Chapter 127 126. Scare the young and scare the old
The three children saw the police coming in.

They were all stunned, tears streaming down their faces, they were crying out of fear.

Lao Jiang glared and nodded, "Let's go."

He looked fierce to begin with, and when he glared at them, the three children stopped crying and were so scared that they dared not cry anymore.

When he came out and saw the police car, he was so scared that his face turned pale. He got into the back seat of the car trembling, not daring to move.

Lao Jiang was driving and Luo Yihang was in the passenger seat.

We drove all the way to the police station in the town below. When the police on duty saw Lao Jiang, he immediately stood up and called out "Captain Jiang."

Then he asked, "Why are you here so early?"

Lao Jiang nodded at him and pointed at the three children. "These three kids who stole vegetables, Xiao Li, take them to record their statements."

"Yes." Officer Li saluted and took the three children to the inquiry room.

Lao Jiang asked Luo Yihang to find a place to sit, and he went to the back of the police station and brought out two buckets of instant noodles.

Handing Luo Yihang a bucket, "You have to pay for it yourself."

"It'll be on your account." He took the noodles and started eating.

I'm a little hungry after working all night.

"Damn it." Lao Jiang retorted and sat down opposite him.

Wait until they finish eating the noodles.

Xiao Li has already come out with two pieces of paper. He is really fast.

"There are three kids, named Luo Shaoan, Luo Qingcai, and Luo Hongzhi. Luo Qingcai is eighteen, and the other two are seventeen. They are all from Luojia Village. They stopped studying after junior high school. They worked on the construction site for a few days, but they were tired and quit after a few days. They stayed at home and stole wine bottles and sold scrap metal. The most common thing they did was steal money from home."

"This time he said he saw it in the elementary school group. One of his classmates was admitted to the third middle school in the city. He boasted in the group that there were vegetables in Ping'angou that cost more than ten yuan per pound. The three of them wanted to steal some in the middle of the night and sell them for money. One wanted to buy game skins, one said he planned to eat meat for several days in a row without eating any vegetables, and another said he saved it for marrying a wife."

"Haha, the plan was pretty good. But when I went there today, I was discovered right after I took it out." When Xiao Li said this, he laughed.

"Three ignorant kids, they can't even tell that people are bragging. How can there be vegetables that cost more than ten yuan per pound? In the vegetable market, they are sold in piles at one or two yuan per pound. If they really stole them and put them in the vegetable market, they would..."

Lao Jiang knocked on the table, interrupting Xiao Li's comments, "Don't say anything you shouldn't say."

"Is it true..." Xiao Li asked in surprise.

He was interrupted again by Lao Jiang, "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

"Yes." Xiao Li stood up, poured three glasses of water and took them into the inquiry room, leaving the outside for Lao Jiang and Luo Yihang.
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Lao Jiang took the record and read it again. The record was very simple. It was about three children who were about 17 or 18 years old, who did not study, were unwilling to go out to work, and had no money to spend.

I was also stimulated by my former classmate who went to school with me and is now in a key high school, and I acted on impulse.

This was the first time for these three kids to steal something. Before, they had stolen wine bottles from home and sold them as scrap.

Nothing special, this place...

"Luojia Village. Qiangwa is also from Luojia Village, right?"

"Yes, maybe I can recognize him." Luo Yihang confirmed.

Lao Jiang took out his cell phone and said, "I'll call him and ask."

"Don't fight, it's only what time." Luo Yihang tried to stop him, but not in a very firm way.

"Why should I be called by you?"

"That makes sense." Luo Yihang also took out his phone, "You call, I'll make a VX call, and see who he picks up."

The two bad friends talked on the phone for ten minutes and even woke up Qiangwa.

Practice has proved that the police are more powerful.

"Hello, Lao Jiang, what's the matter so early?" Qiangwa was still dazed when he answered the phone.

"Do you know that your kid is in trouble?" Lao Jiang threatened viciously.

Qiang Wa didn't take it seriously, "Then take me away, I will bite you out for sure."

"Damn it." Lao Jiang cursed and changed the subject, "There is a Luo Shaoan, Luo Qingcai, and Luo Hongzhi. Do you know them?"

"Let me think, it sounds familiar." Qiang Wa pondered for a long time and finally remembered, "He's from our village, little kid. According to seniority, he should be my cousin. We're not familiar with each other except the fifth degree of mourning."

"You don't know your cousin well?"

"There are more than 300 households in our village, and they all bring their relatives. How can we possibly know them all?"

Luojia Village where Qiangwa lives is a village with many people sharing the same surname. Basically, everyone has the same surname.

There seem to be more villages like this. On the contrary, villages like Luo Yihang's Ping'angou, which were put together to support the Third Front Construction, are quite special.

"Okay, that's all for you, just go to sleep." Lao Jiang deliberately said nothing and was about to hang up the phone.

Qiangwa's curiosity has been aroused, "What happened to them?"

"The three of them went to steal some food from Hangwa's house at night."

"What!!"

Qiang Wa was just shocked and woke up from his doze when Lao Jiang hung up the phone...

"Qiangwa's relative." Luo Yihang smiled. "This saves me a lot of trouble. I have an excuse to tell my parents."

Chiang Kai-shek read the record again, threw the paper on the table, and asked Luo Yihang: "Do you really want to do this?"

Luo Yihang nodded: "Really."

"Okay." Lao Jiang pointed at Luo Yihang, "Your kid is just a pushover."

"You can't say that. If they continue like this, the three kids will be ruined. Besides, I'm a capitalist now, and I plan to exploit their labor." "Your kid is just a pushover."

