Lao Laizi is a bachelor from Lijia Village. When he was young, he was imprisoned for hooliganism and spent seven or eight years in prison. When he was released, he was almost 40 years old and still hadn't married. He spent his days stealing and cheating to make some money.

Everyone in the village dislikes him, and most of the lost things are stolen by him.

But what to do? First, there is no evidence, and second, even if there is evidence, there is nothing we can do to him.

Li Hongwei thought the same thing: "He probably stole it in collusion with others. He is old and can't climb over the wall anymore."

Chen Xiaoying felt embarrassed and couldn't help cursing: "How can these black-hearted and wicked people walk without falling to death?"

There's nothing you can do about it.

Just when both mother and son were feeling embarrassed, Li Yutong had already been listening on the side.

"Dad, let's call the police," she said.

The two were startled: "When did you come?"

Li Yutong couldn't help laughing: "Grandma, Dad, I was standing here just now, but you two didn't notice me. We talked for a long time, and I was the one watching you two, otherwise you would have heard everything."

Didn’t you see that the owner of the small supermarket next door is glancing over here?

"I don't dare. I don't dare." Li Hongwei has been a farmer all his life and has never had any dealings with the police. He is afraid: "What if the old man takes revenge on us and burns down the house when we are not at home? What should we do?"

That kind of person, a bachelor, who thinks that if he is well fed, the whole family will not be hungry, will dare to do anything bad.

Li Yutong said, "Dad, we didn't lose much stuff, the police will at most go and do a visit according to the rules, they won't really put in the effort to catch any thieves."

Li Hongwei didn't understand what she meant: "Then why report to the police?"

Li Yutong said, "Dad, it's just a play, you will know when the time comes."

So Li Hongwei went to the county town, and soon after, a police car drove into Lijia Village.

Everyone in Lijia Village was alarmed.

"Where is Li Hongwei from?" At the entrance of the village, the police asked a group of people with nothing to do through the car window.

Some people quickly pointed in the direction of Li Hongwei's house: "Go along this road, the first intersection, the first house, that's it."

The police car passed by.

When the people in Lijia Village heard the news, they all ran over to watch the excitement.

"Did Li Hongwei commit a crime and the police came to arrest him?"

"Who knows? He has the money to open a small restaurant in the county town. Did he steal it?"

"Li Hongwei is a very honest person, he is not that kind of person."

Someone said something fair: "If he was a thief, he would have started stealing a long time ago, why wait until now."

Liu Lanxiang's family is also from Lijia Village. When they heard this, they became anxious.

Her mother came quickly with her brother's wife.

Liu Lanxiang's brother Liu Jianshe is usually not in the village. He runs a cannery on the edge of the county town, where he works as a foreman and earns 280 yuan a month.

"Hongwei, what's going on?" Old Mrs. Liu asked Li Hongwei hurriedly.

Seeing that Li Hongwei was fine and the police did not handcuff him, I felt relieved.

"Mom, it's okay. There was just a thief at home. I called the police." Li Hongwei said.

So that's how it is.

The villagers who were watching the scene started talking about it. They said that Li Hongwei was not a thief in the first place, but it turned out that it was the thief who robbed his house.

Liu Lanxiang went to see Old Lady Liu and said, "Mom, what are you doing here? There are so many people here, they are squeezing you."

Her mother is in poor health now and is always taking medicine.

Old Mrs. Liu sighed and said, "I'm fine."

The police started investigating the scene, and Li Hongwei led them around to look around.

Everyone in the village was pointing and talking.

Li Yutong cried to Liu Lanxiang, "Mom, my dad said he borrowed 100,000 yuan from a credit union and hasn't paid it off yet. Was our money stolen by a thief?"

When Liu Lanxiang heard this, she was still not able to react.

Her brother's wife was dumbfounded: "Sister, you two have borrowed so much money, do you have to pay it back?"

"Auntie, if I can't pay back the money, won't the credit society have my dad arrested?" Li Yutong was essentially admitting the loan on behalf of her parents.

Now the villagers also know about loans.

People nowadays have no awareness of spending future money. Taking out a loan is equivalent to owing a debt. When they hear that Li Hongwei owes 100,000 yuan, they wonder how he can pay it back.

After the police cleared the scene, they educated all the villagers from Lijia Village who were present.

"Being a thief is against the law! The county is now strictly investigating the case. Once caught, they will be severely punished."

The villagers had never been educated like this before. They all felt ashamed to face others and just nodded their heads.

The head of Lijia Village and the village party secretary were even smiling apologetically.

"You two are the village chief and the village party secretary, right? When the county evaluates civilized villages, your Lijia Village will be a typical example. Not only will you not be selected, but you will also be dragged out for criticism," said the police.

"No, it won't happen again. Our village will definitely be cleaned up and this kind of thing will never happen again." The village chief hurriedly assured.

The village party secretary also said: "That's right, we must be positive and be a civilized and good citizen."

Both of them attend meetings in the county town all year round and know the importance of this evaluation. Well, the county town will give rewards to the village.

The police then got into the car and left.

The village chief complained to Li Hongwei: "It's not a lot of money, why is it worth reporting it to the police? Look what the police said about us."

Li Hongwei was known for his bad temper in Lijia Village: "It's not a lot of money? It's just over twenty yuan, half a bag of rice, and half a jar of noodles. You might as well compensate me."

The village chief was so embarrassed that he said, "What are you talking about? I didn't steal it."

People nowadays are afraid of offending others. Even if they have a clue in their mind and know who it is, the person hiding behind the crowd, isn’t that a deadbeat?

But no one dared to say it.

Li Yutong turned her head and took a look, her eyes dark.

In fact, when her father told her that their house had been robbed, she knew who it was.

The old man not only stole money, he also did some other things, which were exposed later. He has harmed several people.

"Uncle village chief, this can't be blamed on my father. People in the village say that my family has made a lot of money. They all think that my family is rich. They don't think about it. Our Li family has been farming in the village for generations. How can we have any money?"

"The credit union has to pay interest every month. Next month's interest depends on the small restaurant selling more meals. My dad is anxious. He can't make money, and the thieves are eyeing him. Who wouldn't be anxious if this happened to you?"

One hundred thousand yuan! Many villagers looked at each other in bewilderment.

One hundred thousand yuan is enough to buy two or three newly built houses in the county town.

"I know, I know. This kind of thing won't happen again in the future." The village chief said with a smile.

In a village, there are scabby thieves like Lao Lai Zi, and there are also people whom no one dares to offend, such as the village head and the village party secretary.

If the two of them did not have relatives and connections in the county, they would not have been able to become the leaders of Lijia Village.

Li Yutong knew that the two men were in cahoots with each other and could get their hands on all kinds of money in the village. For example, the trees planted by the river in Lijia Village belonged to the village collective, but they secretly asked people to cut them down and divided the money and put it into their own pockets.

Everyone in the village knew about it, but no one dared to speak out.

I’m afraid that when I’m allocating housing land or getting some certificate from the village, they’ll deliberately make things difficult for me.