After Transmigrating, The Fat Wife Made A Comeback! Chapter 288 - Eavesdropping

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

As dusk fell, Qiao i and Xia Zhe finished sending the wedding candies to the last few families and headed ho.

“Sigh, it’s been such a tiring day,” Qiao i said as she massaged her sore shoulders.

Xia Zhe was also feeling very tired. They visited about 20 families along the streets and alleys today. Not only did they have to send wedding candies to every family, but people from each family would also hold them back to chat for a while. They wasted a lot of ti doing that.

“You must be exhausted. I’ll go boil so water for you to take a bath. You can go to bed once you’re done,” Xia Zhe said.

Qiao i nodded listlessly and sat on the rocking chair by the door as it swayed gently.

She had not rested long before she suddenly heard a strange sound.

“What’s that sound?” Qiao i looked around the room curiously.

It was a strange sound. Although this house had been around for a long ti, it was not in a bad condition or in any danger of collapsing. Even if there were rats gnawing on the wooden beams, it would not make a sound like that.

Qiao i walked into the house slowly and checked the rooms one by one. The sound was sotis distant and sotis close, and it was most obvious at the wall near the yard next door.

Qiao i quietly brought over a stool and stood on it, looking through the small window to see what the Cao family was doing.

The Cao family did not notice Qiao i. They were focused on searching for sothing.

They had even removed the bricks in the yard. Logically speaking, if they wanted to move, they could have just moved their items away. Why did they have to remove the bricks from the ground?

Qiao i felt that what Grandpa Zhou said made sense. The Cao family also seed to know that Xia Zhe’s grandmother might have hidden sothing underground back then.

Not long after, the sound stopped. It seed that the Cao family was intent on searching through their entire house. Judging from the ss outside the house, they seed to have started removing the floor tiles inside.

Qiao i took a closer look and found nothing useful in the Cao family’s yard. There were no plants around, even the weeds on the ground had been pulled out by the Cao family.

“This Cao family won’t stop until they have searched the entire house,” Qiao i muttered to herself.

Qiao i returned to the room and took out the remaining vine seeds from her backpack. These seeds were from the sa batch as the ones she used when she saved Xia Zhe. They had beco useful again at this mont.

Qiao i returned to the wall in the back room and stood on the small stool. Through the small window, she gently scattered the vine seeds into the Cao family’s yard.

“Little vines, it’s up to you now!” Qiao i said and used her energy to stimulate the vines to grow.

At this mont, Qiao i’s energy was already connected to the vines.

Ever since Qiao i obtained the other bangle, she felt that her energy was even purer than before. She could even attach her energy to plants.

The vines gradually penetrated deep into the ground of the Cao family residence. Now, she was able to share what the plants heard and saw.

She was still not very familiar with this new ability, so she could not hear very clearly. However, she could roughly make out what was going on from the intermittent voices.

“Brother, is what you said true?” asked the Cao family’s second son.

“I’m not sure about it either. This is what our father said at that ti,” Cao Da whispered to his younger brother.

“Then why didn’t you say so earlier? We could have searched in any manner we wanted when the Xia family mbers were away. Now, we can only do the search secretly. It would be bad if what we’re doing gets discovered,” complained the Cao family’s second daughter-in-law.

“Sister-in-law, you’re being unreasonable. If we had said this earlier, wouldn’t you have demolished this house long ago? Would we still have a chance to live here until now?” said the Cao family’s eldest daughter-in-law.

“Sister-in-law, you’ve misunderstood . When did I say that I wanted these things? If the Old Master had wanted to give them to , I’ll take them. If not, I won’t force it,” the Cao family’s second daughter-in-law said mockingly.

The Cao family had two sons. The second son was a businessman and had a small business selling fruits and vegetables.

The eldest son of the Cao family was the only one in the extended family who was a governnt official. Their relatives and friends usually ignored the second son and only paid attention to him. This caused the second daughter-in-law of the Cao family to be mocked and looked down upon from the mont she married into the family.