After Huang Hupo finished speaking, she wanted to slap herself in the face.
Revealing the village chief's farm is asking for trouble!
"Haha, they, ah, they mean that the farm has too much land," Huang Hupo racked her brains to explain, "Our village has too little land and the harvest is poor, so the educated youth in our village can't, uh, train or receive further education. So, the farm is too busy, so we need to transfer labor from here to, uh, help."
An articulate person began to ramble awkwardly, stammering and incoherently, but with only one point in mind:
Explanation is a cover-up!
It seems that the village chief is the key person to be covered up!
The answer he wanted came too suddenly, beyond Jiang Yun's expectations.
To prevent Huang Hupo from getting suspicious, Jiang Jun followed up on Huang Hupo's question and asked, "Does the farm produce better crops than your village? Aren't they all the same land?"
Someone else laughed immediately: "That's what city people do. They don't know the land. If they were the same, our village wouldn't be so poor! Everyone would be able to get married instead of just staring at other people's wives and wishing for them."
The crowd burst into laughter.
Huang Humber's face turned pale and red, but fortunately she was in the dark, so she didn't feel embarrassed.
Although Jiang Jun didn't understand what they were saying, he could hear the meaning behind their laughter. Trying to be as relaxed as possible, he asked, "Chief Huang, what are they talking about?"
Huang Hubo said: "Nothing, I just envy those who have a good life."
In remote areas, people rely on the weather for their livelihood. Many people have become accustomed to such a life, accustomed to being oppressed, and do not know how to fight back. They have never thought about changing, and have never thought about looking for development in the outside world. Instead, when limited resources become available, they compete with each other and fight to the death.
One of the onlookers muttered, "Huh, who wouldn't be envious? If you weren't envious, why would you run off and marry an old man? He's older than your father! What can he do?"
Huang Hupo clenched her fists in anger. This kind of sarcasm was not the first time she had heard it. Sometimes she pretended not to hear it, and sometimes she would angrily retort.
That night, Huang Hupo felt extremely embarrassed and speechless when she heard such words again in front of Jiang Jun.
The atmosphere at the scene became eerily quiet.
Huang Hupo combed her hair with her fingers, tugged at her clothes, and immediately regained her spirits: "Okay, let's all go. The leader is tired and needs to rest."
Without any explanation, he kicked everyone out like chickens.
After locking the door, Huang Hupo leaned against it, took two breaths, and said to Jiang Jun with a forced smile, "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, they are ignorant and their words may have offended you. Please don't be offended."
Jiang Jun didn't care. In this situation, whoever took it seriously would lose. As a social survey based on facts, these people's comments were at best only part of the survey content.
However, Jiang Jun could roughly guess that these people were making indecent jokes about Huang Hubo, and what they said was quite excessive, just by hearing the barely perceptible tremor in Huang Hubo's voice.
"Section Chief Huang, do you often come back to your parents' home?"
Huang Hupo tried to make her voice sound relaxed. "I'm usually busy with work, and I have a family to take care of. Women who marry out here don't often go back to their parents' home. My father has been in poor health in recent years, so I have to come back once or twice a year. I don't stay long, just one or two days each time, or at most two or three days before leaving."
Jiang Jun said softly, "You only come back once in a while, and you get so angry when you hear these words. Those girls in the village..."
What kind of life do those girls in the village, young, unmarried, and slightly pretty, lead, facing these people and this kind of environment every day?
Although not everyone is like this, just one disgusting person is enough to ruin a girl's yearning for life.
Huang Hubo was choked for a moment. Yes, she ran away, got married, and took her sister with her. She married a city man. Although he was just an ordinary worker, it was a hundred times better than staying in the village.
But what about others?
Jiang Jun stood up, shone the flashlight around, and asked, "Boil some hot water to wash your face and feet. Now, Chief Huang, take a rest."
Huang Hubo sniffed and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. She didn't expect that she would actually cry. "I'll go change my clothes and light the fire. Deputy Team Leader Jiang, you just sit down. I've been used to doing these rough jobs since I was a child."
Jiang Yun wanted to help: "I used to be a fireman at my grandma's house. I'm good at lighting the stove and I can even operate the bellows."
Huang Hupo said with a nasal tone, "Ah, you city people come to the countryside just to have fun. Deputy Team Leader Jiang, let me take care of the fire. Don't make things dirty. Your clothes are so beautiful, it would be a shame if they got dirty."
These leaders are just going through the motions. No matter how kind they are, they are just little girls. Their polite words should not be taken seriously.
Jiang Yun took off his coat and put it on the bed in the inner room, picked up a piece of cloth that served as a pillowcase, walked to the stove in the outer room and sat down, spread the cloth on his knees, and went to the stove to get matches.
The weather was very humid, and hay and firewood were difficult to ignite. Jiang Yun used up almost half a box of matches before he could light the fire.
The firewood was not completely dry, and the fire emitted choking smoke. Jiang Yun was choked and stood up and hid in the inner room.
Jiang Jun felt something was wrong as soon as she entered the house. She shone a flashlight and found that the window had been pried open. Someone was using a wooden stick to pick up her coat from the bed.
Jiang Jun rushed forward, grabbed the coat and handbag, and shouted sharply, "Section Chief Huang, there's a thief!"
Huang Hupo opened the door and ran to the back of the house, holding a smoking fire stick in his hand, cursing: "I'll beat you to death! How dare you come to my house and steal things! I'll catch you and parade you through the streets tomorrow!"
The person outside the window moved quickly and disappeared in the night.
Huang Hupo returned empty-handed, shaking uncontrollably. "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, I'm so sorry I didn't catch anyone."
Jiang Jun comforted her, "It's okay. Just fasten the windows tightly and nothing will happen at night."
Huang Hupo's vision went dark. "Deputy Team Leader Jiang, let's leave as soon as the sun rises."
I don't need to look to know who the person is who dares to pry open the window and steal things. There are only one or two scoundrels in the village.
Jiang Jun thought of a possibility. Perhaps this was a way for others to stop their investigation?
"Section Chief Huang, please put your things away and lock the door. I think we should report this to the village chief."
Huang Hubo swallowed his saliva and said, "Okay!"
It just so happens that the higher-ups are here, Director Qin and Mayor Zhou, so we might as well take advantage of the situation to dampen the village chief's arrogance. It would be best if we could use this incident to dig up all the old and new grudges and completely suppress the village chief.
Jiang Yun was about to
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