PWE – Chapter 108 The dirty deeds of the past will soon be exposed.

“Exactly. Young lady, what you’re doing—scamming people out of money—is wrong. It’s illegal. Aren’t you afraid the police will arrest you?”

“And you even have a child with you. Young lady, aren’t you afraid of teaching your child bad things?” Someone glanced at Zhaozhao and deliberately dragged him into it.

Zhaozhao frowned, lifted his eyes to look at those people, and retorted, “My mom isn’t a scammer. She’s absolutely not a scammer! That granny is the bad one—she’s a pickpocket!”

“You little brat, you’re helping your mom lie now. Learning to do bad things at such a young age—what will become of you when you grow up?” the old woman glared at Zhaozhao and scolded him with feigned regret.

Zhaozhao was furious and wanted to argue back, but Xiao Wange picked him up and gently patted his head. “Don’t rush. A bad person is a bad person. She can’t possibly turn us into the bad ones.”

Seeing the old woman about to refute again, Xiao Wange curled her lips, her tone mocking. “Comrade elder, the reason I recognized that money as mine is because the topmost ten-yuan note has a red mark on it. When the money fell to the ground just now, I saw that red mark very clearly. And the amount I lost was just over a hundred yuan—yours there… should be about the same, right?”

She paused, then continued, “Oh, and one more thing. All my money is marked. On the corner of every note, I wrote the number ‘6.’ On one of the notes, I even added an extra ‘8.’ Take the money out and let everyone have a look—see whether those markings are there or not.”

Hearing this, the old woman’s pupils shrank, disbelief flashing in her eyes.

She hadn’t expected anyone to mark their money like that. This… what kind of habit was that?

The sales clerk had been standing on Xiao Wange’s side the whole time. When everyone was scolding Xiao Wange earlier, she had been worried for her. Now, hearing Xiao Wange say this, her brows lifted and excitement spread across her face. “Did you hear that, comrade elder? Her money has markings on it. Even if you want to claim it’s yours, you can’t! Hurry up and take the money out—return it to her!”

Old woman: “……”

She clutched her pocket tightly.

Just moments ago, she’d still been thinking of keeping the money for herself. Seeing everyone speak up for her, she had thought she’d succeeded.

She’d even been secretly mocking Xiao Wange, laughing at how Xiao Wange had fallen into the trap she’d set.

Who would’ve thought that Xiao Wange had already planned everything? Xiao Wange’s goal today was to humiliate her, to saddle her with the label of “pickpocket”!

This woman was truly despicable—truly vicious!

But she seemed to have forgotten that earlier, she herself had planned to frame Xiao Wange in exactly the same way. Xiao Wange had simply struck first.

“This money is mine! It’s money I saved through hard work! I can’t give it to anyone—no matter what, I won’t give it to anyone!”

The old woman refused to give in so easily.

She lifted her chin, said that line, then turned and ran toward the door.

Seeing her try to flee, the sales clerk reached out and grabbed her. Other people in the supply-and-marketing cooperative also came over to block her.

The person in charge said, “Comrade elder, please take the money out and let everyone have a look. If there are no markings on it, that proves it’s yours and that this young lady is lying. But if there are markings…”

“No markings! There aren’t any markings at all! I know my money perfectly well—there’s nothing on it! Hurry up and get out of my way, I’m going home! I need to get home right now!” The old woman tried to play dumb and make a scene. After all, she was elderly—if these people had any shame, they wouldn’t argue with an old woman like her.

But—

The person in charge looked at her unhappily. “Comrade elder, if you insist on this, then we can only ask the police to handle it. If the police come and find markings on the money, then your crime of pickpocketing will be confirmed. At that point, the police will arrest you immediately—and you might even end up in jail!”

At the mention of jail, the old woman’s breathing tightened.

She froze in place, not knowing how to react.

Those who had spoken up for her earlier were now filled with regret—regret for having helped such an old woman.

The situation was already very clear: this old woman had obviously stolen the money. Not only had she stolen it, she had also viciously framed the young lady. Her mind was truly rotten!

The people who had defended her earlier now turned on her.

“I think you’re just asking to be arrested. Since you want to be taken away, we’ll all help you get your wish! A pickpocket like you deserves to be arrested—locking you up means one less piece of trash in society!”

“Call the police—hurry and call them! Let them come quickly and take this person away!”

“That’s right, people like this should be handed over to the police! Let the police deal with her properly!”

Hearing these words, panic rose uncontrollably in the old woman’s heart.

