Chapter 433 Chapter 435: No way to die
The next morning, Yang Chunyan and her husband got dressed, left the room, and unbolted the door of the main room. A chill hit them in the face.
"What time did you add the firewood last night?"
"Four-thirty!" Zhou Huaian looked at his watch. "It's already past six and it's still dark!"
"It rained again last night!" Yang Chunyan put her scarf and snow cap on the coffee table. "I'm going to the backyard to add firewood to the barbecue and bring the chickens and ducks over. You go drive the tractor."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian picked up the bamboo basket and walked towards the tractor.
Yang Chunyan went to the baking room and saw that the remaining fire in the stove was almost gone. She stuffed a few pieces of firewood in it and grabbed a handful of pine needles, and the fire started immediately.
The charcoal in the oven is burned at night, and you have to get up in the middle of the night to add charcoal. If it were the old Zhou Huaian, if you asked him to go out in the middle of the night, three oxen would not be able to pull him out.
She was so sleepy because she was pregnant, but Zhou Huaian never disturbed her. When the time came, he would go there with a flashlight.
Zhou Huaian carried a few straw mats and put them in the tractor bed, then took two, folded them and laid them near the front of the vehicle.
"Yan'er, put on your cotton coat, it won't be cold sitting in the back!"
"That's right!" Yang Chunyan handed him the snow cap, "You should put on your cap too!"
"Uh-huh!"
A few minutes later, the tractor came to the brigade's drying dam with a rumbling sound. Li Wu and Aunt Li were already waiting there. The mother and son were holding a quilt of old cotton.
After a few polite greetings, Yang Chunyan pointed to the straw mat in the truck bed and said, "Sit on it and cover yourself with cotton wool."
"Great, great!" Li Wu helped Aunt Li sit down, covered her with cotton quilt, and then sat down himself.
There was a lot of fog in the morning and visibility was low. Although there was no one on the road, Zhou Huaian drove very slowly, shakily crossed the bridge and approached the bend.
Xiong Lao Er and Fang Tuzi looked at the monster-like headlights in the distance and listened to the rumbling sound of the tractor getting closer and closer. They looked at each other in ecstasy and said, "Here they come, here they come!"
"1, 2, 3..." Xiong Lao Er counted in his mind. The tractor was getting closer and closer, and slowly stopped. "It's finally here!"
The two men tightly grasped the wooden sticks in their hands, their hearts almost jumping out of their throats, waiting for Zhou Huaian to come down and hit them on the head with a stick, and then...
Zhou Huaian had already seen the wood blocking the road ahead, "Fuck! Who is that idiot who gave birth to a son without an asshole and put a piece of wood blocking the road?"
He pulled the brake and was about to get off when he suddenly thought of the robbed tractor. He looked at the bushes in front of him, sat back down, frowned, and said, "No, there's something wrong!"
Xiong Lao Er and his companion, who were hiding behind the bushes, heard the rumbling sound of the tractor, but did not see anyone coming down to move the wood. They felt as nervous as if fifteen buckets were in their chests, and they were so nervous that they broke out in sweats even in the cold weather.
Yang Chunyan stood up and looked towards the center of the road, "Huaian, don't go down, there must be something strange."
"I know!" Zhou Huaian squinted his eyes and looked at the bushes at the foot of the mountain across the street. "If there is someone, he is probably hiding there!"
"Yes, it's probably there!" Yang Chunyan took out a flashlight and shone it towards the bushes.
"You bastard, you're so cunning!" Xiong Laoer cursed inwardly, and hurriedly pressed his body against the mountain wall with Fang Tuzi.
"Boom, boom, boom." My heart was beating as violently as a drum, as if it was going to jump out of my chest.
Li Wu turned his head to look, then stood up and asked, "What's wrong? What's in front?"
Yang Chunyan: "We don't know who put a piece of wood across the middle of the road. We suspect there is someone hiding behind that bush!"
"I'll go down and take a look with the youngest one!" Li Wu said as he jumped off the tractor, took the flashlight handed over by Yang Chunyan, and was about to walk towards there.
"Wait!" Zhou Huaian jumped off the tractor, lifted the seat cushion, took out a wooden stick, handed it to Li Wu, picked up the shotgun, and loaded the bullet with a "click". "Let's go over there and take a look!"
Li Wu looked at him in surprise, "You're still carrying a gun?"
"To prevent being robbed!" Zhou Huaian strode towards the bushes with a shotgun in hand.
Yang Chunyan stood up and said, "Be careful!"
Over in the bushes, Xiong Lao Er and Fang Tuzi crouched down and ran desperately along the foot of the mountain...
"Bang~" Zhou Huaian fired a shot into the air, "Stop! Or I'll shoot you."
Fang Tuzi was so frightened that he stopped and squatted down with his hands on his head. "I'm not running, don't shoot!"
Zhou Huaian shouted, "Xiong Lao Er, you bastard, I've already seen you!"
The second bear ran desperately, "huff, huff..."
"Tie him up!" Zhou Huaian yelled at Li Wu, took the wooden stick from Li Wu's hand and threw it at him. The stick somersaulted several times in the air and hit Xiong Laoer on the vest. He staggered and fell to the ground.
Xiong Laoer's head was buzzing. It was over. It was over. It was all over now...
Zhou Huaian strode forward, grabbed his collar with one hand and his hair with the other, pulled him upside down, and kicked him, "Oh my goodness~ You're worthy of your last name Xiong, you're really brave!"
"You'll know if I'm brave enough if you try. If you're brave enough, let me go!"
Xiong Laoer was stubborn and tried his best to suppress the panic from the bottom of his heart, but the uncontrollable twitching of his lips had already exposed him.
