Zhang Chunxue nodded: "Okay, then Comrade Guo Mingyan, you can continue!"

She was kind enough to help her start the conversation: "Because it's too late, Song Xingzhi doesn't plan to have dinner and will leave directly."

Guo Mingyan swallowed her saliva before continuing, "Director Song had already walked a distance away. It was too dark, I couldn't see my hand in front of me, so I said I'd go see him off..."

"Wait a minute!" Zhang Chunxue interrupted her again. "You mean your family asked you, a young girl, to go and escort a strong man alone at around nine o'clock in the evening?"

She looked at Guo Fugui meaningfully: "I say, your family has already made plans to use this to blame Song Xingzhi, right?"

When Guo Fugui heard this, his face flushed again: "I, we didn't!"

He paused, then added quietly, "It was very dark outside at that time. It had rained during the day, and it was pitch dark. The road was also very muddy, so I originally meant to give Director Song a flashlight..."

"Mingyan said she would go and followed me out, ignoring my objections..."

His expression was a little unnatural: "At that time, I also noticed that Mingyan probably had a crush on Director Song, so I just let her do what she wanted."

"Wow!" The onlookers cheered again.

This incident has caused a huge uproar. Now the entire brigade headquarters is surrounded by people in three layers.

Everyone was watching the fun, and when they heard what Guo Fugui said, many of them were full of sarcasm.

"Oh, it's like a toad wanting to eat swan flesh..."

Guo Fugui was a little angry and embarrassed: "You are laughing at me, so I want to ask those of you who have unmarried girls of marriageable age, isn't there anyone who has thought of asking Director Song to be their son-in-law?"

At least now no one said anything.

Zhang Chunxue looked at Song Xingzhi with a teasing expression: "You really are a hot commodity."

Song Xingzhi felt helpless and could only smile bitterly.

Zhang Chunxue looked at Guo Mingyan again: "Go on."

Guo Mingyan swallowed her saliva: "Later... Later I chased after him and caught up with Director Song..."

She subconsciously looked for her second aunt's gaze again.

But as soon as she moved, Zhang Chunxue followed suit, blocking her gaze completely.

Guo Mingyan had no choice but to give up.

She said with a guilty conscience, "After I pursued Director Song, I told him that I liked him... Director Song was very surprised when he heard it, but he said he thought I was pretty good..."

"There happened to be an abandoned thatched hut on the side of the road, and he, he pulled me into the hut... and then we, we..."

She couldn't continue talking here.

Song Xingzhi almost cursed in his heart: "What nonsense!"

Song Xingzhi felt he had never been so speechless in his life. "I left your house that day and left straight away. I never saw you again! I've never even seen that thatched cottage you mentioned!"

Some people in Guojia Village are trying hard to recall.

"Could it be the thatched hut not far from the entrance of our village? The roof there is leaking so badly that it can't even keep out the rain. There's not even a bed inside. There's just a pile of musty, dry grass in the corner that's been there for who knows how long..."

"Director Song, is he really that desperate? He's so desperate that he can do that in a place like that?"

Another person patted him on the shoulder and said, "If you think about it this way, Director Song could even kill Guo Mingyan, so what's a rotten thatched hut?"

Everyone burst into laughter again.

Guo Fugui's face turned even darker.

Zhang Chunxue nodded after hearing this, and then looked at Guo Fugui: "Did your daughter say the same thing to you?"

Guo Fugui nodded hesitantly: "More or less."

Zhang Chunxue thought to herself, "Okay, then let me ask you, how long did it take for your daughter to return home that night?"

Guo Fugui thought for a moment and said, "About half an hour!"

Zhang Chunxue looked at the person who had just spoken and asked, "How long does it take to walk from Guo Fugui's house to the thatched cottage at the entrance of your village?"

The man thought for a moment and said, "Normally it would take about seven or eight minutes to walk! It's dark out at night, and it just rained, so the road is all wet and muddy. It would probably take about ten minutes to get out at night!"

"So it takes her nearly twenty minutes to go back and forth?" Zhang Chunxue said, and immediately looked at Song Xingzhi, "Song Xingzhi, you can't do it!"

Song Xingzhi's face suddenly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

What does it mean that he can't do it? Although he doesn't know whether he can do it or not, he probably, perhaps, should be able to do it...

As soon as Zhang Chunxue said this, the onlookers burst into laughter.

Some unmarried young women asked curiously, "What's wrong? Why is Secretary Song no longer able to do it?"

Before they could finish their words, they were covered with their mouths by female relatives and dragged aside.

Zhang Chunxue clapped his hands again and said, "Okay, now that Guo Mingyan's statement is complete, it's Director Song's turn next..."

"Director Song, do you have anything to say?"

Song Xingzhi was filled with helplessness. "I've already said everything I wanted to say. After I left their house that day, I never saw Guo Mingyan again. I didn't even see anyone from Guojia Village that day. I just went straight home."

Zhang Chunxue raised an eyebrow. "I remember you were living in the dormitory assigned to you by the brigade, right? You're probably not the only one living in that row of houses, right?"

Song Xingzhi also nodded: "Indeed, several unmarried people in the brigade live in that row of houses."

Zhang Chunxue asked again, "What time did you go home that night? Did you meet anyone after you came back?"

Song Xingzhi tried to recall again: "When I arrived at the brigade dormitory, it was probably almost eleven o'clock. I remember it seemed like... ah, yes! I met Xiao Ren!"

"At the time, Xiao Ren said he was going to the bathroom. I asked him why he wasn't asleep yet. He said he had fallen asleep earlier and was woken up by the urge to pee."

Zhang Chunxue immediately looked around the group of people at the brigade headquarters: "Where's Xiao Ren?"

Ren Changzhi immediately stood up: "I'm here!"

He was also a little excited. He was just playing around and didn't expect that he would be the one to show up in this big melon.

Zhang Chunxue immediately asked him, "Do you remember what happened that night?"

Ren Changzhi nodded quickly: "I remember, I remember! I remember it clearly!"

Zhang Chunxue's face immediately broke into a smile. "Then tell me what Director Song was wearing when you saw him come back that night? Do you remember?"

Ren Changzhi pondered for a moment, "I remember that night I went to the restroom with a flashlight, and Director Song just happened to come back. I even asked him why he came back so late..."