“Over the past few days, Lin Mo has made it clear that he doesn’t like us educated youth.”
"So he directed and acted out this whole thing, and even someone with no eyes could see it."
"Who is Lin Mo? Who is the most idle and lazy person in the village? It has to be Lin Mo!"
"You'd be better off believing a scoundrel can change his ways in just a few days than believing a sow can fly!"
Xu Zhenting's eloquent speech showed Lin Mo what the talent of a scholar truly meant.
Seeing that the villagers were so swayed by this "reasonable" sophistry that they were speechless and looked at each other blankly.
While secretly giving Xu Zhenting a thumbs-up in their hearts, the educated youth also stood up and chimed in with their own embellishments:
“Brother Ting makes a lot of sense. Nobody had ever eaten rabbit meat before, but Lin Mo suddenly knows how to catch rabbits and is so kind as to take others to catch them together.”
"It must be because Jiang Ying rejected his advances a few days ago, and he held a grudge against us educated youth. So he did this to frame us."
Wang Jian seized the opportunity to interject:
"His mother was robbed and beaten in the middle of the night, but no one in the village saw it. It was Lin Mo who discovered it himself."
"This means that he probably hit his mother himself and then framed us!"
“That’s right!” Xu Zhenting’s eyes gleamed arrogantly as he spoke with a sinister and malicious tone:
"Given Lin Mo's past personality, why wouldn't he do something like this?"
“Of course we can do it,” another educated youth added in agreement.
"Everyone knows that Lin Mo likes Jiang Ying. He even took the family's grain to exchange for meat to please Jiang Ying. He's like a dog, always wanting to stick to her. He didn't even care that his mother was starving to death."
In just a few minutes, the educated youth banded together and brilliantly displayed the eloquence of scholars.
The villagers were stunned by what he said, and it also broadened Lin Mo's horizons.
Even team leader Chen Gang and village chief Wu Fengshou listened to what was said and thought it made a lot of sense, at least logically consistent.
Now it was Miao Qingsong's turn to feel guilty. The evidence he had personally gathered suddenly seemed to have lost its persuasiveness.
But he also wanted to trust Lin Mo. After spending these past few days with Lin Mo, he seemed to have matured overnight.
Otherwise, how do you explain the two thousand catties of fish and dozens of rabbits that he led the way in catching?
“Brother Lin, I believe you’re not that kind of person, but…” Farmers are indeed not as eloquent as scholars, and Miao Qingsong was anxious but couldn’t say anything.
Lin Mo let them perform their wonderful show, and only when they were feeling quite pleased with themselves did he speak with a smile:
"Xu Zhenting, what's wrong with your lips? They're so oily. Where did you eat that meat? And what kind of meat was it?"
Upon hearing this, several educated youths who had secretly gone out at night to eat roasted rabbit subconsciously raised their elbows to wipe their mouths.
This detail made the village chief and Chen Gang's eyes twitch.
The village chief shook his head, shaking away the brilliant sophistry that had just flooded his mind.
Looking up, he also glanced at the lips of several educated youths, including Xu Zhenting, Liang Zhenguo, Chen Xin, and Wang Jian.
Everyone in the village knew that there was no meat to eat.
The stewed fish served in the afternoon didn't produce the same effect as plump lips.
At the same time, they didn't hide the fact that Lin Mo had led his men to hunt rabbits.
The only edible meat is the rabbit.
Xu Zhenting took the lead in speaking, racking his brains, but his efforts were immediately thwarted by the unusual sounds of their lips.
"I... I didn't eat rabbit meat!" In his panic, Wang Jian blurted out his explanation.
Miao Qingsong suddenly became clever, and he immediately retorted:
"Aside from pork, which can be bought at the supply and marketing cooperative, there is no other meat in the village."
"Whether the meat you're eating was bought from the supply and marketing cooperative can be found out by checking the registration records!"
"Captain! Quickly check the registration!"
"If it's not registered, then they're definitely eating rabbit meat! Stealing rabbit meat!"
Xu Zhenting never imagined that his own lips would betray him.
"Wow, no wonder he's a scholar, he's so eloquent! We almost believed him just now." Wang Junjun's father stared wide-eyed, his eyes wide with amazement.
“Who says otherwise? We almost believed it too,” Miao Wang’s mother muttered.
After all, it was their own rabbit that was robbed, and they've been heartbroken ever since daytime.
While working in the fields in the afternoon, I was excitedly thinking that since the village had opened up hunting opportunities, even if my family didn't know how to hunt, we could secretly raise rabbits if we caught one.
As long as they can be raised, even if they don't know how to hunt, they can still eat rabbit meat every now and then.
As a result, all that excitement from the past half-day vanished instantly.
"Where did you find that rabbit droppings?" Xu Zhenting suddenly asked again.
For a moment, no one understood what he was trying to say.
Miao Qingsong answered directly:
"It's in the last room of the educated youth male dormitory."
That was Chen Xin's dormitory. Chen Xin's heart skipped a beat.
Xu Zhenting thought to himself that one could underestimate the lack of attention to detail among ordinary people, but one could not underestimate their tenacity.
If we continue to delve into this, more evidence might be discovered by those who are more meticulous.
Suddenly, Xu Zhenting changed his mind and turned to look at Chen Xin:
"Hey, Chen Xin, you actually stole the villagers' rabbits? How could you do such a thing? I trusted you so much."
"???" The sudden situation left Chen Xin both surprised and shocked, as if struck by lightning:
What did you say?
Liang Zhenguo, who quickly realized what was happening, immediately added:
"That's right, Chen Xin, you can't do that. You're just tarnishing the reputation of us scholars."
"If you had just said you stole the rabbit, we definitely wouldn't have eaten it. We thought you shot it." To make matters worse, Wang Jian also understood and shifted the blame onto Chen Xin.
The educated youth unknowingly formed a tacit understanding and decided to sacrifice themselves by pushing Chen Xin out to save the others.
Chen Xin finally realized what was happening, and in his anger, he immediately started cursing:
"Xu Zhenting! Liang Zhenguo! Wang Xin! You! You're all dogs!"
"Xu the dog! Liang the dog! Wang the dog!"
"Wow, you actually swore at me? Are you furious?" Wang Xin spoke up again, almost making Chen Xin faint with anger.
However, before he could finish his sentence, Wang Xin shifted the blame onto him again:
"You were the one who robbed Aunt Lin? Wow, you actually did something like that?"
"Captain," he said to Chen Gang, forcing a serious expression that belied his usual easygoing nature:
"Although we were classmates who went to the countryside together, we will never protect each other when it comes to right and wrong."
"This matter must be thoroughly investigated; it's highly likely that Chen Xin did it."
At this moment, Lin Mo stepped forward and stood in front of Chen Xin, who was rolling his eyes in anger, his tone and expression both sinister:
"Who hit my mother?"
"It absolutely wasn't me! Whoever did it, may their entire family die!!"
Chen Xin shouted that he was innocent, but all eyes were on him.
Nobody believed him.
Except for Lin Mo.
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