Chapter 71: Taking Advantage of the Situation
How can Shi Qiu Shui stop the bad guys from doing bad things?
Ding ding ding, the answer is to sue the parents.
Yes, that's right, tell the parents. After Hu Meili and the boy with the broken eyebrow left, Shi Qiushui ran back to Shi Yue with her short legs. She hugged Shi Yue's legs and complained: "Dad, let me tell you something, I just heard Hu Meili with a guy..."
Zhao Ran, who was following behind her, felt relieved when he saw this scene. He was still afraid that Xiao Qiu would act impulsively and rush up to confront the bad guys.
Shi Qiu Shui didn't know what Zhao Ran was thinking. If she knew, she would definitely tell him. She was not a fool. Those two bad guys were so bad, how could she dare to rush up and confront them alone?
She cherishes her life very much!
Shi Qiu Shui leaned close to Shi Yue's ear and told him the conversation he had just overheard between Hu Meili and the boy with broken eyebrows.
After listening to this, Shi Yue sneered and said, "I was wondering why there are so many coincidences in this world."
Hu Meili's appearance was such a coincidence. She just happened to save Old Lady Yang in a small alley where few people were around. And she just happened to be homeless and needed someone to take her in. He felt something was wrong at that time, but because Hu Meili had never caused any trouble and had been taking good care of Old Lady Yang in the hospital, he could only suppress his suspicion in his heart and not tell anyone else.
Looking back now, it turns out that all this was not a coincidence at all.
Shi Qiushui anxiously tugged at Shi Yue's clothes and said, "Dad, you have to think of a way quickly. They have agreed to drug Uncle Yang tonight. You have to think of a way to stop them quickly, otherwise it will be too late."
Shi Yue looked down at the little girl with a frown on his face, thinking that this child of his was really good at causing trouble for him.
Shi Qiu Shui didn't wait for Shi Yue's answer and came up with a good idea.
She said, "Dad, go call the police and ask Uncle Xu to arrest them."
Shi Yue twitched his lips and said, "Girl, let me repeat myself, Uncle Xu can't arrest anyone just because I tell him to."
Why does his daughter always feel that he can order the police to arrest anyone at will?
How could he have such ability?
Shi Qiushui scratched his hair, feeling extremely distressed. "Dad, what should we do?"
Shi Yue: "Go home first."
He said, "Go home first and tell your Uncle Yang about this and see what he has to say."
Shi Qiushui: "Oh."
The little girl didn't understand, but she was obedient and followed Shi Yue home.
Zhao Ran, holding two reference books, followed Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui back to the slum. Although he didn't know what Uncle Shi would do, he believed in Uncle Shi. Uncle Shi had helped the police catch so many bad guys, and he would definitely be able to stop Hu Meili from harming Uncle Yang.
After returning to the slum, Shi Yue drove the two children into the house and went into the Yang family next door. Yang Zhiqiang was watching TV in the living room at the moment. When he saw Shi Yue come in, he didn't think much of it and just thought he was visiting.
He smiled and said, "Shi Yue is here? Come, sit down, sit wherever you want."
Shi Yue didn't bother to be polite with him and sat down on the sofa next to him.
He sat down and said directly: "Zhiqiang, I have something to tell you."
Yang Zhiqiang gave him a strange look and asked, "What's going on? What's going on?"
Shi Yue: "Just now, I took my daughter and Zhao Ran out to buy books, and they saw Comrade Hu. At that time, Comrade Hu was talking to a young man with a broken eyebrow. My daughter was curious and went over to eavesdrop, and she heard the two people talking about you..."
Without adding any exaggeration, he repeated to Yang Zhiqiang exactly what Shi Qiu Shui had heard.
Yang Zhiqiang didn't realize anything at first. Hu Meili greeted him when she went out this afternoon, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with Shi Qiu Shui running into Hu Meili outside. Until Shi Yue said that Hu Meili was talking to a young man with a broken eyebrow, his face instantly darkened.
Shi Qiu Shui could think of it, and he would never forget that the little scoundrel who robbed his mother and pushed her down was Duan Mei.
