Brother Lin stopped talking. He was not the type to be shy. Since he had decided to take action, he would get the thing tonight no matter what.
As people on both sides were looking forward to it, night slowly arrived.
Brother Lin and his group over there were ready to go, while a group of people gathered in the family compound over here, waiting for the minister to speak.
"Is it almost done?" Minister Shen looked at Ren Jingxiao who had been standing there looking at the sky without saying a word.
"Okay, thank you for troubling my third uncle." Ren Jingxiao nodded, then pulled Ningxia, who was dressed plumply, to stand aside.
In the quiet night, a sudden cry was heard, waking everyone who had fallen asleep. Everyone thought there was a thief outside, and the people in the family compound ran out, sensing something was wrong.
"Help, help!" The voice came from Chen's house. Everyone else ran towards Chen's house together. The Chen family was the first one next to the gate.
"Everyone come and take a look. My family bought a chicken last night and just finished cooking it. When I went to the front to call my husband back, he disappeared. I thought it was stolen by a thief from outside."
"But just as I was about to go to bed, I heard the neighbors say that today's chicken tasted really good. What else do you have to say? This chicken must have been stolen by your family."
The woman looked at the increasing number of people and became more and more imposing.
The crying sound came from the Chen family. Several children of the Chen family hugged their mother and cried aggrievedly.
"This was bought by my father, not stolen from yours!" Maybe because of the pointing and talking of people around, the younger child cried even louder, which attracted more people to come out.
"Mr. Du, although our Chen family is not a wealthy family, we would not do such sneaky things. This chicken was bought by my husband today." The daughter-in-law of the Chen family looked aggrieved as she looked at the people around her.
"Hmph, if you bought it yourselves, why did you eat it secretly at night as if you were hiding it from others?" The Du family looked at the Chen family angrily.
"Everyone knows that meat is hard to come by these days, and our family wants to keep a low profile, fearing that someone with bad intentions might be eyeing it." The Chen family's daughter-in-law said this without feeling guilty at all.
"What do you mean by that? Who are you referring to? Do you want to say that our Du family has bad intentions and that we are not low-key?"
The Du family's daughter-in-law suddenly jumped up, and the men following behind her glared at the Chen family members fiercely.
"Hey, neighbors, let's talk it out nicely."
"Exactly! If anyone saw this, our Transportation Department would be laughed at!"
When everyone saw how chaotic the situation was, they were about to start a fight, so they all came up to try to stop them.
"What do you mean? Do you think we have brought shame to the Ministry of Transport?" The Du family's daughter-in-law jumped up and down.
Suddenly the noise here became louder, and later no one knew who started the fight first, but one person was unwilling to give in and started punching and kicking the other.
The Chen family and the Du family were originally living next to the main gate, and they swarmed together and blocked the gate.
"What should we do?" Brother Lin and his companions who were hiding aside looked at so many people. They originally wanted to wait for a while, but it seemed that the noise was getting worse and worse. They couldn't get in with so many people.
"Wait!" Brother Lin always felt that what happened today was too coincidental, but thinking back, it was probably just a coincidence. Even if those two people were very capable, they would not have known that they would choose to take action today.
"Chen family, you are going too far." The Du family's group was so immersed in the play that they almost forgot about their business. It was not until they accidentally saw the face of the minister standing not far away that they realized that they were acting.
After a loud roar, the Chen family came to their senses and ran to the door together with the Du family.
"Help! Someone is killing me!" He ran and cried, as if he was no match for the Du family members chasing him.
The Chen family group arrived at the door and started looking around. The minister said that today's task was to delay the people at the door and surround them inside.
They didn't know what the minister was trying to do, but they had imagination. They thought those people must be thieves, and the minister had discovered them and wanted to catch them in the trap.
Brother Lin and his group were hiding in the dark. Not only did they see that the family compound was becoming increasingly chaotic, but now some people were actually running out.
Brother Lin and his companions felt that this matter was too strange, and they did not dare to act secretly.
But when they hid, those people seemed to have eyes and ran towards them.
"Chen family, what are you yelling about? If you attract others to laugh at our Transportation Department, do you think they will let your family go?"
The Du family saw that several people from the Chen family had stopped and looked at them. Both families saw Brother Lin and his group hiding not far from the door.
"You are unreasonable and don't allow us to run away. There are many people in your Du family. If we don't run away, we will be beaten to death by your Du family." Several people from the Chen family said aggrievedly while running towards the group of people over there.
"Comrades, please save us quickly, otherwise we will be beaten to death by that group of people." The Chen family members suddenly pounced in front of Brother Lin and his group, hugging the leaders tightly.
"Auntie, get up first. We are just passing by." Brother Lin and the others were still thinking about how to sneak into the family compound when they were inexplicably hugged by this group of people.
"I won't get up. With so many of you here, they definitely won't dare to come and beat us again." The Chen family's daughter-in-law was no fool. Her words made the people in the family compound who were following behind her hesitate for a moment. What were these people doing surrounding their family compound so late at night?
They saw that these people were all strong men, and they were guarding the gate of the family compound. This seemed to them like something was wrong!
"Okay! You must have stolen my chicken!" Just as everyone was looking at Brother Lin and his gang with suspicion, the Du family shouted and pulled everyone back. When they looked at that group of people again, there was only anger in their eyes.
"Who are you? What are you doing at the gate of our family compound? Did you steal the chicken?"
"I'm telling you, this is the Ministry of Transportation's staff housing complex. If you don't tell the truth, I'll hand you over to the police tomorrow!"
Now the Chen and Du families didn't need to intervene, as the people in the family compound surrounded them. Although their family compound had always been the envy of others in the provincial capital, there were many people passing by during the day.
But it was so cold at night, and if these people had nothing to do, were they stupid enough to freeze here? They were a group of men, and they were obviously not good people.
"You misunderstood, we are just passing by, we are not bad people." Brother Lin and his group were surrounded by them, and their voices were drowned out by the chattering of the people in the family compound.
They are not thieves, they are tomb raiders. How can ordinary thieves be compared with them?
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