Zhuang Feifei thought to herself, since she had a spatial dimension, once she killed Li Hongying, she could take the murder weapon and go directly into the spatial dimension, and no one would find any evidence of her murder.

However, she followed Li Hongying for three consecutive days and saw that Liu Aiguo accompanied Li Hongying whenever she went out. Whether she was working in the fields or on her way to and from work, the two were almost inseparable. She had no chance to make a move on Li Hongying.

She guessed that Li Hongying must also be wary of her, fearing that she would be targeted, which was why she asked Liu Aiguo to protect her.

If she were to force her way in, Li Hongying, with Liu Aiguo's help, might retaliate and gain another drop of blood from her, which would be a huge loss for her.

The two remained deadlocked, with no clear winner or loser in the near future.

Two days later, the people from the three brigades who had gone to the county town to learn how to drive tractors, having spent a week learning, were all supposed to return driving their tractors.

However, only the Forward Brigade and the Peach Blossom Brigade returned as scheduled. Of the three brigades, only Chen Erjin, the tractor driver of the Victory Brigade, had not yet returned.

The brigade leader rode his bicycle to the county town early in the morning to make arrangements, and he returned alone.

It turned out that Chen Erjin was not skilled enough and broke the tractor halfway through the journey. He called the agricultural technology station to repair it, but they couldn't fix it after a long time. Spring plowing is also the busiest time for the technicians at the agricultural machinery station. They are either repairing tractors in this brigade or going to that brigade to repair tractors. Before the technician could finish repairing the tractor, he was taken away by people from another brigade.

Actually, the main reason is that even the technicians couldn't do anything about that tractor.

The team leader thought of Luo Jingyan and wanted her to give it a try. He quickly went to the field, found Luo Jingyan, and told her about the tractor.

Luo Jingyan didn't want to be treated like someone who could be summoned and dismissed at will; what difference would that make from being a tattered rag?

Even if she repairs the tractor and makes a contribution to the team, others probably won't appreciate her efforts. If she fails to repair it, she'll definitely be criticized and gossiped about by those villagers who love to make snide remarks.

In short, it was a thankless task.

"Captain, I think I'd better not go. It's not that I don't want to fix the tractor; I really want to contribute as much as possible to our brigade's farming and make our brigade better. But, as you saw before, everyone here has a prejudice against me. I'm afraid that my skills aren't good enough, and if I can't fix it, everyone will blame me, which will put you in a difficult position, Captain."

The brigade leader immediately understood what had happened. Luo Jingyan no longer wanted to get involved in this mess. It was all the fault of those ignorant and jealous villagers who almost ruined their brigade's important spring plowing plans.

"Don't worry, Luo Zhiqing. I promise you, I will never let them talk about you like that again. I will give them a stern warning. As long as you fix the tractor this time, none of them will have any complaints about you in the future."

Luo Jingyan didn't want to be too definitive, but she wanted more than just the captain's assurance. "Uncle Captain, let me think about it some more."

The captain, having lived half his life, knew that Luo Jingyan was still making excuses.

If it were any other captain, they might have already used their authority to order Luo Jingyan around, but he didn't do that because it wouldn't be in accordance with the rules; it would be coercion and oppression, and of course, it would be inhumane.

“Luo Zhiqing, wait a moment, I’ll go and call them all over and give you an explanation in person.”

After he finished speaking, he went to find the people who had opposed Luo Jingyan that day.

Among them, Aunt Chen was the first to be called over, along with several other uncles and aunts.

The other uncles and aunties, because their sons weren't chosen to learn how to drive a tractor, took turns mocking Aunt Chen when they arrived.

"Chen Jinlian, look at you! You take advantage of having a lot of people in your family and insist on making your son learn to drive a tractor. Now look what's happened! He's ruined the new tractor. His skills are really something else."

"Hahaha."

"I think Erjin didn't go there to learn how to drive a tractor; he went there to learn how to drive a broken tractor, and he actually mastered it."

"Ha ha ha ha."