Anning naturally couldn’t let down Jixiang and Ruyi’s expectations.
Facing the policewoman, she managed a strained smile, tears glistening in her eyes: "I’m so sorry for causing you amusent. These two kids have been spoiled by , causing you trouble."
While speaking, Anning was also pulling Jixiang and Ruyi: "The comrade officer will help us retrieve the bracelet, don’t cry anymore, this is the public security bureau. If you keep crying, it will affect the officers’ work."
Although Jixiang and Ruyi still felt very distressed, they obediently wiped their tears.
But the kids were so upset that tears kept falling while they wiped them away, unable to be completely wiped clean.
Although the policewoman had no children of her own, she was an aunt, and her brother’s child was about the sa age as Jixiang and Ruyi. Seeing the two adorable kids crying so sadly, the policewoman felt incredibly sympathetic.
"Alright, auntie will definitely help you find your bracelet. Don’t worry," she reassured them.
Anning kept apologizing to the policewoman: "There was really no choice, I had to bring the kids with to report this situation. It really has troubled you."
The aunt and two nieces appeared so sensible and polite. Although the children had cried for a while, who could be petty with kids?
The other police officers with the policewoman quickly assured her it was okay, and one of them even brought water for Jixiang and Ruyi to drink.
Anning completed the written record, left all the evidence at the public security bureau, and then took Jixiang and Ruyi to leave.
After leaving the public security bureau, Anning took Jixiang and Ruyi out to eat.
Before, Tang Anning never allowed Jixiang and Ruyi to eat fast food, deeming it junk with no nutritional value.
But after Anning arrived, she was a bit more indulgent with the kids. When they said they wanted fast food, she thought it over and still took them to have so.
These past days, Tang Chunhua was in high spirits.
Her son was about to get married, had found a partner, and both sides were quite satisfied. The only issue was the girl requested to buy an apartnt; she insisted on not living with the elder generation.
The Tang family’s conditions weren’t that good. The house they were living in had already been a stretch to buy, and now they needed another one, but they really didn’t have the money.
Then ca the demand from the girl’s family for the Tang family to provide the down paynt.
The girl had her eye on a 70-square-ter two-bedroom that she insisted Tang Chunhua’s son buy.
The Tang family scraped together funds but still couldn’t cover the down paynt needed.
It was during these tis that soone suddenly contacted Tang Chunhua with an offer: steal Anning’s bracelet, and on successful completion, they would pay her one million yuan.
With that one million yuan, not only would the down paynt for the new house be covered, but there might even be so left over for her son’s wedding. There would be no need to worry.
For her son’s new house, to satisfy her future daughter-in-law, Tang Chunhua, against her conscience, stole that ancestral bracelet from Anning.
When she got her hands on the bracelet, she mumbled to herself, wondering how the bracelet could be so expensive, worth over a million, and thought it might be an antique passed down from Anning’s mother.
Regardless of the bracelet’s value, she had managed to steal it.
Afterwards, she t with that person to exchange the bracelet for money; they took the bracelet, and Tang Chunhua took the cash.
With the money, she imdiately went with her son and future daughter-in-law to buy the apartnt.
Once the house was purchased, the daughter-in-law beca much warr towards her.
Her daughter-in-law’s parents also started to flatter her imnsely.
Tang Chunhua was extrely proud of herself and had long forgotten how the money had co about, that she had exchanged it for stealing from her relative’s family.
However, Tang Chunhua’s pride didn’t last long.
That day, as she returned from shopping and was thinking about calling her son to bring the daughter-in-law over for dinner, she heard a knock at the door.
After opening the door, Tang Chunhua saw two police officers standing at the entrance.
"Are you Tang Chunhua?"
Tang Chunhua, frightened, knew she had done sothing wrong and felt guilty: "Yes, it’s ."
"Please co with us."
Tang Chunhua trembled with fear: "Comrade officer, I’m just an old lady. What could I possibly have done wrong? Why do I need to go with you?"
Hearing the noise, Tang Chunhua’s husband also ca out, and seeing the police, he argued as well: "Comrade officer, could there be so mistake? My wife is very honest, she never argues with the neighbors, what could she possibly have done wrong?"
