My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot
Chapter 233: Each Harboring Their Own Schemes

Chapter 233: Chapter 233: Each Harboring Their Own Schemes

She was worried that Guifen would sneak in and steal her card while she was asleep at night.

To prevent such an incident, the slight discomfort of wearing clothes didn’t matter at all.

Old Madam Lu finished sewing the pocket and even added two buttons at the opening of the pocket.

Once the buttons were fastened, there was no way Guifen could take the card out of her pocket.

Then, Old Madam Lu placed the bank card into the newly sewn pocket inside her thermal underwear and fastened the buttons.

After lying in bed and covering herself with the quilt, she intermittently pinched the card through the thermal underwear to feel its firm shape.

With it so close to her body, she felt an immense sense of security.

The next morning, around four o’clock when it was still dark, Old Madam Lu got up, dressed, and tip-toed her way to the door of her room.

Seeing that both Guifen’s and Youzhen’s rooms across the way were silent, as was the courtyard, with no sound of anyone moving about.

Old Madam Lu tried to walk lightly and carefully out of the room and into the courtyard.

The dawn, shrouded in a layer of blue and bitterly cold, chilled one to the bone.

But Old Madam Lu’s heart was warm with urgency.

She hurried out of the courtyard, not daring to make noise, tightly clutched the spot where the bank card was inside her thermal underwear, and left the village.

The first bus to Xing Village was at 6 a.m.

But Old Madam Lu was afraid if she left later, Guifen would notice.

So, she would rather come out two hours earlier, hide in the roadside bushes, and endure the cold while waiting for the bus.

When the bus finally arrived, Old Madam Lu stood up, feeling her whole body stiff with cold and her feet numb.

She mustered her strength to get on the bus and only truly breathed a sigh of relief once the bus pulled away.

Guifen didn’t get up until seven o’clock. After freshening up, she went out to the yard to feed the chickens and ducks.

Then, she put porridge on the stove, added a steamer tier, and placed the frozen-solid buns on top for steaming.

Only after handling all this did she come to the outside of Old Madam Lu’s bedroom and banged on the door loudly, "Mom! Wake up. We should hurry and go to town to withdraw the money after breakfast!"

There was no response from inside Old Madam Lu’s bedroom, but the racket awakened Youzhen.

Today was Sunday, and she didn’t need to go to school. She had hoped to sleep in at home.

But just as she was sleeping, the sound of Guifen pounding on the door and shouting woke her up in irritation.

After tossing and turning a few times in bed while Guifen’s shouts persisted outside,

Youzhen got out of bed irritably, forcefully opened the door of her room, and saw Guifen still banging on Old Madam Lu’s door.

"Mom, how long have you been calling? Even the neighbors next door must have heard you by now. Why isn’t grandma awake yet?" Youzhen speculated with malice, "She didn’t just get the money and ended up dreaming a happy dream all night, only to suffer a stroke like grandpa, did she?"

Youzhen’s words touched on something that reminded Guifen.

Guifen suddenly stopped, her face revealing an expression of ’something terrible has happened.’

She didn’t knock anymore but went straight to look for the house keys.

"Mom, what are you doing?" asked Youzhen, confused.

Guifen didn’t answer, and without further consideration, she unlocked Old Madam Lu’s door with the key.

Sure enough, the room was empty—no sign of Old Madam Lu.

Just now, Youzhen had guessed whether Old Madam Lu might have suffered a stroke like Old Master Lu.

Only then did Guifen remember that Old Madam Lu never locked her bedroom door at night.

Because Old Madam Lu felt old and was worried about any sudden health issues during the night.

If something really happened, and she had bolted the door from the inside, what would happen if Guifen and Zhenjia couldn’t get in to save her in time?

Old Madam Lu was very cautious about this.

So just now when Guifen went to call Old Madam Lu and got no response after calling twice, she instinctively wanted to push the door open.

But she found the door was locked.

Guifen didn’t have time to notice whether it was locked from the inside or the outside.

She initially suspected Old Madam Lu was worried she would steal the card in the middle of the night, hence the door being locked during sleep.

Immediately angry, her shouting grew even louder, and that was what woke Youzhen.

After hearing Youzhen’s guess just now, Guifen suddenly remembered Old Madam Lu’s habits and realized something was amiss.

"That damned old hag has taken the money and run off!" Guifen yelled in anger, slapping her thigh in regret.

"What?" After recovering from her shock, Youzhen hurried inside.

Because the windows and doors were locked, there was an unpleasant smell in the room from Old Madam Lu having slept there all night.

Youzhen frowned and held her breath, opened Old Madam Lu’s wardrobe, and, unable to hold it in any longer, took a deep breath and said to Guifen, "Grandma’s clothes are still here; she should be planning to come back."

Guifen breathed a sigh of relief because she was truly afraid that Old Madam Lu had taken the money and run off, leaving them with the trouble of caring for Old Master Lu.

But what Guifen didn’t know was, if possible, Old Madam Lu did indeed want to run.

But after careful consideration, she realized that if she took the money and ran, she could only turn to Zhenguo.

She definitely couldn’t just live off fifty thousand yuan by herself.

For sure, she would run out of money soon if she tried to live on her own.

If she was to leave, she would have to go to Zhenguo for him to care for her.

That fifty thousand yuan was absolutely not to be spent.

But Zhenguo was filial, and if she ran to him now, leaving Old Master Lu in Xing Village, would Zhenguo care for her?

He would surely send her back.

So it wasn’t that Old Madam Lu didn’t want to run, but that she couldn’t run.

If she ran, she would have no one to care for her.

"That damned old hag must have sneaked off with the card to withdraw the money! No wonder when I mentioned hurrying to town to withdraw money yesterday, she kept making excuses not to go. She had already had this idea!" Guifen was furious with anger.

Youzhen glanced at the time, "The earliest bus to town is at 6 a.m.; don’t tell me grandma took the very first bus?"

Recently, a few additional buses to Tai Town had been added.

The buses would loop around the nearby villages, picking up passengers to head to Tai Town together.

Because more trips had been added, it was now even more convenient to go to Tai Town.

"She definitely did. She left so early; she wouldn’t wait for the next bus," Guifen said with a frustrated itch in her teeth.

"I don’t know if we can catch up if we leave now?" Youzhen said, frowning.

"Definitely too late," Guifen said, "The next bus is at 9 a.m. By the time we get there, she’d be on her way back."

Youzhen thought for a moment and said, "Let’s have breakfast first and wait for her to come back at home. Since she didn’t take her luggage, she must be planning to return."

*

As for Old Madam Lu, even though she arrived in Tai Town early, the bank wasn’t open yet.

So, she could only wait.

Old Madam Lu hadn’t even had breakfast and now felt her stomach rumbling with hunger.

Thinking about the additional fifty thousand yuan she would soon have, she bit her lip, steeled herself, and went into a breakfast shop.

She ordered a bowl of porridge, a tea egg, a meat bun, and a deep-fried dough stick.

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