SIAS Chapter 52.2

She took a bath and slept in the inner part of the room, on the other side of the curtain.

She went back to bed and continued to sleep. There was no more noise that night.

The next day, when the first whistle for work blew, Yi Qingqing got up, heated up the pie that she had saved from yesterday, and ate it. Then, she went to the next house to find Qian Lailai.

“Wait a minute, when everyone goes to work, can you perform a play with me?” Yi Qingqing said to Qian Lai.

Qian Lailai asked in confusion, “What play?”

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After Yi Qingqing finished explaining the main points to Qian Lailai, she went back to get a bucket to fetch water to water the vegetable garden.

When she passed the front half of the alley, she paid special attention to the houses of Zhou Qiang and Cai Chunshan.

One of them lived in the first room on the right, and the other lived in the second room on the right.

At this moment, both of them were in the front hall, preparing to eat.

When Yi Qingqing passed by the front hall, she yawned several times and looked sleepy.

When everyone went to cook together, she yawned several more times.

Qian Lailai asked her, “Qingqing, did you not sleep well last night?”

Yi Qingqing yawned again, “Yeah, I seemed to hear a mouse gnawing at something in the middle of the night yesterday, so I got up to look for it. But I couldn’t find it, so I didn’t sleep well.”

“Mouse?” Qian Lailai’s voice was distorted with fear.

Qingqing only let her ask, but she didn’t say that the answer was so creepy. She was afraid of mice.

“Yeah.” Yi Qingqing replied.

“These days, people can’t get enough to eat, so the mice must have starved to death long ago!” Zhou Yanhong said that she had been at the educated youth point for so long, but she hadn’t seen any trace of mice.

Tang Lan also said sarcastically, “It’s us who can’t get enough to eat, not others.”

“Maybe, I’ve heard the sound of mice gnawing on wood before.” Said Cai Chunshan.

“I heard it too, not long ago.” Wang Lingling also said, and then she said to Liu Chunxing, “Chunxing, didn’t you say you heard it a few weeks ago?”

“Could this mouse run from them to your side? Will it run into my house in a few days?” Qian Lailai said in horror.

Yi Qingqing’s mouth twitched. The person she chose was acting in her true colors, and her face turned pale with fear.

“It’s okay. There’s nothing delicious at your place.” Yi Qingqing comforted her. (T/N: Oh~~ I heard someone get stabbed in her heart, hahaha…)

Qian Lailai: “…”

Instead of being comforted, she felt even worse.

When Li Mengxue heard them talking about mice, she became extremely disgusted with this simple youth training point. She would get her face covered in dust after sleeping on the kang, and were there actually rats here?

She would put a few mouse traps in the house when she returned today.

It would take more than three years for the college entrance examination to be resumed, and she could escape from this place where she would get a face full of dust even after sleeping.

It was really too tormenting!

There were no mice at all.

What Zhou Yanhong said actually made some sense. Everyone in the educated youth point had only so little stuff, and the work points they earned were barely enough to fill their stomachs.

They couldn’t save any food at all, so who wouldn’t hide their food well?

If the mice were running here, could it be that they were really gnawing on the wood as Cai Chunshan said?

Therefore, Cai Chunshan, who was the first to agree with her, became more suspicious.

If Cai Chunshan was really the peeper, then her words this morning would surely have made him let down his guard, and he would probably come to drill holes again.

Zhou Qiang didn’t work with them, so it was impossible to judge.

Yi Qingqing planned to test him later as he had very little interaction with them.

 

 

 

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