Chapter 16 The Laziest Man in the Countryside 70 (16)
"Are you all trying to rebel?! I think you've all gone mad! Where's your village chief? I think he's no longer the village chief, I'll make you pay for this!"
"That's right! You bunch of scum, just you wait!"
They uttered harsh words, as if they wanted to remember their faces.
"You've gone mad! I'm telling you, anyone who offends us in this village will suffer! I'll fucking kill you all!"
"Smack!" A rotten egg hit the speaker in the mouth.
The overwhelming nausea followed by the stench made him vomit, and everyone who saw him gasped in disgust.
The villagers shouted at them to get out, and some even picked up sticks and farm tools.
Faced with so many people, these red armband-wearing individuals were actually a little apprehensive: "Don't think that just because there are so many of you we can't do anything to you. We'll take your village chief to the city and let him experience the consequences of protecting these rightists!"
"The person in charge of your village will be held accountable!"
Some people took a step back after hearing these words, frightened by their expressions.
Are they going to arrest village officials as well?
Ji Hong stepped forward, intending to say that he was the person in charge of the village, but his youngest son stopped him, seeing him step forward:
"Arrest our village officials? Hmph." Ji Huaizhi sneered: "If you dare to lay a hand on us, everyone in our village will hang themselves at your workplace. You beat up the masses and insult us farmers. I want to see what kind of people your leaders are."
"At worst, we can make a big scene, and then we can come back to farming after it's over."
"But what about you?"
The team leader wiped the dirt off his face: "You people are really shameless, and you have serious ideological problems. Your whole village should receive ideological education!"
"What ideological education?" Ji Huaizhi pressed. "Aren't you the ones who should be receiving the education the most?"
"You people claim to be eliminating evil for the people, but you're just driving people to their deaths for your own selfish desires. I don't believe so many of you are Red Guards!"
"If that's the case, I'm going to ask your leaders how they manage their people. They point at us farmers, curse us, and call us scum! They even want to arrest people from our village."
"What's the difference between you people who abuse your power to call for violence and rob and plunder, and bandits?"
Everyone else was fired up when they heard what Ji Huaizhi said.
"Yes! If any of you dare to arrest even one person from our village, we'll take you all down with us!"
"Yes! We are farmers! How dare you cause trouble in our village! You even attacked us! I'm going to the government! I'm going to see the leaders!"
"I'll go tomorrow!"
"I'm going tomorrow too, to ask their leaders and their subordinates what they mean by this. They're not letting us work, and they even beat us farmers!"
"We finally have a doctor in the village, but you're trying to drive him to his death. What are your intentions?"
The militiamen never expected that this village would be full of troublemakers.
Terrified, he scrambled away, yelling, "You'll all just wait!"
Everyone laughed when they saw them scared away, and some people went forward to help them.
Some people came up to Ji Huaizhi and asked them if they really didn't dare to come.
It's unsettling when one person does something wrong, but it's quite normal when a group of people do something wrong together.
Why don't you arrest them all?
"Huaizhi, do you think they dare to come again?"
Ji Huaizhi stood in the middle and shook his head, now speaking in his usual manner: "No, they're afraid we'll cause trouble."
If there are few people, they might not be afraid and might even lock them up like those who are being criticized and denounced.
But with so many people in their village, they dared not do it.
If anything gets blown up, its nature changes.
"Really? These people look really tough, even we farmers are afraid of them."
"Hey, what are you saying? Who's the most useful in this society? Of course, it's the working class and peasantry!" someone said with great pride when talking about their identity as a farmer.
"Yes, we come from such good social class backgrounds. If they dare to do anything to us, that would be damaging the relationship between the working class and the peasantry. They are the bad elements!"
"Yes! We are farmers! What are we afraid of?"
Li Zhenzhu had already gone to help He Xianglan up.
Fortunately, Wang Xiuju was there, so it didn't look out of place.
"Don't worry, little sister, those people definitely won't dare to come," Wang Xiuju reassured her.
Li Zhenzhu touched her mother's badly cut hair with heartache, only to find that her head was already covered with silver strands.
"Thank you!" He Xianglan hadn't expected the villagers to protect them like this.
Li Decheng hadn't expected this either.
Although people may have been drawn to his medical skills, the couple truly benefited from his protection.
"Alright, you can go back and rest. You don't need to work today," Ji Hong said to the people in the cowshed.
They all bowed and thanked them, feeling that they were really lucky to have been sent down here.
"Dr. Li, you don't need to keep thanking me. In the future, if anyone in our village has a headache or fever, we'll still need to trouble you."
"That's right, as long as you stay in the village for medical treatment, we'll protect you both for that long!"
Li Decheng nodded: "That's only right!"
"Just hearing that is enough."
After everyone dispersed, He Yingying kept an eye on Li Zhenzhu.
She was now certain that Li Zhenzhu and Li the Cripple's relationship was unusual, and she looked as worried as if she were her own daughter.
Li Zhenzhu is incredibly bold.
If this gets discovered, it won't be a small matter; it could even implicate the entire educated youth settlement.
While she was struggling with her decision, she inadvertently noticed that the village secretary's youngest son was staring intently at her, but she didn't believe that he was interested in her.
Because she saw a sense of threat in Ji Huaizhi's eyes.
Alright.
Li Zhenzhu not only had an unusual relationship with the people in the cowshed, but also with the village party secretary's family.
No wonder they're so bold.
He Yingying originally thought she would only want to discuss it with Zhang Miao, since Zhang Miao had a lot of prestige among the female educated youth.
Now she's decided to say nothing more.
If Li Zhenzhu gets together with the village secretary's youngest son and they find out she revealed this secret, then she won't be able to stay in this village anymore.
You can't afford to offend anyone but the local officials.
Li Zhenzhu really wanted to stay with her parents, but they had to give her countless meaningful glances before finally sending her back to the educated youth settlement.
Having gone through so much, they dared not let anyone know that Pearl was their daughter.
We can only be extremely careful.
“I used to think that my daughter should marry someone with power or money so that she could live a comfortable life in her later years, but I don’t think that way anymore.” He Xianglan’s hair was a mess.
Li Decheng looked at her, only to hear her continue speaking:
"All I hope for now is that she can have enough to eat and wear, stay healthy and free from illness, and find a good family background to live a good life with. I don't want her to suffer like we did, having a carefree first half of life but suffering the second half."
Then came a sobbing sound.
Li Decheng remained silent.
The family has become like this because he misjudged people, which harmed his wife and daughter.
Later, villagers came to help clean up the things that had been smashed in the cowshed, and Ji Huaizhi was among them.
He Xianglan kept observing Ji Huaizhi and found that although he was silent, he was very reliable in his words and deeds.
Most importantly, his demeanor doesn't resemble that of a farmer. The Ji family is united and kind, the sisters-in-law are capable and don't cause trouble, and the family tradition is excellent.
Being a village official in the village is truly an excellent position in rural areas.
It seems that his narcolepsy has no effect on He Xianglan anymore, and I heard that a matchmaker has already been trying to find him a wife.
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