Chapter 56: Strike First
"Sister, you...you come in."
Shen Xiang stood aside and gently pulled Shen Zhiqiu’s sleeve.
Shen Zhiqiu knew that Shen Xiang had heard what she said, so she held Shen Xiang's hand, and the brother and sister walked into the house.
"Xiao Xiang, I have only one request for you. Don't get involved in what your parents say or do to your second sister."
"If possible, fight less and read more."
"Great heroes don't act rashly. They save their strength to protect their country."
"Reading more will help you understand the truth."
Chen Xiang nodded heavily: “Sister, I understand.”
Although his mother always told him to be close to his second sister, he liked his eldest sister more.
The eldest sister would always indulge him, buy him delicious food, buy him his favorite picture books, and was also very good at telling stories.
The main reason is that he thinks his elder sister is really beautiful, just like a fairy.
There are four rooms in total. The two main rooms, one large and one small, are occupied by Shen Daqiang, Wang Fengqin and Shen Xiang respectively.
Shen Liya lives in the room on the east side that is similar to Shen Xiang's.
And the small room on the west side next to the coal room was hers.
As the old saying goes, if you have no choice, you must live in a west-facing room. It will be cold in the winter and hot in the summer, and you will suffer every day.
It was morning and not very hot yet, but as soon as I opened the door, a wave of heat mixed with a musty smell hit me in the face.
Shen Zhiqiu fanned his nose with his hand, entered the room and went straight to the floor-standing cabinet beside the bed. As expected, the lock on it had been pried open.
When she opened the cabinet, she found it in a mess. Her mother's clothes had turned into rags, and the iron box that contained the jewelry was gone.
Shen Zhiqiu suppressed the anger boiling in his chest, stretched his whole arm in, and touched the gap in the bottom plate. After a long while, he slowly pulled out a small paper bag from it.
Shen Zhiqiu dusted off the ash and sawdust on the paper bag and put it into his bag.
Then she went to Shen Daqiang and Wang Fengqin's room. She first found the iron box where her mother's jewelry was kept. After counting them, she found that all the jewelry was there except the necklace.
She picked up the box and dumped everything into her bag, then found her passbook.
But after searching in many places without finding it, Shen Zhiqiu stopped, glanced around the room, and finally fixed his eyes on the pile of bedding on the kang.
She climbed onto the kang and first touched the pillows of Shen Daqiang and Wang Fengqin. Sure enough, she found the passbook with her name on it in Wang Fengqin's pillowcase.
In order to allay her vigilance, this voucher was opened in her name, and she would withdraw the money and deposit it into it after receiving her salary every month.
Adding up all these years, there should be at least nearly eight thousand yuan in it.
But when I opened it, there was less than two hundred yuan left, and the remaining money was mainly withdrawn in the past one or two months.
Shen Zhiqiu didn't bother to think about what the money had been done with. After putting the note into her bag, she pulled out some of Wang Fengqin's favorite clothes from the closet and cut them all into pieces with the scissors she had found earlier, especially her favorite wool coat.
Finally, he poked the scissors hard into Wang Fengqin's pillow.
"Big...Big sister."
Shen Xiang had been following Shen Zhiqiu, and seeing Shen Zhiqiu's appearance he was so scared that he didn't dare to go forward.
Shen Zhiqiu tidied up her messy hair, patted Shen Xiang's face gently, and smiled brightly: "Xiao Xiang, this is called giving someone a taste of their own medicine. If your parents ask about it when you get back, just tell them that I told them to call the police. I'll be waiting for them."
The depression that had been pent up in his chest for more than a month was finally released today, and Shen Zhiqiu felt so refreshed!
I hummed "A big river with wide waves, the wind blows the fragrance of rice flowers on both sides" all the way to the nearby police station.
"Comrade, I want to report a crime. My money was stolen."
Shen Zhiqiu took out his work ID, passbook and personal seal and placed them on the table: "I have never withdrawn the money on this passbook, but this much is left."
More than 7,000 is not a small amount, and the comrades at the police station attach great importance to it.
After detailed inquiries, she asked Shen Zhiqiu to leave a contact number and said that she would be contacted as soon as there was any progress.
Shen Daqiang and Wang Fengqin would definitely call the police, so to prevent them from retaliating against her, she had to take the initiative.
In addition, she thought on the way that the money Wang Fengqin took out was either used to support her parents' family or spent on some evil means.
No matter which one it was, Shen Daqiang was unaware of it.
This is a good opportunity to let him see Wang Fengqin’s true face!
She would use this incident as an introduction to expose all the dirty things Wang Fengqin had done and lay them out before everyone.
After eating a bowl of sesame noodles at the state-owned restaurant, Shen Zhiqiu returned to the compound.
On the way, she met Tian Man who was going to work. Tian Man took out the manuscript she had written from her bag and handed it to Shen Zhiqiu: "Zhiqiu, take a look."
"Sister-in-law, your writing is really great!" Shen Zhiqiu gave Tian Man a thumbs up after reading it.
"If you think it's okay, our editor-in-chief can review it, so we can proceed as planned."
"Okay, sister-in-law." Shen Zhiqiu held Tian Man's hand: "Sister-in-law, I really have to thank you for this time."
"Zhiqiu, actually I should be the one thanking you. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I haven't written for a long time."
Tian Man sighed and smiled bitterly: "Our newspaper has a rule that whoever finds the news is responsible for writing it."
"After I gave birth to two children, my team leader said that he wanted to take care of me and asked me to answer the phone in the office, but in fact, it was a disguised way of not allowing me to have the opportunity to write."
Shen Zhiqiu immediately understood the problem: "Sister-in-law, your team leader is jealous of you."
Tian Man shook her head helplessly: "I offended him when I was young, but I didn't know he was so petty."
"Forget it. I have to hurry. If I'm late, he'll have to look at me with a sullen face again."
After watching Tian Man's back go away, Shen Zhiqiu turned around and was about to get in the car when a car stopped beside her.
"Zhiqiu." Chen Can rolled down the car window and called to Shen Zhiqiu: "It's so hot, where have you been?"
Shen Zhiqiu didn't even glance at Chen Can, he kicked down the ladder, got on the bike and drove forward.
Chen Can quickly caught up with Shen Zhiqiu, deliberately keeping the same speed as Shen Zhiqiu: “Zhiqiu, could it be that Yue Mingyuan doesn’t allow you to talk to me?”
"He's really petty. Why did you go to him when you could go to someone else?"
"When we broke up, I know I hurt you, but you can't just give up on yourself like this."
Shen Zhiqiu rolled his eyes and looked up at the shade of the tree above his head. For the first time, he felt that the sound of cicadas was so pleasant.
It is true that the quality of this thing can only be determined by comparison.
This is even more true for humans.
"Zhiqiu, you are not still in love with me, are you? That's why you dare not look at me or talk to me."
Shen Zhiqiu couldn't stand it any longer, propped his feet on the curb, turned his head and looked at Chen Can: "Chen Can, I don't dare to look at the shit in the toilet, I don't dare to talk to it. It's not that I still have feelings for it, I just find it fucking annoying!"
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