Hu Guangcai let out a laugh of pure disbelief. When it came to being shameless, he—a man who had grown up listening to the pointing fingers and insults of the entire community—feared no one.
He turned his head and shouted toward the crowd heading out to the fields. "Hey, everyone! Come quick! Someone is pulling a scam here! Can someone help me call the police? If we don't hurry, someone is going to be driven to their death!"
The moment the word "police" was mentioned, Old Madam Zou sprang up as if she had been launched by a spring, moving with an agility that hardly suited an old woman. The memory of her eldest grandson being hauled away by the police last year had left a lifelong trauma on her mind. At the mere mention of the word, her entire body began to tremble.
Chapter 25