37: Chapter 37 – Benefits of Catching a Thief_1 37: Chapter 37 – Benefits of Catching a Thief_1 The benefits of catching the cattle thief showed up when Yan Fei got off school at noon on Saturday.
Upon seeing a cart filled with grains, vegetables, sweet potatoes, and three to four people of all ages in front of his door, Yan Fei didn’t know what to do.
The police officer who led this family was the sa one who had visited Yan Fei’s house twice before.
He smiled at a bewildered Yan Fei, “They are the owners who lost their cattle.
They are here to thank you!”
Yan Fei felt confused and pulled the policeman aside to whisper, “Didn’t we agree to keep it a secret?”
The police officer chuckled, “This family arrived very early this morning and said their cattle were found back in the afternoon after reporting the loss in the morning.
They wanted to thank the police station.
The precinct’s captain had a headache because of the stuff they brought.
They insist on leaving it here and won’t leave without doing so.
So, we thought of you.
If you don’t want to accept it, persuade them to take it back yourself!
I have to go now, you deal with this!”
The policeman had introduced Yan Fei to the family while Yan Fei was still not at ho, so upon seeing Yan Fei, the whole family was excited.
They didn’t know what to say and just kept thanking him repeatedly.
The stuff started moving off the cart.
Yan Fei rushed over to stop them, “Don’t rush to unload, let take a look first.
Leave the vegetables and sweet potatoes for , I’ll eat them slowly.
What I can’t finish can feed the chickens, take the corn and soybeans back, I won’t be able to eat or use them.
If they are left in the house they will just attract bugs.”
But no matter what he said, they insisted on moving the goods into his house, continuously ntioning that a cow was worth two to three thousand yuan and it was already miserly of them to only offer a cart of goods.
If he refused to accept, then…
In the end, Yan Fei lost his temper, “Stop talking, just do as I said.
or in the future when you’re at the market, you can buy so vegetables for .
I don’t need much as I live alone.
The goods on your cart are enough for for half a month.
You’d better leave after unloading the goods, I’m still young, what if the cattle thief’s accomplices know I reported them?”
This family heard and considered he was telling the truth since he was young and sensible, they reluctantly loaded the unloaded corn and soybeans back onto the cart.
At the end of all this, there was a pile of sweet potatoes, and with the vegetables, it was lucky he ate a lot.
Otherwise, he’d never finish eating it all before it spoiled.
Looking at the ti, nearly all of his free lunchti was taken up, so Yan Fei began to rush them, “Uncle, you all can stay and have lunch here.
I’m about to cook, and once we finish eating I need to go to school again!”
With that, the family quickly grabbed their belongings and left imdiately.
Yan Fei hardly cooked als, as there was always at to eat in the pot on his island.
His appetite never reduced, which bothered him, and he figured he would continue to be a big eater.
He was never tired of eating at every day, he made it in different styles, like clear soup, braised at, red braised, and so on.
Three Compsognathus might be too much for a day’s als, but two were certainly not enough.
A tiger would eat forty to fifty catty of at a al and be satisfied for five or six days.
If calculated by the amount of at eaten, he was indeed not far off from a tiger.
Thankfully, there were plenty of Compsognathus on the island.
After eating, Yan Fei headed to the shopping center.
The center finally opened and there was a public telephone beside the cigarette and alcohol counter.
It costs a few dis per minute, a couple of minutes was enough for a taxi ride to the county town.
Long-distance calls were more expensive, costing more than a buck per minute, making a single call more expensive than eating at.
Yan Fei calculated that Xu Xiaoyan should be back this week, so he wanted to call his parents to report on the week’s events and let them know that he wouldn’t be coming to the county town this week.
This phone call had to be made first to the gatehouse to let soone call, although it was inconvenient, but it was better than before.
As soon as the afternoon classes ended, Yan Fei began to move the sweet potatoes and vegetables indoors.
Besides keeping so in the kitchen, he moved the rest into a cave on the island for storage.
He checked out his gains in the past two days.
There were just a few rabbits, but he was too lazy to sell them.
The main reason was what he had heard at noon, a cow was worth two to three thousand yuan.
Yan Fei calculated his earnings so far and found that despite his hard work every night, he had barely made more than the price of a cow.
This was only accomplished because he could fly and catch rabbits from further afield.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have even made enough to afford a cow.
It would be quite intimidating to consider the facts.
In the countryside, it took at least one and a half to two years to raise a cow and make money from it.
This doesn’t even include the cost of buying the calf, worrying about it day and night, and the constant risk of theft.
Actually, after this theft gang was caught, there was hardly any compensation for the farrs who lost their cattle.
Most of it had been squandered by the criminals.
This was why the family who found their cow was so grateful to him.
Had it been a day later, the cow would have turned into at and been shipped to the market.
However, while skinning the rabbits, Yan Fei was calculating: if one cow was worth three thousand yuan, then ten cows would be worth thirty thousand yuan.
How many rabbits would he have to catch to make that much money?
Looking at his small yard, if only it were big enough, he would go buy a few calves to feed right away.
