But Sheng Xiping refused to admit that those people were related to him, saying only that it was a temporary decision to help each other, and that the people left because they didn't want to show their faces after helping and were afraid of getting into trouble.
This whole mess has caused a lot of headaches for everyone in the branch office.
Based on the testimonies of Sheng Xiping and the tall, thin man, the investigators roughly guessed what had happened.
It's likely that Sheng Xiping learned his lesson before, so this time he deliberately set a trap, luring the tall, thin guy and others into the trap, and then gathered his forces to wipe them all out.
Since last winter, the branch office has received several reports of such incidents.
Most of them were lone hunters who came to the county to sell their mountain products and were then targeted and robbed on the way.
However, this group was quite cunning, and their times and locations for committing crimes were not fixed. The branch office was short-staffed and busy with other cases, so they were never able to catch this group of highway robbers.
Now that these people have been captured and brought here by Sheng Xiping, the police station is in a dilemma.
It's good that the criminals have been caught, but what should be done with Sheng Xiping?
He led a group of people, armed with knives and guns; that's considered disturbing the peace.
Finally, the leader spoke up, saying that Sheng Xiping and his group were doing this out of necessity to protect themselves, and it was a helpless move.
Furthermore, Sheng Xiping did assist the police in catching the serial robbers, which can be considered a meritorious act.
So in the end, they called Sheng Xiping over, gave him a verbal reprimand, and then let Sheng Xiping and Zhang Zhijun leave.
After such a long delay, it was already past 1 a.m. when Sheng Xiping and the others finally came out of the branch office.
Liu Yujiang and the others were already waiting at the hotel. When they saw the two return safely, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and inquired about what had happened.
Everyone was relieved to learn that Sheng Xiping had only received a verbal reprimand.
"How about this, we don't head back today, we stay in the county for another night, and then we can go shopping and buy whatever we want."
"We've come all this way, we should bring something back with us, right?" Sheng Xiping thought for a moment and discussed it with the others.
In the past, when I came to the county, I was always worried that if I carried too much money, I would be targeted and get into trouble. Every time, I would just sell my goods like a firecracker and leave without buying anything else.
The county town is so big, they didn't even get a proper look around, what a waste!
This time they outnumbered the robbers, and the gang that committed the robbery has also been imprisoned, so the county is currently relatively safe.
I'll take this opportunity to buy some things for my family; I can't leave empty-handed.
Sheng Xiping's suggestion resonated with everyone.
They're all young guys, how many of them don't like to have fun? They rarely have the chance to get out, and they have money in their pockets, so they're definitely going to wander around.
So, Sheng Xiping first settled the accounts with Wang Jianshe and the others, and then divided the money.
The Liu brothers also gave Sheng Xiping a share of the money they had earned from selling bear gallbladders in the granary before the New Year.
So the Sheng brothers still had more than five thousand yuan left.
Sheng Xiping divided the five thousand yuan into several portions. He carried two thousand in his waistband, while Sheng Xi'an also carried a waist bag containing one thousand, and then another one thousand in his backpack.
The two brothers split up the remaining thousand-plus yuan, intending to use it to buy things.
After dividing the money, everyone carefully put their money away. Then, the group left the hotel together and went to Fusong Department Store No. 1 and No. 2 for a while.
When Sheng Xiping left home, Zhang Shuzhen gave him a lot of tickets, both local and national, which could be used in the county.
So the group started a shopping spree, buying whatever they could use at home and whatever they liked.
Sheng Xiping bought some fabric, several feet of headscarves for Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei, fountain pens for Sheng Xi'an and Sheng Xikang, a pencil case for Sheng Xitai, and a pack of cigarettes for Sheng Liancheng.
Anyway, if there's anything the family needs or can use, as long as you have the ration coupons, you can buy it.
Finally, they came to the radio counter. Sheng Xiping looked at it again and again, hesitating repeatedly.
The policies changed rapidly afterward, and the forest farm was poorly informed, so they often didn't know about things until several days later.
Buying a TV these days is definitely a stretch, but buying a radio and listening to the broadcasts every afternoon and evening to learn about national affairs is always useful.
"Brother, you want to buy a radio? Do we have enough tickets?" Sheng Xi'an noticed his brother's hesitation and asked quietly.
"I wanted to buy some, but unfortunately we don't have enough tickets." Sheng Xiping sighed. He hadn't planned on this before coming, and he didn't have enough industrial tickets.
"Wait a minute, let me go find a place and think of a solution."
Sheng Xiping gritted his teeth, left the department store, found some people peeking in at the entrance, and bought some industrial tickets from them.
Then I went back inside and picked out a Chunlan brand radio.
After shopping all afternoon, everyone had bought everything they needed and happily returned to the hostel.
After putting their things down, the group went to a restaurant, ordered six dishes and two bottles of wine, and had a good meal.
The group stayed another night in the county and took a bus back to Songjianghe the next morning.
Coincidentally, I ran into people from the forest farm right after getting off the bus.
I found out that the work team had started dismantling the logs, and the first truckload of timber had just arrived today and would be returning to the forest farm soon.
Upon hearing this, Sheng Xiping and the others hurriedly rushed to Sen Tie.
When transporting timber in the forest farm, small locomotives pull single-track carriages, and the driver's cab can't seat too many people.
After discussing it for a while, everyone decided to sit on the cart. It was July, and it was quite hot at midday, but sitting on the cart was refreshing.
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