Old Mrs. Lu sat in the main room, her face looking terribly gloomy.

Seeing Shen Qiqi and Lu Qing coming back, she snorted coldly, turned her head away and ignored them.

Shen Qiqi didn't bother to pay attention to the old lady's weird tone and went straight back to her room.

She sat on the edge of the bed, carefully recalling everything that happened that day.

Suddenly, she remembered that when Li left her room that day, something seemed to have fallen to the ground. She didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now she thinks about it...

Shen Qiqi stood up suddenly, walked to the corner of the room, and searched carefully.

"Hey, what is this?" Shen Qiqi bent down and picked up a thin, long black hair...

"This... doesn't seem to be mine..." She muttered to herself, and suddenly looked up at the door, "Brother Qing..."

Shen Qiqi pinched the hair, her heart beating violently.

This hair was black and thick, obviously not hers, nor any other female in the Lu family.

Could it be...

Is it a man's?

A terrible thought flashed through her mind. Could it be that a strange man had come to her house?

"Brother Qing!" Shen Qiqi rushed out of the room and grabbed Lu Qing, "I found a hair! It's not mine, nor is it from home!" She was so excited that she spoke incoherently, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw.

Lu Qing took the hair, looked at it carefully, and his expression became solemn.

"I'm going to find Detective Chen!"

Detective Chen was indeed a professional. He took a magnifying glass and walked around Shen Qiqi's room, then went to other places in the Lu family's house. Finally, he found some footprints that were deliberately covered up in the corner of the backyard.

"Interesting," Detective Chen stroked his chin and smiled mysteriously, "It seems that this Lu family really is full of hidden talents!"

"Footprints?" Shen Qiqi leaned over to take a look. Sure enough, a few shallow footprints were faintly visible in the corner of the wall covered with weeds.

"This footprint... seems a bit big," Shen Qiqi muttered, "bigger than Brother Qing's foot."

"That's right," Detective Chen nodded. "The owner of these footprints should be a man, and he should be over 1.8 meters tall."

A man over 1.8 meters tall?

Shen Qiqi and Lu Qing looked at each other, both having a bad feeling in their hearts.

In this era, there are very few men this tall in the countryside, unless...

It's a foreigner!

Could it be that the person who stole the food coupons was a foreigner?

"Qiqi," Lu Qing suddenly thought of something, "Do you remember that a few days ago, a man came to the village to collect mountain products?"

"The one who collects mountain products?" Shen Qiqi tried to recall, "There seems to be such a person, very tall and strong..." Her eyes suddenly widened, "Could it be him?"

"We can't be sure yet," Detective Chen said, "but we can follow this lead." He paused, then added, "Of course, the price will be determined separately."

Shen Qiqi's mind was full of food coupons, so she didn't care about bargaining. "As long as you can find the food coupons, I'll give you any amount of money!"

Detective Chen smiled with satisfaction. "Okay, just wait and see!"

The next day, Detective Chen came again with a portrait in his hand. "Based on your description, I drew a portrait. Take a look. Is it this person?"

Shen Qiqi and Lu Qing took the portrait and looked at it, and were immediately stunned.

The person in the portrait was the man who came to the village to collect mountain products a few days ago!

"It's him! It's him!" Shen Qiqi's voice trembled with excitement.

"It seems that we are getting closer to the truth," Detective Chen said, "Next, we should go to..." He suddenly stopped and looked at the door.

Shen Qiqi and Lu Qing also looked towards the door, only to see a figure standing outside stealthily. It was the eldest uncle's wife, Li!

Her face was pale, her eyes were evasive, and she was holding a piece of cloth tightly in her hand, as if she wanted to hide something.

Seeing Shen Qiqi and Lu Qing, she trembled with fear and the cloth in her hand fell to the ground.

"Sister-in-law, you..." As soon as Shen Qiqi opened her mouth, Li suddenly rushed over, grabbed the cloth on the ground, turned around and ran away.

"Stop!" Lu Qing shouted and chased after him...

Lu Qing was quick to act and grabbed Li's arm. "Sister-in-law, why are you running away? Have you done anything wrong?"

Li's face was pale, and her eyes flickered. "No... no, I... I'm going to the toilet..."

"Outhouse? Do I need a piece of cloth for the outhouse?" Shen Qiqi walked forward, picked up the cloth on the ground, opened it, and saw a stack of food coupons inside!

"This...this..." Li hesitated and couldn't speak for a long time.

Shen Qiqi sneered, "Sister-in-law, is there anything else to explain?"

Li fell to her knees, crying, "Qiqi, I was wrong! I was bewitched for a moment. Please let me go!"

"Let you go? You stole my food coupons and caused me to be wrongly accused, and now you want me to let you go with just a casual 'I was wrong'?" Shen Qiqi was furious. "Do you think I'm the Virgin Mary?"

"Qiqi, I... I'm also forced to do this!" Li cried with tears and snot, "My brother from my mother's family is sick and urgently needs money. I... I really have no other choice..."

"Haha, you can steal things when you have no other choice? Do you think we are fools?" Shen Qiqi didn't buy her tricks.

"Sister-in-law, do you have anything else to say?" Lu Qing asked coldly.

Li raised her head, a trace of resentment flashed in her eyes, "You forced me to do this! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't..." She suddenly stopped, as if she realized that she had let the cat out of the bag.

"What if it weren't for us?" Shen Qiqi asked.

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