The three people who came today are named Ge Ermao, Liu Sandan, and Li Qiang.

Liu Sandan, due to poor nutrition in his childhood, did not grow tall and was short and thin compared to other young men his age. In the dark, his silhouette alone could easily be mistaken for a woman.

The captain and Zhuang Feifei both carried flashlights. When they had only pushed the wall a little, the captain and Zhuang Feifei turned on their flashlights and shone them specifically in their faces. As a result, the captain and Zhuang Feifei were able to see the faces of all three of them clearly at the same time.

Since they are currently tearing down the wall, they will be caught red-handed, and they will have no choice but to confess.

The three of them were startled when they discovered someone nearby. Without even discussing it, they took off running.

The captain immediately called out to them from behind: "Ge Ermao, Liu Sandan, and Li Qiang, you all stop right there. I've seen your faces clearly. Even if you run back home, I can still go to your house to find you and your families."

The three men recognized the captain's voice. Since they had been recognized, they knew they couldn't hide forever, so they simply stopped in their tracks.

Perhaps he can get a lenient outcome by confessing.

When Zhuang Feifei saw the faces of those three people clearly, her head suddenly went blank.

Surprisingly, Luo Jingyan wasn't in this list.

She had been so smug and determined to catch Luo Jingyan, but now the people standing in front of her were the workers she had hired herself, which made her so angry that she stomped her feet twice.

Why would someone you treat well and pay to be treated badly turn against you?

The next second, another thought popped into her head: Could it be that Luo Jingyan bribed them to do this on purpose?

If she hates someone or doesn't like someone, she will naturally blame all the mistakes on that person.

The captain walked over with a flashlight. The three men, caught red-handed, looked like wilted eggplants, their heads drooping, not daring to look up at the captain.

The brigade leader asked, "Why aren't you sleeping at home at night? Why are you here pushing down the wall that Zhuang, the educated youth, built? What grudge do you have against Zhuang?"

The three men looked at each other, hesitant to admit their secret plan, driven by the human instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm.

But they also knew that once they were caught, there was no escaping it. Due to their nervousness, they couldn't think of any other reasons to defend themselves. If their reasons were not good and the captain saw through them, they would probably face even more severe punishment.

"Captain, it's me." Just as Ge Ermao was about to admit it, Zhuang Feifei suddenly spoke up: "Do you think someone instructed you to do this because that person has a grudge against me?"

The implication in her words was quite clear: she was implying that the culprit was Luo Jingyan, and that the three of them were acting under Luo Jingyan's orders.

The three of them, having grasped the message from Zhuang Feifei's words, almost simultaneously had a sudden inspiration. This was a perfect opportunity to exonerate themselves; by shifting the blame onto Luo Jingyan, they could escape punishment.

However, they immediately recalled the fierce way Luo Jingyan had beaten Li Jianliang during the day. If they directly admitted that it was their own plan and had nothing to do with Luo Jingyan, they would only lose some money and be punished by the captain.

But if they dare to frame Luo Jingyan, she will definitely not let them off. When they are exposed, they will not only lose money, but also be punished more severely by the captain. But that's not the worst thing. The worst thing is that they may also face being beaten up by Luo Jingyan.

The memory of Luo Jingyan beating up Li Jianliang sent chills down their spines.

Forget it, forget it. You can't mess with this living devil. Between admitting it and framing Luo Jingyan, even a fool would know which to choose.

With the captain present, they couldn't communicate about how to handle the matter verbally, so they could only communicate with their eyes.

The captain realized that they were all hiding something.

"Why are you all silent? Is my question so hard to answer? The more you act like this, the more it proves you have something to hide. Tell me the truth, and we'll discuss compensation. If you dare to talk nonsense, you'll be punished even more severely."

“We weren’t instructed by anyone. The idea of ​​pushing down the wall was something we discussed ourselves,” Ge Erdan immediately replied.

The other two exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Why did you do this?" The captain was speechless.

Liu Sandan said, "Because we want to earn more money and eat more apples here with Zhuang Zhiqing, but there are too many of us and the houses are being built too fast. We don't want to finish the construction early, so we came up with this idea."

"You, you lot!" The captain, in a fit of anger, slapped each of the three men on the head. "Useless wretches! How can you work for the master like this? You're really disgracing our Victory Brigade!"

Zhuang Feifei was stunned when she heard them admit that they had destroyed her house just to gain more benefits.

She never expected that the generous treatment she received would turn out to be a group of people who would cause her trouble.

The captain said, "Since you three are responsible for this, you three will compensate Zhuang Feifei for all her losses." Otherwise, he was afraid that Zhuang Feifei would take this matter to the police station, which would make things even more difficult.

Zhuang Feifei said, "Captain, my wall was pushed down two days ago, and they want to compensate me for the losses from both incidents."

Ge Ermao immediately stepped forward to shirk responsibility, "We didn't push it the day before yesterday, it was three other people. Fine, the losses suffered by Zhuang Zhiqing shouldn't be borne by the six of us. All forty of us who worked together participated in this plan. It's just that we arranged for three people to come and push the wall each time, and the three of us were just unlucky enough to be caught by you. All forty people who built the house are responsible, and all the losses should be borne by all forty of us."

"You're right, none of you forty men will escape responsibility," the captain said in a deep voice.

The next day, the team leader came to the construction site again, estimated the cost of Zhuang Feifei's house, and told Zhuang Feifei and the others to pay them according to the cost of the entire house after the house was built, without needing to settle wages on a daily basis.

In this way, no matter how fast or slow those people work in the future, or how many times they knock down the wall, Zhuang Feifei only needs to pay them a fixed amount of wages.

When the workers heard that their wages would be settled based on the overall cost of the house, they all began to regret their decision to demolish the wall.

Because demolishing and rebuilding a wall undoubtedly involves more work, but the wages are not more.

One of the workers who came with Uncle Wu started complaining again, "After all this back and forth, we haven't done any less work, but we're not earning as much money as before."

Uncle Wu sighed, "It's too late to say anything now."

They lost face and gained nothing in return.