Chapter 123 The heavier the punishment, the better
After noticing the footsteps, Tan Kai's voice stopped abruptly.
Seeing the three people in front of me was like seeing a life-saving straw.
His butt was hit by a wild boar, and his leg hit a tree and got a hole in it. He was in so much pain that he didn't dare to move.
"Captain, brother, please save me..."
Seeing that he could still speak so fluently, Zhao Fa knew that he was not going to die, so he walked up to him angrily and kicked him.
"Tan Kai, I think you've really grown in skill. You've even stolen things from your own brother's house."
As a result, the kick hit his wound fatally.
Tan Kai howled in pain: "Captain, you are going to kill someone..."
"I didn't steal anything. I just went to visit my eldest brother's house."
Shang Ruoting looked at him with a half-smile: "Then why did you jump over the fence and run away when you saw me?"
"I..." Tan Kai didn't know how to explain at all. He stammered for a long time and couldn't say anything.
Zhao Fa didn't want to listen to Tan Kai's excuses: "Humph! People have seen you down the mountain, what else do you have to say?"
After saying that, he looked directly at Tan Chen: "I'm afraid he can't leave. Let's take him down together and let him accept the public punishment of the team tomorrow."
Although Shang Ruoting was an outsider, she understood what this public punishment meant. It was just like Qiao Yuan back then, walking around the village with a sign on his chest...
Tan Chen looked very unhappy. He took a step forward, and without caring whether he touched Tan Kai's wound, he carried him on his back and walked down the mountain.
Shang Ruoting didn't know what he was thinking, and whether he would forgive him because Tan Kai was injured.
If that were the case, this man would definitely lose points in her eyes.
Zhao Fa couldn't tell what Tan Chen was thinking. He only knew that his face darkened the moment he saw Tan Kai.
"Tan Chen, do you have any better suggestions for Tan Kai's punishment?"
Tan Chen glanced at Tan Kai, whose head was resting on his shoulder: "The heavier the punishment, the better."
Tan Kai...
"Brother, I know I was wrong and I won't do it again. Can you forgive me this time?"
Tan Chen was unmoved: "Don't call me big brother, I don't have a brother like you."
Zhao Fa glared at Tan Kai fiercely and said, "Shut up! If you keep making noise, I'll send you to the police station and teach you a lesson about forced labor."
As soon as Tan Kai heard about labor reform, he shut up immediately.
In fact, he was just ignorant of the law. For someone like him who attempted theft, he would be detained at the police station for seven days to half a month at most. But just because he didn't understand, Zhao Fa scared him with just one sentence.
He would rather be criticized in the village than go to the police station.
The group descended the mountain smoothly without encountering any danger.
When they reached the west yard, Shang Ruoting went to check if anything was missing, and Zhao Fa followed as a witness.
Tan Chen sent Tan Kai directly back to the Tan family.
Shang Ruoting saw the tractor parked at the gate of the yard from a distance. It was loaded with sand. When Tan Chen came back, he heard that she had gone up the mountain to chase a thief. She parked the tractor here and went up the mountain.
Zhao Fa followed Shang Ruoting into the yard: "Ruoting, check carefully to see if anything is missing from the house."
When Shang Ruoting chased Tan Kai, she didn't see anything in his hand.
"Captain, this yard is full of construction materials, not any small items. I suspect he didn't get any bargains this time. He's just checking out the area at best."
As Shang Ruoting was speaking, she had already walked to the vegetable garden in the backyard.
The most conspicuous place is where strawberries and watermelons are planted. The seedlings there have fallen to the ground, and it is obvious that they have been stepped on by someone.
"Captain, I think Tan Kai not only wants to steal things, but also to cause trouble."
Zhao Fa also saw that there were more than a dozen seedlings lying on the ground, completely dead.
"I didn't expect Tan Kai to be so mean. Not only did he try to steal things from my eldest brother's family, he also destroyed the crops. Ruoting, don't worry. The team will not only punish him severely, but also make his family compensate for the rice seedlings."
Shang Ruoting smiled gratefully: "Thank you, Captain, for upholding justice for our family."
The two of them looked around again, and seeing nothing unusual, Zhao Fa said, "Tan Chen killed the wild boar today. Although all the credit belongs to him, it is public property after all..."
Of course Shang Ruoting understood what he meant. Wasn't he just trying to raise the issue of the wild boar?
Since she and Tan Chen could not enjoy the wild boar alone, they might as well take the initiative to raise the issue of distribution. It is always better to be proactive than passive, so she interrupted Zhao Fa.
"Captain, wild boars are public property, and distribution is natural."
Zhao Fa hadn't expected a young woman like Shang Ruoting to be so shrewd. A few years ago, a dozen people teamed up to kill a wild boar, and they argued all day and all night over how to distribute the spoils...
"Okay, Ruoting is a sensible girl. The wild boar was killed by Tan Chen. I can't let you suffer too much."
"How about this? We'll give half of the wild boar to your families, and we won't divide the rest among the families. We'll hand it over to the team and cook it when we prepare the big pot meal. Then, everyone can have a taste."
Shang Ruoting originally thought that it would be good enough for her family to get a pig's hind leg, but unexpectedly, Zhao Fa decided to give them half a pig. How could she not be satisfied?
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