As he listened to Shi Yue's words, his expression became uglier and uglier. By the time Shi Yue finished speaking, his face was so dark that it looked like water could drip from it.
Yang Zhiqiang gritted his teeth, clenched his fist and smashed the coffee table.
He angrily said, "Hu Meili, my mother treats her like her own daughter. I thought she was too young to be a caregiver, so I found her a good job. But now she's thinking of plotting against me!"
Yang Zhiqiang was really angry, really angry. He thought he and his mother had never treated Hu Meili badly.
Yes, after Hu Meili moved into his house, she took very good care of Old Lady Yang, and no one could say anything bad about her. But at the same time, he never treated Hu Meili badly. He paid her twenty yuan a day.
Outsiders have always thought that Hu Meili did not take any money and worked as a caregiver for Old Lady Yang for free, but that was not the case. Yang Zhiqiang paid her 20 yuan a day to take care of Old Lady Yang. This 20 yuan was pure salary and did not include the Yang family's expenses. Yang Zhiqiang would give Yang Zhiqiang and Old Lady Yang money for meals and groceries separately.
It was just because she was a young girl living alone, and Yang Zhiqiang and Old Lady Yang were afraid that if the fact that she was rich got out, it would cause trouble, so they didn't tell anyone.
Yang Zhiqiang was grateful to Hu Meili for saving Old Lady Yang and for her careful care for her during this period. In addition to paying her a salary of 20 yuan a day, he also contacted people and planned to introduce Hu Meili to a salesperson in a department store once Old Lady Yang's health improved.
Being a salesperson in a department store is really the best job in this era. Normally, you can't get in without someone. Yang Zhiqiang specially found someone to arrange a job for her. Moreover, considering that Hu Meili ran away from home because of her marriage, he was afraid that she would have nowhere to live, so he specially found someone to arrange a dormitory for Hu Meili.
He asked several people for help and contacted them for several days. Someone just called him and told him that the matter had been settled. He was planning to wait for Hu Meili to come back and tell her the good news.
Now, good news, what good news? Hu Meili is plotting against him, and he still introduces a job to Hu Meili?
He is not that good-tempered!
At most, he drove Hu Meili away because she had taken good care of his old lady during this period, and did not retaliate against her behind her back.
Although he had decided to wait for Hu Meili to come back and let her pack up and leave, Yang Zhiqiang still felt suffocated. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. While lighting it with a lighter, he asked Shi Yue dejectedly.
"Do you think I have done anything wrong to Hu Meili that made her want to scheme against me like this?"
Shi Yue chuckled and said, "You're just overthinking it."
Yang Zhiqiang: "Hmm?"
Shi Yue: "If you ask me, Hu Meili and the others have been targeting you for a long time. Your mother's injury during the robbery was also part of their plan. They planned to let Hu Meili live in your house to plot against you. They were here to plot against you from the beginning. Otherwise, Hu Meili wouldn't have told that man that she had been eyeing your money for a long time."
Yang Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, then took a slow puff of his cigarette. After a moment, he exhaled the smoke and said, "You're right."
In the smoke, he laughed meaninglessly and said, "Yeah, they all said they've been targeting me for a long time."
Yang Zhiqiang was not stupid, he just hadn't thought about it before. After Shi Yue's hint, he immediately realized that Hu Meili and the others were here to plot against him.
He laughed coldly: "Since they have the guts to plot against me, let's see if they can bear the consequences of plotting against me."
Yang Zhiqiang raised his head, looked at Shi Yue pleadingly, and said, "Brother, I have to trouble you to do me a favor."
Shi Yue: "You want to...?"
Yang Zhiqiang: "Hu Meili and the others are plotting against me, so I'll use their trick to send them to jail."
Shi Yue: "Take advantage of their own strategy? Isn't that too dangerous?"
Yang Zhiqiang shook his head: "It's okay, I'm sure."
He leaned close to Shi Yue's ear and whispered his plan to him: "I'll do this for a while... and then when I call you, you help me..."
It is impossible for Yang Zhiqiang to rise from a street vendor to a small boss of an electrical appliance store without any scheming. He does not scheme against others, but when he is schemed against, how could he not try to retaliate?
