Chapter 292 You're quite observant.

Huo Xinran felt very bored. She wanted to go back, but now she was a criminal suspect, and everyone looked at her like she was a criminal.

She can't go anywhere.

Huo Chenzhou also arranged for a soldier to guard her, just in case she ran away.

Sun Baojun looked at her with a piercing gaze, as if she had committed a terrible crime.

Huo Xinran was utterly speechless.

She was still thinking about her bicycle, so she asked, "Commander Huo, where is my bicycle?"

Her bicycle cost her at least forty yuan, which was all her hard-earned money. Well, that money was given to her by Cai Wenhua, but she had also managed to get it by swindling people out of it.

After what happened today, she still doesn't know if she will be able to get money from Cai Wenhua in the future.

Huo Chenzhou said, "Your car has been confiscated."

"Huh?" Huo Xinran was dumbfounded: "When can I have it back? That's a bicycle I bought with my own money. Even if this bicycle hit Huo Chunyan, I didn't know anything about it. I just bought a bicycle. This is my private property. How could you confiscate it so easily?"

Su Baojun looked at her coldly: "Even you yourself are not innocent, and you still care about your bicycle? You can't even protect yourself, so you have no right to protect the bicycle."

Now, whenever he thinks about how this car hit Huo Chunyan, he wants to destroy the car as well.

Huo Xinran could only remain silent.

She sat in the hospital corridor and felt cold all over.

She wouldn't really have to pay the price for Huo Chunyan's misfortune, would she?

If she had known, she wouldn't have bought that bicycle just because it was cheap. If she hadn't bought the bicycle, then this whole thing would have been none of her business.

Why did she have to go to town to buy things?

Actually, she just wanted to buy some clothes today, but she suddenly saw someone selling second-hand bicycles at such a cheap price, and she couldn't resist, so she got tempted.

She was greedy for small gains, and now she's brought trouble upon herself.

She truly regretted her actions.

But she quickly convinced herself that everyone is greedy for small gains, and if other people were in this situation, they would definitely buy the bicycle without hesitation.

After all, it's only forty yuan. Who could resist such a temptation?

Even if it were Cai Wenhua or Huo Chenzhou who encountered this situation today, they would still go and buy it.

This is only natural.

So the person who was wrong was the bicycle seller, and also Cai Wenhua, because Cai Wenhua just happened to give her forty yuan.

If Cai Wenhua had given her forty yuan yesterday or tomorrow, wouldn't she have never met this person?

Thinking of this, Huo Xinran looked at Cai Wenhua with resentment in her eyes.

Cai Wenhua avoided her gaze. He knew that Huo Xinran was resentful of him for not helping her earlier, but what could he do? Neither Su Baojun nor Huo Chenzhou were people he could afford to offend, so how could he dare to confront them head-on?

After a while, Huo Chenzhou left because he had to investigate the matter.

The surroundings became quiet, and no one spoke.

Huo Xinran originally wanted to go with Huo Chenzhou. She had a reason: she had seen what that person looked like before, and she had even gone to identify him.

But because she had done so many bad things, no one believed her lies.

In particular, Sun Baojun strongly objected: "You are a suspect now, I don't trust you, so you should stay here in case you run away."

Huo Xinran was furious: "Sun Baojun, don't you want to find out who hit Huo Chunyan as soon as possible? If I were there, we could find the person much faster, because I know that person."

Sun Baojun didn't believe her.

The soldier who stayed behind to guard her said, "Comrade Huo Xinran, don't worry. If we catch that person, we'll bring him here for you to identify. It won't affect the efficiency."

Huo Xinran finally experienced what it meant to be treated like a prisoner. She had absolutely no human rights now. It seemed like everything she did was wrong. This feeling was absolutely terrible, and she couldn't even resist.

After an unknown amount of time, Shen Zhixia came to see Huo Chunyan. She had stewed crucian carp and tofu soup, and as soon as she entered, she asked Sun Baojun, "Chunyan, is she still not awake?"

Sun Baojun's eyes were bloodshot: "No."

He said sadly, "The doctor clearly said she was fine, but I don't know why she just won't wake up."

Shen Zhixia's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly remembered one of them.

In the book, Huo Chunyan is actually already dead at this point in time.

She went to the Northwest to deal with the plague, and eventually died in that plague.

When Shen Zhixia transmigrated into the book, she changed many things, including Huo Chunyan's fate. Huo Chunyan was supposed to go to the Northwest, but she didn't go this time, thus avoiding the disaster.

But now she's faced this terrible situation, the price of which is the loss of a child, and she doesn't even know if she'll ever wake up again.

Is this how Huo Chunyan's final fate will be?

She was powerless to change anything.

Shen Zhixia looked somewhat dazed. Over the course of their time together, she had come to regard Huo Chunyan as a younger sister and could sense that she was a real person with flesh and blood and her own thoughts. She was definitely not some two-dimensional character.

She couldn't accept Huo Chunyan leaving like this.

For the first time, Shen Zhixia finally felt powerless, and she could only put the fish soup aside.

When she went out, she saw Huo Xinran looking dejected. When she saw Shen Zhixia, she greeted her like she was seeing a family member: "Sister-in-law! You're here."

Shen Zhixia: "...Don't call me sister-in-law."

She didn't think she had such a close relationship with Huo Xinran. Before, she was just giving Huo Xinran some face and maintaining normal communication with her out of politeness, but Huo Xinran seemed to have misunderstood their relationship.

Huo Xinran said with a bitter face, "I just want to ask Commander Huo if you have found that person, the culprit who hit Huo Chunyan. If not, I have a lot of details here: that person was wearing blue clothes, cloth shoes, small eyes, and a flat nose..."

She described a whole bunch of things, and then said, "If that doesn't work, I can draw a portrait of him."

Having said all that, Shen Zhixia felt that she wasn't lying.

If she were lying, she couldn't have given so many details, even knowing that the other person was wearing red socks.

Shen Zhixia said, "You're quite observant."

"Isn't that right? I really wanted to buy his bicycle, so I decided to observe him closely. I was curious why he was willing to sell it at such a low price. I even wondered if he was a thief, but his appearance didn't seem like one, so I bought it," Huo Xinran said.