So... the standoff is over? Song Yueying couldn't hold back any longer, turned around and hugged Qi Yanjue tightly, burying her head in his chest and laughing so hard she was sobbing.
The captain must be furious this time; his usual dignified image has completely collapsed.
Is it really that funny? Qi Yanjue looked at her speechlessly. To prevent her from being too reckless and accidentally falling, he reached out and supported her shoulder.
"Is...the standoff over?" Song Rumeng stared blankly at the captain, her mind a little slow to process what was happening.
"The standoff is over." The captain frowned, looking at Song Rumeng's dazed expression. He thought to himself, "This eldest daughter of the Song family seems a bit dim-witted!"
Aunt Li saw Song Yueying laughing in the man's arms, and she gritted her teeth in hatred. She stepped forward and shouted, "Captain!"
The shout startled the captain, who turned around abruptly to see who was calling him.
Upon seeing that it was the squad leader's wife, the brigade leader's eyes flashed with disgust. He had heard many villagers complain that the squad leader's wife bullied the villagers because her husband was the squad leader.
"Speak quickly if you have something to say. If you waste everyone's time any longer, everyone will have two work points deducted." The team leader looked at Aunt Li with hostility.
"Captain, how can you be so unreasonable?" Aunt Li protested. "I just wanted to say something fair, how is that wasting everyone's time?"
"You're going to deduct two work points from everyone, I don't agree."
Unconvinced, unconvinced again—coincidentally, he was the one who dealt with all kinds of dissent. The brigade leader sneered, "If you're not happy, you'd better keep it to yourself. Do you want to earn work points?"
"Just say you don't want to earn work points, and I'll just cross your name off."
"You have no right to cross out my name!" Aunt Li screamed.
"If I, a dignified battalion commander, don't even have this much power, what kind of battalion commander am I?" The battalion commander was truly fed up with these unreasonable women.
Aunt Li's face turned deathly pale; only now did she truly feel fear.
At the same time, she also realized that not everyone would give face to her husband and let her act arrogantly.
She remembered what her husband had said: he would take over the position of brigade leader sooner or later. She just needed to wait a little longer until her husband took over the position.
As long as her husband becomes the brigade leader, everyone in the brigade will fawn over her. Thinking of this, Aunt Li took several deep breaths to suppress her anger.
She pointed at Song Yueying and Qi Yanjue, "Captain, look at them! You're still standing here! They dare to hug and kiss each other, completely disregarding you and everyone else."
"That's what I was just saying."
“Song Yueying is our brigade’s village doctor and one of our brigade leaders’ people. Her behavior is improper, and she has been having illicit relationships with men and women, which is also ruining the reputation of our brigade.”
"This kind of person should be arrested and drowned in a pig cage."
"To be drowned in a pig cage with that wild man."
"Li Cui, you heartless, wicked bastard!" As soon as Song Yueying was mentioned, Song's mother became energetic, as if she had been injected with chicken blood.
"My daughter got dizzy from all the noise you people were making, what's wrong with my son-in-law helping her?"
"Who are you calling indecent? Who are you calling promiscuous? You're the one who's indecent and promiscuous. You're ruining the brigade's reputation. With someone like you, does the brigade even need to be ruined?"
"How dare you say you'll throw my daughter and my son-in-law into a pig cage? Where do you get the nerve?"
"You heartless bastard, I'll beat you to death today."
Song's mother launched into a tirade of curses, rushed over, grabbed Aunt Li's hair, and began slapping her face repeatedly. As she hit her, she continued to yell, "I'll smash your mouth open!"
“I’ll teach you to talk nonsense and slander my daughter.”
Song's mother spoke too fast, and no one heard what she said specifically. But when she rushed over to hit Aunt Li, everyone tacitly made way for her.
To allow her to perform better... well, mainly because I don't want her to be caught in the crossfire.
Song Rumeng was completely dumbfounded.
The person who grabbed Aunt Li's hair with one hand and slapped her face repeatedly with the other... was she... the crazy second aunt?
They've all gone mad, everyone's gone mad.
Song Yueying, who had been laughing in Qi Yanjue's arms, stopped laughing and gently pushed him away. She wiped away the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes, then turned to see her mother hitting someone.
"Mom is awesome, keep it up!" Song Yueying watched the show with great interest, her excitement making it seem as if she wanted to rush up and kick her a couple of times.
When the captain heard her words, his lips twitched. Why was oil added?
