"They're deliberately trying to extort money, why are the police officers siding with them?"

Li Jin suppressed his anger and said coldly.

"Hey, hey, don't jump to conclusions! Who's siding with them?"

The square-faced policeman pointed his finger at Li Jin's nose, speaking in a harsh tone.

Li Jin moved, raising his arm as if to make a move.

Li Xiangdong's eyes flashed, and he quickly grabbed Li Jin's arm, "Dad!"

Li Jin let out a long sigh, "In broad daylight, under the open sky, is this how you conduct your business?"

The long-faced policeman said impatiently, "Stop your damn nonsense and pay up! If you dare to say another word, you can go to the police station for a chat and calm down!"

Seeing the indifferent expressions of the onlookers, Li Xiangdong felt a chill. These days, there's no such thing as civilized law enforcement, and there are no cameras or recordings. If they were really taken to the police station, they'd be in for a beating; any loss they suffered would be for nothing!

To ensure the safety of the five people, Li Xiangdong only wanted to avoid trouble at this moment.

"Okay, officers, we'll do as you say. We'll pay the compensation if necessary!"

The two policemen and Hui Ge's group couldn't help but show their joy. Five thousand yuan!

If it weren't for Bean Sprouts seeing so much cash in the bags of these old folks on the train, they wouldn't have believed that these country folks could be so rich!

Li Xiangdong suddenly bent down and picked up a piece of porcelain from under Hui Ge's feet.

"Fellow villagers! And two police officers, look, this is the bottom of the vase they said we broke!"

Those around looked puzzled. The square-faced policeman said with a forced smile, "So you admit to breaking someone's vase now?"

Li Xiangdong ignored him and continued to ask Hui Ge, holding the bottom of the vase, "You just said we broke this vase, right?"

Hui felt inexplicably that there was a trap in this question, but he didn't know what that trap was.

Bean sprouts quickly answered, "Yes, why?"

Li Xiangdong laughed, "Look, what's written on this?"

Bean Sprout didn't recognize the crooked characters, but he pretended to know and said loudly, "Isn't this the script from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty?"

Li Xiangdong laughed heartily and presented the porcelain bottle to the long-faced policeman. "Officer, this isn't some Eastern Zhou script; it's English. Look, 'Made in China'!"

He then showed the porcelain shards to Hui and the others, asking, "Do you know what 'made in China' means?"

Li Xiangdong shouted to the onlookers, "This means 'Made in China'!"

"And look at this vase. The porcelain is loose, the color is dull, and the pattern is stiff. It's clearly a mass-produced item that was fired in the last two years!"

"You could probably buy a dozen of these vases for ten yuan!"

"It's not worth five thousand yuan at all!"

Zhao Hongjun and Wang Zhaodi also chimed in to help garner public support.

Although this kind of thing is commonplace, people are happy to help boost the momentum if they can stay hidden in the crowd and not stand out.

Li Xiangdong looked at Hui Ge with bright eyes, "I'll give you two hundred yuan, consider it my treat for the brothers to drinks, how about it?"

Hui knew he had met his match and hesitated a bit. Actually, two hundred yuan was quite a lot.

Those guys don't even earn two hundred yuan a month!

The long-faced policeman coughed, drawing Li Xiangdong's attention, but then fell silent.

Li Xiangdong knew that this person also wanted money.

He sighed inwardly, pulled out thirty ten-yuan bills from his bag, counted out twenty for Zhao Hui, and slipped the other ten to the long-faced policeman from an angle that was not easily seen by others.

The long-faced policeman nodded slightly in satisfaction.

Just when Li Xiangdong thought the matter was about to be settled, Bean Sprouts sneaked up to Li Xiangdong's side at some point, snatched the bag full of money from his hand and ran away!

The incident happened so suddenly that Li Xiangdong, Li Jin, and the others were not paying attention to him and did not expect that Douyacai would be so audacious.

Li Xiangjie was the first to react, shouting, "Don't run!"

Guo Yuxi and Li Guoqing immediately followed after them. The short, stout man tripped Guo Yuxi with his foot, causing her to fall heavily to the ground. Li Guoqing staggered for a moment before regaining his balance.

Zhao Hongjun hurriedly squeezed in and helped Guo Yuxi up. He saw that Guo Yuxi's mouth was full of blood and two of her front teeth had fallen out!

Li Xiangdong was furious. He quickly checked Guo Yuxi's injuries and asked with concern, "Does it hurt?"

Guo Yuxi winced in pain, his eyes filled with tears, and he forced a smile as he said, "Ouch—it hurts—"

The short, stocky man casually tiptoed on his right foot, arms crossed, and sneered, "Oh dear, you lisp, hahaha~"

Everyone else started laughing too, including the two policemen.

Zhao Hongjun, Li Jin, and Wang Zhaodi were all furious, glaring at the people who kept laughing.

Li Xiangdong stood up and suddenly smiled.

The short, stocky man grinned widely and said, "You think so too..."

"Bang--"

Blood splattered from the nose.

Before the short, stout man could finish his sentence, he let out a scream.

Li Xiangdong punched the short, stout man in the nose. Before he could react, Li Xiangdong lunged forward, grabbed the man's hair, and slammed his head against a nearby tree.

"Bang~ Bang~ Bang~"

Three times in a row, the short, stout man was knocked so hard that he was dizzy and flailed his arms and legs wildly, but he couldn't even touch a corner of Li Xiangdong's clothes.

Hui and his gang were about to attack Li Xiangdong with knives when Li Jin and his group stepped in to block Li Xiangdong's path.

Li Xiangdong threw the stunted, vomiting man on the ground like a rag, raised his long eyebrows like swords, and said coolly to the long-faced policeman, "You'd better hurry up and get our bags back, or you'll regret it."

The long-faced policeman and the short, stout man were distant relatives. When he saw the short, stout man being beaten up like that in front of him, he felt that his own face was being slapped very hard.

Now that Li Xiangdong is threatening him like this, and seeing Hui Ge and the others staring at him, he knows he definitely can't back down today.

He pondered for a moment and quickly made a decision.

"You intentionally injured someone, come with me to the police station right now!"

He took out a shiny silver bracelet from his waist and placed his right hand on the gun at his waist.

If Li Xiangdong dares to resist, don't blame him for being ruthless.

Li Jin stopped the long-faced policeman, saying, "Arrest me if you're going to arrest someone!"

"Get out of the way! If you don't behave, we'll arrest you all!"

Li Xiangdong smiled, and instead of trying to escape or resist as the long-faced policeman had imagined, he obediently allowed himself to be handcuffed. He simply leaned close to the policeman and said, "I hope you won't regret this."

The long-faced policeman felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason. He tried to shake off the discomfort and replied to Li Xiangdong, "Let's see who regrets this first!"