After Five went upstairs, she began to rummage through the cabinets and cabinets. She wanted to know where her money went! No matter what, she had to find her money. She had worked so hard to accumulate it!
This building had a total of four floors, and each floor had more than ten rooms of different sizes. However, there were only a few rooms for people to live in. Her brother and sister each had a room, her parents had a room, and the three children had a room!
She directly eliminated the first floor because there were people going in and out, so it was not convenient to hide the money.
It was impossible for her father to hide the money in her brother's room, sister's room, and the three children's room!
Her father was not stupid enough to hide the money under everyone's eyes!
Moreover, she was smart enough not to go to the old couple's room to look. Her biological father would definitely be on guard against her mother, so the money must not be seen by her mother!
According to her understanding of her biological father, the money could not be hidden outside. It could only be at home, in the remaining thirty or so rooms in this building!
The difficulty of finding it was not ordinary. First of all, it required a lot of physical strength!
There were so many rooms in such a big house!
She went to search one by one!
The only thing that made her feel lucky was that the unoccupied rooms were relatively spacious. The beds were empty, the wardrobes were empty, and everything could be seen at a glance. Nothing could be hidden.
Even so, when she reached the fourth floor, she did not have much strength left.
However, whether she could successfully find her money or not depended on this last building!
She hoped for flowers but did not bloom, and the money did not come. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
She had already searched all the rooms, but there was nothing.
Dejectedly, she leaned against the wall for a while, and angrily kicked the door. However, the door only made a sound, and it did not move.
She angrily stomped her feet.
Suddenly, she bent down, clutched her stomach, and anxiously paced around. Then, she hurriedly opened the door of a room, and without closing the door, she rushed into the inner toilet.
After that, she habitually pressed the flush button, hoping that the toilet would flush, but the silver button on the water tank could not be pressed at all.
There was a circle of tartar stains at the seam of the water tank cover, so she had to roll up her sleeves.
The moment he opened the lid of the water tank, a warm, fishy smell wafted out. It was like the smell of a fish tank or a turtle tank.
To her surprise, there was a large package wrapped in plastic wrap on the inner wall of the water tank. She didn't know what it was, but it was very clean. At the same time, she found that there was no water in the water tank.
There was only a thin layer at the bottom, which should be leftover from the last flush.
He curiously took out the paper bag, only to find that the control valve ball of the water tank was pushed against by a toothbrush. This way, the water tank would never be filled with water.
After taking out the toothbrush, she didn't rush to open the package. She waited until the water tank was full before flushing the toilet. After exiting the toilet, she threw the package directly onto the bed.
After washing his hands in the sink again, he sat on the edge of the bed and casually tore open the plastic wrap that was wrapped in layers after layers. There was a thick layer of newspaper inside the plastic wrap.
When she opened the last layer of newspaper, her eyes went straight!
It was her money!
This was her missing money!
US dollars!
HKD!
Australian dollars!
Pound sterling!
They were all consecutive numbers!
It couldn't be wrong!
She carefully counted the number of times.
Not only was there not a single cent missing!
There was even extra money!
Her father's secret stash of money was actually hidden here!
"Haha …" She couldn't help but laugh. But this laughter didn't last for long. When she saw the person standing in front of her, the laughter immediately stopped.
She hurriedly hugged the money in her arms, full of vigilance.
"Oh, not bad. You've become a little rich woman?" The person teased.
"This money was given to me by someone else. I won't give it to you!" Five hugged the money even tighter!
Who else could it be but Li He!
She knew that this was the dictator of the family. He was unreasonable, and sometimes she couldn't do anything even if she wanted to!
Li He was just about to pick up the money that fell on the ground, but Five snatched it away. "This is mine."
"I know it's yours. I didn't say I wanted it. Why are you so nervous?" Li He was helpless. This money was very difficult to collect!
Five asked, "Then why are you following me?"
Li He smiled. "You're a little girl. Why do you need so much money? Why don't I save it for you and return it to you when you're older?"
It was good to spoil her, but Li He wouldn't spoil her squandering. She was still a student after all.
Five said, "I'm 17! Don't treat me like a kid! "
"17?" Li He scratched his head. The youngest girl in the family was almost an adult. He had to change his tactics. He couldn't treat her like he used to. He thought for a while and said, "How about this? I don't want this money. Why don't we make a deal?"
"You speak first!" Old Five still had a vigilant look.
"Ahem." Li He said seriously, "I don't want your money, but you can't spend it recklessly. How about you save it for Ah Niang?"
"Nope." Five wasn't stupid. Her mother had been saving her New Year's money since she was young, but she hadn't seen a single cent. The money would never be returned to her mother.
Li He scratched his head. "How about this? Do you know what a fixed deposit is?"
