The commotion was quite loud, and the captain rushed over shortly afterward.

The old man felt a headache coming on as soon as he saw Liu Guihua in the crowd. He shouted sternly, "Liu Guihua, what are you doing now? Get up right now! What kind of behavior is this?"

But before Liu Guihua could even speak, a villager nearby spoke up for her, saying, "Captain, this time it's not Guihua's fault. It was those educated youth who cheated us out of grain and looked down on us farmers. Captain, people like that are saboteurs... what was that saying again?"

Hu Chunzhi wanted to shout a slogan, but she couldn't remember what it was.

Finally, someone in the crowd shouted, "Deliberately undermining the unity among the people is a counter-revolutionary act."

"Yes, yes, yes, she's a troublemaker who's undermining unity. She even called us peasants and said we weren't worthy of getting married. Brigade leader, we can't keep someone like that in our brigade. We have to hand her over to the Revolutionary Committee for a thorough investigation."

"Yes, our brigade cannot keep such bad elements around."

"Yes, we can't keep them."

At this moment, the villagers of the brigade were all indignant. After all, no one would be happy to be looked down upon as a peasant.

Seeing that the situation was turning against them, Feng Baoguo hurriedly shouted at Yang Xiaohong, who was already terrified, "Yang, what time is it? Explain yourself clearly what happened!"

Yang Xiaohong was just greedy for small gains. She was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, and she was already terrified by the scene in front of her. She didn't care about what she should or shouldn't say.

She recounted the whole story in one go, including her own speculations.

"At first, I just thought that Aunt Liu wanted to see Wanqiu for something. But later, she urged me more and more urgently, and I realized that something was wrong. That's why I didn't dare to ask Wanqiu out as Aunt Liu suggested."

As for the grain, it's not that I want to renege on the debt, it's just that I don't have that much grain on hand right now, so I'm thinking of going to town to buy some more and then returning it to my aunt.

Please believe me, uncles and aunts, I truly never said anything like you were peasants and unworthy of city girls.

At this moment, Yang Xiaohong was crying with tears streaming down her face. Although she was a bit dark and thin, she was still much more pleasing to the eye compared to Liu Guihua, who had a face covered in tears and snot and had high cheekbones and triangular eyes.

Regardless of what the villagers thought, the educated youth still believed in Yang Xiaohong.

However, there were no witnesses, and the two people had conflicting accounts, so in the end, it was all a mess.

In the end, it was Feng Baoguo, the person in charge of the educated youth settlement, who stepped forward and agreed that the settlement would first provide twenty jin of grain to repay Liu Guihua on Yang Xiaohong's behalf, and then Yang Xiaohong would gradually repay everyone else.

Then the brigade leader tried to smooth things over, and the matter was quickly resolved. However, because of this incident, Yang Xiaohong knew that her reputation at the educated youth settlement was ruined, especially with Yang Wanqiu, and the enmity between the two was thus established.