Era: Seven money-losing girls? They're trying to trick me into having a daughter again!

"Of course it's because you stole collective property!"

Village Chief Zhou knew Fang Wei was a heartless and stubborn person, and seeing him embarrass himself in front of outsiders, he angrily retorted, "Don't tell me you didn't take the wild Ganoderma lucidum to sell!"

"This matter..."

Fang Wei stroked his chin, looking at Village Chief Zhou with curiosity. "Since you want to ask me about stealing collective property, I have some questions for you."

"Village Chief Zhou, if I remember correctly, your family also hunted a few wild rabbits from the mountain before. You sold the pelts to Old Liu, who collects mountain goods, and kept the meat for your own consumption."

"That mountain belongs to the collective, so the rabbit should naturally belong to the collective as well."

"So, if you calculate it that way, shouldn't the money you got from selling the rabbits also be confiscated?"

"..."

Village Chief Zhou was momentarily speechless.

His family has sold more than just rabbits; they've sold other wild animals too!

"And you, Da Mao."

Fang Wei didn't give him time to react and looked at Zhou Mao beside him.

"That new cabinet in your house, was it made from trees from the mountain? Those trees grow on the mountain, so naturally it's collective property. Shouldn't that cabinet be confiscated as well?"

"Why should I?! I spent a lot of effort cutting down that tree and went through so much trouble to drag it back to make this cabinet!"

Zhou Mao was furious; nobody was allowed to touch the new cabinet he was using to get married!

"There are so many trees on the mountain, if you want new cabinets, go cut them down yourselves! I even paid someone to make my cabinet!"

"elder brother!"

Zhou Wei nudged Zhou Mao's arm, frowned at Fang Wei, and said, "He's trying to provoke you."

"I don't care!"

Zhou Mao didn't care what Fang Wei meant, and just shouted, "Anyway, I'm not giving you my new cabinet!"

His girlfriend said that if they want to get married, the house must have new cabinets, new chairs, new tables... basically a whole bunch of new things, and he hasn't even finished half of them yet!

Anyone who dares to steal his things and prevent him from getting married will be beaten up!

"Uncle Sun, you're the village accountant."

Fang Wei smiled slightly and looked at the old man next to Village Chief Zhou, "Anyone in the village who cuts firewood, picks wild vegetables, or gathers wild fruits from the mountain, these are all collective property."

"According to what you just said, does that mean everyone in the village has to go to the police station to turn themselves in?"

"Uh, this..."

Uncle Sun glanced at Village Chief Zhou and mumbled indistinctly, "Oh... well... this..."

"Well...it's hard to say! Oh dear..."

Those outside the courtyard who had originally wanted to jump out and pressure Fang Wei all quietly shut up.

They live in the mountains, how could they not take things from the mountains?

Let's first figure out whether this is illegal or not, and then figure out a way to get the money out of Fang Wei's hands.

In the courtyard, Xu Rui's face was as dark as hell.

He originally thought he had grasped Fang Wei's weakness, and that by bringing up the village chief of Laotang Village and a few villagers to bolster his position, Fang Wei, the gambling addict, would kneel down and beg for mercy, obediently spitting out his money.

But instead of panicking, this kid managed to provoke everyone with just a few words!

Village Chief Zhou also stopped speaking.

The wild animals he sells, though not as expensive as wild Ganoderma lucidum, still add up to a considerable sum of money.

Moreover, no one in the village saw Fang Wei selling wild Ganoderma lucidum, but everyone in the village knew that he was selling wild animals.

Zhou Mao glared fiercely at Xu Rui.

If he could get that seventy-odd yuan out of Fang Wei, he could indeed get a share of the money, but could that little bit of money be more important than getting married?!

Uncle Sun lowered his head, pretending to look at the ants on the ground, while muttering something under his breath, which was completely inaudible.

For a moment, not a single person in the courtyard spoke.

Wu Shaoli clutched something in her hand, staring blankly at Fang Wei's retreating figure.

When Xu Rui said she was going to report Fang Wei to the police station, she really thought the sky was falling.

But to her surprise, after only a short while, all the people who broke into her house were rendered speechless!

"Officer Xu?"

Fang Wei didn't intend to embarrass the villagers too much since he would still have to interact with them in the future; he just kept an eye on Xu Rui.

"Why did you suddenly stop talking? Weren't you talking so enthusiastically just now?"

Xu Rui clenched his fist and forced out a few words through gritted teeth: "Fang Wei, you're just being unreasonable!"

"Am I being unreasonable?"

Fang Wei chuckled crookedly, staring at him with a cold gaze.

"You suddenly barged into my house with the village chief and fellow villagers, pointed your finger at me and called me a thief, and demanded that I hand over all the fruits of my labor for public use."

"In the end, it turns out I was the one making a fuss over nothing?"

"You, me..."

Xu Rui couldn't think of anything to say in response for a moment, and stammered for a long time without being able to say anything.

How did this gambling addict become so eloquent?!

"Alright, since everyone's here, let's speak frankly."

Fang Wei looked at Village Chief Zhou and smiled, "I know you meant well just now, but we need to be reasonable when we talk, right?"

"In our Laotang Village, the villagers have been cutting firewood, picking wild fruits, digging wild vegetables, and hunting wild game on the mountains for generations."

"In previous winters, when a family ran out of food, didn't they all go up the mountain to dig up something to fill their stomachs?"

"If we follow this outsider's logic, whoever takes something from San Shang is considered to have dug up collective property. Then no one in our Lao Tang Village is innocent!"

Seeing that Fang Wei was willing to give him a way out, Village Chief Zhou's expression softened slightly: "Ahem, well, Officer Xu is just being kind-hearted and doesn't have any bad intentions."

"Is it any of his business, as an outsider, to be so concerned about things in our village?"

Although Fang Wei smiled, he didn't back down an inch. "These are all things from the mountains. You can't say that if other villagers take them, it's to improve their lives, but if I take them, it's stealing collective assets, right?"

"If that's how it's calculated, it's so unfair to my family, I'm definitely going to make a scene!"

"Well, it's mainly about things like wild Ganoderma lucidum..."

Village Chief Zhou's speech also began to become unclear.

A wild Ganoderma lucidum sold for more than sixty yuan. Who wouldn't be envious and eager to get rich when they heard that?

If everyone in the village stops working in the fields and goes to the mountains to look for wild Ganoderma lucidum, what will become of them?!

"I know what you want to say, village chief."

Fang Wei suddenly raised his voice to make sure the villagers outside the courtyard could hear him.

"But village chief, don't you think that wild Ganoderma lucidum is something you can just dig up anywhere?"

"I'm not the only one who goes up the mountain. Usually, everyone in this village goes up the mountain when they have free time, but who has ever run into me?"

He sighed and continued, "I just got lucky."

"Maybe God took pity on my wife and children, who were starving to death, and that's why I was able to dig up this wild Ganoderma."