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The living room fell into a deathly silence!

"If you don't believe me, you can go and search my room right now! I didn't do it, and that's it!"

Qiao Xinxin bit her lower lip hard, her thin shoulders trembling slightly from extreme "grievance." Her large, almond-shaped eyes stared intently at Qiao Mingzhu, filled with a mixture of sorrow and stubbornness: "I don't understand why my sister always suspects me? Just because I grew up in the countryside, does that mean that whenever something goes missing in this house, it's all my fault?!"

Faced with this sudden, direct questioning, Qiao Mingzhu was also taken aback.

Normally, if she just said a few words to provoke her, this country bumpkin would just sulk awkwardly. Why did she suddenly become so sharp-tongued today?

But Qiao Mingzhu reacted quickly, immediately adopting a gentle and harmless demeanor. She looked at Qiao Xinxin with pleading eyes and kindly advised, "Sister Xinxin, why would you think that? Mom and Dad and I definitely didn't mean it that way. Please don't misunderstand. We were just worried that you'd just returned and weren't familiar with the family rules..."

"Don't give me that nonsense!"

Qiao Xinxin interrupted her without hesitation, her face tense, stubbornly pointing upstairs: "Since you said that, you suspect me! Fine, come with me upstairs to search!"

The atmosphere in the living room instantly became tense.

Qiao Shouguo and Qin Fangfang exchanged a glance. Although the elderly couple did not say anything, the seeds of suspicion had already taken root in their hearts.

That's a whole two thousand yuan!

That's most of the family's savings!

Qin Fangfang coughed and forced a dry smile: "Xinxin, look at you, why are you so stubborn? Of course, Mom believes you, but... but since you've put it this way, if your dad and I don't go and see, it would seem like we're being biased and hurting your feelings, wouldn't it? Since that's the case, then we'll just go up and take a look, so we can clear your name as soon as possible."

They talk a good game but they sing a better game!

Qiao Xinxin sneered inwardly, but her face remained filled with grief and indignation as she turned and strode upstairs.

Qiao Xinxin's room is at the very end of the second-floor corridor.

As soon as Qiao Shouguo and Qin Fangfang entered, they said they were "just browsing," but their rummaging around was anything but casual!

Qin Fangfang roughly pulled open the wardrobe and ripped out Qiao Xinxin's few pitiful old clothes, throwing them carelessly on the ground.

Qiao Shouguo even lifted the bed, not even sparing the cracks between the bricks underneath!

"Sizzle—"

Qin Fangfang even touched Qiao Xinxin's pillow and tattered quilt several times, almost to the point of taking scissors to open them up to see if there was any "big unity" hidden inside.

However, after about ten minutes, the place had been turned upside down and was a complete mess.

Forget two thousand yuan, they couldn't even find half a penny's worth of paper money!

There's nothing there!

Clean and tidy!

Qiao Shouguo straightened up, patted the dust off his hands, and frowned deeply.

Looking at Qiao Xinxin, who was huddled by the door with red eyes, his doubts were completely dispelled.

"Alright, stop searching. It seems it really wasn't Xin Xin who took it," Qiao Shouguo said with a stern face.

Upon hearing this, Qiao Mingzhu, who was standing outside the door, froze for a moment.

She twisted the handkerchief in her hands so tightly that her nails almost dug into her flesh.

How could it not be there?!

Such a good opportunity, and this brat managed to escape it!

There are only four people in the family. If it wasn't their parents who took it, and it wasn't her, then who else could it be besides this country bumpkin who just came back?!

While her parents turned away, Qiao Mingzhu kicked the door frame hard, gritting her teeth in frustration.

But finding no evidence, she could only suppress her anger and obediently follow her parents downstairs.

Qiao Shouguo reported the theft of the two thousand yuan to the police.

Qiao Xinxin didn't care how chaotic things were at the Qiao family over the lost two thousand yuan. For the past three days, she went to work at the state-run pharmacy as usual during the day, and locked her bedroom door at night before plunging into her spatial dimension.

On the advanced high-tech human body model in the space, she held a holographic scalpel and simulated the bone removal and reconstruction surgery again and again until every movement became muscle memory and she could not make a mistake even with her eyes closed.

The three-day period has ended.

Early that morning, Qiao Xinxin took a whole day off from the pharmacy, carrying her faded canvas bag, and headed straight for the Zhou family.

……

At this moment, the atmosphere inside the Zhou family's small villa was so oppressive that it seemed as if water could be squeezed out of it.

Since last night, Zhou Liguang has been following Qiao Xinxin's instructions and has not eaten or drunk anything.

As dawn broke, he turned his wheelchair and quietly stood guard behind the gate.

The sunlight shifted inch by inch, and time passed little by little.

Even after the sun had fully risen and the clock on the wall had already pointed to past nine o'clock, the petite figure still hadn't appeared outside the courtyard.

Zhou Liguang lowered his eyes, his large hands gripping the edge of the wheelchair, the knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't excited, and it would be an even bigger lie to say I wasn't afraid.

He had been injured so many times, and had lain on the operating table at the General Hospital of the Military Region countless times. Even the top experts from the capital shook their heads at his legs.

Qiao Xinxin, a young woman in her early twenties, had never attended a proper medical school and was even required to perform surgeries alone...

Can she really cure her useless leg?

Or was she just saying it casually, and now that the time has come, she doesn't dare to come?

Just as the light in Zhou Liguang's eyes was gradually dimming, and he was almost sinking into the abyss of despair—

Suddenly, a series of light footsteps came from not far outside the door.

A figure walking quickly towards him against the sunlight was moving towards him.

Zhou Liguang suddenly raised his head, his breath suddenly freezing at that moment!

He stared intently at the approaching figure, his heart pounding wildly in his chest. He couldn't tell whether he felt more excitement at escaping a desperate situation or trepidation at taking a gamble.

Qiao Xinxin, carrying her bag, walked to the wheelchair and stopped. Looking at the man's taut jawline, she suddenly smiled brightly, her voice soft and sweet, yet carrying a reassuring strength that commanded respect: "Sorry to keep you waiting, Comrade Zhou. Are you ready to stand up again?"

Zhou Liguang's Adam's apple bobbed violently, and he uttered a single word in a hoarse but firm voice: "Hmm!"

After half an hour.

In the most spacious bedroom on the first floor of the Zhou family home, Zhou Liguang had been moved to lie flat on the bed.

Qiao Xinxin stood at the door, her back ramrod straight. She turned her head, looked at the anxious Zhou family couple outside, smiled slightly, and said with unwavering resolve, "Uncle and Aunt, please wait outside. Don't disturb me! Wait for me to come out!"

After saying that, she didn't hesitate at all. She took a step back, slammed the door shut with a "bang," and locked it from the inside!

As the door closed, Liu Hongmei seemed to have all her strength drained away instantly, her body went limp, and she leaned straight against her husband Zhou Zejun's shoulder.

"Old Zhou... tell me, are we really crazy doing this? Are we making a mistake?"

Liu Hongmei clutched her chest, her heart pounding wildly, almost bursting out of her throat.

That's a major surgery involving bone removal and reconstruction after a comminuted fracture!

Just like that in their own home? With only a wooden bed? In such rudimentary conditions, without even a nurse to help, without any medical equipment, they just entrusted her to a twenty-year-old girl?!

Can this really work?! What if something goes wrong? Will Li Guang lose his life?!