The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

The old lady Du wailed louder and louder. After a while, Du Youtian came back with a flour bag in his hand and handed it to her, saying, "Take this to the second son."

Widow Chen took the bag and weighed it in her hand. It weighed about four pounds. She opened it and found it was pure white flour. Looking up at Du Youtian's gloomy face, she rolled her eyes and said, "Such good stuff, how can we give it to that little brat?"

“Your body hasn’t recovered yet, so you need to eat something good. I’ll take the flour home, make it into pancakes, and secretly bring them back for you to eat. Just take a small portion out and replace it with dark flour so that your second brother can take it over.”

These words made Du Youtian feel valued and quite pleased, and he felt that only Widow Chen treated him as one of her own. "Alright, go and do it."

Widow Chen took her things and went out. When she returned home, she saw Chen Lao Er still there and slapped him on the forehead. "Why haven't you left yet? What are you doing staying at home?"

Chen Lao Er covered his head with a resentful look, "Mother, I came back to get grain. What am I supposed to take back if there's no grain?"

"Alright, I told you to go, so go. You don't need to worry about the rest. I'll talk to them later." Widow Chen went inside to put away the flour, and when she came out of the yard, she saw that Chen Lao Er hadn't come out yet, and said to him, "Just go and study hard."

Chen Lao Er felt that his mother was completely unreliable. "Okay, then I'll go over there."

"Don't be upset, just listen to your mother. When has your mother ever lied to you?"

When Chen Lao Er returned home, he wanted to tell Du Mingxian, but he found that Du Mingxian was busy and did not have time to talk to him. In the end, he did not say anything.

That very night, Du Mingxian began to stake out the space in the shadows, wanting to see who dared to steal the wine from her home.

I stayed up all night, not closing my eyes for a single second, but... I didn't see a single ghost.

She thought that perhaps it was a recent theft and the other party was still observing.

The Ling family continued their normal lives as if they hadn't noticed anything had been stolen.

Six days after discovering the missing wine, Du Mingxian kept watch and finally caught up with the person.

At night, a furtive figure quietly opened the door, blew a sleeping incense stick into the old gatekeeper's room, and then ran out. Soon after, another person followed, a small woman.

Du Mingxian watched the two men's movements intently from inside the space. Soon, the tall man who had entered first pulled the young woman along, and the two of them made their way to the warehouse.

The tall man went first to open the door, and the two of them ran out shortly after going in. Each of them grabbed a jar of wine and rushed out.

The moonlight was bright, making it easier for the two of them to move around.

After the two went out, Du Mingxian quietly followed behind, only to find... there was a cart at the door, and the two rushed in again to get more wine.

When the two went into the storeroom to get wine for the second time, Du Mingxian pushed open the door to the old man's room and fed him a little bit of spiritual water. The old man woke up instantly and was so frightened to see someone standing at the head of his bed that he was about to scream.

"Don't shout, it's me."

The old gatekeeper was so startled by Du Mingxian's voice that he sat up abruptly. "Madam."

“When the thief comes in, keep a close watch on him. Catch him red-handed in a bit, and I’ll go find someone.”

"Yes."

“They pushed the cart, just keep an eye on them. If they try to leave, just come out and stop them. I’ll go get help right now.”

After saying that, Du Mingxian rushed home.

These past two days, Ling's father originally intended to keep watch, but Du Mingxian told him that she would keep watch first, and if anyone came, she would come back to call for help. So, even when he was sleeping, Ling's father was particularly vigilant these past two days, for fear that he wouldn't know when Du Mingxian came back to call for help.

After waiting for several nights and barely sleeping, Du Mingxian suddenly returned today. Upon hearing the noise, Ling's father immediately lit candles in the room. "Mingxian, has she arrived?"

"Yes, Father, let's go over there."

"Okay." As if he had been injected with chicken blood, Ling's father immediately dressed and came out. "Let's go."

Before Du Mingxian could speak, Ling's mother's voice came from inside the room, "Call a few more people and go get Dalang and the others to come over together."

Ling's father wanted to call for help, but standing at the gate, he hesitated. "Mingxian, if I shout at them openly like this, won't that thief behind the workshop hear me?"

"Then wait a moment, Father." Du Mingxian rushed forward in a few steps, flipped over and lightly leaped into the courtyard, opened the door from the inside, and said, "Father, you can stand in the courtyard and call for help."

All three families were in the same situation. When Ling Dalang and the others hurriedly dressed and came out, Ling's father was already getting a little anxious. At this time, Ling Silang, Lin Hu, and Wang Qi also came out.

A large group of people arrived at the workshop and saw a cart placed at the entrance with eight jars of wine on it, but there was no one around.

Ling Dalang immediately became agitated, "You audacious thief, stealing so much at once! I'll beat him to death!"

When Wang heard the noise, she dressed and went to find her mother immediately. However, after knocking on the door for a long time, no one answered. She pushed the door open and went in. The messy bed was no longer warm, and her mother was nowhere to be seen.

She rushed over and saw the cart placed at the entrance of the workshop, and Ling Dalang's furious outburst.

Du Mingxian stepped forward to stop them, "Brother, don't rush. We need to catch the thief red-handed. Let's hide quietly and wait. When they come out again, we'll rush forward and surround them."

"it is good."

The Ling family hid, and Du Mingxian quietly went to the workshop entrance. She glanced into the old man's house, but there was no movement. Two voices came from the warehouse.

"Mom, we've struck it rich this time! We can sell a lot of this wine and make a fortune."

"Yes, hurry up and load these onto the truck. If time allows, we can move them again. Anyway, the old widower who guards the gate has been drugged and isn't afraid of anyone coming."

"Mother's thinking is the most thoughtful."

Du Mingxian watched the two women talk coldly until they approached and placed the wine on the cart. Only then did she emerge from the shadows and ask, "Where are you two taking our wine?"

The two had just placed the wine on the cart, assuming no one was around, when they were startled by the sudden sound. The taller man immediately hid behind the shorter woman, crying, "Mother, Mother, we've been discovered!"

"Found what? We didn't do anything." The short woman was quite arrogant, and after saying that, she deliberately bluffed, "Are you a human or a ghost? Why aren't you sleeping all day? What are you doing pretending to be a ghost?"

"This is the first time I've seen someone steal someone else's wine and still be so rational and brazen," Du Mingxian said in a deep voice, then shouted to those around her, "Come out, everyone, let's see who's the thief."

Wang was the first to rush out. She was extremely nervous and reached out to grab the short woman. "Why are you doing this? Haven't I treated you well? How can I face the Ling family like this?"

Before the person being pulled could speak, the Queen Mother's voice drifted from the crowd, "My daughter, what's wrong with you?"