"What, do I need your permission to go anywhere?"
Chen Xin, who had long disliked Xu Zhenting, immediately retorted.
"Heh?" Xu Zhenting sneered.
He slapped him across the face with a "smack," causing the unsuspecting Chen Xin to stagger on the spot.
"You!" Chen Xin covered his face, glaring at Xu Zhenting with uncontrollable rage:
"Why did you hit me!"
Xu Zhenting appears arrogant and domineering, but in reality, he is utterly incompetent.
He realized that Chen Xin was going to take the opportunity to leave the village with Su Xiaoxiao, which is why he stood up to stop him.
If Chen Xin went to the county and saw other educated youth dressed up and wandering around the county, he would casually go over and ask them a question.
He only knew that after the college entrance examination was reinstated, educated youth could return to the city directly.
No, absolutely not.
"The county doesn't allow educated youth sent to the countryside to leave the villages they've been assigned to. Do I have to tell you that rule?" Xu Zhenting lectured arrogantly and domineeringly.
"As a former educated youth sent to the countryside, I have an obligation to take care of you."
"Come and fight me if you dare, come on."
Xu Zhenting knew very well that he had to adopt an absolutely dominant stance in order to suppress others.
Facing the aggressive Xu Zhenting, Chen Xin felt a surge of anger, both old and new.
After enduring so many years, this young man, who was originally in his early twenties and full of ambition to take the college entrance examination, had finally achieved his goal of going to university.
As a result, they stayed here for ten years.
Before I knew it, I had gone from being a pathetic young man in my early twenties to a middle-aged man approaching forty.
With his chest heaving violently, Chen Xin could no longer suppress his anger.
With a "bang," he retaliated with a powerful iron punch to Xu Zhenting.
Xu Zhenting was caught off guard by the sudden swing and staggered to the ground.
"Damn you..."
As Xu Zhenting turned around and began to curse, Chen Xin had already taken off running out of the village.
They ran so fast, so resolutely.
Chen Xin, who had run halfway out of the village, quickly caught up with Su Xiaoxiao, who was walking out on foot.
He walked over to Su Xiaoxiao, feigning nonchalance and smiling as he struck up a conversation with her:
"Is your dad alright? Did he manage to borrow money from Lin Mo's house?"
Hearing the noise, Su Xiaoxiao, who was in a hurry to get on her way, turned her head to look at him, then turned her head away again.
"No," she mumbled softly.
Just now, Su Xiaoxiao went to Lin Mo's house, and given the commotion in the village, he knew about Su the carpenter's accident, so he could guess that Su Xiaoxiao went to borrow money.
"How could that be? Lin Mo said he wanted to marry you before." Chen Xin hadn't really been paying much attention to Su Xiaoxiao.
His mind was in a mess. One moment he was thinking about where to go after arriving in the county, and if he had nowhere to go, what would he do when he returned to the village at night? Xu Zhenting would definitely beat him up.
He asked the question unconsciously while lost in thought, without even realizing that he had said something wrong.
Su Xiaoxiao's mind was also in a whirl, and she replied casually:
“He’s dating Jiang Ying now. He was just joking with me before.”
"A joke?" Chen Xin regained his senses slightly and realized that Su Xiaoxiao seemed to have misunderstood:
"That's impossible. Although my relationship with Lin Mo is just so-so, I can tell that he treats you differently than he treats Jiang Ying."
"If we're really talking about making fun of someone, I think Lin Mo's fawning over Jiang Ying in the past was the real joke. His behavior was so superficial and disrespectful."
Su Xiaoxiao smiled and didn't reply, assuming Chen Xin was just casually comforting her as a prelude to some kind of request. So she simply responded:
"Don't worry, I won't report you to the captain for leaving the village without permission, so there's no need to say so much."
A few words seemed to have caused another misunderstanding.
No, it's that she realized there was a misunderstanding between her and Lin Mo.
Being ostracized by the other educated youth, one must unite with others to avoid being alone and vulnerable.
He had also witnessed Lin Mo's changes. Although the fishing trip didn't end well, at least he could see that Lin Mo now had the ability to unite the villagers.
If you want to build a good relationship with him, now might be a good opportunity.
"Be careful on your way to the health station. I'm going back to the village now."
Chen Xin decided not to go to the county for now, but to go back to the village to find Lin Mo first.
Su Xiaoxiao was focused on getting on her way and simply nodded in response.
...
Lin Mo, Qingsong, and Awang went into the mountains again to check out the situation in the tunnel.
I thought that since I hadn't come to catch rabbits for so many days, there should be a lot of rabbits trapped in the tunnels.
The result was less than three hundred.
The tunnel was narrow and small, so once the rabbits were stacked in two layers, the rabbits on top could step on the rabbits on the bottom and hop out.
However, they didn't plan to bring the rabbit back this time, partly because they wanted to check on the situation in the village first.
Secondly, the season for dwarf pine is almost over, and right now the best-selling part is dwarf pine kernels, so of course we should prioritize getting dwarf pine cones.
They gathered some rabbit grass to feed the rabbits, and then the three of them, carrying a large basket of burlap sacks, ventured deeper into Chicken Beak Mountain.
They worked until almost noon before each of the three of them carried ten sacks of pine cones back to Lin Mo's house.
Chen Xin, who had been waiting for Lin Mo there, saw them returning from afar while sitting on the side of the road. He didn't immediately get up and go over to them.
Something had just happened in the village, and everyone was keeping quiet and being extremely cautious. Moreover, he was a former educated youth sent to the countryside, so he was well aware of the changes in the village.
It was obvious that the villagers were more willing to follow the village chief, while the team leader, Chen Gang, clearly favored the educated youth.
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