Chapter 1222 — Shen Yushu's False Accusation
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By now Feng Xiaoxiao had sensed something. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had both been acting strangely today, as though deliberately going along with her. Had they learned the truth as well? It was possible — perhaps Wei Zhao or Tang Zhi had already told them, and they simply had not said it outright.
At this thought, Feng Xiaoxiao was overcome with emotion. To have such good friends in the days she had left to live — what a stroke of luck!
The food arrived in no time. At this hour the cafeteria cooks had nothing left to do — the great vats of food had been ready for ages — and so the dishes the young ladies had ordered were prepared and sent over at once.
"Sister Yaoyao, those children at the orphanage are so pitiful. We get to eat dishes like this every day, while they have to count out every mouthful of potato and cabbage..." Looking at the fine fare on the table, Shen Yushu sighed with feeling.
"Yes, Little Shu. Didn't you say you wanted to hold a fundraising rally? How is the planning going?" Gu Mengyao, too, cared deeply about the children at the orphanage.
"What's this about? What orphanage children?" Tang Zhi and Feng Xiaoxiao both started at once. They had not gone to the orphanage with Wei Zhao the day before, and naturally knew nothing of the matter.
"It's a long story..." The affair could not be explained in a few words, so Wei Zhao simply began at the very beginning — with the time Er Goudan first came and borrowed money from Yu Xiaoke — and recounted the whole thing exactly as it had happened.
There were no outsiders present, so Wei Zhao held nothing back; he even told them how he had first come to know Yu Xiaoke.
"So that's how it was!" Neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu knew much about Yu Xiaoke, but after hearing Wei Zhao's account they were just as stunned as Tang Zhi and Feng Xiaoxiao.
"Yu Xiaoke has it so hard, scrambling to keep the orphanage fed. A thief she may be, but she's worth a dozen of those sanctimonious hypocrites!" Gu Mengyao sighed.
"Exactly! That vixen Qiu Lingshan is positively hateful — she actually hurt Yu Xiaoke! If Yu Xiaoke hadn't met Brother Arrow and something terrible had happened to her, what would become of the children in the orphanage?" Shen Yushu said indignantly.
"You can't quite put it that way. Catching thieves is what the police are for, and Officer Song was only doing her duty. Yu Xiaoke may be a thief, but she is a good thief." Tang Zhi's judgment was rather more evenhanded.
"Sister Yunyun, how can you be so silly? You're speaking up for that vixen Qiu Lingshan — she's your romantic rival, you know!" Shen Yushu cried, flustered.
"What? My rival?" Tang Zhi could not help but stare. Since when had Qiu Lingshan become her rival?
"Qiu Lingshan has the hots for Brother Arrow — she was even giving him a handjob in the hospital!" Shen Yushu declared, `"framing"` Qiu Lingshan with characteristic bluntness. Of course, Shen Yushu did not think of it as framing at all.