His plan was actually not complicated. He just took advantage of the situation and pretended to be drugged by Hu Meili. When Hu Meili was about to sneak into her room at night, he would stand up and expose Hu Meili's plan. When he asked Shi Yue for help, he actually meant to ask Shi Yue to help him report the case.
This is his little trick. He doesn't report the case now because Hu Meili has not committed the crime yet. Even if she is caught by the police, she will be given a lighter sentence because of attempted crime.
The fact that Hu Meili and the others could come up with such a sinister plan shows that they are not good people. Why should the punishment for the bad guys be reduced just because he discovered and avoided the bad guys' plan in advance?
A hint of coldness flashed in Yang Zhiqiang's eyes. He wanted to put Hu Meili and the guy with broken eyebrows in jail, and they wanted them to stay in jail until they died!
The reason why he looked for Shi Yue was because he knew that Shi Yue had a relationship with the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment. With this relationship, he could better carry out his plan.
After hearing Yang Zhiqiang's plan, Shi Yue nodded happily: "Okay."
They said they were asking him for help, but in fact, the only thing Yang Zhiqiang really needed him to do in this plan was to report to the police.
Just report it to the police, they're familiar with this kind of thing. Haha, just kidding.
Seriously, Shi Yue knew that Yang Zhiqiang had specifically asked him to report the case to the police because of his relationship with Captain Xu. However, he felt that considering how much Old Lady Yang had taken care of him and Xiaoqiu, it wasn't a big deal to use that relationship to help Yang Zhiqiang. Besides, Yang Zhiqiang wasn't using that relationship to commit any crime. On the contrary, by reporting the case to Captain Xu, he was actually giving him a performance boost, and he believed Captain Xu wouldn't mind.
Seeing Shi Yue nod and agree without thinking, Yang Zhiqiang was somewhat touched. He put his arm around Shi Yue's shoulders and said, "Thanks, buddy."
He didn't say any words of thanks, but in his heart, Shi Yue was already his brother.
Shi Yue smiled and patted his shoulder.
After discussing the plan for the evening, Shi Yue pretended nothing had happened and went home. Yang Zhiqiang calmed down and turned to go into Old Lady Yang's bedroom.
Although he didn't want to make Old Lady Yang worry and sad, he had to inform her about this matter to prevent her from falling into Hu Meili's scheme without knowing why.
Not to mention how sad Old Lady Yang was when she knew that Hu Meili, whom she loved like her own daughter, had come to plot against her son, just think about how curious Shi Qiu Shui was when she saw Shi Yue returning home.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Shi Qiushui, who was lying on the sofa, immediately turned around with bright eyes: "Dad, you're back!"
She knelt on the sofa, poked her head out from the back of the sofa, and asked Shi Yue curiously: "Dad, have you told Uncle Yang about those two bad guys? What was Uncle Yang's reaction? How is he going to deal with those two bad guys?"
Shi Yue glanced at the little girl speechlessly and said, "You're just a kid, how come you're curious about so many things?"
Shi Qiushui was anxious: "Dad!"
Shi Yue was helpless: "Okay, okay, I'll drink some water and tell you later."
He poured himself a glass of water and said, "I told you, Uncle Yang. Your Uncle Yang already knows about this. He decided to play along. After Hu Meili implements her plan, he will report it to the police and have these two people arrested."
Shi Qiushui nodded thoughtfully: "Oh, so that's it."
Shi Yue: "Okay, I've told you everything I know. Are you no longer curious?"
Shi Qiushui: "I'm still curious. How is Uncle Yang going to turn the tables?"
Shi Yue: ...
He twitched his lips and said, "Ahem, well, you'll know tonight."
"Okay." Shi Qiu Shui pursed his lips and began to look forward to the arrival of the evening.
Around six in the evening, Hu Meili came back from outside carrying a bag of vegetables. Gao Cuifen, who was getting water in the yard, smiled and said, "Meili went to buy vegetables?"
Hu Meili nodded and said softly, "I went out to do some work and bought some food."
"What vegetables did you buy today?" Gao Cuifen said as she rudely grabbed the bag from Hu Meili's hand.
