139: Chapter 139 What cat in the world doesn't steal fish?

The Landlord paused deliberately for a moment, until the hearts of Yan Hes Husband and the other two were pounding with anxiety, before continuing: "Let's just call it even. I don't want to pursue this further, but if you aren't satisfied, feel free to prepare for a court summons."

The three of them immediately shook their heads like rattles, "We wouldn't dare, we wouldn't dare."

"Alright, that's it. Take your things and leave." The Landlord waved his hand impatiently, "I'll refund the money to the original transfer account immediately."

The three exchanged glances, and Yan Hes Husband hesitated as he said: "Big Brother, we don't know where to move to on such short notice. Could you give us two days of leeway? As soon as we find a new place, we'll move out immediately."

Yan He followed up, defending them: "Big Brother, we really aren't lying to you. This place is truly haunted. Every night, there's either someone singing opera or telling ghost stories. We were so scared that we've been hospitalized for two days straight..."

"Heh," the Landlord laughed disdainfully. "I've lived here for four or five years; I don't know about any ghosts. Alright, stop making excuses. Move wherever you want, move right now. If you don't move, we'll help you move, but in that case..."

"Don't, Big Brother, we'll move, we'll move right now." Yan Hes Husband stood up quickly and reached out to pull the Old Woman, but the Old Woman, feeling angry... no, feeling aggrieved, twisted her body and shook off his hand. However, thinking of the scene where she was dominated by those old women just now, even though she felt very aggrieved, the Old Woman still stood up nimbly on her own.

With a dark face, she walked straight toward Room 3.

"What do you want to do?" one of the elderly people on the Landlord's side immediately stood up and asked.

"Who knows if you missed anything? I'm going in to check." The Old Woman then instructed Yan Hes Husband: "Son, check everything thoroughly. If anything is missing, this won't be the end of it."

You have numbers, do you?

It doesn't matter. As long as there's even a needle missing from the bag, she'll call the police immediately and have this bunch of bitches thrown in jail.

Thinking of this, the corners of the Old Woman's mouth curled up involuntarily, and then she couldn't help but gasp, "Hiss~"

She had aggravated an old injury from last night.

However, even so, it couldn't extinguish the burning desire in her heart.

She was one hundred percent certain that these people would definitely leave something behind while packing. Back when she worked as a cleaner, every time she went to someone's house, if she didn't pocket a few things to take home, it didn't count as having worked.

After all, is there any cat that doesn't steal fish?

On the other side, without waiting for Yan Hes Husband to answer, Yan He had already lunged toward the woven bag.

Her bag, her facial treatment essence, her gold necklace—not a single thing could be missing.

Seeing everyone silent, the Old Woman thought she had caught them in a weak spot. She straightened her slightly hunched back with effort, snorted coldly, and shoved past the Old Woman... no, the old hag, standing in front of her, then walked into Room 3 with her head held high.

However, the sight inside the room left her dumbfounded.

Except for the large furniture and appliances that were inconvenient to move, the room was empty.

The Old Woman wouldn't give up and walked around the entire room. After one round, she was shocked to discover that not only were their own things gone, but the vase the Landlord had left in the living room, the soap dish in the bathroom, and the old cotton batting in the bedroom were all gone as well.

Seeing the Old Woman so surprised and at a loss, everyone laughed.

Since they dared to forcibly enter and clear the room while the tenants were away today, they had naturally made full preparations. To this end, they had not only consulted a lawyer but also found someone to ask for advice from a professional who specializes in flipping foreclosed homes, learning many techniques for clearing out a property.

Old person against old person, woman against woman, man against man, child against child—this tactic was taught by the professional.

As for the things missing from the house, they were naturally all packed into the woven bags.

Whether it was these old items or the initiative to refund all the rent and the security deposit, compared to the losses caused by letting this family of four linger here or continuing to entangle with them, the former was just a drop in the bucket.

"How about that? Did we clean it up neatly and thoroughly?" someone teased at this moment.

"How about I use a broom to sweep up the trash in the house and pack that up for you too?" someone suggested.

"Hmph," the Old Woman glared at the person unconvinced. "Of course, who knows if you threw away some treasure as trash."

"Uh," the person was choked up by these words, but he wasn't annoyed. He immediately said with a grin: "Then you wait, I'll go borrow a broom right now."

