Chapter 159 This is all retribution
Under the cover of night, there was silence between heaven and earth.

Li Guoqiang used teleportation and quietly arrived above Zhujiatun in less than a minute.

Afterwards, with the information Xu Yuping told him, he found Xu Yuping's ex-in-laws' family in a short time.

It was a yard with three thatched adobe houses and two livestock sheds. There were a lot of dried corn hanging under the eaves, and it looked like life was pretty good there.

Soon, his eyes fell on a vegetable cellar in the corner of the yard. Then, with a thought, he retracted the baffle at the entrance of the vegetable cellar into the small world, and then his figure flashed into the vegetable cellar.

In the vegetable cellar, there was not only a large wine jar, but also a lot of cabbages, radishes, potatoes and other things piled up.

Obviously, all this came from the job at the commune brewery.

Thinking of how pale and thin Xu Yuping and Zhu Caixia looked when they first returned to her parents' home, Li Guoqiang couldn't help feeling annoyed.

Since the family conditions are not bad, why do they still abuse them and their mother?
Even if Xu Yuping failed to give birth to a boy, it wouldn't be a crime punishable by death, right?

After all, these are just excuses. The main reason is probably that Xu Yuping's mother-in-law is too partial, and Xu Yuping's husband is too conservative.

However, there is no point in thinking about these things now.

Li Guoqiang shook his head slightly, then with a thought he teleported back to the sky above Zhujiatun, and looked towards other households in the village.

Not long after, he found the brigade warehouse in Zhujiatun and used a shovel to pry open the door lock.

The noise soon alarmed the nearby watchdogs, causing them to bark loudly.

Amid the barking of dogs, Li Guoqiang walked into the warehouse calmly, then with a slight wave of his hand, he collected all the things in half of the warehouse into his small world.

Immediately afterwards, a series of disorganized footprints suddenly appeared on the snow outside the warehouse door, extending all the way to Xu Yuping's ex-husband's house.

Soon after, three or four sacks quietly appeared in their vegetable cellar. Most of them were covered under the cabbages, radishes, potatoes and other things. Only a small part was exposed, as if it was neglected for a moment.

Even the baffle at the entrance to the vegetable cellar was placed a little crooked, and there were a lot of footprints around it.

These footprints were made casually by Li Guoqiang using the collecting function of the small world.

When he saw that someone had discovered the footprints and was looking for them all the way from the brigade warehouse, he smiled slightly, quickly put the remaining five or six sacks in the shack, covered them with straw, and then hid directly in the small world, ready to enjoy the show he had directed.

"Hurry, the thief is running this way, follow me!"

"Eh? Isn't this Zhu Gui's house? How did that thief get here?"

"Everyone, look! Their vegetable cellar has been opened. Did the thief run in and hide?"

"Hurry, everyone, surround this vegetable cellar and open the baffle to have a look!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately surrounded the entrance to the vegetable cellar. Then two strong men stepped forward, lifted the baffle, and shone a flashlight into the vegetable cellar.

At the same time, Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua, who were sleeping in the house, also heard the noise coming from the yard outside.

"Dad, what happened outside? Why is it so noisy?"

Zhao Chunhua reached out and pushed Zhu Gui, and asked with some confusion.

"How would I know? I guess the militia of the brigade are probably doing some kind of training again!"

Zhu Gui rolled his eyes and spoke in a somewhat unpleasant tone.

After he finished speaking, just when he was about to lie down and go back to sleep, someone suddenly knocked hard on the door.

"Zhu Gui, you thief, come out to us now!"

"Zhu Gui, Zhu Gui"

"Why are you making so much noise so late at night? Do you want me to sleep?"

When Zhu Gui heard someone knocking at the door, he couldn't help but yell loudly, then he stood up with an unhappy look on his face, put on his coat, got off the kang and walked towards the door of the outer room.

Zhao Chunhua, her mother-in-law Wu Guifen who was sleeping in the west room, and her three siblings Zhu Caiyan, Zhu Jincai and Zhu Jinbao, all got up from the kang one after another to check the situation.

