The village needs to share the money, and in order to reduce unnecessary trouble, this matter cannot be made public.
Shen Yuzhu made this decision while looking at the dozen or so villagers patrolling the village entrance in the yard, as well as several village cadres.
He asked the accountant to recopy the list of households that had just been counted and participated in the money distribution, writing the names of about twenty households on each sheet of paper. He then distributed the papers to the dozen or so villagers present and asked them to notify these people privately according to their names the next morning and ask them to go to the brigade headquarters after eight o'clock in the evening.
He emphasized, "This matter must be explained clearly to the villagers. It must not be made public. Each family should send one person to prevent families who won't get a share from finding out and causing a commotion. If things get out of hand, no one will get a share."
As for Old Lady Zhan and Zhan Baoku who are now imprisoned in the woodshed, they are also a big problem.
After settling the money issue, Shen Yuzhu had the mother and daughter brought out.
Shen Yuzhu asked, "Tell me, where did all this money come from? The villagers have been oppressed by your family and can no longer afford to live. Your house has been ransacked, and yet you still hid so much money? You are really capable!"
That money was the last straw that saved the Zhan family. If it was taken away by the villagers, it would be as good as gone. The mother and son were now heartbroken and wanted to cry but had no tears.
Seeing the two men gritting their teeth in silence, Shen Yuzhu continued, "This is the blood and sweat of the villagers that Zhan Dayou has extorted over the years, right? You still dare to use this money? Aren't you afraid of extinction of your descendants?"
One villager said directly: "They have already lost their descendants, what else can they be afraid of?"
These words hit Mrs. Zhan's heart directly, and she burst into tears.
Two of her three sons are dead, and she doesn't know if her youngest son will live to old age like his father. None of her sons has given her a grandson. Is this old Zhan family really going to be extinct?
The more the old lady thought about it, the sadder she became, and her cries became louder and louder. Finally, she just lay on the ground and rolled around crying.
The more she did this, the happier the villagers were.
This old lady was no good. She seemed cheerful and talkative, but in reality, she was a smiling tiger, cruel and ruthless, but she was Zhan Dayou's right-hand man. Now that she had met such a fate, how could the people not be upset?
Zhan Baoku looked at his mother like that, lowered his head with a vicious look in his eyes, and clenched his fists tightly.
His behavior did not escape the attention of the villagers around him. They raised their feet and kicked him to the ground, cursing: "God bless you, you are a dead end, and you still don't accept it, right?"
Now that the other side was outnumbered and powerful, he knew that if he confronted them head-on he would only suffer more physical pain, so he had to endure it.
Shen Yuzhu signaled the villagers to stop beating him, then asked, "Did Zhan Dayou embezzle this money from the village? The higher-ups are investigating Zhan Dayou for corruption. You know where the money is hidden, so you must have been involved in the corruption.
I'll call and report this matter at daybreak. When the higher-ups come to investigate, you and your mother will be put in the cage again.
As for whether you and your mother were innocent in the human trafficking incident, I believe you know better than anyone else. We didn't have any evidence in that incident, but this time we caught the person red-handed. Do you think you can get away with it like last time?
"Over a million, you have a really big appetite. That's enough money to execute a few people, right?"
Shen Yuzhu's "analysis" completely frightened the Zhan family mother and son. Yes, the money was originally hidden and dirty. If the higher-ups knew they came back to collect this dirty money, they would be arrested straight away!
Originally, they wanted to discuss it with these people and divide the money among them while no one else knew, leaving some for the mother and daughter.
Now they dared not bring it up again. They knew how much the villagers hated their family.
That money was embezzled from exploiting the interests of the villagers. If they dared to ask for some of it back, these people would only make their death even more miserable.
Even if the people in the yard planned to divide the money secretly, there would be no chance for the mother and daughter to get a share.
Mrs. Zhan had never bowed her head to anyone in the village for decades, and now she had to plead with Shen Yuzhu: "Don't, don't report it, we don't want this money..."
Shen Yuzhu smiled and said, "You don't want it anymore? This shouldn't have been yours in the first place. You spent the villagers' hard-earned money with a clear conscience, and now your family is in ruins, which is retribution.
The law can't punish you, but there's still God. Where did this money come from? I'll help you pay it back. If you and your mother don't want to go to jail, you'd better not say this out loud.
Regardless of whether they talked about it or not, they wouldn't get a cent back. If they kept silent, they would be left in silence. If they did, not only would they suffer, they would also be arrested.
Looking back on those days in the detention center now, it was a nightmare. Wouldn't prison be even more miserable than the days in the detention center? Just imagining it made the mother and daughter shudder. How could they dare to walk into a gunpoint?
They understood what Shen Yuzhu said, and nodded like chicks pecking at rice, "We, we definitely won't tell, we won't tell..."
After the mother and daughter understood the stakes, Shen Yuzhu asked the villagers to release them. After such a long time, everyone was tired, so he dismissed the villagers in the yard and asked them to go home and sleep.
It will be dawn in three or four hours, and everyone has other things to do.
As for the large sum of money, it would be left at Shen Yuzhu's house tonight. His two eldest sons were both nearly twenty years old, and there was a large dog in the yard. With the whole family guarding the money, nothing should go wrong in a few hours.
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