Ordinary observers in fast time travel

"Thank you for taking care of me during this time, Village Chief." Fu Zhengqing thought for a moment, asked his friend for his mailing address, and handed it to Village Chief He.

"If you need anything in the future, please contact this address. I will definitely help if I can," Fu Zhengqing assured the village chief.

The village chief was delighted to hear this.

After saying goodbye, Fu Zhengqing got into the truck. Before getting in, he made a point of looking into the crowd.

Seeing Li Xiaomei with her mouth covered, he frowned and slammed the car door shut.

"Waaah~" Li Xiaomei's eyes turned red with anger as she watched the car drive away, as if she had lost the most important thing in her life.

"Slap! What are you looking at? Go back to work, you shameful thing." Aunt Hui slapped her daughter and dragged her away without giving her a chance to refuse.

The onlookers pointed and whispered among themselves. Li Xiaomei felt utterly humiliated.

Shi Jia was unaware of what was happening in the village. She went to school in the morning and it was lunchtime. Because she wanted something hot to eat, she walked three kilometers home every day, making two round trips.

"Beep beep—" Three military trucks came towards them. Shi Jia quickly stood to the side and covered his mouth with his sleeve to avoid getting a mouthful of dust.

However, three military trucks stopped right next to her. Shi Jia was puzzled and looked towards the driver's seat.

Fu Zhengqing opened the car door and jumped out. "Li Xiaohua?"

Shi Jia lowered her hand from her mouth and looked at him with a puzzled expression. "Is something the matter?"

"Thank you for saving me," Fu Zhengqing said.

"Huh? You found out? Li Xiaomei told you?" Shi Jia raised an eyebrow. Was Li Xiaomei planning to give up?

Fu Zhengqing shook his head. "No, it's a girl named Zhang Dahua."

"Zhang Dahua?" Isn't that Li Xiaomei's best friend? Hmm, a classic best friend betrayal scenario? Shi Jia's mind raced.

"Yes, I only learned about this two days ago, and I've been wanting to thank you ever since." Fu Zhengqing looked at the little girl in front of him, who looked to be only nine or ten years old. If someone hadn't told him that she was his savior, he wouldn't have believed it.

Most importantly, the other party never exposed Li Xiaomei's lies from beginning to end. Why did she do that? Was she threatened by Li Xiaomei?
"No need, it's nothing." Shi Jia waved his hand.

"Then why don't you tell me?" Fu Zhengqing thought for a long time, still wanting to find out the truth.

"Uh, I'm too lazy to talk about it," Shi Jia said. Anyway, it wasn't important, and she didn't care about being called a savior.

After all, only those who save lives have merit.

Fu Zhengqing was stunned. Too lazy to speak? For a moment, he felt very complicated. On one hand, he was angry that the other party did not take his life-saving grace seriously. On the other hand, he was speechless at the other party's indifferent attitude and felt a little disappointed.

"Is there anything else?" Shi Jia asked. She was hungry and needed to go back to cook.

Fu Zhengqing took a deep breath and took out a piece of paper from his pocket. "This is my address. If you need anything in the future, you can call or write to me."

"Oh." Shi Jia took the note. "If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

"Okay, be careful on your way back."

Goodbye, and have a safe journey.

Fu Zhengqing watched Shi Jia walk away until she was quite far away before returning to his car.

"Commander, that little girl was quite interesting, wasn't she?" the soldier sitting next to him said, winking.

Fu Zhengqing couldn't understand his expression, but nodded.

She's really interesting; she's so mature for a ten-year-old girl.

Shi Jia didn't care what others thought of her; she only had one thought: to get home and fill her stomach. Naturally, she didn't notice that not far away, Li Xiaomei was watching everything with bloodshot eyes. She even thought that with Fu Zhengqing gone, the matter would probably be over.

Until one afternoon when she came home from school, she felt something was wrong as soon as she entered the door. She looked at the locked door, the half-open window, and especially the dust on the window sill, but everything seemed normal.

She stood in front of the kitchen door, looking down at the rusty padlock; its position seemed to have changed. She frowned, took out the key, and inserted it into the lock.

The key didn't seem to go in the lock as smoothly as before. She unlocked the lock, then removed the key to examine the lock; some rust powder was stuck to it. However, her key itself wasn't rusty.

What did someone use to open this lock?

When she opened the kitchen door, a very faint odor wafted into her nostrils, and she immediately concluded that someone had been in her kitchen!

Shi Jia scanned the kitchen, glancing over the tilted pot lids and the spice jars that had been moved, before finally fixing her gaze on the water tank.

The wooden lid on the water vat now formed a thin crescent-shaped gap with the vat. She walked to the edge of the vat, reached out, and picked up the wooden lid.

Her face was immediately reflected in the clear water.

She picked up the water ladle beside her, scooped up a ladleful, and brought it close to her nose to smell it. She'd been drugged!
Suddenly, Shi Jia felt a gaze coming from outside the window. She immediately looked out the window but saw nothing. Just as she was about to turn around, she suddenly remembered something.

She went to the water vat again and scooped up a ladle of water. The feeling of being watched returned. On a whim, she brought the ladle to her lips and pretended to drink.

She felt someone staring at her until she finished drinking the water and put down the ladle. Shi Jia didn't want to alert them, so she pretended not to have noticed anything and proceeded with boiling water and cooking rice as usual, silently waiting for night to fall.

"Thump~" "Tap tap~"

"Keep your voice down, don't let the neighbors hear you."

"That bitch is such a busybody."

Two people? Li Xiaomei? And a man. Shi Jia, who was waiting silently in the kitchen, carefully distinguished them. She was surprised by Li Xiaomei's appearance, but it also seemed to be taken for granted, since she had been here once before.

"The kitchen door is open!"

"hey-hey."

"Oh!"

"what!"

"Help!"

"What's going on next door?" The Wu family, awakened by the commotion, rushed to the next room. "The door's open!"

"Little Flower, Little Flower!" Grandma Wu's grandson called out.

"Brother Dajun, I'm fine," Shi Jia said. "It's just that two petty thieves broke into the house."

"What?" Wu Dajun was startled. "Where?"

"I've subdued them. Could you please go and call the village chief and the others over, Brother Dajun?" Shi Jia said.

"it is good."

Soon, most of the influential people in the village arrived. Shi Jia placed a vat of water and the two of them in front of everyone. The village chief and the others tried to smooth things over, but they were caught red-handed, and the evidence was irrefutable.

Shi Jia, too lazy to argue with them, simply said he would call the police. The others, of course, refused, as this concerned the reputation of their Xinghua Village. If they called the police, everyone for miles around would know that their Xinghua Village had produced two wicked people who poisoned people.

How will outsiders view Xinghua Village in the future?

Shi Jia wasn't particularly disappointed by the attitude of the people in Xinghua Village; that was only human nature. But mistakes should be punished. The next day, she didn't go to school but went directly to the town to report it to the police. (End of Chapter)