Worried that she might fall over jumping around too much, Qi Yanjue gently held one of her arms. He didn't use much force, so it wouldn't affect her movements or make her fall.
"Dr. Song, aren't you going to try and break up the fight?" the captain asked Song Yueying.
"No need." Song Yueying shook her head and instead reassured the captain, "Captain, don't worry. My mother knows what she's doing. At most, she'll bleed a little, but no one will die."
Upon hearing that it involved bloodshed, the captain's heart pounded with anxiety. He asked worriedly, "Is this really a good thing?"
“What’s wrong with that?” Looking at the captain, Song Yueying said earnestly, “Some people deserve to be taught a lesson and are asking for it. We should satisfy them.”
That's utterly absurd, absolutely absurd. The captain's lips twitched again. Well, it was impossible to get her to break up the fight; he'd have to do it himself.
"You two, go and separate them." The captain casually pointed to two women in the crowd to break up the fight.
The two women were fighting, so he naturally couldn't possibly intervene to break them up.
The two women were secretly pleased to see Aunt Li being beaten, regretting that they hadn't done it themselves. When the brigade leader ordered them to separate the two women, they were somewhat reluctant.
But they couldn't disobey the brigade leader, so they went over and had one of them hug Song's mother while the other pulled on Aunt Li's arm to separate the two.
Breaking free from Qi Yanjue's grasp, Song Yueying ran over and pulled her mother back under the eaves. She fanned her with her little hands, saying, "Mommy, are you tired? Are you hot? Let me fan you."
Seeing her fawning attitude, Qi Yanjue was speechless and helpless. With her around, he could already foresee that his future days would definitely not be peaceful.
"Sweetie, Mom isn't tired." Song's mother held her little hand, smiling, but her words were fierce. "If anyone dares to bully you, I'll beat them to death, or I'll cripple them."
Song Yueying blinked her big eyes. Did she have to be so fierce?
Especially since you said it with a smile, it's just creepy no matter how you look at it.
The captain glanced at Song's mother, feeling very surprised, but now was not the time to ask questions, as a large group of people were still standing there in the yard.
"We're all from the same brigade, we see each other all the time, what kind of behavior is this, fighting like this..." Stepping out from under the eaves, the brigade leader stood in the sun giving a speech.
The villagers, scolded and too ashamed to raise their heads, tried to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible. They regretted coming to join the fun and regretted staying when they had the chance to leave.
Aunt Li was beaten badly by Song's mother; not only was her face swollen, but her mouth was too. She wanted to cry and tell everyone to gain sympathy, but she couldn't even speak clearly.
Seeing that the captain had finished his speech and wanted everyone to leave, Song Rumeng quickly stepped forward.
"Captain." Since things have already broken down, let's go all the way. With that thought in mind, Song Rumeng pointed at Qi Yanjue, who was standing next to Song Yueying.
"Captain, this man is having an affair with Song Yueying. We're here to expose them, and we have absolutely no ulterior motives; it's to protect our entire captain."
"We don't want to damage the reputation of our entire brigade because of Song Yueying alone."
"You can't just let this go."
"Then what do you want to do?" The captain was really angry this time. He didn't want to argue with a girl, but he didn't expect her to keep pressing the issue.
He frowned and looked sharply at Song Rumeng. "Doctor Song is your cousin. Do you really have to accuse her of having illicit relationships?"
"Leaving aside family ties, just the fact that she lives next door to you means she's given you a lot of favors."
"You take her benefits on one hand, and then you spare no effort to slander her on the other. What kind of heart do you have?"
“Captain, I didn’t slander her,” Song Rumeng explained, her eyes brimming with tears. “I was telling the truth. I did this for our brigade! For…”
"Alright." The captain interrupted Song Rumeng, suppressing his anger, and said, "Don't use protecting the brigade's reputation as an excuse. The brigade's reputation cannot be ruined by one person."
"You know perfectly well what you were planning to do today."
"Everyone, disperse. I'll say it again: anyone who's late for work this afternoon will have their work points deducted."
Seeing that everyone was about to leave, Song Rumeng shouted anxiously, "Don't leave! We haven't figured out Song Yueying's messy relationships with men and women yet, so no one is allowed to leave."
"Song Rumeng." The captain's suppressed anger suddenly flared up. "Are you deaf? Didn't you hear Comrade Zhao Dongxue just say that this man is her son-in-law?"
"You consider yourself one of the more educated people in the brigade. Do you need someone as uneducated as me to explain what a son-in-law is?"
