Upon hearing this, the villagers who had gathered around realized: "Oh right, there's another Zhao Xiuyun too."
Why didn't it appear?
Even Shen Qingming felt a little dissatisfied with Zhao Xiuyun: he had been beaten up like this by that crazy woman Ruan Miaomiao, and Zhao Xiuyun didn't even come out to help.
As people talked about her, Zhao Xiuyun involuntarily took a step back, desperately trying to retreat.
But Ruan Miaomiao threw a clod of dirt at him:
"Hey, Zhao Xiuyun, aren't you usually the one who dotes on your Qingming brother the most? How come you don't even feel sorry for him now that I've beaten him up like this?"
A clod of dirt hit her cloth shoes, causing Zhao Xiuyun to cry out softly.
Instantly, everyone around looked over:
"Oh... so this is Zhao Xiuyun, who had an affair with Shen Zhiqing?"
"Tsk tsk, she doesn't look that great. She's not even as pretty as Ruan Zhiqing. Is Shen Zhiqing blind?"
"You don't know anything. Even Aunt Yuhua doesn't look down on Shen Zhiqing, so why would he look down on Zhao Xiuyun, the educated youth?"
...
The scrutinizing gazes of the crowd made Zhao Xiuyun feel utterly ashamed. Thinking about her future situation in Jianshan Brigade, she panicked. She ran to Ruan Miaomiao, knelt down with a thud, and began to plead and cry:
“Ruan Zhiqing, Shen Zhiqing and I are truly innocent. There really is nothing between us.”
"You two are having a fight, could you please not involve me?"
Zhao Xiuyun knelt on the ground, crying her eyes out, which made everyone present feel that Ruan Miaomiao had gone too far. How could she drag innocent outsiders into a fight between young lovers?
However, Ruan Miaomiao wasn't a man and didn't care about a crying woman. He slapped Zhao Xiuyun hard across the face, grabbed her hand, and forcefully took off the watch.
"There's nothing between you two?"
"Nothing much. Would Shen Qingming, that gigolo, really coax me into giving you my watch?"
“Ruan…”
Zhao Xiuyun wanted to say that it was hers and tried to pull her hand back.
However, Ruan Miaomiao's hands were incredibly strong, gripping her tightly and deftly removing the watch, her eyes full of mockery:
"Zhao Xiuyun, don't tell me this is yours. Your family is so poor that they're practically stealing other people's excrement to eat. Where would you get the money or ration coupons to buy you a watch?"
If you dare say this watch is yours, I'll immediately go to the county town and call back to report to the Haicheng police. I'll have them come to your house and ask where they stole the money to buy it for you!
"..."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiuyun dared not say the watch was hers anymore. She could only look at the watch with reluctance and choke out:
"No, no, it's not like that, Ruan Zhiqing. It's because Shen Zhiqing saw that I didn't have a watch and it was inconvenient for me to tell the time. She thought that you were well-off and didn't need a watch, so she lent it to me."
However, Shen Zhiqing and I are truly innocent; there really was nothing between us.
"..."
Ruan Miaomiao was speechless. Did the female lead think that everything would be fine as long as she didn't admit it?
"I'll lend you the watch, and I'll lend you my boyfriend, are you satisfied now? If there's really nothing going on, is Shen Qingming crazy?"
After slapping Zhao Xiuyun a few times, Ruan Miaomiao said to the approaching Captain Zhou Jianguo:
"Captain, I want to report that Shen Qingming swindled a huge sum of money from me under the guise of dating. I want to report this to the police!"
Hearing the commotion from afar, Zhou Jianguo put down his hoe and came over.
Unexpectedly, I heard those words as soon as I got close.
Instantly, his face turned deathly pale: Report it to the police? If word gets out, will their brigade still be able to compete for the title of advanced production team this year?
Shen Qingming, whose face was bruised and swollen, panicked even more: should he report it to the police? He was an educated man, he couldn't go to jail.
He pleaded with Ruan Miaomiao, "Ruan, please, for the sake of our past relationship, don't report me to the police, okay? It's all my fault, but I was forced into it. My family forced me to do this because they know you have money..."
Upon hearing Shen Qingming's words, Ruan Miaomiao instantly had an idea: five work points a day, she wondered how long it would take for the male lead to pay off the money he owed her.
It would be better to share the debt and have the Shen family help pay it off.
Anyway, in the storyline, the Shen family isn't exactly a good family either.
When Shen Qingming gained power and suppressed the Ruan family, the Shen family members helped him take advantage of his misfortune. In fact, the death of Ruan's parents was also related to the Shen family.
"All right……"
Ruan Miaomiao sighed and said softly, "I'm just kind-hearted. As long as you pay back what you owe me, I won't hold it against you!"
When Zhou Jianguo heard that Ruan Miaomiao wasn't going to report it to the police, he breathed a sigh of relief and yelled at Shen Qingming, "Shen Qingming, how can a grown man like you owe a woman money? Quickly, pay back what you owe Ruan Qingming!"
Hearing this, Shen Qingming was on the verge of tears: If he still had a chance, why would he be clinging to Ruan Miaomiao like this?
However, he suddenly realized: it doesn't make sense. When we're enjoying ourselves, the whole family enjoys it together, but now that we're in debt, he's the only one paying it off.
He immediately turned to Ruan Miaomiao and said, "Ruan, how about this? My family owes you something. Why don't you have your parents go to my family to ask for it? Anyway, my parents and brother are both workers. They have money, unlike me. I was forced to go to the countryside and I don't have much money."
Ruan Miaomiao knew that Shen Qingming was trying to create a tragic persona, but she didn't mind, as long as she could get the money.
So she sighed again, and said in a kind and understanding manner, "Alright, I'll just send a telegram home and trouble them to make the trip."
However, you'd better make it clear to me right now, in front of the captain, that I already broke up with you. You're still using my name to let other women bully me; I can't possibly have anything to do with you again.”
As she said this, Ruan Miaomiao glanced meaningfully at Feng Yuhua.
After witnessing this farce, Feng Yuhua felt like a fool for being deceived by Shen Qingming, and the loving look in her eyes when she looked at him was no longer the same.
Shen Qingming originally planned to find a place to calculate separately, after all, he came to Bicheng to work in the countryside because he couldn't stand his classmates thinking that he was a kept man.
If I were to settle accounts in front of so many people, wouldn't that confirm that I'm a kept man?
He looked at Ruan Miaomiao pleadingly, but perhaps he wasn't buying it at all. He borrowed the pen and paper from the brigade accountant who kept track of work points and started calculating:
One Phoenix brand bicycle,
A Seagull brand watch,
Three cans of malted milk powder
Ten catties of brown sugar
A rosewood abacus
One Hero brand fountain pen.
One military water bottle..."
With each item Ruan Miaomiao mentioned, Shen Qingming's face turned redder: "I didn't realize it when I took them, but now that we've put them all together, how come there's so much?"
The people around Shen Qingming looked at him with increasing displeasure: "Tsk tsk, you don't need so many things to marry a wife or take in a son-in-law. This Shen Qingming took so many things from Ruan Qingming, and instead of coaxing her properly, he's still having an ambiguous relationship with Xiao Qingmei. No wonder Ruan Qingming is so angry!"
In an instant, everyone understood why Ruan Miaomiao had become enraged and started beating people.
They felt that if they were the ones being deceived like that, they would want to kill the other person's entire family.
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