Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

When Zhan and his mother saw that the money hidden at home was still intact in the secret compartment of the cabinet, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, fortunately they had made a plan, allowing the mother and daughter to leave here and live a good life.

The mother and daughter were worried that more villagers would come in and cause trouble for them, so they put the board behind the cabinet back in place first.

They planned to take out the money late at night, put it in their bags and take it out.

By the way, they should contact Zhan Tiehua first and ask her to find a car and wait at the village entrance in the middle of the night to avoid any further accidents.

After discussing this, the mother and daughter went to look for the phone at home, only to discover that even the phone had been smashed to pieces by the villagers.

This made Zhan Baoku so angry that he couldn't help but start cursing. But Mrs. Zhan was calmer and quickly covered her son's mouth, asking him to keep quiet and be careful that the wall might have ears and cause trouble for saying the wrong thing.

The mother and daughter spent most of the day like turtles hiding in the locked house.

It was not until late at night that the mother and daughter carefully opened the cabinet partition again and took out all the money. After packing it up, they quietly opened the back door and slipped out.

Because they were afraid of being discovered, they did not dare to use flashlights and just walked forward in the dark. As a result, when they were still a hundred meters away from the village entrance and were about to leave the village, they were stopped by a group of people.

It turned out that during the day, the return of Zhan's mother and son caused quite a stir in the village.

Some villagers quickly ran to the home of the new village chief Shen Yuzhu to report the situation.

After Shen Yuzhu distributed land to the villagers, he quickly established prestige in the village.

He thought that the mother and daughter risked their lives to return to the village at this time, definitely not because they had nowhere else to go, but because they had some ulterior motive.

Everyone in the village watched the news about the Zhan family on TV and heard that all the illegal gains from human trafficking, including houses, savings and land, had been confiscated.

However, when Shen Yuzhu and the newly formed village leadership team checked the village's accounts, they found that the rent for more than 1,000 acres of farmland that had not been distributed to the villagers had not been recorded in the accounts at all.

The villagers all know that the rent for one acre of land is three to four hundred yuan a year. With so many acres of land controlled by Occupy Dayu for so many years, the income alone must be such a huge number that the villagers dare not even imagine it.

So he made prompt arrangements and asked those trustworthy villagers who had been bullied by Zhan Dayou before to keep an eye on the mother and son.

In order to avoid arousing suspicion from the Zhan mother and son, he reminded the villagers to try not to make any noise.

At night, he arranged for several villagers to guard the entrance of the village. Before, Zhan Dayou sent people to guard the entrance of the village to prevent outsiders from coming in. Now, the villagers guarded the entrance of the village to prevent the mother and daughter from sneaking out.

Sure enough, the villagers caught the mother and daughter acting suspiciously in the middle of the night, took away their bags, and took them to the village chief's house overnight.

Shen Yuzhu thought that something big must have happened in the next two days, so he waited for news at home at night and didn't go to bed yet.

Hearing the villagers knocking on the door, he hurried to open it and let the people into the yard.

Wow, more than a dozen people rushed in at once, all of them were the villagers who were arranged to guard the village entrance tonight.

The Zhan mother and son were now being pushed into the yard in a very embarrassed state, held by their arms, and were not released until Shen Yuzhu's family closed the door.

"Village chief, this is the bag of these two beasts. We haven't checked what it is yet. They ran out so late at night, they must have brought something shameful!" A villager put a large bag weighing thirty kilograms on the ground and said to Shen Yuzhu.

At this time, Old Lady Zhan and Zhan Baoku were no longer calm. They were afraid that the bundle would be opened, and they became very nervous and tense.

Shen Yuzhu signaled the villagers to hold the mother and daughter down and prevent them from causing trouble. Then, he opened the bundle himself.

After opening it, he found that it was wrapped in a torn bed sheet. Shen Yuzhu opened the bed sheet layer by layer, and what appeared in front of him were many bundles of 100-yuan bills.

All the villagers present were shocked by the scene. They exclaimed in surprise, shouted curses, and some villagers couldn't control their legs and kicked the mother and daughter twice.

"Oh my God, I've never seen so much money in my entire life..."

"Every year, the rent for the land in our village goes to that old bastard of the Zhan family. But what can we do about it?"

"Being shot is a relief for him. If he returns to the village, he will definitely be beaten to death..."

The villagers present were talking about it at once, and when they got excited they couldn't help but kick the mother and daughter to vent their anger.

Shen Yuzhu knew that the villagers were full of resentment, and as long as no one was killed, he didn't intend to get involved.

The most important thing now is what to do with the money? He reported Zhan Dayou's corruption case, hoping that the higher-ups would send someone to investigate it thoroughly.

But now the person has been sentenced to death, and ostensibly all his properties have been confiscated, so these properties should be hidden properties that have not been discovered.

Moreover, there has been no action from the higher-ups regarding this corruption case. No one has come to the village to check the accounts, and it seems that they do not take the matter seriously.

He figured that the reason for this was probably that some of the protectors in the township and county that the Zhan family had previously established did not dare to investigate in order to protect themselves, and simply left the matter alone.

If this is the case, can the village just digest the money without anyone noticing, as if the money had never appeared?

In Shen Yuzhu's opinion, this money can make up for part of the shortfall in land rent that Zhan Dayu had embezzled.

Shen Yuzhu instructed the villagers to tie up the mother and daughter and lock them up in his own woodshed. Then he gathered everyone together and said, "In the past, those of us who did not follow Zhan Dayou to do bad things were bullied and exploited. This money originally belonged to the village collective, but ended up in the hands of Zhan Dayou's family."

Afterwards, he instructed a villager to call the village secretary, accountant and other village cadres over, and brought the villagers' household registration books.

When everyone arrived, he pointed to the pile of money on the ground and said, "Let's make it a witness that no one has touched this money just now. Now, Accountant Wu, count the money in front of me!"

He opened the household registration book again and filtered each household one by one, eliminating all the households on the Dayou line. He registered the innocent villagers one by one according to the household heads and counted the number of households.

Accountant Wu counted the money several times under the watchful eyes of many people. Each bundle of money contained exactly one hundred bills, and there were one hundred and ten bundles in total, which amounted to 110 million yuan.

As for the number of clean households, in order to prevent any omissions or any unclean households from being eliminated, several people took turns to check it.

There are more than 500 households and more than 2,000 people in Zhanjiazhuang, and there are about 200 households with clean identities.

In the past, there were only about a hundred households who still lived in the village under the tyranny of the Zhan family.

However, those who were working outside now heard the news that the village was going to redistribute the land, and with the downfall of Zhan Dayou, they were also implicated by the reputation of Zhanjiazhuang and could no longer survive outside, so they basically all returned home.

Shen Yuzhu proposed that the money be divided equally among households rather than according to the number of people, and everyone present agreed.

Accountant Wu calculated that each household would receive less than 6,000 yuan.

You know, the villagers who work outside only earn a few hundred yuan a month now, and it will take them nearly two years to save this money without eating or drinking.

Although some families with large populations would feel that they would suffer a loss if the money was divided this way, Shen Yuzhu had agreed with the people present that if any family did something wrong and refused to cooperate, the matter would be reported, and the money would be directly confiscated as illegal income, and no one would get a share.

Therefore, if you want to share the money, you must follow the methods of the village leadership team, and you must also keep your mouth shut and keep confidentiality.