Chapter 150 A Great Harvest
Mother Ye pulled her daughter to the backyard shed. Amin was still guarding outside. Seeing them, he quickly opened the door.
“Amin, you go eat first. We’ve got this.”
Ye Shengge was a little surprised to see the person tied up on the ground. Wasn’t Wan Qiong supposed to be at the police station? Why was she tied up here?
Mother Ye quickly recounted the afternoon's events to her daughter. Ye Shengge gave her mother a thumbs-up. They then exchanged a few moments of proud compliments.
“Mom, do you want to try my new medicine?”
“Daughter, you’ve made new medicine again?”
Ye Shengge quickly took out a packet of powder from her space. She had just made it and given it a beautiful name – “True Words.”
“True Words,” as the name suggested, was meant to control people’s minds, making their brains uncontrollably speak what you wanted to know. She just didn’t know how effective it was.
Mother Ye and her daughter exchanged glances, excitement and anticipation in their eyes.
“Let’s test it.”
Ye Shengge first used a silver needle to wake Wan Qiong up, her touch incredibly harsh. It was mainly because Ye Shengge couldn’t control her strength, and Wan Qiong was practically woken up by the pain.
As soon as Wan Qiong opened her eyes, she found herself bound and in front of two people she deeply detested. Her eyes immediately blazed with anger.
“Bai Leqi, you slut, how dare you hit me? I won’t let you off!”
Hearing someone insult her mother, Ye Shengge’s anger immediately flared. She picked up the silver needle and began to prick Wan Qiong. With each prick, Wan Qiong cried out in pain, begging for mercy, and quickly became compliant.
Ye Shengge didn’t give her more time to shout. With a wave of her small hand, she sprinkled “True Words” onto the other person’s face.
Soon, Wan Qiong writhed on the ground in pain, her face soaked with sweat.
“Daughter, why does this medicine cause pain?”
Ye Shengge was also a little confused. Logically, this powder should only cause loss of consciousness and no pain at all.
“Did I give too much medicine? I’ll ask first.”
Mother Ye brought a chair for her daughter to sit on, standing beside her like a guardian.
“What’s your name?”
Wan Qiong didn’t answer, only continued to roll on the ground.
Mother Ye walked over and kicked her.
“I’m asking you a question, you can speak even if it hurts.”
Ye Shengge thought for a moment, then gave Wan Qiong another needle, which helped alleviate the pain in her body.
Wan Qiong quickly calmed down and looked at Ye Shengge with increasing confusion. Soon, her eyes became unfocused.
“What’s your name?”
“Wan Qiong.”
Ye Shengge raised her eyebrows with delight; it was working.
“Mom, you ask, I don’t know what to ask her.”
Mother Ye was also unclear about many of Wan Qiong’s affairs. Fearing they might miss some important information, she quickly ran back into the house to call for people.
Father Ye and Zi Yisheng both arrived. He hadn’t expected his daughter to be able to make such a powder. This would greatly facilitate interrogation work.
Father Ye squatted in front of Wan Qiong and asked several questions, all of which received satisfactory answers. He stood up, hugged his daughter, and was about to twirl her around.
Zi Yisheng quickly and subtly pulled him away. It was only after Mother Ye patted Father Ye’s back several times that their daughter was saved.
Soon, Father Ye and Zi Yisheng began their questioning, and they obtained some information they hadn't known before.
Ye Shengge only became excited when Wan Qiong mentioned a remittance of tens of thousands that was about to arrive. This money must be hers.
“Do you have money hidden elsewhere?”
Zi Yisheng smiled helplessly at the little girl whose eyes were sparkling. He hadn’t expected this little girl to be so fond of money. It was good that she loved money; he had plenty, and he would save it all for the little girl to spend in the future.
Ye Shengge was satisfied. She didn’t expect Wan Qiong to have saved so much money over the years, all hidden in the cellar and under the bed of her house.
Tonight, she would get her hands on this windfall. Ye Shengge didn't delay. She found her elder brother and they left. Tonight, she also had to release some supplies, as she was about to trade with Brother Kui.
Ye Mu’en drove Ye Shengge to the entrance of Wan Qiong’s yard and opened the door directly with Wan Qiong’s key.
The two of them swept the place with flashlights. Under the rice jar in the cellar, they found a large tin box. Inside were twenty large gold bars and thirty small gold bars.
Inside the tin box was a smaller wooden box containing a small bag of diamonds, about fifty of them, large and small.
The wooden box also held a few sets of jade jewelry, and the most numerous items were rolled-up money. Ye Shengge counted it and found it to be over forty thousand.
“I didn’t expect Wan Qiong to be such a saver. With these things, she could live very well abroad.”
“Heh, she doesn’t have that kind of luck. Didn’t my sister get it all!”
Ye Shengge chuckled. She realized she had come to love money so much in this world.
The two then went to the space under the bed in the bedroom. Ye Mu’en quickly found the hidden compartment under the bed. It contained five thousand yuan and many bills.
Ye Mu’en also found the deeds to three houses inside, one in Qiqihar and two in Mingcheng.
Ye Mu’en gave them all to his sister to keep, as they would be her dowry in the future.
“Brother, get someone to change the names on these deeds.”
The two returned to the haunted house with their great haul. Ye Shengge saw a note left by the old lady under a brick at the entrance.
Ye Mu’en glanced at it and knew that someone needed goods.
“Is this person reliable?”
Ye Shengge pointed to the haunted house.
“She’s the original owner of this house. We benefit each other, and she doesn’t want to lose me as someone who can get her supplies.”
Ye Mu’en thought about it. Even buying on the black market now carried significant risks. Besides, one couldn’t buy much at once.
“Okay, leave her the supplies she needs. I’ll handle the transaction tomorrow.”
Ye Shengge placed the supplies in the secret passage and also put some for the old lady in the woodshed.
Ye Mu’en placed many animal traps in various places in the yard. Ye Shengge also coated the teeth of the traps with poison, which would definitely injure and incapacitate anyone who entered for three days.
After everything was done, Ye Shengge released more supplies from the car. She hadn’t seen Mo Lin and Little Sweetie for several days, and she felt a little dejected thinking about Little Sweetie’s illness.
Ye Shengge had already consulted the three doctors at home, but none of them could help with Little Sweetie’s condition.
“Brother, can you help me find a doctor who can treat psychological illnesses?”
Ye Mu’en knew about Little Sweetie’s problem. Even in her previous life, her illness would require long-term psychological counseling, a lengthy and slow treatment process with uncertain results. The difficult part was that there were very few people studying psychology in this era.
“I’ll ask around, but don’t get your hopes too high.”
Ye Shengge nodded. Perhaps even abroad, psychology wasn't a recognized field yet.
“Can I bring Mo Lin and Little Sweetie to live in the Western-style house? Perhaps in a family atmosphere, she could forget her past experiences?”
Ye Mu’en knew his sister liked those two children very much, but the Western-style house was closer to the suburbs, and the two children wouldn’t even have playmates.
“It’s too remote there. When we’re not home, they won’t even have friends to play with. It’s better for them to stay in the city, as they need their own friends.”