"Sister, I want to eat popsicles."
After having a great time for most of the day, Liu Bowen saw a group of people eating popsicles across the swimming pool. He also felt thirsty and hungry.
"Go buy them, one for each person."
Lu Changzheng gave him the key to the locker and asked him to go to the locker room to get the money.
Liu Bowen happily took the key and ran away. When the triplets heard Popsicle wanted to follow him, but their father stopped them.
"Your uncle has gone to buy some for you. If you three can't wait, no one will be able to eat later." When Lu Changzheng spoke sternly, the triplets were quite scared. They sat back in their chairs obediently, waiting eagerly.
After swimming a few laps in the pool, Liu Meiyun also went ashore to rest. Lu Changzheng immediately wrapped her in the towel he brought.
"mother"
The eldest, second and youngest babies were wearing shorts and threw themselves directly onto their mother with their white and tender bodies exposed. They were so sticky that Lu Changzheng, who was standing beside them, felt very unhappy.
"Look at you, you always spoil them. They are adults now, but they are still so clingy." Lu Changzheng complained to his wife.
Liu Meiyu felt that the man was inexplicable, "They are all my own children, so what's wrong with spoiling them a little? I haven't spoiled them."
Besides, it is normal for children of only a few years old to be attached to their mothers. But when they grow up and become unlovable and go their separate ways, their parents will become empty-nesters, and then they will blame the children for not being home.
"Boys need to be independent from an early age." Lu Changzheng pulled Dabao off Liu Meiyu's body and tightened the open bath towel.
Well, Liu Meiyun now understood why Lu Changzheng suddenly became so gloomy. She rolled her eyes at the man and hugged her eldest son back to her. She said, "Lu Changzheng, are you childish?"
"How am I childish?"
Lu Changzheng thought he had covered it up well. He didn't sit on the chair but stood in front of Liu Meiyu to block her view.
"You are behaving very childishly now."
Captain Lu was not embarrassed when he was seen through. He said directly: "You are being immature when you say that all men in the world are childish. Go and ask around and see how many men are willing to let others look at their wives' bodies."
"That's because you have too little experience." Liu Meiyu retorted.
Lu Changzheng: "You have a lot of experience, don't you?"
“…”
Liu Meiyu choked for a moment and didn't dare to say that she just had much more experience than him.
The swimsuit she was wearing was the most conservative one that Lu Changzheng bought for her. It only showed her arms and legs, and it was hard to tell what was being covered. Moreover, her three sons were clinging to her and attracting so much attention. She was not a little girl anymore, so how could she be so charming?
She is so strict in covering herself up that even men are not satisfied. If after a few years of reform and opening up, and more styles and colors of swimsuits are available, will she still be able to go out for a happy swim with Lu Changzheng?
Seeing that Liu Meiyun didn't say anything, Lu Changzheng thought he had the upper hand and continued to chatter: "I think the material of this swimsuit is not very good. Next time, we might as well buy some cloth and make it ourselves, or I'll ask Aunt Wu to make one for you."
"Lu Changzheng, that's enough."
“…”
The couple was discussing swimsuit styles when Liu Bowen, who was going to the locker room to get money to buy popsicles, suddenly shouted in an awkward voice, "Sister, brother-in-law!"
The couple looked in the direction of the sound and saw a middle-aged man grabbing Liu Bowen by the collar and leading him out of the locker room.
"What are you doing? Let him go!" Liu Meiyu ran over with anger in her eyes.
"You are the parents of this child, right?" The man was surprised for a moment when he saw Liu Meiyu, and his eyes were cloudy.
"Is this your brother? He stole my money. What do you think we should do about this?" The man was wearing swimming trunks. He was short and had a thick circle of fat on his belly. He had small eyes and a flat nose. When he looked at Liu Meiyu, his eyes were obscene.
"My brother can't possibly steal money, let him go first!" Liu Meiyu was angry. If she hadn't been worried about the person behind her, she really wanted to slap the man in the face.
"You are from the same family, so you say there is nothing?" The man's eyes lingered on Liu Meiyun's curvy body. Before Liu Meiyun had time to feel disgusted, Lu Changzheng, who was following behind with his three sons, grabbed the man's arm and asked, "Where are you looking?"
