"How dare you come back, kid?"
Wang Dongsheng pushed the door open and walked in. Before he put down the lunch box in his hand, Jiang Wencheng grabbed him by the collar.
"What's going on? Are you crazy?" Wang Dongsheng looked at the steamed dumplings that had fallen to the ground and punched Jiang Wencheng without thinking.
“Stop.”
Jiang Yilu went forward to separate the two people who were fighting. The matter had not been clarified yet. Although Wang Dongsheng was a very annoying person, it was not necessarily him who did it.
"It must be him. He was the only one in the dormitory when I went to fetch water just now." Jiang Wencheng felt extremely regretful. It was all his fault for being too careless. He knew clearly that Wang Dongsheng didn't get along well with the people in the dormitory and had a minor grudge with Xiaobao, but he still carelessly left the things Xiaobao entrusted him to keep right under the other's nose. It was all his fault.
"Who took your things?"
Wang Dongsheng waved away Jiang Yiliu's hand that was blocking his way, "I wouldn't want to take the rags he brought. What good things can there be in the countryside? The total amount may not even be enough for my living expenses for a month."
His mother had already investigated it clearly. The other party had nothing to do with Mr. Bai at all. They were just a family in the mountain village where the old man was sent down. Apart from a retired veteran, there was no one in the family that he could look up to.
How much could the clothes brought by such a person be worth? He was too lazy to even take a look at them. Why would he buy his clothes? He was going to be a politician in the future, so he would not leave such a stain on himself because of a small conflict with Jiang Yilu.
When Wang Dongsheng came in, Jiang Wencheng grabbed him by the collar before he could close the dormitory door. The argument and fight just now had attracted many people to watch at the dormitory door.
"Wencheng, when did you go to fetch water just now?"
Jiang Yilu looked at Wang Dongsheng's expression which did not seem fake, and in his heart he actually began to believe that it was not him who did it.
"It must be..." Jiang Wencheng thought it was Wang Dongsheng, but seeing Jiang Yilu's serious expression, he could only swallow the second half of his words and thought carefully: "I went to get water around 2:30. I didn't stop on the way from our dormitory to the water room. It took about ten minutes at most."
"It only took a short while. When I came back from fetching water, the boy was gone, and the clothes in the box disappeared too."
Because Wang Dongsheng was always away from the dormitory and had no good relationship with anyone except the timid Mao Dashuang, Jiang Wencheng took the key with him when he went out to get water, fearing that the boy would not open the door. When he came back, the dormitory door was closed. When he left, only Wang Dongsheng was in the dormitory. Who else could have stolen the clothes except him?
"Hmph." Wang Dongsheng snorted coldly, and Jiang Wencheng's temper was about to flare up again.
"I left the dormitory as soon as you left. I didn't take those tattered clothes. Who knows if you stole your good brother's things? You are now crying thief." Wang Dongsheng said with his arms clasped in front of his chest and squinting at Jiang Wencheng.
"You..." Jiang Wencheng clenched his fists. If Jiang Yilu hadn't stopped him, he would have beaten the other person until he cried for his parents.
Jiang Wencheng couldn't have stolen his clothes, and Wang Dongsheng didn't look like the person who took the clothes. Jiang Yilu frowned. This time was not like the future, where there were cameras everywhere. It was extremely difficult to find the person who really stole the clothes.
"Why are you all gathered at the door of our dormitory?"
A hearty voice came from the crowd outside the dormitory door. The students watching outside made way for him, and Wang Nan, looking rosy-faced and in a good mood, walked in.
"What happened to you?" Wang Nan looked at the confrontation between Wang Dongsheng and Jiang Wencheng and asked Jiang Yiliu in confusion, "We are all in the same dormitory. It will have a bad influence if you make such a scene."
Wang Nan is the dormitory head. If anything bad happens in the dormitory, it will also affect him.
"A thief has entered your dormitory." The students who were watching reminded Wang Nan.
"Thief!" Wang Nan's face changed and he quickly ran to open his locker. He checked and found that nothing was missing, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Who lost something in our dormitory?" A thief breaking into the dormitory is a big deal and must be dealt with seriously.
