So the county leader in charge of this matter said that divorce was allowed, but the person who filed for divorce had to pay 10,000 yuan as compensation and another 10,000 yuan as child support.

The educated youth who filed the complaint was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

If they could have come up with 20,000 yuan, could they have married the country girl?

Some people, seeing that their hope of returning to the city was gone, completely lost their minds and immediately threatened the county leaders, saying that if they did not agree to their divorce, they would expose the matter of Tang County and everyone would die together.

After listening to this, the county leader chuckled, then turned around and asked the other spouse whether they could accept being widowed. If so, he would handle it.

The spouses of the educated youth were very upset when they heard this. It was indeed much better to say that one's spouse was widowed than divorced, and they would not be looked at strangely by others, but they could not accept it.

The county leaders did not force them, saying that the death penalty could be avoided but the punishment of life imprisonment could not be escaped. Then they had the educated youths' three limbs broken, leaving only their right hands so that they could eat more conveniently and write letters to their hometowns.

After this incident, these educated youth stayed and lived their lives honestly, and never dared to think of getting divorced, returning to the city, and dying together.

When Li Xu heard about this, he didn't know how to evaluate these educated youth.

Don’t they pay any attention to the news in the newspaper?

At the end of last year, the newspapers published news about reform and opening up. Next to this news was another major news related to the previous big storm.

In short, it means admitting mistakes.

With this piece of news as a guarantee, even if the terrible things that Tang County did during the storm were exposed, the consequences would not be so serious.

As for other serious problems, the county leaders have almost dealt with them. It would be difficult to find them unless the people sent from above use a magnifying glass to look for them.

After a few years, when Liu Wen retires and a new leader takes office, all the problems will no longer be problems. The successor will face a clean Tang County with a solid foundation.

Therefore, it was completely in vain for these educated youth to use Tang County’s past as a threat.

Do they think that now, like during the storm, one sentence can attract crowds of people?

Not long after, the people who had gone to Zichang County with Li Chen came back.

Some of them knew Li Xu's estimated return time to the city as early as when they went to the countryside. In order to make it easier to return to the city, they have not gotten married for so many years.

Although the remaining people did not know about this, the extreme water shortage in the area made it impossible for them to be interested in marrying the locals.

This group of people will naturally be able to come back quickly since they are not burdened.