He Caiwei glanced at Director Zhang and the other police officers. Was Uncle Xie really that scary? They had only just arrived and were already terrified before they even asked any questions. If he were taken back to the police station later, would he faint from fright?
“Police officers, these two are a mother and son. My dad just left for work at noon today, and this old woman came knocking on the door like she had a grudge against it. I don’t know what happened. She was cursing and yelling at us outside, and she wanted us to give her a courtyard to live in, or she would report us. Police officers, could you please ask her what she’s going to report us for? My dad is a retired soldier, and we bought this courtyard before Liberation. We have property ownership certificates.” He Caiwei wasn’t going to let these people get away with it and told Director Zhang about the situation directly.
Although the public-private partnership has been implemented, those property ownership certificates still have their purpose. The house you buy belongs to you. Although the sale of houses is no longer open, they still believe that a house with a property ownership certificate belongs to the owner of the certificate, and no one else can arbitrarily seize personal property.
The houses owned by the family were all registered in 1949 and are considered personal property. However, He Caiwei didn't know what could be reported about their family. She wished the police could help her find out.
Director Xu came over anyway, so as not to make things too awkward for the mother and son.
Director Zhang looked at Director Xu as he approached and asked, "Director Xu, is this person registered in your street office? Is there any concrete proof that their household registration is here?"
"Director Zhang, I'm really sorry. Due to our negligence, we've had to trouble you to come out again. These people are indeed not from this city. They are my mother-in-law's cousin and her son. The woman's name is Zhang Cuihua and her son's name is Chen Baoshun. They came to my mother-in-law for help because of their family's financial difficulties, and my mother-in-law has been doing her best to help them."
They said Chen Baogen came to the city to find a job, but his son was lazy and couldn't keep up with the work after only two days. No shops or factories in the city wanted to hire him, so he became a street urchin.
When I first heard that He's daughter was looking for a husband, my mother-in-law suggested that Chen Baogen could marry into the family. I thought that He's daughter would be interested in marrying into the family, so I was prepared to introduce him to her. However, He's daughter didn't like the two of them and refused without even meeting them. So I didn't say anything more.
But the mother and son went too far. Before they even discussed anything, they tried to manipulate He Meizi, forcing her to put the two courtyards in the old woman's name. He Meizi was already unwilling, and now she was even more unwilling. But somehow they found out where He Meizi lived. She had disappeared for several years, and no one knew where she went. Now, the mother and son had reappeared, and no one knew what they were up to now. Director Xu told the police everything he knew.
She was thoroughly fed up with the greedy faces of the mother and son. Instead of going back to the village to farm, they came to her house every day to borrow rice and grain. She had so much to lend them. If she didn't lend them any, they would throw a tantrum on the house and at the door, making a scene that everyone would know about.
"Come on, pull this old woman back and interrogate her properly. Find out what they're up to. Also, find someone to arrest her son. This kind of coward who abandons his mother at the first sign of trouble is utterly speechless. Weiwei, go back first and don't let your mother know. If she's worried something might happen, Uncle Zhang will come over tonight and talk to you. Go back now, we're leaving too." Director Zhang didn't say anything more. Director Xu's explanation was already very clear: they were eyeing Old Lu's house again.
When the old woman saw the police officers approaching with handcuffs to cuff her, she genuinely fainted. The onlookers were all amazed at how quickly she had fainted. Wasn't she just moments before so arrogant, making a scene at the Lu family's door? How come she turned into a quail when she saw the police, and even fainted from fright?
However, the police have their own methods; you can't escape legal responsibility just by fainting.
After the old woman was taken away, Lu Qingzhu and Bai Caiwei fetched several buckets of water and scrubbed the doorway two or three times before they finally felt the smell was gone.
He Yuping had just heard the commotion outside, but as she was about to give birth, her belly was feeling quite heavy, and her legs were not under her control. They were so swollen that she couldn't even wear her shoes anymore, so she simply didn't have the energy to listen to what was being said or done outside.
They had just finished tidying up when his father rushed in from outside. After finding his wife alright and walking slowly in the room, he came out to look for his daughter.
Old Zhang's words were incoherent, which made him very nervous, so he immediately asked for leave and rode his bicycle out.
Because he gleaned a useful piece of information from those seemingly random words: someone had come to his house to cause trouble.
The family is now filled with elderly people and young children, and they can't withstand the harassment from those people. So his first concern was for his pregnant wife, followed by his children and father.
When Lu Zhiheng returned home, he found it quiet. He parked his bicycle at the door and ran inside, only to find his wife lying there rubbing her legs. She was quite surprised to see him come back at this time.
"You scared me to death! Your Uncle Zhang was talking so casually, I thought something had happened at home, so I dropped what I was doing and rushed over. Come and tell Dad what happened after I left today. Why do you all look so grumpy?" Lu Zhiheng's heart was still pounding; he hadn't recovered from the fright so quickly.
Lu Qingyue vividly recounted the events of this morning to her uncle, but seeing his increasingly grim expression, he didn't dare to speak anymore in the end.
"Why didn't anyone tell me? What would I do if something bad happened to them? Don't worry, those two won't be here again. Daughter, get your dad some wine. I'll bribe Old Zhang to find a way to get that mother and son far away so they won't be an eyesore here." Lu Zhiheng stretched out his hand to his daughter. Old Zhang didn't like anything except eating and drinking. The old man's wine had been almost all stolen.
He and the old man got along very well. So when he wasn't busy, he would come over every now and then to have a drink with the old man, who was happy to see that someone was helping him drink.
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