Hearing Liu Honghua say that the Zhao family had arrived, Yan Runzhi was even more anxious than Jiang Lin, "Bao'er's mother, wait, I'll go take a look."
Jiang Lin said, "We are not afraid. The child is safe at home and we didn't cheat them out of money. Are they here to get beaten?"
Cheng Dabao and Cheng Xiaobao also heard it, and the two brothers stopped playing with ants and ran to Jiang Lin. Cheng Dabao was holding a fire stick, and Cheng Xiaobao was holding a medicine bottle for insects.
Cheng Dabao: "Old witch No. 2 is here." Holding a fire stick.
Cheng Xiaobao: "General Ant is coming." He waved the medicine bottle, allowing sunlight to pass through and illuminate the insects inside.
Jiang Lin wanted them to stay at home, but they naturally refused.
Liu Honghua was still jumping around outside, shouting desperately, afraid that others didn't know. She wanted to beat drums and gongs to call the whole village to come and watch the fun and see how she would tear Jiang Lin apart with her bare hands!
She had been beaten by Jiang Lin before and it was really humiliating, so she had to get it back double today.
It was lunch time, and those who ate fast all came out to watch the fun, while those who ate slowly also came out with their bowls and dry food, fearing to miss such a lively scene. The countryside was really boring and there was not much entertainment. Beating children on rainy days was an entertainment activity, not to mention women fighting, which was simply the drama of the year!
Cheng Yulian also came over with a few women and shouted, "Liu Honghua, what are you doing? You haven't been beaten enough, have you?"
Liu Honghua was so proud that she looked like she had a peacock's tail that could spread out to be the most beautiful in the world. She was trembling all over. "What's the matter? Don't you want evidence? Here's the evidence! Hurry up and shout on the loudspeaker. Hold a meeting and criticize this feudal bad element, this wicked Z-traitor! I don't think she dares to show off to me again."
Liu Honghua is uneducated and many of her words are learned. She says a lot of things here and there, and when put together they sound very intimidating.
Cheng Yulian rolled her eyes and said, "If you can bring out a litter of 18 piglets, I will call a national meeting for you."
"Hmph, don't be unconvinced. Today you protected her, so you will be implicated as well!" Liu Honghua was not angry at all. Instead, she was very proud and was just waiting for Jiang Lin to come out and confront her.
Cheng Yulian ignored her and looked at the old man Zhao and the old woman Zhao over there. She deliberately said coldly, "Who are you two? Do you know how serious this is?"
Without waiting for the two to speak, Liu Honghua said proudly: "Witness! He bought the child from Jiang Lin!"
Cheng Yulian asked curiously, "Did you two buy a son?"
The two men looked at Liu Honghua and said nothing.
Soon more and more people came to the door. Wei Qiongfang and several educated youth also ran over, and Ma Kaihua also hid aside.
Wei Qiongfang shouted, "Jiang Lin, stop being a coward."
The door opened with a "creak", Dabao and Xiaobao pulled the two doors open, and Jiang Lin and Yan Runzhi walked out.
"Wow, there are so many people." Jiang Lin smiled, and saw Liu Honghua jumping around happily. Why didn't he use a crutch at such a proud moment?
Jiang Lin really wanted to give her one, so she made the decision happily.
"Jiang Lin, look who this is!" Liu Honghua pointed at the old man and the old woman Zhao beside her proudly, "Do you know them?"
Jiang Lin raised her eyebrows. Was Liu Honghua crazy? Was she trying to transform herself into the female Di Renjie?
Do you want me to pair you with Yuan Fang?
Jiang Lin was not nervous at all. It was just the Zhao family. She was not afraid. She was only worried whether Yan Runzhi and the child would be sad. Now that she had let it go, she felt relieved and courageous.
She smiled at Old Man Zhao and Mrs. Zhao, "Sister-in-law Zhao, how are you?"
When Mrs. Zhao saw Jiang Lin, she immediately smiled like a chrysanthemum, "Sister, hello, you are all well, where is Baoer?" Her eyes rolled around and she immediately saw Dabao and Xiaobao. She clapped her hands excitedly, "Oh my Baoers, come here, let me give you some candy!" She quickly took out candies from her coat pocket and grabbed a handful of them to give to Dabao and Xiaobao.
Onlookers: ...?
Dabao and Xiaobao said in unison: "Old witch, stop right there!"
Liu Honghua laughed proudly: "So, you can't cover up selling the child anymore, right?" Looking at Mrs. Zhao's enthusiasm, she must be going to buy a child.
Jiang Lin raised her eyebrows: "Did I sell it?" You are so proud of yourself.
