PFC Chapter 159: Chaos into a pot of porridge
Chapter 159: Chaos into a pot of porridge
Sure enough, as soon as Hua Lichu arrived home, she heard the sound of her neighbor's breakdown and crying.
She leaned close to the courtyard wall, pressed her ear against it, and heard:
"This can't be real! You must be seeing things."
I've already received the interest for the first two periods, how could I possibly not be able to find anyone this time?
The house is still there, isn't it? Didn't you look for it properly?
Or perhaps those people went off to do something? All our family's money is in there! This is no joke!
"I've searched the whole place, but there's nothing here except two tables, let alone anyone!"
The villagers came with me. Even if my eyesight is bad and I missed something, are they all blind?
Yang Erya pounced on her husband and punched him twice hard:
"Then what do you suggest we do? We've invested all our money, and I even borrowed a lot from my family. If they run away, won't we never get our money back? How are we going to live from now on?!"
"You ask me, who should I ask?"
Hearing the sounds of fighting next door, Hua Lichu pursed her lips and turned to meet the stares of Hua Antao and Hua Yuansheng, who looked at her like she was an idiot.
Hua Antao wiped the plaster off her sister's ears and lowered her voice, "Are you stupid? Our courtyard wall isn't soundproof at all. You can hear it just by standing there!"
Hua Lichu touched the tip of her nose and muttered softly, "I just forgot!"
Hua Yuansheng frowned, tied up the old ox, and threw it a handful of fresh grass: "I'm going to your Uncle An Yan's house."
Then, without waiting for Hua Lichu and her sister to react, she walked quickly out of the courtyard with a stern face and her hands behind her back.
Hua Lichu raised her chin at Hua Antao: "Are you going?"
Hua Antao shook her head: "I'm not going."
With that time, you could read a few more pages of a book.
Hua Lichu chuckled: "Then I'll go?"
"Go ahead! Be careful, don't talk, and don't get too close."
"I know, wait for me to come back!"
Hua Lichu jogged up to Hua Yuansheng and grabbed his arm, saying, "Grandpa, don't stand too close later."
When money is involved, people's emotions are bound to get very agitated, and it's not impossible for them to start fighting while talking.
My home is just a few minutes' walk from the Yan family's home in Hua'an.
Before we even got close, we could see a huge crowd of heads in the courtyard, packed with people in layers.
The grandfather and grandson were careful and didn't squeeze inside. Instead, they found a large rock on the outermost layer and stood on it.
This way, you can see what's inside without being noticed by others, making it easy to escape at any time.
At the far end of the courtyard, several disheveled women lay collapsed on the ground, wailing loudly.
"It's all gone! Everything's gone! What am I going to do now?! I don't want to live anymore!"
"Just one more day, and I'll get the next installment's interest tomorrow. Why can't I wait one more day? I was originally planning to stop once I got this installment..."
Hua Anyan pressed his wildly throbbing temples, feeling somewhat weak:
"I warned you all long ago not to put any money in there, but who listened to me? Now that something's happened, you know to look for the village chief? Too late!"
"Village chief, you can't just abandon us!"
"Manage? How? I've said it before, this thing is like gambling. People who do it never end well."
What did you say? You said I, Hua An Yan, am a coward, a coward, and afraid of everything! You told me not to stop you.
He also said that if anything went wrong, he would take responsibility himself.
"So what are you all doing, crowding around my yard? I'm just a coward, a spineless coward who blocks people's path to wealth, don't come looking for me!"
Hua Lichu was speechless. Why didn't they report the incident to the police and ask Uncle Hat for help? What were they doing here? Did they expect Uncle An Yan to make up for the money?
The grandfather and grandson watched for a few more minutes and, finding that everyone was repeating the same few sentences, quietly withdrew and headed towards Hua Yuanqing's house.
"Asheng? Pear? You're back!" Hua Yuanqing exclaimed in delight.
Hua Yuansheng looked his older brother up and down, and finding that he seemed to be in good spirits, he explained:
"I'm on holiday, taking a couple of days off. I came back to check on things. Jasmine isn't back yet?"
"I've gone back, I'm sitting inside."
As soon as I entered the room, Yan Moli had already brought out a chair.
When Yan Dahua saw Hua Lichu arrive, her eyes suddenly lit up with joy and gratitude, and she grasped Hua Lichu's hand tightly:
“Pear, Grandma really owes you a lot this time! If it weren’t for you, I would be just like those other people in the village now.”
Hua Yuanqing, knowing that the two had just returned, explained from the side:
"That matter... has been blown up!"
Yesterday, a group of villagers had their interest payments due, so they went to collect them together. But when they arrived, they found that the usually bustling exchange point was completely empty!
Those bastards, I don't know when they ran away!
When the news reached the village, at first, no one believed it and thought it was impossible.
After all, not just our village, people from more than a dozen villages nearby have almost all invested money in it.
With so much money, it would take a long time to move, right? How could it just disappear overnight?
But as more and more people went to look for them, and they all came back shaking their heads, everyone realized that those people had really run away!
Those bastards ran off with our hard-earned money!
Hua Yuansheng was puzzled: "I see everyone is stuck in An Yan's courtyard, why didn't they go to report it to the police?"
“They went! Of course they went! Someone went right there.”
But when Uncle Hat arrived, he said that this group of people were committing crimes as a gang. They had done the same thing in another province before, and the case had not been solved yet.
"It seems unlikely that we can find the person and get our money back!"
Hua Yuanqing sighed: "If it weren't for your desperate attempts to stop us, and Jasmine had taken all the money, I'm afraid..."
Yan Dahua said with lingering fear, "Luckily, I withdrew the thousand yuan I invested as soon as the last round ended..."
Hua Yuanqing wiped his face: "Asheng, you haven't been in the village for a while, so you didn't know!"
I used to think that everyone was having a hard time and didn't have much money.
This time, everyone got really excited, and one by one, they were betting 500, 1000, or even several thousand!
"Are they all this rich?" Hua Lichu asked.
"No way! I'm afraid a significant portion of this was borrowed!"
Now that those people have run away, how are those who borrowed money to invest going to survive? Isn't that pushing them to their deaths?
Did you notice when you came back? A lot of the fields in our village have been abandoned, haven't they?
Those were the families who initially invested money and received interest. They thought they could live off the interest and didn't even want to tend their crops anymore..."
To this, Hua Lichu could only say that greed knows no bounds.
Seeing the scene in the village, Hua Lichu was afraid of getting into trouble, so she immediately urged Hua Yuansheng to hurry back to the city while no one was paying attention to them.
Meanwhile, Liangjia Village was also in complete chaos!