Li Tiezhu had just finished his brother's family affairs and had been lying in bed for a while when he heard his door banging accompanied by a man's shouting.

At first they thought they had misheard, but after a while they heard the shouting getting louder instead of slower. Thinking it must be something urgent, they both hurriedly picked up their clothes and put them on.

He walked out of the main room dragging his shoes, "Who is it? What's the matter with you in the middle of the night?"

Yang Qiangjun immediately replied anxiously: "It's me, Captain."

"Oh, it's Yang Zhiqing. What's the matter?" As he spoke, Li Tiezhu opened the door.

"Yang Zhiqing, you have something to talk to me about. Come, let's go into the yard and talk," he said as he was about to invite the person in.

Yang Qiangjun immediately interrupted anxiously, "No, Captain, it was Shen Zhiqing who was lost and can't be found."

Upon hearing the news, Li Tiezhu immediately roared, "What's going on? How could someone be missing?"

"I don't know either. As soon as I heard about this, I came to you immediately. I don't know the specific situation."

"Alright, I'll go with you and see what's going on. We can't just ask everyone to go look for someone without knowing the specific situation." After saying this, Li Tiezhu turned and called into the house, "Mother, I'll go check it out. Come out and lock the door."

Without waiting for Zhao Cuilian to say anything, he hurriedly followed Yang Qiangjun.

When the two arrived at the brigade headquarters, a group of educated youth had already gathered there. Seeing the brigade leader coming, Wang Hongxia immediately stepped forward.

Wang Hongxia: "Captain, Shen Mengli hasn't come back yet. Should we go look for her?"

Li Tiezhu thought for a moment and then said, "There's no rush to find someone. It won't take too long. This educated young woman Shen said this morning she had something to do and won't be going to work this afternoon. Do you know what it is?"

Captain Li Tiezhu looked at everyone after he finished speaking. Several people shook their heads, not knowing what was going on with Shen Mengli.

Li Tiezhu frowned. "That's really strange. This educated youth Shen just asked for leave this afternoon, and he's gone missing."

Yang Qiangjun interrupted, "Is it possible that she left on her own?"

Li Tiezhu and several other educated youth couldn't help but feel puzzled and looked at Yang Qiangjun.

He just spoke in an orderly manner, "This morning, when Aunt Cuihua and her family went to work, they all looked sad, so everyone said that something might have happened to Xiaoxi, and then Shen Zhiqing heard this and was probably scared, so he ran away!"

Wang Hongxia: "It's very likely. She was restless when she went to work this morning. This is probably the case."

After listening to their analysis, Li Tiezhu said directly, "Well, Wang Zhiqing, go back and see if Shen Zhiqing's things are still there. If she really left, it would be troublesome. Not to mention the punishment from the higher-ups, it would also have a huge impact on Shen Zhiqing personally. Besides, she's not familiar with this place, so if she loses them, it would be even more troublesome."

After receiving the captain's order, Wang Hongxia immediately ran back to the dormitory. When she looked, she found that although Shen Mengli's clothes and bedding were there, the small things she usually used, such as the snow cream, were gone. She thought that this person must have run away. As an activist, Wang Hongxia was very disgusted with this behavior, and directly told Li Tiezhu that Shen Mengli had planned to escape.

Li Tiezhu had guessed it long ago, and it must be like this. After hearing the result, he did not react much. However, it was different for the other educated youth. After all, they were all here together. Although it was a bit hard and tiring, they had never thought of deserting. Now that Shen Mengli did this, what should the remaining group of them do? For this reason, everyone secretly blamed her.

Li Tiezhu said, "Since she ran away on her own, we don't know where she is now, and we can't just rush into the mountains to look for her. How about this, everyone go back and rest first. Tomorrow I'll go to the township to ask what to do if an educated youth returns home without permission."

No one raised any objection to Li Tiezhu's decision. After all, this was the situation now and no one knew whether she was lost or what, so they could only wait for news.

The next morning, there was a huge uproar in the Dongfeng Brigade. It turned out that Shen Zhiqing was carried down from the mountain by Li Guodong, a bachelor in the village. Seeing that Shen Zhiqing was dirty, everyone said that the two of them might have done something shameless last night. Maybe Li Guodong had dirty thoughts about Shen Zhiqing because she was pretty. In short, the stories were very convincing.

Lin Jianwei from the Youth Educator Station even threatened to call the police, accusing Li Guodong of raping women, but was stopped by Li Qiang. Li Mingxi was a little skeptical when she heard such explosive news early in the morning. Although she wasn't very familiar with Li Guodong, she had heard from her father, Li Aiguo, that he had been orphaned since his parents died young. Although he had no one to discipline him, he was a good person and didn't seem like someone who would do such a thing.

Li Guodong ignored the rumors. After all, he had heard a lot of gossip since he was a child, and he didn't do anything about it. But Shen Mengli couldn't stand it. When she woke up, she was first forced to ask why she left without permission, and then when she went to work, she was pointed at and criticized by a group of aunties.

Niu Juxiang: "Hey, look at the way that Shen Zhiqing walks, he's really flirtatious. No wonder the bachelor Li Guodong is so tempted!"

Wang Chunmiao: "That's right, that's right. Look at her legs spread apart. She's not a grown-up girl anymore, but she's pretending all day long. I don't know why people in this city are so unrefined and go out looking for men at night."

"Stop talking, she's coming." The old woman with gray hair looked at Shen Mengli coming over here and quickly touched the arm of the person next to her.

Niu Juxiang: "What are you afraid of? What's there to be afraid of? She dared to do it, so why shouldn't she say anything?"

Wang Chunmiao echoed: "Exactly. Why would you be afraid of such a shameless person?"

Shen Mengli heard a group of people talking about her just now. She didn't want to care about it at first. After all, she didn't do anything shameful. She was just saved by a country bumpkin. What's the big deal? But what she didn't expect was that the group of people became more and more unpleasant, so she stepped forward to argue.

She grabbed Wang Chunmiao's arm and asked, "What did you say? You said I'm shameless? Did you see that?"

Wang Chunmiao was not afraid at all. "I'm talking to you. What's wrong? Do you think everyone knows what you did last night? Let me go!"

Chen Mengli let go of Wang Chunmiao, but her face was still blue with anger. "What good thing did I do? I just got lost in the mountains and was rescued by someone?"

Niu Juxiang sneered, "Humph, you said you were rescued, who would believe you? You looked like that this morning, maybe you and Guodong did something last night, don't you think? From the way you look at your belly, you might be pregnant right now!"

Although the members had been paying attention to the movements here, no one interrupted them. After all, it was one thing for everyone to know about it, and it was another to talk about it out loud. Besides, everyone just saw Li Guodong carrying Shen Zhiqing down the mountain, and no one knew what happened. Therefore, only Wang Chunmiao agreed with Niu Juxiang.