Qin Xiaoxiao led Qin Yue into the educated youth compound through the back door. While Qin Yue was rummaging through her room looking for something delicious, Qin Xiaoxiao quickly reached into the kitchen cabinet and pulled out a basket of eggs.
He placed the egg basket on the table. "What are you rummaging through? You've messed up all my clothes."
Qin Yue didn't even look up. "It'll be here soon. I remember you put it in the kangqin when I came last time. I've finally found it here."
In fact, Qin Xiaoxiao disliked it extremely much when others rummaged through her things, especially when unruly children came to visit. No matter whose house they visited, they didn't act like they were guests, rummaging through her things. What she hated most was that they would break other people's things and then not admit it. The adults would just say "the child is still young" and that would be the end of it, completely disregarding the feelings of the owner of the things.
Although Qin Xiaoxiao was a little annoyed when facing Qin Yue, she didn't seem to find it too unacceptable, perhaps because the Qin family gave her such a good impression.
As Qin Yue pulled a packet of jujube cakes from the kang (heated brick bed) and started munching on it, Qin Xiaoxiao suddenly snapped back to reality, "Wait, where did you get the key?"
Qin Xiaoxiao always kept her key in her spatial storage, so it was impossible for her to lose it. She always locked her room whenever she left, and she also locked the kitchen cabinets and the kangqin (a traditional heated brick bed). But now…
Qin Xiaoxiao thought of something bad and reached out to knock the jujube cake out of Qin Yue's hand. "I'm about to throw up. There's probably something wrong with this cake."
Qin Yue was still annoyed that her jujube cake had been knocked away, but she was stunned when she heard Qin Xiaoxiao's words, "What? Sister, someone poisoned it?"
Qin Xiaoxiao frowned and urged, "What are you thinking about? Spit it out quickly."
Qin Xiaoxiao then ran to the kitchen and poured a large glass of water for Qin Yue so she could rinse her mouth.
After spitting out everything in her mouth, Qin Yue tried to vomit up the jujube cake she had eaten, but after feeling nauseous for a long time, she couldn't vomit much.
Qin Yue asked with a mournful face, "Sister, I'm not going to die, am I?"
Qin Xiaoxiao waved her hand, "I don't know, probably not."
Qin Xiaoxiao walked around the house and found that the door lock was intact, the windows showed no signs of being pried open, and the small amount of rice in the kitchen cabinet seemed to be there as well.
Qin Xiaoxiao squinted, picked up the bag of cornmeal placed next to the kitchen cabinet, and weighed it in her hand; the weight was wrong.
Qin Xiaoxiao put the bag aside and went to rummage around the kangqin.
When Qin Yue was rummaging through things, she messed up everything in the kangqin. Qin Xiaoxiao didn't notice anything missing and had no way of knowing if the place had been rummaged through. However, she figured that the kangqin had been opened with great effort, so it must have been rummaged through.
The fact that the lock wasn't even locked proves that the thief was in a panic before leaving.
Almost no one comes to her backyard, so it's safe to assume that she ran into some educated youth from the educated youth compound and didn't have time to lock it.
That is...
The thief had just left before the sisters returned.
Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes flashed, she snorted coldly, and stepped out of the room.
"Sis, where are you going? Wait for me."
Qin Xiaoxiao strode towards the front yard, walked to the Su sisters' room, knocked on the door, and soon the door opened, revealing Su Yun's face.
Su Yun looked at Qin Xiaoxiao in surprise, "Xiaoxiao, so early, is something wrong? You didn't come here to have us knit sweaters, did you?"
Su Yun subconsciously looked up at the sky. Well, it was a little past eight in the morning, which wasn't early. But there was nothing she could do. In the dead of winter, she couldn't go anywhere, and she didn't have to go to work, so naturally she had to sleep in.
Su Yun ushered Qin Xiaoxiao and Qin Yue into the house, gave Qin Yue a piece of pastry, and was pouring water for Qin Xiaoxiao when she heard Qin Xiaoxiao say, "A thief broke into my house."
Upon hearing this, Su Yun's hand trembled, and she almost dropped the thermos.
"What? A thief broke in? Really? What's missing? Call the police right away!"
Qin Xiaoxiao shook her head, took the thermos, poured herself some water, and warmed her hands with it. "They only lost cornmeal. Even if we call the police, they won't care. It's not worth it."
Su Yu was still lying in bed when she heard Qin Xiaoxiao's words. She sat up and angrily waved her fist. "The people in this courtyard are so rude. They just had something stolen a few months ago, and now they're doing it again. And they're supposed to be educated youth? Is this all they are?"
Su Yun tossed the clothes to Su Yu, "Put them on quickly, don't catch a cold. Let's go check on Xiao Xiao and see if we find anything else."
Qin Xiaoxiao didn't move. "Yes, there are, but I don't know if you guys have noticed?"
Upon hearing that she could help Qin Xiaoxiao, Su Yu quickly asked, "What should I be careful about? Tell me."
"Who went to the backyard this morning? Also, who's short on cash lately?"
Su Yun and Su Yu exchanged a glance and then lowered their heads to think. After a while, Su Yun said first, "We don't know much about the old educated youth. We usually just nod and greet each other when we meet. We really don't know who is short of money."
As for the new educated youth, Zou Jing, Jin Chuan, and Tao Jingjing are obviously not short of money and would never do such a thing. Since the last incident, Lü Zhaodi has not had much contact with us and has just been working hard. It seems unlikely that she would be so poor as to steal food rations, because as far as I know, Miao Feifei gave her some money before, but I don't know the exact amount.
As for the remaining Ma Jiahua, Tong Jiaxing, and Hu Rong, we barely exchanged a few words with them, much like the older educated youth.
After saying that, Su Yun looked at Qin Xiaoxiao with a guilty expression, feeling sorry that he had not been able to help.
Qin Xiaoxiao smiled and shook her head. "Sister Su Yun, you've already helped me a lot. Thank you."
Su Yu continued, "What I know is about the same as what my sister knows, but there's one more person my sister didn't mention."
Su Yun, Qin Xiaoxiao, and Qin Yue all looked at Su Yu, "Who?"
Su Yu leaned closer to the three of them and whispered, "Liu Lihua."
After Su Yu revealed the name, both Su Yun and Qin Xiaoxiao were stunned.
They knew Liu Lihua. Like Lü Zhaodi now, she was always working silently and rarely spoke. She wasn't very good-looking either, and she was pale and thin, looking malnourished.
Su Yu said mysteriously, "Liu Lihua's father is a locksmith."
Qin Xiaoxiao and Su Yun were startled. They exchanged a glance and looked at Su Yu curiously, "How did you know?"
Wow, girl, you're pretty well-informed!
Su Yu pouted, "Don't look at me like that. I just found out by accident."
Qin Xiaoxiao became interested. "Tell me about it."
Su Yu didn't refuse. "I was just going to the toilet. Before I even went in, I heard people talking inside."
I was wondering who had such a refined taste to come to the restroom to chat when I heard a woman softly call Liu Lihua's name.
The woman said she had lost something and asked Liu Lihua to hand it over, promising not to tell the brigade leader.
Liu Lihua denied it, but the man said that her father was a locksmith and would definitely know how to pick locks, and that her family was the poorest in the educated youth compound, always short of money, so it must have been her who stole it.
Qin Xiaoxiao frowned.
It's unreasonable to conclude that she stole something just because her father is a locksmith.
Without any evidence, they just assumed someone was a thief based on mere imagination. Isn't that bullying?
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