The Courtyard House: Xu Damao's Aunt is the Queen of Women

"Just admit to stealing the supplies."

After Shi Jialiang finished speaking, the two policemen took out handcuffs and walked towards Sha Zhu.

Upon seeing the handcuffs, Sha Zhu felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave; his whole body stiffened, and his legs seemed frozen, unable to move.

My mind cleared up, and I realized how stupid my previous excuses were. I wanted to slap myself twice.

"I...I misspoke, I didn't take anything!"

The police didn't say anything, but grabbed his hands, handcuffed him, and carried him out, one on each side.

Sha Zhu struggled desperately, constantly shouting that he was innocent and trying to defend himself, but Shi Jialiang and the other three ignored him, took him to the door, stuffed him into the jeep, and returned to the steel rolling mill.

The people in the courtyard who came out to see Sha Zhu off exchanged glances and all revealed gloating smiles.

Every single resident of courtyard number 95 dislikes Sha Zhu.

Over the years, Sha Zhu has acted as Yi Zhonghai's henchman, bullying his neighbors with a violent and tyrannical attitude. His mouth is like it's full of shit, foul, sarcastic, and vulgar. Even if you don't provoke him, you'll still get a few insults from him.

Of course, the more important reason is that they laugh at you for having nothing, hate you for having something, despise you for being poor, and fear you for being rich!

Sha Zhu brings lunchboxes home every day and does it so ostentatiously, as if he's afraid others won't know he eats well. How can he not attract jealousy and hostility?

Yang Ruihua said excitedly, "Oh dear, Sha Zhu is finished now. He stole ten thousand yuan worth of goods; he'll probably be expelled and go to jail!"

Yan Jiecheng sneered, "Jail? You might get shot at, and even if you don't, you'll still get more than ten years in prison."

"Hahaha, after serving ten years in jail, Sha Zhu is thirty-nine now. He has no house, no job, and can't even find a wife. Let's see how smug he can be now!"

Yan Jiefang was laughing so hard; if he had money in his pocket, he would have liked to buy a few strings of firecrackers to set off.

"I said before that Sha Zhu was undermining socialism and would get into trouble sooner or later, and now it's come true."

"Those who act arrogantly will surely be punished by Heaven; the cycle of karma is real, and no one escapes Heaven's judgment!"

……

The kitchen of the third canteen in the steel rolling mill.

Zhuang Honghua, deputy head of the Economic Security Section, personally led six officers to the kitchen to question each of them.

Yu Chenggang, the canteen director, was a member of Li Huaide's faction and had long disliked Sha Zhu, who often contradicted him. In addition, Liu Lan had been instructed by Li Huaide to inform the kitchen staff in advance.

Aside from MCA, who claimed ignorance and neither defended Sha Zhu nor took advantage of his misfortune, everyone else embellished the story, revealing all of Sha Zhu's criminal acts of stealing supplies and intercepting food over the years.

"Boss, Sha Zhu didn't dare to steal openly a few years ago, but ever since Director Yang took office, he's been openly taking things from the kitchen and warehouse home, and he only takes the good stuff!"

Zhuang Honghua quickly made notes in the notebook and said seriously, "Director Yu, distorting the facts and making false accusations are illegal. I hope you understand."

"Section Chief Zhuang, I take legal responsibility for every word I say!" Yu Chenggang said with his head held high and his voice resounding.

Zhuang Honghua nodded slightly and continued, "Did you try to stop He Yuzhu?"

"Of course I have, but I've stopped him many times, and he's always yelling at me for being nosy, claiming that Director Yang gave him permission to take it! He tells me to talk to Director Yang if I have any objections..."

Half an hour later, after questioning the kitchen staff, Yu Chenggang came to a conclusion.

This eighth-level chef, nicknamed "Silly Pillar," is of low character, arrogant, and domineering. Relying on his decent cooking skills and the protection of Yang Xingguo, he acts like a tyrant in the canteen, treating public resources as his own private property.