"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing? You're hitting someone! You stole money and yet you still dare to hit someone? I'm going to call the police!" The man's arms were grabbed behind his back by Lu Changzheng, his head was twisted to the side, and his face was twisted in pain.
"Sister, brother-in-law, I didn't steal the money. This is the money I took from my brother-in-law's pocket. He lost his own money and framed me!" Liu Bowen was wrongly accused of stealing money. More and more people gathered in the swimming pool to watch the excitement. The pointing eyes made him very uncomfortable.
But he didn't steal the money, and he had nothing to fear. Besides, his sister and brother-in-law were there, so he was not afraid at all.
"Anyway, I didn't steal the money. I have my own money!" Liu Bowen stood straight in front of his sister, his voice full of confidence.
Since he started school, his sister would give him pocket money every month. He usually didn't spend much on buying things, and he had saved up a small sum of money over the years, so he didn't want to steal money.
The man's head was forced to turn to the side, unable to break free, and he roared: "I saw it with my own eyes, and you, a dead kid, still refuse to admit it. You have money, but the money you have is stolen from me, isn't it?"
“Bang!”
"Fuck! How dare you hit me!" The man was slapped by Liu Meiyu. His eyes were glaring with anger, as if he wanted to eat Liu Meiyu alive.
"My brother and I have only one father, who are you?" Liu Meiyu brought the triplets to her brother Liu Bowen to watch, and asked the man: "Do you have any evidence to prove that my brother took your money? Don't say you saw it with your own eyes. If you can easily frame someone like this, then I'm also saying that you just acted like a hooligan to me, and I saw it with my own eyes. Why don't we report it to the police directly?"
"You are talking nonsense! When did I ever act rude to you? You are all in the same gang, let me go quickly, or I will make you pay!" The man was forced to keep his head down, his brain was severely congested with blood.
Lu Changzheng pretended not to hear anything. Not only that, he increased his strength, squeezing the man's arm until he screamed. It was not until the swimming pool staff came to mediate that he let go and wiped his hand on the towel in disgust.
"What's going on? Why are you arguing?"
The staff came over and said to Lu Changzheng and the man without further explanation: "This is a public place. What are you two doing here? You are disturbing other people. Do you know that? Who stole the money? How much did you steal?"
The man finally regained his freedom. He glared at Lu Changzheng and his wife, pointed at Liu Bowen behind them and said angrily: "It was him! That guy stole five dollars from me. If you don't believe me, search! It's in his pocket! I saw him steal it from my locker with my own eyes!"
The people who had gathered to watch the excitement all followed the man's gaze and looked at Liu Bowen.
Liu Bowen pursed his lips tightly. Although he stood straight, he was being stared at by so many people with strange eyes. His face turned red. He took out five yuan from his pocket and said firmly: "This is my family's money! My brother-in-law gave me the money to buy popsicles! I didn't take his money!"
"Yes! My dad bought us popsicles!"
Dabao was unhappy that others wrongly accused his uncle, and shouted angrily at the crowd of onlookers.
"Hmph, bad uncle, my uncle is not a thief! You are a big bad guy! I'm going to let my dad catch you!" Xiaobao was both naive and fierce. He was demonstrating there in his children's swimming trunks with his hands on his hips. If Lu Changzheng hadn't stopped him quickly, he would have rushed over and kicked the man.
"Bad guy!"
Lu Changzheng stopped Xiaobao and didn't notice Erbao. The little guy rushed over like a cannonball and hit the man's stomach with his head.
"You little bastard!" The man was hit unexpectedly, his feet slipped and he stumbled, almost falling down. Just as he was about to raise his hand to slap the kid, his wrist was grabbed again and twisted, causing him to grimace in pain.
"Do you dare to touch him?" Lu Changzheng frowned, with a cold light in his eyes.
Among the group of female students who were watching, a female student with short hair snorted softly, her voice was sharp and piercing: "Your family really knows how to teach your children. Those who steal money steal money, and those who hit people hit people. Parents are so uncultured, how can you raise good children?"
