Chapter 56 Thief
Qi Chunyu and Zheng Yujing went to the supply and marketing cooperative together. Several other female educated youth who had bought boxes were sorting their luggage.
Wang Ru touched her flat stomach and turned to ask Yun Qiao and Chen Cuizhi, "I'm hungry and want to go to the cafeteria to see if they're open for dinner. Do you want to join us?"
"Yeah." Yun Qiao stood up and put the medical book in his hand into the drawer at the bottom of the box.
Medical books are difficult to understand, requiring complete concentration. The noise in the dorm is too loud to be a good environment for reading. Even if the cafeteria isn't open yet, I'll still go out and get some sun.
They happened to be eating at the right time. The wild vegetable steamed bread in the cafeteria was freshly cooked, each one still steaming hot and juicy green, and served with crushed salted chili peppers. The taste of the steamed bread was quite delicious, unlike the choking taste of the cold ones. It was like two completely different things.
Wang Ru and Chen Cuizhi ate sweet potato porridge while chatting. Yun Qiao didn't like to talk while eating, so he just listened to them quietly.
Halfway through the meal, Chen Fengxia suddenly rushed in anxiously, "Yun Qiao! Yun Qiao is dead! A new educated youth named Qi Chunyu said you stole her industrial voucher, and she's going through your things in the dormitory right now. Don't eat yet, come and take a look."
After hearing what Chen Fengxia said, Yun Qiao naturally couldn't eat anymore.
Stealing is not a minor crime. In this day and age, being labeled a thief is enough to ruin a person's life.
Once this crime is proven, she will be immediately expelled from the Construction Corps and then sent to a labor camp, with no chance of seeking justice for at least ten years.
The labor camps in the Great Northern Wilderness were not places for detainees. No preferential treatment was given to women. Building roads and digging canals, blasting mountains and rocks, any of them were hard and arduous tasks.
In a previous life, her uncle spent ten years in a labor camp. When he came out, he was emaciated and his body was severely damaged. Even after the state returned his property, he immigrated to a country with advanced medical care, but in the end, he didn't survive for many years.
Yun Qiao would never let himself fall into such a situation.
She put down the steamed bread in her hand and ran towards the dormitory compound.
As soon as he entered the educated youth compound, Yun Qiao saw that the woven bag where he had put the baby was thrown out of the house by Qi Chunqiu's younger brother Qi Bin.
There was a crowd of onlookers around, and when they saw her come in, they pointed and talked about her.
Yun Qiao had already moved the bag into the box, and the woven bag was just an empty bag. But even if it was an empty bag, the insult of being thrown out as a thief's belongings was enough to make Yun Qiao angry.
"Stop! Stop it right there!"
"I won't stop, what can you do?" Qi Bin glanced at Yun Qiao with disdain, raised his foot, stepped on the woven bag in front of her, and said to her in a provocative tone: "Thief!"
Not only was Yun Qiao furious, but even Chen Fengxia, who was standing beside him, was furious, her face flushing red. She went up to Qi Bin and argued, "Get lost! How can you call someone a thief without any evidence?!"
"Who said there is no evidence? My sister said... Ouch!" Before Qi Bin could finish his words, Yun Qiao took the opportunity to kick him away.
Qi Bin was a tall and thin man with the body of a skinny dog, with only a little flesh on his body. Yun Qiao was so angry and strong that he kicked Qi Bin more than a meter away.
The whole place immediately burst into laughter.
Half of them were surprised that she had the temper to suddenly attack, and the other half were laughing at Qi Bin for being a weakling, laughing at how a male laborer like him was kicked away by a woman who looked so weak.
Qi Bin was both embarrassed and annoyed. Before he could go find Yun Qiao to argue, Yun Qiao had already walked past him and went straight into the house.
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