It seems that I have to go to the village and find out some information.
So, Lin Yizhen changed her clothes and went out.
She first came to the village brigade headquarters, which was empty.
Children often play here, and many women sit in the shade of the trees and chat.
What happened this morning must have spread to everyone. These women, who have nothing else to do, will surely gather together to discuss it.
When Lin Yizhen arrived at the entrance of the brigade, there were indeed quite a few people gathered under the shade of the trees over there.
However, they were all women from the village. They gathered in groups of three or five, talking while working.
Some of them were sewing shoe soles; some were knitting sweaters; some were removing corn kernels; in short, everyone had their own things to do and did not delay their work because of chatting.
Lin Yizhen had good hearing, so she picked out a few people who were chatting about what happened in the grass in the east that morning.
Then he took out a bag of melon seeds from the space and walked over to sit next to them.
When the women saw that it was Lin Yizhen, they were stunned at first, and then they continued to busy themselves with their own things as if nothing had happened, but no one spoke again.
Lin Yizhen knew that these people were silent because they saw her there.
Lin Yizhen didn't care. She opened the bag, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, handed them to the woman next to her, and said, "Sister, these are the melon seeds I bought. Would you like to try some?"
The woman didn't answer, but looked at the person next to her.
Lin Yizhen also knew what she meant. After putting the handful of melon seeds in her hand into hers, she distributed a handful of melon seeds to each of the people around her.
After seeing everyone around them receive the melon seeds, the woman who got the seeds first said to Lin Yizhen, "Lin Zhiqing, why are you out playing alone?"
"The door of the educated youth camp is closed, and I don't know if anyone else is inside.
I just came over here to take a look, and happened to see a few sisters chatting here, so I came over out of curiosity." Lin Yizhen said to her with a smile.
Before the other party could speak, Lin Yizhen continued, "By the way, what were the sisters talking about just now?"
After hearing Lin Yizhen's words, several people looked at each other.
Then the same woman said, "We were talking about Chen Shengli, the scoundrel from the village.
I wonder what he was doing running east this morning? Someone gouged out his eyes and he became blind.
It turned out to be true, but Lin Yizhen pretended to be surprised and said, "Really? What happened to that person? Have you found the murderer?"
"Oh! What can he do? He didn't see what the person looked like, he just knew that she was a woman." The woman continued.
"Humph! If you ask me, that Chen Shengli deserves it. He was left with nothing to do all day, staring at the women in the village. Now he's doing well, isn't he? It really pays off!"
"But that man gouged out his eyes. How cruel!"
"Who did this? To be so cruel, that woman must have a grudge against Chen Shengli."
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Everyone was talking at once, except Lin Yizhen, who kept her head down and said nothing.
The person sitting next to Lin Yizhen thought she was scared, so he quickly nudged the person on the other side and said, "Stop talking. It's Lin Zhiqing who's scared."
Everyone fell silent immediately, not daring to talk about this topic anymore.
Lin Yizhen, who was thinking about something, heard the person next to her suddenly stop talking.
She quickly raised her head and asked, "What's wrong? Why is everyone silent?"
The woman sitting opposite Lin Yizhen was straightforward. When she heard Lin Yizhen's question, she quickly said, "Lin Zhiqing, we didn't say anything because we were worried you were scared."
"How could that be? I've seen movies about the Eighth Route Army fighting the Japanese before!
"That devil was hacked several times by the Eighth Route Army and was covered in blood, but I wasn't afraid," Lin Yizhen said proudly, holding her head high.
In fact, this is the movie that the original incarnation watched in the hospital after falling ill in his previous life.
The first woman who spoke to Lin Yizhen was shocked when she heard that Lin Yizhen had actually seen the movie.
I said to her enviously, "Really? Lin Zhiqing, have you ever seen a movie? How were the movies shown? Our village is too far away and too poor, and the team leader won't curry favor with the people in the commune.
Every time the commune arranged to show a movie, they would only choose to show it in those wealthy villages that had good relations with them.
Besides, projectionists are reluctant to come to a place as poor and remote as ours."
"Yes! Yes! Lin Zhiqing, can you tell us how to show movies? When our village has money, we will ask the team leader to find someone to show movies." Another woman followed suit.
“I heard that our village also showed movies several years ago.
It’s just that the two projectionists didn’t get any benefits from our place, and the distance was far and the accommodation was not good.
Afterwards, they didn’t want to come anymore,” said another woman who looked a little older.
These women are all new brides who have just married into Lizhuang Village a few years ago.
The villages where their mothers came from were similar to Lizhuang Village, all very poor, otherwise they would not have married into Lizhuang Village.
When they heard that Lizhuang Village had shown movies before, they felt envious and regretful.
I envy those who got married earlier and have watched movies, and regret that I am too young.
If they were older and had married a few years earlier, they would have been able to watch movies.
Seeing that the topic of her conversation had gone off track, Lin Yizhen quickly brought the subject back.
She smiled and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, we're not talking about the movie now. We're talking about Chen Shengli. Did he go to the hospital after he was injured?"
"Go to the hospital? Where's the money? Besides, there are only two ox carts in our village.
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