"Who do you say stole the money?" Liu Meiyu had just pulled Erbao back to protect her, and she glanced over with a cold look.
Jiang Ning felt uncomfortable being stared at by the woman. He shuddered, but he still raised his chin and analyzed loudly: "I saw your brother stealing the money with my own eyes. He didn't return the money and still bullied me. Popsicles are only three cents each. Who can give a child five dollars to buy a popsicle?"
The red bean popsicles at the entrance of the gymnasium cost three cents each. Even if the six people in their family each had one, it would only cost a little over ten cents. However, the child was holding a five-yuan bill in his hand.
"That's right! Finally, there's someone who understands. Let's all judge for ourselves. The kid stole money and lied. I saw him reaching into my locker with my own eyes!" When the man heard someone "standing up for him", he immediately stood up and grabbed the staff, insisting that the five yuan in Liu Bowen's hand was stolen from his locker while he was changing clothes.
Jiang Ning listened to the man's convincing words and felt a sense of justice. He continued, "That's right. Everyone saw it. The child was only a few years old and he dared to steal money. The adults didn't teach him well. We can't just let him go and cover up for him. We should return the money, compensate him and apologize. He stole needles when he was a child and stole gold when he grew up. If we don't discipline him well, he will be a threat to society in the future!"
"Jiang Ning, stop talking." Zheng Wei frowned and tried to pull Jiang Ning.
"I didn't steal!" Liu Bowen shouted at people with red eyes and clenched fists.
Liu Meiyun patted his shoulder, turned to the girl who "stood up" in the crowd, and said sarcastically: "Comrade, I think you look like a student. I don't know what you learned in school, but I know there is a saying that goes "Don't comment without knowing the whole picture". Maybe your teacher taught you that, but you just didn't remember it. It may also be that you played in the water too much today and your brain can't hold other things. Do you know how many people there are in China? Just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you use this to judge others as thieves, then I will also say that you and this man are a group of people who came to the swimming pool to cheat, because I have never seen a scholar who is so stupid!"
"puff……"
Zhang Fang, who was watching the excitement nearby, couldn't help but laugh out loud, and looked at Liu Meiyun with undisguised amazement in his eyes.
The people who were watching and joining in the fun reacted and burst into laughter.
"You are making excuses!" Jiang Ning's face turned pale. Seeing her classmates and strangers laughing at her, she gritted her teeth and wanted to curse them out, but when Liu Meiyu gave her a stunned look, she choked on the curse words and could only glare at them hatefully.
"You are right. Show me the evidence. You are a troublemaker who is the biggest threat to society because you are relying on your brainless hypocrisy!" Liu Meiyun scolded the girl and turned to the staff, "Comrade, my husband only has 20 yuan on him, one big group and two five-yuan bills. I just gave them to him this morning. The money has numbers on it. Unfortunately, when I gave it to him this morning, I took a look and found that the two five-yuan bills happened to have consecutive numbers. You can go to the locker room with him to verify."
As soon as Liu Meiyu said this, the expressions of the people watching the excitement changed, and the man who insisted that Liu Bowen stole the money also frowned and said nothing.
"Yes! I still remember the number!" Liu Bowen's eyes lit up when he heard his sister say that, and his brain reacted instantly. When his sister gave pocket money to his brother-in-law in the morning, he was also there, so he just glanced at it, but after thinking about it for a while, he could still remember what the number was.
In front of everyone, Liu Bowen memorized the numbers of three coins. When the staff was led by Lu Changzheng to the locker room to get the remaining two banknotes for comparison, they found that the two five-yuan bills were indeed consecutive in numbers, and the numbers Liu Bowen memorized were exactly the same.
The worker who was trying to smooth things over tossed five yuan and said to the silent man, "Oh, look, you got the wrong person. The two five-yuan bills in his pocket are both consecutive numbers, and the kid remembers the numbers clearly. How could it be your money? Did you drop it on the ground when you were changing clothes? Go back and look for it carefully."
The man didn't expect that his luck would be so bad today. He ran into such a tough guy. Especially when the woman's husband stared at him with a cold face, he shuddered and changed his face again: "Then it's a mistake. Anyway, I lost five yuan. I will go back and look for it. If I can't find it, I will report it to the police!"
