As soon as Bai Yunyun spoke, the crowd gathered around.

"Dr. Bai, theft is illegal. What's the basis for what you're saying?" Zhou Guangming asked with a serious expression.

"Political Commissar Zhou, of course I have my reasons."

"Xia Qiuran bumped into me when I came in, and then my bracelet disappeared. I also saw her fiddling with my bracelet when I was dancing on stage. If she didn't steal it, who did?"

Bai Yunyun spoke with absolute certainty. At this moment, all eyes in the room turned to Xia Qiuran.

"I heard Xia Qiuran is from the countryside and her family is very poor. Look at all the other girls at this social gathering, they're all dressed up so beautifully, but she's just busy setting up her stall."

"Yes, I've never seen anything so good before. I might have been tempted for a moment."

People around them started talking about it.

"Political Commissar Zhou, Regiment Commander Lu, you organized this event, you can't just ignore this mess. People with such moral depravity don't deserve to be soldiers. In my opinion, we should report her to the police now and have her arrested and sent to jail." Bai Xia and Bai Yunyun exchanged a glance, understood what she meant, and immediately stood up to speak.

"Comrade Xia, how do you explain this?" Zhou Guangming naturally couldn't just listen to one side of the story, so he asked Xia Qiuran after hearing her explanation.

"Political Commissar Zhou, I'm innocent! I've never seen any bracelet before!" Xia Qiuran explained, feigning anxiety.

Bai Yunyun's lips immediately curled into a smug smile as she coldly watched Xia Qiuran stride towards her. "Xia Qiuran, do you dare let everyone search you?"

"I didn't do it, why should I be searched?" Xia Qiuran retorted.

"You don't dare anymore, do you? Political Commissar Zhou, Regiment Commander Lu, you saw it, didn't you? Xia Qiuran is feeling guilty." Bai Yunyun said with a slight smile.

Xia Qiuran sighed and sniffed softly. "Dr. Bai, I've been so accommodating to you. I've taken care of all the work in the infirmary by myself. Why won't you let me off the hook?"

Still daring to play the victim? Bai Yunyun pointed her index finger directly at Xia Qiuran.

"Stop playing the victim, you stole the bracelet."

Then he kicked over Xia Qiuran's bamboo basket, and all the plasters inside fell out.

Bai Yunyun looked down but couldn't find the bracelet. She quickly squatted down and started searching carefully, but even after tearing open all the plasters, she still couldn't find it.

"You must have stuffed it into your pocket." Bai Yunyun stood up and glared fiercely at Xia Qiuran.

"I don't have any. I only have pockets on my pants." Xia Qiuran blinked twice, tears welling up in her eyes. She deliberately lowered her voice as she spoke, and then turned all the pockets of her pants inside out, but there was nothing inside except a White Rabbit candy.

"Then it's hidden inside the clothes."

Bai Yunyun didn't believe it. He had clearly put the bracelet in Xia Qiuran's bamboo basket, so how could it not be there? Unwilling to give up, she grabbed Xia Ran's shirt, tearing a hole in the sleeve instantly.

That's enough.

Lu Zhenghan roared and immediately stood in front of Xia Qiuran, his eyes fierce. "Bai Yunyun, if you continue to act so unreasonably, I will have no choice but to report to my superiors and transfer you to another place."

"No, Commander Lu, she's the one who took that bracelet." Bai Yunyun was scolded and anxious, so her voice trembled with tears.

"Is this the bracelet? I found one in the crack of the table." Just then, someone walked over with a bracelet and said.

How could this be? Bai Yunyun shook her head in disbelief.

She clearly already...

"Dr. Bai, is this bracelet yours?" Zhou Guangming asked again.

Bai Yunyun nodded at first, then shook her head, and began to stammer as she spoke.

No, she can't admit that the bracelet is hers. Admitting that the bracelet is the same as admitting that she's wrong.

"Dr. Bai, can you hear the question I'm asking?" Zhou Guangming's face showed displeasure.

"It's hers, it's hers." Seeing that things had come to this point, Bai Xia had no choice but to admit it.

This bracelet was bought at a state-run store; there were only two or three in the whole city. It would be too easy to find out who owns it; there's no way to hide it.

"Political Commissar Zhou, Yunyun must have misread it. This bracelet is very important to her, that's why she's so nervous," Bai Xia said, defending Bai Yunyun.

"Director Bai, even if your niece is seeing things, you can't bully people like this. Look, you've torn that young girl's clothes," Gu Hong said, stepping forward.

I get angry just thinking about how arrogant Bai Xia usually is at the First Hospital. I never expected her niece to be like that. They really are family.

"The clothes aren't made of any good material either, I'll go with her." Bai Xia glanced at Xia Qiuran with disdain, then took out a small bill from her pocket. "Here, that's enough for you to get it mended at the tailor shop."

"Five cents! Director Bai, your niece wronged them, tore their clothes, and ruined so many ointments. How can you even offer such a paltry sum?" Han Yu almost burst out laughing when he saw the five-cent bill. It was so stingy and unreasonable. He absolutely couldn't let his cousin have anything to do with such a family.

"That depends on who it is. Five cents is very little for a rich young lady in the city, but for..." Bai Xia chuckled, her words trailing off with obvious sarcasm, "Comrade Xia, five cents is enough for your family's living expenses in the countryside for a month, isn't it?"

Xia Qiuran looked at Bai Xia without getting angry, and replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "Director Bai, you're exaggerating. We rural people eat from the same pot and don't need living expenses at all."

Bai Xia scoffed, "It's alright, then consider this money as charity to you, since Yunyun misunderstood you first."

"But we're in the city now. It doesn't seem reasonable to compensate according to rural standards," Xia Qiuran nodded slightly and then said calmly.

"The shirt I'm wearing cost twelve yuan at a state-run store, and the plasters on the ground were also soiled by Dr. Bai, so I can't sell them to anyone else. They cost fifty cents a plaster, so with the shirt, it would cost at least forty yuan."

"What! Forty yuan? Xia Qiuran, are you obsessed with money?" Upon hearing this number, Bai Xia immediately exploded. In her eyes, even fifty cents was too much. How could a village girl deserve so much money?

"Political Commissar Zhou, since we can't reach an agreement, let's report it to the police. These plasters of mine all have a cost." Xia Qiuran didn't say much after hearing this, and turned to look at Zhou Guangming with a firm gaze.

"Alright, then let's report it to the police. We'll decide the verdict as it should be. Political Commissar Zhou and I won't favor either side," Lu Zhenghan said, stepping forward at this moment.

Bai Yunyun has repeatedly caused trouble for Xia Qiuran. Reporting her to the police is the fairest way to handle the situation.

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