When Zhou Bin heard this, he quickly put on his clothes, walked out, and asked, "How much coal was lost?"
Ah Niu said quickly: "I counted them, and there are exactly one thousand pieces of coal missing."
Li Nan heard the sound and came out, asking, "Aniu, what happened?"
Ah Niu said angrily: "I wonder which thief stole a thousand yuan of coal from the coal yard!"
Li Nan was shocked when he heard this. This was two hundred yuan! This thief was really bold.
Zhou Bin didn't even bother to wash his face and said, "Let's go and take a look."
The two men quickly came to the coal yard. Many people had already arrived and were gathered around the coal yard, talking about the matter.
As soon as Liu Junyi saw Zhou Bin, he said, "Zhou Bin, come and see, the thief has stolen the coal and even damaged the fence."
When Zhou Bin arrived at the yard, he saw many broken coal briquettes on the ground and a large gap in the fence nearby.
Aunt Zhao couldn't help but curse: "Who is the one who got stabbed to do such a wicked thing? Isn't this just waiting to be shot?"
Wang Quanwa said, "Normally everyone in our village has coal, so no one would steal it. Who did this?"
Li Jun said at the side: "There is a family that has no coal."
Wang Quanwa immediately asked, "Who are you talking about?"
Li Jun pointed to the distance and said, "Is that Zhou Kai? He doesn't have it at home."
Everyone came to their senses at once. Yes, there was no coal at Zhou Kai’s home. Could it be him?
Ah Niu shouted, "Yes, that bastard must have done that!"
Liu Junyi also said: "It is absolutely certain that he did it!"
Everyone was very excited and wanted to go and settle the score with Zhou Kai.
Zhou Bin hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't worry, we don't have any evidence yet. If we just go ahead and he doesn't admit it, what will we do?"
Ah Niu yelled, "He dares not admit it? Beat him to death!"
Zhou Bin also thought that he was most likely the one who did it, but now he had no evidence, so he could only suppress it for the time being. As long as he was caught on the spot, there was no need to worry that he would not admit to it!
So he persuaded everyone to calm down and said that the most urgent thing was to repair the wall first, so that they would be safer.
Liu Junyi suggested that this time the wall should be built with bricks, as brick walls are strong.
Zhou Bin accepted his suggestion, went to find Wang Manshan, got several trucks of bricks, and started building the wall.
At night, Zhou Bin specially arranged Aniu and Li Jun to ambush around the coal yard. If the thief dared to come again, he would definitely be caught on the spot!
However, the two men waited until late at night and did not see any sign of the thief, so they had to go back to sleep.
The next day, Zhou Bin asked Wang Quanwa and Wang Haichao to wait in the coal yard, but still nothing was found.
Just like that, five days passed and the thief never showed up again.
Everyone was getting a little impatient waiting, but Zhou Bin told everyone not to rush and that they must catch him red-handed and make him pay for his crimes!
At the same time, more and more people came to Zhou Bin's coal yard to buy coal.
They all asked Zhou Bin why he didn't go to the street to sell coal. Zhou Bin told them that he was too busy and asked them to come directly to the coal yard in the future.
Although everyone was a little reluctant, they could not resist Zhou Bin's coal because of its good quality and durability, so they gradually accepted it.
Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and there was still no sign of the thief.
However, Zhou Kai's family was surprisingly quiet, and they hadn't been seen going out for many days.
Just when Zhou Bin was getting impatient, Ah Niu suddenly came over at about eleven o'clock that night. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "Brother Bin, get up quickly, the thief has been caught!"
Zhou Bin was startled, quickly dressed and came out, asking, "Who is it?"
Ah Niu laughed: "Who else, it must be Zhou Kai!"
Zhou Bin immediately said: "Let's go and take a look."
When he and Aniu arrived at the coal yard, there were already many people gathered there.
Everyone held a flashlight and shone it on a man in the middle, only to see him squatting on the ground shivering.
As soon as Li Jun saw Zhou Bin coming, he came over and said, "Brother Bin, we caught him. It was Zhou Kai who did it!"
Zhou Bin came up to him, stared at Zhou Kai squatting on the ground, and asked loudly: "Why did you come to steal coal?"
Zhou Kai hurriedly said: "I, I didn't steal coal, I came here to take a shit!"
Zhou Bin asked in confusion: "Shit? You can't even shit in your backyard, so why are you here to shit?"
Ah Niu cursed: "Are you kidding me? You're pulling a cart while taking a shit?"
Seeing that he couldn't deny it, Zhou Kai just squatted on the ground and didn't say anything.
Liu Junyi cursed, "You thief! Just wait till you go to jail! I'll sentence you to ten or eight years! Let's see if you can still be a thief!"
Zhou Kai was so frightened when he heard this that he trembled all over and begged with tears in his eyes: "Please, please don't send me to the court. If I leave, my wife and baby will have no way to survive!"
Zhou Bin said disdainfully: "What were you doing earlier? It's too late now! Let me ask you, why did you steal the coal?"
Before Zhou Kai could say anything, his wife Han Juan came running over with their son and started crying from a distance: "Zhou Kai, what's wrong with you?"
Everyone looked back and saw Han Juan running over crying. When she saw her man was surrounded by everyone and squatting on the ground, she immediately cried out, "What do you want to do? Do you want to gang up on my man? Are you still human?"
Liu Junyi glared at her and shouted, "Why are you yelling? Your man was caught as a thief by us, and you still have the nerve to yell?"
Han Juan's face turned pale when she heard this. She asked in surprise, "Be a thief? What kind of thief?"
"Don't you know that your man came here to steal coal?" Li Jun asked.
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