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Ye Beiping stopped hoeing and waved his hand dismissively, saying, "Go away, you old rascal. I'll do it if I want to. So what? If you're so capable, let your sons and grandsons do it too."
After saying that, he turned to Su Xinyi and adopted a different, gentle attitude.
"Xinyi, the sun will be up soon. Go hide in the shade. I promise you I'll take care of all your work today. Not just today, but tomorrow, the day after, until you return to the city. Just focus on your studies and get into university."
After Ye Beiping finished speaking, he chuckled for a while, then started swinging his hoe with renewed vigor.
The villagers who heard this started to jeer: "Oh my, he's taken a fancy to that young girl, huh?"
This scene made Su Xinyi want to crawl into a hole in the ground; she was extremely embarrassed.
Peng Tian noticed Su Xinyi's expression and comforted her, saying, "Xinyi, you should rest for a while. He can't keep going for long."
"Hmph." Upon hearing this, Ye Beiping snorted coldly without turning his head, and swung his hoe even more vigorously.
He thought to himself: Who do you think you are? I did this kind of work a lot when I was in jail. Anyone can do it.
Just as everyone was working, a group of people wearing Zhongshan suits walked over, followed by someone wearing a yellow military uniform.
"Ding Hama is here, everyone get to work."
Suddenly, a villager shouted, and those who had been mocking Ye Beiping silently began to work again.
Ding Quan, as the production team leader, has the power to deduct work points. If this skinflint sees everyone chatting idly and not working, he might deduct work points again.
Ding Quan walked along the country path, watching the villagers and educated youth sweating profusely, and silently nodded: "Not bad, not bad."
Behind him, militia platoon leader Zhu Changsheng, like a lackey, handed Ding Quan a cigarette: "Captain Ding, it seems our mission this year won't be delayed, and we might even exceed it."
"Of course, how could the production team I lead fall behind the other production teams?" Ding Quan curled his lip and put a cigarette in his mouth with a disdainful look.
Just as Zhu Changsheng was lighting the fire, Ding Quan pointed to Su Xinyi and asked, "Isn't that a female educated youth? Why isn't she working?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Changsheng immediately raised his head and looked towards Su Xinyi.
He waved to the militiamen behind him: "Er Gouzi, go up and ask them."
"Okay." Er Gouzi responded, trotting up to Su Xinyi and cheekily stroking his chin as he asked, "You're a female educated youth, right? Why aren't you working? Didn't you see Captain Ding is here? Do you want to get points deducted?"
After a barrage of threats and lewd remarks, Su Xinyi took a step back in fear, biting her lower lip tightly.
Peng Tian noticed the commotion around Er Gouzi and wanted to run over to explain, but the next second Ye Beiping went up and kicked Er Gouzi.
"Ouch!" Er Gouzi rubbed his kicked butt and cursed rudely, "Who the hell kicked me? Don't they want to live? Don't they know I'm a militiaman?"
Ye Beiping swung a hoe at Er Gouzi and sneered, "Er Gouzi, have you gotten bolder lately since becoming a militiaman? You can't even walk past a woman anymore?"
Upon seeing who it was, Er Gouzi shuddered.
"Um... um, Beiping, you've misunderstood. Captain Ding sent me to ask this female educated youth why she's not working."
"Are you blind?" Ye Beiping glared sharply at Er Gouzi, kicking the hoe in his hand. "I'm helping her, do you guys need to nag me like this?"
Ye Beiping was a notorious thug, and basically everyone in the village was afraid of him.
He also had two henchmen by his side, one was the village chief's son, and the other was the militia company commander's son.
As a lowly militiaman, he couldn't afford to offend the militia company commander, nor could he afford to offend the village chief, so when he encountered Ye Beiping, he could only try to avoid him.
Ye Beiping didn't tolerate him and kicked Er Gouzi's butt again: "Get lost. Go back and tell your lackey platoon leader that I said if he comes to cause trouble for Su Xinyi again, I guarantee he'll regret it. Nobody will care about you bunch of hooligans anymore."
"Okay, okay." Er Gouzi could only groan and go back to report to Zhu Changsheng and Ding Quan, feeling wronged.
"Xinyi is fine. From now on, you can ignore whoever you don't want to talk to. I'll take care of anything that happens." Ye Beiping was still waiting to take credit.
The next second, Peng Tian's serious voice came from behind: "Your reckless courage will only bring more trouble to Xin Yi."
"Really?" Ye Beiping scratched his head, thought about it and realized it was true. He threw down his hoe and walked towards Ding Quan, saying, "Xinyi, I'll take care of your troubles right now."
"Why."
Su Xinyi was about to stop Ye Beiping, but Peng Tian stopped her first: "Xinyi, let him go. Reckless courage will only harm you."
Upon hearing this, Su Xinyi looked at Ye Beiping's back with some worry, and the marks on her lower lip deepened.
Ye Beiping walked up to Ding Quan and exclaimed, "Ding Hama, can't I even help the educated youth with some work so they can rest?"
Ding Quan was already quite annoyed after hearing Er Gouzi's report, but when he heard Ye Beiping's words, he pointed at the other person with his finger and was so angry that he almost couldn't speak.
For a man in his forties to be called by a nickname by a young man in his twenties is an utter disgrace.
What a disgrace!
Zhu Changsheng, who was standing next to him, also knew Ye Beiping well and knew that he couldn't afford to offend him.
He would call on his two henchmen to protect him at the drop of a hat. He was just a militia platoon leader who got his position by flattering the sycophants, and he had to take orders from the militia company commander.
Seeing Ding Quan's state, Ye Beiping spat in the field next to him, leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Don't think that just because you have an affair with those two female educated youths at the educated youth settlement, nobody knows. And don't think that nobody above you can control you. If I take this to the county or city level, you'll be in deep trouble. Just you wait and see."
After saying this, Ye Beiping clapped his hands and left with a smile.
It's as if the threatening words he just said weren't actually his own.
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