"The two pieces of clothing that Xiaobao brought are lost." Jiang Wencheng glared at Wang Dongsheng and pointed unhappily at two open gift boxes beside him.
"Hey, those two cheongsams, I lent them to Ding Xiang and Fang Fang from the instrumental music club." Wang Nan was relieved when she heard that it was just those two dresses, and explained to Jiang Yiliu, "They were going to perform at the end-of-year performance, and they couldn't find suitable clothes. I thought those two dresses were pretty, so I lent them to them."
Not long after Wang Nan started school, he got into the network of previous students of Huaqing through his fellow townsmen. With his enthusiastic personality, he joined many clubs, including the instrumental music club. The instrumental music club also had a performance at the year-end performance, a qin and flute duet, but they had not found the clothes for the performance.
Wang Nan just came back from the library and saw that the dormitory was empty. There were two beautifully wrapped boxes on the table. He opened them out of curiosity and saw two beautiful cheongsams inside. He thought, they are just two pieces of clothing. It would be okay to lend them to people in need. He just needed to inform the owner of the clothes when the time comes.
People nowadays are a little more well-off, but cloth coupons are still a rare commodity for most people, and it is common to borrow good costumes from others for performances.
"Borrowed it, did you ask me what I thought?"
Jiang Yiliu looked speechlessly at the young man opposite him who didn't think there was anything wrong at all, and he was so angry that he almost laughed. He thought so much, but he didn't expect that the theft of his clothes would be caused by such a reason.
"I said it wasn't me." Wang Dongsheng was vindicated and looked at Jiang Wencheng proudly, but he didn't have a good impression of Wang Nan who helped him clear his name.
I originally thought he was a good guy, but now it seems that he is indeed a good guy, but he is so good that he has a hole in his brain and is sick. He rummaged through other people's things and lent other people's things without the owner's consent, causing him to be wronged by the blind Jiang Wencheng. Wang Nan is not a good person either.
"It's just two pieces of clothing. I'll return them to you after Dingxiang and Fangfang finish their performance. Yilu, you shouldn't be selfish. Dingxiang and the others' performance is also for the honor of our school. Your two pieces of clothing can help them. You should feel happy." Wang Nan educated Jiang Yilu with righteous words. He felt that the child was not ideologically conscious enough because of the Mao Dashuang incident last time. Now it seems that his idea is very correct.
"Hehe, you lent my clothes to others without my consent, and you still said that I was not ideologically conscious enough." Jiang Yilu really wanted to open the head of the person opposite him to see how his brain circuits worked.
"Do you know how much this dress costs? Do you know that this dress was ordered by someone else and I have to deliver it today?" Jiang Yilu had originally planned to live in the dormitory for four full years, but now he thought that having such a muddled person as a roommate would only cause a lot of trouble. Anyway, this semester is almost over, and he will live outside starting from next semester. It's not like he doesn't have a house.
"How much?" Wang Nan thought, aren't they just two pieces of clothing? Even if those two pieces of clothing were more beautiful, they would only cost about thirty or forty yuan. When he and his wife got married, they asked someone to buy new clothes from Haicheng, and they were bought from a department store, and they only cost about thirty yuan.
Isn't Jiang Yilu's family quite wealthy? Why is he so stingy the richer he is? He must have been influenced by the decadent ideas of the bourgeoisie. He has to help him realize his mistakes.
"Thirty or forty..." Jiang Yiliu snorted coldly: "These two cheongsams were specially customized by an embroidery master. Each one costs five hundred yuan, and you told me thirty or forty."
His elder sister could indeed be called a master of embroidery, and Jiang Yilu didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said.
"Five hundred!" Everyone was shocked by the price. Some families' total annual income might not even be five hundred yuan. Those who are still students may not have seen so much money. When they heard Jiang Yilu say that his two pieces of clothing were worth so much money each, their eyes looked at Jiang Yilu differently.
