Chapter 33: The sneaky Tian Jing
Hearing this, Gu Yuehuai chuckled and nodded: "You are right. Anyway, there were only you, Tian Jing and I present at the time. I heard that Tian Jing was about to marry Captain Chen, so it is normal for her to be willing to give false testimony for you."
Tian Jing raised her head and whispered, "I, I didn't give false testimony, you fell down by yourself."
She was twirling her fingers while she was talking, looking like a pitiful victim. Many people said, "I don't think Tian Jing lied. Besides, it was just a few clods of earth. How could it knock someone down? It's obvious that Gu Yuehuai was pretending."
Chen Yin was somewhat smug. She stood behind Chen Yuesheng and made a face at Gu Yuehuai.
At this time, Huang Fengying and Wang Peisheng suddenly came.
The two directors walked through the crowd to the edge of the field, and the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became a little different.
With great agility, he recounted the entire story, including Chen Yin's explanation and Tian Jing's testimony.
"Tian Jing, is it really as you said?" Huang Fengying looked at Tian Jing with a somewhat cold expression.
Ever since the last incident with Ren Tianxiang, her good impression of Tian Jing has plummeted.
Although it was finally found out that Tian Jing was still a good girl, but the flies don't bite the eggs without cracks. If she hadn't expressed it, why would Ren Tianxiang have been obsessed with her? The Tian family was poor and had no strong labor force. How could Ren Tianxiang, a landlord, be interested in her?
Tian Jing was a little puzzled and didn't understand where Huang Fengying's dislike for her came from.
She nodded and said, "Director Huang, what I said is true. Gu Yuehuai fell by himself."
Huang Fengying was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Gu Yuehuai, who seemed like an outsider: "What do you say?"
After hearing what Huang Fengying said, Gu Yuehuai suddenly became excited and cried out at the top of his voice:
"Look at the wound on my head. It's still bleeding. The doctor said I lost too much blood and became anemic. Anemic people are prone to lack of strength. Chen Yin hit me with the dirt from the ground without mercy. She wanted to kill me on purpose!"
"And I just glanced at her and Tian Jing for a second longer, and she treated me so cruelly!"
"I know! She must be afraid that I will complain to the director!"
"Complain? Complain about what?" Everyone was confused, including Chen Yin and Tian Jing. They didn't understand how a peaceful fight could suddenly turn sour, and they had no idea what Gu Yuehuai was up to.
Gu Yuehuai cleared his throat, looked at Tian Jing and Chen Yin, and began his passionate "speech".
"Our great leader said that people need to have a little spirit."
"We must defeat petty-bourgeois egoism with a heroic spirit of selfless devotion! Love the country and the collective! Let me ask you, when the members are all working actively, not daring to slack off in the slightest, and just hoping to get more food and vegetables at the end of the year, what are Tian Jing and Chen Yin doing?"
"They were gossiping."
"Look, how much work did they do in the whole morning?"
"It's okay for Chen Yin. The team punished her by making her work without work points. It's normal for her to feel dissatisfied and not want to do more work. But what about Tian Jing? The work she did is worth eight work points?"
"If she does less work, the members who actively participate in the labor will have to do more. Isn't this a form of exploitation?"
"If Tian Jing and Chen Yin are not punished, then everyone will follow suit. How much grain will be distributed to everyone at the end of the year? Just think about it, if everyone is passive and lazy like this, how much net loss will our team suffer!"
After Gu Yuehuai finished speaking, there was dead silence all around.
Tian Jing's pupils shrank and her expression became extremely ugly.
She never imagined that Gu Yuehuai would escalate a small dispute to the point of damaging the entire team.
What about members who actively participated in labor? It sounds good to say that, but who among those present had not cheated? She was clearly trying to flatter everyone so that she and Chen Yin could be trampled into the mud and made the two of them the sinners of the entire team!
Chen Yin was in even worse condition. Her face turned pale, her legs went weak, and she felt like she was finished.
