Xu Yan: "..."

That would be too much for me.

However, she couldn't bring herself to speak.

Li Aihua, who suddenly squeezed through the crowd, spoke up for her, "Conscience? You men have a funny way of talking. Can conscience feed you? If it could, then Little Xu, the educated youth, wouldn't have gone to the river to catch fish because he was hungry and almost drowned."

Did it fall into the river?

Han Xiaoyu suddenly looked at Xu Yan, then turned to look at the others who had stayed at the educated youth settlement at noon.

Zhou Jingjing, who was usually quite talkative, turned deathly pale when she heard someone mention Xu Yan falling into the river. When she noticed Han Xiaoyu's gaze, she broke out in a cold sweat.

It's over.

Qin Li had only this thought in her mind.

"Who did you say fell into the river?" Ye Wei thought she had misheard and asked again.

“Look, it’s been so long,” Li Aihua said, “and you didn’t even know that Xiao Xu, the educated youth, fell into the river and almost drowned. And you still say that she has a guilty conscience? In my opinion, it’s you who have a guilty conscience.”

As soon as she said that, the expressions on the other people's faces changed.

Yes, people living in the same courtyard almost drowned because they were starving, and these people still have the nerve to rob them.

"I was wondering why this young educated youth, Xu, had gotten thinner and thinner since he came to our Qingshan Brigade. It turns out you guys have been stealing and eating all this stuff. Bah, you have no conscience!"

“Whoever took it, it was given to us by her,” Wu Shi said, blushing, repeating the same sentence over and over again.

Han Xiaoyu had somehow appeared beside Xu Yan, his eyes fixed on her, his voice deep and resonant, "You fell into the water?"

Xu Yan genuinely felt sorry for the original owner of this body.

Look, this is the person she cherishes most.

For so long, if someone hadn't brought it up, he wouldn't have discovered anything, and he even forced her to split her package.

Is it really worth it?

The thought had barely formed in her mind when she felt her heart suddenly pound violently because of Han Xiaoyu's concern.

Xu Yan: "..."

Sorry, I shouldn't have tried to understand a simp using the logic of a normal person.

"Why did you suddenly go to the river to catch fish?" Han Xiaoyu asked a second question when he saw that Xu Yan kept his head down.

Before Xu Yan could speak, Qin Li couldn't hold back anymore and burst into tears again.

Han Xiaoyu looked over with a grim expression.

If there's anything else you don't understand, it must be her and Zhou Jingjing.

"I...no, it was her. I didn't say anything," Zhou Jingjing said somewhat incoherently. "She wanted to make you fish soup, and I...I just told her there might be fish by the river, and then she—"

"That's enough!" Han Xiaoyu stopped Zhou Jingjing from continuing.

Although everyone in the educated youth settlement knew that Xu Yan liked him, the villagers didn't know. Now, after Zhou Jingjing said it, the whole Qingshan Brigade knew.

Xu Yan, a female educated youth, almost drowned while fishing in the river for him. He knew without a doubt what the villagers would say about her afterward.

Han Xiaoyu was so angry that his liver hurt.

What kind of day is today? Why does everything seem to be happening today?

And then there's Xu Yan, who usually does whatever he says, but today he actually dared to go against him like this.

Once today's events are over, he must write home and ask his parents to immediately call off his marriage to Xu Yan.

Even if Xu Yan cries and begs him with those things, he will definitely not soften his heart again.