Soon, Zhu Gui's exclamation was heard at the door of the outer room.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

"Fuck, you dare to hit me?"

"What? What do you want to do?"

"Ah! My hands are about to break, please let me go, let me go!"

Hearing these words, Zhao Chunhua was stunned, then hurriedly got off the kang and ran out.

Wu Guifen, Zhu Caiyan, Zhu Jincai, and Zhu Jinbao could no longer sit still, so they quickly turned on their flashlights and ran out behind Zhao Chunhua.

Soon, they saw Zhu Gui, who was tied up in the middle of the yard, and the villagers who were holding torches and flashlights and glaring at Zhu Gui.

"his dad!"

Zhao Chunhua exclaimed, then hurriedly ran forward to Zhu Gui's side to check the situation.

When she saw Zhu Gui's bruised face, she immediately became angry. She stood up abruptly, pointed at the militia company commander Zhu Yongjun, and shouted, "Zhu Yongjun, what do you want to do?"

"When did my man offend you? Why do you treat him like this?"

"You damned bastards, why don't you just let my man go!"

"If anything happens to my man, I will never forgive you!"

Seeing that Zhao Chunhua was caught in the act and still acted so arrogantly, Zhu Yongjun could not help but shout in anger, "Come on, tie her up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several female militiamen rushed out from the crowd, tied Zhao Chunhua up like a dumpling in a few seconds, and threw her next to Zhu Gui.

"Ah! What are you doing? Let me go quickly, let me go quickly, I want to find the captain, I want to find the captain to sue you!"

Seeing that she was also tied up, Zhao Chunhua couldn't help but shout out in fear.

"Humph!" Zhu Yongjun saw that Zhao Chunhua still didn't understand the situation, so he snorted coldly and scolded her, "Don't you know what good things you have done?"

"I'm telling you, you'd better tell the truth. Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude to you."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Gui's face suddenly changed. He wondered if someone had found out that he had secretly used money to buy tickets from someone else.

Zhao Chunhua was also startled, obviously thinking the same thing as Zhu Gui.

At this time, Wu Guifen, who had been hurrying, finally hurried out of the house accompanied by Zhu Caiyan, Zhu Jincai and Zhu Jinbao, three siblings. Then, when she saw the miserable appearance of Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua, she couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Ouch! You bastards, why did you tie up our precious son?"

"What did our Guizi do wrong? You can't just accuse a good person!"

"I bother!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yongjun immediately said with disdain, "You are clearly a thief who stole public property. How dare you call yourself a good person?"

"Stealing public property?"

When Wu Guifen, Zhu Gui, Zhao Chunhua and others heard this false accusation, they were all stunned. They did not understand what Zhu Yongjun meant.
When Zhu Yongjun saw them like this, he thought they were playing dumb, and he could not help but angrily tell them what had happened. He also asked people to bring several sacks of rice seeds that had just been moved out of Zhu Gui's vegetable cellar to Zhu Gui and the others.

When Zhu Gui heard that he had inexplicably become a thief who stole public property, and that evidence of his crime was found in his own vegetable cellar, he was momentarily stunned.

He remembered that he had clearly slept on the kang at home all night. Even before going to bed, he worked very hard with Zhao Chunhua to repair the canal, which made him so tired that his back and waist ached. How could he have the time to steal things from the brigade warehouse?
But if he didn't steal it, where did the rice come from?
Not to mention the footprints on the road?

Could it be that someone wanted to deliberately frame their family?
Thinking of this, he hurriedly shouted that he was innocent and expressed his speculation that someone was trying to frame their family.

However, it was obvious that the crowd would not believe his one-sided story and kept asking him where the other food he had stolen was.

Just when he was at a loss for words, he suddenly heard someone standing in the shack shouting loudly.

"found it!"

Hearing this, Zhu Yongjun immediately led his men towards the shack.

After a while, he had someone move out five or six bags of rice hidden in the shack, and asked Zhu Daqing, the custodian who had just arrived after inspecting the losses in the brigade's warehouse, to verify and count them.

