Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 16 He is a habitual thief

Opening the cupboard door, he saw some potatoes, green peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables placed inside. These things didn't look bad.

Judging from this situation, this family moved away not long ago.

There are a lot of things in the cupboard of this family, which are similar to the kitchen supplies in most people's homes. There are some bottles and cans in it.

There were no plates, bowls, wine cups, spoons, etc. in the cabinet. At least some of the ones on the floor were taken out of this cabinet.

After searching through the old cabinet, he only found an old ceramic wine flask.

This old wine pot is made of sauce glaze, with a big belly and a small head. The handle and spout are slender. Judging from the age, it should date back to the Republic of China period.

Taking out a newspaper for padding the drawer from the drawer of the kitchen cabinet, Wu Yuansheng wrapped the old wine flask, found a convenient bag and put it on the small kitchen table.

I checked the top of the cabinet and found nothing else except a bamboo steamer placed on it.

Although the steamer could still be used, he didn't ask for it.

After cleaning up the valuable collectibles in the kitchen, Wu Yuansheng walked out through the small door on the wall inside.

After exiting the small door, he came to a small corridor. The distance between this corridor and the kitchen was only about one meter at most.

There are several flower pots with flowers on them, a mop, a large enamel basin, an ash bucket used on construction sites to carry cement mortar, and other items on the aisle.

He looked at these things. The flower pots were all made of pottery or large plastic bottles containing cooking oil.

The pattern painted on the enamel basin has a circular character "囍", and the other flowers are not clearly painted.The condition of the basin doesn't look very good, and a lot of the porcelain on the surface has fallen off.

He doesn't want anything here.

Without wasting time, Wu Yuansheng looked at the wall opposite the kitchen.

I saw a door on this wall, with the word "Bathroom" written in writing on the upper left side of the door.

He walked in and took a look. There was indeed a bathroom inside.

The walls and floors are covered with tiles, which looks much cleaner than the kitchen, bedroom, and living room.

After searching the place, he found another porcelain cup from the 80s containing toothpaste and toothbrushes.

On the surface of the cup is a little girl washing clothes on a washboard in a large basin.

The other side of this porcelain tea cup has words such as "Love labor..." written on the blank space.

It is an object with a very good theme and pattern. If this thing is brought to the antique market, many people will definitely buy it.

He took the porcelain cup to the kitchen, found a piece of paper and a convenient bag and packed it. He took the things he had found before and walked out of the kitchen.

Worried that things would get shaken while riding on the tricycle, Wu Yuansheng found a coat in the closet and wrapped all the things together.

Then he found a large convenience bag and put them in the big bag.

When he came to the place where the tricycle was parked outside, he put his things in the car. He took out the car key and unlocked the car, then got on the car and went to find a hardware store or an electrical appliance store.

He planned to buy a headlamp now. Inside this family's house, there was only dim light, and there was no place to look for that could not be seen.

I just came here to hunt for treasures in the house of a demolished family that had moved out. In fact, it didn’t take much time, probably only 10 minutes at most.

On the way over after lunch, he saw a hardware store about ten meters to the east at the intersection where he had repaired his bicycle.

He got on the bike and returned the same way, and walked directly to that place.

Although some of the houses seen along the road are very dilapidated and many are about to collapse, due to the good location of this area, the price of compensation for the demolition of these residents' houses is not low.

He had seen the notice before. The expropriation of houses here will adopt two methods of compensation, one is to return the house, and the other is monetary compensation.

He once heard some people say that demolition meant giving money to people's homes in the past, so that some people could get rich first.

Some old houses are decades old and will collapse within a few years if they are not demolished.

The higher the house is built and the larger the area is, the greater the benefits will be for the demolished households.

On the way back, he thought.

Some women standing on the street were still doing business. Looking at their numb eyes, although they were greeting customers, they seemed to have no emotions at all.

For himself, he would definitely not do something bad.

He just looked at the greetings they gave him and ignored them.

While riding, the sound of a police car sounding its siren suddenly came.When they heard the siren, the women standing on the street quickly returned to their houses.

Not long after, some old men or young men came out in a hurry from some houses.

Seeing that they were disheveled and looked a little scared and wanted to leave here quickly, Wu Yuansheng felt like laughing.

Maybe some people have spent money and the matter has not been resolved yet!

Without wasting time here, he continued riding his bike towards the hardware store.

The siren was still blaring. Turning around the alley on the demolition side, he saw a police car coming towards the intersection where he bought the tricycle from a distance.

After reaching the intersection, the police car turned east again, heading towards the hardware store he saw.

"I don't know what happened over there!" Wu Yuansheng thought to himself.

Because the distance was not far, he quickly arrived at the intersection on his bicycle.

At this time he saw that the police car had stopped and the siren stopped.

The police car was parked not far from the hardware store.

There were many people standing there, and two men were controlling one person, making it impossible for him to escape.

The person who was controlled had a bruised nose and a swollen face, as if he had been beaten.

The police are asking something.

Soon, the controlled person was let go by the two men. It was probably the police who came over who asked them to do so.

As he rode his bike to the door of the hardware store, he could hear some people talking.

"Lao Zhu, you came earlier than me, do you know what happened?" A man who looked to be in his 40s asked another man who was about 50 years old.

He asked, and the people around him who had just arrived and Wu Yuansheng himself also listened.

"I know that the man who was beaten was a battery thief. He came over to steal the battery of an electric car while others were sleeping at noon, and he happened to be caught by these two brothers."

The 50-year-old man called Lao Zhu said.

"It turned out that the person who stole the battery deserved to be beaten. My wife's electric car battery was stolen once."

"It should be beaten! Just now someone said they knew this guy, saying he was a habitual thief and had been caught several times!"

"This kind of person should be locked up longer, otherwise he will steal again if he is released!"

...Everyone was talking about it.

Maybe it was because the sirens rang for a while, but intermittently some people watching the excitement came around. Slowly, more and more people came here.

When new people come over, they will ask those who came earlier what happened. When they know that the person who was beaten is a thief or a habitual thief, no one sympathizes.

Because some of them or their friends or relatives had their electric vehicle batteries stolen by these people.

"How much money do you think these people who steal electric vehicle batteries can make? They are all lazy people doing nothing!" someone in the crowd said to someone else.

"Old Liu, you are wrong! Do you know how much money people can make in a day when they steal electric vehicle batteries, especially at night?"

"How much?" said the man named Lao Liu.

"I said that when I stole the most, I could steal about 6000 to 2000 yuan, and on a normal night, I would earn [-] yuan, do you believe it?"

"Are there so many? I don't believe it. How do you know? Have you stolen them?"

"I definitely haven't stolen it. I heard it from people who seemed to steal electric car batteries in a restaurant once while eating."

"Didn't others just say that this person is a habitual thief? If the profit is not big and he can't make money, will he come out to steal batteries again and again?"

"If you can really steal so much money in batteries in one night, it's really worth the risk for some people!"

The people around continued to discuss.

Soon after, the police asked about the situation and drove away in a car with both parties involved.

Slowly, when the excitement stopped, everyone around them also dispersed.

(End of this chapter)