The feud between Sheng Xiping and Sun Yunpeng and Du Jiabin originated from a girl named Zhou Qinglan.
Zhou Qinglan's father was an engineer at the Forestry Bureau's machine repair factory. He was transferred from Tonghua Machinery Factory a few years ago.
Although Songjianghe Forestry Bureau is a state-owned enterprise, most of its employees are migrant workers from Shandong who came to Northeast China to seek their fortunes.
It should be said that Songjianghe started from migrant workers, and most of the workers were not very educated.
Zhou Mingyuan is a mechanical engineer, and his wife is a doctor; they come from a respectable scholarly family and are cultured individuals.
Zhou Qinglan is beautiful, with well-proportioned, bright, and elegant features. Having grown up in the city, she possesses a unique and distinctive charm.
Last winter, Zhou Qinglan, a high school graduate, came to Qianchuan Forest Farm with a group of educated youth from the bureau. As soon as she arrived, she attracted the attention of many young men.
Sheng Xiping had a very good impression of Zhou Qinglan. As the leader of the educated youth team, he took good care of Zhou Qinglan on a daily basis.
After a while, others noticed something was amiss and would tease Sheng Xiping from time to time.
Zhou Qinglan has a cousin from Qianchuan Forestry Farm. She grew up with Gao Haining, a good friend of Sheng Xiping, and their parents had a verbal agreement for a marriage between them.
Zhou Qinglan came to Qianchuan Forest Farm mainly because she has relatives there who can help her out.
The forest farm is not only busy with logging, but also with various tasks such as clearing forests, planting trees, managing forests, and tending trees.
Especially during the period after the beginning of spring, the afforestation campaign is a unified effort, with everyone involved, including upper elementary school students, who have to go up the mountain to plant trees.
In June, the tending of young forests begins, which involves removing saplings.
The educated youth in the forest farm took the path of both forestry and agriculture, working wherever there was work, whether in agricultural teams or forest farms.
Sheng Xiping was the leader of the educated youth team. He led dozens of educated youth under his command to Qianchuan Second Branch Line to carry out young forest tending work.
After a busy morning, everyone was tired, so at lunchtime, they went to the stream in the woods to wash their hands and faces before eating.
They were all young people, and when they got together, they couldn't be serious. Before long, they were laughing and joking.
Some people started to jeer, asking Sheng Xiping if he dared to shout, "I want Gao Haining's sister-in-law!"
If he dares, I'll treat him to drinks tonight.
Sheng Xiping was young and impetuous; was there anything he wouldn't dare to do? He immediately shouted twice.
The male educated youth were downstream, and the female educated youth were upstream, separated by about a kilometer.
The shouts from here are quite loud, but they don't carry as clearly over there.
When Zhou Qinglan and the other girls, who were washing their hands, heard this, they assumed that the downstream girls wanted soap.
Most girls are hygienic and clean, and this week Qinglan was indeed carrying a bar of soap with her.
So I picked a leaf, put a small bar of soap on it, and let it float down the stream.
The group below were waiting for news from above, but instead of the female educated youth's playful response, they found a bar of soap on a leaf.
Most locals call soap "yizi". When everyone saw this, they said that Sheng Xiping wanted his sister-in-law, and they sent him soap. This clearly meant that he agreed.
Sheng Xiping had always been interested in Zhou Qinglan and took good care of her. Zhou Qinglan, in turn, also had some feelings for Sheng Xiping.
Amidst everyone's teasing and laughter, the two clarified their relationship and naturally came together.
These days, it's said to be conservative, but in reality, many educated youth were dating; it wasn't unusual.
Zhou Qinglan's father was an engineer at a machine repair shop, while Sheng Xiping's father was a foreman at a forestry farm and also the manager of a small repair shop. The two families were considered to be of similar social standing.
Moreover, Sheng Xiping is a good-looking young man with a lot of energy.
He was also the leader of the educated youth team, with progressive thinking and outstanding abilities. He was a good match for Zhou Qinglan, and the two had a very good relationship.
Sheng Xiping was twenty and Zhou Qinglan was eighteen. The two got along well and were very compatible.
If things proceed normally, after a year or two when the relationship is stable, both sets of parents will meet to finalize the engagement, and then they can get their marriage certificate and hold a wedding.
But where in the world can things be so perfectly smooth sailing?
Zhou Qinglan was the most outstanding girl among this group of female educated youth, and Sheng Xiping was not the only one who had his eye on her.
Of all the male educated youths who came from the bureau, apart from those who already had girlfriends, who didn't have Zhou Qinglan in their hearts?
Among them, of course, was Sun Yunpeng, a spoiled brat.
Sun Yunpeng's father is the deputy director of the bureau, and his maternal grandfather has connections in the provincial forestry department, holding a high-ranking position.
He was the only son in his family and was pampered since childhood. He was always arrogant, domineering and tyrannical.
Sun Yunpeng had his eye on Zhou Qinglan and tried to win her over many times, but Zhou Qinglan ignored him completely and started dating Sheng Xiping instead.
Unable to win openly, Sun Yunpeng harbored jealousy and resentment, so he resorted to ruthless tactics behind the scenes.
After the Spring Festival that year, the educated youth from Songjianghe returned to the forest farm. Sheng Xiping hadn't seen Zhou Qinglan for more than half a month, so he naturally went to the collective household to find Zhou Qinglan.
Unexpectedly, Sun Yunpeng and his men ambushed them on the road under the cover of night.
If you want to secretly teach Sheng Xiping a lesson, it would be best to beat him half to death or cripple him.
The collective household was located in the agricultural team area behind the mountain, quite far from the forest farm.
It was almost 10 p.m. when Sheng Xiping left the collective household and started walking back. Several people rushed out from the shadows and started hitting him with sticks and machetes.
I thought that with so many people, dealing with Sheng Xiping, who was all alone, would be a piece of cake.
Unexpectedly, Sheng Xiping was not only skilled in martial arts, but also carried a hunting knife with him.
Sheng Xiping loved playing with weapons since he was a child, and by chance, he became an apprentice of a retired soldier from Dajianchang Village.
He learned martial arts and shooting from him, and occasionally went hunting in the mountains with him, so Sheng Xiping became quite skilled.
No matter how skilled you are, it's difficult to deal with an attack from several people, and you can easily get hit several times if you're not careful.
Fortunately, I was wearing thick winter clothes and had a cotton-padded coat to protect me, and the other person's machete wasn't too sharp, so the wound wasn't deep.
Seeing that he was about to suffer a great loss, Sheng Xiping didn't care about anything else. He simply took out the knife he was carrying and stabbed at the nearest person.
This knife was a gift from his master; it was said to be made of artillery shell steel and was incredibly sharp.
Going up the mountain to poke wild boars and bears is no problem for them, let alone people?
Both sides were in a frenzy, and no one cared about restraint. Sheng Xiping stabbed one person to the ground with a single knife, then turned around and kicked another away.
The person who was stabbed was Sun Yunpeng, and the one who was kicked away was Du Jiabin.
The knife struck a vital spot in his chest and abdomen, and Sun Yunpeng screamed and fell to the ground.
Du Jiabin was kicked in the most sensitive part of a man's body, and he fainted from the pain.
The two leaders had fallen, and the others were dumbfounded. How could they possibly continue the fight?
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Sheng Xiping ran back to the forest farm and quickly called for help.
Such a big thing happened in the middle of the night, and the whole forest farm was alarmed.
The farm manager and the party secretary were so frightened when they heard this that they immediately called Songjianghe.
At the same time, the forest farm's railway motorcycles were used to transport the injured to the forestry bureau hospital.
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