Section Chief Hu instructed several team members to buy food, and the factory would reimburse the expenses.
After having eaten and drunk their fill, the group began their return journey.
Since there were no more workpieces on the truck, the space was freed up, and there were straw mats on it, so the team members who had been riding in the jeeps all ran onto the truck and lay down.
Wang Dabao lay down in the back of the jeep and slept all the way back to the steel mill.
At 2 p.m., four vehicles entered the factory area one after another, while the four vehicles that had set off earlier had already returned, and all four drivers had bruises on their faces.
The vehicles that were providing cover had only been gone for two hours when they were attacked. There were about twenty robbers who, after seeing that there were no workpieces in the truck's cargo bed, became enraged and dragged the four drivers out of the truck and beat them up.
These four drivers were already grateful to have escaped with their lives; they never expected to actually encounter robbers.
After hearing the driver's story, Section Chief Hu couldn't help but look at Wang Dabao with new respect.
If it weren't for Wang Dabao's suggestion, they probably would have encountered more than forty robbers this time.
That will probably be a tough battle.
As for how the robbers knew the production date of the workpiece, or whether these robbers were lying in ambush every day and had to find clues from the two survivors, those are things for the police officers at the police station to worry about.
The team members who carried out the escort mission, including team leader Feng Biao, were given a half-day off in the afternoon, and they will receive a mission allowance when they receive their pay next month.
Tomorrow is the weekend, and Wang Dabao plans to go back to the village. He told Section Chief Hu that he would be using his sidecar motorcycle and reminded him to fill up the tank.
Section Chief Hu put the two captured robbers into a jeep and took them to the police station.
After a quick wash, Wang Dabao also gave himself a break and pushed his bicycle back to the courtyard house.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Yan Bugui and Xu Damao sitting under the window of Old Yan's house, chatting idly.
Looking at the bicycle next to him and the small black leather bag hanging on the handlebars, it was clear that Xu Damao had just returned from the factory.
"Old Yan, is your school short of teachers? Maybe I can go teach there too. You seem to have too much free time."
Wang Dabao also parked his bicycle to the side, pulled a small stool from in front of Yan Bugui's house, and sat down. "Why haven't I seen you fishing lately?!"
"I'm not fishing anymore, I don't want to fish for the next two months."
Upon hearing the word "fishing," Yan Bugui's smile immediately faded. He pounded his chest and sighed, "Dabao, please don't mention fishing again. I haven't recovered yet. The scene is still vivid in my mind, and it hurts my heart just thinking about it."
"Alright, let's not talk about that. Anyway, what are you two doing here?"
Wang Dabao took the cigarette Xu Damao offered and continued, "How did it go?"
Xu Damao smiled and lit some cigarettes for Wang Dabao and Yan Bugui before speaking: "Yesterday afternoon, I was cleaning the machine when Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu came to me, hoping that I would write a letter of understanding for the sake of the neighbors, and then Shazhu and the Jia family would compensate me with some money."
“I said I would write a letter of understanding, but you have to agree to my conditions, right? But when I told you my conditions, Yi Zhonghai refused and insisted that I was extorting him.”
Xu Damao spoke and gestured as he looked at Yan Bugui and asked, "Third Uncle, do you think Yi Zhonghai talks like that? So he can just say whatever compensation he wants and I have no room to object?!"
"My house was wrecked like that, what's wrong with me asking for some compensation? Is that too much to ask?"
"How can you say that's excessive? Old Yi's temper is getting worse and worse. He doesn't want to listen to anyone's voice at all."
Yan Bugui squinted his small eyes, took puffs of his cigarette, and nodded in agreement, "Then how much compensation do you want, Da Mao?"
"Not much, just two hundred."
Xu Damao spoke with great confidence, but Yan Bugui heard it differently.
When Yan Jiekuang was beaten so badly, his family only managed to extort 260 yuan from Liu Haizhong, Yi Zhonghai, and others by putting on a show. After deducting the money given to Wang Dabao and the money for Yan Jiekuang's hospital check-up, they were left with only about 100 yuan.
Now, Xu Damao is demanding two hundred yuan from Shazhu and the Jia family for just one compensation!
"Cough cough..."
Yan Bugui couldn't even take a proper drag on his cigarette before he was choked, tears and snot streaming down his face.
Wang Dabao reached out and patted Yan Bugui on the back: "What's wrong, Lao Yan? You think Da Mao didn't ask for enough?!"
Yan Bugui hurriedly waved his hand, and after a moment he recovered, he said, "Two hundred is not a small amount. What did Lao Yi and Jia Dongxu say?"
"Don't even mention it. They argued back and forth for ages, but I just wanted to say one thing: I wanted two hundred yuan for the letter of understanding. In the end, they said they'd go back and think about it and give me an answer today."
At this point, Xu Damao glared and stubbed out his cigarette on the ground. "Damn it, Yi Zhonghai is so rich, yet he can't even part with two hundred yuan. I wonder who he plans to spend it on."
"Hey, if Lao Yi lends this money to Sha Zhu, he might get a return on his investment. But if he lends it to the Jia family, that would be a different story."
Yan Bugui helped analyze, "Jia Dongxu will definitely cry and beg Yi Zhonghai to quickly retrieve the stick. So, the ultimate victim of this theft case is Old Yi."
Xu Damao chuckled: "I'll listen to Brother Dabao. Jia Dongxu and Yi Zhonghai won't see the letter of understanding unless they take the money. Let Sha Zhu and Bang Geng, those little bastards, stay in there."
......
In the afternoon, Yi Zhonghai and his apprentice Jia Dongxu asked the workshop for leave.
After having lunch at the factory, the two hurriedly went to the police station.
After some kind words and two packs of cigarettes, the two met Sha Zhu and Bang Geng.
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