The man waved his hands and wanted to go back to the locker room, but Lu Changzheng grabbed his neck and he couldn't move.
"Brother, this matter is not over yet, do you want to leave?" Lu Changzheng left the man in the crowd.
The man looked grim: "I won't pursue it anymore, what else do you want to do?"
"What do you mean you won't pursue the matter?" Liu Meiyu was so angry at the man's shamelessness that she laughed, "You wrongly accused my brother of stealing money, but you didn't even apologize or offer compensation, and you just want to let it go?"
"What did you say? Apologize and compensate?" The man's eyes widened in disbelief as if he had heard a joke. "He's just a little brat, and he wants me to apologize to him and compensate him. Why don't you just go and rob him?"
"I want to ask you this, too. When you framed my brother and insisted that he took your money, why didn't you go out and rob him? I'm even wondering if you actually lost five dollars, or if you coveted the five dollars in my brother's hand and came up with this despicable method to extort money from him."
"You're talking nonsense, I just lost five dollars!"
"Really? Then let the staff go in and help look for it. No one has been in the locker room for half a day anyway. If we can't find the five dollars, we will call the police. Didn't you also want to call the police? It's been half a day, I'll help you report it together."
"Don't be impulsive, I'll go in and look on the floor first. The female comrade is right. No one else has been in the locker room except me and this male comrade to get clothes. The money might have fallen under the cabinet. Who of you can come with me to supervise and take a look?"
The staff who loved to smooth things over knew to clear themselves up first at the critical moment. They just pulled someone from the crowd into the locker room and searched the cracks around the man's locker, but didn't see five dollars.
The people inside took a long time to come out, so Liu Meiyu waited patiently.
But the man was obviously in more pain. Beads of sweat the size of beans kept coming out of his body. His throat was so dry that he wanted to drink water, but all eyes were staring at him.
"We couldn't find it. We almost wiped the floor clean. Comrade, did you really lose five dollars?" The staff member lay on the ground for half a day, sweating profusely. Now he began to doubt whether the man really lost the money.
"I just lost five dollars! Someone must have stolen it and left long ago! She said no one went into the locker room, so no one went in. Who of you is sure? You all support her. Fine, it's my bad luck. I won't come next time, okay!"
The man was about to leave angrily, thinking he had done badly, but someone grabbed him by the back of his neck and he couldn't get away.
"What do you two want to do!" the man was angry.
"Nothing." Liu Meiyun answered for Lu Changzheng, "I now have reason to suspect that you are out to cheat people and frame my brother. If you don't apologize or compensate, we will report you to the police."
"Bo Wen, the Public Security Bureau is two streets away from the gymnasium. Go and call the police."
"Yeah!" Liu Bowen nodded heavily and was about to run.
"No, no, no!" The man saw that Liu Meiyu was serious and hurriedly stopped her, "I apologize, okay? I still have to go to work in the afternoon. I didn't ask for that long of a leave. If I go to the police station for a day and delay my work, I will be deducted from my salary. My family is still waiting for money to buy rice!"
Liu Bowen stopped, looked at his sister, and blinked in tacit understanding.
The man was stared at by Liu Meiyunyun and her husband, and he gritted his teeth and apologized to Liu Bowen in front of everyone.
Liu Bowen curled his lips, raised his chin slightly, and ignored him.
"Today is Children's Day. We were originally here to celebrate with our children, but we ran into you. You accused my brother of being a thief in public, which has left a shadow in his heart and violated his personal reputation. You accused my brother of stealing five dollars from you, so it's not too much for us to ask you for five dollars in compensation, right? Otherwise, everyone will be like you in the future, catching other people's children everywhere and cheating them. If you catch a child with some pocket money, you will say that the child stole from you, without any lesson at all."
"We don't want a cent of this five dollars. We'll donate it all directly to the Children's Fund. If you have no objection, give us the money now, and then we can donate some money together."
When everyone heard Liu Meiyu asking for five dollars in compensation, they were shocked. They were about to discuss it, but then they heard someone say that she wanted to donate the money. Then they thought again, this didn't seem to be wrong.
