That night, three bachelors in their thirties and forties came to make advances towards Zhuang Feifei.
Zhuang Feifei has moved to the space to sleep. Just to be safe, she put two short, thick wooden sticks behind the door before going to sleep. The purpose of the wooden sticks is that even if someone uses a knife to pry open the door latch, the wooden sticks behind the door will make it difficult to open the door.
The three bachelors climbed over the wall one after another, used the small knife they brought to pry open the door bolt, but they couldn't push the door open. As rural men, they often used wooden sticks to prop open doors at home, so they immediately saw through Zhuang Feifei's trick and came up with a solution.
That means simply removing the wooden door.
Rural wooden doors are thick and heavy, but they have a weakness: they are easily moved, mainly due to the way they are fixed.
The three men worked together and moved a wooden door without much effort.
They went into Zhuang Feifei's room together, only to find that the kang (a heated brick bed) was empty, and there was no one else in the room. At this moment, Zhuang Feifei was sleeping in her spatial dimension and was completely unaware of the noise outside.
The three of them were puzzled as to where Zhuang Feifei had gone, because they had come to scout the place in the evening and confirmed that Zhuang Feifei was the only one there. There were still clothes that Zhuang Feifei had hung out to dry in the yard. Why was there no one there at night?
"Could she have gone to sleep somewhere else? Maybe she went back to the educated youth settlement to find her sisters."
"What you said is possible. Oh well, she's not here today, so we came all this way for nothing."
"Who says we came all this way for nothing? Since we're here and she's not here, we can do something else. We can't just leave empty-handed."
"You mean you're going to smuggle some from her...?" He raised an eyebrow in the shadows, a wicked smile spreading across his face.
"If things don't go well, so be it."
"Okay, let's look for it. She built such a nice house and was generous to the workers. She must be a wealthy person. There must be a lot of good things in this house. Let's look for it quickly."
After the three finished discussing, they started rummaging through the house.
To their surprise, Zhuang Feifei's room was very simply furnished. Apart from a table, chairs, a washbasin stand, and a wooden box, there was nothing inside. When they opened the box, it was empty; there wasn't even a piece of clothing, let alone any money.
"Did she take the money and clothes with her?"
"That's strange, why does she have so few things in her room?"
The three of them were puzzled, but they couldn't figure it out, and they weren't in the mood to think about these things carefully.
One of them said, "If we can't find anything good, let's just leave." He had other ideas in mind, and his eyes darted through the walls toward the next room: "Why don't we try our luck next door instead of wasting time here?"
"You said you were going to Luo, the educated youth."
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