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Burdened by the stench in the room, the onlookers didn’t return; they just gathered at the door and windows. By now, they had all understood the situation: the shoes were clearly the tool of the crime. Last night, Lin Yongcheng must have sneaked into Lin Yuan’s house to steal bricks!

Lady Ma and Lin Jiazhong finally understood what was happening. No one knew their son better than them; their eldest son always squinted his eyes when he lied, and just now, he clearly did so.

Lin Jiazhong felt he was about to be angered to death. The younger children were worrisome, and the elder ones were no cause for peace of mind either!

However, fortunately, the stolen goods had not been found yet. He thought it best to fool the Little Disaster Star for now.

"Ahem, Lin Yuan, a pair of shoes doesn’t prove anything.

Look around; you have nearly turned my house upside down, and yet, you haven’t found the red bricks from your house.

How about this? Those few red bricks aren’t worth much.

You go back first, and when the weather gets better, we’ll ask the village head to help search, alright? "

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow. Not worth much? Was Lin Jiazhong implying that she was making a mountain out of a molehill, not letting their family off for a matter of a couple taels of silver?

"Although our ties have been severed and you’re not my uncle anymore, still living in the same village, and out of respect for my elder, it’s only right that I address you as uncle," Lin Yuan said.

She seemed not to notice the excrement Lin Yongle had left on the kang (heated brick bed), and lightly stepped towards it.

Just as Lin Yongcheng’s eyes widened, almost thinking she had discovered where the stolen goods were hidden, Lin Yuan stopped, turned back with a mysterious smile, and continued, "Uncle, what did you just say? I’ve turned everything upside down?

I wonder, dear uncles and elders present here, has Lin Yuan touched a needle or a thread since I entered?

Or have I been turning the place inside out?

No, right? So, Uncle, please don’t force such a big hat onto my head.

Otherwise, when something goes missing from your home, you might turn around and accuse me of stealing it. "

Lin Jiazhong was seething with helpless irritation, yet he had no rebuttal.

The girl was right; she hadn’t laid a finger on anything.

From the beginning, it was his own wife who was on edge.

Glancing at Lady Ma, who was silently wiping away tears as she cleaned up after their youngest son, Lin Jiazhong truly wanted to kick her to the base of the southern wall!

Yet, Lin Jiazhong suddenly thought that since the Little Disaster Star had said she hadn’t searched anything, maybe she wasn’t going to search at all?

Just as he was secretly hopeful that Lin Yuan would leave quickly so he could dispose of the evidence, he heard the Little Disaster Star suddenly laugh, "However, since my uncle here has requested it, it would seem quite improper for me not to search thoroughly. "

Lin Jiazhong nearly stumbled and fell to the ground.

"You, you..."

Ignoring the nearly apoplectic Lin Jiazhong, Lin Yuan quickly walked up to the head of Lin Yongle’s kang, looking down on him from above.

Lin Yongle was genuinely terrified and didn’t dare lift his head.

But Lin Yongcheng was panicked, hurriedly trying to pull her aside, only to be stopped by Xia Zheng.

Grabbing Lin Yongcheng’s hands, Young Master Xia suddenly hummed with a chuckle, "Oh, I heard you’re studying at school?

Then why are your hands all calloused and blistered, as if you’ve been doing a lot of manual labor?

Tsk tsk, seems like there’s something still lodged under your fingernails that hasn’t been cleaned off.

Let me take a closer look, hmm, red powder, looks like fragments of a red brick.

Could it be that your school isn’t just teaching you literacy, but also how to carry bricks and build houses? "

Lin Yongcheng, struggling without the strength to free himself, sweated profusely as all his misdeeds were exposed.

Lin Yuan suppressed a chuckle, for now, only the stolen goods remained. She was now certain that the brick thief was Lin Yongcheng, and as for the location of the bricks, Lin Yuan smiled faintly and forcefully kicked the head of the kang!

With a clatter, she kicked a large hole in the stove hole on the kang used for heating.