After the brigade leader finished speaking, the villagers all looked at Qi Yanjue, and no one spoke again, except for the chirping of cicadas in the trees not far away.
"Impossible!" After a long silence, Song Rumeng burst out in a scream, "Impossible, absolutely impossible! Her man is dead, she's a widow, a widow!"
Impossible. Song Yueying is a widow. She is a widow, her husband is dead, dead. It's impossible for him to still be alive, let alone this handsome man.
Song Yueying is a slut, a fool. She doesn't deserve to marry such an outstanding man.
"You slut, you idiot, you're inferior to her in every way, you deserve to be trampled under her feet." Song Rumeng kept telling herself this, constantly cursing Song Yueying.
The screams startled the villagers back to their senses.
"He...he's Zhao Dongxue's...son-in-law?"
"How could that be? Didn't Zhao Dongxue's son-in-law die for his country?"
"That's right! How can someone who died for their country come back? Has the dead come back to life?"
"We've never met Zhao Dongxue's son-in-law, so we don't know if he's the right person!"
“Yes, he’s not Song Yueying’s man. He’s a fake. Someone else must be impersonating him.” Song Rumeng pointed at Qi Yanjue excitedly, as if she had discovered something new.
"You're fake, you're an imposter."
“I’ve seen the man who came to pick up Song Yueying before. You’re not him, you absolutely are not.”
Upon hearing this, the villagers immediately believed it. Song Rumeng was Song Yueying's cousin, and the two cousins were extremely close; it wasn't surprising that she had seen Song Yueying's man before.
The captain didn't believe it, because he had also met Qi Yanjue. He was the one who issued Song Yueying's letter of introduction to Beijing and the documents needed for her marriage.
"Are you sure you've seen me?" Qi Yanjue asked, having remained silent until now.
“Of course,” Song Rumeng replied proudly, her tone tinged with contempt and regret. “I don’t know why you helped my cousin lie, but I hope you will stop aiding and abetting evil.”
“That’s not how you use the word ‘aiding and abetting evil.’” Qi Yanjue glanced at Song Yueying. “Yueying’s healing and saving lives is not aiding and abetting evil, but benefiting the community.”
"You keep saying that Yueying is your cousin, slandering, belittling, and throwing mud at her. You have no decency at all."
“More than a year ago, she came back to Beijing with me to get married. You suggested that you go to Beijing with her, and she wanted to take you with her, but I didn’t agree.”
Do you know why?
Song Rumeng stared wide-eyed in disbelief, her mind filled with only two thoughts.
First, he is the one who married Song Yueying, not an imposter. Second, Song Yueying agreed to his suggestion to go to Beijing with him.
He disagreed.
"It's you who disagrees, you don't agree," Song Rumeng repeated in a trembling voice. She had always believed that it was Song Yueying who disagreed with taking her to Beijing, and she hated Song Yueying to the core.
Not long after, Song Yueying returned, and she pretended to be concerned and asked what had happened. Song Yueying said that her husband had sacrificed his life, and her in-laws didn't like her.
She was so happy she almost burst out laughing in front of Song Yueying. As soon as she left Song Yueying's house, she made Song Yueying a widow, and the whole brigade knew about it.
However, he disagreed.
"Why didn't you agree?" Song Rumeng asked through tears. "Do you know that because of your disagreement, you've ruined my whole life, my whole life?"
Why did he disagree? On what grounds did he disagree? It was because of his disagreement that she was unable to go to Beijing and marry a rich and powerful man.
If she had gone to Beijing, things would definitely be different now. With her intelligence, her looks, and her junior high school education, she wouldn't have had trouble finding a good man.
Perhaps she has already married into a wealthy and powerful family and is now a rich and powerful young mistress.
Because of him, because he refused to take her to Beijing, everything became an unattainable dream.
It was him who ruined her life.
“Because I won’t bring a person with ill intentions home.” Qi Yanjue’s cold voice was completely flat. “You may appear affectionate with her on the surface, but behind her back you’re full of scheming.”
"You want to use her as a stepping stone, and my family as a stepping stone? Of course I won't agree to that."
Qi Yanjue was talking about her; the "she" he was referring to was Song Yueying from before.
"You're talking nonsense." Feeling guilty and because her thoughts had been exposed, Song Rumeng retorted loudly, "I treat her like my own sister, and I have never schemed against her."
"Such a thing is true?" The surrounding villagers gaped in astonishment. Their gazes towards Song Rumeng changed, some showing contempt, some disdain, and a few even admiration.
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