Chapter 114 Schemes
"What did you see?" Jin Yuyan steadied herself and pretended nothing had happened.
Zhou Anze's lips curled into a faint smile. "I saw you coming out of Li Dajun's house."
"So what if I left his house?"
Jin Yuyan's expression clearly showed panic, but she quickly regained her composure and showed no fear. "Even if you saw it, only you saw it. Even if you tell others, no one will believe you."
Zhou Anze could tell she was putting on an act; she appeared calm and collected on the surface, but he wondered how panicked she was inside.
Jin Yuyan was indeed a little flustered. She and Shen Ziming were not divorced yet. If this matter were to be spread, being condemned by everyone would be the least of her worries.
She needs to divorce Shen Ziming as soon as possible. Zhou Anze caught her in a mistake, and once she's divorced, even if Zhou Anze finds out about it, he won't be able to control her.
Seeing that she was wary of him, Zhou Anze had an idea and quickly said, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about this, but I need you to do me a small favor."
Now it was Jin Yuyan's turn to be surprised. "What kind of help do you need?"
“You should know about the recent recruitment drive to bring workers back to the city, but I haven’t met the quota yet, so I need someone to help me out.” Zhou Anze’s eyes flickered. “The person in charge of the machinery factory likes women outside.”
Jin Yuyan was stunned for a moment, then said angrily, "You want me to do that with the person in charge of the machinery factory?"
Zhou Anze looked her up and down. "I wasn't talking about you. They want a young girl, not an old woman like you."
"Old woman?" Jin Yuyan's eyes widened, her anger intensifying. "You're insulting me?"
Zhou Anze also looked down on Jin Yuyan, saying, "What's wrong with scolding a woman like you who's so promiscuous? I'll give you a target: bring Shen Qianqian here. That way, what I witnessed today won't get out."
Jin Yuyan laughed in anger, and instead looked Zhou Anze up and down. "Zhou Anze, I thought you were very affectionate towards Shen Qianqian. I was wondering why you, an innocent educated youth, would be willing to risk being scolded and associate with us, the stinking intellectuals who were sent down to the countryside. It turns out you were just pretending all along."
Both sides' dirty deeds have been exposed, so they no longer care about putting on a show.
Jin Yuyan was afraid that Zhou Anze would reveal what he had seen that night.
Zhou Anze needs Jin Yuyan to help him trick Shen Qianqian into bed with the person in charge of the machinery factory.
He only came up with the plan after seeing Jin Yuyan come out of Li Dajun's house. All the female educated youths in the settlement had the possibility of returning to the city, and they always traveled in groups. If he tried to deceive them, he would easily be exposed.
You'll get yourself into a mess then.
As for the women in the village, they are even harder to fool.
After thinking it over, he could only think of Shen Qianqian.
That stupid woman, Shen Qianqian, that stinking intellectual who was demoted still thinks he's superior. They've already secretly started dating, but she won't let him touch her, at most she'll let him hold her hand.
He never liked getting his hands dirty, and if the matter of tricking Shen Qianqian into going to the bed of the person in charge of the machinery factory were exposed, it would be hard to say what would happen. Discovering Jin Yuyan's secret today was an unexpected surprise.
"Every man for himself, I just want to go back to the city, so what?" Zhou Anze said impatiently. "Are you going to help me or not? If you're not going to help, then don't get in my way, or I'll expose your business too."
Zhou Anze was confident that he had this leverage over Jin Yuyan, and even if Jin Yuyan knew his plans, she would never reveal them.
Even if Jin Yuyan tells Shen Qianqian about this, so what? He can deny it, after all, he hasn't done it yet.
He can then turn the tables and blame others.
No matter how you look at it, he has the upper hand in this matter.
Jin Yuyan wasn't stupid; how could she not have thought of what Zhou Anze could think of?
This handle is indeed a problem.
No, she's going to ask Shen Ziming for a divorce tomorrow.
Once she divorces Shen Ziming, her relationship with Li Dajun will no longer be a point of contention.
Only after thinking about this did Jin Yuyan finally breathe a sigh of relief.
But what she needs to do now is to stabilize Zhou Anze first.
She asked, "What do you need me to do?"
Zhou Anze gave her a knowing look, "There's a dilapidated wooden house over there by the mountain in the back village. Find an excuse to take Shen Qianqian there tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Jin Yuyan didn't expect Zhou Anze to be in such a hurry.
"Tomorrow won't work?" Zhou Anze said. "The heads of the textile factory and the machinery factory will be leaving in two days, and I don't have much time."
Jin Yuyan said, "The day after tomorrow, the afternoon after that, I'll find an excuse to bring the person to you."
Although Zhou Anze was a little anxious, he knew he couldn't rush things. He nodded and said, "The day after tomorrow it is. Don't try anything funny."
Jin Yuyan nodded.
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The captain responded quickly regarding Jiang Ning's matter.
The next day, he brought the police officers, Ma Laizi, and the three female educated youths who had sent Ma Laizi hunting in the mountains to the courtyard.
The captain also had someone call Shen Qianqian over.
What happened yesterday must be addressed face to face; not a single person can be missing.
When Yuan, the educated youth, and the other two female educated youths saw the police and Ma Laizi, they were extremely nervous, and their faces clearly showed signs of guilt.
The three of them were among the later batch of educated youth sent to the countryside, and were only in their early twenties, not yet capable of concealing their deep thoughts.
Ma Laizi became extremely agitated upon seeing the three female educated youths. He quickly pointed at Yuan and the others and said, "Officer, it was those three who lied to me, saying there were wild boars on the mountain. That's why I went up the mountain, but there were no wild boars there at all. I only just realized that I was tricked by them!"
The police officer said coldly, "Quiet, we only asked you to testify, not to give you a chance to get away with it. Even if they lied to you, the fact that you had malicious intentions when you saw the woman is your own problem."
Upon hearing Ma Laizi's words, the three educated youths' expressions changed, and they quickly said, "Officer, he's lying to you. I didn't say that."
Just then, Shen Qianqian arrived and immediately said, "I heard that! You deliberately lured Ma Laizi up the mountain. You knew my second sister-in-law went up the mountain to gather herbs, so you deliberately lured Ma Laizi in to harm her!"
Yuan, the educated youth, was quicker-witted than the other two female educated youths. Since she couldn't rely on them, she immediately said, "You're family, of course you'll side with your sister-in-law. What evidence do you have that I did it on purpose?"
Shen Qianqian never expected that people could be so evil. They wouldn't even admit to what they had done!
Shen Mo and Jiang Ning overheard their conversation as they walked into the courtyard, and roughly guessed that the captain had brought people to verify the story.
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