After the police left, Li Xunli and Chen Manyu began to clean up the mess in the kiln bit by bit.
The sand on the ground was no longer usable, so Li Xunli asked Chen Manyu to go home and find a sieve.
There were sieves in the porcelain kiln, but they had been broken by the troublemakers.
Chen Manyu did not sift the pounded material; he simply poured it directly into a bag and stored it away after pounding.
Only when it's ready to be used will it be sieved to keep the finer powder and throw the larger particles back in.
The ground is now a mess of raw material powder, but the larger particles can still be identified. After picking through them and pounding them again, you might still find some usable raw materials.
After all, Li Xunli still had to go to buy the raw materials herself, but given the current situation, even if she bought them, they would be sabotaged.
Upon hearing Li Xunli's instructions, Chen Manyu, though still immersed in his distress, obediently ran home to get the sieve.
Li Xunjin didn't go back to the company either; instead, he helped Li Xunli clean up the things in the kiln.
The three of them worked in the kiln all day, forgetting to eat lunch, before finally sweeping all the raw material powder into the undamaged bags.
A bag of unidentified rubble was left behind.
The three people were covered in dust after a long day's work, but at least the kiln was mostly cleaned up.
There was a tap in the kiln. Li Xunli found a few towels and gave them to Li Xunjin and Chen Manyu. They wet the towels and wiped the soot off their bodies.
After the three of them finished wiping, the once clean towels were completely black.
Li Xunjin took the towel to the tap to wash it, and said while scrubbing it, "I've cleaned it up today, so they shouldn't come back. I also talked to the police this afternoon, and they will send people to patrol."
"You should stay home these next few days and avoid going out and accidentally running into them. If a conflict occurs and something happens, it would be a real loss."
Li Xunli nodded and looked at Chen Manyu: "Manyu, let's leave it at that for today, but you absolutely cannot come out again, understand? You must wait until your aunt comes to call you before you come."
Chen Manyu lowered his head awkwardly and stammered, "Okay, I understand."
He had hoped to take a chance and visit the porcelain kiln today, but he never expected to witness such a heartbreaking scene.
Thinking of those pebbles, he raised his head again and looked at Li Xunli, saying, "Aunt Li, I have a small tool at home that can be used to pound materials. Can I take that bag back home and use it?"
Li Xunli originally wanted to refuse, but when she saw Chen Manyu's eyes, she swallowed her words and said helplessly, "Then later, Uncle Xun Jin and I will help you carry that bag of broken stones back."
"Okay! Thank you, Aunt Li, thank you, Uncle Xun Jin!" Chen Manyu smiled.
He couldn't rest easy if he didn't take the bag of salvageable rubble back with him.
Seeing the raw materials he valued and loved so much being ruined like that, how could Chen Manyu possibly let it go?
When Li Xunli took Chen Manyu back with the bag of pebbles, she noticed that Aunt Huifen looked at her as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. Just as she was about to ask what was wrong, Aunt Huifen's expression changed.
After politely declining Aunt Huifen's invitation to stay for dinner, Li Xunli was escorted home by Li Xunjin.
Although it had been cleaned at the kiln, it was just a simple wipe, and the powder was mixed with water to form mud. Once it got wet, it became dirty and stuck to my body.
Hearing the commotion, Shen Qingqing ran out of the kitchen and saw her mother and uncle walking in one after the other, looking quite disheveled.
"Mom, Uncle, what's going on?"
As soon as Shen Qingqing finished asking the question, she immediately realized something and her face tensed up instantly: "Have the troublemakers come again?"
The anger that Li Xunli had calmed down while cleaning up the kiln site suddenly flared up again at Shen Qingqing's simple question.
Amidst a torrent of profanities directed at Li Bo, he interspersed fragments with descriptions of the day's events.
Shen Qingqing, who had carefully listened and understood, also looked very unpleasant.
Then we heard Li Xunjin's supplementary explanation of how things were handled afterwards.
When Shen Qingqing heard that the solution was still to have the police patrol and stand guard, she felt that it wouldn't work.
Police officers also need to follow evidence and procedures when handling cases, but these scoundrels aren't stupid or idiotic; they'll still run into the police even when they see them.
The thugs avoided the police, only showing up when the police were around. But the police couldn't keep expending their resources there forever; they would eventually have to leave.
Once they leave, the scoundrels will come back with a vengeance.
It's a vicious cycle.
For these people, entrapment is the best tactic.
"Brother, let's eat at home tonight," Li Xunli invited Li Xunjin to stay for dinner.
Li Xunjin was still thinking about how to resolve this matter, so he didn't refuse and agreed.
At the dinner table, Shen Qingqing shared her idea of entrapment: "Uncle, once those people know we've called the police, someone will definitely tip them off when they see the officers. With the police around, they won't cause trouble at the porcelain kiln and will just stay put. That way, we'll never catch them."
Upon hearing Shen Qingqing's words, Li Xunjin and Li Xunli also sighed heavily, as they were aware of this matter as well.
"So, we need to talk to the police officers and offer some useful suggestions." Shen Qingqing said with a smile, speaking in a way that Li Xunjin and Li Xunli couldn't understand.
What are we exchanging ideas about?
What suggestions?
After finishing their meal, Shen Qingqing didn't bother to clean up the table and urged Li Xunjin to take them to the porcelain kiln to see if the police had arrived.
Unexpectedly, Shen Qingqing was quite lucky. Just as she was about to turn towards the porcelain kiln at the intersection and the bridgehead, she ran into two policemen who were on night patrol.
One of the police officers happened to be someone who had been there before and had seen Li Xunjin and Li Xunli. When Li Xunjin rolled down his car window and told them he had something to say, he stopped the car with another officer.
"Do you have any new leads to provide?" the police officer asked.
Just as Li Xunjin was about to speak, Shen Qingqing suddenly lunged at his car window and spoke first.
"Officer! I have something to say!"
The police didn't scold Shen Qingqing for suddenly appearing; instead, they coaxed her gently, "Little girl, what do you want to say?"
Shen Qingqing smiled and asked, "Police officer, when you came to patrol last time, did you not see anyone at all?"
The police officer paused for a moment, then, without making an excuse, said helplessly, "Yes, these people are probably a bunch of veterans; they're very slippery."
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