webnovelfull Chapter 20 Destroying the Casino 2
Chapter 20 Destroying the Casino 2
Two more groups of people carrying sticks arrived.
The team leader, exasperated, yelled at the crowd, "Does anyone know what happened?!"
Those who knew what had happened were still buried in the ruins.
The three groups of people who arrived scanned the crowd and their eyes landed on Xia Mo, who looked the most suspicious. They hesitated whether to make a move.
After all, she's only 1.4 meters tall and a girl... Maybe she's covering her head and face to hide a birthmark or something? She doesn't look like the kind of person who could destroy the entire casino.
Among the onlookers, someone sobbed softly, "It's good that the casino was destroyed! Without casinos, fewer people will be ruined and their families destroyed!"
Xia Mo chimed in with a light, cheerful voice, "Mmm-hmm!"
The three groups of people who had been eyeing Xia Mo with suspicion listened to her response to the passerby, which sounded like that of a child, and became increasingly convinced that she wasn't a suspicious person.
That is, at this moment...
A person crawled out of the ruins of the casino.
He was one of the casino's henchmen.
The thug thought he had escaped with his life, but when he looked up and saw Xia Mo standing in front of the crowd, his pupils contracted violently in fright, and he wished he could shrink back into the ruins.
"Who is it?!"
Three groups of people surrounded the thug in hand armor.
When the henchman saw the government officials, he shrank behind the constable and pointed at Xia Mo, saying, "That's the guy who destroyed the entire casino!"
Everyone present turned their attention to Xia Mo. They could sense a "harmless" aura emanating from Xia Mo, and couldn't help but suspect the thug.
"You're not trying to find someone to take the blame, are you?" Constable Chen said with a stern face.
"It's him!" The henchman, hiding behind Constable Chen, repeated in a trembling voice.
Xia Mo stepped out from the crowd, waved to the three groups of people, and nodded generously.
The three groups of armed men, along with the onlookers, fell silent.
The nimble Xia Mo moved, leaping up and jumping straight out of the crowd!
"Arrest them!"
Officer Chen and the other two groups of people were completely furious. They hadn't expected that they had misjudged the situation.
After Officer Chen and his men broke through the crowd, the veiled girl was nowhere to be seen!
The ringleader also crawled out of the casino ruins.
"It's Xia Mo from Anjia Village," the leader accurately identified Xia Mo.
Constable Chen had investigated the death of the hoodlum, and the case was still hanging in the yamen. At that time, Constable Chen had taken the yamen runners to the Xia family in Anjia Village. They did not see Xia Mo, but they knew that there was a fourteen-year-old girl named Xia Mo in the Xia family.
A fourteen-year-old girl, the one who destroyed the casino?!
Officer Chen asked skeptically, "Are you sure?"
The leader nodded firmly.
* * *
Anjia Village, Xiajia Village—
As Xia Mo stretched and came out of her room, she met her neighbor's gaze.
"Is Momo going into the mountains again this afternoon?"
Qian Duoduo was asked by her family to come over, and she waited outside the Xia family's courtyard early in the morning. When she saw Xia Mo peek out, she immediately jumped out and asked.
Xia Mo thought that the officials would definitely come to Anjia Village to investigate.
“Yes,” Xia Mo nodded.
Qian Duoduo said, "Please let me stay by your side!"
Xia Mo nodded: "Okay."
Qian Duoduo happily jumped around Xia Mo's side.
As summer drew to a close, it was time to head into the mountains. Xia Sange and other villagers from Anjia Village who had the leisure time all followed.
The casino caused trouble for the Xia family this morning. Xia Mo came out of the mountains but didn't find any game. There's plenty of time in the afternoon, surely she'll find some eventually?
No one realized how Xia Mo, while in the mountains, knew that the casino was coming to cause trouble for the Xia family.
As Xia Mo and Xia Sange walked into the mountains, apart from Qian Duoduo who lived nearby, fifteen villagers followed behind them.
One hour later—
People from the Anping County government have arrived!
