We've Been Robbed!

From the start of the house-clearing operation to its end, Bai Yao took only five seconds.

In those five seconds, he swept everything in the house into the System Space, right down to the floor tiles and the doors, windows, and glass in every room.

To put it this way, apart from the front door, nothing else remained.

He knew there was plenty of useless junk among it, but he would rather throw it away than leave it for the Li family.

With everything put away, Bai Yao hurriedly used the System Space to leave.

Since he had left before Li Meimei and the others, he had to arrive before the couple too.

Of course, the main thing was that the sooner he got there, the sooner he could watch the show.

He was particularly eager to see how Li Dongxu and Li Bailian would react when the eldest son they valued so highly became a eunuch. And with both his arms beyond a complete cure, leaving him unable to work in the future, how would those two react then?

"I can't wait."

With that thought, Bai Yao flickered rapidly through the System Space and soon caught up with Li Dongxu and his wife ahead of him.

Seeing that it would still take them some time to arrive, he went to have breakfast first.

He ordered fried dough sticks, soy milk, and a tea egg from the system. Breakfast cost him one jiao in total.

Bai Yao couldn't help showering the system with praise again.

Cheap. It was really too cheap! Eggs cost a jiao apiece these days, so he had gotten an incredible deal on his breakfast.

After happily eating and drinking his fill, Bai Yao hurried to the hospital.

As luck would have it, he arrived just in time, right as the doctor finished telling Li Dongxu and his wife about Li Qiang's condition.

Li Bailian: "What?! His arms are ruined?!"

Li Dongxu: "What?! He can't have children anymore?!"

At the sight, Bai Yao couldn't help revealing a mocking smile.

See? He had known that what Li Dongxu cared about most was the Li family's descendants, descendants who could carry his surname.

And Li Bailian didn't value her own children as much as he had imagined, either.

What she valued was her standard of living.

Just as she had chosen Li Dongxu because he could give her better living conditions, she was naturally counting on her two sons for the future.

But now, one of those two options was gone.

So, after a brief spell of grief, the couple tacitly shifted their focus to Li Dabao.

As for Li Qiang, since it was already a settled matter, they could only find a way to cut their losses in time.

Though the couple didn't say so outright, their thinking was clear enough from the conservative follow-up treatment they requested from the doctor.

What a satisfying show.

With that thought, Bai Yao approached them of his own accord.

"Didn't you say you were busy? I can stay and look after him from here. You two should go home. Li Meimei and Li Dabao were still there when I left, so they should have breakfast ready for you by now."

As the two argued over who should care for Li Qiang, Bai Yao volunteered.

Compared with the mess here, the one at home was even bigger.

Although he wanted to go along and watch the excitement, he was more afraid that the two would faint from anger and leave him to look after them.

So it was better to stay at the hospital. In any case, he wasn't going to look after Li Qiang.

Li Dongxu and Li Bailian were happy to see Bai Yao appear. They immediately handed the mess over to him, then left.

As for Bai Yao, to get some peace and quiet during the day, he had the system custom-make a dose of medicine that would keep Li Qiang asleep for the whole day and fed it to him.

With nothing to do all day, Bai Yao sorted through the things he had collected that morning.

And sure enough, there were quite a few useful things.

Twenty small gold bars, two large gold bars, and three bankbooks. Two of the bankbooks belonged to the original owner's birth mother, with 5,000 yuan in each. The remaining one belonged to Li Dongxu and had only a little over 200 yuan in it.

Besides that, there was 1,000 yuan in cash stored with the bankbooks.

But having seen a small portion of the treasure He Shen had left behind, he felt no stir in his heart at the sight of this little bit of money.

Aside from the money, there were two newly made cotton quilts, a large jar of freshly rendered animal fat, coarse and fine grains weighing nearly fifty jin altogether, three pieces of cured meat weighing one jin each, two jars of preserves, two cartons of Daqianmen cigarettes, two unopened bottles of baijiu, and several cans of meat.

As for the rest, he would either throw it away or resell it secondhand.

But that was for later. For now, it was time to go back.

Nothing would happen if he didn't go back, but his established persona had no money, after all. So he should have been hungry all day by now and needed to go home for food or ask someone for money.

As for getting someone to relieve him for the night, that was completely impossible. It would have been strange if any of the Li family actually came.

After a word with the nurse, Bai Yao leisurely headed back.

Then, just as he reached the downstairs entrance, he happened to run into the other members of the Li family returning together.

Seeing them chatting and laughing, Bai Yao thought they probably didn't yet know the house had been cleaned out.

That was wonderful. He would get to watch it happen live.

"Bai Yao, why are you back? If you come home, who's going to look after my big brother?" Li Meimei demanded angrily, as though she cared so much about Li Qiang.

Bai Yao: "I'm hungry. No money."

His answer was brief, but everyone in the Li family understood it. Even so, no one spoke up.

If they had been asked for money before, they might still have put on a show for outsiders. But now that they had signed him up to go to the countryside, how could they possibly give him any?

Especially when he was looking after Li Qiang, whom they had already crossed off their list of valued family members.

"Then hurry home and make dinner. Once it's ready, take a portion to your big brother. Someone has to stay with him at the hospital," Li Dongxu said.

The others were also accustomed to arrangements like this and saw nothing wrong with what they were doing. Li Meimei and Li Dabao, who had been out playing all day, were already hungry, so they urged Bai Yao to hurry up and cook.

Bai Yao: I'm getting a little fired up. I want every slash to land a critical hit again.

But when his gaze fell on Li Dabao, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

So many unlucky things had happened today that another couple should be perfectly normal.

"Oh, got it," Bai Yao replied glumly, doing his best to keep the happiness of impending revenge out of his voice.

Soon, Bai Yao followed the four members of the Li family home.

Although outsiders saw this as his home too, he didn't have a key. Or rather, in Li Dongxu and the others' minds, the original owner didn't deserve one.

So whenever the original owner went out, he had to wait for someone else to open the door before he could get back in. When Bai Yao had gone out yesterday, he had relied entirely on the system.

Standing behind the four, Bai Yao watched Li Bailian open the door. Seeing their stunned reactions, he suppressed a smile and kept watching.

Li Dongxu was the first to recover. His cry of "We've been robbed!" rang through the entire apartment building and successfully brought the other three back to their senses.

The next second, Li Bailian fainted on the spot, Li Meimei collapsed into a sitting position, and Li Dabao let out a scream.

Bai Yao: Happy ^_^

But at a time like this, he still had to put on an act.

"H-home... how did it end up like this? I... everything was fine when I left this morning. How did everything disappear while I was at the hospital all day?" Bai Yao's voice wasn't loud, but Li Dongxu heard him clearly.

Sure enough, after hearing that, Li Dongxu turned his gaze to Li Meimei.

Even though he didn't think Li Meimei had caused this, someone had to take responsibility for the outcome.

He had wanted to dump the blame on Bai Yao, but Bai Yao's alibi was far too solid. In front of so many neighbors, he couldn't do so unless he wanted to destroy the image he had built up over the past decade and more.

Yes, the surrounding neighbors had all come to watch the excitement. After all, there weren't so many ways to pass the time these days.

"Why is it the Li family's business again? It's been one thing after another with them these past two days."

"Oh my, how did the Li family get robbed?!"

"Who knows? They must've offended someone. Otherwise, why would one thing after another keep happening to their family?"

"I think so too. Look, wasn't Old Li's eldest son beaten so badly he can't be a man anymore?"