Courtyard House: Purchasing Agents' Comeback from the Great Famine

Hearing He Yushui's words, Wang Feng smiled and shook his head: "Yushui, I can only guarantee that I won't take the initiative to attack your brother. If your brother comes to provoke me, then you can't blame me."

"Okay, Brother Wang Feng, thank you."

He Yushui knew that her request was a bit excessive, but there was nothing she could do, since Shazhu was her own brother.

The two chatted casually, drinking tea and eating melon seeds, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

Just then, Yi Zhonghai, accompanied by two policemen who had come to the compound that morning, walked from the front yard toward the back yard.

"What's going on today? Xu Damao was beaten up this morning, and the police were called. It's not even afternoon yet, why are the police here again?"

"You don't know? I heard the old lady's house was burgled, and more than six hundred yuan was stolen."

"Impossible, right? The old lady stays at home every day; who would go to her house to steal money?"

"Hehe, the old lady went out for more than an hour this morning, and when she came back, she found that her house had been burgled."

The people in the courtyard were all talking about it and came to the backyard.

Wang Feng and He Yushui also came to the backyard. He wanted to see how the police solved cases in this era.

Without surveillance, he was wearing a hood, gloves, and shoe covers, and even changed to a larger size pair of shoes. Let alone the police of this era, even a detective from later generations probably wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

Two police officers entered the deaf old woman's home and, seeing the mess on the floor, the older officer asked Yan Fugui:

"Comrade, have any strangers entered the compound today?"

Yan Fugui shook his head: "I was in the front yard all morning and didn't see any strangers enter the yard."

The police questioned other people in the compound, and they all said they hadn't seen any strangers.

The two police officers exchanged a glance, nodded secretly, and began searching for clues at the deaf old woman's house.

After half an hour.

The police officer said helplessly to the deaf old woman, "Madam, the perpetrator's counter-investigation methods are extremely sophisticated. We haven't found any clues."

The two police officers also found this theft case somewhat troublesome. The perpetrator hadn't left a single clue, not even a footprint, which was too blurry to be compared with other evidence, making the case difficult to solve.

Upon hearing the police officer's words, the deaf elderly woman's vision went black. Fortunately, an older woman reacted quickly and caught her, preventing her from falling.

"Officer, I suspect it's more likely someone from the compound. The old lady and I were only out for a little over an hour, and her house was burgled. Besides someone from the compound, who else could do something like that in broad daylight?"

"Besides, the old lady is usually at home. Someone must have seen me carrying her out of the house before they broke in and committed the theft," Yi Zhonghai analyzed.

As soon as Yi Zhonghai said this, everyone turned their attention to Jia Zhangshi.

"What are you all doing, staring at me like that? Do you suspect that I stole the old lady's money?" Jia Zhangshi shouted.

"You're the only one in this yard who likes to steal petty things, who else could it be but you?"

"Old man Hu, how dare you frame me?"

When Jia Zhangshi saw that everyone was looking at her strangely, she sat down on the ground and started slapping her thighs with both hands, and began to summon the soul.

"Old Jia, come up here quickly! Old Hu has wronged me! Come up and take him away!"

"Nonsense."

The older police officer shouted at them.

"Ma'am, how dare you promote feudal superstition? Get up right now, or I'll take you to the police station. This is just a warning; if you dare to promote feudal superstition again, I'll arrest you and lock you up at the police station."

"Yes, yes, officer, I'll get up right away. It's all Old Hu's fault. They wronged me."

Upon hearing that she was to be taken to the police station, Jia Zhangshi was terrified and immediately stood up.

The older police officer had no leads either, so he said to Yi Zhonghai, "Comrade, since you suspect someone in the compound stole the old lady's money, then search the place. But don't get your hopes up too high."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, officers of the Public Security Bureau," Yi Zhonghai nodded.

In this theft case, both police officers believed that the thief was not from the compound, because the thief was too professional. The people in the compound were either working in the factory or were elderly, weak, women and children, which clearly did not match such professional thieves.

Soon, two police officers began searching the entire compound, starting with the front yard and then moving on to the middle yard.

When they found Wang Feng's house, Yi Zhonghai wanted to go in, but Wang Feng stopped him.

"Yi Zhonghai, the police officers can go in, but you can't."

"As an old man in this compound, why can't I go in? I was allowed in when they searched other people's homes, so why can't I go in here? Wang Feng, get out of the way and don't disturb the police officers." Yi Zhonghai said with a gloomy face.

Wang Feng didn't waste words with Yi Zhonghai and said to the police officer, "Officer, I have some past grievances with this man. What if he goes in and ransacks my house, or tries to frame me? Who can say for sure?"

The police officer nodded and said to Yi Zhonghai, "Then you shouldn't go in."

After saying that, the two policemen went into Wang Feng's house.

Yi Zhonghai stared at Wang Feng with a gloomy expression. In his mind, Wang Feng was the biggest suspect, after all, both he and the old lady had recently had conflicts with Wang Feng.

The two police officers searched quickly and came out in no time.

Upon seeing the police officers emerge, Yi Zhonghai quickly stepped forward and asked, "Officer, how did it go?"

The two police officers shook their heads and walked towards another house.

Upon hearing this, Yi Zhonghai was somewhat disappointed, but he still followed the police to the next place.

Soon, every household in the courtyard except Xu Damao's was searched, but no clues were found.

"Officer, there's no need to search Xu Damao's house. This morning, he went back to the compound and got into a fight with He Yuzhu from our compound. Then he was taken to the hospital. The old lady was still at home at that time," Yi Zhonghai said.

The two police officers nodded and said to the deaf old woman:

"Madam, please don't worry too much. We will keep an eye on this case and notify you as soon as there is any progress."

After saying that, the two police officers left the compound.

Hearing the police officer's words, the deaf old woman's expression darkened, and she said to the older woman:

"Shufen, help me back to my room."

"Why."

"That's it, everyone disperse."

Seeing that there was no show to watch, everyone went home.

Wang Feng returned to the house, first closing the door, then probed his space with his consciousness to check his gains this time.

First, there were twenty large yellow croakers, eight small yellow croakers, and gold bracelets, gold rings, gold earrings, and gold necklaces, etc., which together weighed about half a pound. The total gold harvest this time was a little over 13 pounds.

As for some silver jewelry, there's no need to calculate it, since it's not worth much money and can't be used to expand the space.

Then there was over six hundred yuan and some receipts, so this was definitely a big haul.