"Xiaobao." Jiang Wencheng felt even more guilty. He knew that Xiaobao would not lie. Since he said five hundred, it must be five hundred. He did not help him take care of those two pieces of clothing. This was a huge sin.
Jiang Yiliu looked at him soothingly. Although Jiang Wencheng was negligent in this matter, he did not mean to blame him at all. After all, no one could have expected that Wang Nan would take away the things. When Jiang Wencheng went to fetch water, how could he have imagined that there would be such a person in the dormitory who would do such a disgusting thing in the name of helping others.
"They are just two pieces of clothing, how can they be so expensive?" Wang Nan looked at Jiang Yilu's serious eyes, feeling uneasy in his heart, and spoke in a timid tone.
"If it is really custom-made by an embroidery master, then the price is not expensive." There are still people who know the value of things among the onlookers. "My mother has a cheongsam that she has kept in the bottom of her closet. The fabric used is the best silk and satin. The embroidery was done by a famous embroidery master in Jiangnan. Guess how much that cheongsam cost."
Someone took the opportunity to show off, using his fingers to indicate a number: "Eight hundred yuan for this dress. My grandma has been complaining about my mom for a long time, saying that she is a spendthrift."
Everyone gasped after hearing what this man said, and looked at Wang Nan with a different look.
It was a bit too much to lend such expensive clothes to others without even asking. But at the same time, I was a little curious about how Jiang Yiliu could have such clothes and where he got so much money.
"If someone steals someone's money without permission and the amount is huge, he can be charged with embezzlement or theft." Mo Xiangdong stood outside the door, listened to the conversation between the two parties, and spoke calmly among the crowd.
"Isn't it just to borrow his clothes for a while? If you don't want to lend it to me, forget it. I'll go get the clothes and return them to you right away."
A trace of embarrassment and panic flashed across Wang Nan's face. He fiercely spat out these words at Jiang Yilu, pushed the crowd aside and walked out.
"I used to think he was pretty nice, but I didn't expect him to be this kind of person."
“You can know a person’s face but not his heart.”
"Who is the other party who bought such expensive clothes?"
.......
People outside the house were talking about it and showed no signs of leaving. It was obvious that they all wanted to wait for Wang Nan to come back with the clothes to see what kind of clothes they were and how they could be sold for 500 yuan.
As for Mo Xiangdong, he went back to the dormitory opposite to review right after he finished speaking.
"I'm sorry." The truth was revealed. Jiang Wencheng looked at Wang Dongsheng, who was squatting on the ground picking up steamed dumplings, and squatted down to help him pick up the dumplings, while apologizing to him with a choked voice. A real man should admit his mistakes. Although Jiang Wencheng still didn't like Wang Dongsheng, he was indeed wrong in this matter and had a preconceived notion that he had wronged the other party.
"Hmph." Wang Dongsheng picked up the dirty dinner on the ground, ignored his apology, looked at Jiang Wencheng coldly, pushed through the crowd and walked out.
But he was indeed in the wrong, and Jiang Wencheng could only accept the ridicule.
"Give it back to you."
About twenty minutes later, Wang Nan appeared at the dormitory door with a sullen face, holding in her hands the two cheongsams that Jiang Yilu had lost.
"It's just two pieces of clothing. If you don't want to lend them, then don't lend them. I didn't expect you to be such a person." Wang Nan looked at Jiang Yiliu, who had an expressionless face, and threw the clothes at him, leaving without looking back. When he left, he held his head high, as if Jiang Yiliu was the one who had done something wrong from the beginning to the end.
Jiang Yilu squatted down and picked up the two cheongsams thrown at his feet. The cheongsams that were originally neatly ironed were now wrinkled and crumpled into a ball. The Huashun silk was full of creases. What was worse was that the ground was mostly rough cement. When the delicate silk threads touched the ground, they raised a pile of fuzzy velvet.
Jiang Yilu knew in his heart that these two pieces of clothing were ruined.
He silently put his clothes on the bed, turned around and went downstairs. No one knew where he was going.
Half an hour later, the police appeared downstairs of the dormitory.
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