Liu Guihua cursed and swore all the way here, which naturally attracted many villagers to come and watch the spectacle.
The villagers are all related to each other to some extent, and they are quite united.
The reason why there was no serious discrimination against educated youth in Qingshan Brigade was because the brigade leader and the party secretary were good at leadership, and there were no major conflicts between educated youth and villagers, so they lived in peace.
But now that someone is deliberately stirring things up, the villagers are not in a good mood, especially since twenty catties of grain is a lot these days.
Some busybodies started making a fuss, especially a few people who were on good terms with Liu Guihua.
Led by Hu Chunzhi, a group of unreasonable shrewish women in the village launched the first attack.
"That's right! Why should someone take things and then not do anything? And if they don't do anything, they won't even return the grain? Isn't that just being a scoundrel!"
"That's right, you call yourselves educated youth? This is clearly robbery, and you want to file a complaint? We're the ones who should be filing a complaint."
"Yes, let's go, let's take them to the police station. These are scoundrels and swindlers."
As things escalated, Yang Xiaohong began to panic.
Just a few days ago, Liu Guihua approached her, saying that if she could get Yang Wanqiu to come out alone, she would give her fifty catties of grain.
At the time, she felt that given her relationship with Yang Wanqiu, this wouldn't be a difficult task, so she readily agreed.
Knowing that Liu Guihua's character was not very good, she first asked for twenty catties of grain as a deposit, just in case Liu Guihua would deny it later.
Yang Xiaohong was right back then. Liu Guihua had planned to deny everything afterward, which is why she generously promised to give her fifty catties of grain later.
Liu Guihua hadn't expected that Yang Xiaohong would ask for grain first. After some back and forth, the two agreed that Liu Guihua would give 20 jin of grain as a deposit, and the rest would be paid after the deal was done.
Liu Guihua had no other choice; she was determined to trick Yang Wanqiu into becoming her daughter-in-law.
But for some reason, ever since breaking up with Shen Wenge, Yang Wanqiu has rarely left the educated youth settlement, let alone gone to the village alone.
Even when they went up the mountain to chop firewood, they did it together with the other educated youth.
She tried to find excuses to ask Yang Wanqiu out, but he refused each time, so Liu Guihua was anxious but couldn't find an opportunity.
Finally, they came up with the idea of buying off the educated youth in the outpost to lure people out.
Unexpectedly, more than ten days had passed since the grain was given out, but the person still couldn't be tricked out. Liu Guihua was naturally anxious.
She realized that Yang Xiaohong and Yang Wanqiu's relationship wasn't as good as Yang Xiaohong claimed, so she decided to ask for the grain back.
Unexpectedly, Yang Xiaohong not only refused to return the money, but also threatened to expose her plan to harm the educated youth. Liu Guihua acted rashly in a moment of panic.
Seeing that many villagers were standing on her side, she recalled that she had indeed said some things when she approached Yang Xiaohong, but only the two of them were present at the time, and no one else heard them.
Someone saw her delivering grain to Yang Xiaohong; I remember the person who opened the door for her was a young educated youth named Guo Dan.
Suddenly feeling much more confident, he continued slapping his thigh and wailing, "Oh no! This is outrageous! The educated youth from the city are bullying honest people!"
"It was Yang Xiaohong who promised to introduce my son to a potential partner, which is why I agreed to give her the grain. But it's been over twenty days since I gave her the grain, and she's not only not showing up, she's practically avoiding me! She's clearly cheated me out of my grain!"
Faced with Liu Guihua's distorted and fabricated story, Yang Xiaohong, who had been hiding in Liu Shumei's arms and crying, refused to believe it.
She immediately retorted, "No, Aunt Liu, how can you twist the truth like this? It was clearly you...it was you..."
Yang Xiaohong really didn't know what to say. She wasn't stupid, and she naturally knew what Liu Guihua was planning to do by asking her to lure Yang Wanqiu out. So how could she say that?
But as soon as he got stuck, Liu Guihua became even more arrogant, pointing at Yang Xiaohong's nose and cursing, "You little bitch, if you hadn't told me that you had a good relationship with Yang Wanqiu, the educated youth..."
It's said that Yang Wanqiu's reputation is bad because she was just dumped by Shen Wenge. If she were to mediate now, it would definitely work.
That's why I gave her a deposit of 20 jin of grain. We agreed that if the deal went through, I would give her another 30 jin of grain.
I gave her fifty catties of grain as a thank-you gift, but who would have thought that she would accept the grain and not do anything in return? That's when I realized that maybe the city girl looked down on us country bumpkins.
So he thought, "If the marriage doesn't work out, so be it," and then he tried to get the grain back. But that little slut wouldn't admit to sharing the burden and even called me a toad trying to eat swan meat.
They said it was a pipe dream for us peasants to even dream of marrying city girls, and that the twenty catties of grain was just a lesson for me.
They told me to be aware of my own status and not to covet the girls in the city. That's why I got so angry that I hit them. But look at these educated youths from the city.
"They want to report me to the Revolutionary Committee without even asking what happened! This is outrageous! They're making life impossible for ordinary people like us!"
Liu Guihua cried so hard that anyone who didn't know better would really think she had suffered some great injustice.
Liu Shumei and Feng Baoguo were stunned by her words and looked at Yang Xiaohong, hoping he would explain, otherwise they would really be accused of bullying others.
To their disappointment, the guilty-looking Yang Xiaohong just kept pointing at Liu Guihua and saying she was talking nonsense, but she couldn't explain what really happened.
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