Ye Xiaoxiao: "We don't know the truth yet, so stop making wild guesses."
Wang Jiao fell into silence.
After all, it was she who said that the five yuan was enough to buy the medicine. Now that Li Xiaomei was gone, she always felt uneasy.
What if Li Meiru's parents didn't lie and really needed money for Li Xiaomei's medical treatment?
Xia Li patted Wang Jiao's shoulder and said, "We didn't expect things to turn out like this. Don't think too much."
Wang Jiao was still not very happy.
After Li Meiru took leave, she went to the station in a panic.
The others in the dormitory didn't have time to say more to her.
"Um... you're on the way."
He Jing gave a warning.
Li Meiru nodded and left the dormitory with her bag.
There was one less person in the dormitory, and no one else was in the mood to chat.
Some people are reading books, while others are lying on the bed to rest.
He Jing recently bought a wool scarf to knit, and now she is sitting on the bed to finish the scarf she has not yet finished.
The color of the yarn is dark blue, and it looks like a gift for boys.
Yip Xiaoxiao envied Ho Ching's dexterity.
She received many gifts from Lu Hanchuan, but she didn't know what gift to give him in return.
Otherwise, give the other person a scarf!
Ye Xiaoxiao had never weaved before, so she wasn’t sure if winter would turn directly into summer after she finished weaving.
He Jing looked at Ye Xiaoxiao, who seemed to be in deep thought, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ye Xiaoxiao: "Is it difficult to weave a scarf?"
He Jing: "It's not difficult, do you want to try it?"
Ye Xiaoxiao shook her head quickly, "You have woven so many, I dare not try yours."
He Jing smiled and said, "This is really not difficult. If you want to try it, buy some balls of wool and I'll teach you."
"good."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought she could give it a try.
It seems that He Jing only spends half an hour every day to weave the scarf, and she has completed half of it in less than a week.
She should be fine too.
Ye Xiaoxiao finally decided what to give as a gift, and the next day she went to the mall to choose some balls of wool.
She asked the salesperson how much yarn she would need to make a scarf, and the salesperson said that an ordinary scarf only needed three or two taels of yarn.
A ball of thread weighs about two taels, so buying two balls is enough.
Wool yarn can be divided into good quality and ordinary quality. Ye Xiaoxiao definitely bought the good quality one. She took two balls of dark green and two balls of gray.
I decided to knit one for myself to practice.
When you become more proficient, I will give it to Lu Hanchuan to weave.
After returning home, He Jing helped Ye Xiaoxiao to start knitting and told her how to knit next.
Although the steps are simple, inexperienced people tend to make extra stitches or missing stitches, making some parts tight and some parts loose, making the whole thing look wrinkled.
Three days later, Ye Xiaoxiao felt that her previous idea was right. She stuffed her own half-finished green wrinkled weave into the cupboard and started to re-knit Lu Hanchuan's weave.
After becoming proficient, Ye Xiaoxiao felt that this was not a difficult task.
"Why have you all started knitting scarves recently?"
Xia Li looked at Ye Xiaoxiao. She remembered that she had only become interested in knitting scarves in the last two days.
Ye Xiaoxiao: "Give it to someone."
She lowered her head very seriously, and had a very serious expression when giving acupuncture to patients.
Xia Li: "Oh, I understand."
Wang Jiao heard the conversation and looked over. "What! Is it popular to give scarves as gifts now? I have to weave them myself. Can't I just go to the mall and buy one?"
Ye Xiaoxiao: "Of course you can."
It's not easy to make money.
Wang Jiao: "Then I'll go to the mall and buy one later."
It took Ye Xiaoxiao a week to weave the scarf. After she packed it, she asked Lu Hanchuan to send it to the army.
It was a pleasant surprise that I didn't call the other party in advance.
At this time, it was less than a month before the school's winter vacation, and Li Meiru had not returned yet.
He Jing talked about her worries in the dormitory.
"I hope Li Meiru won't be in any danger."
Xia Li: "She just went back to take care of her sister's affairs. She should be fine."
Ye Xiaoxiao: "Where is Li Meiru's hometown?"
He Jing: "It seems to be Heishui Village in Qingyang County."
Xia Li: "Can I call over?"
He Jing: "It probably won't work. There's no telephone in the village."
This is a small mountain village that is as backward and isolated as Baishi Village. After Li Meiru returned, it was almost isolated from the outside world.
Tang Xiuxiu said: "We gave the local police station a phone number. I think we can find the number."
Xia Li: “Yes.”
He Jing also nodded, "If Li Meiru doesn't come back a week before the final exam, we will call the local public security bureau and ask the police there to go to Heishui Village to check."
After saying this, no one had any objection.
Of course, things didn't turn out that badly, and Li Meiru returned to the dormitory a few days later.
But his mental state doesn't look good.
Her sister is really gone.
The trip home was a great blow to her.
On the day Li Meiru came back, Ye Xiaoxiao opened the dormitory door. There was no light inside, so she thought no one was sleeping.
When I turned on the light, I was startled when I saw Li Meiru sitting upright in front of the desk.
"Li Meiru? You're back!"
Ye Xiaoxiao asked.
Li Meiru didn't react much, just nodded to indicate that she had heard it.
"You don't look well."
Ye Xiaoxiao hung her schoolbag by the bed and took her own stool to sit on.
Li Meiru: "I'm fine, just calm down."
After she returned home, she didn't even find her sister's body. Later, she heard from her neighbors that her parents had buried her sister casually in the back hill.
Because it was a child, and a girl at that, according to local customs, it was absolutely impossible for her to be buried in the family cemetery, so they could only bury her in a random wasteland.
Li Meiru asked how her sister died, and her parents just said that she was ill.
Later, she gave two yuan to the neighbor's sister-in-law, and the sister-in-law told her that her sister fell from the hillside while playing and broke her neck.
Li Xiaomei is 18 years old, has not yet started school, and has few friends in the village.
The day Li Xiaomei fell down the slope, she was playing with her brother at home.
That is Li Meiru’s younger brother Li Wang, who is only two years older than Li Xiaomei.
Li Meiru felt that this matter was not that simple and might have something to do with Li Wang, so she went home to question her brother.
Li Wang refused to say anything. Li Meiru's parents were very angry and beat her up and locked her in the house.
In the small dark room, she felt despair...
Seeing that Li Meiru didn't want to say anything, Ye Xiaoxiao didn't dare to ask any more questions.
Coincidentally, his roommate also came back from class.
He Jing: "Li Meiru, you are back. Have all the problems at home been solved? Your sister..."
Li Meiru: "My sister is not sick, she fell down the hillside."
She even suspected that her parents did not provide treatment for her sister at all.
Others comforted Li Meiru one after another.
Li Meiru took a deep breath and said, "I will continue to investigate my sister's affairs, but the most important thing for me now is to finish college and make myself stronger."