The moment she opened her mouth, she was stopped by Ye Cai’e. “Stop! Who is your sister? We do not even know who was born first. Besides, you young ladies who grew up pampered and well fed, how could a mud-legged girl like me be worthy of being your sister?”
The expressions of the onlookers who had been watching the spectacle immediately changed.
They had already noticed how many things the two were carrying and felt envious. Sure enough, something was off. These two were capitalists, which made them a common enemy.
“This girl has really suffered. Look how skinny she is. She must have been mistreated by this family.”
“They dress themselves up so fancy and still claim she is their biological daughter. Even my rural clothes are better than what a real daughter wears.”
“Poor thing, I saw that wound on her head earlier. It was huge and terrifying. I never expected it was done by her own family.”
“Good thing she cut ties. Well done, girl!”
Ye Yingyao bit her lip. She felt that Ye Cai’e had changed ever since she fell down the stairs.
In the past, she had only been irritable and sensitive. Now she seemed to have grown smarter, always catching her off guard.
“Sister— Cai’e, you misunderstood. Mom said you have been having a hard time outside and felt heartbroken, so she asked me to come with her to buy things. We spent most of the family’s money to prepare all of this for you. We have just been waiting for you to come home. Dad and Mom’s sincerity toward you, when will you finally feel it…”
Before she could finish, Ye Cai’e interrupted her. “Really? All of this was bought for me?” She grabbed the items from their hands. “Thank you for your concern. I really am having some difficulties outside, mainly because I have no money. You two…”
Ye Yingyao and Chen Yumei held on tightly but still failed to keep the items. At this point, they were cornered. If they refused, it would completely overturn their earlier claim that they were worried about her.
With no other choice, Chen Yumei reluctantly pulled out a delicate little wallet from her pocket.
Just the wallet alone was something an ordinary family could not afford.
She unzipped it and planned to count out two one-yuan bills to brush her off, but Ye Cai’e reached out again and snatched the wallet directly.
“With this money, I will definitely live well. You do not need to worry. Maybe we will even see each other often in the future.” After saying that, she pushed through the crowd and left without looking back.
She walked quickly, afraid the two behind her would react and come after her to settle accounts.
This trip was a huge gain. The money had practically delivered itself to her door, along with all these clothes and skincare products, which she could use anyway.
After counting it, she found that although the wallet was small, it held quite a lot. Ye Cai’e dug out a total of 264 yuan and 8 mao, nearly equal to a regular worker’s annual salary.
Adding her own savings, she now had 463 yuan, 7 mao, and 9 fen in total. Converted into Xixi coins, she was now properly a little rich woman.
Since these two had taken the initiative to bring her money, she decided not to go to the black market today. Instead, she would first give this family a big gift.
Ye Cai’e changed into a comfortable hotel, then spent 5 Xixi coins in Pinduoduo to buy thirty pencils, plus two exercise notebooks for 3 Xixi coins.
There was no helping it. They were just too cheap. She placed the order without blinking.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the items arrived directly in the Xixi space. It was incredibly convenient.
For these goods that were overproduced and fiercely competitive in later generations, ordering through Pinduoduo was simply the king of value for money.
She picked up paper and pen and began writing furiously, only stopping after filling three full pages.
She then folded the papers. At noon today, she could still only eat meat buns. After all, she did not have a single grain coupon, and in these times, state-run restaurants would not even let you in without one.
Yesterday she had already tested that the Xixi space had a preservation function. The meat buns she took out today were no different from the first day.
After finishing the buns, she searched for the same item and found that identical large meat buns cost 30 Xixi coins each in the shop. For buns with so much filling, 30 each was a bit expensive.
But converting it, it was only three mao. That was unbelievably worth it. She forcibly suppressed the urge to stockpile another hundred and reminded herself that she could buy them whenever she wanted later. Right now, the most important thing was looting capitalist dogs.
She clearly remembered that the Che family moved faster than the Ye family. It would be either tonight or tomorrow night that they would prepare to load a batch of supplies onto a ship.
The Che family had more influence than the Ye family. Although they had contacts in Hong Kong, they were also very cautious, leaving in batches. Che Anguo, as the most eye-catching younger generation of the Che family, naturally stayed in the country to draw attention and wait for the final batch to leave.
In her previous life, he missed the timing. After the higher-ups discovered the Che family’s small maneuvers, he was directly arrested and publicly denounced.
The Che family’s assets were not from legitimate businesses either. In the past, the Che family had been involved with the underworld, doing all kinds of dirty work. It was only in recent years that they had gradually tried to clean things up.
Ye Cai’e immediately decided on her route for tonight.
When night fell, she quietly arrived at the entrance of the Public Security Bureau and pressed the prepared letter to the ground with a stone, ensuring that the first person to come to work tomorrow would see it.
Then she went to the still not fully developed harbor area of Shanghai and waited patiently.
She waited until late into the night and was about to give up when she finally saw a large group of people sneaking around by moonlight, moving boxes.
Those boxes looked very similar to the Ye family’s, probably custom-made at the same place.
Ye Cai’e did not rush to take them. She waited until the Che family members were almost done moving everything, then used the power of her space to approach. Whenever she was about to be discovered, she hid inside the space, and when she felt no one was around, she reappeared and continued.
In this way, hurrying nonstop, collecting every box she saw, she finally jumped off the ship one second before it set sail.
The sound of the ship starting up was loud. Everyone at the front was tense, and no one noticed the slender figure.
After getting down, Ye Cai’e did not return to the hotel. Instead, she followed the departing Che family members.
She had a feeling that the Che family would definitely go back to check their supplies again tonight. After all, in just a few days, they would carry out a second round of smuggling.
Sure enough, she grabbed onto the bottom of their vehicle and hid in the space. When she came out again, she appeared directly in the Che family courtyard.
The Che family had many members and did not avoid the limelight like the Ye family. On the contrary, they knew hiding was useless, so they pretended to be painfully reluctant and donated some supplies.
But even that donation was just a drop in the bucket for the Che family. The higher-ups were not unaware. They were all waiting for the Che family to bleed more, but the Che family was unwilling to donate further, which was why they were so eager to flee.
Only after the Che family’s lights all went out and the entire house was plunged into darkness did Ye Cai’e come out of the space again and head straight for the Che family basement.
Perhaps because the items were about to be transported away, everything was placed very conspicuously, sitting squarely in the middle of the basement. The basement was not even locked.