The village chief sighed and said, "Ah... this boy belongs to the Chaomi family. If someone outside the village calls the police, it's fine. But if someone in the village calls the police and makes him spend ten or eight years in prison, that would be a bit unpleasant."
He paused, shook his head, and said seriously, "Calling the police isn't a good idea. If my son goes to jail, I'll be in the village. I'll see him everywhere. If he gets in trouble, it'll be troublesome."
Jiang Yingxue said, "I'm not afraid of trouble. Some people bully the weak and fear the strong. I can send my son in jail. If my father is ignorant, I can also send his father in jail."
"Village Chief, I won't call the police this time for your sake. But if I encounter a thief next time, I will call the police directly."
The village chief said, "Okay, haha."
Soon, Jiang Xingpeng's parents arrived.
"Village head, secretary, I'm really sorry. My son is ignorant and has caused you trouble. I will teach him a lesson when I get back." Jiang Chaomi felt ashamed and kicked his son as soon as he came in.
"Chaomi, you have to teach your son a lesson when he gets home. Do you know how much these things he stole today are worth?" The village chief raised two fingers.
"2000?" Jiang Chaomi kicked his son again. It was really embarrassing for him to steal things for 2000 yuan.
"Dad," Jiang Xingpeng cried out in pain, then looked at the village chief with pleading eyes and said, "Village chief, please don't tell my parents."
The village chief ignored his pleas and said to Jiang Chaomi and his wife, "200,000 yuan."
"What? 200,000!" Jiang Chaomi and his wife were stunned.
Hua Gumei pointed angrily at the ashen-faced Jiang Xingpeng, extremely disappointed. "I think you've lost your mind! For Zhang Xiaomei, you actually stole so much! If it weren't for the kindness of the village chief and the secretary, you would have been in jail. Why would you even want to marry? You're probably going to piss off your dad and me to death."
Jiang Xingpeng yelled at the top of his lungs, "This is all your fault! If you had just given me the betrothal money quickly, would I have thought of stealing things to sell for money? It's all your fault!"
Hua Gumei's heart grew colder and colder, and she said, "You went to steal the money, and you blame us for not giving you the betrothal money?"
Jiang Yingxue didn't care about their family affairs. She asked Jiang Xingpeng, "Did you steal the fertilizer from Chenpi's and Uncle Niu's families?"
Jiang Xingpeng lowered his head and said nothing, but his expression and behavior betrayed everything.
Jiang Chaomi slapped him on the head and said angrily, "Just answer my question!"
"I took it," Jiang Xingpeng said with no shame. "Who told them to leave it outside the door? I thought it was trash and took it!"
"Heh, how much did you sell it for?" Jiang Yingxue moved her hand, and a stream of spiritual energy fell into his head, ordering him to tell the truth.
"It's not much money, just 20,000, 10,000 per bag." The next second, Jiang Xingpeng realized that he had let the cat out of the bag. He looked at the surprised eyes of the people around him in horror.
Wow, the fertilizer sold in the store costs 1,000 yuan a bag, but he sells it at 1 yuan a bag. He is a talented person, but this talent is not used in the right way.
Considering that it was a first-time offender and they were villagers, Jiang Yingxue said, "Alright, Chenpi's family and Uncle Niu's family will each pay 20,000 yuan, and the matter will be over."
Jiang Xingpeng angrily said, "Why? I only sold 20,000 in total, why should I lose 20,000?"
Jiang Yingxue said coldly: "Because you are a thief, and a thief caught red-handed."
"You're blackmailing me! I won't pay you back, so call the police if you dare!" Jiang Xingpeng felt less nervous when he saw his parents were there. He thought the village chief and the village party secretary would definitely let him go for his parents' sake, and he didn't care about Jiang Yingxue and Ji Fu at all.
Jiang Yingxue looked at the village chief and said, "Village chief, I don't want to call the police, but look at what he said, it seems that if we don't call the police we are looking down on him." She promised the village chief not to call the police, but it was still okay to scare him.
The village chief looked helpless and said, "It's up to you." The kid from the Mi family was caught stealing things on the spot, but he still looked so ignorant. It's time to teach him a lesson.
Jiang Yingxue said, "Alright then, either you pay me or I call the police and you go to jail. Choose one."
"I'll only give you five minutes to think about it. Once that time is up, tell the police if you have any grievances."
Each family will be compensated 20,000, so for two families, that's 40,000. Hua Gumei thought the amount was too high and said, "Isn't 40,000 too much?"
"Not much. I think it's okay, right, village chief, secretary?"
The secretary nodded and said, "Although we sell that fertilizer for 1,000 yuan a bag, he sold it for 10,000 yuan a bag, making 20,000 yuan. This move is just to make him take out the profit from the sale and pay 20,000 yuan in compensation. 20,000 yuan is not much compared to going to jail."
The village chief also said, "He sold it for ten times the price. Besides, Chenpi's and Uncle Niu's families were already in a bad financial situation. Xingpeng stole their fertilizer, and they can't buy it themselves. This will affect the harvest in the fields and their income."
"It's not too much to ask Xingpeng to double the compensation. Just think of it as a lesson for him."
Jiang Chaomi smoked in silence. Hua Gumei said, "Village head, secretary, can you please just give my son the 20,000 yuan he earned from the sale and forget about the rest? He just made a mistake in a moment of confusion. I will definitely teach him a lesson when I get back so that he will remember this lesson and never do it again."
At this moment, Jiang Xingpeng threw the sack to the ground, stomped on it several times, and said, "I won't compensate! I won't compensate! Why should a little girl like you ask me to compensate? What's it to you if I steal something?"
Including his own seeds and fertilizers, he sold them for a total of 35,000 yuan. The money was already in his pocket, and he didn't want to spend a penny.
He stood up and swung his fist towards Jiang Yingxue's face, but when he was half a meter away from Jiang Yingxue, he was kicked away by Ji Fu.
"Bang——" He fell heavily to the ground, grimacing in pain.
"Son!" Hua Gumei and his wife hurried over, worried about his condition.
Jiang Chaomi felt sorry for his son and scolded Ji Fu, "What are you doing, girl?"
Ji Fu said expressionlessly: "He deserves it!"
At this time, the village chief said: "This store doesn't belong to Zhiqiang and me, it also belongs to Yingxue. Xingpeng, you came to Yingxue's store to steal things, and she didn't call the police immediately, and you laughed at her. You even wanted to beat her up. This is unacceptable."
After Hua Gumei helped her son up, she looked at Jiang Yingxue and said, "Yingxue, can you give me 20,000 yuan?"
Jiang Yingxue refused, "I don't believe it. It must be 40,000. I can let it go for him stealing from the fertilizer store, but he must pay the 40,000."
Jiang Chaomi put out his cigarette and said, "We're from Uncle Xianzheng's family. We're all from the same village. Don't be so unreasonable."
Jiang Yingxue looked up at the clock on the wall and said, "You think it's too much? It's none of my business. You still have one minute to think about it."
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