Chapter 46 What a coincidence!
Everyone pretended not to hear and continued to toss and turn.
Chen Sike had more than three hundred yuan and a pile of bills, neatly rolled up and stored in the corner of the box.
Nie Yichang said quietly, "What a coincidence! I also lost more than 300 yuan and a bunch of bills, including meat bills, oil bills, sugar bills...except for the bicycle bills. You lost more than me. It really makes me suspicious."
Chen Sike was about to cry her heart out. If she knew that she would have to pay such a price for allowing An's mother to make trouble at home, she would never let anyone out of her sight even if she died!
"Let's put everything in order first," the village chief said gloomily, "Qi Zhiqing will be the next one."
Qi Yunlan gritted her teeth, thought for a moment, and said calmly, "You can search, but if you really don't find anything, then this matter has nothing to do with me. In the future, please respect me and don't do whatever others say."
Chen Sike also nodded. He finally got some clarity and said with a long sigh of relief, "I was with Qi Zhiqing, and she can testify for me. If she is cleared of suspicion, then the money, tickets, and food are mine. I didn't steal them from Nie Yichang!"
The village chief glanced at them and nodded to Fei Zheng and Liu Yiyue: "Go on."
The two looked at each other. This was really an offensive thing, but there was nothing they could do. There were five female educated youth in total, two suspects and one victim.
They rolled up their sleeves and continued their search.
Qi Yunlan was a good housekeeper, and she kept everything neat and tidy. But she didn't have much stuff, and it was almost clear at a glance. The important things were all in the box. A few sets of clothes that were about 60% new, brown sugar, sesame oil, milk powder, milk candy, biscuits, more than 50 yuan and some ordinary bills.
"I told you it wasn't us," she snorted, "You might be able to catch up with your stepmother while you're searching now."
It was impossible to catch up. In order to succeed this time, Kang Xiaohua thought about it for nearly a month and finalized every detail many times, whether it was making an alibi, or dressing up and taking a bus to the next city to find someone to forge the evidence, and then continuing to pretend and take a train to Jinzhou. He did not stay in the guesthouse and stayed in the train station in the cold.
I wonder if Kang Xiaohua, who acted like this, could have planned a retreat? The novel only briefly mentions this, but given the backward transportation, communication and tracking technology of today, it is not easy to convict Kang Xiaohua.
An Zhixia would not waste time on this matter.
She usually likes to settle accounts after the event.
"I think if I got a huge sum of money, I would not be so stupid as to put it in such an obvious place." She said slowly, and when she saw Qi Yunlan's swollen face twitching, she continued: "I would definitely choose a place that others would not think of, such as the one I sewed into the quilt before..."
She named a place and Fei Zheng would go there to look for it.
"For example," An Zhixia had just said two words when she saw Qi Yunlan holding her breath slightly, "under the quilt." As soon as she finished speaking, Qi Yunlan began to breathe slowly, and her shoulders relaxed and lowered by half a centimeter.
"For example, under the box..."
"For example, in a cotton-padded jacket..."
No matter how dumb everyone was, they knew that this young educated youth An was targeting young educated youth Qi, and she really didn't spare any inch of him. But she said it seriously, and Fei Zheng carried it out seriously, which made it impossible to say much.
After playing for a while, Qi Yunlan's forehead was covered with beads of sweat. Every detail An Zhixia mentioned was particularly tricky, some of which she had never thought of, and some of which were very close to the hidden place. Her heart was always high, and she felt very uncomfortable.
Before everyone's patience ran out, An Zhixia raised the corners of her lips slightly: "For example, in a rat hole."
Rat hole? Fei Zheng was stunned, and suddenly remembered that there was a rat hole on the edge of the kang when she first came. However, after Qi Yunlan came, she disliked the uneven kang edge and found some straw mats to cover it up.
Qi Yunlan was trembling all over. "If we put it in a rat hole, won't the rats eat it all?"
Fei Zheng immediately pulled out the wooden nail and uncovered the straw mat. The rat hole was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
"I said we didn't steal it," Qi Yunlan said with tears in her eyes, covering her face in grievance. "An Zhiqing, little An Zhiqing, have you given up now? Don't accuse others casually in the future. You can't do such things that damage your reputation. Maybe it's because you acted rashly and didn't consider others that you caused so much trouble..."
An Zhixia pushed her brother and said, "Brother, the mouse hole is too deep. Try to reach out with your hand."
Qi Yunlan's words came to an abrupt halt, as if someone had strangled her neck, and her eye sockets were almost popped out.
An Zhiqiu took off his coat and cotton-padded jacket, rolled up his sleeves to reveal his muscular arms, and reached his arms into the mouse hole. When his forearms were submerged in the hole, he paused slightly and then retracted his movements.
A tightly wrapped thick oil paper package was taken out. An Zhiqiu sneered at Qi Yunlan and opened it neatly.
Fei Zheng took it and her fingers touched his palm. She pulled them back suddenly as if they were burned. She held on to her violently beating heart, pursed her lips and sat on the kang with Liu Yiyue, carefully counting the money and tickets.
Everyone waited quietly for the result, already convinced in their hearts that Qi Yunlan and Chen Sike were in collusion.
Qi Yunlan clenched her fists, her nails digging deep into her palms, the sharp pain forced her to stand. She wanted to deny that she stole the money, but no one would believe that a female student from an ordinary family could bring so much money. Even Hang Xianglei, who was well-off, only brought 500 yuan.
But if she said that An Zhixia deliberately framed her, then she would have to give away all the hard-earned money to others.
The money would not be returned to her anyway. She soon figured it out. Qi Yunlan bit her gums until they bled and said with difficulty: "This must be the An brothers and sisters who colluded with her stepmother..."
Nie Yichang interrupted her with a sneer: "Who would believe Qi Zhiqing's reason? What basis do An Zhiqing and Xiao An Zhiqing have to frame you so violently? Are you beautiful?"
Why does this unfortunate kid always attack people based on their appearance?
"Qi Zhiqing, you should speak with conscience. When someone loses something, you can just turn a blind eye and pretend it has nothing to do with you. How cold-hearted is that? Unless," Hang Xianglei also said with a sullen face, "you teamed up with another person to commit the crime and buy time for her to escape!"
Qi Yunlan was speechless and felt that the An brothers and sisters were really setting a trap for her. It was really smart to let her use their own spear to attack their shield!
"One thousand three hundred and fifty yuan, plus a lot of tickets, including two bicycle tickets, a sewing plane ticket, a recording plane ticket, and two watch tickets!" Liu Yiyue's voice was filled with envy and jealousy.
Everyone gasped when they heard this. All these hard-to-get tickets were put together, and even a family with a background like Hang Xianglei might not be able to get them all.
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