Chapter 383 Going Home for Dinner
Bai Lu glanced at the delicious food on the table, then took out two dried lychees from her bag.
She was eating delicious food!
My stomach was empty; it would take five delicious dishes to fill it up. After eating, I watched TV for a while and saw the moon slowly rising outside the window. I thought of the little flowers at home.
Bai Lu picked up the landline phone and dialed.
When I called last night, Xiaohua was almost asleep, and Grandpa Hu had already moved in.
However, she was in the restroom at the time and didn't have time to answer the phone, so only Xiao Wei chatted with her for a while.
After saying "Goodnight" to Xiao Cheng, she obediently hung up the phone and went to sleep.
"Hey~"
The voices of the little flowers of our motherland are so beautiful, so cute, so innocent and childlike.
"Guess who I am...?" Bai Lu deliberately used a Peking Opera singing style to imitate a falsetto voice. The voice was not exactly different from her usual voice, but it had absolutely nothing to do with it.
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to pause for a moment.
Then a voice came through: "Grandpa Hu, could you turn the TV down a bit? The opera singing on it is drowning out the phone. I can't hear what they're saying on the phone. Maybe it's my older brother and sister-in-law calling back."
The whisper wasn't directed at the phone receiver, but from another direction, yet it was very clear.
Bai Lu smiled silently.
He didn't say anything.
After the old man chuckled and said "Hey," the already quiet television sound went completely silent.
The only sounds were the rustling of leaves in the night breeze and the gentle whirring of a small fan nearby.
"Hello, is this your sister-in-law?"
A small greeting pierced the darkness and rang in her ears, softening Bai Lu's expression.
"Yes, has Xiaowei eaten?"
"I've eaten." The little guy's voice was clearly filled with joy: "Has Sister-in-law eaten?"
Bai Lu glanced at the food on the table covered with a thermal lid: "Your brother will come back later and we can eat together."
"Big brother, are you still not finished working so late?"
"They're almost there. They should be on their way back now, but they'll be a little late because they're far away."
"Okay... Sister-in-law can eat while waiting. Brother certainly doesn't want her to go hungry." If it were him, he wouldn't care if he was so hungry that he felt dizzy.
Xiao Wei silently swallowed a tear of bitterness: "Or we could eat some other snacks first. I put some dried sweet potatoes that Sanwazi gave me in my small luggage bag. They're sweet and delicious. Sister-in-law, you can try some..."
"I saw it, it tastes really good~ sweet and sticky." Bai Lu said while eating dried sweet potato.
The two of them chatted for a while longer about everyday things.
The phone call maintained the stability of family ties across a long distance.
Grandpa Hu didn't answer the phone. He told Xiao Wei to leave a message for Bai Lu before he went off to attend to other matters.
Just as Bai Lu was about to hang up the phone, the door opened.
Without turning around, she smiled and said into the phone, "My brother is back. Would you like to chat with him for a bit?"
Xiao Wei felt there was only one sentence...
"good."
The older brother picked up the phone and said, "I'm hanging up now, nothing else. My sister-in-law hasn't eaten yet."
Xiao Wei: "..."
He knew it would turn out this way.
Xiao Cheng wasn't much better off. As soon as he finished speaking, he received a loud thud to the chest, along with a warning look from the little tiger in his arms, its claws outstretched.
Okay... Goodbye.
Xiao Wei received an unexpected second message, which instantly swept away all his frustration.
Goodbye, elder brother and sister-in-law.
Goodbye, Xiaowei, goodnight~
The last sentence—you don't even need to think to know who said it.
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Cheng released the woman from his lap and got up to lead her to the dining table.
"You're hungry, don't you know to eat first?"
I wanted to wait for you to come together!
He paused in his steps.
White Dew moves from the back to the front.
Looking up at the man's slightly tired eyes, she opened her arms and hugged his travel-worn body.
"I want to wait for you to come home so we can have dinner together~"
No amount of words can compare to the power of this one sentence; it instantly washes away all fatigue.
It dispels the tedium of all formulaic social interactions, melts away the coolness in her eyes, leaving only unreserved affection and precious tenderness.
A rare and profound dependence.
Xiao Cheng hugged Bai Lu tightly, buried his face in her neck, and breathed deeply, drawing in her unique scent.
Feeling her heartbeat confirms her presence.
At this moment, silence speaks louder than words.
...
Shang Chuyao's suitcase was stolen.
Including 580,000 RMB.
It wasn't all 100-yuan bills inside; there were also many 50-yuan and 20-yuan banknotes.
The lock on the cabinet wasn't pried open; it was opened using professional techniques, clearly indicating a repeat offender.
Everyone who touched the box is a suspect, including all the girls in dormitory 506.
Police arrived and cordoned off the scene, conducting a thorough search.
Only then did a large number of students inside and outside the dormitory realize that Shang Chuyao, who was dressed in an ordinary white shirt, jeans, and white sneakers, was a rich heiress.
It's not because Shang Chuyao has 580,000.
Rather, it's because Shang Chuyao wasn't worried at all about the 580,000 yuan that was stolen.
Because she still had 200,000 yuan in her backpack.
Everyone present, including the police officers, the five girls in the dormitory, and Bai Lu, was stunned.
Who goes to college carrying 780,000 yuan in cash with them?
—Shang Chuyao.
Who has 200,000 yuan in cash and other valuables in their backpack? — Shang Chuyao
Who would calmly let the police search for them after losing hundreds of thousands of yuan? —Shang Chuyao
Who stepped forward to testify for Bai Lu when she was considered the primary suspect?
Shang Chuyao: "Officer, Bai Lu helped me carry my suitcase upstairs yesterday. I went upstairs to the dormitory with her the whole time. Bai Lu never opened the suitcase and had no idea there was money in it. She also had no chance to switch it with someone else. The suitcase disappeared in the dormitory. Bai Lu doesn't live in the dormitory and hasn't come back since she went downstairs yesterday."
"I put my suitcase in the closet before I went downstairs. It was still there when I came back after dinner. It was gone when I came back from military training today. Bailu didn't come to our dormitory during this time."
The police officers were actually more curious about why a freshman would bring so much cash to school.
But right now, following the clues is more important.
After the uncles learned about what had happened from Bai Lu, they verified the information given by Shang Chuyao, as well as the testimony of another witness present, Lin Jinfan.
The suspicion surrounding Bailu has been temporarily removed.
However, some girls were indignant when the suspicion label landed in the dormitory.
"Bai Lu touched the box and there was no suspicion, but we didn't even touch the box, so why should we be suspected?"
The one speaking was the superior girl who had stirred up trouble yesterday; her name was Yan Weiwei.
The police officers weren't going to tolerate her ignorance: "The suitcase disappeared in the dormitory, which is the primary crime scene. Before the truth is uncovered, everyone is a suspect."
"If you ask why, it's based on the laws of the country, which grant the people's police their rights and obligations. If you don't understand, go study another major."
Yan Weiwei was publicly reprimanded and felt utterly ashamed. Faced with the fair and impartial police, she could only swallow her feelings of injustice and cooperate with the investigation.
The other girls in the dormitory didn't say anything and cooperated well with the police officers' questioning.
It seems everyone has an alibi...
(End of this chapter)
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