CHAPTER 45: CHAPTER 45: STEALING A BICYCLE

Liu Yongming laughed out loud, "Don’t scare me with the police! It was that bitch Lin Qin who provoked me first! She deserves it!"

The captain frowned deeply, looking puzzled, "But... What does Lin Qin have to do with you bothering Lin Qingxiang? You ruined his vegetable plot, and you think you’re right?"

Liu Yongming glared at the people in front of him with a sinister gaze, "Don’t fool me! This vegetable plot belongs to Lin Qin’s family!"

The captain nodded repeatedly, "You’re not wrong, this plot indeed belongs to Lin Yi, but after he got hurt, he couldn’t tend to it, so it’s been taken care of by Lin Qingxiang for a while. They even wrote an agreement for it. What you’re destroying is Lin Qingxiang’s crops, and you need to compensate him!"

The surrounding villagers nodded, pointing fingers at Liu Yongming.

Liu Yongming shook his head furiously, "No! I don’t believe it! You’re all ganging up to deceive me! You... you’re all birds of a feather! None of you will have a good end!"

The villagers couldn’t understand "birds of a feather," but when Liu Yongming cursed them, saying, "None of you will have a good end," that they heard loud and clear.

A few young men couldn’t hold back and rushed forward to give Liu Yongming a good beating.

The captain was angry too but didn’t intervene, just coldly watched from the sidelines, waiting for the police to arrive.

The local police walked into the village, immediately spotting a completely destroyed vegetable plot, and turned pale, "Who did this! Who would ruin crops like this?"

Things used to be so hard! Everyone went through tough times, no matter how much conflict there was, no one would ever joke around with the harvest. That was the unspoken rule.

No one thought that today someone would destroy an entire vegetable plot. It was unforgivable!

The police officer shouted, and the villagers pointed to Liu Yongming, groaning on the ground.

Two police officers walked up, grabbed Liu Yongming by the collar, and spat on the ground harshly, "You bastard! You won’t behave without a few days locked up! Take him away!"

Liu Yongming struggled frantically, "You can’t arrest me! They beat me like this! I want to sue them!"

"You’ll sue your #%&@#..." The police unleashed a tirade, not giving Liu Yongming a chance to get a word in.

Lin Qingxiang hurried to catch up, crying his heart out, "Officer, this vegetable plot is all my hard work! I didn’t even offend him, but he acts like a madman, taking out his anger on my crops. My losses can’t just be left like this!"

The police officer took a deep breath, nodded, "Don’t worry, we’ll make sure you’re compensated for your losses."

After Liu Yongming was taken away, the villagers stood at the village entrance, gossiping for another half-hour before dispersing.

Lin Qingxiang looked at the completely destroyed vegetable plot, his face long as he was about to curse, when Lin Shaojun beside him winked and gestured, making Lin Qingxiang frown, "What? Got a twitch in your eye?"

Lin Shaojun quickly lowered his voice, saying, "No! Dad! I just found a bicycle lying in the bushes, most likely belonging to Liu Yongming."

Lin Qingxiang’s eyes widened instantly, instinctively looking around, "Really? Did anyone else see it?"

Lin Shaojun shook his head, "Nope! Just now when that bastard was wrecking our vegetable plot, I wanted to go out and find a stick to fight him, but instead of finding a stick, I found his bicycle.

I dragged the bike to the ditch behind the bushes, no one will notice it. What should we do with it?"

Lin Qingxiang glanced around, clutching his racing heart, gritting his teeth, "Since Liu Yongming destroyed our crops, we’ll take his bicycle as compensation! Pry the lock off and ride it to Nanxi to find your Uncle Yi, have them help sell the bike in the county across from Nanxi, let’s see how Liu Yongming finds it!"

Lin Shaojun’s eyes lit up, he nodded quickly and seized the opportunity when no one was around to pry the lock, carrying the bicycle out of the Shanglin Village boundary through a shortcut, then riding furiously towards Nanxi.

In half an hour, he reached his destination. He hid the bicycle first and stood on the riverbank, shouting, "Uncle Yi, Sister Ah Qin!"

Lin Yi, who was on the deck fishing, heard the shout faintly and quickly called out to Chen Wenjun, who was working on the deserted island, "Wenjun, I think I hear someone calling me and Ah Qin!"

Chen Wenjun immediately stopped what he was doing and came over.

When he rowed the boat out, he did indeed spot Lin Shaojun standing on the shore and swiftly went to pick him up.

With Chen Wenjun’s help, Lin Shaojun and the bicycle got on the boat.

This was Lin Shaojun’s first time on a five-canopy boat, and everything looked new to him.

Lin Yi took out the snacks Lin Qin had bought to serve him, asking, "Why do you suddenly need to go to the county across from Nanxi?"

Lin Shaojun did not hide it and recounted how Liu Yongming destroyed the vegetable plot and how he discovered Liu Yongming’s bicycle.

Lin Yi’s face turned pale, he quickly stored the bicycle in the boat cabin, nervously saying, "You weren’t spotted when you took this bicycle, were you?"

Lin Shaojun shook his head, "Don’t worry, Uncle Yi, my dad conned with my uncle. If anyone questions it, my uncle will just say I borrowed his bicycle, no one will suspect a thing."

Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief, immediately worried again, "That Liu Yongming is a lunatic, lucky for us we’re not in the village, otherwise it would have been over today!"

Lin Shaojun agreed, "Uncle, I see that you’ve put on some weight, you shouldn’t return to the village for a while. Just stay here, Liu Yongming is like a ticking time bomb, too dangerous."

Chen Wenjun set down his bamboo pole and walked over, "Dad, listen to Shaojun. I’ll teach you to pole the boat. Starting tomorrow, when I go sell the fish, you can take the boat. When I come back, I’ll meet you again. Parking at the shore isn’t safe."

He had a feeling that Liu Yongming was losing it. If the Liu family couldn’t hold him back, that madman would surely retaliate against Lin Qin. He couldn’t let that lunatic have an opportunity.

Lin Yi looked back at the bicycle in the boat cabin, still worried sick, "Shaojun, what do you plan to do with this bicycle?"

Lin Shaojun grinned, "I plan to take it to the county across from Nanxi and sell it."

"Do you know any reliable buyers?" Chen Wenjun asked.

Lin Shaojun’s expression froze, he really didn’t know!

Chen Wenjun pondered, "Here’s what we’ll do, first hide the bicycle on Nanyu until things calm down. After that, I’ll take you to sell the bike, I’ll ensure it’s foolproof."

"Nanyu? Where is that?" Lin Shaojun was utterly confused. Was there such a place in their area?

Lin Yi’s eyebrows relaxed, a pleased smile on his face, "Nanyu is a deserted island that Wenjun and Ah Qin bought. They plan to build a house on it and are already working on the foundation."

Lin Shaojun’s eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at Chen Wenjun, "You bought an island? My God! Is it true?"

He felt as if he was hearing things.

Chen Wenjun laughed, "Take a look for yourself and you’ll know!"

As they reached the desert island.

Lin Shaojun was utterly shocked, staring at the vast undeveloped land before his eyes, it was real, not an illusion, Chen Wenjun indeed bought a deserted island!

"Oh my God! All of this is yours?"

Chen Wenjun nodded, "To be precise, this wasteland and the sloped land are ours. The mountain wasn’t purchased because it has no development value and is full of holes, making it unsafe. But here, no one will compete with us.

Recently, the electric company installed power lines, so the island has electricity now, we just need the house."