"Guohui, wait here for a moment. I'll catch up and see." Zhou Zhixin made up his mind that he couldn't let the thief get away with this. He had to get the wallet back today. After saying that, Zhou Zhixin was ready to rush out.
"Brother-in-law, let's go together! My eldest sister has to queue up to buy something, and she will definitely not be able to come out for a while. The two of us can take care of each other." Zhao Guohui grabbed Zhou Zhixin's arm and said.
Zhou Zhixin thought about it and realized that they were unfamiliar with Qingshan City. Being together would indeed make them feel braver. He nodded and said, "Guohui, if anything happens later, hide behind me."
Zhou Zhixin knew that Zhao Guohui was the only child of the Zhao family. He had heard that in big cities, thieves like these who stole wallets often worked in gangs. Zhou Zhixin was worried that if he was unlucky enough to run into a gang, a fight would break out, and he hoped to protect Zhao Guohui.
"Okay, brother-in-law, I know the importance of this." Zhao Guohui nodded, not bothering to be polite with Zhou Zhixin. Zhou Zhixin was a soldier, so his skills were definitely better than his half-baked martial arts skills. How could Zhao Guohui not agree if his brother-in-law was willing to protect him?
As they were talking, Zhao Guohui and Zhou Zhixin had already squeezed out of the crowded crowd and ran in the direction where the thief had just run.
The short woman took Zhou Zhixin's wallet and ran to the corner of the street in a panic.
She hadn't expected to run into Zhou Zhixin here. She hadn't imagined she'd actually find a wallet on him. Humph! A bumpkin is a bumpkin. A soldier, he's even less alert than a local resident of Qingshan City!
The little woman only had time to take out the wallet from her bosom and look at it when she reached the corner of the street.
Opening her wallet, the woman saw Zhao Yunxiang, beaming with happiness. "Damn it! What bad luck! Seeing this woman again! Is she always flaunting her happiness?" The woman froze, forcing herself to ignore the photo and dig into her wallet.
Only two big unity notes? The little woman searched her entire purse but couldn't find a single penny.
"Bah! A poor soldier only gets so little money, how unlucky!" The short woman pulled down her hat and spat on the ground, feeling a little better. The woman always thought that Zhou Zhixin made a lot of money every month and was a high-ranking official in the army! Seeing the twenty yuan in the wallet at this time, the woman felt a little more balanced.
If Zhao Guohui were here, he would definitely be surprised. This woman is the daughter-in-law of Gutiezhu, a villager from Zhaojiagou, and also Wang Biyun, Zhao Yunxiang's former best friend.
Wang Biyun became the most talked-about figure in Zhaojiagou last year because of her infatuation with Wen Yulun. Feeling humiliated, Gu Tiezhu severely beat Wang Biyun twice. After the beatings, Wang Biyun did not reflect on her mistakes, but was obsessed with revenge against Gu Tiezhu.
Gutiezhu went to Daqingshan to steal several trees and sold them to pay for his mother's medical treatment. Wang Biyun, after catching Gutiezhu by the pigtail, immediately went to Sanhe Town to report him for stealing trees. Gutiezhu was arrested and taken to the police station, where he is currently awaiting sentencing. Wang Biyun, however, abandoned her mother-in-law and two children and seized the opportunity to go to Zhaojiagou Village Chief Zhao Youtian and coerce him into issuing her a stack of letters of introduction. She then fled to Qingshan City.
Zhao Youtian was nearly driven to death by Wang Biyun's extortion of a stack of letters of introduction. Under Zhao Qingshan's guidance, Zhao Youtian went to the Sanhe Town Police Station to report the incident, notifying Wang Biyun of the stack of blank letters of introduction from the village.
When Wang Biyun first arrived in Qingshan City, she had money and a letter of introduction, and she lived a carefree life. Before she could even find a temporary job, the Sanhe Town Police Station reported the decision to invalidate all of Wang Biyun's letters of introduction, which was then reported to the Qingshan City Public Security Bureau. With her letters of introduction invalidated, Wang Biyun was kicked out of the guesthouse, and finding a job was out of the question. Many local citizens with clean backgrounds were struggling to find work and were living on the streets. Who would hire Wang Biyun, a woman from outside the city without even a letter of introduction?
Unable to find a hotel, Wang Biyun had to hide under a bridge. Unable to find work, she lived off her savings, her money dwindling day by day. She refused to go home. Having already left Zhaojiagou, she decided that even if she died there, she would never return.
Qingshan City wasn't like Sanhe Town, a small place where you could stay wherever you wanted, for as long as you wanted, and no one would bother you. Every street and alley in Qingshan City had its own sphere of influence. The bridge where Wang Biyun lived was within the sphere of influence of a scoundrel named "Scarface."
Scarface is an unemployed vagrant with a local hukou in his forties. In his youth, Scarface was aggressive and violent, accidentally stabbing someone to death and spending over a decade in prison. Five years ago, after Scarface was released from prison, his parents were no longer around, and because of his prison experience, no employer would accept Scarface. To make ends meet, Scarface resorted to his old ways, gathering a group of unemployed thugs and resorting to petty theft.
Over the years, thanks to his ruthlessness, "Scarface" has done quite well in the neighborhood. He has more than 20 younger brothers under him and receives a lot of tributes every day.
Scarface was delighted when one of his men reported a new woman had arrived at the archway of the Archway Bridge. Scarface, feeling his age, wanted to find a woman to settle down with. Local girls looked down on Scarface, a prisoner. Although Scarface had no worries about food and shelter, finding a respectable woman in Qingshan City was still a challenge.
When he saw Wang Biyun, Scarface was a little disappointed. Although Wang Biyun was quite pretty, after so many years of exposure to the wind and rain, her three points of beauty had long been worn away by five points of vicissitudes.
Scarface looked down on Wang Biyun, but several of his subordinates were very interested in her. In their opinion, since it was unlikely that they would ever get married and live a proper life, having a woman to warm their bed and relieve their desires from time to time was a good thing.
After Wang Biyun, a woman, was targeted by those thugs, she had no choice but to agree to join Scarface's gang and work for Scarface in exchange for the gang's protection.
After all, Wang Biyun had never been a thief before. At the beginning, Wang Biyun could not steal a wallet in a day. In order to avoid going hungry, Wang Biyun had to offer her body and was slept with by several men in the gang.
How many thieves are actually good-looking? Those in the Scarface gang who were attracted to Wang Biyun were naturally some unattractive, unmarried men who couldn't find wives. One can imagine the depression Wang Biyun felt sleeping with such a man every day.
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