"If you don't want to sell it, why are you going to the Zhao family in the carriage shop? They want to buy a son." Wei Qiongfang ran out impatiently to question, and Ma Kaihua couldn't stop her.
Jiang Lin rolled her eyes at her with contempt, "Hey, you're here to get beaten? What do you care? You can't control me if I go to the Damadianzi."
The police wouldn't come to arrest her, so what was she afraid of? She just thought it was a free show.
"Tell us in front of everyone how Jiang Lin sold her son!" Wei Qiongfang was so proud that she was even prouder than a rooster.
Old man Zhao hesitated for a moment and looked at the old woman.
Mrs. Zhao was still trying hard to give candies to Dabao and Xiaobao. Dabao firmly refused, and Xiaobao refused hesitantly, but was pulled over by Dabao.
Mrs. Zhao smiled at Yan Runzhi, "Hello, auntie."
Yan Runzhi was shocked, "You look no younger than me."
Mrs. Zhao: "I look old, not as young and pretty as you, Auntie."
Everyone was a little confused. What was going on? Why was Mrs. Zhao so affectionate to the Cheng family?
Just then, Sun Qinghui, Meng Yiyi and others also ran over.
Meng Yiyi saw the Zhao couple and said to Sun Qinghui anxiously, "This is terrible, why are they here?"
Sun Qinghui: "You said you bought a son?"
Meng Yiyi was so anxious that she almost cried, "If they come, it will harm Linlin."
Sun Qinghui: "Jiang Lin didn't sell her son, what is she afraid of?"
Meng Yiyi stamped her feet, "What do you know? It's not sold, it's not unsold...ah?" She seemed to realize that she had said something wrong, and quickly covered her mouth, "Anyway, it's not sold, it's not sold! Don't think too much about it."
Sun Qinghui looked at her suspiciously, "Did Jiang Lin really go there?"
Meng Yiyi waved her hands quickly: "Of course I didn't sell it, I just wanted to make some money. Let's go over and persuade her not to let Linlin suffer any loss. Hey, I told her to go back to the city and hide, but she was stubborn."
Meng Yiyi ran over quickly, "Linlin." She said to the Zhao couple, "Why are you two here? Our Linlin family has a good child, but we won't sell it. Don't bother her."
This shows how much they cherish these two children, that even when they were called in for a confrontation, they still tucked in candies to please the children. It would be better if Liu Honghua and Ma Kaihua made a bigger fuss and broke the hearts of Yan Runzhi, Dabao and Xiaobao, and made them give up on Jiang Lin.
"Old witch, what are you doing here again!" Cheng Dabao was furious and raised the fire stick to hit her, "I'll beat you to death, old witch, you come to instigate my mother all day long. My mother said she would not return to the city, so why are you still here? Come again!"
Cheng Xiaobao had heard from Dabao about Meng Yiyi, saying that you were the one who talked about the big carriage shop, the man, selling the son, and going back to the city. The two kids were confused, but they were sure that Meng Yiyi was an old witch who wanted to kidnap their mother.
He was so angry, even angrier than Wei Qiongfang. Wei Qiongfang said that he was worth a hundred yuan, but Meng Yiyi asked his mother to abandon him and Dabao.
So bad!
Cheng Xiaobao threw the bugs in the bottle toward Meng Yiyi, "The Spicy Tree vs. the Old Witch No. 1!"
When he was playing with Dabao, he used branches to pick up a few chilies from Chinese toon trees and stinking toon trees and put them in a glass bottle, intending to burn them for fun while making a fire.
The insect, the tree spice, is yellow-green in color and covered with thorns. Its poisonous stings will prick any place where there is hair, causing both stinging, numbness and itching, which can almost be considered torture.
Meng Yiyi didn't expect that she would be treated so inhumanely when she came to help Jiang Lin. She saw Cheng Xiaobao raising his hand, and several black shadows flew towards her. She subconsciously waved her hand to block them, but two of them were knocked away, and several others fell on her face, head, and neck.
Those that fell on the face and head bounced off immediately, but those that fell on the neck rolled in through the collar.
This was terrible. Meng Yiyi immediately felt a burning pain and itching spreading from her neck.
"Ah--" Meng Yiyi screamed and subconsciously touched it with her hand. As a result, several big lumps appeared at that time, which were itchy and painful. Although she knew she couldn't scratch it, she couldn't help it.
She couldn't take off her clothes on the spot, so she had to grab her clothes and run away in panic.