Soon, Zhu Daqing discovered that the losses of these grains and the brigade’s warehouse basically matched, and he instantly felt relieved.

Soon after, Zhujiatun’s team leader, branch secretary, women’s director and other team cadres arrived one after another. After hearing about the whole incident, they immediately had Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua taken to the team headquarters to be interrogated overnight.

In this regard, Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua could only keep shouting that they were innocent.

When Wu Guifen saw this situation, she hurriedly took Zhu Caiyan, Zhu Jincai, and Zhu Jinbao, three siblings, to find their relatives and friends to help explain and plead with the brigade.

However, those relatives and friends did not believe that Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua were innocent at all. They were afraid of being involved in this incident, so they all found excuses to avoid it.

In desperation, Wu Guifen could only take Zhu Caiyan, Zhu Jincai, and Zhu Jinbao and wait at the entrance of the brigade office, hoping to plead with the brigade cadres.

In the blink of an eye, it was more than an hour later.

When facing the interrogation of the brigade cadres, Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua were unable to explain why the rice appeared in their shack and vegetable cellar, nor did they know who had the ability to put the rice in their home without anyone noticing.

Seeing that Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua refused to plead guilty even when facing death, the brigade cadres could only threaten Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua, saying that they would hand the matter over to the commune police station for handling.

According to the value of the stolen grain, if convicted, he would have to serve at least seven or eight years in prison.

After hearing about the serious consequences, Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua were immediately frightened and trembling. Then, with the enthusiastic help of the team leader Zhu Jiliang, they could only hold their noses and accept the 500 yuan compensation. They also had to privately transfer the job quota of the winery to Zhu Jiliang's eldest nephew.

As a result, not only did their family have to give up the 200 yuan compensation and job quota they had previously occupied, but even after emptying their family savings, they still had to owe the team nearly 200 yuan, which was like going from heaven to hell in an instant.

But what else can they do?

Nowadays, no matter what they say, no one believes that they were framed.

Do we really have to lock people up in prison for seven or eight years?
By then, I'm afraid I'll even lose my life, right?
Therefore, in comparison, being in debt is not an unacceptable thing.

Soon, under the arrangement of the team leader Zhu Jiliang, Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua were finally released after their family assets were emptied. They walked all the way home, cursing all the way.

Just when they were blaming everything on Xu Yuping and thought that Xu Yuping had brought bad luck to their family, they suddenly heard a roar coming from the front.

Not long after, when they returned to the gate of their yard, they found that the roofs of their three thatched adobe houses had all inexplicably collapsed under the weight of the snow, and even half of the walls had collapsed.

Seeing this situation, they were a little confused on the spot.

Afterwards, Wu Guifen's eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground, their minds filled with thoughts about whether their dead elder brother had come back to take revenge on them.

Fortunately, Zhu Caiyan did not feel guilty about what she had done. She hurriedly took Zhu Jincai and Zhu Jinbao to help Wu Guifen up.

Soon, the villagers who heard the noise also rushed over one after another. Then, when they saw that Zhu Gui's houses were all collapsed by the snow, the same thought came to their minds. They thought that Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua must have gone too far, so they provoked their dead eldest brother to come back for revenge.

Some people even thought that this might be Xu Yuping's father who had just passed away coming here to take revenge.

Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence?

Therefore, instead of stepping forward to help, these villagers took a few steps back.

It was not until the team leader Zhu Jiliang came with his men that someone dared to step forward to help wake Wu Guifen up, and also helped Zhu Gui and Zhao Chunhua up.

As soon as they came to their senses, they immediately sat on the ground, slapped their thighs and cried bitterly, crying even more sadly than when their eldest brother died.

Now, not only have they lost their money, they have also lost their jobs and even their houses.

If they had known this would happen, they should not have seized Xu Yuping's compensation and job quota, and they should not have driven Xu Yuping and Zhu Caixia away.

"This is all retribution!"

Not long after, as such a sigh suddenly sounded in the crowd, Li Guoqiang's mood finally became much more relaxed, and then he teleported back home silently.

(End of this chapter)