“Hello, Sister Wang, I’m Zhou Chengye. I’ll be troubling you these past few days.”
Zhou Chengye said politely.
“It’s my duty, my duty. Comrade Mu has paid me,”
Wang Mei said with a smile, “If you need anything, just tell me. Don’t be polite.”
“Okay!”
Zhou Chengye replied with a smile.
As they were talking, the ward door was pushed open again. This time, Shen Qingli entered, her fair little face flushed, and tears welling up in her eyes.
Zhou Chengye looked at her suspiciously. Just as she was about to speak, Shen Qingli choked back a sob and questioned, “Sister-in-law, why are you so heartless?”
“Huh?”
Zhou Chengye was a little confused.
Did the original owner do something that she had overlooked? Why was she being heartless?
“Why did you report me to the leaders of the canned food factory?”
Shen Qingli’s eyes were moist, and she looked extremely wronged. “Do you know that you almost got me killed?”
Zhou Chengye was puzzled. Report her? No way! This wasn’t in the book. Could it be— Suddenly, she thought of something and her lips moved, “It wasn’t me who reported you.”
“If it wasn’t you, then who could it be?”
Shen Qingli’s eyes were resentful, as if she were saying, “It was you, it was you, I know it was you, and no one else. Don’t try to quibble.”
Even though she knew Shen Qingli didn’t believe her, Zhou Chengye still said, “Why don’t you go and ask Li Lanping?”
“Lanping?”
A hint of surprise appeared on Shen Qingli’s small face. “Could it be her? Impossible! Lanping isn’t that kind of person.”
Zhou Chengye chuckled, “You can’t judge a book by its cover. You treat her as a good sister, but she might not feel the same way about you.”
In the book, Li Lanping was close to Shen Qingli mainly to get close to Mu Xunran, the second son of the Mu family. Her relationship with Shen Qingli was merely for her own benefit.
“Okay! If you say it was Lanping, then where’s the evidence?”
Shen Qingli didn’t believe her good sister would betray her at all. She thought Zhou Chengye was trying to sow discord and shift the blame for her actions onto Li Lanping.
Zhou Chengye pondered for a few seconds and said, “You can go to her dormitory to find her. Maybe the anonymous letter is hidden in her dormitory right now.”
Shen Qingli saw that she was speaking with such conviction and felt a little hesitant.
“It’s best to go there suddenly, without telling her in advance. Observe her reaction carefully.”
Zhou Chengye reminded her.
Shen Qingli pursed her lips, her gaze towards Zhou Chengye a little complex. “Alright! I’ll reluctantly believe you this time.”
“If—”
“If Lanping didn’t do this and you wrongly accused her, you have to apologize to her.”
Zhou Chengye nodded, “Deal! If I wrongly accuse Li Lanping, I can apologize to her.”
The key was that Li Lanping was not wrongly accused at all; she was indeed not a good person.
In the book, she was even worse than the original owner.
Shen Qingli was a little surprised. She hadn’t expected Zhou Chengye to agree so readily.
While she felt Zhou Chengye was acting a bit unusually today, she also suspected that Zhou Chengye might be plotting something else and trying to set a trap for her.
“Well, I’ll be going now!”
She said in a muffled voice, “I’ll come back to find you when I have results.”
Zhou Chengye raised her hand, “Farewell!”
Shen Qingli turned and left the ward. Zhou He’an tugged at his old clothes and looked at Zhou Chengye doubtfully.
“Mom, you’re slandering someone. What if you get discovered? That wouldn’t be good.”
Zhou Chengye pulled at the corner of her mouth, “Who said I slandered Li Lanping?”
“I didn’t!”
“Then how do you know that Aunt Li reported Aunt Shen?”
Zhou He’an asked in confusion.
His mom didn’t have a good relationship with either of them, and she often cursed them behind their backs.
“Don’t worry about how I know. Anyway, what I said is true, I’m not lying.”
Zhou Chengye said with certainty.
Zhou He’an pouted. It was over! His mom could now tell lies as if they were the truth.
If he wasn’t her son, he would have almost believed her.
“Cough cough~”
Sister Wang, who had been silent all along, coughed lightly. “Um, Comrade Zhou, do you want anything to eat? I’ll go buy it for you.”
After all, she was being paid to do this. Just staying in the ward without doing anything made her feel a bit awkward.
“No need, I just ate.”
Zhou Chengye pointed to the lunchbox on the table. However, as soon as she finished speaking, another faint sound came from inside the room.
Zhou He’an’s little face turned red, he covered his stomach, and grinned at Zhou Chengye.
“Then let’s go buy something to eat. He’an, what do you want to eat?”
A smile flashed in Zhou Chengye’s eyes.
“Anything—anything is fine! I’m not picky.”
Zhou He’an scratched his head and said.
“Then, please, Sister Wang, go buy something suitable for a child to eat.”
Zhou Chengye said politely to Sister Wang.
“Okay, okay, okay! I’ll go buy it. You wait a moment, I’ll be back soon.”
Sister Wang agreed with a smile and left the ward.
Not long after Zhou Chengye and Zhou He’an had been there, Sister Wang returned.
“Comrade Zhou, I bought your child pork and chive dumplings. One yuan per serving.”
She said with a smile.
“Okay! Thank you, Sister Wang.”
Zhou Chengye said politely with a smile.
“It’s my duty, my duty. Hurry up and eat while it’s hot! It won’t taste good when it’s cold.”
She smiled and placed the lunchbox on the table, opened it, and handed Zhou He’an a pair of chopsticks.
“Thank you!”
Zhou He’an took the chopsticks, sat on the small stool, and devoured the dumplings. He looked like he was truly hungry.