At this moment, Liu Dong could no longer suppress his inner anger. He widened his eyes and said angrily:
"Why don't you go to the Youth League Office and complain to them? Are we, the educated youth, just going to let them bully us?"
His words revealed his dissatisfaction with unfair treatment and his determination to fight.
However, an old educated youth shook his head helplessly and explained:
"Can we sue them? Zhou Zhiqing doesn't have any solid evidence.
Besides, this is a rural area, and the human relationships are complicated. Those people are different from us educated youth. They are all relatives connected to each other, and their relationship network is closely intertwined.
Even if they knew the villagers were at fault, they would often be reluctant to offend their relatives and friends out of consideration for their personal relationships. Therefore, if conflicts arose between the educated youth and the villagers, even if the villagers were clearly at fault, the educated youth would often be punished in the end.
Even if you manage to escape at the time, you will inevitably face retaliation later. For example, they may deliberately assign you heavy, dirty, and tiring work, or deliberately lower your work points.
Another old educated youth sighed: "When you live under someone's roof, how can you not bow your head? Many times, just because you are right doesn't mean you can go anywhere.
After hearing this, everyone fell silent, with expressions of helplessness and bitterness on their faces.
They are well aware of the underlying problem behind this phenomenon—local protectionism. Although they know it's wrong, they can only accept it silently.
After a while, Zhou Dongmei broke the silence and asked in a firm tone:
"Besides these methods, will they use other insidious and cunning tactics? Tell us roughly so we can take precautions in advance."
She glanced at everyone, hoping to get more useful information from them.
An old educated youth smiled and said:
"There are so many shady tricks to ruin someone. For example, you might take advantage of someone's unpreparedness and push them into the water, then pretend to be a good person and rescue them. Or you might pretend to be incapacitated by the roadside as someone you like passes by, and ask that person to help you up. Or you might jump into the river and have someone pull the person you like over to save you...
In short, those shady methods are endless, and there is nothing they can't do, as long as you can't think of it."
Qin Wan and others felt helpless after hearing this.
At this time, the educated youth in charge of cooking had carefully cooked the wild boar meat allocated by the brigade. They placed the steaming and fragrant meals on the table one by one and warmly invited everyone to come and eat.
Being able to taste this rare meat dish is something that every educated youth would be delighted to have. If it were in the past, this moment would surely be bustling with people.
However, the situation today was quite different. Everyone was eating silently, and the whole scene seemed unusually quiet.
They all carried a sense of worry and concern in their hearts. Although the table was filled with delicious food, everyone seemed to have lost their usual enthusiasm and interest in eating.
After lunch, Qin Wan did not take a short rest or nap as usual, but picked up the slightly worn bamboo basket without hesitation and set off for the mountains.
She really couldn't understand what the cadres of the Red Flag Brigade were thinking. She and the villagers had worked together to kill seven fat and strong wild boars today. Logically, they should get more pork!
But what happened in the end? Only one was left to be distributed to the villagers, and the other six were all sold to the purchasing station!
What's even more outrageous is that as members of the educated youth group, they were only given a few pounds of pork, which was a drop in the bucket and could not even satisfy their cravings.
Originally, Qin Wan didn't really care whether the amount of meat distributed in the educated youth camp was a lot or a little. After all, she still had a lot of braised pork, meat buns, etc. in her space.
But today, everyone stood up for her and drove away Chen Yongming and others, which made her experience everyone's care and concern for her, and made her feel a sense of belonging to such a warm and harmonious collective living atmosphere.
In order to express her gratitude to these educated youth, she secretly decided to go to the mountains to catch a pheasant or a rabbit or other wild game so that her fellow educated youth who had shared the same hardships could enjoy a feast.
When she arrived in the mountains, Qin Wan's wood-related abilities began to work automatically, and she immediately felt refreshed and energetic.
Looking around, I saw only dense trees, shading each other. Although it was late autumn, there was a sense of solemnity and clarity.
She knew that there were not many pheasants, rabbits, etc. on the outskirts of the mountain, so she did not stay there, but went straight into the mountains.
Qin Wan quickly moved between trees of all sizes, taking every step with extreme caution. She knew that in this seemingly peaceful forest, every living thing was struggling to survive, and if she wasn't careful, she could be ravaged by nature.
She came to seek the gift from nature with respect and gratitude.
Time passed slowly, the sunlight passed through the woods, casting mottled shadows on the ground. Blown by the mountain breeze, it shook its head and pretended to be deep.
At this moment, a familiar sound came into Qin Wan's ears, and this unusual movement instantly aroused her vigilance.
"Gugugugu...Gugugugu..."
Qin Wan immediately stopped moving forward, held his breath, and concentrated his attention.
Thanks to her rich experience accumulated from years of traveling through the mountains and forests, she instinctively and quickly made an accurate judgment on the direction of the sound source - it turned out that the one making the sound was a pheasant, which was currently on high alert, searching for food not far away.
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