Chapter 178: Chapter 178 Fear of Crime and Absconding Chapter 178: Chapter 178 Fear of Crime and Absconding The person pushed nearly fell but managed to steady themselves after retreating several steps backward. By the time everyone regained their senses, Kong Yuru had already run out.
Someone in the courtyard shouted, “She’s even trying to flee to escape punishment.”
Hearing this, Kong Yuru ran even faster.
The team leader looked at Stone and asked, “Stone, are you hurt?”
Stone shook his head and said, “Uncle team leader, I saw second aunt putting something in her pocket just now, but I couldn’t see what it was?”
After hearing this, the team leader assigned some people to guard the scene and led others in pursuit to the Sun Family’s house.
Kong Yuru returned to her own home, closed the front door, and then looked for a place to bury the items in her pocket, ignoring the knocking at the door from outside.
The team leader sent someone to find Sun Baoqing in the fields and briefed him on the situation.
Sun Baoqing hadn’t expected Kong Yuru to stir up trouble at Lu Yichen’s home. He wondered if she was tired of living a good life or just intent on bringing more shame upon herself.
He said that the woman had been absent-minded in the fields all morning and had come back early claiming she needed to cook. Since she hadn’t finished her own work, he had to stay in the fields to help with it.
Only when he was called back did he realize she was causing trouble again.
Kong Yuru kept saying she didn’t do anything, but even when the team leader asked her to open the door, she refused. Sun Baoqing, becoming impatient, yelled towards the inside, “What are you trying to do? Are you tired of living, or do you want to spend a few years in prison?”
He had been working in a factory for a few months, where the workers’ union often organized legal literacy sessions, so he knew a little bit about the law. He deemed the woman utterly ignorant.
As luck would have it, Lu Yichen happened to be returning in a tractor today, with several bags of fine grain on it that he had asked someone to buy.
Upon hearing the tractor’s sound, everyone instinctively panicked. Lu Yichen wasn’t a local villager; people from the commune’s farm machinery station said he was from the big city with a solid background. Usually, the villagers didn’t dare to provoke him.
They instinctively worried for Kong Yuru, afraid she had indeed taken something from his house that could land her in the lockup.
Just after unloading the grain from the tractor he was startled by Stone’s heart-wrenching cries from the opposite slope.
Frightened by the shouts, he immediately locked up the tractor shed and ran towards his home without even bothering to take the grain.
Luo Qiao had followed the team leader home earlier to check on Stone. Remembering she had left stew simmering on the fire, she hurried back to her own house.
When Lu Yichen arrived at the entrance of his home, he saw Stone with eyes red from crying and asked, “What happened?”
Stone replied, “Sun Shengyuan’s mother came to our house. She initially wanted to ask for the scar removal medicine. When I said there was none left, she didn’t believe me and started searching the house. I couldn’t stop her; she pushed and hit me.
Later, I saw her put something into her pocket, and then, when uncle team leader and his group arrived, she ran away.”
At that point, Lu Yichen became truly angry. He had slight obsessive-compulsive tendencies and couldn’t tolerate the thought of that woman touching his things. Since she had brought trouble upon herself, she couldn’t blame him now.
Lu Yichen pushed out his bicycle from the next room and said, “Nobody go into the house.”
He then turned to Stone and said, “Don’t be afraid, Stone, I’ll be back soon.”
Turning around, he rode down the slope. The team leader saw Lu Yichen descending the slope. Noticing he didn’t head toward the bridge but instead left the village, he sighed in relief.
Sun Baoqing initially wanted to stop him, but Lu Yichen was cycling so fast, it was clear he had no intention of stopping. Sun Baoqing thought to himself that it was all over.