Chapter 91: I Did Lose Over Six Hundred Yuan

Chapter 91: I Did Lose Over Six Hundred Yuan

The group followed the two police officers, walking in a large group towards the Liu family's home.

Liu Guojun, Liu Guohua, and Liu Guobing, the three brothers looked at each other, unsure of what to do.

Zhang Manyu looked pale as well.

The items Liu Dawei brought home, including a pair of leather shoes, had already been claimed by the eldest branch of the family and were now hidden under their own bed.

"Honey, what are we supposed to do now?" Zhang Manyu stammered.

Liu Guojun looked fierce, "Why are you asking me? How should I know? I just got back from work, how would I know what's happened at home?"

Zhang Manyu stared at her husband, shocked. He had just been trying on shoes at home, and now he was pretending to be completely innocent.

Liu Guojun threatened Zhang Manyu, "I'm telling you, I'm the backbone of this family. You all have to take responsibility for what you've done. If my reputation is tarnished and it affects my job, the whole family will go hungry!"

After saying this, Liu Guojun hunched over, clutching his chest, and stumbled after the crowd.

Liu Guohua and Liu Guobing looked equally troubled. They knew their elder brother's words weren't just directed at their sister-in-law but also at them, since one had taken a belt and the other a new vest.

When they arrived at the Liu family's doorstep, Liang Yaohui turned to look at Cui Yuanfeng.

"Will you bring it out yourselves, or should we go in and search?" Liang Yaohui asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Dawei and Liu Xiaowei rushed into the kitchen.

They brought out eggs, noodles, oil jars, and other things, placing them on the ground.

Cui Yuanfeng had the nerve to say, "Officer, you see, it was the children who did it. We had no idea."

Liang Yaohui lowered his head to register the items in his notebook, not even looking up at Cui Yuanfeng's words.

"What about the rest of the items?" he asked.

Liu Dawei and Liu Xiaowei, scared out of their wits, shouted at Cui Yuanfeng and Zhang Manyu, "Grandma, Mom, hurry up and bring out the things! I don't want to be taken away and shot, I don't~ wuwuwu~"

Zhang Manyu and Cui Yuanfeng looked embarrassed, "You naughty kids, you hid the things yourselves and now you want us to find it? Have you forgotten so quickly?"

"Well, Officer, we'll help search. Don't worry, as long as it's in this house, we'll definitely find it."

The onlookers, watching Cui Yuanfeng and her daughter-in-law's poor acting, couldn't help but laugh.

"Hahaha, helping to look? I think they just stashed it themselves!"

"Exactly, who can't see through that? Just hand it over directly. Why bother with these excuses? At this point, who wouldn't understand?"

Liu Shuanglu looked annoyed, glaring at the gossiping women.

The two women, meeting Liu Shuanglu's gaze, immediately lowered their voices.

Soon, Cui Yuanfeng and Zhang Manyu brought out towels, bed sheets, and leather shoes from the room.

Liu Guobing and Liu Guohua exchanged glances, their eyes filled with anxiety, "Mom, is there anything else? Bring it all out!"

"Exactly, Mom, how could you be so foolish? I just graduated and am looking for a job. What are you...Ah, what am I supposed to do now......"

Cui Yuanfeng was about to scold her children loudly, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she saw her son signaling her and immediately understood what he meant.

Slapping her head, "Yes, yes, the girl just now mentioned there are belts and new vests, right? I'll look again, I'll look again. These naughty kids really deserve a good beating."

Su An and her siblings, along with the two police officers, calmly watched Cui Yuanfeng's performance, without rushing.

After a while, everything was laid out on the ground, and Cui Yuanfeng wiped the sweat from her forehead, "So, officers, everything is here. We wouldn’t dare lie to you. We've searched the entire house, and it's all here."

Liang Yaohui impatiently said, "Where’s the money? Hand it over."

The surrounding crowd also chimed in, "Old lady Cui, just hand over the money already. At this point, are you still hiding it? Do you want the officers to search it themselves?"

"Right, confess and get off easy, resist and it’ll be worse. If the officers find it themselves, the charges will be different!"

"If you hand it over now, you might still get off lightly!"

Cui Yuanfeng looked pleadingly at the uncles beside her, "Uncles, there’s nothing, honestly nothing. The kids didn't bring any money home. I swear to heaven, there's really none. Wuwuwu, this old lady is being wronged. Where would we get that much money at home? This is extortion~"

Liu Shuanglu immediately stepped forward, glaring angrily at Su An, "Officers, you can't always believe what they say. Who knows if they’re trying to flip this around, stir up trouble, and pull off some extortion!"

"Kids don’t know any better, it’s our fault for not raising them right, but you can't condemn everyone. Dawei is not even nine yet, and Xiaowei is just over seven. What do they know?"

"With so many people here, who can guarantee their kids never made mistakes?"

"If we messed up, we’ll own up to it, but you can’t just slap any baseless accusations on us. Although my fifth brother is gone, we brothers are still here! My fifth brother’s family isn’t someone you can just push around!"

Liang Yaohui turned to look at Su An.

Su An looked innocent, "Officers, I really lost more than six hundred bucks! There were also shopping receipts from Baihua Building inside. I remember there was a fifty-cent note that I accidentally tore a corner off, and I just fixed it up with some tape yesterday at the grocery store in the department store!"

"Also, I remember the last three digits of the serial numbers on two ten-yuan bills were the same, with 606. I thought those numbers were really lucky at the time, so I specially folded these two together, reluctant to spend them!"

"I can't say the exact amount because I just bought this house and was planning to furnish it, but it was indeed around six hundred yuan!"

Liang Yaohui nodded, expressionlessly looking at Liu Shuanglu who was standing in front of Cui Yuanfeng, "What is your relationship with Cui Yuanfeng?"

"I am..."

Su An interjected, "Officers, isn't it obvious? It looks like he's her husband!"

"If he weren't her husband, why would he be so nervous? Look at how affectionate they are!"

Before Su An's words even finished, the surroundings erupted in uproar.

That’s when everyone realized something was definitely fishy between Liu Shuanglu and Cui Yuanfeng!