Hu Meili didn't try to stop her, still keeping her demure expression, and said, "I saw lotus roots being sold in the market, so I bought some. I wanted to give Aunt Yang something fresh to eat, so I also bought some..."
Shi Qiushui, who was playing skipping rope with Zhao Ran and Li Xi in the yard, saw this scene, curled his lips, and whispered, "What a pretense."
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she really wouldn't have dared to associate the woman with a violent face outside with the timid woman in front of her.
Li Xi: "Ah? Xiaoqiu, what did you say?"
"No, nothing." Shi Qiu Shui came back to his senses and shook his head.
She looked at Li Xi: "By the way, what did you say to me just now? I was distracted and didn't hear it."
Li Xi: "Oh, I said I'd stop playing after this round. Just now, Grandma Li called me and said the meal is almost ready."
Shi Qiushui: "Okay, I'll stop playing after this one. It's almost time for dinner at home."
At this time, almost everyone in the courtyard was ready for dinner, except for the Yang family. Because Hu Meili, the cook, came back late, the Yang family had to eat later than usual, but not too much later.
Hu Meili cooked all quick dishes tonight. It took less than half an hour to heat up the rice and stir-fry the dishes. The meal was ready quickly.
After the meal was out of the pot, Hu Meili quietly peeked out through the gap in the kitchen curtain. In the main room outside, Yang Zhiqiang was watching TV intently. Seeing that Yang Zhiqiang didn't even glance towards the kitchen, Hu Meili took a deep breath, took out the medicine powder that Aqiang gave her in the afternoon from her pocket, and quickly sprinkled a layer on a meat dish and two bowls of rice outside.
After she finished spreading the powder, she looked outside again with a guilty conscience and saw Yang Zhiqiang still watching TV. She picked up her chopsticks and mixed the vegetables and rice. After mixing them evenly and no trace of the powder could be seen, she put the powder in her hand away.
"It's time to eat—"
Hu Meili brought the food to the table with a smile and called Yang Zhiqiang to eat. When she saw Yang Zhiqiang sitting down in front of the bowl of rice she had drugged, the smile on her face became even more sincere.
She smiled and said, "Brother Yang, you eat first. I'll take this bowl of rice in for Auntie to eat."
Yang Zhiqiang glanced at her and said, "No need, Mom is asleep, so I won't eat for now."
Hu Meili was stunned: "Ah? Why is Auntie asleep at this time?"
Yang Zhiqiang: "Mom feels a little uncomfortable today, I think she has a cold, so I'm going to bed first."
Hu Meili was a little panicked. If Old Lady Yang fell asleep now, she wouldn't be able to eat the meal mixed with sleeping pills. What if she woke up in the middle of the night and ruined her plan?
She gritted her teeth and said, "Well, that won't do. People with colds can't not eat. If they don't eat and have no nutrition, how can the disease be cured? So, I'll go in and wake up Auntie and let her eat before going to sleep."
As she spoke, she carried the food and walked towards Old Lady Yang's room.
How could Yang Zhiqiang let Hu Meili in? If she went in and found that Old Lady Yang was pretending to be asleep, it would be a small matter. But if she let Old Lady Yang take the sleeping pills, it would be a big deal.
Does anyone know where Hu Meili's accomplice got the sleeping pills from? Do they have any side effects? Are they harmful to the human body? What if something happens to Old Lady Yang after she takes them?
He could take risks with himself, but he would never take risks with Old Lady Yang's body.
Yang Zhiqiang pretended to be calm and said, "No, you don't need to go in and call my mother. I just gave her some cold medicine. It contains sleeping pills, which will make her feel sleepy. If you go in and wake her up, she will feel uncomfortable and unable to eat."
Didn’t Hu Meili want to go in and feed his old lady sleeping pills? After he said that, Hu Meili wouldn’t still want to go in, right?
After hearing this, Hu Meili felt relieved.
Because she was confident enough in her disguise, she didn't think much about it and easily believed what Yang Zhiqiang said.
Cold medicine with sleeping pills should be similar to sleeping pills, right? Never mind. As long as the old woman can sleep soundly and doesn't get up in the middle of the night to ruin her plans, it doesn't matter.