Lao Jiang said it again and called Officer Li.

"Please ask for their parents' phone numbers for me."

"Do you want to notify the family?"

"Yes." Lao Jiang paused and added, "I will fight."

Then he called Xiao Li to the side and gave him a few instructions.

This time the time it took to make the call was even longer than the time it took to explain the problem just now.

Through the door, you can hear the three children inside begging, as if they were crying again, and the righteous voice of Officer Li.

But the call eventually arrived.

After dawn, Lao Jiang called their parents and borrowed an office from the police station.
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Not long after, Xiao Li brought three pairs of middle-aged men and women into the office that Lao Jiang borrowed.

These three couples looked like honest farmers, with faces full of anxiety and panic.

One of the mothers knelt down when she saw Chiang Kai-shek.

Lao Jiang quickly supported her and helped her sit down.

The mother held on to Lao Jiang and kept saying, "My child is not a bad person by nature. My child doesn't dare to steal things. My child is timid. Don't make a mistake."

Several other parents also surrounded Lao Jiang and kept begging and making excuses for their children.

"Stop, stop, listen to me first." Chiang Kai-shek finally interrupted them, arranged for them to sit down and poured them water.

Then he took out the record and showed it to several parents, "Take a look first, these are all things your children have told you about."

Several parents took it carefully and gathered together to read it carefully, afraid of missing a single word.

The record is not long and you can finish it quickly if you read it carefully.

One of the fathers was so angry that he slammed the table and cursed, "How dare you, little bastard, steal vegetables? He is the one who is short of food and water at home. We are all country folks. We rely on the food from the fields to make a living. What will we do if you steal vegetables?"

Country people hate people who steal things from the fields the most. It doesn’t matter if they steal one or two, but if they steal in large numbers and cause a lot of trouble, it would be a murderous crime in those days, and if caught they would be beaten to death.

The woman who sat next to him and looked like a couple pulled the man and dragged him to sit down, looking at Lao Jiang expectantly, "Comrade police, my child stole vegetables, can I make up for it to his family? Can you not arrest my child, two or three times?"

After saying this, the other parents also looked at Lao Jiang expectantly, and all of them said they would give compensation, just hoping that their children could be freed from the crime.

Lao Jiang sighed and said, "It's not about the food. Do you know where your kid stole it?"

"That's not Ping'angou..."

"They stole from the base of the Academy of Sciences, which is registered with the Imperial Capital National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. I can't tell you about the vegetables there that are far away, so let me tell you about the ones that are nearby. Some are supplied to the city's No. 3 Middle School, which is only given to senior high school students to supplement their nutrition for the college entrance examination. Some are supplied to the city hospital to save the lives of patients undergoing major operations. If your child really stole these and sold them, think about the consequences."

My goodness, this kind of bullshit has scared these honest farmers.

It felt like the sky was falling.

One of the mothers burst into tears on the spot. She thought her child's crime was worthy of being sentenced to death by shooting. That was what the police said.

When Lao Jiang saw this, he quickly changed the subject, "But, but, they didn't really cause any damage, they were caught before they could steal anything."

The mother immediately stopped crying and looked at Lao Jiang pleadingly, "Does that mean my child won't have to go to jail?"

"Not necessarily." With just one sentence, her tears welled up again. Lao Jiang quickly continued, "It depends on what the base means. If they insist on suing, we can only file a case. If they..."

Lao Jiang was interrupted here, and he pushed the table and stood up, "I'll go and discuss it with the person in charge of the base. After all, these kids are still young, so you wait a moment."

After saying that, Lao Jiang quickly walked out of the office, turned around and went into the next room.
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Luo Yihang is here, with his cell phone on the table, always on.

Before Chiang Kai-shek went over, Luo Yihang insisted on making way because he wanted to listen to the fun.

Seeing Lao Jiang, Luo Yihang couldn't help laughing, holding his stomach, and pointed at Lao Jiang, "You can actually act."

Among their group, Chiang Kai-shek has always been straightforward and a bit reckless since he was a child.

Now he can actually act to scare people, and he does it in a very complete way. He also acted very well in the turning point of the story.

Lao Jiang pushed away Luo Yihang's fingers, poured a glass of water and drank it, then wiped his sweat, "There's a family inside that I recognize. I saw it before when I went to Qiangwa's house. Luckily he didn't recognize me."

Then he explained himself, "Am I trying to scare people? I am using it as a mediation method. For minors and young people, scaring them is more effective than reasoning. It is all about trying to make them change their ways. The method is not important."

After a brief explanation, Lao Jiang asked Luo Yihang again, "Let his family take those kids home and give them a beating, and they will behave. They are just little kids with thin arms and legs, what's the use? Do you really want to do that?"

Luo Yihang nodded and waved his hand, "I caught those kids last night and was planning to just teach them a lesson, but..."

"but what?"

"I saw two things." Luo Yihang counted on his fingers.

"First, when I caught them, they just wanted to let others run away first, and even those who had already run away would come back to rescue me."

"Second, although they stole my vegetables, there was no damage to my vegetable garden. They picked them carefully and only picked the mature ones. They didn't touch the immature ones."

Lao Jiang suddenly realized, "You like people who are loyal."

"I think they have all done farm work before. They can work seriously in the middle of the night and are very meticulous."

"You kid is just being stubborn. Okay, I'll go over there."

Chiang Kai-shek curled his lips and turned away.

This time it's not a scare, this time it's a trick.

(End of this chapter)