Dinner ti ca, and Yan Fei had stir-fried several small dishes, including lotus vegetables, celery, spinach, radishes, a huge serving of dinosaur eggs, and a big pot of rabbit at.
The lotus vegetables were definitely fresh, looking muddy and wet as they were obviously just dug up.
The root vegetables were the sa, looking like they had just been dug up from the ground.
Although they weren’t in season yet and didn’t look great, they tasted definitely fresh.
Before Yan Fei could do much eating, the greedy girl from next door ca over with her bowl.
These days, Yan Fei has been bringing her food almost every Saturday, and now whenever she sees Yan Fei, she knows how to sweet-talk him: “Xiaofei Yan, you cooked so much food today, why didn’t you ask to help?”
She’s clearly pretending, she must know when he’s cooking from next door, right?
Yan Fei had a little sche today, so he didn’t expose her: “Well, I was preparing to give you a surprise.”
The greedy girl didn’t bother talking to him too much, she quickly started eating: “I won’t be polite then!
Where did all these co from?
The lotus vegetables are not even out yet!”
Usually in the township, lotus roots are only dug out from the pond before the New Year and quickly sold, so there’s none at other tis, so Xu Xiaoyan was puzzled.
“Of course, soone dug them out overnight just to give them to .
Look, there’s still a big pile over there!”
“Who did it?
They’re so nice.”
“Hehe!
You don’t know that, do you?
Indeed, I don’t even know them!”
“Xiaofei Yan, are you bluffing again?
Soone you don’t know dug up lotus vegetables overnight and brought them to you?
Are you keeping sothing from ?”
“Humph, exactly.
But I don’t want to tell you now!
That’s what you get for not trusting !”
“Xiaofei Yan, good boy Xiaofei, please tell quickly, what if you suffocate yourself by keeping it in?”
“Well…..”
Yan Fei was almost choked by the girl’s last words.
After she sweet-talked him for a bit, he began to tell her about what had happened in the past few days.
Of course, in the narration, Yan Fei was glowing with brilliance, while those little thieves were described as exceedingly an, especially the process of subduing the miscreants, which he depicted as extrely thrilling, up until the end when only one person was left kneeling and begging for rcy.
At the very end, he casually ntioned, “They brought a whole cartload of things, and I only took these vegetables, fair enough, right!”
Xu Xiaoyan was listening to the story as if she were dizzy and amazed, “Where are these bad guys now?”
“Of course, they’re all in the police station.
I heard they arrested quite a few people elsewhere too!
Not a single one from the criminal gang managed to escape.
Hehe, don’t I deserve so praise!” Yan Fei was smug, and then his face changed, “Ah…
Actually, it could have been better.
I was just too excited initially when the three n were caught.
One of them was cursing and threatening , saying he was going to co after once he got out of jail.
I just beat him up, I heard his injuries were pretty serious!”
“My God, what can we do?
You can’t beat up thieves nowadays, you have to hand them over to the police.
How could you have taken the law into your own hands?” Xu Xiaoyan was instantly worried.
“I’m very worried too.
Uncle Baoguo told that one of them almost died from severe injuries!
I was so scared I didn’t know what to do!” Yan Fei said in a ‘concerned’ manner.
“Things are different now, we have to be aware of the law.
Even if you hit a thief to death, you will still be sentenced.
Why can’t you understand the ramifications?
Killing the bad guy is a minor issue, but what if sothing happens to you?”
Yan Fei was satisfied inside.
Good girl, she’s the type who would hand a knife to a man if he were to commit murder, indeed a good choice for a wife.
However, he said, “It’s okay, my Uncle Baoguo also said that I have that…
what certificate, right?
I won’t be arrested.”
Xu Xiaoyan thought about it and then finally got it.
She imdiately breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled, “Right, I totally forgot that when your family gave birth to your younger brother, they got you certified as an idiot.
Idiots don’t have to go to jail.”
She paused before realizing, “But wait, you’re not at the legal age yet?
Your uncle must have been joking with you, right?”
Yan Fei laughed, “Yeah, I thought he was trying to scare .
Let’s eat now before the food gets cold!”
Xu Xiaoyan also laughed, “I knew you were fine, otherwise, you wouldn’t have cooked so much food!”
While eating, she continued talking happily, “In my opinion, you must have been pretending, even managing to trick the doctor into giving you a ntal disability identification.
That doctor must have got into the hospital through connections.
But it seems not…
I rember you just suddenly lost your soul, it was terrifying, you know?
It’s better now.
If I took you out to play, I used to fear that you would lose your soul and I would have to carry you back!”
This girl gets going when she has good food to eat, she continues to mumble to herself, “Actually, having that disability certificate of yours is quite good.
You’re not afraid of people talking anyway, look when your mom gave birth to your younger brother, they didn’t even have to pay the fine.
Now even if you injured soone, you don’t have to worry about going to jail, you’re enjoying this, aren’t you…”
Yan Fei laughed along.
He had already heard the answer to the question he wanted to know.
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