No wonder he's called Silly Pillar; it's rare to see someone this stupid.

Normal people would choose to keep a low profile and make a fortune, but Sha Zhu, relying on his powerful backer, became arrogant and domineering, making his theft of public property known to everyone, offending a whole circle of people without realizing it.

This kind of stupidity is not due to a lack of intelligence, but rather to a lack of discernment caused by extreme arrogance and shortsightedness.

He couldn't see the resentment that was quietly building up among the kitchen staff, he couldn't see that his actions had already crossed the line of collective interests, and he couldn't see that even a powerful backer could become unreliable one day.

When the truth came out, everyone was waiting to see him make a fool of himself. No one was willing to say a word in his defense, and some even added fuel to the fire and kicked him when he was down. All of this was his own doing.

Zhuang Honghua led his men away from the third canteen and then randomly questioned people in each workshop.

The answers were all the same: some workers weren't aware that Sha Zhu was stealing things, but they had all heard about it; as for intercepting food and taking it home, that was common knowledge.

unambiguous evidence!

……

The conference room is on the second floor of the office building.

All the finance department's ledgers were moved to the conference room for classification. Zhou Mingyuan, the deputy leader of the joint working group, led eight finance department staff members to conduct a thorough investigation, with Zhong Chunli, Yan Kailei, and Zheng He assisting on the side.

Liu Hao, He Xiaomeng, Yu Lanfen, and Zhang Qin were questioned in a small conference room next door.

Yu Lanfen and Zhang Qin were just there to kill time; they answered all the questions truthfully and then left.

Liu Hao...?

When I was first assigned to the steel rolling mill, the officer in charge of taking notes asked me a few casual questions and then told me to go back to work.

He Xiaomeng?

Judging from her well-educated, gentle, and kind appearance, she certainly wouldn't be involved in Yang Xingguo's embezzlement case.

The two walked out of the conference room one after the other. Upon hearing the news, Ye Juan, who had been waiting at the stairwell, hurriedly came to greet them.

Liu Hao made a shushing gesture, and Ye Juan understood immediately!

The three went downstairs and returned to the finance department office. Only then did Ye Juan ask, "Is everyone alright?"

Yu Lanfen shrugged and said with a smile, "What could possibly happen to us? But that bastard Yang Xingguo is in big trouble; he's definitely going to get shot!"

Although Ye Juan already knew how much money Yang Xingguo had embezzled, she was still somewhat shocked when the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry sent a joint working group to thoroughly investigate Yang Xingguo.

That bastard looks so respectable on the surface, but he's actually embezzled so much money behind the scenes.

"Shooting him in is too lenient. He should be sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to a poor area to do hard labor until he dies!"

As soon as Ye Juan finished speaking, Sha Zhu's cries rang out. Everyone exchanged glances and ran to the window to look out.

Sha Zhu, crying and protesting his innocence, and Yang Xingguo, looking numb and desperate, were escorted into the office building by police officers and security personnel.

As Sha Zhu passed the finance department window, he saw Liu Hao and Ye Juan behind it and roared like a madman, "Liu Hao and Ye Juan! It must have been you two adulterers who ruined my life!!! I had nothing to do with you... Ouch!"

The security officer holding Sha Zhu raised his hand and slapped Sha Zhu on the back of the head, making Sha Zhu dizzy and causing him to fall to his knees with a thud.

Then, like dragging a dead dog, I was pulled upstairs.

In the office, He Xiaomeng waved her fists a few times, cursing angrily, "That bastard is disgusting! He's a thief who steals things, what business is it of yours, Brother Guan Hao and Sister Juan? He's an utterly despicable scoundrel!"

Ye Juan reached out and pinched He Xiaomeng's cheek, asking in confusion, "What does 'all living beings are not as good as' mean?"

"In Jiaxing dialect, it means that someone is worse than an animal, utterly despicable, and has no bottom line."

"Absolutely! Look at his character, he's worse than an animal! He's full of bad ideas, he's never done anything human!"