Zhou Huaian never dreamed that he would dare to steal his tractor. After kicking him a few times, he remembered that Xu Hongbing said there was someone else who stole things in the village.
"You were responsible for all the things that were stolen from the village before, right?"
The pain-pained face of Xiong Laoer turned pale in an instant, and his eyes widened, "You are talking nonsense!"
Zhou Huaian looked at him and understood immediately. As the old saying goes, "When one is young, he steals needles; when he grows up, he steals gold." No wonder this bastard dared to steal cement and rob people on the road. It turned out that it was a skill he had acquired since childhood!
Li Wu took the hemp rope handed over by Yang Chunyan and tied up Fang Tuzi, then walked over and looked at him in surprise, "Xiong Laoer, it's really you! Even rabbits don't eat grass near their nests, how could you do such a thing?"
Xiong Laoer closed his eyes and pretended to be dead without saying a word.
Zhou Huaian took the rope and said, "Why waste your time talking to a man like him? Tie him up and send him to the police!"
Li Wu looked at the wood in the middle of the road and shook his head. "It's too scary. How dare people who have lived in the same village for decades do such a thing?"
Zhou Huaian tied up Xiong Laoer and said, "Li Wu first put the people on the tractor, and then lifted the wood onto the tractor. These are all evidence!"
"Oh!" Li Wu helped drag Xiong Lao Er into the tractor's bed. Zhou Huaian tied him to the steel bars on the bed with a rope, and the two of them went to drag Fang Tuzi.
He begged for mercy quickly, "Zhou Laoyao, I was instigated by Xiong Laoer. This was all his idea. He said he had found a buyer and could sell it for 1,000 yuan. I was worried that he wanted to harm you, so I told you to just steal the tractor and not kill anyone."
Damn it, if you say so, shouldn’t I be grateful to you for not killing me?
Zhou Huaian looked at him with a smirk, "Okay! When you get to the police station, tell the police what you said to them. It should help you."
"Yes, yes, yes. I was eating potatoes at home and he came to see me..."
Zhou Huaian and Li Wu tied him up, picked up the wood and sticks and loaded them into the truck bed.
After listening to Li Wu's story, Aunt Li thought of the feud between Zhou and Xiong's families and sighed, "It's not a deep hatred, how could someone do such a thing."
Yang Chunyan said to Zhou Huaian: "Send them to the town or Ning'an?"
"Not to the police station, but to the Public Security Bureau." Zhou Huaian put away the shotgun. "Wrap your scarf around your neck, sit tight, and we're off."
"Hmm!" Yang Chunyan sat down against the car board, looking at the lowered head of Xiong Laoer, and recalled the past when the Xiong brothers were the kings of Fu Niu...
As he was delayed on the road for more than half an hour, Zhou Huaian stepped on the asphalt road and drove towards Ning An, finally making up for the lost time.
Arriving at the gate of the guesthouse, he jumped off the tractor and said, "Yan'er, I'll unload the vegetables at the gate of the guesthouse. Go call Brother Huang and I'll take them to the police station."
"That's fine." Yang Chunyan looked at Li Wu and his mother, "Brother Li, why don't you and Huai'an go over there. Aunt Li and I will wait for you at the guesthouse."
"Okay!" Li Wu responded readily and helped Aunt Li off the tractor.
Zhou Huaian turned the car around and drove towards the Public Security Bureau with Li Wu.
When the gatekeeper, Old Man Wang, saw Zhou Huaian unload the vegetables at the door and leave, he walked over and asked, "Xiao Yang, why doesn't your Xiao Zhou drive in?"
Yang Chunyan told him about the situation, and Old Man Wang was also shocked after hearing it. "It's too scary. Fortunately, you guys are with him today, otherwise who knows what would have happened to him if he was alone."
"Yes! We were all scared!" Yang Chunyan asked him to help keep an eye on it and went in to find Huang Yongcai to pull the tricycle to pull the bamboo basket.
Over there, Zhou Huaian had already arrived at the gate of the Public Security Bureau. He got off the tractor and went to find the old policeman to report the case.
When the old policeman heard that he had caught two people who stole the tractor, he hurriedly took his men and followed Zhou Huaian to the gate of the Public Security Bureau to carry the people, wood and sticks in.
Someone was asked to take statements from Zhou Huaian and Lin Wu before they were allowed to leave.
As soon as the two came out of the Public Security Bureau, they saw Huang Yongcai and Yang Chunyan waiting outside.
Zhou Huaian stepped forward with a smile, "You are all here!"
Huang Yongcai nodded and patted him on the shoulder. "You are scared, kid?"
"I felt it was a bit strange at the time." Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "Thanks to Brother Li for coming to Ning'an today, otherwise Chunyan and I would have to go through a lot of trouble."
"I can't help you much!" When Li Wu saw how familiar they were with each other, he felt that the youngest child of the Zhou family was really different from before.
"It's already a great help." Yang Chunyan said to Li Wu with a smile: "Auntie is in the guesthouse, let's go pick her up and go to North Street together."
"That's right, that's right!" Li Wu responded repeatedly.
Zhou Huaian told Huang Yongcai about the Zhou and Xiong families. "I had a fight with him a few days ago. I never dreamed that that bastard would rob people on the road!"
Huang Yongcai said: "It's the same everywhere. Those who don't have any ability will want to step on you, and those who have ability will try their best to curry favor with you. There is solid evidence that Xiong was involved in highway robbery. Even if the robbery failed, they will not get away with it. At least they will have to spend a few years in prison."
"It's better to ask your brother to come along next time! The city is in a mess these days, a bunch of hooligans are doing nothing all day and wandering around the streets like ghosts! Young girls don't dare to go out late at night."
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly, "Got it! I made you worry too!"
(End of this chapter)
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