Sensing the disdain and contempt in everyone's eyes, Shen Qingming was eager to salvage his image.
More importantly, he didn't want to be burdened with a mountain of debt.
Therefore, they blamed everything on the Shen family.
"Ruan Zhiqing, my older brother is using the bicycle, my younger brother is using the military water bottle, my younger sister is using the Hero brand fountain pen, my mother sent the malted milk powder to my uncle's house, and my father is wearing the Seagull brand watch..."
After some calculations, Shen Qingming realized that he only had a debt of about thirty yuan to bear, while the remaining thousand-plus yuan were all in the possession of the Shen family.
He knew perfectly well that all those things had been stolen and that the Shen family couldn't possibly produce them, but he didn't say anything.
Anyway, those things were given to these people back then.
To be honest, after Shen Qingming's outrageous actions, the people in the brigade looked at him with a bit of sympathy: "Tsk tsk, what a pitiful man. He sold his body for a little over a thousand yuan, but only spent a little over thirty yuan on himself."
It seems he's someone who can't have a good life at home!
After doing this calculation, Shen Qingming immediately felt a weight lifted off his shoulders.
She was even more relieved that Ruan Miaomiao had taken Zhao Xiuyun's watch back, otherwise she would have been burdened with another hundred-plus yuan in debt.
"Okay, sign here and I'll go to the county town to mail it out later, so my parents can go to your house to ask for it back!"
Ruan Miaomiao did not soften her heart. She prepared the list, wrote the agreement, signed her name, and also had the brigade leader Zhou Jianguo sign his name as a witness.
Shen Qingming knew that by signing this name, he would have completely severed ties with his family.
However, when he went to the countryside, his family gave him nothing but two pockets full of soybeans.
At the time, I felt that with Ruan Miaomiao as my safety net, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Now, after a few days of hardship, Shen Qingming finally understood that the Shen family didn't care about him at all.
Since that's the case, don't blame him for being ruthless and pushing so much onto the Shen family.
Seeing that Shen Qingming had signed his name, Ruan Miaomiao added, "Shen Qingming, are you going to return that thirty-odd yuan to me now, or will you pay me back with work points?"
Shen Qingming originally planned to plead with Ruan Miaomiao privately when no one was around: since she was already so rich, thirty-something yuan was nothing, so please don't make him pay it back.
But now that it's been brought up in front of so many people, he has no choice but to pay it back.
Having no money, he could only awkwardly say, "I... I'll pay with work points."
"good!"
Upon hearing this, Ruan Miaomiao didn't mince words and said to the brigade accountant who recorded the work points, "Accountant Zhou, from now on, please give me three of Shen Qingming's daily work points."
She felt that five work points were a bit too many; what if they drove the male lead to his death?
She wanted to torment the male and female leads even more!
Accountant Zhou did not answer Ruan Miaomiao's question directly, but looked at Shen Qingming instead:
"Shen Zhiqing, what do you think?"
Shen Qingming was overjoyed to hear that he only needed to repay three work points a day, and immediately agreed.
"Alright, alright, everyone get back to work!"
Seeing that the farce was over, the team leader Zhou Jianguo shouted, and the team members who had been gathered together dispersed and went to work.
However, even though they had dispersed, they were all discussing what had just happened across their plots of land.
Ruan Miaomiao ignored all of that, picked up the agreement she had just seen, borrowed a bicycle from Qin Chunhong, the wife of the brigade leader, and rode towards the county town.
Upon arriving in the county town, he went straight to the post office and mailed the letter he had written along with the agreement to Ruan's parents in Haicheng.
After sending the package, I asked if it had arrived yet, then left the post office, intending to take a stroll around the supply and marketing cooperative in the county town.
Previously, she was all by herself, and all the things she prepared were her own.
However, now that they have met their biological parents, the previous preparations are somewhat insufficient.
So, Ruan Miaomiao began a large-scale shopping spree in the county town:
Rice, oil, grains, and noodles—buy, buy, buy!
Oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar—buy, buy, buy!
...
I bought a bunch of stuff, put it in nylon mesh bags, and tied them to the back of the bicycle with rope.
Ruan Miaomiao then headed towards the state-run restaurant, ordered a braised pork belly and a sauerkraut pork hock, and began to eat with relish.
After finishing the meal, I packed five servings of braised pork and two servings of pickled cabbage and pork hock before riding my bicycle back to Jianshan Brigade.
Ruan Miaomiao rode very fast along the way. When she arrived at Jianshan Brigade, the sun had just set, just as the villagers were finishing their work.
When the villagers saw the nylon net bag tied high to the back of Ruan Miaomiao's bicycle, they all exclaimed in amazement.
"Tsk tsk, this educated youth Ruan is really rich! He bought so many things in just one trip to the city!"
"Tsk tsk, it's not just about having money, you also need tickets!"
"Tsk tsk, with money and tickets, whoever marries Ruan Zhiqing is marrying a lucky star, and the whole family will live a good life!"
"Hey, old woman, don't you even look at Ruan Zhiqing's delicate skin and the way she can casually spend over a thousand to support a man? Do you think someone like that would marry an ordinary person?"
...
There were praises and there were also sarcastic remarks:
"Hmph, buying so much, what's the point of showing off?"
"Exactly! With so many purchases, aren't you afraid of attracting thieves?"
Those around him immediately burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"Judging from how Ruan Zhiqing beat people up today, it seems like we really don't need to worry about this problem!"
This reminder brought back memories of how fiercely Ruan Miaomiao had beaten people up earlier that day!
Ruan Miaomiao was unaware of all this. When she arrived in the village, she put all her things in the house, prepared a pound of brown sugar, hid it under a pumpkin leaf, and pushed her bicycle toward the brigade leader's house.
From a great distance, Ruan Miaomiao shouted at the top of her lungs:
"Aunt Chunhong, I've come to return your bicycle!"
Qin Chunhong, who was cooking dinner with her daughter-in-law in the kitchen, immediately came out upon hearing this.
Ruan Miaomiao pushed her bicycle into the yard and handed the thing wrapped in pumpkin leaves to Qin Chunhong.
Qin Chunhong took the bicycle in her hand and weighed it, then immediately pushed it away, saying, "You silly girl, it's just borrowing a bicycle, why are you being so polite?"
During the lunch break, her husband and she analyzed the situation together: this educated youth Ruan was probably someone with a powerful background and a strong family connections. Therefore, Qin Chunhong was interested in making friends with him, so why would she accept his gifts?
Ruan Miaomiao immediately stuffed it back, smiling as she said, "Oh, Auntie, it's never wrong to be polite. If it weren't for the brigade leader backing me up today, I'm afraid Shen Qingming wouldn't have agreed to return my work points so easily."
Besides, from now on, the work points Shen Qingming gives her are now officially recognized, so she no longer needs to go to the fields every day to watch Shen Qingming go to work and get in trouble for no reason.
Qin Chunhong was no match for Ruan Miaomiao and gained a new understanding of Ruan Miaomiao's strength, as others had described it. After several attempts to shove her, she had no choice but to accept the gifts, secretly thinking that she would take better care of Ruan Miaomiao in the future.
"Oh my, Mom, this educated youth Ruan is really generous! She gave away a whole pound of brown sugar right off the bat!"
The eldest daughter-in-law brought out the food and happened to see her mother-in-law carrying things into the house. She couldn't help but sigh.
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