She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

This time I won't be gone for too long, I'll be back in ten days at most.

After Hu Jie left, Hu's family, who had been watching for a long time, used a secretly made key to open Hu Jie's door on a dark and windy night.

They didn't want to leave. The return date in the letter of introduction was still a long way off. If they went back now, wouldn't they be laughed at by the villagers, who would say that their son didn't like them and had sent them back?

So, after they tricked Hu Jie a bit, these past few days, the group of them had been crammed into a small room in the guesthouse, and they were almost going crazy from the suffocation.

Luckily, I got the money from the second brother, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to afford the accommodation for several days, including food.

After they entered the house, they pried open Hu Jie's locked drawer and found some more money. Excited, they stayed up late and started searching everywhere.

“We’ll stay here. We don’t get many chances to enjoy life in the city. We can leave when our second son comes back. Maybe we can even get some money from him.” Father Hu counted the money, pleased with his idea.

He originally doted on his second son, but the second son was unfilial; he almost severed ties with them for a daughter he had taken for granted. If he hadn't been so ruthless, he wouldn't have wanted to live so secretly. Who wouldn't want to live openly in the city and enjoy their children's filial piety?

He clearly told them he was about to leave, but then he played tricks on them, so he can't blame them for playing tricks on him in return.

"Grandma, I have no clothes to change into. What am I going to wear tonight? I smell terrible!" Hu Bin said, sniffing his clothes with a look of disgust.

They brought two sets of clothes with them this time, but it wasn't convenient to dry them at the guesthouse. Although they washed them, they still smelled.

It's summer now, and kids sweat a lot, so their clothes have been smelly for a while.

Hu Bin's mother, Jin Ju, searched everywhere and found a loose cotton dress that Hu Yingying was wearing.

"Sweet boy, go take a shower first, this is comfortable to wear tonight!"

Hu Bin shouted, "I don't want to! Only girls wear skirts!"

"Feel this dress, it's so soft and smells so good. Mom will cut it up later and make it into a vest for you, that'll be just as good!"

They rummaged through the clothes and stuffed them all into their tattered cloth bags, intending to take them all back. They even kept Hu Yingying's old dresses from when she was little; they could alter them and give them to Hu Bin to wear later.

They ransacked Hu Jie's house like locusts, and didn't go to sleep until the early hours of the morning.

I slept until noon and then started cooking.

The commotion inside the house finally attracted the attention of the other people in the compound.

"Didn't Hu Jie leave yesterday? Why is there still noise at home today?"

"Could it be that a thief has broken in?"

"In the middle of the day, what thief would be so stupid as to choose this time to steal something?"

"Could it be that he's keeping a mistress in a gilded cage?"

"You're stupid. Hu Jie isn't stupid. He even keeps a mistress in a golden house. I think you're the one who's keeping a golden house."

"Exactly, in this area, even a fart from someone can travel two miles. How could he possibly hide it?"

"That must be a thief. Shall we go check it out?"

Everyone hesitated for a moment, but then they remembered the little gifts Hu Jie usually brought them, and felt it would be impolite not to go and see them.

"Shall we go together?"

Everyone gathered in front of Hu Jie's house. One of them tentatively knocked on the door, while several others peered through the window.

"anyone there?"

The woman inside the house was startled, and her hand trembled, spilling a lot of salt into the pot.

Damn it, which bastard is knocking on my door in the middle of the day?

Hu Bin was so frightened that he cried inside the house. When he opened his eyes, he saw several human faces peering out the window, a sight that was just as terrifying as seeing a ghost in the middle of the night.

Jinju coaxed her while opening the window.

The people outside the window were also startled; the window opened outwards, and they were almost knocked over.

"Who are you people? How dare you peek into other people's homes like that?" Jinju pointed at them angrily. "Look how scared my son is! Will you pay for it if he's frightened?"

"You're the one talking about us! We'd like to ask you how you got in here. This is Hu Jie's room, isn't it? Didn't you leave already?"

"Yes, back then you insisted on having him borrow the factory's car to take you to the train station, otherwise you absolutely refused to leave. How come you came back just a few days after he left?"

At this moment, Mrs. Hu also came out with a spatula. "What does it have to do with you if it's our own family business? Mind your own business instead. Get out of here."

She tried to close the door after she finished speaking, but the neighbors wouldn't allow it. Although the other families in the compound had their share of minor squabbles and disagreements, they all had a good relationship with Hu Jie. Seeing that something was wrong with their family, they were determined to find out the truth for him.

He works away from home and won't be back for several days. They've been neighbors for so many years and have received so many delicious treats from him. Of course, they should look after his house for him during this time.

"Xiao Hu took you to the train station before, so he definitely didn't want you to continue living here. If you moved in without permission, that's robbery and theft. Do you believe we'll report you to the police?"

"That's right, and ma'am, your clothes look familiar to me. They seem to be the clothes of Hu Jie's ex-wife. He used to take them out to air them in his spare time. They seemed to cherish them. Did you take them and wear them without asking him?"

"Oh dear, what kind of stain has gotten on these clothes? Xiao Hu will be angry when he gets back."

"And your chubby grandson, he's wearing Yingying's clothes, isn't he? How did you manage to cut up perfectly good clothes like this? Just how many good things have you ruined in Xiao Hu's house?"

"Hu Jie has just gone to work, he's not not coming back. What exactly are you trying to do? If you can't give us a reason, we will not let you go and will have to hand you over to the police."

Mr. Hu came out at this moment, his face dark, as if he was owed millions.