Chapter 162 Losing Money

Before long, the five thieves took out the stolen goods and piled them all in the yard, placing them on top of Yun Wangshu's package.

There was a quilt, three bottles of face cream, several hair ties, a kettle, a teacup, a pillowcase, three pairs of gloves, two scarves, half a pack of toilet paper, a pair of cotton shoes, and even two pairs of socks!

And then there's that big pot!

Liu Baogen's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. They really dared to take that! All these things added up to over a hundred yuan!

No wonder Yun, the educated youth, reported it to the police. Even with money, you might not be able to get that new quilt. Cotton is so precious these days, and you need coupons. Yun's family must have put in a lot of effort to prepare such a thick quilt for her, but it was ruined by someone else just because it arrived a few days late!

If it were him, he'd go crazy too!

Yun Zhiqing's beating was considered mild; if it had been the old women in the village, their faces would have been scratched raw!

Liu Baogen was so angry his fingers were trembling: "You people... just because someone else's things are lying there doesn't mean they're yours! You really think you can use them as your own?!"

Looking at these things, Zhou Hu felt extremely ashamed. How dare they?!

He thought they would just take a tea mug or a kettle, and he could just wash it and return it to them later. He didn't expect them to take even the blankets!

Huang Yu was also suffocated. She knew about the blankets. In the past, when some of them didn't have blankets, others would lend them half. Hu Ling only needed to use them for a few days and would return them later. But she didn't expect that the total amount of things would be so much. They really value money over life!

The people who hadn't taken anything were both shocked and ashamed. Only then did they realize how wrong they had been.

Yun Wangshu glanced at the contents of the package and frowned: "I don't want any of it. You can compensate me with money and tickets."

The five men's faces instantly turned ashen, as if their fathers had died. They had no money and no ration coupons. If they had money and coupons, wouldn't they just buy new ones themselves?

Yun Wangshu didn't care whether they could afford to pay or not, and insisted on not taking anything. They had no choice but to scrape together the money or use cash to make up for the lost amount, and in the end, they barely managed to pay off the debt.

Hu Ling, however, simply couldn't afford to pay for it. That quilt would cost at least fifty or sixty yuan, plus cotton and cloth coupons, which she didn't have. If she only paid for it in cash, she'd probably have to pay close to a hundred yuan, which wouldn't even be worth it if sold by weight.

If she had money and tickets, would she need to take other people's things?

Hu Ling's eyes were red and swollen, and she gripped the hem of her clothes tightly with both hands, wishing she could just faint. She looked at the others with sorrow, but no one was willing to help her.

Hu Ling was in despair. She gritted her teeth, looked at Yun Wangshu, and said in despair, "I have no money, I can't afford to pay. Go ahead and call the police to arrest me!"

The other educated youths panicked. They knew that if they reported it to the police, the others wouldn't be able to escape either. They all cursed, "If you want to die, don't drag others down with you!"

"You were the first one to covet the large packages of the educated youth from Yunnan and encouraged us to take them. You've already ruined us terribly, and you want to ruin us even more?!"

“That’s right, if we take all of her things, as you said, Yun Zhiqing definitely won’t be able to do anything to us. If she wants to live in Chaoyang Brigade, she definitely won’t dare to make a big fuss and will have to swallow this bitter pill. We believe you, that’s why we dare to take her things!”

"I don't care, you have to pay even if you can't afford it! If you don't have the money, just borrow it!"

Hu Ling, who was initially terrified, is now no longer afraid: "Yes, I was jealous, I stole it, but didn't you? What's the difference between you and me? Are you afraid she'll report me to the police? Then you'd better pay for it! Bah, a bunch of despicable people!"

"And you, you just throw things away after someone touched them a few times? What, are you some kind of capitalist's daughter, looking down on us poor folks because we're dirty?!"