One policewoman laughed slightly: "Soone has reported you for stealing a significant amount of property, and all evidence has been handed over to the public security bureau. What, do you intend to deny it?"
Tang Chunhua was so startled she fell to the ground with a thump.
Her husband imdiately rushed to support Tang Chunhua upon seeing her like this, knowing that what the police said was probably true. While helping her, he asked, "Comrade, what exactly is going on here?"
The female officer shouted, "On the morning of October 13th at about nine o’clock, Tang Chunhua stole a bracelet worth over a million from the Tang Family ho. She sure has the nerve, stealing from her own relatives, but what she didn’t know was that the bedroom had a cara installed, which captured everything."
Just this sentence almost made Tang Chunhua pee herself with fright.
She scread, "That’s not right, how could there be a cara? Anning never told about it."
Tang Chunhua’s husband glared at Tang Chunhua: "Shut your mouth."
But the shout she made had already admitted the fact that she stole sothing.
Tang Chunhua’s husband adjusted the glasses on his nose bridge: "Well then, my wife and I will go together, she gets scared easily, I’m afraid it will frighten her."
"Let’s go, then."
The couple Tang Chunhua was taken to the Public Security Bureau, and as soon as they entered the door, Tang Chunhua felt weak all over and could hardly walk.
After all, she was just an ordinary old lady with really faint courage. The worst thing she had ever done in her life was stealing Anning’s bracelet.
She thought although the bracelet was valuable, Anning wouldn’t sell it, and it wasn’t much use in her hands; it would be better to sell it for money to find a wife for her son.
Tang Chunhua was extrely selfish in her thinking.
What she didn’t know was that it was precisely because she stole the bracelet that she caused the death of Tang Anning and her two nephews, costing three lives.
When Tang Chunhua and her husband were seated, a female officer showed them the video evidence Anning had sent, as well as the call records of Tang Chunhua that were discovered.
The more he watched, the uglier Tang Chunhua’s husband’s face beca.
He looked at Tang Chunhua fiercely: "What the hell is this? Why did you steal Anning’s things?"
Tang Chunhua was on the verge of tears: "I, I had no choice, my daughter-in-law insisted on buying a house, and we didn’t have the money. Soone approached to exchange the bracelet for money, they would pay one million on the spot, and I just thought, since Anning doesn’t wear it anyway, we might as well sell it."
Tang Chunhua’s husband felt like beating her up.
How could this old woman be so foolish?
Anning is a student at Qing University and a top scholar, receiving great attention at school, and who knows what influential people she knows. You stole her things and she found out, could there be any good in that?
This old woman was really blinded by money, knowing nothing but money; now look, she had thoroughly offended Anning.
Originally, after Tang Chunhua’s husband learned that Anning was admitted to Qing University, he asked Tang Chunhua to frequently take care of Anning and her nephews, and also occasionally invited them ho for als.
He did this hoping that, with the Tang Family having few mbers left, and Tang Chunhua being the closest relative to Anning, it was a good ti to foster a relationship before Anning beca successful. If Anning succeeded in the future, just a little help could greatly benefit his son.
Who knew Tang Chunhua would foolishly do such a thing.
One million...
If the projects that Anning was working on succeeded, each would be worth tens of millions, not to ntion, the personal connections Anning was making were the most valuable.
But now anger was pointless for Tang Chunhua’s husband.
He was just thinking about how to smooth things over and not let Anning hold too much of a grudge against his family.
"Quickly tell the police who instructed you."
Tang Chunhua’s husband was urging her non-stop.
Tang Chunhua was genuinely crying now: "I, I don’t know, I never saw that person’s face, they just transferred the money to , and then instructed where to place the bracelet, and I did just that."
"The phone number?" Tang Chunhua’s husband pressed again.
The two police officers watched the couple exchange words without intervention.
Tang Chunhua wiped her sweat: "She called from a public phone."
Tang Chunhua’s husband wanted to curse.
Such efforts for a bracelet indicated its extraordinary value.
This fool Tang Chunhua sold it for just one million, why didn’t she think to, if she was going to offend Anning by stealing, at least sell the bracelet for a high price, really...
He had a headache from anger: "You... never mind, think carefully, and honestly confess to the police officer."
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