Mu Ziwei and others also voiced their support. After Zhou's mother and a few noisy old women finished their quarrel, they stood aside silently and watched the scene.
She is a member of the brigade and naturally hopes for the best for the brigade, but Meng Zhiyu is the benefactor of their family, so she naturally favors Meng Zhiyu in her heart. However, their whole family lives here, and she cannot stand on the side of Meng Zhiyu's Youth League Institute, either for herself or for her family.
The village chief and the Party secretary and accountant exchanged a glance and stepped forward to smooth things over. "Well, Meng Zhiqing, Li Zhiqing, don't get so excited. So many people are watching us. Don't worry, as long as it has nothing to do with you, we won't blame you for anything."
Li Tingman and Meng Zhiyu were waiting for these words. Li Tingman followed up with, "We are young, and it's natural for us to be nervous when encountering such a big thing. We spoke a little impulsively and out of proportion. Captain and Village Chief, please don't mind."
The village chief smiled and waved his hands, "Of course not. I understand, I understand, right, Captain?"
As she said this, she nudged him with her arm, signaling him not to go too far.
In other places, many major incidents have occurred due to conflicts between the educated youth and the local villagers. Now the higher authorities are paying great attention to matters concerning the educated youth. If this incident today becomes a big deal, someone will definitely come to the village to investigate.
The captain also knew the seriousness of the matter and relaxed his expression. "Yes, that's right, Li Zhiqing, if you have anything to say, continue."
Li Tingman looked at Song Guangye and then at Meng Zhiyu. Everything that needed to be said had been said. Shouldn't it be you, the team leader, who should be in charge of finding out the truth next?
Seeing that no one said anything, Mrs. Zhao immediately spoke with confidence, "You have nothing to say. If you say it's not you, you have to produce evidence. We have witnesses here who can prove that those two people are your educated youth."
Song Guangye asked back, "Evidence, what evidence? What evidence do you call evidence? Isn't it just hearing that person shouting his name? How can you be sure that they didn't do it on purpose?"
Li Qingqing nodded in agreement. "That's right. Maybe they were afraid of getting caught, so they deliberately put the blame on us educated youth."
Jiang Zengzhi naturally stood on his side, "That's right."
Mrs. Xu said, "I think it was Meng Zhiyu who was having an affair with a man, and she slandered Li Tingman so that she could drag my son into it."
"You think too highly of your son. Why shouldn't I talk about others but your son?" Meng Zhiyu looked at Xu Neng with contempt. He stood there with his head lowered. He had been timid and didn't dare to say a word since he was discovered.
Some people in the team were unwilling to do so. What do you mean by deliberately blaming you? Just like that, everyone started to argue and the scene became chaotic again.
The captain felt his mind was in a mess and shouted, "That's enough."
Meng Zhiyu felt that it was pointless to just engage in a verbal battle here, so he said, "Captain, I want to go to Tushan to take a look."
The captain didn't understand what she wanted to do, but agreed, "Okay."
Meng Zhiyu walked behind the dirt hill. Although there was moonlight, he couldn't see the ground clearly, so he asked the people who followed him, "Does anyone have a flashlight? Can I borrow it?"
"I brought it." Zhou's mother spoke first, took the flashlight from her eldest daughter-in-law and handed it to her.
Meng Zhiyu took it and thanked him, then squatted down to carefully observe the soil and plants at the scene.
He took another look at the situation around the scene and stood up. "Captain, I need everyone to stand in line and cooperate with me."
The captain followed her and looked at the ground, but he couldn't see anything. He asked doubtfully, "Can you find out who it is?"
Meng Zhiyu said with certainty, "Yes."
The captain nodded and asked everyone to stand apart and act according to Meng Zhiyu's instructions. Some people were dissatisfied and were scolded.
Except for children, the elderly, and pregnant women, all the villagers who heard the noise came over, "We are the last ones to come."
"I won't wrongly accuse you." Meng Zhiyu held up a large flashlight and observed each person one by one as if she was looking for a climbing fork. The team leader and the village chief also followed her to watch, although they didn't know what she was looking at.
After reading it once, Meng Zhiyu stopped and said, "I know who it is."
"Who?" everyone asked in unison, drowning out the voices of the team leader and the village chief.
Pointing to a woman holding a child, he said, "The girl is her, and that's the boy."
Meng Zhiyu pointed at the man standing between him and another woman, "It's him."
The woman holding the child's face changed. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
The man's face was also filled with anger, as if he had suffered a great injustice. "Even if you are anxious to clarify your educated youth, you can't talk nonsense."
The woman in the middle started cursing, "You black-hearted girl, how dare you slander my man? Be careful or I'll beat you to death."
Others also didn't believe it, "No way, one of them is the sister-in-law and the other is the brother-in-law, it's impossible."
"Widow He is determined to stay with her husband forever, how could it be her?"
"Exactly. Xu Neng is also known for being henpecked. He has the will but not the courage."
The captain also felt it was unreliable, "Meng Zhiqing, do you have any evidence?"
If you don't have any evidence, you're just talking nonsense and will be criticized.
Meng Zhiyu remained calm and pointed to the empty space in the middle of the crowd. "Since it's not you, please stand in the middle."
Widow He looked sad. She put the child down and walked over. "Okay, I'll go over there. I hope Meng Zhiqing can clear my name."
The man also looked humiliated, "And me."
Looking at the expressions of the two, Meng Zhiyu didn't care. He said to everyone, "Everyone wants evidence, so I'll give you evidence. I just looked around the scene and saw what kind of plants and soil there were. I found that there were many cockleburs there."
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