Five looked at her brother disdainfully. He really treated her like an idiot.
Li He lit a cigarette and said helplessly, "I'll take you to the bank tomorrow. You can open an account and deposit it for five years. You can't withdraw it until it's due. How about that?"
"Really?" Five didn't believe that there was such a good deal. Even if her brother didn't say it, she would definitely go to the bank to deposit money after this incident.
"Is that okay? Don't dawdle." Li He saw that Five was tempted and put on airs.
"That's settled then." Five agreed with this compromise.
"I'll wait for you at the school gate tomorrow afternoon after school and accompany you to the bank."
"No need. I'll ask Mr. Wu to drive me there. Don't I have a stub? I'll show you the stub. " Five disliked her brother for being so long-winded. She had a chauffeur to pick her up every day and she had legs. She didn't have to see Li He often, so she felt less annoyed.
"Okay." Li He nodded.
"What about this money?" Five held up Li Zhaokun's private stash of money and asked, "Should I give it to Mother?"
She wanted to cheat her own father.
Li He smiled and said, "That's not a problem."
The brother and sister were in agreement on this point.
Li Zhaokun deserved to be taught a lesson.
After this lesson, Five completely walked on the same revolutionary path as her four brothers and sisters. They all had to guard against fire, theft, and their own father!
Her house used to be unlocked, but now, when she went downstairs for a meal, she would lock the door tightly and hang the key on her body.
Li Zhaokun was depressed. He had worked hard for decades, and everything went back to normal overnight!
His hard-earned HKD was gone. Now, it was all in his mother's pocket, and there was no hope of getting it back.
He could only look at the passbook he got from the Post Office in his hometown. There were more than 100,000 HKD in the passbook, but he could not withdraw a single cent from the passbook. Even if he could withdraw it, he could not use it.
He and his good friend sat on the beach, each holding a small bottle of wine, eating grilled seafood, gulping it down and sighing at the same time.
As a good friend, the old man had to show some concern. Li Zhaokun was now his breadwinner. "Brother, what's wrong?"
"Life is tough!"
"Brother, don't play with me." The old man looked at the Blue Brand Whiskey in his hand. He did not dare to drink it, and his eyes twitched. It was not that he did not want to drink it, but he could not bear to drink it. If he drank it, he would lose a few hundred HKD!
This was a top quality whiskey that had been in the cellar for at least 12 years! Although he was a scavenger, he knew that an empty bottle of this whiskey could be sold for more than 100 HKD! An ordinary bottle, no matter if it was sold to a waste station or a glass factory, was only worth a few cents!
Every time, even if he did not get Li Zhaokun's good cigarettes and alcohol, an empty bottle would make him a small fortune.
That's why Li Zhaokun told him life was tough?
The old man did not believe him. This was such a big mansion, and there were good cigarettes and alcohol every day. He had never seen any tycoon being so extravagant.
Li Zhaokun was unhappy that his friend did not trust him. "Old Zhang, you don't know. Every family has its own problems. I have never told you about them. Sigh, I am not as carefree as you."
Li Zhaokun was a proud man, and he could not tell the old man that his money was seized by his daughter and given to his wife. He also could not tell the old man that he did not have money. He had tried to act tough in the past, and now, he had to act tough.
"I don't understand. As a scavenger, I don't understand your family." The old man really did not understand. "Let's talk about this bottle of alcohol. Do you know how much it costs outside?"
"How much?" Hearing the mention of money, Li Zhaokun's eyes lit up. Usually, when he heard Old Man Zhang say that it was expensive, he was too lazy to take it to heart, because it didn't cost him a dime. He could drink as much as he wanted, and he wouldn't take it to heart. But after saying this, he felt that it was inappropriate and hurriedly added. "This is a gift from someone to my son. Who knows how much it costs? Also, our family never looks at the price when we buy things."
The old man stretched out four fingers.
Li Zhaokun asked curiously. "40?"
The old man shook his head. "You can be more daring."
"400?" This was the highest price that Li Zhaokun could think of. If he went to the supermarket with his son, the alcohol on the shelves would only cost 300 to 400 HKD, and the cheaper ones would cost 20 to 30 HKD.
The old man still shook his head. "That's not right."
"It can't be 4000, right?" Seeing Old Man Zhang nod, Li Zhaokun suddenly sobered up a little and said, "So, in this period of time, we've already drunk more than a hundred thousand?"
"Ah …" The old man did not dare to answer directly. It was as if he felt that there was something wrong with Li Zhaokun's tone. Being stared at, he carefully smiled and said, "Including the cigarettes, it's more than that. At least 200,000."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Li Zhaokun angrily grabbed the old man's neck.
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