Liu Honghua and Wei Qiongfang were standing next to her. The chili pepper that Meng Yiyi knocked down flew towards the two of them. Wei Qiongfang dodged it quickly. Liu Honghua was hit in the nose by the chili pepper because she had fallen before and her legs were not so agile. She panicked and waved her hands around.
As Liu Honghua jumped, she bumped into Meng Yiyi who rushed over. Meng Yiyi was in a hurry and had a lot of strength. Liu Honghua was already jumping and was caught off guard. She was knocked down and fell at the entrance of the ditch. One of her feet stepped on it by chance, and with a "crack", her ankle was sprained.
"Ah--" Liu Honghua also cried out, joining Meng Yiyi in running and screaming. The sounds of screaming rose and fell, and it was very miserable.
Liu Honghua's son and daughter immediately ran over and carried her aside. They did not dare to touch her feet, so they had to ask a barefoot doctor to come.
In order to avoid suspicion, men like Cheng Ruhai all went to work and stayed away from home. When women fought, men did not intervene, and assumed that it was a women's war.
The onlookers were stunned. What kind of turn was this?
Cheng Dabao and Cheng Xiaobao clapped their hands and laughed, "Old Witch No. 1 vs. Old Witch No. 2!"
Wei Qiongfang was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time. She originally wanted to go over and ask Mrs. Zhao to tell her that Jiang Lin was selling her son, but seeing the two boys smiling so evilly, she felt a little scared for some reason.
That's not a child!
Jiang Lin and Yan Runzhi were also a little confused, especially Jiang Lin. She was ready to face Mrs. Zhao's tricks, but Mrs. Zhao started showing off her sweetness as soon as they met. What did this mean?
If he was here to confront her, then Mrs. Zhao would have said something like this with a sly smile, "Jiang Zhiqing, the last time you came to my house to sell my son, you thought one hundred was too little and asked for two hundred. Have you forgotten?"
Then she could follow up with "You forgot, did you ask for two hundred? I said ten thousand, do you have it? Ha..." Everyone would think that she was deliberately trying to sabotage and make fun of others, and was not really going to sell the child. From then on, this matter would definitely become a joke.
Little did I know that Mrs. Zhao would not play by the rules.
Mrs. Zhao looked at Dabao and Xiaobao with interest and clapped her hands, "You two are really good children. Mother missed you so much."
Cheng Xiaobao didn't have a bad impression of her at all! He chuckled, "You're mistaken, I have a mother." He pointed at Jiang Lin, then at Yan Runzhi, "This is my grandma."
Wei Qiongfang hid aside and shouted, "This is admitting that you sold your son!"
Mrs. Zhao turned her head to look at her and said, "How can you be so evil, a grown woman, always talking about selling your son? Why don't you just give birth to the child and then sell it. I would like to buy it, but the elder sister won't sell it."
Wei Qiongfang was not convinced: "If you say so, she must have sold it! Why would she go if she didn't sell it? Maybe she thinks the money is too little!"
Cheng Xiaobao shouted, "I'm worth 10,000 yuan! Not 100 yuan. My mother said she wouldn't sell me for 10,000 yuan. Humph!"
When he shouted like that, everyone thought it was just a joke and Jiang Lin didn't want to sell the child at all.
But what Wei Qiongfang said was right. If you didn't want to sell the child, why did you suddenly go to the Zhao family who wanted to buy a son? Did you just go to tease them? Did you want to show off that you had two sons? And at that time, Jiang Lin was short of money and was borrowing money. Everyone thought that she must have gone to the Zhao family for money. As for why she wanted 10,000 instead of 200, it was obvious that she was not going to sell it, so they were even more curious.
Just as Jiang Lin was about to speak, Mrs. Zhao said, "You don't know this. At first, we were looking for a couple of little boys to live with as bed-suppressants, so that the Goddess of Childbirth would love them and give us a baby. But we never found anyone that suited our eyes. That day, on the way to the county town, we happened to meet the eldest sister with two beautiful babies. We liked them as soon as we saw them, so we asked the eldest sister's family to discuss it. I offered her 100 yuan, but she disagreed. I said I would give her 200 yuan, and if I got pregnant, I would give her a generous reward. If I didn't get pregnant within a year, I would give up completely. But the eldest sister was reluctant to leave the children to live with her for so long, and she didn't care about the 200 yuan and refused."
This is similar to the idea of hiring a boy to hold the bed when a couple gets married.
Mrs. Zhao sighed, "How could I have known that you were so evil-minded, spreading rumors everywhere that I wanted to buy my son and sell my eldest sister for my own son. Sigh. People's hearts are really evil."
Everyone: “…” I didn’t say anything.