She wanted to say something, but Xiao Wange spoke up. “Originally, I didn’t want to call the police. But just now, comrade elder, you turned the tables on me—you not only called me a scammer, you even said my child was badly taught. So this matter can’t just end like this. We must let the police handle it!”

With that, Xiao Wange asked someone from the supply-and-marketing cooperative to go fetch the police.

The people there already despised the old woman to the extreme. Someone like her really was scum—scum that needed proper discipline.

After checking with the person in charge and getting a nod, that person hurried out to get the police.

The person in charge frowned. He had originally wanted to settle things privately, but since the young lady had spoken, they had no choice but to involve the police. But really, this was the old woman’s own fault—she had gone far too far. If she got taken away by the police, it would be entirely self-inflicted.

The old woman was completely panicked now.

She desperately wanted to push past the people blocking her and escape, but everyone held her firmly, giving her no chance to run. So she remained trapped inside the supply-and-marketing cooperative until the police arrived.

When she saw the uniformed officers, her legs instantly went weak.

Her body swayed, and she nearly collapsed to the ground.

After the police asked the person in charge and Xiao Wange about the situation, they prepared to take the old woman back to the station.

The old woman shoved at one of the officers and shouted, “I’m not going to your police station! You can’t arrest me—you can’t arrest me!”

The police captain frowned. “Comrade elder, pickpocketing is already a criminal offense. If you’ve committed a crime, you must accept legal punishment. Please stop making trouble and come back to the station with us immediately!”

“I didn’t steal any money! It was this little brat who framed me—it was her who framed me!” The old woman pointed at Xiao Wange and screamed hysterically. “She really did frame me! She secretly stuffed the money into my pocket—she wanted me to go to jail!”

Everyone around them was speechless.

To save herself and smear that young lady, this old woman truly had no bottom line. How could someone be this vile?

The sales clerk sneered. “Comrade elder, you say the money was secretly stuffed into your pocket by someone else? Tsk—then why didn’t you say that earlier? Why didn’t you say it just now? Earlier you kept insisting the money was yours, and you kept accusing that comrade of trying to scam you. Now that your lies don’t hold up anymore, you start making things up, saying that the young comrade wanted to frame you? You’re really good at spinning stories. Next, are you going to say that all of us here are framing you—that we all teamed up with that young comrade to set you up?”

Someone echoed, “Yeah—are you going to say next that all of us are in on it with that young lady?”

Old woman: “……”

She ground her teeth, furious beyond measure.

Xiao Wange really was framing her—she really had been framed!

But these fools and idiots simply didn’t believe it!

“Come with us already—stop dragging your feet!” The police captain suddenly stepped forward, cuffed the old woman, and personally escorted her outside.

At her age, being arrested as a pickpocket by the police made her feel utterly disgraced.

She struggled fiercely, cursing angrily, “You bastards, let me go—let me go! Do you know who I am? I have backing! If you arrest me now, you’ll regret it—you’ll definitely regret it!”

Police captain: “……”

He glanced at her coldly. “Even if you were the Jade Emperor himself, you’d still have to come with us. Anyone who commits a crime must face punishment!”

Old woman: “……”

Her face was pale with panic, yet when she saw Xiao Wange nearby, her fury flared again.

This damned girl was ruthless—she had actually set her up and gotten her arrested by the police!

This damned girl had made things difficult for Qiaoyu before, and now she was framing her too! She’d remember this—she’d remember this hateful little bitch!

One day, she would definitely make this little bitch pay—she would make her regret what she’d done today!

……

Xiao Wange took Zhaozhao and followed them to the police station.

There, Xiao Wange got back the money she had “lost.”

After retrieving it, she looked at the old woman and said with a smile, “Comrade elder, please don’t ever engage in pickpocketing again. You’re already at such an age—if you get caught doing this and end up locked up for ten or eight years, the rest of your life will be completely ruined. So take my advice. Turn over a new leaf and stop doing bad things.”

Old woman: “……” Her face flushed red, her neck thick with rage—she was so angry she wanted to bite Xiao Wange.

She glared at Xiao Wange hatefully and gritted her teeth. “You little bitch—today you framed me. One day, I won’t let you have an easy time! I definitely won’t!”

Xiao Wange smiled. She looked at the old woman for a moment, then suddenly bent down and whispered into her ear, “Oh? You don’t want me to have an easy time? The dirty things you did thirty years ago are about to be exposed. Tell me—once they come out, do you think your master will let you have an easy time?”