Chapter 799 Surveillance Video The old woman's unease grew larger and larger until she finally couldn't hold it in any longer.
While Lu Qingyang was visiting the old man, she pulled him aside, her brows furrowed into a deep frown, and in a low voice poured out her suspicions about the Taosu case, the scissors mystery, and her own doubts.
Finally, she sighed heavily, her face filled with conflict: "Qingyang, what's a few peach shortbreads worth to a person as innocent as me? But I still feel uneasy! If we let her take it, no one saw it with their own eyes. What if we're getting older and our memories are failing, and we wrongly accuse her? That wouldn't be right..."
After listening, Lu Qingyang did not rush to a conclusion.
He pondered for a moment, a sly glint in his eyes: "Grandma, your concerns are valid. We won't wrong an innocent person, but we won't let things go unchecked either. We have a secret weapon here that will surely get to the bottom of things without alerting the culprit."
"A secret weapon?" The old woman looked at him suspiciously.
Two days later, Lu Qingyang arrived with a toolbox.
He chose a day when Aunt Zhang was off work, and spent quite a while fiddling with something on top of an inconspicuous tall cabinet in his grandparents' room.
Finally, a small, white camera, about the size of a palm, with a camera lens and a faint red light, was left behind, hidden in front of several old books, so that it was hard to spot unless you looked closely.
"Grandma, do you see this? This security camera is like... well, like an eye that never blinks. It's secretly recording everything that happens in the house. Let's try it and we'll see what's going on."
The old woman looked at the machine with suspicion, thinking it was mysterious and unreliable.
But she trusted her grandson and decided to cooperate.
In Yu, a "luring the enemy into the trap" scenario quietly unfolded.
The old lady deliberately placed the old man's watch in the open on the dresser in the bedroom, next to a box of beautifully packaged pastries, and even casually revealed a few loose grain coupons and cloth coupons of not-so-high denomination in the drawer.
After setting the trap, the old woman was still feeling conflicted. She hoped that the real culprit would be caught, but she also secretly hoped that she had misremembered.
Sure enough, Zhang Sao came to work the next day.
As usual, she tidied up the old man's room first.
At first, he only wiped and cleaned, but his eyes scanned the room like searchlights.
When she saw the gleaming watch and pastry box on the dresser, her movements noticeably slowed down.
While no one else was in the room, she pretended to make the bed, but her eyes kept glancing at the dresser.
Then, she quickly walked to the door, looked around, and after confirming it was safe, she darted to the dresser. Not daring to take the watch, she opened the pastry box and secretly took a few pastries.
Seeing the tickets in the drawer, I didn't dare take them all, only pulling out a few.
Sometimes she would take some tea leaves or steal some rice from here, and no one noticed.
Sometimes, they would even drink several bowls of the old man's soup, then dilute it with some water.
She thought she had gotten away with it, but little did she know that her entire brilliant performance had been recorded by the surveillance camera high up.
That evening, Lu Qingyang played the recorded footage on his family's screen for his grandmother and father to see.
Grandma Ng looked at Aunt Zhang's skillful technique and slapped her thigh in anger: "Well, I thought you had a bad memory, but look at this..."
The evidence is conclusive and undeniable.
The next day, when Aunt Zhang tried to use the same trick again, Chung-Wen and Lu Qing-Yang spoke directly to her. They didn't mention the surveillance footage, but simply told her about everything she had taken.
When Zhang Sao heard that Zhongwen and Lu Qingyang had described in detail what she had stolen, her heart skipped a beat.
She thought to herself, "No one will grab me on the spot. As long as I deny it, what can they do but search me? What can they do but take me to the police station? They're probably just trying to scare me!"
Thinking about it this way, her back straightened a few times, her face instantly filled with the grievance of being wronged, and she slapped her thigh and began to cry out her innocence:
"Oh dear! This is a huge injustice! Aunt Zhang has been working here for more than a day or two, and everyone says she's honest. How could she do such a shameless thing, trying to take advantage of others? You can't just wrong an innocent person like that! Surely the old lady is getting old and can't remember where she put her things, so how can you blame it on her?"
She acted with such sincerity that she almost spat out saliva, as if she had suffered a tremendous injustice.
Lu Qingyang found it amusing to see her stubbornness, which wouldn't lead her to admit defeat until she was faced with a dire situation.
"Aunt Zhang, are you sure you didn't take anything? You didn't take a single thing?"
"No, absolutely not." Aunt Zhang pounded her chest loudly, swearing an oath, "If I take it, may I be struck by lightning."
Lu Qingyang nodded, his gaze falling on the bulging old cloth bag she had placed in the corner. "So what's in that bulging bag of yours? Shall we open it and see? That way we can completely clear you of any suspicion."
Aunt Zhang's face turned pale instantly, and she instinctively tried to hide her bag behind her back, while still stubbornly insisting:
"These...these are all my private things! Why should I show them to you!"
"Given that something was stolen from your house, and you are currently the prime suspect, either you open it yourself, or we will have to ask the neighborhood committee members and the police to come and open it in front of everyone."
Aunt Zhang panicked completely. Her hands and feet were trembling, her lips were shaking, and she was still making a last-ditch effort, refusing to let go.
Lu Qingyang was too lazy to waste any more words with her and simply took out the 께-shaped portable playback device.
On the screen, the entire process of how she had been in the bedroom, how she had kept a close watch on everything, how she had quickly stuffed the snacks into her pocket, and how she had opened the drawer to take away the food and cloth coupons, was immediately and clearly displayed.
Aunt Zhang's eyes widened instantly, and all the color drained from her face.
She had lived most of her life and had only ever seen such magical things in movies. She never imagined that there would actually be something in real life that could "carve" down what people did!
“This…this…” She pointed at the screen, her fingers trembling, unable to utter a single word.
A tremendous sense of shame instantly overwhelmed her.
The evidence is conclusive and irrefutable.
Aunt Zhang hung her head, her face ashen.
"Look at all this! Everything you did has been recorded. This is evidence. We need to hand it over to the police..."
Aunt Zhang was incredulous. It was the first time she had ever seen such a thing. She thought Lu Qingyang must be lying to her. "No, no, you're lying. How could something take pictures of people? Besides, I didn't see anything taking pictures in that room."
"Then you don't understand. This surveillance system, a new product developed by D&D, will be launched soon."
The old woman, furious, put her hands on her hips and cursed, "You, Zhang Sao, caught red-handed, and with this...this video evidence, the proof is irrefutable, and you still want to deny it?"
"If you don't believe me, you can come and have the police examine it to see if it's real."
Mrs. Zhang was speechless for a moment...
"No, please don't! I'm not going to be bewitched for a moment!"
She knelt down with a thud and burst into tears: "These things mean nothing to you, but they are extremely precious to me. I am not stealing, I am just borrowing."
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