Mrs. Zhao said to Yan Runzhi and Jiang Lin, "We miss these two children so much. If they don't want to live with us, can they be our godsons?"
Yan Runzhi didn't know what was going on. Seeing that Mrs. Zhao was quite kind, she said in embarrassment: "You, you see, it's almost time for me to be your grandson."
Mrs. Zhao laughed and said, "A son is better. A son is better. Only with a son can you have a grandson."
Liu Honghua and the others were anxious. She was in so much pain that she kept groaning and shouting, "Mrs. Zhao, why are you lying? What did you say before?"
Mrs. Zhao said angrily, "You are such a wicked wife. You asked me if Jiang Zhiqing came here to sell his son, and I said I wanted to buy him but he refused to sell it to me. You asked me how much he wanted, and I said one hundred was too little and I gave him two hundred but he didn't want it. Did I lie?"
Liu Honghua was so angry that she kept calling for her mother.
Ma Kaihua was also very angry. He felt as if he had stepped into a cesspool. Was this a setup? A dumb person can only suffer in silence.
Jiang Lin looked at her in confusion. Something was wrong with this Mrs. Zhao. Why was she speaking for her? Although she was not afraid of her confrontation and could use the excuse of playing tricks on people or cheating money to get away with it, if Mrs. Zhao took it on like this, she would not have any trouble at all and would be innocent as she could be.
Jiang Lin pointed at Liu Honghua who was still groaning in pain and asked, "Did she come to find you today?"
Mrs. Zhao shook her head, "She didn't come to my house today."
Jiang Lin: "Who invited you?"
Mrs. Zhao looked around and vaguely saw a woman behind the crowd, but she couldn't find her anymore. "She was over there, but now she's gone."
Cheng Yulian said: "It's okay, just tell me what he looks like and I'll make sure I recognize him." Humph, he attacked the women in Ma Kaihua's family without waiting for any harm.
Mrs. Zhao described her, how tall she was, how dark she was, her long face, her buck teeth, and other features. Finally, she said, "Oh, and there's a hitching post by her ear."
Cheng Yulian clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Ma Kaihua, your daughter-in-law, is not running away. Come here quickly, Chang Jihong!"
Chang Jihong immediately said, "I went to call for Liu Honghua."
Cheng Yulian sneered, Ma Kaihua instructed Liu Honghua and did not run away.
Although Jiang Lin was suspicious of Mrs. Zhao's affairs, she would accept it first and ask slowly later. She said to Cheng Yulian, "Director, you have to make the decision for me. Liu Honghua, Wei Qiongfang, and Ma Kaihua spread rumors to destroy my reputation. If I were weak, and my mother doubted me like they did, wouldn't I be forced to death to prove my innocence? I'm afraid I would either jump into the river or hang myself!"
When Cheng Dabao and Cheng Xiaobao heard this, they immediately hugged her legs and held her tightly.
Jiang Lin: “…” I was just saying that, don’t take it seriously.
Sun Qinghui also said: "Jiang Lin is right. How can you bully people like this? Do you think that we educated youth have no one to support us? If they take their children out, they are selling them. How can there be such nonsense? It is a completely trumped-up charge! They must be severely punished!"
The educated youth who were on good terms with him immediately expressed their support, "Go to the county public security bureau and explain everything! Report the crime to the police!"
Jiang Lin: "Thank you, classmates. Thank you for believing in my innocence." She began to wipe away tears again. "If my mother and son hadn't believed in me, I... wuwu~~"
When Jiang Lin started crying, Cheng Dabao got angry. He picked up a fire poker nearby, rushed over and started hitting Liu Honghua who was lying on the ground.
"Get out of here!" Cheng Tiegang and the other two were guarding Liu Honghua, and they quickly pushed Cheng Dabao away.
An educated youth immediately blocked Cheng Tiegang and prevented him from hitting Dabao.
Cheng Dabao snorted and said harshly: "Just wait!"
Cheng Xiaobao: "Just wait!"
For some reason, Cheng Tiegang and Cheng Jingang felt inexplicably painful.
Sun Qinghui took the lead and demanded severe punishment for those who spread rumors and caused trouble. It was bad enough that you spread rumors in the village, but you even went to the commune to complain. How could you be so bad?
This matter is not as simple as a fight between women pulling hair. If the women's director cannot handle it, the public security director must be asked to do so.
Soon the director of public security was called over.
He has a headache too!
"For such a serious matter, we should go to the commune."
Sun Qinghui: "Director, if we go to the commune, can they handle it impartially? I think we should report the case to the county and ask the public security department to send someone to see how some cunning people are harming us educated youth!"
After hearing this shout, the educated youth became indignant again.
