Eating and drinking for free is just a trivial matter. When the branch secretary and the team leader criticize them, they say that their families have no food to eat and can't make ends meet. They also ask the team to give them some subsidies or go to the secretary's or team leader's house to eat.
These old ladies even went to Secretary Du and Team Leader Yu Fugui's homes for free meals.
The village cadres were also afraid of provoking such a tough guy, so as long as such a small matter was not too outrageous, they would turn a blind eye.
Chu Jingqiu arranged such a drama for them today. This was no small matter. In that era, at the very least, they would be criticized and sent to labor reform, and their entire family would suffer. At the worst, they would be sentenced to prison.
Having made such a big mistake and having such a big handle caught by the educated youth, how could they not be afraid?
They are afraid that their whole family will be implicated, that their men will draw a line with them and sever ties, and that they will be kicked out by their families.
Du Jianguo led the three old women out of the educated youth site. The women's faces were ashen, and they lowered their heads, as if they had lost their parents.
Du Jianguo is just the opposite. If you look closely, you can see the uncontrollable smile on Du Jianguo's face.
This young educated youth Chu is really amazing. He solved several troubles that had been giving the village cadres headaches for so many years in one fell swoop. He doesn't believe that these old women would dare to jump around in the village in the future.
Thinking of this, if those old women hadn't followed behind him, he would have wanted to laugh out loud. It was so refreshing, so refreshing!
While everyone was happy, they also admired Chu Jingqiu from the bottom of their hearts and felt that they must not offend this girl because they could not afford to offend her.
At the educated youth center, everyone went back to their rooms to continue eating.
"Jingqiu, how are you so capable? How did you plan to make them put the books into the water?" Shi Aihong asked anxiously.
Chu Jingqiu glanced at Qin Yilan, her eyes flashed, and she said calmly: "I didn't plan it, I just hid all the food and then went out in a panic. Maybe they were unlucky!
You all know that I often keep this Little Red Book on the table on the small kang, and I read it even when I eat."
"Okay, let's stop talking about this and get back to eating. I'm still hungry!" Zhang Pingping glanced at Qin Yilan meaningfully. "Jingqiu, where did you hide the food?"
Chu Jingqiu opened the kang cabinet, took out a large enamel basin, brought out their food, and divided it into portions again.
After dinner, several people went to the yard to practice self-defense and kick sandbags.
Hu Mingyue and Qin Yilan didn't want to practice, so they sat in the yard and chatted.
"Yilan, what happened tonight? How did this book fall into the basin?" Hu Mingyue asked Qin Yilan curiously.
"Sister Mingyue, I don't know either. Jingqiu said he just fell in by chance."
Qin Yilan looked at Hu Mingyue and continued, "However, I think Jingqiu must be modest. She is so smart, she must have planned it in advance, and then it looked like those women rubbed the book into the basin."
"Don't say that casually. Jingqiu didn't even go in. How could she predict that the book would fall into the water? If you say that, no one in our educated youth camp will be able to escape. They will accuse us of conspiring to frame someone." Hu Mingyue said with a serious expression.
"I'm just telling you, I'm just guessing." Qin Yilan's eyes flashed with unwillingness.
Zhang Pingping leaned over to the sweaty Shi Aihong and whispered, "What happened tonight was just an accident. Don't mention it again, and don't ask Jingqiu about it either. Got it?"
Shi Aihong looked puzzled. Just as she was about to ask why, she seemed to have realized something and knocked her head, "I really have a pig's head."
When she went to bed at night, Chu Jingqiu entered the space. She gave Jiang Jiang a big hug and then praised Jiang Jiang: "Jiang Jiang, you did a great job. Our cooperation is perfect."
"Qiuqiu, those old women are so annoying. Why are they so greedy? You asked me to hide the food and throw the books into the water. Why didn't you let me punish them? I want to beat their mouths into sausages to make them greedy." Jiang Jiang was a little unwilling.
"That won't do. We must let other people see that the books fell into the water because they were rummaging through them. How can we achieve our goal if you beat their mouths into a sausage?" Chu Jingqiu said with a smile.
"Just beating them up won't solve the problem. We might even end up being blamed. We need to get something on them that's deadly and can kill them with one blow."
"Qiuqiu, this is all your achievement. Why don't you show off to them and let them know that it was you who got rid of this evil for the people?"
"Silly Jiang Jiang, there are some things you can do but can't say. People's hearts are no longer as pure as they used to be, and words can cause disaster. If you say it out loud, you might be betrayed one day. If we want to survive in this era, we must be careful with what we say and do."
"Qiuqiu, you are really amazing. I want to learn from you in the future."
"Jiang Jiang is also very capable. Isn't this all done by Jiang Jiang?" Chu Jingqiu stroked Jiang Jiang's head.
Jiang Jiang twisted around proudly, and she also felt that she had done something great.
Early the next morning, the brigade's loudspeaker began to blare: "Attention, members! Attention, members! Before you start work today, everyone must go to the threshing ground for a meeting. After the meeting, go to work. Today's work is very important. Everyone, go early. Those who arrive late or do not come without reason will have their work points deducted."
Chu Jingqiu planned to go to work at the commune after the meeting. When the educated youth arrived at the threshing ground, they found that it was crowded with people.
The old branch secretary Du Jianguo and the team leader were both standing on the podium, with the women's director, the militia company commander, and the team's accountant standing next to them. It seemed that today's criticism meeting was quite grand.
Chu Jingqiu noticed that Yu Fugui's eyes were always glancing in one direction intentionally or unintentionally. She followed his gaze and found that the woman who had an affair with Yu Fugui that day was standing in the first row.
The woman had short hair that reached her ears and a hairpin on one side. She was slim and wore a green coat. She occasionally cast a coquettish glance at Yu Fugui.
Chu Jingqiu whispered to Shi Aihong, "Aihong, who is that woman in green in the first row? Do you know her?"
Shi Aihong stood on tiptoe to take a look, then covered her mouth and leaned close to Chu Jingqiu's ear and whispered, "That, that's Widow Feng, the woman I told you about last time, the one who sold me rotten eggs."
Chu Jingqiu glanced at Yu Fugui on the stage and smiled disdainfully.
"Everyone, please be quiet, be quiet. Last night, several women in our village made a serious mistake. In order to eat some meat, they broke into the educated youth camp and damaged the Little Red Book. Considering that these three women did not intentionally cause damage.
Our village has imposed the following punishment on them: Liu Pangni, Zhang Lanhua (puffy eyes), and Li Huandi (oil-cake head) must make self-criticisms in front of all the villagers. This is to make them deeply aware of the serious mistakes they have made.
Punish the three of them to sweep the streets and carry manure for a year to see if they will do the same."
The three women walked up to the platform in a line, their heads lowered and their legs trembling.
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