"Are you just sitting around doing nothing?! The people who bullied my son are standing right in front of you, why aren't you arresting them and instead stopping me!"
The woman started yelling at the police again.
Standing to the side, Li Ailian watched in astonishment at the brief scene unfolding before her. Hearing the woman's utterly irrational screams, she retorted angrily, "What do you mean by bullying your son! Your son is a thief! He stole other people's things, what's wrong with people catching thieves!"
"Impossible! He's just a child! He would never steal anything. Who do you think you are! Don't slander my son!" The woman denied it bluntly, glaring fiercely at Li Ailian.
"That woman is right! Your son stole something and got caught red-handed!" The police officer couldn't stand the woman's madness anymore and said bluntly, "No one bullied your son! Your son made a mistake himself!"
"Officer, this woman is just trying to cause trouble! Don't listen to her nonsense! Arrest her and teach her a lesson, then she'll behave!"
"That's right, how could a shrew who starts hitting people right away possibly raise a child well!"
When the woman heard the police say the same thing, and the onlookers looked at them with disdain, they realized something was wrong.
Her face immediately changed, and she hugged Xiaozhi and burst into tears, "Officer, he's just a child! What does he know? He doesn't understand anything!"
"I think he knows a lot! And you know a lot too!" the police officer said sternly. "You're Xiaozhi's mother, right? As a mother, aren't you going to do anything about your child stealing something so serious?"
The woman shrank back and said tearfully, "Of course I'll take care of him. I'll definitely give him a good talking to when I get back, officer. My family is poor. We only earn a little over ten yuan a month. The five of us barely make ends meet. Xiaozhi has never eaten anything good since he was little. When he sees others having good food, he wants to try it too. He doesn't mean any harm. We're just... too poor. We can't afford good food... Waaah!"
The woman's expression changed in an instant; she cried and complained, which moved some of the people present.
The police officer looked the woman up and down. Her clothes were indeed not very nice, and she was thin. She didn't look like she had money. His expression softened.
Jiang Ci slowly spoke up at this moment, "Don't you have any money?"
"What a question! Looking at her shabby clothes, she doesn't seem wealthy at all," an older woman said sympathetically. "Sister, this child is still young. We shouldn't get angry with a child, should we?"
"She really does look like she's broke." Jiang Ci ignored the old woman's last sentence, turned her head and leaned close to Zhou Mingli's ear, seemingly whispering to her husband, but her voice was actually quite loud, and everyone present could hear her, "I saw she was wearing a watch, a Patek Philippe! It must have cost a fortune to buy one, right?"
Upon hearing Jiang Ci's words, the woman's expression changed drastically. She hurriedly pulled her sleeve down slightly to cover the watch that had inadvertently been exposed.
Among those present were people who knew about watches, but they were standing far away and couldn't see clearly whether the woman was wearing anything on her wrist.
But they did understand what Patek Philippe was.
"What's Patek Philippe? It sounds fancy!"
"It's a foreign product! And it's not cheap!"
The way everyone looked at the woman changed again.
"No, no, I'm not wearing a Patek Philippe. I've never even heard of that brand!"
The woman's unpleasant explanation.
Zhou Mingli glanced coldly at the woman, then picked up where Jiang Ci left off, his voice indifferent, "It does cost quite a bit of money; a watch costs over a thousand."
More than a thousand!!!
Just that one watch!
It costs over a thousand!
Is this watch made of gold?
Everyone gasped.
The police officer's gaze toward the woman turned hostile.
The woman tried to explain in a panic, but no one present believed her anymore.
Does that mean she didn't buy the watch?
She's so poor she can't afford this kind of watch, so how did it grow legs and fly onto her wrist?
If the woman can't explain where the watch came from, she'll definitely be suspected, and no matter how she explains, no one will believe her.
That kind of pretense of poverty and pitifulness is the most disgusting!
"Stop explaining! Take your son and come with me to the police station!"
The police officer said expressionlessly.
Before leaving, he glanced at Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli and asked, "Comrades, has anything in your house been stolen or damaged by them?"
Zhou Mingli said, "Five eggs were broken, and one cabbage is inedible."
Five eggs and that cabbage are worth several cents, so we can't just let them go for nothing.
"Okay, I understand." The policeman nodded, then looked at Huang Zheyue and said impatiently, "You! Come with me!"
Huang Zheyue was small, and at first the woman didn't see him. It wasn't until she was carrying her son and following the police that she noticed Huang Zheyue next to the police.
The expression on her face changed instantly, twisting into anger and disgust!
"Huang Zheyue...! You actually led Xiaozhi to steal things!!"
"You're such a troublemaker! What did my son Xiaozhi ever do to you?! You teach him to be bad! You teach him to steal!!"
Upon hearing this, the police officer turned to look at the woman, then at Huang Zheyue, and narrowed his eyes.
What is your relationship?
The woman sneered, "What relationship? I have nothing to do with him! I must have had the worst luck in eight hundred lifetimes to marry into the Huang family! And to run into such an ingrate, a troublemaker! Huang Zheyue! Why don't you die out there with your damned father! You brought death to your father! And now you're ruining my son! You're the one who deserves to die the most!"
Everyone's ears perked up when they heard this.
Huang Zheyue was a notorious thief in the area because he was so adept at moving around and running away that even the police couldn't catch him. Some people who knew him only knew that no one was home and that he had been kicked out by his uncle and aunt, but no one really knew who his uncle and aunt were.
Even the police couldn't find anything out about him.
I never expected to run into Huang Zheyue's relative today!
Could it be his so-called aunt?
Everyone looked at Huang Zheyue, then at the woman who was cursing and hurling insults at Huang Zheyue, and they were convinced that this family definitely had something fishy going on!
As expected, Huang Zheyue remained unmoved by the woman's insults and even sarcastically remarked, "Your son is a bad boy who follows me to steal things. Do you think I want to pay attention to him?"
Huang Zheyue chuckled, "The Huang family is corrupt from top to bottom. I'm not a good person, and your family is even more like vampires from hell."
Hoho!
Everyone's eyes widened.
Jiang Ci suspected that Huang Zheyue would be poisoned if she licked her lips.
Did you put arsenic on your little mouth?
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