In particular, several students who were watching the incident nodded in agreement after thinking about what Liu Meiyun said: "Yes, those who accuse others without evidence should be punished! Moreover, this comrade did not take a penny and donated all the compensation to those in need. I think it is very reasonable! This is how we should learn a lesson!"
"Yes, I think there is nothing wrong with that! If you make a mistake, you should be punished. He just accused someone of stealing money without any evidence. Now the money is nowhere to be found. I also wonder if he came out to cheat people on purpose. People like this need to be taught a lesson so that they will remember it!"
When the students saw that the truth had been revealed, they could unleash their sense of justice and take sides without restraint.
"If you don't want compensation, let's call the police. We're busy too and don't want to waste time with you." The man spoke hurriedly as Liu Meiyu's eyes turned to her brother.
"Wait~"
"Is 2 yuan okay? I can't find the money, and it's no use calling the police. I really need to go back to the factory this afternoon to get busy."
With a sneer, Liu Meiyun said, "This kind of thing doesn't seem to be suitable for bargaining. I think it's better to report it to the police. It will delay the work for a long time, but it will be good for everyone if the matter is clarified. Let the police investigate whether you have lost the five yuan!"
"Okay, I'll pay for it!"
The man was so angry that he no longer cared about how people around him looked at him. He took out some scattered bills from his pocket, counted out five yuan, and handed them to Liu Meiyu with gritted teeth.
Liu Meiyu took the money and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.
Just when everyone thought the matter was over, someone in the student group had already volunteered to supervise Liu Meiyun to donate the money, and the person who was wrongly accused of stealing the money was cursing and trying to leave, Liu Meiyun shouted to her brother: "Bowen, you can go to the police now."
"What do you mean?" The man stared at Liu Meiyu in disbelief. Seeing that the boy ran out of the gymnasium without stopping this time, his face was uglier than ever.
The people watching the excitement were also surprised and just waited for Liu Meiyun to explain the situation.
Liu Meiyun was not disappointed. She waved the "compensation" in her hand and sneered, "Comrade, I now have every reason to suspect that you are here to cheat people, and you are a habitual offender. If I remember correctly, you said before that you didn't want to call the police because you had to go back to the factory to work in the afternoon, and you were delayed from work and your family was waiting for money to buy rice. Now you easily pay me five yuan in compensation. Why, isn't this five yuan enough for you to take two days off from the factory and buy rice for your family?"
"You are either afraid of delaying your work or you are afraid of the police investigation, right? So many of us have just heard what you said. We have witnesses, and we have the money. When the police come, it will be physical evidence. You are so afraid of going to the police station. Do you have a criminal record?"
"You're trying to trick me?"
The man stared at Liu Meiyu with horror. He didn't even bother to wipe the sweat off his eyes. His teeth were grinding and he wished he could tear Liu Meiyu's mouth apart.
"Be honest! Who is trying to trick you? Didn't you ask for it? So many people are watching us, think before you speak." Lu Changzheng grabbed the man's arms behind his back. No matter how the man struggled, even when he exhausted all his strength, Lu Changzheng just wouldn't move.
It wasn't until Liu Bowen brought two uniformed police officers from the Public Security Bureau and they briefly interrogated and investigated that he frowned and said, "The same thing happened in the library two months ago. Let's take the person back to investigate and see if it's the same person."
If it's really the same person, then there's nothing to say about this matter.
"Sister, you are so awesome." Zheng Wei watched the police take the man away. She walked up to Liu Meiyu with admiration on her face. Just as she was about to say hello to her, her beautiful sister's husband suddenly turned around with a cold face and dragged the man away.
Zheng Wei was puzzled, still wondering what she had done wrong, when she heard Zhang Fang's voice behind her, "Everyone has left, let's leave too, it's time to eat."
"Oh," Zheng Wei nodded, turned around and looked at the family with envy before going to her classmates.
Zhang Fang pulled his hair and watched the woman walk into the locker room from afar. He couldn't help but smile, thinking that today was a very interesting day and it opened his eyes.
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