The director of public security was afraid that the incident would become a big deal and affect the reputation of Shuihuai Village and Hongqi Commune, so he quickly sent someone to invite the team leader and the team secretary.
When Cheng Fujun and Cheng Fulian came over, they were even more troubled. Cheng Fujun glared at Liu Honghua and Ma Kaihua fiercely, "You are really going too far. I told you to be harmonious, but you insisted on making trouble and meddling in other people's business! You are so bored! Now you are bored!"
It's really hard to hold on. It's not going to end well.
The captain: "Go call the second and third captains and teach their wives a lesson." The two of them were obviously deceiving Jiang Lin and had long been dissatisfied with Ma Kaihua and others.
Jiang Lin said, "Secretary, team leader, the family background of the second and third team leaders is so bad that they only want to bring chaos to the world. They form cliques, exclude, bully and suppress other members, and assign tasks in a biased manner. What qualifications do they have to be team leaders?"
Jiang Lin took the lead.
Cheng Yulian immediately agreed: "Yes, what qualifications do they have to be production team leaders? They don't take their work as their responsibility, and they spend all day thinking about how to scheme against each other and harm others. How innocent is Jiang Zhiqing? If he is really discredited, how can he survive? Fortunately, Jiang Zhiqing is upright and has nothing to fear!"
Sun Qinghui and other educated youth also said the same thing, and demanded the removal of the second and third team leaders without even holding a meeting.
The second captain, Cheng Fuwan, had the help of his brother. Of course, he also spent some money when mobilizing for the election, treating the heads of the families to meals and drinks and giving them some small favors to bribe them, and finally they chose him. Cheng Ruhai also took the same approach.
The case of false accusation had not even begun, but the educated youth and the members of the commune were already clamoring to kick the two team leaders out. This was beyond everyone's expectations.
Especially the few that were hurt by the horse, I was so angry that my intestines were about to rot.
Cheng Fujun was not in a position to make the decision. Although the team leaders were ostensibly elected by the members, in reality there were always several candidates. The commune would appoint someone internally, and then add two runners-up for the members to vote for. Naturally, the final candidate would be the one favored by the higher-ups.
Therefore, as the secretary, he did not have the power to remove the production team leader and had to go to the commune for instructions.
If this matter is not handled properly, it will be an incident of harming the educated youth. If it angers the educated youth and reports it to the county, it will probably cause a big sensation, so we have to be careful.
"Let's ask the commune to handle the matter of the two team leaders and solve the women's dispute first. Jiang Zhiqing, what do you want?" Cheng Fujun asked Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin said slowly, "First, I demand that these two team leaders be removed from their posts and investigated. Without their protection, Liu Honghua and Ma Kaihua would not have been so arrogant. Second, I demand that Liu Honghua, Ma Kaihua, Wei Qiongfang, and the others who spread rumors that I sold my son apologize to me at the members' meeting, restore my innocence and honor, and read it on the brigade's loudspeaker for three consecutive days. Wei Qiongfang's incident must be recorded in her file!"
"No!" Wei Qiongfang was anxious. Having it recorded in the file would mean a stain on her. By the time she saved enough money and returned to the city, it would be difficult to find a job. At least she would have to spend more money.
Jiang Lin ignored her and continued, "33 Our whole family has been having trouble sleeping and eating these days. My mother has not been able to sleep well for several days and nights because of the rumors."
Yan Runzhi immediately leaned to the side to cooperate, and Mrs. Zhao went up to support her eagerly, "Auntie, are you okay?"
Yan Runzhi: "I... I have something to do. I am terrified. I am afraid that Ma Kaihua will force our wife to kneel down and break tiles. She keeps saying this."
Ma Kaihua: "Let go..."
"I can testify!" Cheng Yulian said, "Ma Kaihua relies on her husband being a cadre to bully and bully the second team every day. Now, because Jiang Zhiqing repaired the roof for everyone, she wants to force her to death..."
"How can he be so vicious!" Sun Qinghui and other educated youth shouted again, demanding severe punishment.
It was no use for Ma Kaihua to get so angry that he jumped up and down, because the situation was already one-sided.
Jiang Lin continued, "Our whole family may have to go to the hospital for a checkup. You have to pay the money! If you lose 500, I will never forgive you!"
The onlookers started to gasp again. Jiang Zhiqing was so bold to ask for such a high price. They thought she would just ask for ten or eight yuan, but she actually asked for five hundred!
Mom, you really come from a big city and have seen a lot of the world.
Someone muttered, "She has seven thousand dollars at home, what's the point of giving her eight or ten dollars? Five hundred dollars is not too much!"