The person walked out quickly, knocked on a neighbor's door, and soon returned happily with a broom in one hand and a trash bag in the other. He then quickly swept the room, put all the snack wrappers, cockroach carcasses, dust, and so on into the trash bag, and handed it to the Old Woman.

"Here, take it. We absolutely won't take advantage of you in the slightest."

"You..." the Old Woman glared at the person with hatred, but when her peripheral vision caught the old hags next to her looking eager to intervene, she quickly retracted her gaze, snatched the trash bag, turned around, and left the room.

"Mom! Not only is nothing missing, there's even more stuff." Seeing the Old Woman come out, Yan Hes Husband quickly leaned in and whispered.

"Take the things and let's go." The Old Woman glanced at the Landlord and the others, then hugged the Naughty Child, who was covering their mouth and didn't even dare to cry out loud, and walked straight toward the elevator.

Yan Hes Husband and Yan He hurriedly followed, each carrying a woven bag in one hand.

Of course, there was far more stuff than that; the two of them had to make several trips back and forth before they finally got everything down to the ground floor.

Yan He asked while panting: "What do we do now?"

Yan Hes Husband scratched his hair in frustration, "What else can we do? Let's find a place to put these things first, and then we'll figure out a long-term plan."

At this moment, the Old Woman spoke up, "Hmph! Don't panic. Just watch—they'll be begging us later."

"Mom, you have a plan?" Seeing the Old Woman so confident of victory, Yan Hes Husband asked happily.

"Son, Mom hasn't been living all these years for nothing. According to that whatever law, they broke into our residence without us being present and took our things without permission; that's already a crime. We'll call the police directly and have the Comrade Police Officer arrest them all." The Old Woman instructed Yan He: "When the Comrade Police Officer comes later, you say that a gold necklace worth tens of thousands of yuan is missing. Didn't they say we were dreaming just now? This time, if we don't extort an apartment out of them, we won't agree to sign any settlement agreement."

"Right! If we don't extort an apartment out of them this time, they'll think we're easy to bully." Yan Hes Husband urged quickly: "Wife, hurry up and call the police."

Yan He immediately took out her phone and dialed 110.

Before long, the Comrade Police Officer arrived at the scene. Seeing the Old Woman, he asked helplessly: "What's the matter this time?"

The local police station divides its jurisdiction into sectors, with each team responsible for one sector. The team of Comrade Police Officers responsible for the Jingjiang Donghu Garden Residential Area had already successfully memorized this family because of the trouble they had caused over the past few days.

When they saw it was them, to be honest, the Comrade Police Officer had a headache.

But soon, something even more headache-inducing happened.

Seeing that the Comrade Police Officer had finally arrived, the Old Woman immediately hugged the Comrade Police Officer's thigh, sat on the ground, grabbed the Comrade Police Officer's trouser leg, and tearfully recounted her miserable experience, adding every now and then, "Officer, you must uphold justice for me," and "They are a criminal gang," which made the two Comrade Police Officers frown deeply.

They frowned because if the situation was truly as the Old Woman described, the Landlord and others had indeed broken the law; they frowned even more because while the Old Woman was crying and recounting her story, all that snot and tears were smeared all over their trouser legs.

Just thinking about going home tonight and having the "tigress" at home see this messy state, she would surely nag him to death.

Thinking of that, his brow furrowed even tighter.

"Alright, we have a general understanding of the situation. Let's go upstairs and find the other party involved."

"Comrade Police Officer, let's go up quickly, lest they run away beforehand." Yan Hes Husband quickly jogged to the front and obsequiously led the Comrade Police Officer into the lobby.

The group took the elevator to the 17th floor. When they arrived at Room 3, Yan Hes Husband stood at the door, pointed at the Landlord, and immediately reported loudly: "Officer, it's him, he's the ringleader."

The Comrade Police Officer nodded, walked past Yan Hes Husband into the room, first showed his credentials to the Landlord and the others, and then said: "Hello, we just received a call from this gentleman claiming that you forcibly entered his residence and stole valuable property..."

After hearing the reason for the Comrade Police Officer's visit, everyone immediately began cursing at Yan Hes Husband and the others.

"Damn it, they really are insidious, petty people."

"We didn't even call the police, but you guys are the ones filing a false complaint first."

"If we had known, we shouldn't have let them off so easily earlier."

"Exactly, a bunch of petty people; we shouldn't have been polite."

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However, facing everyone's verbal abuse, the Old Woman smiled.

Yan He and Yan Hes Husband smiled as well.

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