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

"What did you say?"

Officer Xu thought he was hallucinating and asked again, "Who did you arrest?"

"thief!"

Yang Qian thought he really hadn't heard him clearly, so he shouted, "The thief who stole my sixty yuan has been caught!"

"...We searched your village for two days, but we didn't find any clues."

Officer Xu stared at Yang Qian and his group in disbelief, then at Liu Wang, who was tied up. "You guys actually caught the thief all by yourselves?"

"This is still my brother Dawei's function!"

Yang Qian put his hand on Fang Wei's shoulder and said gratefully, "He was the first to notice that Liu Wang was acting strangely! He guessed that Liu Wang would hide the money on the mountain!"

"How did you realize something was off about this person?"

Officer Xu stared at Fang Wei with a probing look and asked, "And how did you know he would bury the stolen money on the mountain?"

Fang Wei had prepared his explanation beforehand and said frankly, "To be honest, when I wasn't doing anything productive before, I often hung out with Liu Wang to gamble."

"I know him too well; he doesn't play dirty tricks when he gambles."

"After Yang's debt was stolen, he was the first person I suspected."

"So I've been secretly watching his every move these past two days, trying to find evidence."

"Last night, I saw him sneaking up the mountain with my own eyes."

Fang Wei shrugged. "You've seen what happened next."

Officer Xu looked him up and down several times, and said from the bottom of his heart, "Impressive."

"Your name is Liu Wang, right? You stole sixty yuan, which is a huge amount and meets the criteria for criminal prosecution."

"You are now officially under arrest!"

Liu Wang's legs went weak, and he knelt down on the ground.

Officer Xu called out inside, and several officers came over, lifted Liu Wang up, and took him into the detention room at the back.

Yang Qian hugged the metal box, her eyes red-rimmed, and looked at Fang Wei, stammering, "Dawei... thank you, if it weren't for you..."

"Alright, enough with the nonsense."

Fang Wei waved his hand, "Go back and hide your money properly, don't hide it in stupid places like under the bed anymore."

He turned to look at Officer Xu and suddenly asked, "Officer Xu, if I want to change my child's name, could you please help me with the process?"

"Change your name?"

Officer Xu shook his head and explained, "Household registration is not under our jurisdiction, but we have two clerks here who specialize in it. You can just ask them to help you with the process."

He looked at Fang Wei's helpless expression and asked, "What's wrong? Are you having some kind of problem?"

"I……"

Fang Wei gave a wry smile and said in a low voice, "When I came here to handle this before, I ran into that clerk surnamed Song."

He said my family's documents were incomplete, so he couldn't process the name change.

Upon hearing this reason, Officer Xu's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Did he tell you what materials your house was missing?"

"They said they wouldn't process anything without a birth certificate."

Officer Xu thought for a moment and said directly, "Okay, go home first and bring over all the materials you prepared earlier."

"I'll ask those two clerks what's going on when they come to work in a bit."

Actually, he already knew what was going on.

In those days, not to mention children from the countryside, even children born in towns might not have birth certificates. It was obvious that Song Xuezhuan was deliberately making things difficult for them.

Fang Wei helped the station catch the thief, which counts as a meritorious service, so he needs to go and tell his mentor.

"good!"

Fang Wei was overjoyed and quickly said, "Thank you, Officer Xu!"

If he could resolve the name change issue directly through these police officers, then bringing medicinal herbs to visit his second brother's family would make him appear even more sincere.

After the group returned to Laotang Village, Village Chief Zhou smoked a cigarette and said to Fang Wei, "Since Officer Xu sent you back to get the materials, the name change thing probably has a chance."

He's not bothered by Liu Wang's matter anymore; after all, it wasn't him who told Liu Wang to steal the money.

"Uncle Zhou, thank you for your hard work today."

Fang Wei felt that since he had helped the police station arrest Liu Wang, there was a high probability that the case would succeed. "I need to hurry home and get the materials."

"Okay, come home with me first, and I'll give you the certificate."

After thinking for a moment, Village Chief Zhou said, "Just ride my bicycle there later. Don't take too long, or they'll be too busy."

"Be careful on your way back, and try not to run into that guy surnamed Song."

"I know."

Fang Wei agreed verbally, but he knew in his heart that this matter was probably inseparable from that mad dog, Song Xuezhuan.

However, things are different now than before.

Since Officer Xu said he would ask for him, it means he was willing to speak up for him.

Song Xuezhuan was just a clerk. If he were to encounter an official of higher rank, what trouble could his petty schemes possibly cause?

Fang Wei first went to Village Chief Zhou's house, and only after getting the bicycle did he return home.

"Shao Li!"

Wu Shaoli was squatting at the kitchen door washing vegetables when she heard his voice, and the vegetables in her hand fell into the basin.

"David?!"

She jumped up, wiped her hands haphazardly on her apron, and rushed out to greet him: "You're back! How did it go? What did the police station say?!"

"Honey, don't worry, listen to me."

Fang Wei quickly recounted the events at the police station: "Officer Xu told me to go home and get the documents. He said he would ask the two clerks in charge of household registration what was going on after they came to work."

Upon hearing this, Wu Shaoli exclaimed excitedly, "Does that mean... we can change our daughters' names?!"

"It can definitely be changed!"

Fang Wei reached out and gently pinched her chin, laughing, "You can trust your man to handle things."

Wu Shaoli blushed as he pinched her, remembering how he had tormented her to the point of near death in bed the night before. She said coquettishly, "Don't touch me like that... the girls are all home."

"What's there to be afraid of? It's only natural for me to be intimate with my own wife."

Fang Wei wrapped his arms around her waist, squeezed the soft flesh, and then reluctantly let go.

"Alright, I need to hurry and get my things over there. Where's the household registration booklet? Is it still in the cabinet? And the application letter?"

"They're all here, I'll go get them now."

Wu Shaoli hurriedly went into the room to rummage through the cabinets and quickly took out the household registration book and application letter. She then found a clean old cloth and carefully wrapped the certificate together with it.

"Give."

Fang Wei took the cloth bag, kissed her on the cheek, and then dug out the top-quality gastrodia elata he had hidden away.

"Honey, I'm leaving now! Lock the gate at home!"

Be careful on the road!

Wu Shaoli chased after him to the gate of the courtyard. Watching Fang Wei ride away on his bicycle, she unconsciously gripped the door frame tightly with one hand.