Once some people know that someone's family is very rich and that the family is in their reach, they will quickly develop a sense of admiration for the other person, thinking that no matter how much money the other person has, they deserve it.
Some people, once they know that someone around them suddenly becomes rich, will feel jealous, wondering why someone else got rich instead of them, and that other people must have gotten it by improper means! It would be best if they were to suffer even more misfortune, so that they would feel relieved.
"She is so rich, but she still extorts money from others. How unkind!"
"What a new landlord, a new style! She dared to do this a few years ago when she was heavily involved in D?"
Sun Qinghui rudely blocked his words: "Shut up, you guys, did you see that he has 7,000? Do you believe what the child says? The child also said that you owe him 10,000, will you give it to him?"
"Oh, it's just a joke, why take it so seriously?"
They were joking, but Jiang Lin was not joking. He must pay compensation. Otherwise, there would be no end in sight. He went to the county to complain that the village cadres were bullying the educated youth, and even the commune was implicated.
The last stage is wrangling, negotiation and mediation.
Cheng Fujun had Ma Kaihua, Wei Qiongfang, Chang Jihong and others taken to the brigade headquarters. Liu Honghua sprained her ankle and had to limp along with a crutch. She was so unlucky.
Jiang Lin, Sun Qinghui and other educated youth also followed them. Mrs. Zhao and her husband accompanied Yan Runzhi, Dabao and Xiaobao to wait in the brigade yard.
After mediation and persuasion by Cheng Fujun and others, Ma Kaihua and others agreed to apologize to Jiang Lin, but they asked if it could be done in the brigade headquarters instead of at the meeting. Wei Qiongfang asked Jiang Lin not to record it in the file.
As for compensation, they really couldn't afford that much money, but they could compensate with eggs, food, or collect twenty yuan for Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin: "If you just spread rumors without refuting them, won't people think that I sold my son? Don't you know that it only takes a few words to spread rumors, but it takes a lot of effort to refute them? You must hold a national meeting and apologize through loudspeakers, no room for negotiation." She then said to Wei Qiongfang: "It's okay if you don't keep the file. I have conditions." She didn't mean to kill everyone. Files were indeed very important to the educated youth.
Wei Qiongfang said quickly: "You go ahead."
Jiang Lin: "From today on, don't let me hear you chewing your tongue again!"
Although Wei Qiongfang's face turned red with embarrassment and finally turned pale with fear, she had no choice but to listen. The more proud she was before, the more depressed she was now.
"Never dare to do that again." Wei Qiongfang's mind was numb, and the only thought in her mind was to leave here quickly, forget everything here, and never see Jiang Lin again.
"From today on, you have to bring me some firewood every day. Thirty kilograms of dry firewood a day. I'll do that for a month. It won't be hard on you, right?"
Wei Qiongfang burst into tears, "No, it's not difficult." It's so difficult!
"Okay, let's stop here." Jiang Lin was also straightforward.
Wei Qiongfang was frightened by her, but she didn't expect that she actually got through. Cheng Yulian had just said something scary to her. If Jiang Lin went all out and made a scene in the county, she would be the one who would suffer the most and she would never be able to return to the city in her lifetime.
As for Liu Honghua and Ma Kaihua, they must apologize and pay compensation. If they are not punished, people will think that they just made some gossips and nothing happened.
But Jiang Lin would not let them off easy, saying that she was selling the child and destroying family relationships. If anyone with a thin skin started making a fuss, they would definitely drink pesticides or jump into the river to commit suicide.
They must pay a heavy price!
One of the captains of Cheng Ruhai and Cheng Fuwan must be removed, otherwise they will continue to abuse their power and act like local emperors as village cadres. I have never seen anyone so arrogant.
Sun Qinghui and others also united with some educated youth, especially those who had failed to get in touch with others and were bullied everywhere, and took the opportunity to vent their anger. Some educated youth who had been bullied by Cheng Fuwan and Ma Kaihua took the opportunity to retaliate and took the initiative to write letters demanding severe punishment for the production team cadres who had harmed the educated youth.
Where there are people, there are conflicts of interest. Most people swallow their anger, but now that they see Jiang Lin can't bear it and is making a fuss, they spontaneously come over and demand justice.
Finally, Cheng Fuwan became anxious and asked Cheng Fujun and Cheng Fulian to mediate between Jiang Lin and offered to pay more money so that Jiang Lin would not go too far.
Cheng Fuwan's face was gloomy. "We just said you sold the child, but we didn't beat or scold you. It didn't hurt you. Why are you so persistent? We apologize to you and give you 50 yuan. What do you think?"
