The brigade leader said, "Lin Zhiqing, the country has its laws, and the brigade also has its rules. You kicked the old sow, causing her to give birth prematurely and with a difficult labor. If it weren't for Lin Zhiqing helping the sow deliver the pig, who knows what the consequences would have been."

"Captain, I... I truly realize my mistake." Please don't punish me anymore.

"Deeply? How deeply? You only talk the talk." The brigade leader's anger flared. "I think you need to be taught a lesson before you can truly admit your mistakes. Now that you know where you went wrong, go back and write a 1,000-word self-criticism. Tomorrow I'll hold a village-wide meeting and have you apologize in front of the entire village for your transgressions. In addition, you'll be penalized with two months without work points, and from now on you'll have to do three extra work points every day."

As for what punishment might follow, he wouldn't tell Lin Guanghui for the time being.

Upon hearing this, Lin Guanghui felt as if he wanted to die.

He was already destitute, and now not only is he being asked to work more, but his work points are also being deducted. Doesn't that mean that even if he does more work, he won't get anything in return?

The captain, seeing that he didn't speak, asked, "What? You're not convinced?"

"I." He dared not disobey: "I submit, I submit."

Lin Qingyan had been busy all this time and neither she nor Lin Zhiheng had eaten yet. She stood up and said, "Captain Uncle, let Uncle Wu take care of things here for now. Xiaoheng and I haven't eaten yet. Let's go back to the educated youth point first. If there are any other problems with these pigs, you can send someone to call me."

The captain felt somewhat ashamed, as he had caused others to not only exert themselves but also miss out on meals.

"Alright, alright, you guys should go back and eat now."

Lin Qingyan and Lin Zhiheng left, and the captain told Tong Jiaojiao to go back as well, but Lin Guanghui was left behind to keep watch with Wu Fatian.

Wu Fatian warned him beforehand, "If you dare to do anything to the sow and piglets again, just wait and see, you can forget about working here in the future."

Seeing his fierce expression, Lin Guanghui said, "How could I dare to do anything to them? They are my ancestors, and I'm too busy taking good care of them."

On the other side, when Tong Jiaojiao was walking home alone, she didn't notice that Erlaizi was hiding in the cornfield opposite her house.

In the middle of the night, Tong Jiaojiao ran out of her house with her hair disheveled, all the way to the educated youth settlement, where she raised her hand and pounded hard on the gate.

"Open the door, open the door!"

The loud banging and shouting woke up the educated youth in the dormitory.

Chen Lu got up first. After she got dressed, she went outside and ran into Wang Qiang, who had also gotten up and was going to open the door.

"Wang, the educated youth."

"Chen, the educated youth."

The two of them went over and opened the door together. The moment the door opened, Tong Jiaojiao rushed in like a madwoman.

"Help me, help me, please help me! Someone is trying to harm me, I'm so scared!"

She cried for help while looking back in terror.

Wang Qiang stood at the door and looked outside. It was pitch black everywhere, and he couldn't hear a sound.

"Tong Zhiqing, no one is with you. What happened?"

"Yes, a man climbed over the wall into my house at night and even went into my room. He... he touched me inappropriately. He even tried to... sob sob sob... Luckily, I managed to run away, otherwise he... he... sob sob sob sob."

After she said that, Wang Qiang and Chen Lu both knew what was going on.

Chen Lu asked her, "Did you see who that man was? If you do, tell the captain tomorrow and have him punish him."

Tong Jiaojiao shook her head: "No, it was pitch black inside, I couldn't see anything. He suddenly barged in while I was asleep. I was so startled awake that I didn't even have time to turn on the light, so I have no idea who he is."

"Did he do anything to you?"

Tong Jiaojiao, somewhat mindful of Wang Qiang's presence, whispered to Chen Lu, "She touched my body, but I ran away quickly, and she didn't do anything to me. But, I'm not clean anymore, sob sob, will Brother Wenbin be disgusted with me?"

Chen Lu thought to herself, "If you cry any louder, your brother Wenbin will definitely find out."

She said to Tong Jiaojiao, "Sleep at the educated youth settlement tonight. See if you can find out who that person is tomorrow. If you really can't find out, you'll just have to accept your bad luck."

"Ah, waaaah."

Tong Jiaojiao burst into tears again. Suddenly, she thought of someone: Lin Guanghui.

Yesterday, Lin Guanghui asked her to keep it a secret that he kicked the old sow, but she didn't. Lin Guanghui will definitely hate her for betraying him. The person just now must have been Lin Guanghui. He wanted to take revenge on her.

Thinking about this, she almost hated Lin Guanghui to death.

That beast Lin Guanghui, in order to get revenge on her, actually did such a thing, making her look unclean and unworthy of Brother Wenbin.

She wanted to kill that beast Lin Guanghui to avenge herself.

She immediately rushed towards the male educated youth dormitory, but Wang Qiang stopped her: "Tong, you are a female comrade, what are you doing going to the male dormitory in the middle of the night?"

"I need to find Lin Guanghui. I want to see if he's in the dormitory."

If that person was Lin Guanghui, then he is definitely not in the dormitory right now.

“Lin Guanghui was called away by Wu, the pig farmer, yesterday and hasn’t come back yet.”

"What? He hasn't come back, which means he's not in the dorm anymore. Lin Guanghui, Lin Guanghui, it really is you."

Wang Qiang and Chen Lu understood what she meant when they heard her words.

Lin Guanghui is a scoundrel, so it's not surprising that they would do such a thing to Tong Jiaojiao. Therefore, neither of them spoke well of Lin Guanghui; they were already being kind by not kicking him when he was down.

Tong Jiaojiao clenched her fists in anger, determined to settle accounts with Lin Guanghui when dawn broke.

She followed Chen Lu back to the female educated youth dormitory and slept there for one night.

Early in the morning, she got up and saw Chen Wenbin, and immediately went to greet him.

Only then did she regret her lack of composure last night. She had spoken so loudly; what if Brother Wenbin had heard her and found out that Lin Guanghui had bullied her last night?

She went over to test the waters, "Brother Wenbin."

Unexpectedly, Chen Wenbin's first words were: "Jiaojiao, I already know about what happened yesterday. If you can find out who that person is, I will definitely help."

Tong Jiaojiao's nose immediately stung with tears. Wenbin already knew she wasn't clean, would he still want her?

“Brother Wenbin, listen to me, he didn’t actually do anything to me.”

"Jiaojiao, I understand your predicament. Don't worry, I will definitely keep this a secret for you and won't tell anyone back home."

"But Brother Wenbin, we..."

"We have always been good neighbors."

Tong Jiaojiao's tears streamed down her face: "Brother Wenbin, does that mean you don't want me anymore?"

"Jiaojiao, we were never a good match for each other."