Chapter 238

"It's settled then," Gao Second Sister said. "When you go to catch the piglets, don't forget you need to get a sow so next year we can breed them ourselves. That way we won't have to figure out how to find piglets every year."

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing," Gao Dalin said gloomily. He casually threw the finished bone into the yard and said dejectedly, "Sis, we've saved quite a bit these past few years, but you know, we can't spend it and working this hard seems meaningless."

He still wanted to get a wife and have a son, so he'd at least have something to look forward to later in life. These past few years, he hadn't lacked food or clothing, but being single and alone, he couldn't understand what he was working so hard for anymore.

Gao Second Sister was very familiar with Gao Dalin's temperament by now. Every two months he'd throw a fit like this - he was lovesick, typical.

And these days he'd cut ties with the widow, so he had pent up lust with no outlet. His whole spirit had fallen quite a bit.

Gao Second Sister looked down on him very much. What kind of man always had his mind in a woman's crotch! But the work up the mountain required physical labor, and without Gao Dalin, she couldn't manage it alone as a woman. So she still had to coax him.

"Brother, haven't I told you already? Wait a few more years. You're a man. As long as you have money, in a few years when things open up, there will be plenty of girls who want to marry you..."

Gao Second Sister tried to persuade him, but Gao Dalin went from eager at the start to having heard so much his ears started to form calluses.

"You've been saying that for years already! In a few more years I'll be in my 30s!"

Barely holding in her irritation, Gao Second Sister let out a long sigh.

Gao Dalin's marriage really was a problem, especially the last two years. He thought about women all day long. If they didn't find a way to get him a woman soon, their days would be over.

There was still half a rabbit left in the pot, but she had completely lost her appetite.

Gao Second Sister's face was cold. "I'll find a way to get you a wife, but Gao Dalin, you remember this. If you ruin our business over a woman, I won't let you off!" Gao Dalin wasn't angry at being threatened. On the contrary, he looked at Gao Second Sister ingratiatingly, "Sis, don't worry. You're my sister by blood. Even if I get a wife, she'd just be a bed warmer. No matter when, we siblings will still be closest."

Especially after their parents died a few years ago, Gao Dalin's limited intelligence meant Gao Second Sister handled all the family affairs and enabled them to have the good life they did today. He wouldn't be so muddled as to forget that.

"You just remember clearly," Gao Second Sister said coldly with a snort.

Yuan Bao hid by the kitchen door, looking at the thrown out bone still emanating fragrance, its mouth watering enough to make a puddle on the ground.

But being half beast, even without fully transforming, it still had too much dignity to just lick a bone others had gnawed on.

Hearing footsteps about to exit the kitchen, its body moved lightning fast to hide behind the woodpile by the kitchen door. It listened to the footsteps fading away along with the siblings' voices before carefully poking its head out.

With the two siblings gone, the Gao house was now empty and Yuan Bao's domain. Its cute nose sniffed left and right until it found the aroma's origin after searching the whole house.

On the wall of the main room was a brick with a crack that Yuan Bao climbed up using the rough wall.

Treasure rats were called treasure rats not just for their great treasure seeking ability, but also their extremely sharp claws.

It scratched at the wall with its two claws, quickly clawing out a big hole, causing a small package wrapped in sheepskin to fall out from inside.

Yuan Bao sniffed it closely several times - this was the right smell.

It picked up the package wanting to leave but stopped at the wardrobe.

The package in its mouth dropped to the ground as it eyed the cabinet, then leapt towards it the next second.

Gao Second Sister was a prudent, clever woman. Even in her own home, she split her money into several parts hidden in different places.

She planned well - even if thieves broke in, they wouldn't be able to accurately find every place she stashed money.

But she absolutely didn't expect the thief to be a rat - a treasure rat at that - with an innate sensitivity towards treasures.

When Gao Dalin and Gao Second Sister finished work and came down from the mountain, they returned home to see the messy state of affairs, with dirty, chaotic beds and cabinets and several big holes scratched into the walls, looking as if they were clawed by rats. But could rats have such great fighting power?

Gao Dalin went forward and lifted the quilt on the bed, only to find rat droppings and urine mixed together in the most disgusting stench that turned his stomach.

Gao Second Sister checked her money stashes and found that at all 7 places, all the savings they'd scrimped over the years were gone without a trace.

And at every location were signs of the rat havoc.

This was the first time her face twisted in anger since obtaining that thing.

"Sis, it looks like we poked a rat's nest huh?" Gao Dalin frowned tightly, unable to understand how so many rats could create this level of destruction.

"I'm afraid things aren't so simple," Gao Second Sister said heavily.

It was common for rats to make a mess of things, but why would they steal money? And the money was gone from every location without any torn or chewed remnants left behind.

On the other hand, the clothes in the wardrobe and quilts on the bed were bitten through revealing the insides.

Could it be a rat demon?

"What do we do now? I checked my money stash just now and all the pocket money you gave me is gone!" Over the years their income was pretty good, but Gao Second Sister held most of it. She only gave Gao Dalin some pocket money, otherwise he wouldn't have money to woo widows either.

Of course, she did this partly because Gao Dalin knew his limits, and she could paint him big pictures of the future.

But no matter why, Yuan Bao's arrival this time still turned all their years of hard work into nothing.

Gao Second Sister probably wouldn't regret it even if she knew the truth later - that if Gao Dalin hadn't torn out the important pages of the notebook, Xia Zhi would never have sent Yuan Bao to rob them blind, which led to their loss today.

It's just, every cause has an effect right?

"I'm going right now to buy rat poison, damn pests! I won't rest until I've wiped out eight generations of them!" Hearing Gao Second Sister explain, Gao Dalin couldn't stand it a moment longer and yelled about buying poison.

Gao Second Sister didn't stop him either. No matter what, they still had to live, and they had to solve this rodent problem at home first.

Walking to the bedside and looking at the quilt she had newly stuffed with cotton at New Year's, now clawed into an unrecognizable state and imprinted with yellowish stains, the rank sweetness overwhelmed her senses until she forcefully suppressed it.