Zhou Ning, as if they didn't exist. But today she didn't stop the siblings from eating at the table, after all, Zhou Qiren was back, so she had to be more restrained.

"Mom, are you going shopping today?" Li Min suddenly asked.

"How did you know?"

Li Ling was beaten up by Zhou Qiren last night, but she is still in a good mood today.

Something is happening! Zhou Ning slowed down his eating speed and pricked up his ears to listen to the mother and daughter talking.

"Every time Uncle Zhou comes back recently, you go shopping the next day." Li Min answered naturally without thinking too much.

Li Ling blushed and scolded with a smile: "You silly girl, you are quite attentive!"

Zhou Qiren has been much more generous recently. Every time she makes him feel comfortable in bed, he will give her money to spend. Otherwise, why would Li Ling be with him? It's just for money. Even if she gets beaten, it's worth it.

"Mom, please buy me the latest skirt. All my classmates are wearing it!" Li Min begged.

"Okay, okay, you just know how to show off!" Li Ling scolded with a smile, and she seemed to be in a good mood.

Li Ling held her head like a quail last night, her face was not injured, but her cries were heard by Zhou Ting and Zhou Ning who lived in the basement, so Li Min couldn't have been unaware of it. But this morning, the mother and daughter didn't mention a word about Li Ling being beaten last night. They are indeed a real mother and daughter, and they only thought about how to spend the money they got. This daughter is also heartless.

Zhou Ting was older than Zhou Ning and had a much earlier morning class, so he went to school after dinner. Zhou Ning packed up his things and went out slowly, but then he hid in a small alley next to him and waited furtively.

Only when she saw Li Ling dressed up beautifully and walking away with her waist twisted did she come out of the alley and tiptoe home. Zhou Qiren was still sleeping. He broke the lock of their bedroom door when he was angry, so the door could not be closed and was half-open.

Zhou Ning looked around for a while, and finally went into the closet in the living room, using the clothes in the closet to cover himself, leaving a gap to observe the outside. The closet was facing Zhou Qiren's bedroom, and the situation inside could be seen clearly.

Last night, Zhou Ning carefully recalled what happened after Zhou Qiren was injured, and was sure that the money he had embezzled must be hidden at home. When he was recovering from his injury, people often came to see him, and those people didn't look easy to mess with.

No one knew that Zhou Qiren was carrying a snakeskin bag when he ran back. Zhou Ning knew about it because Zhou Ting was so hungry in the middle of the night that he happened to see it when he went to the kitchen to eat secretly. However, Zhou Ting did not dare to let Zhou Qiren know that he saw it. So far, Zhou Qiren has not told anyone about the snakeskin bag.

When those evil-looking people came to find Zhou Qiren, Li Ling hid in fear and asked Zhou Ning to serve her tea and water. Seeing that she was young, those people spoke without reservation, and heard some things from them.

When Zhou Qiren's gang was trading drugs with another gang, they both wanted to rob each other, and a fight broke out. The younger brothers of both sides who were only interested in the money and the drugs died in the fight, and someone took advantage of the chaos to take away the money and drugs.

Those who survived were all suspects, and Zhou Qiren would continue to live his life after his injury healed. But every time he came back, he would send Li Ling away. He must have some secrets that he didn't want others to know.

Zhou Ning didn't dare to breathe, staring at the movement in the room without blinking. After Zhou Qiren woke up, he made sure that no one else was in the room, lit a cigarette, went to the kitchen to grab some food and started looking around. Then he took a knife back to the room, leaving the door wide open, just in time for Zhou Ning to see clearly.

Zhou Qiren squatted down beside the fourth wooden board at the end of the bed near the bedroom door, and gently pried up the edge of the board with the tip of the knife, and the board came out in one go. He then took out a few bricks from under the floor, felt around inside, and confirmed that the things were still there, then he restored everything to its original state, hummed a song, and tidied up before going out.

Zhou Ning waited until his footsteps faded away before coming out of the cupboard and prying the floorboards open. She memorized the location of the bricks, took them out, reached into the hole and touched a snakeskin bag. Zhou Ning's heart began to beat.

It took her a lot of effort to pull out the snakeskin bag, and the banknotes wrapped in newspapers were neatly stacked together. Zhou Ning opened one of the paper bags, and found a stack of brand new 100-yuan bills tied with paper strips. Zhou Ning counted them, and it was exactly 10,000 yuan. There were six such paper bags, which meant that there were exactly 60,000 yuan in the snakeskin bag.

This was 60,000 yuan in the 1960s and 1970s! Zhou Ning had never expected to have so much money.

There were two hard brick-like objects in the snakeskin bag, also wrapped in newspaper. She curiously opened it and took a look, then quickly closed it. Socialist education was really effective. Even if she was in a book, she would not dare to look at the white powder carefully, as if she would be guilty if she looked at it once. Now she had two big pieces in her hand.

It was unknown when Zhou Qiren would return. If he didn't act now, he might have moved the money and goods away at any time. So the opportunity was now or never. Zhou Ning didn't hesitate at all. After restoring the scene to its original state, he picked up the snakeskin bag and ran to the basement to hide it.

Actually, Zhou Ning didn't want to take the two pieces of stuff, after all, they were hotter than money. But if he only took the money, he was afraid that Zhou Qiren would be suspicious, after all, those people would not dislike such things.

After Zhou Ning hid the bag, her nervous mood slowly calmed down. She decided to keep the money first, and as for the two "hot potatoes", she could only take it one step at a time.

Zhou Ning knew without thinking that the door was locked. She quickly walked to a small ventilation window on the right side of the basement, opened it, and threw her schoolbag out. The window was very small, and a normal adult would definitely not be able to get out, not even Zhou Ting. However, Zhou Ning was as thin as a bean sprout due to long-term malnutrition. Although it was quite difficult, she was able to squeeze out.

By the time Zhou Ning arrived at school, the second class had already ended.

"Zhou Ning, why are you so late?" Sun Ting, director of the teaching department, stopped Zhou Ning who was running towards the classroom.

"Teacher Sun, I got up late."

Zhou Ning in the book was not smart to begin with, and she lived in that kind of family all day long, so she had no time to study. As a result, she was always at the bottom of the grade, and the teachers didn’t like her either.

But compared to other teachers, Sun Ting was pretty good. She was not personal, and rarely made things difficult for Zhou Ning. She looked at the gauze on Zhou Ning's head and wanted to say something, but in the end she just sighed and said, "Don't be late next time. Go back."

Sun Ting wanted to let Zhou Ning go, but someone else didn't want to. Zhou Ning's head teacher Xu Ying yelled at him, "Zhou Ning! You're either late or absent-minded in class. Your grades are at the bottom of the class. You're as dumb as a pig and you don't know how to work hard. What's the point of going to school? Go home and get married!"