Chapter Ninety-Two is something else entirely.
Lu Jianshe was chopping wood with an axe in his hand when he looked up and his eyes met Zhu Qiangying's. He rolled his eyes and then lowered his head again as if nothing had happened.
Zhu Qiangying froze, staring at Lü Jianshe in disbelief.
His chest heaved a few times, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Lü Guangzhi.
"Captain Lü, I have something I want to talk to you about. Could we find a secluded place...?"
"Just say what you have to say, stop with all that useless stuff."
"It's inconvenient to talk about this here, I already..."
"What's inconvenient about it? You're not trying to ask me to put in a good word for you, are you? Let me tell you, no way. You women just love to cause trouble. Instead of staying home and hibernating in this freezing weather, you're just bored. Let me tell you, next spring you'll be digging for river hooks, so you don't have all these tricks up your sleeve."
Zhu Qiangying's face stiffened, and then she ignored it and said to Lü Guangzhi, "Fine, if that's the case, then neither will you. Captain Lü, you're allowing your son to buy and sell on the black market. If I report this to the commune, your Lü family won't get anything out of it either."
This is all ancient history. Didn't we always help the village exchange some money in the county town every winter?
This matter was not only a problem in the commune, but also in the county town. After the initial leaders who came down to manage the matter for a while, they gradually relaxed their efforts.
Why did she suddenly bring it up again?
After Zhu Qiangying finished speaking, everyone looked at her with hesitant expressions, and even Zhou Congsheng rolled his eyes in a very impolite way.
"Hehehe, don't look at me like that. I'm not talking about helping the villagers deal in those little things. I'm talking about how he resold large quantities of grain, vegetables, and meat in the county and provincial capitals. The quantities are so large that they'd scare people to death if I told you. I have photos of him."
Shen Yuzhu's eyebrows twitched, and she turned to look at Lü Jianshe, who nodded slightly.
The subtle movement was noticed by Zhou Congsheng, who lowered his eyes in thought, seemingly lost in thought.
"Bullshit! What are you talking about? You want me to show you favoritism in public? Let me tell you, I'm not easily intimidated. Feng, I don't think we need to mediate anymore. Do whatever you want. I'm listening. If you need to call someone to take him to the police station, I'll call someone right now."
Zhu Qiangying's resolute expression froze in shock.
If the son is annoying, the father is even more annoying.
"Qiangying, don't talk nonsense. If this gets out of hand, how will you survive in the production team? Don't forget, you're an educated youth from Xiangyang Production Team. Without the brigade leader and the old village chief's signature, you won't be able to go back to the city, and you won't be able to go to any other production team. You'd better admit your mistake!"
Xia Zhenzhen never expected her to be so stupid. She had leverage over the Lü family, and she had to say it when there were so many people around, including a soldier. Wasn't she setting a trap for herself?
“Feng Zhengyang, do you think you’re so responsible? But in my eyes, you’re just a hypocrite. You used to be chasing after Zhenzhen, but after sleeping with Wang Liping, you act like you don’t even know Zhenzhen anymore. Is your heart made of stone? Every time you showed affection to Wang Liping, didn’t you see the sad look on Zhenzhen’s face?”
Xia Zhenzhen: "........."
What nonsense are you spouting? Is this something you should be saying?
“I’m married, and I don’t see anything wrong with keeping my distance from single women. I used to have feelings for Xia Zhiqing, but she never paid any attention to me. She should feel relieved that I’m not pursuing her anymore. How could she be sad? You’ve misunderstood.”
"Impossible, I..."
"Alright, Qiangying, apologize quickly. Let's chip in the money and make Wang Zhiqing calm down, okay?"
Seeing the pleading look in her eyes, Zhu Qiangying hesitated for a moment, then swallowed the words she wanted to say.
Feng Zhengyang's request was simple: read the self-criticism aloud in front of all the educated youth at the settlement, and pay 300 yuan for medical expenses, nutrition expenses, and so on. That would be the end of the matter.
Xia Zhenzhen didn't have much savings to begin with, and this time she scraped together as much as she could, but could only give Zhu Qiangying eighty yuan. Who knew that Zhu Qiangying wouldn't take it?
She paid for it all herself, and when she faced Xia Zhenzhen, she felt a little guilty, thinking that Xia Zhenzhen had been implicated because of her.
He secretly slipped thirty yuan to Xia Zhenzhen as compensation.
Liang Manxiu happened to witness this and thought there was something wrong with her.
All that effort resulted in financial loss and a ruined reputation, all for the benefit of others. What was this person thinking? Is there a stupid deer living in their brain?
On the day he received the compensation, Feng Zhengyang took 150 yuan and gave it to Shen Yuzhu. He knew in his heart that if it weren't for the pregnancy-preserving medicine and ginseng that Shen Yuzhu had given him, the child would not have been saved.
Liping will also suffer physical damage.
Shen Yuzhu didn't say anything, and naturally accepted the money.
She's short of money right now, she'll take any money she can get. We should send some nourishing food to Wang Liping later; the crops in the fields are ripening one after another, and we can't keep up with the harvest.
After Wang Liping's matter was resolved, Shen Yuzhu kept thinking about the photos that Zhu Qiangying had mentioned.
I secretly told Liang Manxiu about it, but she just blinked a few times and didn't say anything.
That day, Shen Yuzhu and Zhou Congsheng got up early to make dumplings. The snow was thick enough that the dumplings would freeze in the snow and last until February of the following year.
They prepared several kinds of fillings and invited Shen Yuming and the children to come and help.
There are sauerkraut and pork filling, chive and egg filling, radish and beef filling, and scallion and pork filling.
There was only a small piece of beef, and it was all eaten by noon that same day it was packaged; not a single bit was left.
I spent the whole day making dumplings, more than a thousand of them, and they're all frozen outside.
"I'm making fried meatballs tomorrow. Do you want any? I'll make them for you."
"Okay, by the way, Feng, the educated youth, invited me to go up the mountain together. Can I go?"
"Go if you want. If you can catch a couple of pheasants, you can make soup."
Actually, she wanted to eat the free-range chicken in the space even more, but there weren't many at home, and they were almost all eaten, so Zhou Congsheng couldn't bring them out at home.
Fortunately, she would add more food to her kitchen every now and then, so it didn't arouse any suspicion.
As dusk fell, Liang Manxiu came over, looking somewhat nervous. Seeing this, Shen Yuzhu quickly pulled her into the house. Zhou Congsheng, who was cooking in the kitchen, didn't see her and assumed she had come to talk to him.
"My God, this is terrible, Yuzhu! This Zhu Qiangying not only has photos, but also a camera, and she even has gold bars in her bed!"
Shen Yuzhu was taken aback. Wasn't she an educated youth from a small county town? How did she end up with so many old things?
“Manxiu, something’s not right. Here’s what you should do: pay special attention to her usual actions in the future and see if there’s anything strange about it.”
"good."
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