Chapter 230: Stealing Things
When it came to making clothes, Wang Mei and Wu Lan chatted for a long time, and Shen Yunlian also chimed in from time to time.
The three women unexpectedly got along well.
Coupled with the fact that she was a soldier’s family member, it naturally made people have a good impression, and finally, they exchanged addresses.
Wu Lan said that she would make clothes for Yun Jiao after things were settled.
Glancing at Yun Xiaojiu not far away: “Whose son is that? He’s quite good-looking too.”
It’s rare for a little boy to be so delicate and cute.
Shen Yunlian smiled and said: “He’s my youngest son, and he’s the ninth child in the family.”
Wang Mei: “When you’re settled, we’ll mail you seafood. Our home is by the sea, so if nothing else, we’ll have plenty of seafood. However, if the place is far away, then it will only be dried goods.”
Wu Lan said: “I’d like that too.”
Playing on the train and chatting, time passed quickly.
Dinner was instant noodles, and there was plenty of hot water on the train.
Perhaps after a few hours, that family of three, who only cared about eating and not getting punished, came to be bothersome again.
There wasn’t a major conflict, it was just that the couple walked past them with their luxurious train dinner as if showing off.
And then they said with their mouths full of words: “Aiyo, you’re only eating this? We’re sick of eating instant noodles at home.”
Wang Mei and Wu Lan gave them a big eye-roll.
The others didn’t pay any attention to the two people, just buried their heads in their own food.
It was their son, however.
The smell of instant noodles was too good. Being a naughty child, he wasn’t interested in his parents’ ‘high-end’ dinner at all. Instead, he kept clamoring that he wanted to eat instant noodles too.
The plump woman’s face was instantly slapped.
Yun Xiaowu and the others were afraid that this impolite child would snatch their instant noodles again. They immediately shielded Yun Jiao behind them, then tightly held their instant noodles and stared at the boy, ready to kick him if he dared to try and snatch them!
Faced with the glaring Yun Xiaowu and the others, the flustered couple could only take their son and go buy more instant noodles.
This time, they didn’t dare to say anything to Yun Jiao and the others.
Wu Lan rolled her eyes: “More pretentious than me.”
After dinner, everyone chatted for a while before falling asleep on the train.
Pickpockets were common on trains during this era, so Yun Linhe and Yun Linhai, two strong young middle-aged men, were vigilant and didn’t sleep too soundly.
Around two or three in the morning, Yun Linhe vaguely felt someone leaving the carriage and was instantly awakened.
He checked his luggage and found that nothing was missing, so he didn’t think much of it, assuming someone in the carriage had gone to the toilet.
However, when dawn broke the next day, a panicked scream erupted from their carriage.
Everyone was annoyed.
The screaming was simply too piercing.
“Where’s my ring? Where’s my bracelet? And my gold necklace…”
With that familiar voice, it was, as expected, that couple again.
Old Wu immediately checked his ambergris.
Seeing the intact ambergris in his bag, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“Thank goodness, thank goodness, my things are still here.”
Yun Linhe: “None of our things are missing.”
The couple, who had lost their precious wealth, had contorted expressions as they searched everywhere under and around their beds.
After confirming that their things were gone, they directly grabbed one of the passengers in the nearest bunk.
“Was it you? Did you steal our things!”
The old man who was grabbed by the stout man was already considered bad luck to be so close to them, and now he was being slandered as a thief.
If this can be tolerated, what cannot? The old man immediately started wailing.
“Help, murder! Someone, come quickly!”
At this time, others were also checking their luggage, as if the couple’s things were stolen, it was hard to guarantee theirs wouldn’t be.
Fortunately, the thief seemed to know who the ‘fat sheep’ were. Perhaps they were satisfied after stealing the couple’s belongings, so they hadn’t touched anyone else’s things in the same carriage.
Someone, unable to stand it, tried to persuade them, and the two lunatics immediately shifted their target, asking if they were the ones who stole it.
“You’re all a bunch of poor wretches who can’t stand to see others do well. Open your luggage, we need to check it one by one. Someone among you must have stolen our couple’s gold jewelry!”
Hearing her say this, everyone frowned.
Some with fiery tempers retorted: “You say we need to check, so we check? Who do you think you are?”
“If you won’t let us check, then it must be you who stole it.”
The carriage immediately erupted into a chaotic argument.
Yun Jiao and the others were standing quite far away, watching the show.
But in the next second, the plump woman’s gaze turned towards them.
Yun Jiao: Had a bad feeling.
Clearly, Yun Jiao’s premonition was not the only one felt.
Wu Lan tutted: “This crazy woman isn’t suspecting us, is she?”
Almost the moment she finished speaking, the plump woman pointed at them and screamed.
“It was you! It must have been you!”
“You were at odds with us yesterday, you must have held a grudge and sneaked in last night while our family of three was sleeping to steal our gold jewelry!”
Old Mu and Old Wu’s faces instantly darkened.
In all their lives, this was the first time they had been accused of being thieves.
Wu Lan said with a cold face: “You’re really unreasonable. You just open your mouth and say we stole it. Even public security comrades need evidence to investigate a case. You say we stole the items, so where’s the evidence?!”
“Evidence? If you open your luggage and let me check, then there will be evidence.”
Wang Mei exploded: “Pah! What are you to check our luggage? The way you look like you want to wear all your gold and silver, no wonder you’d be targeted by thieves. You deserve it!”
The plump woman lunged forward: “I knew it was you who stole the items! A bunch of poor peasants can’t resist valuable things! I’m going to sue you and have the police arrest you all!”
Wu Lan and Wang Mei grabbed her hair and started fighting.
Being wrongly accused of being a thief so early in the morning already caused great resentment, and then this person dared to make the first move.
The man also roared and charged forward.
But Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe were not to be trifled with.
It wasn’t until the train conductor arrived that this farce ended.
The couple were both injured, looking particularly disheveled.
But they still stubbornly insisted that they were all thieves and demanded to inspect their luggage.
The train conductor was troubled. As he was about to speak to Yun Linhai and his group, Old Wu spoke.
“My belongings, you can’t afford to inspect them.”
If the ambergris were exposed, they would be in danger.
Therefore, not only Old Wu but also Old Mu and the others insisted on not letting anyone inspect their luggage.
This made the plump woman’s family even more convinced that they were the thieves.
Old Wu didn’t argue with the couple; he just said that when they reached the next station, he would make a phone call.
Yun Linhe also said to the train conductor at this time: “Last night, I was drowsy and felt someone leave the carriage.”
Plump Woman: “Stop changing the subject, you stole it!”
