Quick Transmigration: My System is a Big Liar

After seeing the villagers off, Du Yuejiao started preparing dinner. Even if she wasn't hungry, her two guards still needed to eat!

We can't let someone protect her on an empty stomach!

Half of the food in the kitchen was ruined by the thieves. Luckily, she always bought enough, otherwise she would be in an awkward situation now.

The village chief's wife, Aunt Wang, also came to help, and the two of them worked together to speed things up a bit.

For dinner, the village chief, Shi Xiao, and Du Yuhang accompanied the guards, while she sat around the small table in the kitchen with Aunt Wang and Xiao Zhu.

Although the location was different, the dishes were just as plentiful, and the three of them enjoyed their meal to the fullest.

After dinner, after seeing off the village chief and his wife and Shi Xiao, and arranging accommodations for the guard, Du Yuejiao finally had some time alone with her brother.

The two walked one after the other in the courtyard, neither of them speaking.

After a long pause, Du Yuhang spoke first, "Jiaojiao, after this matter is settled, you'll come to the capital with me. I'll copy a few more books each month, which will be enough to support you. I'm worried about leaving you alone in the village."

This was something he had considered repeatedly. Now that he was a scholar, he received a subsidy of four taels of silver and grain every year. With the addition of copying a few more books, he should be able to support his younger sister.

Du Yuejiao had no doubt about the truth of her brother's words; if her brother could say it, he could definitely do it.

Just like when his stepmother threatened his brother with her marriage so that he could study in the capital, and his brother compromised for her sake.

Over the years, she had received letters from her brother, but due to threats from her stepmother, she had never replied.

Du Yuejiao shook her head and refused, "Brother, I'm already married, so it's not appropriate for me to go to the capital with you. Besides, I'm living a very good life now. I'm free and unrestrained, and I can support myself with my embroidery. You don't need to worry."

Du Yuhang's eyes were bloodshot, his fists clenched and unclenched, and he asked cautiously, "Jiaojiao, tell me, what's so good about life? Are you angry with me? Are you upset that I didn't come back in time, causing you to suffer so much?"

Du Yuejiao looked into her brother's eyes and said, word by word, "Brother, no, I have never blamed you, and I am never angry with you."

I'm speaking from the heart. Life in Niujia Village may be a bit hard and monotonous, but at least I don't have to worry about morning and evening greetings or live in fear. I'm very satisfied with my life now.

A deep sense of frustration rose in Du Yuhang's heart. He knew his younger sister's personality best from childhood to adulthood. She seemed gentle and easy to talk to, but once she made a decision, she would not change it.

That was his biological mother, what could he do?

Why has my mother been unable to tolerate my younger sister all these years?

Du Yuejiao didn't want her brother to get hurt. "Brother, you should go home first thing tomorrow morning so that Father and Mother won't worry."

Du Yuhang refused without hesitation, "No, I can't leave you alone."

"Brother, you just got home and came to see me right away. If you hadn't gone back, Mother would definitely have been angry." She didn't finish her sentence, but Du Yuhang already understood that his mother's personality meant she would probably pick a fight with his sister!

"Jiaojiao, I'll go back and check on things tomorrow, then I'll come find you again. Don't worry, I promise I won't let my mother cause you any trouble."

"Yes! I believe in you, brother."

This simple sentence brought tears to Du Yuhang's eyes again. His sister had trusted him so much back then, but he hadn't kept his promise. He was the one who had let his sister down.

Inside the space, Du Yuejiao poured out all the silver and gold bars, turned the box upside down, but still couldn't find the account book He Cuilian had mentioned.

All of the Wu family's valuables are here, so where did the account books go?

Du Yuejiao scratched her hair in frustration, thinking about the news of He Cuilian and the others being arrested. If there were still their accomplices in the village, the news would probably have spread long ago, and at the latest, another group of people would come looking for the account book by tomorrow afternoon.

Perhaps when that time comes, not only her, but the entire Niujia Village will suffer as a result.

With hundreds of lives at stake, Du Yuejiao had to calm herself down and think about whether she had overlooked anything.

I suddenly remembered a novel I read before about the 1970s. The female protagonist bought a box from a junkyard. After using it for a few years, she discovered that there was a hidden compartment at the bottom of the box, which contained a lot of small yellow croakers.

Could her suitcase also have a hidden compartment? Could the ledger be inside?

Judging from the way those people rushed forward one after another, it's enough to prove that the account book is in the Wu family's possession.

Du Yuejiao focused her gaze on the box containing the silver ingots. After carefully examining it from inside, she noticed that the bottom of the box was thicker than that of ordinary boxes, which would be easily missed if one did not look closely.

She found some tools, pried open the bottom of the box, and easily pried off a wooden board without much effort.

The dark blue ledger lay inside.

There were two thick volumes in total, and Du Yuejiao simply wrapped them in cloth.

She didn't look through it, afraid of seeing something she shouldn't. She wasn't curious at all about the ledger that could drive so many people to sacrifice themselves, even to the point of death, and she had no desire to know what it recorded.

As the old saying goes, curiosity killed the cat.

She wasn't curious, not at all.

After the rooster crowed twice, Du Yuejiao went to the kitchen to make breakfast. After her brother and Xiaozhu finished eating, she urged them to leave as soon as possible.

Du Yuhang thought his sister was afraid that their mother would come to their door and cause a scene, which was why she sent him home before dawn.

Du Yuejiao watched the carriage disappear from sight, then turned back to her room, slung her bundle over her shoulder, and found a guard. She had important business to attend to and needed to see the imperial envoy immediately.

Upon hearing this, the guard immediately understood what important matter she was referring to and prepared to set off, but he was still a step too late.

They were surrounded by a group of men in black shortly after leaving the village. Their moves were ruthless, each strike potentially fatal.

In the blink of an eye, both guards were wounded, but they still protected her behind them, vowing to protect her safety with their lives.

Du Yuejiao drew her soft sword from her waist, blocked the broadsword aimed at the guard's neck, and slit his throat while the man in black was stunned.

She didn't have time to back away; warm blood sprayed onto her face, as if she had returned to the time of the apocalypse.

Before she could think any further, another group of men in black attacked her. The two guards were tied down and had no time to attend to her.

In the face of life and death, he gripped his longsword tightly and charged forward.

After several rounds, she discovered that the man in black was extremely skilled in martial arts; even when she used all her strength, she could not hurt him.

She was also hit on the arm by the other person, and the pain almost made her throw the sword away.

At the critical moment, she remembered the sleeping potion she had prepared in her spatial storage.

He shouted at the guards, "Hold your breath!"

Then he took out a packet of sleeping pills and threw it at the man in black.

thump, thump, thump

The men in black who had just been menacing were now lying motionless on the ground.

The two guards were nearly speechless with shock at what they saw. They were thankful that they reacted quickly and held their breath in time, otherwise they would be lying on the ground right now.