Cheng Yulian understood. She whispered to Jiang Lin, "It's easy to get Cheng Ruhai, but it's not that easy to get Cheng Fuwan."
She was also doing this for Jiang Lin's own good. After all, if the incident really got to the county, and if Cheng Fugui was not afraid of losing face and made some efforts, Jiang Lin would definitely not be their match.
Now that the other party still has some shame and is willing to spend money on mediation, this is the most suitable opportunity.
Of course Jiang Lin also knew that she just wanted to make some noise and expand public opinion to put pressure on the other party.
Originally, she was slandered by Ma Kaihua and others, and beating them up to vent her anger and make them dare not talk nonsense again would be the best result. Now, not only did she beat them up to vent her anger, but she also made the whole team apologize, review, and pay compensation, and she was also able to get Cheng Ruhai fired, which was very unexpected.
Jiang Lin naturally knew when to stop.
She said, "One hundred dollars plus one condition."
Ma Kaihua's face was swollen from crying. "One hundred yuan, you dare to ask for it..."
"Shut up!" Cheng Fujun scolded her, and he was going to make trouble for another two hundred yuan.
Ma Kaihua started to cry. The woman was dark-skinned and not pretty, but she cried wildly, and her expression looked extremely ferocious. Everyone felt no sympathy for her and didn't want to look at her any more.
Look at Yan Runzhi! She knows how to cry. During the struggle session, she shed tears silently. The old ladies scolded their sons, men and women, saying that they were not allowed to bully women. They could just read the report and scold them. Why beat them?
Cheng Fuwan felt a fishy smell in his mouth, "You say!"
Jiang Lin looked at the educated youths nearby and said, "Some of these educated youths have already settled their relationships and want to return to the city. You cannot stop them. You must follow the rules and get your stamps."
Now the educated youth have to spend money on both ends to move around, so many of them cannot afford to move around. Even if they don't have a job, they can ask the street office to take them in, live at home for a few days and try to do something else. But they will be stuck here.
Jiang Lin saw how hard they worked to help her. Sun Qinghui and the others were doing this out of righteousness, but most of them were doing it out of selfishness. Their selfishness was to go back to the city and to resolve conflicts with local cadres and members. She naturally had to return the favor and get this benefit, so that she wouldn't owe them a favor.
The educated youth had connections in the city, the commune, and the village. There were many places, and it was impossible to get three or four hundred. The village and the commune were basically Cheng Fugui's favors, and others just took advantage of it. The original owner offered two hundred because Qianbo was willing to give three hundred.
"Jiang Lin, well done!"
"We educated youth are in my heart!"
"I'm sorry, Jiang Lin, I wronged you before!"
Some educated youth became excited when they heard Jiang Lin say this. They originally thought that Jiang Lin would definitely take advantage of their family, such as removing Cheng Ruhai and making Cheng Rushan the production team leader. However, they didn't know that he was paving the way for the educated youth without any selfish motives.
I am so touched!
Comrade Jiang Lin is so selfless!
Jiang Lin stared at Cheng Fuwan, "If you agree to this, this matter will be written off, you can still be your team leader, and I promise I won't go to the county to make trouble. If you don't agree, we will never be done, and all the educated youth will accompany me to the county to sue you."
Cheng Fuwan felt very unlucky. How could women fight like this?
He couldn't agree. After all, the decision on this matter had to be made by his eldest brother. There were so many educated youth, and if he could use connections to get two hundred yuan from each of them, and if one or two people could help with the connections every year, he could make a lot of money.
"Jiang Lin, forget it if he doesn't agree. Let's go to the County Revolutionary Committee together, right now!" Some educated youth shouted. Previously they were seeking justice for Jiang Lin, but now it became their own business.
We have to fight for our own interests.
It is not normal to pay for stamping, but they still do it this way and there is no way to complain. Now that someone has punctured this abscess, they will squeeze it out and squeeze out fresh blood.
Cheng Fuwan: "One hundred yuan is fine. Let us think about this issue." He needs to discuss it with his eldest brother.
The educated youth shouted, "This is an official matter. Why are you accepting bribes? What are you discussing?"
Cheng Fuwan's son Cheng Decai shouted, "Why, why is it called bribe? Were you forced to pay it?"
"Can you stamp it if I don't pay?" They say they don't take bribes, but no one takes them, and no one forces you to pay. But will they do the job for you if you don't pay? They either make all kinds of excuses, asking you to go back to the city to get it done, or they make excuses, asking you to wait. You have to run more than a dozen times, and the time and money spent on the round trips are almost two or three hundred yuan. It's better to spend two hundred yuan than to wait for a year or two, and it won't be done in a lifetime.
