Jiang Jun looked at Xiao Qin thoughtfully: "Who are you referring to?"

Xiaoqin looked at Huang Hubo, hesitant to speak: "Well, it's a long story."

Huang Hupo had no choice but to stand up: "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, I'll go boil some water, you guys chat."

Xiaoqin asked, "Sister Xiaorong, is your father's leg feeling better? I heard him humming outside the window when I first came over."

Huang Hupo knew that Xiaoqin just wanted to send her away. She hummed secretly, sat down in front of the stove, struck a match and lit the fire: "It's the same old habit. He hummed the same way every time I went there. Xiaoqin, what else do I not know about the things going on in the village?"

Want to intercede for everyone? Isn't it just to help the village chief keep his position?

Huang Hupo insisted on staying: "Xiaoqin, it's too late. The police will be here soon, and Deputy Team Leader Jiang has to go over there!"

Seeing that Huang Hubo was not buying it, Xiaoqin snorted disdainfully: "Sister Xiaorong, I'm not here for myself. I said, I'm here for everyone. I'm thinking about the people in our village!"

Jiang Jun wanted to see how much more arrogant Xiaoqin could be: "Tell me, who do you want to plead for?"

Xiaoqin smiled at Jiang Jun and said, "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, to be honest with you, it's not that I want to protect Pi Laizi. Although he calls my father-in-law Fourth Uncle, we are not related at all. I don't know how many generations ago we were from the same family. My father-in-law just felt sorry for him because he grew up without parents and had to eat at other people's houses. Besides, as the village chief, he has to help him no matter what, right?

This lecher, what he did today was wrong, he deserves to be shot! But, this damned person should give an explanation before he dies, right?

Deputy Team Leader Jiang, there are many things you don't know, but Sister Xiaorong knows them all. This leper has had meningitis since he was a child. He doesn't know the limits in what he does. He is poor and can't get married. Sometimes when he sees young girls or wives, he likes to touch them and take advantage of them with his mouth.

There was nothing wrong with him. If they shot him, they would just have a few people bury him in the ground. He would just be a pile of dirt on the ground and no one would care about him.

But the villagers still have homes and need to survive, right? Even a rabbit bites when it's angry. If the leper were to speak nonsense in front of the police and the leaders, wouldn't that be a disgrace to the villagers?

Jiang Jun asked, "You're saying you're worried Laizi won't appreciate the kindness the village chief has shown him, right?"

After saying so much and going around in circles, he is still thinking about the reputation of the village chief. This Xiaoqin is very good at avoiding the important issues!

Xiaoqin didn't expect Jiang Jun to see through her thoughts at a glance. "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, I'm really not doing this for the village chief. I swear! I'm here to intercede on behalf of everyone. I have no selfish motives at all!"

Jiang Jun hummed softly and said nothing.

Xiaoqin was getting anxious. Failure to persuade Jiang Jun would mean the end of her life. "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, perhaps I haven't been clear enough for you to understand. Let me put it this way: that lecher has slept with and teased quite a few women in the village. He claims to have slept with more than half the women in the village, and even touched those he hadn't slept with. If you don't believe me, ask Sister Xiaorong; she knows everything."

Jiang Jun frowned slightly. "This kind of scoundrel should have been arrested long ago! Why are you still pleading for him?"

Xiaoqin was anxious. "I've already told you, if Pi Laizi spreads these lies and other people hear about them, what will happen to the people of Jinshatan Village? We're already poor, and men can't find wives, so there will be more and more bachelors. This time, I'm going to have the village chief teach Pi Laizi a lesson! I'll beat him to death and let you vent your anger!"

Huang Hupo walked over and stood at the door: "Xiaoqin, why are there so many bachelors in our village? Aren't there people like you who are willing to marry and make a difference?"

"You..." Xiaoqin was caught off guard and stuttered: "Sister Xiaorong, you, you!"

Huang Hupo sat outside listening to Xiaoqin's long speech and could no longer bear it. She thought back to when Xiaoqin cried to marry the village chief's son. After the boy gave birth to two more children, she became confused and could no longer tell good from bad.

Xiaoqin reacted quickly, her expression changing immediately: "Sister Xiaorong, you are more than half of the people Laizi mentioned. Aren't you afraid that if people tell others, your parents will be embarrassed?"

Huang Hupo sneered: "You said he was talking nonsense, what should I be afraid of?"

Xiaoqin gritted her teeth and said, "Who knows if what he said is true or not?"

Huang Hupo retorted, "So, you were touched by him? Your man won't stand up for you? The village chief won't stand up for you?"

Jiang Jun raised his hand and called for a halt: "Stop arguing! If you continue, we'll go to the village chief right now."

Once this typical mode of mutual harm is initiated, things will inevitably get out of control, just like Zhang Xiuying's quarrel without regard for the consequences, which ultimately results in both sides suffering losses.

Jiang Jun could already hear without Xiaoqin saying much that in this closed and difficult environment, too many people had become numb. After being violated and unable to resist, they would go find someone who looked weaker than themselves to vent their anger.

The real culprit is at large and continues to commit intentional or unintentional infringements day after day.

Jiang Yun is compassionate, but she is also more rational. She knows that her "pity for their misfortune and anger at their lack of resistance" cannot change social reality.

Under the premise that Bu Senyuan emphasized that "no problems will be solved during the social research process", Jiang Jun felt that the only thing he could do was to point out the real perpetrators. Whether to fight or endure it depends on everyone's choice.

"Xiaoqin, I'm not from the police, nor am I a leader in Lingcheng," Jiang Jun said succinctly. Elaborate words were never her style. "It's not my decision what to do with the lecher. Let's wait until the police arrive. You should go back first. Don't you have children at home?"

There is another point that she doesn't want to say clearly. It is up to her to decide the severity of the accusation against Pi Laizi!

Xiaoqin's expression changed again and again. Finally, she gritted her teeth, stood up, slammed the door and left.

Huang Hupo smiled bitterly: "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, I'm sorry to have made you laugh. I just got into an argument with Xiaoqin because I was hot-headed. This is how it is in the village. I don't have much ability, so I can only bear it like this except to get my sister out. When my parents are gone one day, I will never come back here again."

Jiang Yun was silent.

When you are unable to fight, escaping far away rather than struggling to survive is the best option.

How many people express their despair and anger by hurting themselves!

In that original time and space, many people chose extreme methods to harm their own lives, expressing their despair in vain.

"A great man once said, 'Where there is oppression, there is resistance.'" Jiang Jun felt his persuasion was powerless. "Bad people are like autumn grasshoppers; they won't be able to jump around for long."