Having obtained no useful information, the captain immediately jogged towards Wei Mo's house and saw a group of children having a snowball fight outside.
Wei Mo wasn't there, so the captain knocked on the door and entered the room. Seeing Wei Mo making a spinning top, he immediately spoke up.
"Wei Mo, I didn't find it at Liu Ping's house. Do you think it's possible it wasn't him?"
Wei Mo frowned. It would be one thing if someone saw him catching chickens once or twice, but so many children saw it.
Moreover, many chickens have gone missing from the village, so Liu Wang must have escaped. Thinking of this, Wei Mo said to Li Dazhuang.
"Uncle Dazhuang, what's the situation over there? Can you tell me so I can make a judgment?"
The captain recounted his visit to Liu Wang's house.
I found nothing at his house. I searched everywhere—the dish rack, the kitchen, the bedroom—but there was no trace of anything.
Hearing this, Wei Mo frowned even more deeply. Looking at the spinning top he was about to finish making, he said to the captain,
"Uncle Dazhuang, don't worry. After I finish making these tops, I'll take the kids to try and trick Liu Wang to see if we can get any useful information."
"After all, children are easy to fool. If Liu Ping is lying, Liu Wang might not be."
The captain, somewhat anxious, said to Wei Mo,
"Then don't do it yet. Wait until you've finished asking around. If it really is Liu Wang, Liu Ping will notify him, and then they'll give the same story."
"You take the child to find Liu Wang quickly, I'll go find Liu Ping and stall him so we can catch him off guard."
Thinking of this, Wei Mo nodded, put down his tools, picked up the dozen or so he had already made, and walked towards the door, watching the children having a snowball fight. Wei Mo called out.
"Stop, everyone. I've made ten. I'll give them to you as a reward first. We have important things to do."
When the group of children saw Wei Mo come out, they immediately stopped, threw the snowballs in their hands on the ground, and ran to Wei Mo.
"Brother Wei Mo, Brother Wei Mo, do you have any for me?"
Wei Mo distributed several spinning tops to the four squad leaders and the person who had provided the information, giving one to each of them.
“Let’s go ask Liu Wang. Everyone, spread out and search the village to see where he is. Don’t worry, as long as we get this sorted out, I will make it for each of you.”
The children who didn't get one were incredibly envious of the spinning tops in other children's hands. Upon hearing Wei Mo's words, they immediately ran out of the yard.
More than 30 children scattered throughout the village, searching for Liu Wang's whereabouts, while Liu Ping naturally wanted to remind his son not to let anything slip.
But no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't outrun more than 30 children, especially the brigade leader, who soon returned to keep an eye on Liu Ping.
This made it impossible for Liu Ping to move an inch. Helpless, Liu Ping could only ask the captain if something was wrong.
"Is there something you need, Captain?"
The captain waved his hand, continuing to follow closely behind Liu Ping, and then said...
"It's nothing, it's nothing. I just wanted to come and chat with you."
Liu Ping was helpless; he couldn't very well chase the brigade leader away, so he could only keep the brigade leader by his side.
On the other side, a child finally spotted Liu Wang and shouted from the side.
"He's here! Liu Wang is here!"
The children who heard the news gathered around, which startled Liu Wang. Seeing so many children, he wanted to run away.
However, Shan Zhenhai and Tian Boguang arrived and pinned them to the ground, waiting for Wei Mo to arrive.
Wei Mo and Wei Xiaomin quickly ran over, and seeing Liu Wang pinned down in the snow, Wei Mo spoke.
"Liu Wang, do you want to get beaten up?"
The question startled Liu Wang, who quickly shook his head.
"What did I do now? Why are you hitting me again?"
I still vividly remember the beating I received last time; it was several people beating me then, and today's number is several times that of that day. If I get another beating, it won't be healed for days.
Upon hearing his words, Wei Mo went up to him, grabbed his collar, and asked him,
"Did you steal a chicken? If you dare to lie, I'm telling you, you're not getting away with this beating today."
Liu Wang dared not admit it and could only try to argue with Wei Mo.
"I didn't, I didn't steal any chickens."
Seeing that Liu Wang refused to admit it, Wei Mo directly addressed him,
"Stop trying to deny it. Your father already said that you stole it and took it home to eat. If you don't talk, I'll hit you."
Hearing Wei Mo's words, Liu Wang was also stunned. His father, Liu Ping, had told him not to tell anyone, but he himself had told them.
After thinking about it, Liu Wang had no choice but to admit it.
"I stole it, I stole it, no, I caught it, I didn't steal it, I picked it up by the roadside."
Upon hearing this, Wei Mo's eyes lit up, and he asked him.
"You stole them all... How many chickens did you catch? On what day did you catch them?"
Liu Wang had no choice but to confess that he had caught four chickens in the past two weeks, which he had secretly hidden in his clothes and brought home, where his whole family ate them.
After obtaining the useful information, Wei Mo immediately found Li Fu among the children and spoke to him.
"Go and find your father, see where the brigade leader is, and the rest of you go and help. Leave a few people behind to watch over Liu Wang."
Upon receiving Wei Mo's order, the group of children scattered to search for their captain, Li Dazhuang. Li Fu, on the other hand, shouted directly.
"Li Dazhuang, Li Dazhuang, where are you? Come out quickly."
The villagers laughed when they heard this, since it was a son calling his father "father," but they didn't say much. Li Dazhuang, however, looked at his son with a face full of black lines.
He was shouting his own name when someone came over and gave him a hard whack on the butt.
"Shut up! What are you shouting for?"
Seeing that he had found his father, Li Dazhuang quickly said to him,
"Father, Wei Mo has discovered something and wants you to go there immediately."
The captain's eyes lit up upon hearing this. He began to speak.
"Quickly, lead the way, let's get there as soon as possible."
Then the father and son started running, and the other children, seeing the team leader, also gathered around him.
They proceeded together towards Wei Mo's location until they reached him. Li Dazhuang saw that the children had already pinned Liu Wang to the ground, and then asked,
"He confessed everything?"
Wei Mo nodded, pulled Li Dazhuang aside, and then spoke to Li Dazhuang.
“Uncle Dazhuang, I got him out of there. I told him his dad had already confessed, and he admitted it himself. He said he stole a few chickens, and that they all happened on certain days. And all the kids heard it.”
After speaking, Wei Mo asked the children,
"Did you hear what he said?"
The children all nodded at Wei Mo.
"Yes, yes, Brother Wei Mo, I heard it too."
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