Chapter 224: Chapter 224

The reaction of the two made everyone extremely curious, so several people went over to take a look and couldn’t help but find it amusing as well.

Xiao Chong and Xu Xin were greatly relieved after seeing it, and Xiao Chong read it aloud: "Today’s rehearsal costume suddenly went missing, came back to get money, suspect there is something fishy about this, thus took away all the funds for safekeeping separately, Li Xianglu, witness Nabasha!"

The small few lines of black text, with Nabasha’s signature as proof at the bottom.

Xi Yunmei exclaimed with surprise: "What on earth is going on here?"

Seeing this, Nabasha smiled and said: "I was planning to go to the library this afternoon, but I ran into Li coming down from this building. She stopped me and asked me to vouch for her. I thought it was interesting, so I came."

With that said, it was clear to everyone that there was something fishy about the missing costume from the very beginning, and Li Xianglu, who managed the funds, had taken precautions in advance. Sure enough, the office had been ransacked.

And now the money was missing, although it had been taken away by Li Xianglu, but who had turned this place upside down?

What kind of scene was the other party trying to create?

If today there had been no proof from Nabasha, even if Li Xianglu claimed afterwards that she had taken the money earlier, it would have been suspected that she was only explaining afterwards.

Director Wang of the security department nodded and said: "Alright, everyone, please come to the security office. There were too many incidents today; we need to do some follow-up."

After saying this, Director Wang took the lead to leave, but none of the security guards left, as they had already recorded everything that happened and who was involved.

Shen Yuehong had an extremely ugly look on his face at this time, his hands trembling non-stop, worried about what if the school really put it on the record.

At this point, Wang Ke adjusted his glasses and said indifferently: "Mr. Shen, how’s your right foot? Do you need to go to the clinic to have it checked? I saw you came up the stairs without showing any pain?"

Everyone’s gaze became complex, and Shen Yuehong, sensing trouble, quickly lifted his right foot slightly, putting on a brave face: "Thank you for your concern, it’s just that I was worried about the society, so I endured the pain and came over."

Wang Ke shook his head: "Sorry, I must have remembered wrong. Wasn’t it your left foot that was injured just now?"

Then everyone looked over, and Shen Yuehong was firmly stepping on his left foot, lifting his right foot, seeming to be unstable, but it was clearly the left foot that was injured earlier.

Shen Yuehong’s face turned red in an instant. At this point, what else was unclear to everyone? The so-called cut rope, the so-called fall, it was all planned; otherwise, despite the cost of Li Xianglu injuring both hands, she was still left hurt. This was clearly an act.

The two boys who were initially supporting Shen Yuehong were now furious, unbelieving that such a beautiful and seemingly gentle girl could be so malicious.

However, Li Xianglu did not care about these things anymore, she had too many questions, so she greeted and left with Qin Xi.

Only when they reached the stands near the basketball court did Li Xianglu finally breathe out and ask: "What exactly happened? Why did you suddenly run to the auditorium?" As if he knew she was in trouble.

Qin Xi sighed and took out a piece of paper from his pocket, unfolded it, and showed it to Li Xianglu.

With her hands still bandaged, Li Xianglu could only look with her eyes. After seeing it, she was stunned, blinked, thought for a moment, and gestured: "Take out the piece of paper from my pocket too."

Qin Xi was stunned for a moment and reached into Li Xianglu’s clothing pocket to fish out another note. It was from the same striped notebook paper. Qin Xi didn’t look at the content, instead, he tried to fit the two pieces of paper together, and miraculously, they matched perfectly.

That is to say, the two notes were torn from the same exercise book and given to him and Xiangxiang.

Li Xianglu’s eyes widened in amazement, her face filled with disbelief. Who could this be?

The note to Qin Xi stated that Li Xianglu was in trouble, someone in the dorm had hidden things and had been taken away.

The simple two sentences were written in a twisted font, looking as though they were written with both left and right hands.

Li Xianglu’s note, on the other hand, spoke in a teasing tone, saying she was going to get a surprise.

Initially, Li Xianglu thought it was someone’s prank, but putting the two together hinted at a new possibility: someone was warning them.

Qin Xi thought for a while and asked with a puzzled look, "Why did you think to take the money away?"

Li Xianglu sighed and said, "Because my clothes disappeared suddenly, and I have a performance tomorrow. They were gone this afternoon. Sister Yun Mei asked me to take out the money and then to find a tailor to make new ones, but I doubted they could finish in such a hurry. So I suspected that someone might have done this on purpose, which is why I went back after going downstairs."

Qin Xi nodded and replied, "Hmm, very good. What about Nabasha?"

Li Xianglu chuckled bitterly, "I’m just as baffled. Actually, I didn’t run into her downstairs. She specifically came up to the floor. The second time I went up, she asked me what I was doing. I told her, but she said it wasn’t enough just to take the money—in case someone staged a theft, and then I’d be at a loss for words."

Qin Xi was also startled; everything was so convoluted. Today’s events seemed to have been planned in advance, yet someone had managed to logically deal with each incident.

Li Xianglu sighed and continued, "Then there was the trip to the office, and Teacher Basra appeared just in time. It’s coincidental to the point of being unbelievable!"

After pondering for a moment, Qin Xi said, "From what we can see now, Nabasha, who has become openly involved, doesn’t seem to bear us any malice, but we can’t say the same for the other two."

Li Xianglu was suddenly alarmed, "Speaking of which, it’s odd. Lin Dongxue was in the dorm during the security inspection today, and she was dirty, which is unlike her!" Lin Dongxue is a bit of a neat freak, nearly cleaning every day, with her sheets and quilt always spotless. Moreover, she has two pairs of slippers, one for entering the house and one for after washing her feet... But today, her body was covered in dirt, and she was lying in bed like that, which didn’t match her usual habits.

After hearing it, Qin Xi furrowed his brows tightly and remained silent. At present, his own influence was too small; he had only found out that these two people were deliberately inserted into the situation, but their purpose remained unknown.

However, he had discussed it privately with his grandfather. Grandpa Li felt that it might be that someone higher up suspected something, so they placed people around Xiangxiang to get some information.

So Qin Xi repeatedly reminded Li Xianglu to make sure to check everything on her person and to thoroughly feel her clothes before wearing them each time to see if there was anything unusual.

This too was arranged by Grandpa Li, fearing that devices like listening bugs could be placed.

But over the past month, nothing had been found, and yet today’s incident seemed to involve those two figures again.

The situation was getting more and more complicated.

ps: I would like to raise a black rabbit, the kind with long ears.