Huang Fengying was also shocked by Gu Yuehuai's passionate words for a moment. Feeling the members' emotions rising again, a trace of complexity and pity for Tian Jing and Chen Yin flashed across her eyes.
Gu Yuehuai used to be very low-key, just because he didn't want to bother with the others. But now that he has opened his mouth, these two little girls can't be fended off for even a single round. Alas, I wonder what excuse Lei Dachui will use to ask for people this time?
Wang Peisheng put his hands behind his back and looked at Gu Yuehuai with a strange look.
It was normal for members of the brigade to be lazy. He remembered that when he had just gone to the countryside, he once asked a poor peasant who was sitting on the edge of a field smoking a pipe why he didn't work hard but instead cheated.
Unexpectedly, the poor peasant replied: "I have done the work and will be given grain at the end of the year. How much will I have?"
He was left speechless.
There is no fixed amount of work each person does every day, but the work points are already allocated. A strong laborer gets ten work points, women and the elderly get eight points, and semi-laborers get five or six work points a day, which means that work is entirely based on one's own conscience.
Most people are thinking: If others are lazy but I am not, then won’t I be doing more work?
Everyone had no sense of efficiency and almost all wanted to slack off, resulting in low harvests every year and failure to solve the poverty of food and clothing shortages. The members were not well fed and had no confidence in collective labor, so laziness became more serious.
As the director of public security in the team, he had noticed such situations, but occasionally catching one or two serious culprits and reprimanding them did not help much, and instead caused complaints from everyone.
Gu Yuehuai's incident today unexpectedly aroused the anger of the members.
He only needs to severely punish Tian Jing and Chen Yin to make an example of them, and then let them each take out some food or food coupons as a reward, and praise Gu Yuehuai for reporting lazy members. Then, everyone will supervise each other in the future, and life will always be good.
Thinking of this, Wang Peisheng couldn't help but feel happy.
He coughed lightly and pointed at the dense weeds in the field and said, "Comrade Gu is right! Tian Jing, Chen Yin! You are not working hard and are seriously holding back the members of our production team. This behavior must be severely criticized and punished!"
Chen Yin turned pale with fright and wanted to explain herself, but when she looked at the sparse weeds she had pulled out that morning, she felt she couldn't say anything in defense.
Tian Jing was calm. She looked at Wang Peisheng and suddenly burst into tears.
"Director Wang, I'm sorry. It's my fault. I've been wearing my sister's leftover clothes since I was a child. Today I finally put on new clothes, but I was afraid of getting them dirty by weeding. This is a very wrong 'capitalist idea'. I'm sorry."
"I am willing to accept the punishment and criticism given by the team, and I will write a letter of apology! I hope everyone can forgive me."
As she spoke, Tian Jing bowed and apologized to all the members around her with a very sincere attitude.
Chen Yuesheng looked at her with a distressed look on his face and said, "Xiao Jing, you are so good, everyone can see it, how can they blame you? Director Wang, I gave the new clothes to Tian Jing, and I accepted all the punishments and criticisms for her!"
"Captain Chen..." Tian Jing raised her head and looked at Chen Yuesheng with tears in her eyes.
The two of them showed their affection without paying attention to anyone around, which made Chen Yin, who was standing nearby and was frightened, suddenly look gloomy.
She thought the money for buying clothes was given to Tian Jing by Tian Dayou, but she didn't expect it was actually given by his brother. This whole set of clothes must cost at least ten yuan? Haha, she, as a younger sister, has never been treated like this since she was a child!
Besides, Tian Jing hadn't married into the Chen family yet. Her brother was so outspoken. He was generous enough to take the punishment and criticism for Tian Jing. But what about her, the younger sister? Who would take her place?
Thinking of this, a surge of anger couldn't help but well up in my heart.
Chen Yin's eyes turned unfriendly as she glanced at Tian Jing.
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