jdhmnovel Chapter 156 The truth comes out
Chapter 156 The truth comes out
“I didn’t take it! I didn’t put it here! I saw you had diarrhea, so I kindly told you to go home and rest. How could you think of me like this?” Deng Xiuzhen felt a sense of defeat, like her good intentions had been met with a dog.
"Auntie, you said you didn't take them, so how did these things end up under the cashier? Why did you let them go when Hu Yue and I stopped them?" Liu Qing asked.
"I don't know how these things got here. I told them to leave because I was afraid you'd get beaten up. If I had known you were like this, I wouldn't have bothered. You've really been ungrateful for my kindness..."
"Afraid we'll get beaten up? You're afraid they won't leave and you won't be able to explain why the things are missing, right?" Liu Qing interrupted Deng Xiuzhen coldly.
“Definitely! I was wondering why they were so kind on our first day of work, letting us go home to rest!” Hu Yue chimed in.
"I thought you meant well, that you trusted us, but it turns out you just wanted to frame us for theft after we left! You're so insidious!" someone said.
"I'll beat you to death, you vicious woman!" The hot-tempered man rushed forward, ready to strike.
Qin Yanlin immediately stepped in front of Deng Xiuzhen.
"Don't lay a hand on me!" the policeman shouted sternly.
"President Qin, why are you still protecting her? Why are you protecting someone like that?" Liu Qing asked angrily.
"You mean she intended to steal these things?" Qin Yanlin asked Liu Qing, his expression unreadable.
"Isn't that right?" Liu Qing retorted.
Qin Yanlin didn't answer, but turned to Hu Yue and asked, "What about you? Do you think so too?"
“The facts are right here, I have to believe it!” Hu Yue looked at Deng Xiuzhen, her eyes filled with disappointment.
"Yes, it's quite obvious!"
"Indeed, this woman has a brilliant plan!"
"That's a good arrangement. Let the two girls go home, and then she can take her things. If they find out tomorrow, then it will be the responsibility of all three of them!"
"These two little girls are so pitiful!"
"You're quite clever, but you're using your brain in the wrong place!"
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Bystanders were talking amongst themselves, their eyes filled with contempt as they looked at Deng Xiuzhen.
Even though Deng Xiuzhen had lived two lives, she was still so embarrassed and indignant that her face turned completely red.
She bent down and tried to run away, but Qin Yanlin grabbed her arm.
She glared at Qin Yanlin with resentment.
Qin Yanlin nodded to her and said, "Don't worry, I'm here!"
Deng Xiuzhen felt inexplicably relieved, and her emotions stabilized a bit.
Qin Yanlin walked up to Liu Qing, sneered, and asked, "Do you know who she is?"
Liu Qing looked up and saw the coldness in Qin Yanlin's eyes. She shivered and subconsciously replied, "Didn't she say she was someone you knew?"
"An acquaintance? She's my wife! My wife stole my things? Why would she steal them?"
"And she even said she'd sneak out and sell herself after you left. We come here together in the morning and come back together in the evening, where would she sell herself?!" Qin Yanlin asked angrily.
"She's your wife? She clearly said she was someone you knew!" Hu Yue screamed in disbelief.
"We had a fight, is it wrong for her to say that when she's angry?!"
“They’re a married couple? Then you can’t steal from them!” someone said.
“It’s their own stuff, there’s no point in stealing it, so it probably wasn’t her who took it.” Someone agreed.
"Is it possible that the two girls deliberately placed it there?" some people speculated.
"No way? Why would they frame the boss's wife?" someone objected.
"They don't know she's the boss's wife!"
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The situation changed again, becoming unfavorable to Liu Qing and Hu Yue.
The customer who had been blocked earlier remained silent this time, seemingly bewildered.
After a brief moment of panic, Liu Qing calmed down and said loudly, "Even if she is your wife, it doesn't prove that she didn't take the things. There's another possibility: you're all conspiring to frame us!"
"That's right! You're so heartless, you even steal our hard-earned money!" Hu Yue exclaimed, realizing what was happening.
"Are you sure you want to say that?" Qin Yanlin approached them and said coldly.
The two men quickly took two steps back and shouted, "Facts are facts! Don't try to intimidate us or distort the facts!"
"What do you think you're doing? Is there no law anymore?!" The hot-tempered man rushed over.
Qin Yanlin didn't move, but looked at Liu Qing and Hu Yue and said, "I'll give you another chance. I hope you can tell the truth!"
Liu Qing and Hu Yue were taken aback. They exchanged a glance and said loudly, "What we said is the truth!"
"Fine!" Qin Yanlin snorted coldly, turned around and went behind a flower basket in the shop, took out a camera, and turned it on to play.
In the video, several men enter the shop, and three or four of them pester Deng Xiuzhen with questions. Two men block Deng Xiuzhen's view.
Another man took a bag, haphazardly filled it with goods, and then threw it at the cashier.
As soon as the video reached this point, several men turned and ran. Three were caught by the police, while four or five escaped.
Liu Qing and Hu Yue glanced at the three people who had been arrested, rolled their eyes, and quickly said to Deng Xiuzhen, "We're sorry, we're so sorry, boss and boss's wife, we didn't know they were capable of doing such a thing..."
"Stop talking nonsense. At this point, aren't you going to tell the truth?" Qin Yanlin sneered.
"President Qin, President Qin, we're telling the truth!" The two men looked pitiful.
“You are all so stubborn!” Qin Yanlin said, taking out another videotape from his bag and turning it on again.
This episode features Liu Qing and Hu Yue secretly packing goods into bags and discussing how to falsify accounts and how to secretly divide the revenue.
The clear footage exposed Liu Qing and Hu Yue's true colors.
The two women turned deathly pale instantly and knelt down with a thud, pleading, "Mr. Qin, Auntie, we were wrong, please forgive us this time, please!"
"Why did you frame me?" Deng Xiuzhen asked angrily.
“If you were in charge of the cashier and inventory, we wouldn’t be able to cheat, and we wouldn’t be able to earn extra money. That’s why we did something foolish. Please forgive us this time…” The two crawled forward on their knees, their faces covered in tears as they begged.
Qin Yanlin waved his hand impatiently: "I gave you a chance, but you didn't cherish it, so you can't blame us!"
As he spoke, Qin Yanlin turned around and helped Deng Xiuzhen to sit down.
They ignored Liu Qing and Hu Yue.
As the police approached, Liu Qing suddenly stood up and roared, "How can you be so heartless? So cruel? Your business is so good, you make so much money, what's wrong with us taking a little bit? Do you really want to force us to go to jail?"
Qin Yanlin looked up and said calmly, "You came to my shop to work, right? I haven't shortchanged you on the wages we agreed on, have I?"
You've been working in my shop since it opened. You must have seen how I was losing money back then, right?
Did you continue to receive your salary back then?
Even when I lose money, you will still be paid your salary.
My business is a bit better, so why should you ask me for it?
If you're satisfied with the salary, you can ask for it back. If I can afford it, I will.
I can't afford it, you can switch jobs.
However, you cannot steal my goods, and you cannot steal my turnover!
I never intended to expose you; I just brought my wife along to keep an eye on things and hopefully make you behave yourself.
I never expected that you would not only not restrain yourselves, but also hire people to frame my wife and try to drive her away!
How can I forgive people like you?!