After Zhuang Feifei put the bicycle into her spatial storage, she returned to her dormitory. No one else at the educated youth settlement noticed her actions.
She wanted to use her personal space to her advantage to play a trick on Luo Jingyan and her brother.
Luo Changtian hurriedly searched for the bicycle in the educated youth compound, but he couldn't find it no matter how many times he looked back and forth. He then hurried to the men's dormitory, where the other male educated youths were all staying. He asked them if they had seen his bicycle, but they all shook their heads. They hadn't seen anyone from outside the educated youth settlement come to see him.
Having no other choice, Luo Changtian went to Luo Jingyan and admitted his mistake.
"Sister, it's all my fault. I lost the bicycle that Brother Xue bought for you."
It would be a lie to say Luo Jingyan wasn't heartbroken upon hearing this news.
Although the bicycle wasn't worth much money to her, it was a gift from Xue Yanchen, and its significance far exceeded its intrinsic value.
Luo Changtian burst into tears: "Sister, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have ridden my bicycle in the yard, I was wrong."
"It's not your fault, don't cry." Luo Jingyan comforted him, "Tell me first, how exactly did the car get stolen?"
"I was riding my bike in the yard outside when I suddenly needed to pee, so I parked my bike outside the toilet and went in to relieve myself. But when I came out, my bike was gone."
"Approximately how long did it take from when you went in to when you came out?"
"Less than a minute."
"Such a short time? Did you hear any noise outside? If that person wanted to steal your bicycle, they would have made a sound."
Luo Changtian thought about it and realized that he hadn't heard any sound of the car being stolen.
He scratched his head sheepishly: "Maybe I was peeing too loudly, so I didn't hear the car theft?"
"Even so, it's too much of a coincidence. How could someone outside know when you were going to pee and be able to come in and steal the car in time? To steal the car in such a short time, that person must have been watching you closely."
Luo Changtian shook his head: "I didn't see any villagers acting suspiciously just now."
"They're either from outside, or they're from here."
Luo Changtian was even more puzzled: "Sister, you're saying they're from our educated youth settlement? How is that possible? Where would they hide the stolen car? There's nowhere to hide a car in our educated youth settlement."
"Who was in the yard when you were riding your bike just now?"
"Only Zhuang Zhiqing."
Luo Jingyan had already considered one possibility: if that person could steal and hide the car so quietly in such a short time without being discovered, and if that person was still at the educated youth settlement, she couldn't think of anyone else besides someone with a spatial ability.
"Let's go to the girls' dormitory and ask if they saw anyone steal our car."
They went to the girls' dormitory and found that all of them were curled up in their blankets, none of them missing, while Zhuang Feifei was lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) with her eyes closed, resting.
Luo Jingyan was already certain that Zhuang Feifei was the car thief, but she couldn't say it outright because no one would believe her, and it might even expose her secret of having a spatial ability.
The female educated youth all said they were unaware of the situation, and they were even shocked that a thief had broken into their settlement in broad daylight.
Shen Ruyi said, "Everyone was inside just now, so there was no time to commit the crime or hide the car."
She glanced at Zhuang Feifei subconsciously. Only Zhuang Feifei had gone out for a short while, but there wasn't enough time to steal the car, hide it, and come back.
Tong Jianxin said, "Young Luo, something's fishy about this. Let's check if the perpetrator left any footprints."
He and Zhao Jun studied the footprints inside the educated youth compound and outside the educated youth settlement. Unfortunately, the footprints in the snow outside were messy and disordered, making it impossible to determine whose they were. There was no way to leave footprints on the ground inside the educated youth compound.
For a moment, everyone was very puzzled. How could such a big car be stolen, and who could have taken it?
Tong Jianxin said, "Young Luo, we can't find your car. I think we should look for it in the village first. If we can't find it, we should report it to the police and let them investigate the case and help you find your car."
Luo Jingyan already knew perfectly well who stole the bicycle, so reporting it to the police was pointless; the police would never trace it back to Zhuang Feifei.
But she couldn't appear too indifferent, so she followed Shen Ruyi and Tong Jianxin to the brigade leader's house first. The brigade leader ordered the militia to search the whole village, but they found nothing. They reported it to the police the next day, but unfortunately, the police also found nothing when they arrived.
It can only be assumed that a highly skilled thief stole the car, and they will continue to follow up on the case.
After hearing about this, Xue Yanchen rushed to the educated youth settlement of Shengli Brigade.
Luo Jingyan apologized to him, "I'm sorry, I lost our car."
Xue Yanchen wasn't angry at all; instead, he comforted her.
"It's okay, I'll just buy you another one if you lose it."
Luo Jingyan dared not let him buy any more: "Don't buy any more yet. Your money doesn't grow on trees. Let's save it for our wedding. When we get married, you can buy me an even better one."
"Okay." Xue Yanchen smiled. "As long as you don't feel bad."
Luo Jingyan smiled at him: "Losing money is a way to avoid disaster. It might not necessarily be a bad thing."
"right."
Luo Jingyan noticed that Zhuang Feifei had been in an unusually good mood these past two days. Once, when the two met in the courtyard, Zhuang Feifei even took the initiative to greet her.
"Luo, have you found the bicycle your boyfriend gave you?"
Luo Jingyan, so what if you have skills? I have a spatial ability, so it's easy for me to toy with you.
Luo Jingyan said calmly, "You don't need to worry about that. My boyfriend said he'll buy me another one after some time."
If Zhuang Feifei wants to use her spatial abilities to fight her, she'll play along to the end.
She had always wanted the supplies in Zhuang Feifei's space. Regardless of whether Li Hongying would take away Zhuang Feifei's space in the future, she would try her best to take supplies from Zhuang Feifei's space, so that Zhuang Feifei would not only lose the supplies, but also taste the pain of heartbreak.
Zhuang Feifei pouted, realizing she couldn't provoke Luo Jingyan, and went back to her room dejectedly.
Fearing that Luo Jingyan was still unhappy about the car, Xue Yanchen came to the Shengli Brigade's educated youth settlement again the next afternoon and gave Luo Jingyan two movie tickets: "Let's go to the county town to see a movie together."
Luo Jingyan took the movie ticket and saw the name of the movie on it; it was a revolutionary film.
Movies of that era almost all focused on praising people's revolutionary spirit and work ethic. Modern people, having seen a wide variety of movies and TV series and with countless forms of entertainment available, might find watching such movies quite boring. However, for people of that time, being able to watch a movie was considered fashionable.
Luo Jingyan checked the movie's start time; it was 6 PM.
Xue Yanchen said, "We should go there early so we can wander around the county town and then go see a movie."
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