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Chapter 249: Chapter 249: This is too Weird
𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"Yaoyao, are you doubting that I didn’t give enough?" Tong Sicheng was somewhat unhappy to hear that Tong Yao wanted to count the money. He argued with a righteous tone, "The house used to be inhabited by our aunt and her family. My father was also sympathetic to our aunt. He felt that if he sold the house, our aunt would have no place to live. Therefore, he disagreed to sell it, he wasn’t trying to monopolize the property. Now that we have sold the house, we have distributed Uncle Er’s share. Your skeptical attitude really hurts me."
Lin Shuxin, who had been silent all along, interjected: "Cousin, if they don’t mind the trouble and want to count the money, let them do so. It saves us any nitpicking over a few cents later."
These words were clearly mocking Tong Yaohui and Tong Yao, suggesting that they were narrow-minded.
The house we sold the day before yesterday. We divided the money into three parts. Tong Sikui and I calculated the exact amounts, no more, no less. If my uncle doesn’t mind the trouble, let them count. When everything is in order, there’s no reason to be afraid of any mistakes.
Upon hearing this, Tong Sikui’s gaze flickered. He said, "I don’t mind counting, but it’s really heartbreaking that Uncle Er is so suspicious of me. Well, since Uncle Er and Yaoyao don’t trust me, then let’s count the money! It’s better to count it clearly now rather than having misunderstandings about the amount of money later."
Seeing Tong Yao’s firm attitude towards counting money, Tong Sikui chose to retreat as a show of defiance. Unfortunately, he miscalculated Tong Yaohui’s mind.
He hadn’t planned to count the money originally, but reminded by his daughter, Tong Yaohui, who had been a factory director for several decades, suddenly became alert. Without further ado, he picked up the money and started counting.
Tong Yao also picked up a stack and began to count. In her previous life, Tong Yao had seen a video about counting money on social media. She found it quite interesting and had specifically learned it for a while, even participated in a money-counting competition. Although she didn’t win any awards, her counting speed was much faster than average.
Tong Sikui was a little guilty at first. Seeing Tong Yao counting money as if she was playing, her fingers flying quickly, he relaxed a lot. With such speed, it would be strange if she uncovered any foul play.
However, Lin Man couldn’t stand it any longer. She didn’t dare to educate Tong Yaohui. Firstly, out of respect for elders and secondly, she thought this incident was instigated by Tong Yao. She said coldly, "Tong Yao, we have given you the money, but you doubt that the amount is wrong. Counting money in front of so many people, are you deliberately trying to humiliate us and Uncle’s family?"
Over the years, Lin Man had been studying at school and had little contact with Tong Yao’s family. Influenced by what she heard and saw, she often heard Tong Xiangqiao complaining about Uncle Er’s family. Ever since childhood, she had not been on good terms with Tong Yao, hence she developed a prejudice against Uncle Er’s family.
Especially when Uncle Er betrayed their sibling bond and drove them out to sell the house, it was the place where she had lived since childhood. It was her home. Her uncle sold her home, left her homeless, and had to squeeze in a small room with her grandfather. That thought alone made her feel very wronged.
She hated Uncle Er and his family.
"Are we humiliating you, or are you treating us like fools?" Tong Yao paused slightly while counting the money and coldly pulled out a note, slapped it on the table while laughing, "Is this the reason you stopped us from counting the money?"
Seeing the note that Tong Yao pulled out, Tong Yaohui’s face instantly turned black like an old coal-burner. He was so angry that he was shaking. Lin Man’s expression stiffened.
Everyone present was shocked. Tong Xiangqiao and Lin Shuxin picked up the rest of the money to check. Upon inspection, they found several notes of hell money mixed in, which matched the color of fifty yuan notes. Stacked together, if Tong Yao hadn’t been careful when counting the money, they indeed would not have found it.
Giving hell money to a living person was even more infuriating than giving counterfeit money. Besides, it was almost the end of the year, everyone wanted something to celebrate, and they dreaded such ill-fated matters.
This act was downright inhuman.
Seeing his secret unveiled, Tong Sikui started to quickly think about a way to cover it up.
"This...This can’t be! The money was withdrawn from the bank, how could there be hell money?" Lin Shuxin was completely baffled. At this point, he hadn’t realized that the problem was with Tong Sikui. He was worried that the more than 100,000 in his house might also contain hell money.
"Oh no! This is too strange! Our father must have started showing signs from the afterlife because he couldn’t bear to see me being kicked out and having his house sold. Dad! You finally showed signs, do you know how badly your favourite daughter has been bullied? Dad, I miss you a lot, why are you only thinking of coming back to see me now? Dad, now that you and mom are gone, you are at peace while I’m being bullied till I’re unrecognisable. I am almost at the point where I have to beg on the streets, dad..."
Tong Xiangqiao howled and held the hell money while sitting on the floor, shedding tears and weeping about Tong Yaohui’s various evil deeds. She wished that their old father could directly take Tong Yaohui with him to the underworld to fulfill his filial duties.
Seeing this, Tong Sikui had a bright idea and made a noise. His eyes rolled back and he fell straight back, luckily, Lin Shuxin was quick and held onto him, gently laying him on the ground.
Tong Sikui twitched furiously like he had an epileptic seizure and saliva dripped from his mouth. Everyone was shocked by this spectacle.
The next moment, Tong Sikui suddenly sat straight up. His gaze swept around and landed on Tong Yaohui. He muttered gruffly.
"Old Two."
’Old Two’ was the term that their late father used to refer to Tong Yaohui.
Tong Yaohui was an atheist who believed in science. He frowned at this spectacle.
Tong Yao, however, was filled with curiosity. She had heard many supernatural stories as a child. She didn’t expect to encounter such a thing today, it was an eye-opener for her. She wasn’t afraid and calmly watched Tong Sikui’s performance.
Was this the spirit of their grandfather possessing him?
Well then, let’s see what their grandfather wanted to say to her dad.
The others were frightened into silence by the sight. The timid ones stepped several meters away, especially Yao Rong, who ran back into the room and closed the door with such force that a layer of dust fell from the door frame.
Back in her room, she dove under the blanket, trembling and chanting, "Amitabha, Amitabha, Lord Buddha, protect us..."
No wonder she was so scared. When her father-in-law was alive, Yao Rong despised him for having an unpleasant smell as an old person, and whenever it was her turn to take care of him, she would curse and grumble while delivering food as though she was feeding a dog. She would just put the food at the door and leave without even knocking.
By the time her father-in-law discovered that the food had arrived, it was often cold, and sometimes even eaten by stray dogs or cats.
Wen Yun took care of him better than her, which was one of the reasons why their grandfather was willing to divide a portion of his inheritance to Tong Yaohui.
Yao Rong, who had done wrong, was afraid that if the father-in-law saw her, he would take her with him out of anger. So, subconsciously, she kept her distance, praying that the father-in-law would hurry up and say what he wanted to say, then hurry back.
