"Momo, how did you do on the English test?" Tang Xinmei came to greet me as I walked into the gate of the educated youth center.
"It should be okay, I don't know." Qiao Mo said uncertainly. She had never studied English, so she didn't dare to say how confident she was and could only respond vaguely.
"It's okay. Qiao Mo did well in all other subjects except English. The worst that can happen is that you don't have to learn foreign languages." Chen Ran saw that there was no joy on her face and thought that she had failed the test, so he hurried over to comfort her.
"Chen Ran is right. At worst, we can just not learn foreign languages." Tang Xinmei nodded in agreement.
"You are right. As long as I can go to school and return to Donghai, that's fine." Qiao Mo also nodded with a smile.
Seeing that she had truly let it go, Chen Ran whispered in her ear, "Momo, do you still remember the Third Brother?"
"Changhe's son, the third brother? Hasn't he been back for a long time? What happened? Did something happen to him?" Qiao Mo asked with interest.
"I heard that his limbs were broken and he was thrown into the Shaoshui River. When he was found and fished out, he was already dying." Chen Ran said with a gloating look.
Ever since Changhe suppressed the educated youth, everyone knew that Lao San was not studying in the county town as his family said, but was the leader of a gang. They no longer had any feelings for him. Later, when they learned that he would do anything for money and had harmed many people, they began to think of him as a scourge.
"It's a pity that he didn't die. People like him not only waste food but also pollute the air if they are alive." Tang Xinmei said disappointedly.
"I think he's worse off alive than dead," Chen Ran said disapprovingly. "I heard his arms and legs were broken, and his tendons were severed. He'll have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair."
"Really? How do you know so much?" Tang Xinmei looked at her in surprise. She had only heard that the third brother had his hands and feet broken and thrown into the river, but she didn't expect that his tendons were also cut. She knew that with the current level of medical care, it would be impossible to diagnose a broken tendon.
"I heard it from the villagers. We went to the mountains to dig winter bamboo shoots this morning, and many villagers also went up the mountain. As you know, the women in the village love to gossip about other people. In the end, I don't know how they talked about Third Brother. They said how miserable Third Brother was, how cruel the man who scolded and beat him was, and how he deserved to die, etc." Chen Ran repeated the news he had heard in detail.
"They must be his family. The third brother is such a bad guy, and they're still helping him."
"Well, the two who cursed the most harshly were Wang Aimei and Goudan's wife." Chen Ran nodded.
"They are simply helping their relatives and not the people." Tang Xinmei said with a sneer.
"How can you expect these village women, who have never seen the world, to have much sense of right and wrong?" Chen Ran asked in return. "They only care about how glorious they were when Prince Changhe was in power, and how much benefit their family gained. They don't care whether Prince Third has harmed many people, because it didn't harm them anyway."
"But you have to pay for what you have done. I don't know which villain will come out to eliminate the evil." Qiao Mo nodded.
This saved her a lot of trouble: she had already started investigating Lao San a few days ago, but although those people were cruel and ruthless, they were also cautious and careful. They would carefully erase all traces afterwards and did not leave any obvious handles.
Apart from finding his residence and superiors in the county town and taking away their hidden possessions, she did not find any evidence that could bring him down. Recently, she had to interrupt her search because of the college entrance examination. She thought that if she could not bring him to justice through legal means, she would give him a fatal blow before leaving. However, she did not expect that someone else had taken action before her.
"Yes, that's why people don't have to do bad things when they don't have the ability, but they should never do bad things." Tang Xinmei said with emotion.
"Sister Xinmei is right. People, no matter what, must stick to their bottom line." Chen Ran nodded in agreement. "Momo, do you think we should still go to school?"
"Why don't you go to school?" Qiao Mo looked at her curiously and said, "Before, it was understandable that we didn't go to school to review, but now that the exam is over, the team can't let us stay at home."
"If possible, I don't want to go to the farm. I want to seize the opportunity to dig winter bamboo shoots in the mountains and sell them to the purchasing station." Chen Ran said in a low voice.
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