Huang Ying's guess was correct; the oil had indeed been stolen by Liu Jun, and it was no longer at the educated youth settlement, so even if someone wanted to look for it, it would be impossible to find.

At this moment, Zhao Zhiyi, unaware of the inside story, frowned and said in a deep voice:

"Zhu Zhiqing, I went to get this oil the day before you arrived. It's a whole pound, enough for the whole educated youth settlement to eat throughout the winter."

We've only been using it for a few days, and we're usually very frugal with our oil, so it's impossible that there wasn't much oil left in the container to begin with, as you said..."

The others present thought the same way, so they all looked at Zhu Pandi with disapproving and distrustful eyes.

Zhu Pandi was truly wronged this time. She did use oil, but not as much as they claimed, yet no one believed her.

"I didn't, I really didn't, I didn't use that much oil, you have to believe me, I don't know where the rest of the oil went!"

She anxiously tried to get closer to those people and explain to them, but everyone couldn't help but back away when she approached. Even Shi Qiang really thought that she had used it when she was frying eggs.

"Alright, Zhu Zhiqing, we didn't ask you to do anything. You just need to buy our one jin of oil and put it in. As for your claim that you don't know where it went, who would believe that?"

When Zhu Pandi heard what others said, she looked at Shi Qiang with pleading eyes, crying and shaking her head at him.

"Brother Qiang, I really didn't use that much oil. I don't know where the rest of the oil went. Please believe me."

Shi Qiang looked at him with a pained expression and nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, okay, Nana, your brother believes you. It's alright. Just go and buy the oil to compensate everyone. They won't blame you, right?"

After he finished speaking, he glanced around, trying to gain everyone's approval.

As a result, no one was willing to engage with him; they didn't even bother to give him a glance.

Shi Qiang was also very dissatisfied with these people. After suppressing his emotions, he comforted Zhu Pandi with his eyes.

Seeing that she was no longer speaking up for him and completely ignoring the reassuring look in his eyes, Zhu Pandi started yelling.

"Why don't you believe me either? You say you believe me, but you don't really. I didn't even use much oil, why would I buy more to lose money?! I was also a sent-down youth, and that oil originally belonged to me!"

Wang Lan was furious when she heard Zhu Pandi say that.

"Bullshit! You didn't pay for that oil when we bought it. We've already been more than generous by not asking you to pay anything afterward."

And now you've pulled this stunt, using up all the oil everyone had, and you don't even want to compensate us. What exactly are you trying to achieve?"

"Exactly! When trouble comes, all she does is follow men around calling them 'brother.' Look at her acting all seductive. Anyone who didn't know better would think she's so pretty, but in reality, she's just an ugly person trying to be funny!"

"Hahahaha, Chunli, you're so good at talking..."

Hearing the increasingly undisguised mockery and insults from those around her, Zhu Pandi was about to go crazy with anger.

"Shut up! Shut up! Why are you saying these things about me? We're all women, you..."

Looking at his expression, Wang Lan smiled mercilessly and said to him:

"Yes, it's precisely because we're all women that we know what kind of person you are. You don't need to try to deny it; we know exactly what you are, ha!"