Era: Seven money-losing girls? They're trying to trick me into having a daughter again!

Yang Qian soon woke up Laotang Village, and one by one the lights came on.

"Who's banging a gong?! Can't a person sleep in the middle of the night?!"

"Listen to this! What?! They caught him?! They found the sixty yuan Yang owed?!"

"Quick! Go out and see!"

The villagers, wearing coats and carrying torches and flashlights, hurried toward the place Yang Qian had mentioned, their faces filled with curiosity.

The first to arrive was Village Chief Zhou.

He jogged over, wearing only a coat and holding a lantern. When he saw the person bound like a dumpling on the ground, he exclaimed in surprise, "Liu... Liu Wang?!"

"That's him!"

Yang Qian pointed at Liu Wang and said angrily, "Damn it, this bastard stole my money! Dawei and I caught him with our own hands just now!"

More and more villagers gathered around.

The torchlight made people's faces look red and bright, and everyone stared at the trembling figure on the ground.

"Liu Wang?! Impossible?!"

"How is that impossible! Have you forgotten that just a few days ago he went to Fang Wei's house, saying he wanted to help out at the old forest farm!"

"Yes, yes, yes! I found it strange at the time, how come he, a lazy man, suddenly became so diligent!"

Liu Wang knelt on the ground, his face pale, but he quickly realized: He couldn't confess! He absolutely couldn't confess! Confessing would mean going to jail!!!

"I don't!"

He started wailing at the top of his lungs, "Village Chief Zhou! I'm innocent! I'm truly innocent!!"

"I didn't steal Yang Qian's money! Fang Wei and Yang Qian conspired to frame me! They...they framed me!!!"

Liu Wang cried out to the surrounding villagers, "Think about it, everyone! I may be lazy, but when have I ever stolen anything?! It's Fang Wei, on the other hand! He's a gambling addict—"

"Snapped!"

Fang Wei slapped him across the face and said coldly, "Liu Wang, you dare to slander me again?"

"I didn't—"

*Smack!*

Another slap in the face.

"You think you can get away with hiding the stolen money in the back mountains?"

Fang Wei's eyes sharpened as he pressed, "Do you dare tell everyone what you did alone on the mountain late at night?"

"I...I just couldn't sleep, so I went for a walk!"

Liu Wang's eyes darted away, but he still stubbornly said, "What? You're allowed to go up the mountain to dig for things alone at night, but no one else can?!"

"Oh!"

Fang Wei sneered, "Going for a walk? Where are you going for a walk? Do you dare take everyone to see the place you claim to be taking a walk?"

"Do you think that as long as you hide the money in the mountains and the police don't find it, you'll be safe?"

Liu Wang trembled, looking at Fang Wei with a terrified expression: "You... how did you know...?"

The words had barely left his mouth when he realized he'd let something slip and quickly added, "I don't understand what you're saying! What do you mean, hiding money in the mountains?! How dare you slander me?!"

But the villagers who were surrounding him had already heard the sentence he had unconsciously uttered.

"He admitted it! He admitted it!!!"

"Liu Wang! It really was Liu Wang who stole it!!!"

"No wonder this kid's been acting suspiciously these past few days! Turns out he stole someone's money!!!"

"No! I didn't steal it!"

Seeing the villagers' expressions, Liu Wang hurriedly shouted, "Don't believe Fang Wei! He's a gambling addict!"

"explain!"

Village Chief Zhou, his face ashen, roared, "Where did you hide the money Yang owed?"

"You son of a bitch!"

Yang Qian's father grabbed a large carrying pole and started hitting Liu Wang with it, yelling, "You've got some nerve! How dare you steal money from the Yang family!"

"I'm going to beat you to death today, you bastard! I'll teach you a lesson you won't dare steal again!"

Liu Wang screamed in pain as he was beaten. At first, he stubbornly insisted that he hadn't stolen anything, but after being hit more than a dozen times, he finally couldn't take it anymore and began to beg for mercy, revealing the location where he had hidden the money.

"Alright! If you kill someone, you'll be held responsible too!"

Village Chief Zhou stopped Yang Qian's parents and said to Yang Qian, "Yang Qian! You guys go up the mountain and find the money!"

"yes!"

Yang Qian and several bold young villagers went up the back mountain with torches in hand.

Before half an incense stick had burned, an excited shout came from the mountain: "Found it! There really is something!"

"Get out of the way! Everyone get out of the way!"

Yang Qian rushed down the mountain carrying an iron box, and in front of Village Chief Zhou and the whole village, he opened the iron box with a "bang".

A stack of money lay neatly inside.

Yang held the money in his hand and counted it out to everyone, one bill at a time: "Sixty! It really is sixty yuan! Not a penny less!!!"

This time the evidence is truly irrefutable.

"Liu Wang, you beast! How could you do such a thing?!"

"Pooh!!!"

"You, surnamed Liu, have utterly disgraced Laotang Village! Get out of our village!!!"

Liu Wang's face was now covered in tears and snot, and he was prostrate on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly: "I was wrong! I stole it!"

"I was momentarily blinded by greed... Please, forgive me this time... Please forgive me..."

Fang Wei sneered, glanced at Zhao Laosan hiding in the crowd, and at the lazybones who were hanging out with Liu Wang, and suddenly shouted, "Some of you, listen up!"

"You all know what kind of person I, Fang Wei, used to be!"

"But I'm telling you this now: if anyone dares to have any ulterior motives towards my family, my wife, or my daughter..."

He looked at Liu Wang, who was sprawled on the ground, and said coldly, "Liu Wang, this is what will happen to you!"

The scene fell silent for a moment.

Those who usually liked to gossip about the Fang family behind their backs all lowered their heads, not daring to meet Fang Wei's gaze.

Zhao Laosan and the other lazy men who met Fang Wei's gaze all turned pale.

"Village chief, let's take Liu Wang to the police station!"

Before Zhou, the village chief, could refuse, Fang Wei turned to Chen Dajiao and said, "Brother Dajiao, could you please drive our tractor to town?"

Liu Wang's parents had died long ago, and even people who were related to him wouldn't dare to stand up for him at this time.

That's a full sixty yuan! Not six yuan!

Seeing the expressions on Yang Qian's family's faces, as if they wanted to devour Liu Wang, no one wanted to provoke them.

Village Chief Zhou looked at Fang Wei, who was staring at him, sighed silently, and could only nod, saying, "I'll go with you."

When Liu Wang heard that he was going to be taken to the town's police station, his body went limp, and he felt completely drained of strength.

Fang Wei, Yang Qian, Fang Qiang, and Village Chief Zhou, with Liu Wang bound hand and foot in the trailer, drove directly to the entrance of the town police station.

Coincidentally, the young policeman surnamed Xu who was on the early shift at the police station was the one who had gone to Laotang Village to investigate the case.

Officer Xu frowned as he saw Fang Wei and his team escorting a bound man in, and asked, "What's going on here?"

"Officer!"

Yang Qian slammed the metal box on the table and shouted, "The thief who stole my money has been caught! It's Liu Wang! Caught red-handed!"