Cheng Decai: "You are not eligible to return to the city! There is no policy to allow you to return to the city. If you want to return, don't you have to find connections?"
This suddenly turned into a war of words between the educated youth and Cheng Decai.
Cheng Fuwan had to go to the commune to ask for instructions, and a group of educated youth who had accumulated deep resentment followed to supervise. Cheng Fugui went to the county for a meeting, and Cheng Fuwan had to make a phone call to apply. Soon, Cheng Fugui instructed him to agree to Jiang Lin's request, but the matter ended there and could no longer cause trouble.
He asked Jiang Lin and the educated youth to sign and seal their names.
Jiang Lin and Sun Qinghui discussed it and everyone agreed.
To be fair, the brigade accountant Wang Gang helped them draft a settlement agreement, which was very fair and signed by both parties in triplicate, one for each party, and the brigade kept a notarized copy.
This was an unexpectedly satisfactory result that Sun Qinghui and others couldn't believe it.
"Jiang Lin, we were prejudiced against you in the past. We apologize to you. If you need us in the future, just let me know." Many educated youth thanked her.
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "We are far away from home, so we should help each other. I was wrong before. I relied on my classmates for help last time. I want to thank you this time. Don't be discouraged, classmates. I believe everyone will be able to return to the city soon."
Jiang Lin guessed that it was probably the end of Cultural Revolution. The county's policies had been quietly adjusted, and Cheng Fugui was also afraid that the educated youth would cause trouble, so he got such an unexpected good result.
Once the obstacles here are solved, they only need to go back to the city to make connections. If they can return to the city, they will have more time and information in the city than in the countryside for the college entrance examination next year.
With the results, Sun Qinghui and other educated youth returned to the educated youth site happily, talking and laughing. Some of them were thinking about how to make connections back in the city, especially those who had been in the countryside for a long time.
They saw Meng Yiyi. She had already used soap to treat the pimples on her body from the stings of the thorn tree, but it didn't work. It was still itchy, painful, and tingling, and she was in great pain. She had already gone to the brigade to secretly check, and then ran back in advance to wait. When she saw the educated youth coming back, she struggled to greet them and asked weakly, "Did you... win?"
Many educated youth said happily: "We won. Jiang Lin is really nice and righteous! I never thought she was so domineering."
"I wrongly blamed her before!"
Listening to everyone praising and rewarding you, Meng Yiyi felt as uncomfortable as if she had eaten a fly.
She forced a smile and said, "Since there is such a good thing, everyone can find a way to return to the city."
Some people said they were still short of money and had to write letters home.
Meng Yiyi: "Why not borrow it here? It's faster. It won't take more than two months to write a letter and send the money over."
When she said this, Jin Lei, a male educated youth who was on good terms with her, said, "Hey, didn't Jiang Lin's family say there are 7,000 yuan? It's okay for us to borrow 200 yuan, right?"
Sun Qinghui's face immediately turned cold and he cursed, "Just now I said Jiang Lin was righteous, thanks to her, you are plotting against her? Who said she had 7,000 yuan? Did you see it?"
"Didn't her son say that?" Jin Lei laughed.
"His son said you owe him 10,000 yuan, will you pay it back?"
"Oh, I'm just kidding, don't take it seriously." Jin Lei quickly waved his hand to clarify.
Sun Qinghui still had a sullen face. "Jiang Lin just beat Wei Qiongfang because of the rumor she spread. You spread the rumor that she had 7,000 yuan and persuaded everyone to borrow money from her. Do you want to taste her slap or Cheng Rushan's fist?"
Jin Lei's face changed and he quickly begged for mercy: "Sun Qinghui, I was wrong. I was just saying that as a joke. I really didn't mean it. Please don't tell Jiang Lin. I was wrong. I was really wrong."
Sun Qinghui glanced at Meng Yiyi again and warned her implicitly, "We have accepted Jiang Lin's kindness, so we should be grateful to her. I don't want to hear anyone say bad things about Jiang Lin in the educated youth center in the future. Otherwise, it means that he is making things difficult for me, Sun Qinghui. I will immediately draw a clear line with him and turn against him!"
Meng Yiyi's face turned pale. Was Sun Qinghui accusing her of being mean to Jiang Lin?
At this time, Jiang Lin was also questioning Mrs. Zhao and her husband.
After they solved the problem in the brigade, Jiang Lin entrusted other follow-up issues to Cheng Yulian, then took his family home, closed the door and asked the Zhao couple about the truth.
"Sister-in-law, you should tell us what happened now."
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