After chatting at Li Huan's house for a while, Ruan Ruan prepared to go back. Thinking about the braised dishes they had talked about at noon, she still needed to prepare the ingredients. Li Huan heard that Ruan Ruan had made new dishes and wanted to go and see them, since he didn't have anything to do at home anyway.
As the two were chatting and laughing as they passed by the educated youth settlement, they saw a large crowd gathered there, wondering what they were doing.
"Ruan Ruan, quick, let's go see what happened!"
As he spoke, Li Huan pulled Ruan Ruan along, quickly squeezed into the crowd, and asked an elderly woman standing nearby.
"Aunt Zhang, what's wrong?"
This person was He Cuihua, Zhang Tao's second aunt. Seeing that the person pulling her was Li Huan, she felt relieved.
"Huan'er, you have no idea! This Tian Zhiqing is shameless! While dating our Taozi, she's also having ambiguous relationships with several other men. Just today during lunch break, my sister-in-law brought a matchmaker to propose marriage, but Tian Zhiqing refused and even chased them away with a broom. And just now, someone saw her arguing with the He family's son. Now everyone's here, including all the men this slut has connections with. Look, there are so many people here!! She's truly shameless!"
While Li Huan struggled to push forward, Ruan Ruan had already quietly positioned herself two meters away from the crowd. It's human nature to watch a spectacle, but because of the crowd, she couldn't manage to squeeze in, so standing further away meant she could still hear everything.
When Huo Haocheng and his brothers returned after setting the traps, they saw this scene. The brothers quietly took the pheasants and rabbits they had hunted away, avoiding people, while Huo Haocheng stood beside Ruan Ruan to watch with her.
What are you carrying in your hand?
"Dried fish for the kitten"
Ruan Ruan glanced at Huo Haocheng with a puzzled look, then looked down at the fish in his hand. The system still needed to eat, how come she didn't know? Never mind, let's watch the show first.
In the center of the crowd, two young men stood looking at Tian Tian with incomprehension. Tian Tian, standing inside the gate of the educated youth compound, was visibly flustered by the large crowd. She glanced inside, hoping the other educated youths could help her.
However, her actions had already aroused dissatisfaction among others. Moreover, they were educated youth who had only maintained a superficial relationship with the local villagers. Tian Tian's actions directly broke the relationship between the two sides. They didn't know how the villagers would talk about them in the future. They were afraid that the fire would burn them instead of helping her. They avoided her like the plague.
"Tian Zhiqing, I just want to ask you one question: you were dating Taozi before, and now our family has given our approval. So, are you going to get married or not?"
Logically speaking, given what has happened, Aunt Zhang shouldn't want such a daughter-in-law. But her son told her that they had already kissed. To prevent her son from being labeled a hooligan, Aunt Zhang had no choice but to grit her teeth and accept it. She figured she could discipline her more strictly after the daughter-in-law entered the family.
"Who would want to marry a country bumpkin like you!"
Hearing that Aunt Zhang was still trying to force her into marriage, Tian Tian started to speak without thinking. She knew she couldn't marry him.
“From the moment you arrived here, you’ve been eating and drinking our food. Taozi has done almost all the work in the fields for you. All you do all day is read that tattered book. Taozi has given you everything good that’s in the house, and now you’re talking about us peasants? You’re acting like a capitalist princess. I’m going to sue you.”
"Who's acting like a capitalist's daughter? I'm not! You can't keep accusing me like this!" If she were really labeled a capitalist, Tian Tian knew she was doomed, but she couldn't find any words to refute it, and she was anxiously pacing around.
"What do you mean she ate your food and drank your water? This bitch has been taking ours all along! Da Bao, you tell me, how much have you given her?"
"You bitch, you'd better return everything you took from us today, or I'll never forgive you! Good heavens, this is outrageous! A rich city heiress is trying to cheat us honest country folk!"
Aunt He pulled her son, He Dabao, aside. She had given birth to three daughters before having this one son, and the whole family doted on him. When he heard that Zhang Tao had sent someone to propose marriage to Tian Tian, he immediately told his mother about his relationship with Tian Tian and asked her to come and propose marriage as well.
But things have developed this way, and Tian Tian's family won't want her anymore. The most urgent thing now is to get everything back.
"Tian Tian, tell me, what they're saying isn't true, right? You clearly said before that you would marry me when the time was right."
He Dabao is spoiled rotten by his mother and is too ignorant. Even at this point, he still wants to marry Tian Tian. To put it bluntly, he's stupid.
"Who would want to marry a fool like you?"
Looking at He Dabao's expression, Tian Tian rolled her eyes inwardly. She had approached him in the first place because she thought he was stupid and easy to fool.
"You bitch, who are you calling an idiot? I'll beat you to death, you vixen, you wanton slut!"
As she spoke, Mother He reached out to hit Tian Tian. She knew that she had raised her son to be too naive, believing everything others said. But she couldn't allow others to call him stupid. The He family were all honest people, and she had always wanted to find her son an honest wife, not someone like Tian Tian.
Those nearby, seeing this, pulled her back. The whole thing was Tian Tian's fault, but to hit someone now and then try to extort money from her would be utterly disgusting.
Other brigades had encountered similar situations before, so the brigade leader always emphasized that if there was anything between the educated youth and the educated youth, the educated youth must be notified immediately, and the educated youth must not be physically assaulted.
So when things started, someone went to see the captain.
"Come on, make way!"
Accompanying the brigade leader were the Party Secretary and several village cadres.
“We’ve already heard about how this happened. Now I want to ask Tian, is what they said true? Did you take any of their things?”
At this point, there's no point in discussing anything else. The team leader just wants to resolve the document issue as soon as possible so as not to affect the year-end performance evaluation.
"I didn't take their things; they gave them to me voluntarily, and I didn't ask them for them."
"I only buy you things and help you with chores because you were willing to be my girlfriend. Besides, we've already kissed. If we weren't in a relationship, would I be so stupid as to do these things for you? Would I buy you things?"
At this point, Zhang Tao was still somewhat rational. He would only help Tian Tian with her tasks if she acted as if they were having a normal relationship.
"Exactly! If you weren't interested in me, why would you smile at me, call me 'Big Brother Bao,' and even kiss my cheek?"
"You slut, you vixen, how dare you seduce my son!" Aunt He angrily slapped Tian Tian across the face.
When Zhang Tao heard that Tian Tian had kissed other men, he felt disgusted. He thought he must have been blind to have fallen for this hypocritical woman.
"Old witch, how dare you hit me!"
As she spoke, Tian Tian grabbed Aunt He's hair, and Aunt He was not to be outdone. The two of them pulled each other's hair like that, one hitting the other and the other punching.
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