However, Dong Weiwei's words were a bit too blunt, and she offended both Cai Xiaoyu and Cao Qing at once.

These two were not exactly honest people to begin with, and upon hearing this, they immediately turned their anger towards Dong Weiwei.

Cai Xiaoyu said angrily, "Dong Weiwei, who are you calling a petty thief? What evidence do you have? Don't think you're so great, we're not buying it!"

Cao Qing chimed in, "That's right, that's right. What gives you the right to criticize us? Don't you often take advantage of others yourself? Don't think we can't see through you. You're just better at hiding it. Do you really think no one can see through your schemes of instigating Wang Meixiang and Duan Hongxia behind their backs?"

Cai Xiaoyu and I at least do things openly and honestly, unlike you, who only knows how to use underhanded tactics and is a treacherous villain.

Dong Weiwei was also very angry after hearing this.

Thinking that these newly arrived educated youths had never dared to be so arrogant, she angrily said, "I didn't name names, you're clearly just admitting your guilt without being asked."

Besides, everyone in the educated youth settlement knows what kind of people you two are.

Besides, you yourselves know what you've done.

Hearing this, Cai Xiaoyu and Cao Qing became even angrier. They rushed forward to hit Dong Weiwei, but Liu Shumei and the other female educated youth quickly pulled them back.

Everyone advised, "Stop arguing, stop arguing. We're all from the same educated youth settlement, can't we talk things out?"

Dong Weiwei didn't seem to realize how outrageous her words were. As she was being pulled away by the crowd, she said, "Anyway, I'm putting this out there today. If either of them moves to the old house, I'll call the police as soon as anything is missing or not. Don't blame me for not respecting the dignity of the educated youth settlement."

Besides, I'm telling the truth. You two are indeed prone to taking advantage of others and are dishonest. Otherwise, why would things keep disappearing from their room every few days? Everyone knows that.

Cao Qing was somewhat guilty about Dong Weiwei's suggestion to call the police, but he still stubbornly retorted, "So what if we took a small advantage? We didn't steal or rob anyone, what right do you have to criticize us?"

Dong Weiwei said, "It's wrong for you to take advantage of others. Anyway, I can't live in the same room with people like you who love to take advantage of others."

Cai Xiaoyu and Cao Qing became even angrier upon hearing this. They said, "Do you think you're a good person?"

At this moment, Liu Shumei stepped forward and said, "Alright, alright, stop arguing. This was originally my fault; I didn't think things through. Please stop arguing." Dong Weiwei heard this and didn't say anything more.

Seeing that Liu Shumei had apologized, Cai Xiaoyu and Cao Qing felt embarrassed to continue the argument.

And so the argument ended. But everyone knew in their hearts that the matter wasn't truly resolved; it had only been temporarily calmed down.

Having seen the excitement, and thinking that it might be inconvenient for He Chaoyang to be at home, Chen Shuning went home to tell him, and then went to Gu Xinyi's room after picking up the gift she had prepared.

The kang (heated brick bed) in Gu Xinyi's room was warm. Chen Shuning didn't stand on ceremony and stuffed the eight kinds of Beijing pastries he brought back from the capital into Gu Xinyi's arms. Then he took off his shoes and got onto the kang.

While eating the roasted hazelnuts that Gu Xinyi had just prepared, she asked, "Tell me quickly, how did Fang Qing come to like Wang Changjiu? Didn't she always like Gao Hongyuan?"

As soon as the words left her mouth, Chen Shuning realized that what she said was inappropriate, since Gao Hongyuan was the boyfriend of the woman in front of her.

It's somewhat inappropriate for her to say in front of someone's girlfriend that another woman likes someone else's boyfriend.

Chen Shuning's face flushed slightly, while Gu Xinyi seemed completely unconcerned.

They perked up at the mention of Fang Qing; they all loved gossip, and naturally, they had to share such a juicy tidbit.

Gu Xinyi didn't even have time to put away the snacks in her hand. She put them directly on the kang table and then got onto the kang. She said with great interest, "It's all because of that man who attracts all sorts of women."

My analysis is that she got impatient seeing my relationship with Brother Gao getting better and better, so she came up with those crooked tricks to scheme against him. Unexpectedly, she failed in her scheme and ended up getting herself into trouble instead.

Seeing that Gu Xinyi really didn't care, Chen Shuning simply let go and directly asked, "Tell me what exactly happened. Fang Qing doesn't seem stupid, so how did she manage to scheme against herself?"

Gu Xinyi laughed as soon as she heard about it, and said with great enthusiasm, "It's the same old trick. Fang Qing knew that Brother Gao would go to the back mountain to collect firewood every day after work, so she went to the small river that he had to pass down the mountain in advance that day. This year there has been a lot of rain, and the river is deep."

She must have jumped into the river as soon as she saw Brother Gao coming, hoping that he would save her and they could have some kind of physical intimacy. In that case, Brother Gao would definitely have to marry her.

She probably didn't expect that I finished work early that day and wanted to go to the mountains to pick some wild grapes, so I went into the mountains with Brother Gao.

On the way back to the city, I happened to witness the whole show she had directed and acted in. I stopped Brother Gao from letting her go into the river to save people, and instead gave Wang Changjiu, who was following behind Brother Gao and me, a wink.

Wang Changjiu, who initially disliked the cold river water and didn't want to go in to save people, only reacted instantly when I silently mouthed the word "wife".

He ran towards the river while shouting and yelling.

It seems that Fang Qing clearly saw Brother Gao coming before jumping into the river, but in the end, it wasn't Gao Hongyuan, whom she longed for, who went down to save her.

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