Chapter 73: It was I who reported it.
"What are you yelling about? Hurry up and take Zhang Jie and Panpan's children away. Don't let them get cold in this freezing weather." Lu Guangzhi was furious. He had just left Shen Yuzhu's place and came here to find Granny Zhang.
Before he could even drink a sip of hot water, he was pushed to the front door. It took a lot of talking to him to convince him, and then they made trouble for him again.
He hasn't had a hot meal all day!
When Li Wang saw that Granny Zhang was also there, the words he wanted to say suddenly stuck in his throat.
Using a dilapidated truck used for collecting scrap in Changshan, they took several children and headed outside. Panpan and Qianqian each blocked one of them from leaving.
“Uncle Li can’t leave yet. My grandma took all our clothes and shoes to the Chang family’s house, and then they were all divided up.”
"And the schoolbags and hair accessories that my aunt bought for us were all stolen by those bad women! Uncle Village Chief, you have to stand up for us!"
"You brats, I've spoiled you rotten. You can't even use all those good things. What's wrong with sharing some with your older brothers and sisters? You're a waste of money. I should have beaten you up for bringing you here. Let's see if you dare to say another word. You've really corrupted your little brats."
Panpan was naturally stubborn, and although she hadn't been with Shen Yuzhu for very long, she had learned a lot about her personality.
"Why should we give it to them? Their surname is Chang, and ours is Zhang. It was bought for us by my aunt. She went all the way to buy it. Why should we give it to them? Don't they have aunts of their own? Oh, no, they don't have aunts, they just don't have money!"
"Even if they don't have money, they can't rob us. Otherwise, I'll have my aunt come and confront them. Grandma is so biased."
Panpan and Qianqian, the two little girls, trembled as they stubbornly argued with Granny Zhang.
This surprised both Lü Guangzhi and Li Wang. The two girls used to be like mice before cats when they saw people, but they didn't expect them to be so formidable now.
Granny Zhang was so angry that her face turned red and her neck bulged. She went up to hit the two girls, but Lu Guangzhi stopped her. Changshan, who was squatting at the door of the courtyard smoking his old pipe, felt ashamed and shouted twice in the courtyard. After a while, the daughters-in-law who had taken the things quickly brought them all out.
Panpan and Qianqian checked everything and then handed it all over to Zhang Jie and Qiancheng.
The two checked it again, and Qiancheng tugged at Panpan's little hand.
"Second sister, no, my comic book, my comic book."
"The comic book, my brother's comic book, is back. My aunt bought it in the provincial capital. Please return it quickly."
Zhang Jie sat in the car, her face flushed red, unable to open her mouth, tears streaming down her face in frustration.
Changshan was so angry he jumped up and down. "What's wrong? Do you think I'm short of food or drink? If you're going to be so greedy for other people's kids' things, you'll make me lose all face. If you don't pay it back, get out of here today."
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Chang family shuddered upon hearing this, and the item slipped out of her sleeve. Seeing this, Panpan jumped off the car, grabbed the item from the ground, and ran outside.
As Lü Guangzhi left, he kept his eyes fixed on Granny Zhang for a while longer.
"You're no longer a resident of Xiangyang Village, so don't come here so often in the future."
Granny Zhang stumbled and almost fell to the ground, her back molars aching even more.
They rushed to the educated youth settlement. When Shen Yuming saw that the children had all returned, he was so happy that he immediately ran over and hugged and kissed the children. However, he couldn't care less about the joy of such a quick reunion and quickly pulled the children to stand behind Shen Yuzhu.
Lu Guangzhi looked at the two large groups of people at the entrance of Shen Yuzhu's courtyard, his temples throbbing. Li Wang had already briefly explained the situation to him on the way here.
Almost everyone in the village had seen Zhou Congsheng. Everyone knew that the handsome soldier was the fiancé of Shen Yuzhu, a sent-down youth. The two of them had been betrothed since childhood, and both families were hoping that they could get married soon!
The young couple had a very good relationship, and Lü Guangzhi was well aware of this.
As for how he knows, well, he only needs to see his good-for-nothing son looking half-dead every time he sees him. He must have seen the young couple's relationship and it broke his heart.
So when Li Wang said that someone had reported Shen Yuzhu for being immoral and that men would come to her house at night, he was so angry that he wanted to slap the person who made the report to death.
Putting aside Shen Yuzhu's kindness to the Lü family, the person who reported this matter is just idle. If it were during the winter, when everyone was working hard and too tired to even fart, who would have the time to keep an eye on whether a man had come to someone's yard every day?
“Shen Yuzhu, your boyfriend is a soldier, and you yourself are an educated person. How could you do such a despicable thing?”
"That's right, she's really a disgrace to us educated youth. If I were her, I wouldn't have the face to stand here. I'd just jump into the river and die."
"You don't have her flirtatious charm at all. Look at that face, that tiny waist, tsk tsk tsk, you look like a vixen, not proper at all."
Yuan Mingcui, Ye Danwa, and the others laughed and chuckled while muttering sarcastic remarks.
Liang Manxiu waved a sickle at the group of people.
"Your mouth stinks so badly, did you taste it while shoveling manure? If you keep spouting this nonsense, I'll tear your faces to shreds."
"What does this have to do with us? We're not the ones who reported it. What they're saying is so detailed and convincing, it can't be fake. What's the point of you arguing with us? Hurry up and look at your best friend, she hasn't said a word. What's your rush?"
Lin Wanwan's eyes were red from crying. She didn't say a word, and held Qiao Wangshu tightly with one hand.
"Shut up, all of you! What exactly happened? Who reported this?"
At this moment, Yu Manman pulled Qiao Nianyu to stand up.
"Captain, it was me who reported it. Nianyu and I came to the educated youth settlement today. Firstly, she wanted to see her sister, Comrade Qiao Wangshu, and secondly, we both wanted to apologize to Comrade Shen for what happened last time, but..."
"What is it? Just say what you have to say, or shut up. Why are you all so long-winded? And you educated youth, instead of hibernating in the mountains to find food, you're always causing me trouble. I'm so annoyed."
Lu Guangzhi roared, causing Yu Manman, who had prepared her speech, to freeze for a moment.
"Captain, we didn't mean to cause trouble. It was just getting dark when we came over to knock on the door and saw a big man with disheveled clothes jump out of the yard. We were terrified! Oh, I'm so sorry, Comrade Shen. We didn't mean to make a big deal out of your private affairs. It's just that Captain Zhou... we just couldn't bear to see such a good person like him being kept in the dark."
Now that things have escalated, quite a few people, whether from the educated youth settlement or the Xiangyang production team, have come to watch the spectacle.
Regardless of whether Lü Guangzhi wanted to or not, he couldn't ignore this matter.
“Shen Zhiqing, what do you have to say?”
Shen Yuzhu kept her head down and didn't say anything. When she heard Lü Guangzhi ask her a question, she looked up at everyone and suddenly laughed and said, "What did I say? Whoever reports me must provide evidence. Trying to frame me with nothing but empty words? You're dreaming!"
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