"What do you want from me?" Xia Wei was still pretending not to know, trying to get away with it.
"You should recognize this, right?" Qin Yu directly showed the letter of severance to Xia Wei. "This is the letter of severance between Xia Liang and Xia Wei. It clearly states that they will never see each other again, will not live together after death, and will not share any of each other's property."
Xia Wei's expression suddenly changed. He hadn't expected that the letter of severance had already been obtained. Now he couldn't deny it even if he wanted to.
"Are you going to admit it yourself or do we need to call the police? You're going to admit it to the police...?" Xu Fulin said coldly. "You used to bully Xia Lan because she was all alone and helpless. Some people's inaction has made you lose all sense of shame."
“Xia Lan is now married to Qin Yu, so she’s one of our Shanghe Village people. You’ve seized her family’s property. How do you plan to resolve this?” Xu Fulin said bluntly. “Don’t blame me for not warning you. If the police are called, you’ll definitely go to jail for this crime, and you might even get shot.”
"Don't take bullets! Don't take bullets!" Xia Wei's wife ran out and quickly protected her husband.
"God, you're forcing me to my death... It was clearly Xia Lan who asked us to take care of her, but in other people's mouths it's become that we're taking her hostage. How can that be! She's the one who asked us to stay here..." Xia Wei's wife cried loudly, sitting on the ground and shouting her innocence.
They accused Xia Lan of letting their family move in, saying that as a family, they could take care of each other, but she changed her mind after getting married.
The Xia family might cry foul, and onlookers might believe them, but Qin Yu wouldn't believe a single word of it.
“That day, I brought Xia Lan, who was drowning, to the gate. When you two met, you scolded me, saying that I had taken advantage of Xia Lan and that Xia Lan was my responsibility and would no longer be your concern. Xia Lan was burning up at the time, and you heartlessly drove us out. You have forgotten about this, but I have not forgotten!” Qin Yu coldly walked forward, grabbed Xia Wei’s clothes, and lifted him into the air.
"You don't care at all whether Xia Lan lives or dies," Qin Yu said angrily.
Seeing that Xia Wei was about to be strangled to death by Qin Yu, Xia Wei's wife quickly begged for mercy. "Put him down, put my husband down, you're about to strangle him to death..."
"Stone, don't be impulsive." Xu Fulin stepped forward and patted Qin Yu's hand, and Qin Yu then put Qin Wei down.
Xia Wei breathed in the fresh air and was so frightened that his legs went weak. A puddle of liquid seeped from his trouser leg. Xia Wei was so frightened by Qin Yu that he lost control of his bladder.
Everyone immediately took a step back in disgust.
"If you don't give me a satisfactory solution, I'm not leaving your house!" Qin Yu glanced at the Xia family indifferently.
A little boy timidly peeked out, and seeing so many people outside, immediately shouted, "Sister, quickly put the money away! Someone's coming to rob us!"
"Xia Jie!" Xia Wei's wife's expression changed drastically. Qin Yu and Xu Fulin exchanged a glance, and Qin Yu immediately rushed into the Xia family home.
Just as a girl and a boy were frantically trying to hide their money, Qin Yu stepped forward with a cold face and snatched it away.
"Ah! This bad guy stole our family's money!" The boy was angry and wanted to pounce on Qin Yu, but Qin Yu's fierce glare scared him so much that he stopped moving.
Qin Yu handed the money to Xu Fulin, who opened it and found it contained more than six hundred yuan.
"My money! That's my money!" Xia Wei immediately tried to snatch it back.
"Your money? Xia Liang is a carpenter. He can earn about a hundred yuan a year. How can you compare to Xia Liang? You only have a few acres of land, and the grain you grow is not even enough to feed your family. Where did you get the money? Tell me!" Xu Fulin sneered.
“It seems they like seeing the police. Gou Dan, I'll trouble you to make a trip and invite the police over.” Xu Fulin pointed to one of the men; his quick steps made him the perfect person to fetch the police.
"No, no, no... no, this isn't my money, it's my older brother's money!" Xia Wei quickly told the truth in fear.
"What about the rest of the money?" Xu Fulin asked, as the amount he had was clearly not all of his savings.
“…I…I spent it all.” Xia Wei replied with a bitter face. The first thing they did after receiving their brother’s inheritance was to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things, new clothes, new pants, everything had to be new.
Since it's not their money, they won't feel bad about squandering it.
In just a few days, plus the hush money paid to the village chief, they had spent more than a thousand yuan and only had a little over six hundred left.
Xu Fulin looked at Qin Yu, whose face was grim. "Where are Xia Lan's things?"
“In my daughter’s room… no, in Xia Lan’s old room…” Xia Wei’s wife said cautiously.
Qin Yu walked in with a cold face, and amidst Xia Miao's screams, packed up all the things in the room and carried them out.
Qin Yu turned around, took his tools, and went to the jujube tree in the yard. After digging for a while, he found a small box. He cleaned the box and stuffed it into his bundle before carrying the things out.
"Please help me move all the furniture out of here." Qin Yu remembered Xia Lan's instructions and knew he couldn't let the Xia family have an easy time, so he said to his brothers and uncles in Shanghe Village.
"Go ahead, go ahead!" Xu Fulin agreed, and the villagers acted quickly, moving all of Xia's furniture out of the house.
"Robbery! Stealing things! Are you bandits? This is too much... You're bullying people..." Xia Wei's wife sat on the ground, throwing a tantrum, and no one came to her aid no matter how much she screamed.
Xia Wei's heart was bleeding, but he dared not speak.
"From now on, you have nothing to do with Xia Lan anymore. Don't let me see you again," Qin Yu threatened, then turned to Xu Fulin and nodded.
"Go back to the village." Xu Fulin glanced at Zhao Tong in the crowd, who just stood there watching, not daring to utter a sound.
Amidst Xia Wei's wife's wailing, Qin Yu and the others left Xiahe Village with their belongings.
They arrived with great momentum and returned with a bountiful harvest, each person carrying something in their hands, returning home laden with goodies.
Xia Lan was resting in bed when she suddenly heard a group of people rush into the yard, the sound of a heavy object being put down, followed by Qin Yu's thanks and their polite responses.
As Xia Lan was propping herself up to sit up, Qin Yu walked in with a bundle. He first helped Xia Lan sit up, then placed the bundle in front of her.
"These are all your things from your room. I've brought them all back for you. Your parents' savings, which were found to be over a thousand, were spent by Xia Wei's family on four hundred. The rest is here," Qin Yu said, pointing to a small box in the bundle.
"This is what you said you dug up under the jujube tree. There was also all your furniture outside. I brought it all back for you. I didn't leave a single piece for Xia Wei and the others."
The entire Xia family, everyone who could move, had moved away; only the empty house remained, and there was simply no way to move it.
Xia Lan stared at Qin Yu, speechless with astonishment…
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