The next day, Li Xiangjie and Li Guoqing indeed saw the short man again in the fish-selling line. After selling all the fish, he circled around the brigade headquarters warehouse again before leaving the village.

The same thing happened on the third day.

Before anyone else could react, Li Kang couldn't take it anymore!

When the group secretly met at Li Jin's house late at night, Li Kang slapped his thigh repeatedly, yelling, "Damn it! These bastards are repeat offenders! They're so patient. I've been holed up at home for three days without seeing the sun, and they still haven't made a move!"

Liu Changhai chuckled, "Don't you feel pain slapping your thigh so hard?"

Li Kang glared at Liu Changhai and said, "What's it to you!"

Liu Changhai didn't argue with him, and turned to Li Jin, saying, "Captain, Da Ming and the others have found out that this group of people are from the hay brigade of the horse breeding farm commune. The leader is a man named Kong Xiaolong, who is thirty-five years old this year. He was imprisoned for fifteen years for burglary and was just released two years ago!"

Li Xiangdong couldn't help but take it seriously. If it were an ordinary person sneaking around, they would just get caught and beaten up. But if it was someone who had served fifteen years in prison, would they be able to catch him so easily?

Keep in mind that gun control was not yet in effect at that time!

After discussing it for a while, the group decided that in addition to increasing protection at the cannery and the brigade headquarters warehouse, Li Xiangdong would go to the county to report the matter to Secretary Liu as soon as it was light.

......

On the fourth day, it was a bit cloudy. As soon as the sun set, a strong wind blew up, and the sky was pitch black with no moon or starlight.

Around 1 a.m., everyone had closed their doors and windows and was fast asleep. Apart from a faint light at the cannery, the entire Lijiapo Brigade was shrouded in darkness.

At this moment, three men appeared quietly outside the cannery. The short man in the lead, Kong Xiaolong, patted the man behind him, and that man bent over and walked towards the cannery gate.

There was a big black dog kept at the entrance of the cannery. It was kept in a cage during the day and let loose to run around the yard at night.

The man first whistled twice, and the big black dog ran over at the sound. The man quickly threw in a steamed bun, but the big black dog didn't eat it at all. Instead, it kept scratching at the iron gate with its two paws.

The sound of "creaking and groaning—creaking and groaning—" rose in the silence, eerily unsettling.

The doorman's light came on, and a moment later the door opened, and a man in his fifties or sixties came out yawning. He first scolded the big black dog, "Big Black, stop scratching! I'm taking you to poop right now!"

Upon hearing this, the big black dog stopped scratching the iron gate and quickly ran to the man's side.

The man first opened the gate, then went back to turn off the light in the gatehouse and came out with a flashlight.

"The brigade leader is something else. He said the cannery has to be hygienic, but he trained you to only be able to poop and pee by the village. It's really exhausting! This round trip takes more than an hour!"

The man complained, turned around, locked the door, and kicked the big black dog.

Watching the man and dog slowly walk away with flashlights, Kong Xiaolong led his men to the gate and quickly unlocked it with a wire.

The three men groped their way to the office door, and the man who had just opened the main door with the wire easily used the same wire to unlock the office door.

They slowly pushed open the door, tiptoed inside, and then closed it again.

"Brother, turn on the flashlight and take a look. It's so dark today, you can't see your hand in front of your face," someone whispered in Kong Xiaolong's ear.

Kong Xiaolong nodded, "Close the doors and windows!"

This is to prevent light from getting through.

The two men skillfully pulled out sheets from their pockets and covered the office windows and doors.

Kong Xiaolong then took out a flashlight and quickly shone it around the room. The furnishings were simple: six chairs, a desk, and a cabinet.

"Little Chen, go open all the drawers."

The cabinet door wasn't locked. Kong Xiaolong rummaged through it but found nothing of value.

Xiao Chen quickly used a wire to open all three drawers of the desk. When he pulled out the bottom drawer, he found a bundle of 10,000 yuan notes tucked inside a green plastic-covered notebook that was pressed down by a pile of things. He estimated there were more than 30 notes!

Upon rummaging through the other two drawers, I found a bunch of small bills: five mao, two mao, one mao, five fen, and one fen.

The three of them didn't stand on ceremony and shoved all the money into one of their own pockets. Xiao Chen's nostrils flared with excitement. "Big brother, they're really rich!"

"Brother, should we burn it or not?" the bald man asked.

This was all planned before they came: steal the goods, set a fire, and erase all traces. No one would suspect it was an accidental fire, and no one would realize anything was missing.

"burn!"

The short man spoke succinctly, his years in prison having taught him that leaving room for others is leaving room for yourself.

The three men took everything they could, and the bald man then took a bottle of gasoline from his waist pouch and poured it on the wooden desk.

"laugh--"

A match was lit and then tossed onto the desk.

With a "whoosh," the desk was ignited, and a layer of blue flames leaped and began to burn.

"Walk!"

After taking their things, the group quietly slipped out, making sure to lock the office door behind them.

Just as they reached the gate and were about to complete their task, a sigh suddenly came from the darkness.

"What a dark and moonless night for murder, a windy and arson-prone day!"

The voice was very soft, but it made the thieves' hearts skip a beat and their scalps tingle!

not good!

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