She smiled and turned back: "In that case, I won't go in and call Auntie, let Auntie sleep."
Seeing her turn around, Yang Zhiqiang breathed a sigh of relief. He picked up his chopsticks and started eating. He held the bowl and shoveled rice into his mouth. While shoveling, he called out to Hu Meili and said, "Meili, come and eat too. The dish you cooked today is especially delicious. Come and eat."
Hu Meili smiled brightly and said, "Brother Yang, if you think it tastes good, eat more. I won't eat for now. I still have some work to do in the kitchen, so I'll go clean up first."
Yang Zhiqiang mumbled while chomping at his rice: "What are you cleaning up? Meili, put it aside and eat first! You know we don't do that kind of thing at home. Come on, come and eat first!"
Hu Meili rushed into the kitchen and shouted outside: "It's okay, this is not a lot of work, I can finish it in a while, Brother Yang, you can eat yours first."
She was smiling outside the kitchen, but her expression changed immediately as she entered. While wiping the kitchen stove, she gritted her teeth and cursed softly: "Eat, eat, eat, just eat, all these sleeping pills won't kill you!"
But what she didn't know was that Yang Zhiqiang, who was outside, saw her enter the kitchen and immediately spat out the rice he had just eaten. He didn't throw it away, but wrapped it up with a piece of paper, including the remaining rice in the bowl. He finally put the wrapped things into his trouser pocket.
Once we report it to the police, these will be evidence.
After the meal was packed, he didn't dare touch the vegetables. Who knew if there was any drug in them?
He held an empty bowl and ate air for half a day.
About ten minutes later, Yang Zhiqiang came to the kitchen with an empty bowl. Hu Meili in the kitchen was still cursing at Yang Zhiqiang in a low voice the previous second, and the next second she saw Yang Zhiqiang standing behind her without her knowing when.
She was startled and shuddered violently, then asked with a bad look, "Why are you here?"
Yang Zhiqiang: "Oh, I'm done eating, bring the bowl over here. Hey, Meili, why don't you look so good?"
Hu Meili realized that her tone just now was not very good, and she forced a smile and said, "Oh, nothing, I'm just a little tired."
"Oh." Yang Zhiqiang pretended not to notice anything and said naturally, "You must be tired. Then you can take a rest after you finish cleaning up."
Hu Meili nodded and quickly responded, "Okay, Brother Yang, I understand."
Yang Zhiqiang: "Okay, I'll go out first."
He put down his bowl and chopsticks and sat back on the sofa.
He didn't know the effect of the sleeping pills* that Hu Meili gave him, so he had to observe Hu Meili's reaction in the main room first, and then behave accordingly.
After Yang Zhiqiang sat on the sofa for about twenty minutes, he saw Hu Meili's figure looming behind the kitchen curtain, as if she was secretly glancing at him.
He realized instantly that Hu Meili was observing whether the medicine had taken effect.
He quickly covered his mouth and yawned, muttering to himself loudly: "Oh, what's going on? Why am I so sleepy today?"
After yawning two or three times in succession, Yang Zhiqiang stood up and pretended to be extremely sleepy as he walked towards the bedroom, shouting as he walked: "Meili, I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep first. After you clean up the kitchen, don't forget to clean up the living room as well."
Hu Meili thought the drug was taking effect, and she was secretly delighted. She immediately agreed, "Okay, Brother Yang, go to sleep."
Hearing the sound of Yang Zhiqiang closing the bedroom door, she sneered and whispered, "Humph, still closing the door? You think closing the door can protect me? That little latch door, I can open it with one stroke."
Although she said this, Hu Meili did not take action immediately.
She thought that the effect of the medicine had just started and Yang Zhiqiang was probably not asleep yet, so she planned to wait until it was dark and Yang Zhiqiang was asleep before taking action.
This put Yang Zhiqiang and Shi Yue in a difficult position. One of them lay on the bed pretending to be asleep waiting for Hu Meili to take action, while the other one pricked up his ears next door, waiting for Yang Zhiqiang to call for help.
The two people waited and waited for a long time.
It was almost ten o'clock in the evening when all the lights in other houses in the yard went out.
Hu Meili finally took action.
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