Lu Baiwei, who was usually quiet, suddenly screamed, which not only startled He Ting, but also scared Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua.
Not knowing what had happened, Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua followed He Ting and ran into the house.
"Lu Baiwei, what's wrong?"
He Ting rushed to the room where Lu Baiwei lived and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Lu Baiwei was fine.
Before he could react, Lu Baiwei suddenly rushed towards him with tears in her eyes. Caught off guard, the sweet and soft Lu Baiwei threw herself into his arms.
He Ting was completely stunned.
His body was stiff, and he patted Lu Baiwei's back soothingly: "Weiwei, what happened?"
"He Ting, there was a thief in my house."
Lu Baiwei was very sad: "You bought me the three-wheeler and one-ring watch yesterday. I took the watch with me when I went out, and the sewing machine and radio were left in the room."
"When I went to the commune with you to get the certificate, I closed the doors and windows."
"I came back and the door was locked, but when I opened it the radio was gone and there was only a sewing machine."
The radio is missing?
Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua were also confused.
That's a radio!
The three turns and one ring that Lu Baiwei got from her marriage should all be left to Wenhua in their family.
Now that the radio was missing and had been robbed, Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua felt a pang in their hearts. It was a very bad feeling to watch something that belonged to them disappear.
He Ting was not so anxious, especially when he saw his little wife in his arms, her eyes trembling violently, as if she was hinting at something to him, He Ting became even less anxious.
He patted Lu Baiwei soothingly, his eyes falling on the muddy footprints on the windowsill.
Then he asked Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua: "Uncle Lu and Aunt Liu, you have been at home today, right?"
Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua were too busy to care why He Ting didn't call them mom and dad, but only Uncle Lu and Aunt Liu.
I'm still thinking about that radio!
Liu Chunhua felt a pang of pain: "Yes, if you two hadn't gotten the marriage certificate today, Weiwei's father and I would not have gone out. We have been guarding at home the whole time."
"How do you think this thief got into the house and stole our radio?"
He Ting was waiting for Liu Chunhua to say this. He looked around and walked to the windowsill.
"There are mud footprints here."
He Ting analyzed: "It rained last night. The thief must have stepped on the mud outside the window and climbed in through the window."
"Who has the leisure to commit thieves? Just check the people who didn't go to work today and you'll know."
He Ting comforted them: "Don't worry, the radio will definitely be found. I'll go to the brigade office now and ask Gong Minbing from the team to check it out."
Without waiting for Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua to react, He Ting patted Lu Baiwei soothingly again, turned around, went out, rode his bicycle to the brigade office.
After He Ting left for a while, Liu Chunhua stared at the footprints on the windowsill, then leaned out to look at the shoe prints on the mud outside the window, and finally felt that something was wrong.
The sole of the shoe print looked familiar, and she seemed to be familiar with the length of the shoe as well.
Considering that Lu Jiaojiao had been crying and making a fuss since last night, and had even been throwing a tantrum and refusing to eat breakfast this morning, and had threatened not to let Lu Baiwei have an easy time, and had even said that she and Lu Jianguo only favored Lu Wenhua, Liu Chunhua had a bad feeling.
Especially when Lu Jiaojiao was guarding Lu Baiwei's room in the morning while Lu Baiwei and He Ting went to the commune to get their marriage certificate, she seemed to have circled around the door outside the window several times.
Liu Chunhua was so busy catching the thief and recovering the radio that she even supported He Ting's request to report Gong Minbing to investigate the case. Now she came to her senses and panicked.
"Weiwei, go chase He Ting and tell him not to call Gong Minbing to come home."
"Why didn't you shout? He Ting said he bought that radio for about 100 yuan."
Lu Baiwei stayed in the room and told Liu Chunhua not to touch the footprints on the window.
"Auntie, please don't destroy the scene. This thief dared to come to my house to steal the radio. Wait for the militia to catch him. I will report him to the police."
"He stole something so expensive, he deserves to be put in jail or sent to a farm for forced labor."
Liu Chunhua couldn't shout that the thief might be Lu Jiaojiao, so she tried her best to wink at Lu Jianguo.
Unfortunately, Lu Jianguo was so focused on it that the radio he had just got was stolen.
That radio is very valuable.
Even though he saw Liu Chunhua rolling her eyes, he thought she was just so angry that she wanted to cry.
He also comforted Liu Chunhua: "Don't worry, He Ting will bring Old Gong here soon, and they will definitely find clues and catch the thief."
Not only Liu Chunhua was anxious, but Lu Jiaojiao, who took Lu Baiwei's radio and hid in her room to play with it, was also anxious.
When she heard Lu Baiwei yelling that there was a thief in the house and He Ting riding his bike to the brigade office to shout and catch the thief, she panicked and stuffed the radio under the bed and hid in the room, not daring to say a word.
After this delay, He Ting went to the brigade office and quickly brought Gong Minbing over. Also coming were the brigade leader Tang Jinghe and the branch secretary Liu.
Tang Jinghe knew a little about Lu Jianguo's family and felt that there might be a thief in the family.
Secretary Liu was discussing some matters with Tang Jinghe at the brigade headquarters today. For the sake of the two Hongtashan cigarettes, Tang Jinghe pulled him over to join in the fun.
When Liu Chunhua and Lu Jiaojiao, who was hiding in the house, were almost dying of anxiety, Gong Minbing had already been invited into the house by Lu Baiwei.
Looking at the leaky house that was converted from a firewood shed, and the holes on the mud ground made by raindrops through the broken tiles, Tang Jinghe, who had followed him into the house, became furious.
"Lu Jianguo, you two treated Weiwei like this. After my uncle passed away, you cried and said you missed your daughter and wanted to take Weiwei home. So you wanted her to come home and live in the woodshed!"
After giving Lu Jianguo a warning, Tang Jinghe angrily scolded Lu Baiwei: "What's the point of having a mouth like that? You don't even know how to say anything when you're being bullied."
"When you were in our Tang family, everyone in our family loved you and treated you better than Lingling. But you went back to your own father's house and live in a shabby woodshed, right?"
"I'm so angry. If you weren't married, I would have turned this place upside down and taken you back to Old Tang's house."
Lu Baiwei pretended to be pitiful: "Uncle, my father and aunt won't let me tell you."
"He's my father. What can I do?"
Tang Jinghe was so angry that he tapped Lu Baiwei's forehead and said, "You are just a foolish filial son. When you were at the Tang family, you were so wild. But when you came back to your dad's place, you were bullied and became a mute person."
"Ahem, ahem!"
Lu Jianguo is usually quite good at pretending.
I didn't expect to catch a thief and almost had his pants pulled off.
He cleared his throat and coughed a few times: "Ahem, catch the thief, catch the thief first, it's too late and the radio can't be found."
Knowing that Lu Baiwei had done this on purpose, Tang Jinghe suppressed his temper and waited to see the show.
He gave the home court to Gong Minbing.
Gong Minbing went forward to check the footprints on the windowsill and made a judgment: "This thief is not difficult to catch. I just checked. There is urine in the ditch outside your window. The mud beside the window is black mud with oil stains, which is different from the yellow mud outside."
"Whoever didn't go to work today, check whose shoe soles are stained with oily black mud, that person is the thief who stole the radio."
Lu Baiwei hurriedly said, "He Ting bought this radio for over a hundred yuan. If we catch this thief, he will be sentenced, right?"