Constable Chen, accompanied by six constables, headed straight for the Xia family with a clear objective.
"In the mountains at the end of summer?" Constable Chen frowned.
"Yes, my daughter is hunting wild game in the mountains right now, with her third brother by her side. I wonder... Officer Chen, what brings you here?" Mr. Xia swallowed nervously.
Xia's father and mother were smoking rabbit meat. After Gao Lizheng said that their rabbit meat was smoked well, Xia's father and mother had the idea of smoking wild game and selling it at the market.
Officer Chen smelled the delicious aroma wafting from the kitchen and said, "Take me there, the yamen has a case and they need to see her!"
When Constable Chen arrived at Anjia Village and learned that an hour had passed since Xia Mo went into the mountains, he no longer suspected Xia Mo.
But on this trip, due to his official duties, Officer Chen still had to meet with Xia Mo.
"Yes," Xia's father swallowed nervously and led Constable Chen and the others into the mountains.
Xia Mo once said that she often stayed at a huge rock halfway up the mountain.
Xia's father led Constable Chen and the others over the shortest mountain and found Xia Mo sitting cross-legged on a boulder halfway up the second tallest mountain.
The moment Constable Chen saw Xia Mo's face clearly, his heart skipped a beat.
Such a beautiful girl was born in the countryside!
Qian Duoduo and Xia Sange stood anxiously behind Xia Mo.
Xia Mo opened her eyes. Sitting on the boulder, she had a geographical advantage and could see her father and the others in front of the boulder without getting up.
"Dad," Xia Mo, supporting herself on the boulder, slid down from it and rushed happily to her father, giving him a sweet smile.
Officer Chen noticed Xia Mo's height, which was the same as the troublemakers he had seen in the county town, but... the timing was wrong.
"Were you here an hour ago?" Constable Chen asked.
“Yes,” Xia Sange stood in front of Xia Mo and nodded nervously.
Constable Chen quickly calculated in his mind that from the time he returned to the yamen, obtained the approval, and arrived at Anjia Village, it would only take an hour. When they were traveling, they had calculated that it would take half an hour to walk from Anping County to Anjia Village.
If the person causing trouble is this little girl, how could she possibly have made it up the mountain in an hour? Doesn't it take time to travel?!
Xia Mo looked at Constable Chen, and their eyes met. Her gaze remained clear and bright.
Officer Chen became increasingly convinced that Xia Mo was not the one who destroyed the casino!
Officer Chen even suspected that the people at the casino must have seen that Xia Mo was pretty and, since they couldn't find the murderer anyway, simply framed a young girl so they could take her away easily.
"What were you doing an hour ago?" Constable Chen asked.
"My little sister was taking a nap an hour ago," Xia Sange said warily, standing in front of Xia Mo to answer on her behalf.
Xia Mo nodded obediently.
Constable Chen increasingly felt that the people at the casino only claimed the person who destroyed the casino was a young girl because they thought the girl was pretty!
“I can testify to that as well.”
The fifteen people who had followed Xia Mo and his group into the mountains gradually returned to the giant rock.
When Constable Chen saw so many people testifying for Xia Mo, he was somewhat surprised and began to suspect that Xia Mo had a problem.
If there's no problem, why arrange so many witnesses?!
"What are you doing in the mountains?" Constable Chen scrutinized the villagers who had gathered around.
"MoMo is lucky; she always manages to bring back wild game when she goes into the mountains, so we thought we'd come along and try our luck."
"Officers, you wouldn't believe it, they've been caught eleven days in a row! It's either wild rabbits or pheasants! Yesterday she even encountered a wild boar that had run into a car and died!"
"..."
When it came to the eleven consecutive days of good luck at the end of summer, the villagers couldn't help but chatter on and on to Constable Chen, the yamen runners, and others.
With such good luck, why didn't it happen to them?!
Constable Chen looked at Xia Mo in surprise. He didn't believe in good luck; he suspected that Xia Mo and the others had set a trap but simply didn't want to share it with the villagers.