He rushed off with his people.
Xu Fen couldn't stop so many people at all. She wanted to follow, but Ye Zhiyu stopped her, saying, "What's the rush? There are so many people, one more won't make a difference."
Soon, Liu Shengnan returned with her people, carrying some things in her hands.
Xu Fen's eyes couldn't hide her disdain as she showed the item to Ye Zhiyu.
"Here's your beef sauce and milk candy." No question was used; it was a direct statement.
In this courtyard, only Fu Tingshen and Ye Zhiyu have the means to own these things. He didn't mention it when the property was being counted earlier, so it must belong to Ye Zhiyu.
"We also found twenty yuan, but there were no large coins in it." He opened his other hand, revealing a roll of loose change.
Xu Fen lunged forward to snatch it, saying, "That's mine! My family gave it to me!"
Liu Shengnan dodged, and Xu Fen fell to the ground.
"Heh, yours? Didn't you just say your family was poor and you had no money? Now you're saying this money is yours? We're not counting the forty that Ye Zhiyu lost, so we lost a total of twenty, and yours is exactly twenty. What a coincidence. And even if this money is yours, what about that jar of beef sauce and sugar? You're not going to say that's yours too, are you? Look closely, there's English printed on it."
Lin Yueze stepped forward and said seriously, "Xu Zhiqing, confess and you will be treated leniently, resist and you will be punished severely. You'd better tell me honestly where Ye Zhiqing's money is."
Xu Fen lay sprawled on the ground, her face ashen.
The money was hidden in the table leg, with a hole cut in it. The money was stuffed in, and then the hole was blocked from the outside with wood. It looked perfectly natural.
Xu Fen began to cover her face and sob, "I'm sorry, my younger brother is getting married, and my parents are forcing me to find a way to earn money. If I can't come up with the money, they'll sell me to someone else as a wife, and then I won't be able to survive."
"Please, forgive me."
As he spoke, he began to kowtow, crying sincerely and kowtowing earnestly. Even the educated youth who had just been angry couldn't bear to see him like that.
Someone asked, "Didn't you already send your resettlement allowance back? Why do you need it again?"
Xu Fen stopped what she was doing and said desperately, "It's not enough. The family my brother is asking me to marry into wants three turns and one sound, a bicycle, and three gold items."
Many people exclaimed, "So many! Is he going to marry a celestial being?"
Li Xi came out and said with pity, "I didn't expect you, Xu Zhiqing, to be so pitiful. You could have told us. We're all family here, and we'll help you if we can, right?"
Many people nodded in agreement. Money is more important than human life. They couldn't bear to watch a life disappear.
Xu Fen gratefully kowtowed to them, saying, "Thank you, thank you."
Li Xi then turned to Ye Zhiyu, who had remained silent and expressionless: "Zhiyu, Ye Zhiyu, why don't we just let it go? Let's help Xu Zhiyu. You don't want to see her take her own life, do you? Anyway, you don't need that forty yuan."
He acted so sensible, it almost made Ye Zhiyu sick of looking at him.
She sneered, "What does it have to do with me if she takes her own life?"
These cold words made the educated youth present frown.
At that time, most people were simple and honest, and couldn't bear to see others suffer. They would help whenever they could. People simply couldn't accept Ye Zhiyu's behavior.
Seeing that everyone was looking at Ye Zhiyu with disapproval, Li Xi had achieved her goal. She hadn't expected Ye Zhiyu to be so cooperative.
She gave her a look that said, "You're so cold, so heartless, so unreasonable." "Ye Zhiqing, how can you say that? This isn't the person I know. You used to love helping people."
Ye Zhiyu rolled her eyes: "That's why I raised such an ungrateful wretch like you."
Li Xi's face stiffened.
Ye Zhiyu ignored her, her expression turning serious as she said sternly to Xu Fen, "Whether they want their money back or not is none of my business, but I will definitely get my money back."
After all, it's a considerable sum. If your parents want to sell you to someone else, that's your business. Why should I bear the responsibility?
And don't forget that trafficking women and children is illegal, even if they are your closest relatives. You can seek help from the police, but you've chosen another path of crime. If it weren't for today's search, how long did you plan to continue stealing?
Seeing that she wanted to speak, Ye Zhiyu raised her hand to signal her to finish speaking first.
"Are you trying to say they're your parents and you can't treat them like that? But they don't even treat you like a human being."
You thought you'd stop stealing once you'd raised enough money for your brother's marriage proposal, but what about next time?
This time it's a marriage proposal, then they have a baby, your brother and sister-in-law are in postpartum confinement, and gradually they'll start asking you for money for their daily expenses. What will you do then? Ignore them? Or continue, or steal from them?
The educated youth who had just disagreed began to realize that it made sense. Liu Yuan even slapped himself hard, wondering how he could have thought that way about Ye Zhiqing.
Liu Shengnan had been holding back her anger because of Ye Zhiyu's words, and now she finally had her chance.
"Exactly, you're just making them more demanding. That won't do. You need to live your own life and break free from their control."
Xu Fen shook her head frantically, "No, they wouldn't do that to me."
Ye Zhiyu walked up to her and looked down at her: "How do you know they won't? After all, they're going to sell you. Once you're no longer of value, guess what they'll do to you?"
He paused, then said with amusement, "Besides, what you just said is all your own opinion. Words have no proof. Where is the evidence? What if this is just an excuse to get us to let you go?"
Ye Zhiyu glanced around and then looked at Li Xi. "I'm not going to suffer this loss in silence. Since you're so generous, why don't you give her the rest of your money too?"
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