Now that he was already here, he couldn't just turn around and leave. After giving the villager who had brought him here a resentful look, Shen Baogen looked helplessly at the two people who were each sticking to their own version of events and said, "You two, tell me one by one, what exactly happened? How can two girls fight like this? What kind of nonsense is this?"
Thinking that Chen Shuning had performed quite well since she arrived at the brigade, he pointed at her and said, "Chen, you go first."
However, in order not to be misunderstood as showing favoritism, the captain put on a serious expression when he said this to Chen Shuning.
Chen Shuning had originally planned to enjoy a delicious hot pot meal in her space after finally getting a day off.
Being disturbed was already annoying enough, but coming out to see what was going on and getting dragged into it made her even more upset than before.
So when the captain asked her, she told him the whole story, but she emphasized her past conflicts with Yang Wanqiu.
She didn't embellish the rest of the story, since so many people were watching. If she lied, people would easily misunderstand her as being guilty.
It was precisely because of Chen Shuning's honesty that Yang Wanqiu, who had been watching Chen Shuning intently and waiting for her to lie so she could speak up and refute her, felt frustrated.
So much so that Yang Wanqiu could only reluctantly argue after Chen Shuning finished recounting what had happened: "Captain, I really didn't mean that. Shuning misunderstood. I just don't understand why Zhong Lingling would frame me when we have no grudge against each other. I only asked her because I thought Shuning and Zhong Lingling were on good terms. Who would have thought that Shuning would misunderstand and beat me up like this?"
"So this was originally a conflict between you and Zhong Zhiqing. Why did you ask Chen Zhiqing instead of Zhong Zhiqing, the person directly involved? No wonder they misunderstood you. I would have misunderstood too."
The captain's words were practically saying that Yang Wanqiu was just looking for trouble, and that Chen Shuning deserved to beat her up.
You should know that his whole family had a very good impression of Chen Shuning.
His wife and Chen Shuning were in the same work team, and they often worked together. Chen Shuning was a handyman, and he would often bring Wan Guihua some snacks when he went to work, so the two became close friends despite their age difference in a short time.
Wan Guihua often whispered sweet nothings in Shen Baogen's ear, praising Chen Shuning.
When building the house, Chen Shuning treated the villagers who helped him very well. Not only did he provide them with mung bean water on a regular basis, but he also gave each of them a thank-you gift that was more substantial than a meal when the work was completed. The brigade leader's family was particularly generous, as three of them received gifts, with Shen Dahe's gift being even more generous than the others.
Shen Baogen kept all of this in mind, so Chen Shuning not only had a good reputation among the brigade leader's family, but also among the other villagers.
So at this moment, not only had the scales tipped in favor of Chen Shuning, but many villagers who were watching the commotion had also forgotten their purpose for coming here and started saying good things about Chen Shuning.
On the other hand, Yang Wanqiu often shirks her duties and tries to cheat on her husband. In front of the men, she often acts coquettish and asks them to help her with chores. But in front of the women, she is a completely different person. She is stingy and petty, and often acts superior and looks down on the rural people.
Therefore, Yang Wanqiu's reputation in the village was actually quite bad, especially in the eyes of the women.
And since most of the villagers present happened to be women, it's easy to imagine that the crowd's opinion was almost unanimously in favor of Chen Shuning.
Of course, Yang Wanqiu can't be entirely blamed for her poor interpersonal relationships. Although she had money from selling her job and house, she was used to being poor in her previous life and thought that this money was her capital for making a living in the future.
If she's as unlucky in this life as she was in the last, and fails to win over any of the men she's set her sights on, at least she'll still have money.
When she returns to the city in the future, she can still buy a house and a job again. If she can get into university as smoothly as she did in her previous life, she will need living expenses. She can use that money to dress herself up nicely and maybe find a good man in university.
Because of these thoughts, Yang Wanqiu valued money very much, which is why she didn't, as described in the novel Chen Shuning had read, use the money she had to befriend several educated youths at the rural settlement as soon as she arrived in the countryside.
Later, because he helped Gao Hongyuan when he was in trouble, he eventually snatched Gao Hongyuan away from the original owner.
Of course, this is all because of the variables Chen Shuning and Gu Xinyi. Otherwise, according to the original plot...
Not long after Yang Wanqiu went to the countryside, he obtained Gu Xinyi's jade pendant and unexpectedly opened the jade pendant's space. He then used the space to buy and sell various things and make a fortune.
She then used the money she earned to befriend various future bigwigs, so in the original book, Yang Wanqiu was seen by everyone as a kind, generous, and helpful comrade.
The saying "poverty makes people lose their ambition" is truly not without merit.
Shen Baogen listened to both Chen Shuning's and Yang Wanqiu's descriptions, and found that the whole thing started because Zhong Lingling lost money and went to Yang Wanqiu for help.
So he turned to Zhong Lingling, the other protagonist of the incident, and asked, "Zhong Zhiqing, why don't you tell us what exactly happened?"
Zhong Lingling was furious. She was the victim in this whole affair; so much money was gone just like that, and the thief could very well be Wang Wenfang, whom she had treated with the utmost kindness.
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