Capturing Dongyang

After thinking for a while, Xia Yu could not figure out what action Xia Dongyang would take, so he put the matter aside. He and Yuxue bowed their heads together, and the group went towards home.

The tomb was a bit far from the small town, but the weather in April was not too cold nor too hot. There were unknown flowers blooming along the roadside, making the walk very comfortable.

Seeing that Yuxue was still unhappy, Xia Yu said to her, "Don't you like taking photos? Take out your phone and take some pictures."

"No thanks." The girl was still thinking about what had just happened. She noticed that Xia Dongyang had been looking at her grandparents and brother but had not paid any attention to her at all.

She felt wronged.

She held Xia Yu's hand tighter.

"Do you want to visit the temple along the way?"

"No, I like beautiful temples with amulets," Yuxue shook her head and refused Xia Yu's suggestion.

Xia Yu felt that he needed to do some mental work for his sister. If it were him, he would be happy to be left out by Xia Dongyang, although he would also be a little resentful, but definitely not as attached to the matter as Yuxue.

"How about going to Lishan Temple during the two-day vacation?" Xia Yu suggested, Lishan Temple is a scenic spot in a nearby city, quite famous.

"Really?" The girl was indeed delighted and forgot about Xia Dongyang's matter.

"Really, we will leave this afternoon and arrive tonight," Xia Yu planned their itinerary.

Lishan Temple is on Lishan Mountain, and it was the season when peach blossoms were in full bloom. Yuxue could take her favorite photos there, and the temple also sold the amulets she liked.

"I'm going to buy a luck-amulet!" Yuxue felt that her luck hadn't been good recently.

"What was the last one?" Xia Yu referred to the amulet he brought back for the girl from Yin Shulan's town.

"It's a safety amulet. Brother, can't you remember what you bought?" Yuxue took out her keychain, with the red safety amulet hanging on it.

The safety amulet was embroidered with golden patterns, not old-fashioned at all, but somewhat trendy.

In this world, the entertainment industry like mobile games and TV dramas was not as developed as on Earth. Traditional culture filled the gap, such as ancient musical instrument performances, various chess competitions, and temple culture was also included.

With attention came money, and with money came product upgrades. The price of amulets increased, materials and designs became more exquisite.

"People get forgetful when they're old," Xia Yu said, putting his hand on Yuxue's head.

"You're not old at all," Xia Nianhong laughed and said to Xia Yu.

Xia Yan also had a smiling face; they all forgot about Xia Dongyang.

Yuxue's mood improved, and she took out her phone to take photos of Xia Yu, her grandparents, and herself.

Xia Yu remembered the issue concerning Yuxue's talent. It was easy to enter her body, but the problem was how he should explain it to her. Should he tell her that he was an alien, like with An Siyao's group? He was a bit hesitant to deceive his own sister.

That's why he hadn't taken any action these past days.

Now, he had a new idea.

He only needed to go there while Yuxue was sleeping.

Entering Yuxue's body, he checked her status and used a soothing skill to put himself to sleep. Even if Yuxue felt strange, she would only think it was a dream.

He would try this either tonight or tomorrow night.

He didn't know where this girl had her talent.

Liu Manman tested her musical talent and found it to be ordinary. Her cooking was just average, and she didn't show any amazing abilities in art or sports classes. Although she liked photography, her photos weren't very good. She was even worse than Xia Yu in makeup and dressing.

Hopefully, it wasn't some useless talent like slacking off or blaming others.

Wait, that couldn't be considered useless either.

With these two skills, no matter where he was, life would be easy.

Slacking off could keep him relaxed when he was busy, and blaming others could ensure that he wouldn't get fired for it, as it would always be the world's fault.

After imagining Yuxue's potential talents, Xia Yu pulled himself away from his wild thoughts.

It would all be clear in time.

After walking for half an hour, they arrived at their apartment building. Xia Nianhong saw a neighbor coming down from upstairs.

The two of them greeted each other.

The neighbor curiously asked, "Why are you just getting home now? Your son got home a while ago."

Upon hearing her words, Xia Nianhong's face changed.

The four of them returned home together, but Xia Dongyang was nowhere to be found, neither in the living room nor in the bedroom.

However, there were signs of someone rummaging through the bedroom.

Xia Yu and Xia Nianhong quickly searched the apartment.

Seeing the black cat they had brought back lying unharmed in the corner of the balcony, Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief. The cat was useful, and if anything had happened, Xia Dongyang would be in trouble.

On the other hand, Xia Nianhong discovered that the cash they had stored in the drawer was gone.

There wasn't much money, maybe 5,000 at most.

"How did he get the house key?" Xia Yue exclaimed angrily.

Xia Nianhong went out to the hallway and felt around in the flowerpot, "The spare key we hid here is gone."

Hiding a key in a flowerpot was a common practice among country elders, and Xia Dongyang knew this, so it was easy for him to get the key.

The town they lived in had no outside visitors, and the residents weren't particularly security-conscious.

"Forget it, let him use the money for his funeral!" Xia Nianhong said resentfully.

5,000 wasn't a small amount, but it wasn't a big one either. Furthermore, it ended up in Xia Dongyang's pocket, not someone else's, so their feelings of helplessness outweighed their anger.

"I'll find someone to change the lock tomorrow." Xia Yue said.

With this, the matter was considered over.

However, Xia Yu felt uneasy, suspecting that Xia Dongyang had taken something other than the money.

Since it wasn't directly related to him, his psychic senses couldn't give him a warning.

"Where are your passbooks?" Xia Yu asked.

"There's a code on the passbook; even if he took it, he couldn't withdraw money." Xia Yue said, "And we hid the passbook well."

"Take a look anyway."

At Xia Yu's insistence, Xia Nianhong stood on a stool and groped around on the top of the wardrobe.

"It's gone." She looked at Xia Yu.

"Did you not use your birthday or any other easily guessed numbers as the password?" Xia Yu asked.

Xia Nianhong looked at Xia Ye, who was in charge of the passbook.

"I used your birthday, but changed the month to your grandma's birth month," Xia Ye looked at Xia Yu.

"That's fine, the code will lock up after a few wrong attempts," Xia Nianhong breathed a sigh of relief.

"But when I first got this passbook, Dongyang was with me," sitting on the edge of the bed, Xia Ye's hand began to tremble.

"Does he know the code?" Xia Nianhong's hand also began to tremble.

"It was he who chose the code," Xia Ye said.

Xia Nianhong clenched his teeth and slapped his thigh: "Call the police!"

Xia Yu and Yuxue accompanied the two elderly people to the police station to report the case.

Although most of their life savings had been squandered by Xia Dongyang, they still had eighty thousand left.

Xia Yu didn't care about the money, and he comforted the elderly couple.

Having experienced this incident, Xia Yu and Yuxue couldn't leave for their trip, so they had to stay.

That night, Xia Yu thought for a moment and entered the body of the black cat.

Although he felt that Xia Dongyang should run away after the incident, he still decided to investigate further.

Leaving it to the police would make it easy to track Xia Dongyang down, but the money would definitely be out of the question. Xia Dongyang would definitely hide it well if things went wrong, and Xia Nianhong and Xia Ye couldn't possibly send him to jail.