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The next morning, as the village roosters began to crow, the sky began to lighten.

The gate of the Guan family's house slowly opened.

*Clang! Clang! Clang!*

Guan Hongying held a broken copper gong that she had somehow found and started banging on it at the entrance of the courtyard!

Sun Ergou and Ma Laizi were already in a daze, but when they heard this noise, they both jumped up and looked over.

Before they could even see who was coming out, they heard Guan Hongying's booming voice!

"Folks, wake up! Come see what's going on! Two bastards who steal red bricks have appeared in our village! Come and see if you recognize them!"

Although the Guan family's house is located halfway up the mountain, the mountain isn't that high, especially at this time of day, many villagers have already started getting up and working.

So, upon hearing Guan Hongying's commotion, everyone looked over in curiosity.

As the saying goes, one person tells ten, ten tell a hundred, and before long, a number of people could be seen walking towards them from afar.

In addition, there were not many entertainment activities in the countryside these days. When they heard that someone dared to steal red bricks from Guan Hongying's house, the villagers didn't even bother to eat breakfast. They put on their clothes, grabbed their bowls, and ran towards the gate of Guan's courtyard.

Upon hearing this, Sun Ergou and Ma Laizi's already pale faces turned ashen.

The two struggled frantically, even praying that the knot would come undone quickly.

However, it is clear that this fluke, which lasted all night, will not happen.

In no time at all, a crowd of people had gathered three or four deep under the thick, old, crooked tree.

"Hey, isn't that Sun Ergou and Ma Laizi?!"

Seeing this, some people couldn't help but step forward and stare with wide eyes, eager to see what would happen.

"Pah! These two scoundrels, stealing chickens and dogs is one thing, but now they're even stealing bricks from someone's house! They've really lost all their morals!"

The surrounding villagers pointed and whispered, their spittle nearly drowning the two of them.

Just then, He Youcai, the production team leader, strode forward with his hands behind his back. His face was gloomy and he looked extremely unpleasant.

He Youcai waited at home all night last night, but didn't receive any good news from those two idiots!

So, when I heard the sound of gongs coming from here early this morning, my heart skipped a beat, and I knew something was wrong.

With a bad feeling creeping into his heart, He Youcai didn't even dare to eat a bite of food and hurriedly ran over here.

But still feeling quite guilty, he slowed down after reaching the halfway point of the mountain.

His face was ashen as he pushed through the crowd and stepped forward.

"What are you all doing! What are you all doing! Why aren't you at work this early in the morning?!"

He Youcai walked forward in an official tone, but his eyes darted away as he glanced at the two people hanging from the tree.

"Guan Hongying! Do you know what you're doing?! This is an abuse of power! Put him down right now!"

"Put them down?" Lin Chuan slowly walked out from behind Guan Hongying, smiling at He Youcai. "Sure! But Captain He, before releasing them, shouldn't we first find out who ordered these two thieves to come to my house and break bricks in the middle of the night?"

Upon hearing Lin Chuan's words, He Youcai's eyelids twitched violently.

Even so, he still pretended to be calm.

"Those two scoundrels are just greedy thugs; who could they possibly be acting on their orders? Stop spouting nonsense and making baseless accusations!"

After speaking, he suddenly turned his head and glared at Sun Ergou and Ma Laizi in the tree, his eyes full of threat.

"Sun Ergou! Tell me yourself, didn't you two steal things?"

Sun Ergou was startled by He Youcai's glare and trembled. Just as he was about to swallow his words, a blurry figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

With a "whoosh!" sound.

Suddenly, Guan Sanya stepped forward and pressed the machete in her hand tightly against Sun Ergou's scalp.

She narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly and coldly uttered two words.

"Think it over before you speak. The knife in my hand doesn't discriminate."

Feeling the bone-chilling cold that felt heavy on his scalp, and then looking at the pig-slaughtering knife in Guan Hongying's hand that seemed ready to strike.

In particular, after hearing Guan Sanya's few words, Sun Ergou completely broke down.

If you offend the brigade leader, at worst you'll just get a hard time; they just loiter around the streets all day and don't do any work.

However, if you offend those shrewish women from the Guan family, you might really lose your life!

"I...I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"

Sun Ergou spoke in a trembling voice, straining his throat.

He suddenly burst into tears in front of the whole village.

"Fellow villagers, you must stand up for me! It was He Youcai! It was Captain He who ordered us to do it! He said that as long as we smashed the Guan family's bricks and delayed their house construction, he would give each of us ten full work points! He would also give us five jin of cornmeal. We were all acting under his orders!"

These words shocked the entire audience!

In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to He Youcai.

Ma Laizi was hanging in mid-air, his mind completely muddled from being shaken.

He felt dizzy and extremely uncomfortable.

He would even be willing to kneel on the ground and kowtow ten times to that person if he could end the current situation as soon as possible!

So even though he couldn't hear what Sun Ergou was saying, he was nodding frantically beside him.

"Yes, yes, he's right!"

At this point, even the villagers couldn't hold back any longer.

"He Youcai, you're so heartless! Guan Yu is just finding a son-in-law to live with her family and build a new house, what's it to you?"

"That's right! You, a dignified captain, actually hired people to cause trouble?!"

Hearing the accusations from the crowd, He Youcai's face turned pale and then red, a truly fascinating sight.

Even on early winter mornings, the wind still carries a biting chill.

However, cold sweat was already pouring down his forehead.

He Youcai suddenly raised his hand, pointed at Sun Ergou, and began to curse loudly!

"You're talking nonsense! This is slander! Your Guan family has gone too far! After abusing others, you've started spouting baseless accusations and labeling them!"

"Whether it's slander or not, we'll find out soon enough by going to the police station together," Guan Siya said irritably.

Lin Chuan slowly walked up to He Youcai, deliberately lowered his voice, and said in a volume that only the two of them could hear, "Captain He! If this matter goes to the commune, let's not even talk about whether you can keep your position as brigade leader, just if they investigate whether you hired a thief to steal cornmeal from the warehouse, you'll be finished."