After nightfall, in the small mountain village without electricity, the scattered lights gradually went out one by one.
As the night deepened, the north wind howled, and even the village dogs couldn’t help but sneak into warm indoors to nap.
In the darkness, a shadowy figure quietly emerged from Chen Laoda’s courtyard at the village’s end.
The figure was tall and slender, with a white cloth wrapped around the arm and long hair tied into a high ponytail.
Who else could it be but Liang Qiaoqiao?
Relying on the newly added treasure map from her Treasure Appraisal Space as a cheat, Liang Qiaoqiao didn’t even bother with a mask or head covering, walking openly through the village’s main roads and alleys.
However, she didn’t possess the skilled movements of other transmigrators, so she could only try to lighten her footsteps as much as possible.
Fortunately, in such cold weather, few people were like her—not sleeping in the middle of the night but coming out to brave the chilly wind—which conveniently aided her actions.
Guided by the highly intelligent treasure map in her mind, Liang Qiaoqiao moved smoothly through the dark night without disturbing the already sleeping villagers or even the dogs.
After a while, she silently reached the outside of Chen Laoer’s courtyard gate.
The courtyard was completely dark, with no lights visible, and everything was quiet. The Little White-Eyed Wolves were probably all asleep.
Chen Laoda, who shared the same parents as Chen Laoer, had been the less favored one in the family since childhood.
As the eldest, he had to help with household chores and raise his younger brother before he was even five years old.
Unexpectedly, the brother he raised was born with a wicked heart. As soon as he became a little sensible, he began competing for favor, often excluding Chen Laoda in front of their parents—a pure white-eyed wolf.
Chen Laoda, honest and simple all his life, was forced to separate and live apart by his own brother not long after starting his own family.
All the villagers of Wutong Village witnessed the scene of Chen Laoda’s family of three being forcibly driven out of the old house.
Meanwhile, Chen Laoer, that white-eyed wolf, inherited the old house and most of the family assets thanks to the favoritism of Chen Lao Tou and his wife.
Although, for a poor farming family like those in Wutong Village, Chen Lao Tou’s savings weren’t much.
But for impoverished farmers of this era, no matter how meager, it was still family property.
Chen Laoda, angered by being driven out by his two biased parents, took his wife and child to the village’s end and asked the Old Village Chief to allocate a piece of wasteland to build a new house.
From then on, they stayed far away from the old house, out of sight and out of mind.
At this moment, Liang Qiaoqiao stood outside the Chen family’s old house, which Chen Laoda and his wife could never forget.
She looked up and examined this typical farmhouse, finding that aside from having a relatively larger foundation, its state of disrepair wasn’t much better than her own home at the village’s end.
Liang Qiaoqiao curled her lips, her body stiff and numb from the cold night wind, and began skulking along the base of the courtyard wall.
The newly unlocked Space’s treasure appraisal range was 2.5 meters. After circling around, she had just scanned every corner of the entire courtyard.
The treasure map clearly displayed all the belongings in Chen Laoer’s house, allowing her to see everything distinctly.
Even items buried underground weren’t missed by the treasure map—its functions were incredibly powerful.
Liang Qiaoqiao grinned wickedly, her white teeth glaringly obvious in the dark night.
Liang Qiaoqiao: o(￣ヘ￣o＃), White-eyed wolves, your retribution from me is here!
As soon as the Appraisal Function activated, a signal immediately sounded.
[Ding, detected several 1970s coupons. Appraise and collect?]
Liang Qiaoqiao clicked “Yes” twice in a row, quickly obtaining several bundles of colorful paper money, grain coupons, and cloth coupons.
Unfortunately, since she had collected them twice before, their value had plummeted, netting her less than 10 points.
Disappointed, Liang Qiaoqiao pursed her lips and continued walking along the wall base.
[Ding, detected one antique copper coin, one sandalwood box. Appraise and collect?]
Liang Qiaoqiao immediately perked up: Money coming? Both “antique” and “sandalwood” sounded valuable.
Without hesitation, Liang Qiaoqiao double-clicked “Yes.”
Soon, her Space contained a palm-sized purplish-black small wooden box and a square-holed copper coin attached to a waistband.
With one glance, she guessed this waistband must belong to Chen Laoer’s wife.
She had heard that in this era, older people liked using such copper coins to fasten their waistbands.
Although she initially felt somewhat repulsed by the waistband used by Chen Laoer’s malicious wife, seeing the 100 points represented by the copper coin made her let go of her prejudice.
What did the waistband matter? If she didn’t like it, she could just throw it into the stove to burn as firewood tomorrow.
What was important was that copper coin—an antique coin with such high points, could it be worthless?
As for the small wooden box, she couldn’t appraise it herself, so she left it untouched in the Space for now.
Next, Liang Qiaoqiao found several bundles of money and coupons in a few wall holes.
She even collected two jars from under the wall bases in the old courtyard, unexpectedly gaining over 200 points.
The newly added 2.5-meter appraisal range after the upgrade was perfectly suited for Liang Qiaoqiao’s actions tonight.
The Chen family’s old house wasn’t very large to begin with, and this distance was just enough for Liang Qiaoqiao to thoroughly sweep all the “treasures” hidden by Chen Laoer, his wife, and their two sons in their small homes.
However, Liang Qiaoqiao wasn’t satisfied with just this.
After all, this wouldn’t hurt those Little White-Eyed Wolves, since they didn’t even know what the adults had hidden at home.
But besides plundering Chen Laoer’s family’s treasures, her goal for this trip was to deliver proper retribution to those Little White-Eyed Wolves—she definitely couldn’t let it go at this.
Soon, Liang Qiaoqiao found where they stored their grain.
It was in a small crevice behind the main hall, enclosed by wooden railings to form a small granary.
Liang Qiaoqiao glanced inside; the stored grain wasn’t much, which was a bit disappointing.
There were only about two or three large sacks of coarse grains, two half-sacks of rice and flour, plus two piles of sweet potatoes and some assorted seeds.
If calculated based on the total population of Chen Laoer’s family, the amount of stored grain really wasn’t much.
But Chen Laoda’s family was poor, so this quantity was much more than what the original host’s family had.
Liang Qiaoqiao showed no mercy, directly taking more than half without a second thought.
From the sweet potato piles, she took all the good ones, leaving only those with poor appearance or frost damage untouched.
As for the coarse grains, she took whatever she liked and ignored the rest.
The two sacks of rice and flour and those seeds were naturally all taken.
Actually, if not for fear of causing trouble for the village, especially the Old Village Chief, and even worrying that the warm-hearted old man might be pestered by those Little White-Eyed Wolves, Liang Qiaoqiao privately wished she hadn’t left a single grain behind.
Every one of Chen Laoer’s family members, regardless of age or gender, was a bad person!
Just like the original host, she was equally disgusted by every one of them.