"Bullshit! It's just a few melons. I've stolen vegetables from other villages before and sold them too. Nothing ever went wrong all those times! Why does it become a crime when it's them?"
"How much are a few pumpkins worth? A few thousand at most! They sell some pumpkins, and it becomes a crime?"
"If they've committed a crime, then what about us who moved the pumpkins? Aren't we criminals too? Why don't you arrest us?"
"So Miss Hu is here too. Did you two collude to bully us, taking advantage of Zhaojia Village being full of old men?"
The elders were extremely agitated, their saliva flying as they spoke. Some noticed Hu Wenning and Qing Lan at the door and began to angrily berate them as well. They completely ignored the police officers' explanations, even believing that Hu Wenning was in cahoots with the police station to specifically target their Zhaojia Village, which now consisted mainly of old men.
