"A piece of trash who'd stick something on someone else for half a pound of meat!"
"Everyone come quick! Jiang Ying is here to seduce us!"
Lin Mo wasn't satisfied with just cursing, so he started yelling at the top of his lungs towards the village.
Jiang Ying was so embarrassed by the vulgar word that she immediately became nervous, afraid that the villagers would notice. She quickly covered her face and ran away angrily.
"Ugh, so annoying."
After driving Jiang Ying away, Lin Mo turned and went into the mountains.
It was quite a coincidence that the anise berries we had picked earlier were also on the doctor's prescription.
It seems those short videos he watched in his later years weren't lying after all.
Let's go gather herbs!
...
In the production team.
The dozen or so male educated youths who were tied up and thrown into the canteen storeroom last night were driven out early this morning.
They squatted in a row along the edge of their assigned fields.
Every passing villager cursed and glared at him; it was utterly humiliating.
But the villagers didn't really have the energy to look at them much, because yesterday's production progress was astonishing.
In just one day, hundreds of acres of wheat fields were harvested.
That's the temptation of eating meat!
Drying wheat, threshing wheat, hulling wheat, etc. If we could eat meat every day, the rest of the work could probably be finished in a few days.
There are still two months until winter, so we can catch another batch of hardy bok choy.
However, he didn't work on the assigned farmland, but rather secretly worked on the two-tenths of an acre of land behind his own house.
If we catch it, we'll have enough pickled vegetables to eat this winter.
If someone were truly stupid and relied on the production team to feed them, they would have starved to death long ago.
After finishing his work on production allocation, Chen Gang came to Xu Zhenting and the others.
Xu Zhenting had already lost face all morning, and at this moment, he was filled with shame and anger.
"Go to the county and confess honestly, and try to get leniency for your confession." Chen Gang explained the follow-up arrangements in one sentence.
It wasn't handled by the village, but handed over to the county.
Upon hearing this, the male educated youth were so frightened that they burst into tears.
They had been waiting for the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination, and were just waiting for the county to notify them to return to the city.
If you commit a crime before returning to the city, it's like leaving a stain on your record, which means you won't be able to take the college entrance exam.
"Waaah!" Wang Jian, who was the most frightened of them all, burst into tears, feeling like his life was over.
"Stop crying!"
Despite the impending turning point in his life, Xu Zhenting remained calm and composed.
He first cursed at Wang Jian, then looked up at Chen Gang with an air of self-righteousness:
"Captain Chen, come here, I have something to say to you privately."
Chen Gang, unsure of what else he was going to say, squatted down in front of him without much thought.
I wanted to say a few more words of advice to him, urging him to see the error of his ways and stop being so stubborn.
However, Xu Zhenting's words led him astray.
Xu Zhenting brought his mouth close to Chen Gang's ear and whispered, his voice laced with threat:
"Do you know who my uncle is? He's the head of the resource zoning station in An County."
“If you dare send me to the county, I’ll tell my uncle about the illegal fishing in the village.”
"All natural resources are under the county's jurisdiction. Your private fishing is tantamount to illegally appropriating public resources!"
“If this gets out, the whole village will be publicly criticized! They might even be paraded through the county!”
Upon hearing this, Chen Gang was immediately taken aback.
I was immediately at a loss.
Seeing his cowardly expression, Xu Zhenting raised the corners of his lips confidently and kept humming threats.
Chen Gang, at a loss for what to do, stood there hesitating for a while.
Unable to reach a conclusion, I could only scratch my head and go to the village chief's house.
When we arrived at the village chief's house, wow, the aroma of fish was wafting out!
It seems even the village chief is engaging in self-serving activities.
It's infuriating!
Knock on the door, the door opened, and the village chief, seeing it was Chen Gang, didn't even bother to hide it:
"Tsk, the fish Lin Mo caught is so fresh! Add more garlic sprouts and simmer it in a small pot; it'll be even more fragrant than stewing it in a big pot!"
"Shall we have a meal together?"
"How dare you!" Chen Gang was furious.
"Where did you get this fish?"
When questioned, Wu Fengshou grinned, revealing two rows of large, yellow teeth:
"I hadn't finished eating them, so I put them in a bamboo basket and stored them in the river. I just caught one, hehe."
"Hehe! You have the nerve to hehehe!" Chen Gang's red face was so hot that he was spitting out gasps from his ears and nostrils.
"You're the village chief! How dare you lead the way in stealing fish from the village!"
"Oh dear, you're so stubborn," the village chief said slowly and deliberately, without getting angry.
"In this day and age, if you don't have some selfish motives, you won't survive those three years of natural disasters."
"Besides, there are still nearly 1,500 jin left, what's wrong with me taking one?"
"Anyway, the fish don't need to be handed over to the county; they're distributed in the village. At worst, you can just give me one less when you distribute them."
Chen Gang had no interest in arguing with the village chief about the fish. He quickly tidied his messy head and laid out Xu Zhenting's threats in detail.
"You tell me what to do, how to deal with these educated youth?"
“If we send it to the county according to regulations, Xu Zhenting’s uncle is the head of the resource station! We’ll offend him!”
"If I don't release them, I'll offend the big shots in the county; if I do release them, I'll offend the village. What should I do?"
Hearing this, the village chief wasn't particularly surprised.
After all, they already knew that the educated youth came from the city. In those days, people with urban household registration could trace their ancestry back a generation and were probably prominent figures.
Moreover, the chances of getting a degree and becoming a respected figure in government are even greater.
"Oh dear, this is indeed a tricky problem," the village chief said, scratching his head.
"The villagers are already not very obedient to us. If we release them and lose our authority, who will listen to our orders?"
Chen Gang's head was spinning, and the soles of his shoes were practically sparking from pacing back and forth.
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