Old Mrs. Niu's face turned green when she heard Song Yufeng's words. "What nonsense are you spouting, you lazy old woman? What does it have to do with me if they lose something?"

Yu Yao had never seen such a shameless person before. She sneered, "You won't admit it, huh? Everything in our house is marked. Lu Ze has already gone to call the security department. I won't let this go so easily."

"Who are you trying to scare?" Old Mrs. Niu said, her voice trembling with fear, as she protested to Yu Yao, "Your things are missing, how can you blame me? I don't understand what the markings are."

Grandma Niu pretended to be calm, but she was actually very nervous inside.

I'm not sure if Yu Yao's items have any markings.

Yu Yao calmed down at this moment. "Grandma Niu, Heaven is watching what people do. It doesn't matter if you don't admit it now, I have evidence."

A faint smell of sauce lingered in the air, and the edges of Grandma Niu's cloth shoes were dusty and smelled of sauce.

At this moment, someone in the crowd saw Lu Ze and the security personnel behind him.

"The security personnel have arrived."

When Grandma Niu and her family heard that the security personnel had arrived, they panicked.

Battalion Commander Wu already knew the whole story from Song Yufeng. He recalled that this morning, when Old Lady Niu sent him and Yufeng away, she found that there was an extra piece of luggage she had packed when she returned.

He assumed it was their own luggage that they had just packed, but now it's hard to say whether this extra piece of luggage is actually theirs.

"Mom, did you take their things or not?" Woodford was extremely disappointed in Old Lady Niu and her group.

Grandma Niu vehemently denied it, saying, "Are you my son or Yu Yao's son? You don't trust your own mother, but you believe a stranger. I didn't take it, that's all. What does her losing something have to do with me? You can't just call me a thief every time someone loses something."

When the security guards arrived, Yu Yao didn't hold back anymore, pointing to Old Lady Niu's cloth shoes: "Everyone can see the soles of Old Lady Niu's shoes. The thief smashed my crab sauce and yellow lantern chili sauce, and there's something stuck to the soles of her shoes."

Following Yu Yao's pointing finger, everyone looked at Old Lady Niu's cloth shoes and indeed saw the remaining bits of yellow chili pepper.

Old Lady Niu never expected that her shoes would give her away. She tried to argue again, but no one believed her anymore.

The woman who had lost her clothes earlier immediately said, "Now we can confirm that she stole Commander Lu and the others' things. Search them; the stolen goods are definitely in their luggage."

As she spoke, the aunt reached out and started to pull at the luggage on Old Lady Niu's back.

Old Lady Niu refused to comply, shouting that they were bullying her, asking why they were searching her like a thief, and saying it was a slander and insult to her, which she could not agree to.

Grandma Niu sat on the ground, pressing her luggage against her body, refusing to let anyone touch her. Anyone who tried to touch her would be spat on by her.

Battalion Commander Wu looked at Yu Yao: "Comrade Yu, what things did you lose?"

Yu Yao recounted the quantities she had just tallied: "Twenty-three yuan, five meat coupons, three jin of grain coupons, three tofu coupons, two industrial coupons, six cans of food, three jin of dried shrimp, five jin of dried oysters, and less than half a jin of walnuts, hazelnuts, and dried blueberries."

Those around gasped in shock; this family must have stolen quite a bit.

Battalion Commander Wu looked grim. He had just heard Yu Feng say that these were just the things they took; they had also damaged a lot of other things, which added up to a considerable amount.

"Mom, do you want the security department to search us, or should I do the search?"

Old Mrs. Niu sat in the third seat, slapping her thighs and crying out in anguish, "I'm innocent! These are all my own things. I admit I went to their house, I was just curious and wanted to pick some fruit from their trellis to eat."

I was bitten by a dog as soon as I went in. We didn't see any of the things she was talking about. Son, you have to believe us. I'm truly innocent, so innocent..."

With a cold face, Battalion Commander Wu picked up the luggage that Old Lady Niu had pressed to the ground and opened the contents.

Indeed, I couldn't find any dried oysters, dried shrimp, or canned food.

Battalion Commander Wu seemed somewhat surprised; there really wasn't.

“I told you no, son, I’m innocent…”

Old Lady Niu had just wailed when Lu Ze interrupted her, "Battalion Commander Wu, there are two more packages."

Upon hearing this, Wu Shufen and Old Man Wu turned pale. "These two packages were with us when we arrived. They contain our clothes and blankets. We haven't opened them yet, so there's no need to open them."

"You know about this, right, brother? You should talk to them about it."

Wu Shufen winked at Woodford, hoping he would cooperate with them.

Battalion Commander Wu ignored her request and went to take the luggage from her back. Wu Shufen tried to stop him but was stopped by someone.

Old Lady Niu kept crying out in pain, cursing Battalion Commander Wu as a traitorous ingrate who helped outsiders bully them.

"It's my clothes!" the woman who had lost her clothes earlier shouted, rushing over to grab a thick coat from her luggage. "I knew she stole it, and sure enough, she did."

Afterwards, Battalion Commander Wu found the items that Yu Yao had mentioned in the two pieces of luggage.

Everything else has been found, except for the money and tickets.

Battalion Commander Wu found a thick coat in Old Lady Niu's luggage and was about to rummage through the patched pockets inside.

Grandma Niu tried to rush over to stop him, but Lu Ze stopped her.

Battalion Commander Wu took out a small cloth bag and shook out a roll of money and a plate of tickets.

“Boss, we only stole her things, not her money. These are all the things you gave us over the years. We used some of them, and the rest is what we saved up by exchanging with people during this time. They're not hers.”

“Who says it’s not mine? I’ve said it before, every ticket and piece of money I own is marked. Battalion Commander Wu, you can take a look; there’s a crease in the lower right corner of my tickets and money.”

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